skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need a scala minus implicits.

Look forward to dotty, then, Odersky's new project.

http://jaxenter.com/dotty-scala-without-the-backwards-compat...
The shape of your program is another program
This doesn't sound like a hard problem to solve. Give everyone a basic personal amount for free and charge for anything above that.

Though basic individual usage is really not the problem, anyways. Households don't use all that much water, and most of it can be returned to the waterways after treatment. Water pricing is much more important for affecting the behaviour of businesses.
Let me know what you think, any feedback, good or bad will be appreciated.
Meh. The GPL does very well for a lot of projects used around the world.
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 <video url>

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Not quite slow, actually. And not power hungry.

Altera top FPGAs have ~20W footprint with FLOPS performance about same as Intel Core i7 CPUs. I estimated that it might be energy-wise better to go to FPGA for at least some HPC workloads.

Also, the speed difference between ASIC and FPGA designs are not in an order of magnitude. E.g., you'll have hard time optimizing your design for 2GHz and may even go to physical design for some components, while having 250MHz FPGA design is not a hard thing. I estimated that right now difference is two-to-four fold - 500MHz in ASIC, 100-200MHz in FPGA, with same development effort (Verilog/VHDL, no library specialization).

Going physical in ASIC design means you'll stretch your development time by months or even years. Also you'll have to drop out some nice millions of dollars for CAD software licenses.
Compensation Flap: What Satya Nardella Should Have Said
Minecraft forge http://www.minecraftforge.net/ (mainly used in the feed the beast modpacks)is still alive and kicking. Only downside is that they don't have a clojure wrapper.
Bob Lewis offers a practical perspective on salary negotiations in the workplace and suggests an alternate answer for Satya Nardella's recent kerfuffe:

Nardella’s response was, in many respects, thoughtful. The problem was
that he failed to include something critical, namely, useful advice for
the world as it actually is. A far better response would have been:

"The situation for women at Microsoft … and at any other company, but I
only have influence over Microsoft...should be exactly like the
situation for male employees. What we’re striving for is that no employee
should ever have to ask for a raise or promotion. We want every employee
to be in a position they can succeed in, and that provides them with
opportunities to achieve and grow. And we want to pay every employee what
he or she is truly worth.

If we’re failing to do that for any employee, that employee should make
her...or his...case and we should listen and make an objective judgment.
We should give that employee a raise or promotion if one is warranted, and
an honest response either way."

Were Mr. Nardella’s words disrespectful to women?
I don’t think so. They were worse than that.
They were terrible advice.
Add-on site Snapsaved says it was Snapchat leak source
and of that 0.65% - 98% of them have the ability to connect over TLS.

so we're talking 2% of 1% that are dead in the water.
I've talked about this a few times, but I was there at the start of Bukkit, and though I haven't touched it for a few years I still think back to it now and then.

The motivation was many faceted, but the basic impetus for most people in the server mod world is that the vanilla server was so inadequate for running a server.

I got involved with a small server, and (quickly! that was a mistake haha) started to help sysadmin the box. I got us on to hMod, which was terrible in many ways but provided a vision for the future - a central, modded server, with plugin points that proffered server admins incredible flexibility configuring their servers.

hMod was run by a single (apparently inexperienced) dev, and the community grew too quickly for him so bukkit was formed.

By this point I had started contributing to hMod, but realised it was a sinking ship and switched my efforts to bukkit. It started as trying to build plugins for our server, but as I started getting commits into the core project it quickly ramped up into full on team participation.

The dev team was really really fun to be a part of. I was on mumble and irc all day talking to the other devs, and would often spend over 8 hours working on code or talking about plans. Upgrades were hectic, and everyone pulled long shifts when they happened.

As time went on and the community grew it became more like a real job, and momentum kept me going for a long time. Eventually I actually got a real job, and my participation waned.

I can't speak for others, but my motivation seemed to be a spectrum that started with scratching an itch end ended with the satisfaction of contributing to a community; the knowledge that your code is being used by thousands, if not millions, of people.
It seems you didn't read the post..
the solution is definitely public transport.

the idea that 200 pound bags of flesh need to be ferried around by tonnes of steel, massive swathes of land devoted to letting them rest nearby while we remain in the destination, and the entire landscape designed to let them roam around is insanity.

edit: also, the majority of people don't own cars.
There is a free version
FireChat for Communication Without a Cell Network and Tools to Unbblock Sites
Anyone have access to the slides? Can't seem to find them.
Good point. I started working from home as a contractor (and partially as a college instructor)long before my daughter was conceived. I took zero maternity leave and went right back to work when she was born - literally - while still in the hospital (those food trays make decent work stations). There was a very short learning curve on integrating motherhood into work life.

I'm shocked by how hard people make it seem to be a working or entrepreneurial parent. Life is not easy for anyone anyway, but I feel like I'm even more driven and emotionally centered as a mother.
> broker

Is that the whitewashed version of "squatter"?
Of course it can be frustrating, if you can't build upon a project, if you have an idea that you want to realize. I'd say you have to look at this from the other side. Well, you can't blame people for building upon your project as long as they don't publish or distribute it but would you be happy if somebody distrubutes a better version of your product because he's allowed to build upon its source?

Granted, Mojang did make a lot of Money with Minecraft regardless but especially with open source projects building on other open source projects or especially non-profit projects in this case, this would be really problematic.

Developers don't need to wake up, they just need to put in the effort to chose the right license and make everybody who wants to contribute to their project agree with licensing their own code under said license.
This technology (speaker identification) is 10 years old, and [HMM/neural net] speech recognition is slightly older. So a small team could likely pull it off today just by implementing or using code published by researchers. As long as Transcense have control over the microphone(s), then it might work. Single mic/multispeaker speech recognition is still practically impossible unless the speakers take turns (not always the case).
«Keep it simple» from a GPL pragmatic fan.
"Just so we're perfectly aligned, I want you to understand the relationship that Robocoin has with our manufacturer. We are actually just a reseller of their kiosks with our software."

I've heard this from smaller retailers of all kinds of products and, as pointed out in Andrew's reply, it's complete bullshit. The company that took your money is the company you formed a contract with. Any nonsense about "yeah, but the manufacturer..." is a smokescreen designed to dodge responsibility.

(Wimpy disclaimer: this isn't legal advice and maybe it's not true if you live in Yemen or something, I dunno)
This is also true of a right to own land, unless you are actually out there physically patrolling your property with an intent to stop someone from trespassing.

And after you stop that person, who's to say you had the right to, and that the person's friends shouldn't come back and teach you the error of your ways?

My point is, if you can't have water because someone else claims they own it, their ownership claim is backed up by the positive effort of others just as much as your claim to the water is, if not more so.

"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society." — Thomas Jefferson ( http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.... )
Facebook made me rich and now I can do anything

If you were made rich by some (recent) lucky coincidence, then you can also do whatever you want.

Great message, a bit hidden. Unveiled by hacker news, thank you!
The advice to have a CLA seems mostly valuable if you want to cash in on the work of an open source community while refusing to honour the intent of their contributions, based on this story.
I used to be into 'modding' when I was sixteen, and the project I worked on turned out quite successful. In fact, some of the core team went on to work for Valve based on this (and later) mods.

Looking back, I suppose it was a bit odd that there was a group of people, most of them quite a bit older than me, who spent large amounts of time working on this project.

From the bits and pieces of personal information that I gathered about my team members, many of them, including the team leader, had 'proper jobs'. One of them actually worked as a lead level designer on a triple-A game.

I got the impression that they spent all this time on the modification because they loved building games, they loved not being constrained by budgets or non-passion related factors, they wanted to build up a portfolio to find a way into the gaming industry, or 'all of the above'. And it worked for some of them.

I'm not sure if this is the case for a majority of 'modders', but I suspect the reasons I mentioned are quite common. If you love developing things, a game is a really great thing to build. It's, ultimately, purely about fun and joy. It doesn't have to be useful. That might be enough for those who work on (boring) useful stuff during the day.
The problem is not the licence, the problem is GPL haters.

GPL on VLC for Iphone can work without changing IOS or something else licence.

Note : Microsoft for example hates GPL projects for no reasons... Just check their publishing agreement. It's why I prefer Google Play Store ^^.

Note for me : Abandon Apple and Microsoft products
>We like to pretend that the startup game is a meritocracy

It is not "we like", is it just a rule of the game - to pretend that it is about meritocracy, to wear a hoodie.

>decrying the lack of innovation

being formally pro-innovation is just a rule like the "meritocracy" rule.

The game is a well-oiled money making machine and like any such machine it is very risk-averse, and with any innovation (or, God forbid, "breakthrough technology") being a risk, it is thus in particular innovation-averse.
"Incidentally, the retail price for an ordinary ATM machine is $2,000 to $4,500"

But, but.... those banks know nothing about bitcoin, it's the future...

And of course, the markup is moot, because you didn't get the product.
I get 12.287 secs under Safari 8/Yosemite on a Mac Pro (2014) 8-core.

15.9 secs on Chrome Canary (40.x)

20.3 secs on FF30.

My guess is IE11 1) has lower OS/driver overhead and 2) accelerates more Canvas ops and does less software rendering than other platforms.
Absolutely terrible.

I have the feeling that Jordan knows exactly what he's doing. The amount of $20,000 is a lot but it's not that much once you start to hire lawyers and file a suit or go into arbitration. Sounds like he's stringing them along waiting to see how much more cash they're willing to invest to recoup that $20,000.

Even worse Jordan might be setting himself up for a settlement of less than $20,000 where he keeps some of the money but knows it's a better offer for Andrew and Rajiv than hiring lawyers.

Been there. Done that. I'll never look at a purchase or legal document the same again. Jordan's got the upper hand here.
How will you define "everyone"?

Will the government find out how many people live in a certain household and use that to arrive at a "basic personal amount" of water?
Hmmm...I don't know. It was great being able to send all the customers a card that first year. That said, if we had done it every week, we probably would have gotten through all of them too. I actually liked the weekly cards better than the Christmas cards because the former were unexpected by our users, which makes for the best gifts. More of the xmas cards were probably taken for granted.
Man treated for Internet addiction 'caused by Google Glass'
I could have been more specific, but paying for advertising on OKCupid for this startup in particular is just not going to work. It's not cost effective and very few people will be clicking through on those ads.

I guess the better way to put it is that if your startup has to resort to paid advertising as the main user acquisition funnel, you probably already lost unless you have ridiculous conversion and LTV on each user.
It should have been abundantly clear, however it's not hard to imaging that if you're flying 99% of the time in an airplane that makes it _impossible_ to stall it (ie. pushing back all the way on the stick will not allow it to stall), you might be in a mindset where the possibility of a stall might not even enter your thought.

The fact that the stall warning stopped due to low airspeed and came on again when they pushed the nose forward (because airspeeds became available again and the stall warning started working) only made the problem worse, and can explain why they completely lost the trust in the instruments.

In the end, there's a host of factors and bad design decisions that led up to the accident, and on top of that poor high altitude training.
Video of Apparent Beating of Protester in Hong Kong Stirs Anger
Yeah I saw that but I am sure they did their own figures rather than listen to what the vendor was saying others were netting.
> store your gestures on the cloud

Cool!
domain squatter?
Given how inexpensive it is to ship food (see: any out-of-season vegetable), expensive water in dry regions like CA seems unlikely to have a significant impact on overall food prices. It might disrupt the local economies of certain farming regions, though this would arguably be a good thing for the economy as a whole.
Good luck finding a mainframe user that would accept it.
If you don't mind. Would you be willing to go a bit deeper into how you were able to afford that (flying every weekend/YC in general)?

I assume you had quite a bit of money saved in order to afford your typical living expense, flying to and from YC every weekend, and a place to stay in Mountain View.

If you did in fact save, were you doing that actively in the event that you got into YC or did you essentially just drain your savings once you got in?
For example, RedHat, Cisco, Suse (Novell), Alfresco, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. Can sold their Free Software project.

You can have it free. And it's ok. But having success is possible too (recheck my examples).

You can refuse to pay. But, if you want support : $$$ for value++. (you just buy the brand)

See this for more info https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
Are all tinder users hunters
The Crowdfunded Kit launches now.Get a 20% discount off in the next 24 hours
Who forgets the hat to their uniform when they go off to war?
Text to movieclip messaging – ClipDis
How we use Trello at Paylogic
Not sure about this presentation.

Just enforce GPL licence and you'r ok ;-)

Just ask Software Freedom Law Center and your fine. (every body can do this move; like you)

For example, it works against Cisco : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation_v._Cis...
The French Ministry of Defence has a public database of soldiers who died on duty during the 1st World War. I just found the entry for this officer:
http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/4069...
The most interesting part is the Images link (with an eye): it will show you a scan of the official death certificate from 1918.
There are 1.3 millions soldiers in this database. 3 of them from my family.
>D) Remove the app from sale and submit a new app. You're wiping your slate with links, app reviews, etc. You also lose customers, who don't find out about your shiny new version

Um, how about this:
Since your encoder is 100% faster you obviously did some substantial engineering on it. So why would this be just an update to the existing app? Even if you could charge for it?

The easy option you didn't mention is:
F) Keep the old app in the store and start selling your "Encoder2" as well.
"But I wrote 'customers don't find out about your shiny new version' you are now thinking"
Well, you know there is the option of having users of the old app being notified about your new offerings, right? Don't tell me you have never seen such a popup in an app telling you about that companies new app.

So now you have two apps in the store and it is up to you to make sure how they differ and how the new one is an improvement over the old one. Now the customer has the choice which to get. For them nothing changes.
The price of many foods would not be affected by an increase in the cost of water. This is referred to as pricing goods at what the market will bear. Additionally if the end goal is to provide affordable food, there are more direct means to this end.
Man with Daughter Naked in Woods Claimed He Was Testing Her Resistance to Cold
I'm pretty sure the wide spacing, overuse of italics, and massive overconsumption of vertical space mean that an straight text version of the changes emacs would be more comfortable to read. At least it doesn't use ghetto antialiasing (low contrast fg/bg to reduce jaggies).

You can find the text file at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.4
How crowdfunding changed China’s hardware startups
Node-tip-bot: tipping bot for script altcoins
Wit.ai raises $3M led by A16Z to make everything voice-controlled
And YC is one of the good guys. Imagine what it's like in regular VC land.
I definitely want something that would solve that problem, but this is far from a decent solution. I think you need to go more abstract and consider other sources of 'presence' or activity and it's presentation. Some form of a video/animated gravatar.
Could be really big. I'm very bullish on things that come up with new forms of human interaction that are native to the internet.
Elon Musk thinks truly autonomous vehicles are 5-6 years away
Sex is sex. Money is money
Slide 41 is amusing. The list of example GPL software is headed with the GPLv3 logo, yet none of the examples are GPLv3. Three of them are GPLv2, and one is AGPL (acknowledged in the list).
Optimising the 20% of water spent on humans seems suboptimal. Not much gains to have there, just stress. All the billboards who make you think it's you who spent all the water.

It's the same thing where people are advised to conserve electricity yet we see large offices glowing with every light all night and day.
I guess with domains, "squatter" is one who buy lots of them for cheap without knowing which (if any) will turn out to be useful, and "broker" is one who buys few expensive domains intending to resell them, like real estate.
Show HN: Best of Vine for Windows 8
Not too different from medical pot dealers. All pot is for recreational use. The medical thing is just easing the subject into politics and law.
The Exact Amount of Time You Should Work Every Day
FWIW, there's a patch out for the OpenSSH / systemd / screen issue mentioned in the blog post; KillMode=process was missed out in the service file.
Ordinary ATMs have economies of scale not available to Bitcoin ATMs, from simply making bigger purchases to distributing fixed costs (like software development). It's also a much safer business - you can be relatively sure the dollar economy won't crash tomorrow and kill your business.
Postmates is a great delivery service, but at least in Seattle they cannot handle certain types of special deliveries, such as the delivery of alcohol or tobacco. It was explained to me as a licensing issue. For similar reasons I doubt they'd be willing or able to handle cannabis at the moment.

I could imagine this changing in the future. I heard that Postmates can deliver alcohol in California; and Amazon Fresh can deliver alcohol today in Seattle. But I suspect there would be many barriers to overcome for cannabis delivery (assuming it can be done lawfully at all).
For IIS:

Nartac IIS Crypto gives a nice GUI to manage all Protocols, Ciphers, Hashes and Key Exchanges https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/
That's because you're just using the floating point unit within the FPGA. If you have general logic it will be slower and less power-efficient by several factors compared to an ASIC.
Mass Internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims
Agreed - you have been able to grab Lyft & Uber from SFO airport easily for a long time. I guess the difference here is they have a license from the airport.
> Most of the electricity here is produced by natural gas (yep, not oil)

Natural gas is often captured as a byproduct of oil, but it's trickier to transport. Perhaps that explains why they'd be burning it there while shipping off the crude.
I know that many New Yorkers will disagree, but it is possible that human progresses is not actually measured by the height of buildings in NYC.
Yeah, so markets aren't necessarily the answer to everything. Simply making water more expensive isn't necessarily going to decrease its consumption, as hawkice has said in this thread.

And I'm really not a fan of how this article vilifies the farmers. This quote sums it up:

> [This awesome thing would give] farmers an opportunity to sell their [water] rights to developers rather than using them for low-value crops.

"Low-value crops", eh? Sure, make farmers use water more efficiently, but it seems pretty silly to value the construction of new buildings over the production of food.
Here's all the cost figures in metric, in case you forgot how to handle gallons => acre-feet in your head.

cost / cubic meter

[ Residential ]
$0.63 Fresno
$1.69 Boston
$2.64 HN'er in Dubai

[ Agriculture ]
$0.02 CA Imperial Irrigation District ($0.016, rounded)
$0.16+ San Diego

[ Desalination plants ]
$1.62 San Diego

Alfalfa's market value is $0.75 per m^3 of water used growing it. (The article compared this to the $1.62 desal figure: i.e., at market (?) rates, growing it would be a net loss).

Here's a related factsheet of California water statistics. Tap water amounts to 9 km^3/year; irrigation is 32 km^3.

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/water_use/2010-california-water-use...
From outside, it seems odd that Bukkit distribute the closed-source binaries rather than relying on a official minecraft client already been installed on the machine. Many older FOSS game projects add modification to an existing proprietary game and uses the game assets as a resource to be pulled from the during run-time or install. In Debian, most games located in contrib archive seems to be of this type.

Just seems as a much safer way to go about modifying software that restricts all redistribution.
Actually i read somewhere that this guy is programming this game in plain c.

And there was an article about this guy in polygon:
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/28/4460616/voxatron-l...
(Also posted 20 hours ago, also no comments.) (It occurs to me that if there are ever comments on this post, my comment will sound really confusing: let it be clear that this article is #1 currently, was posted 40 minutes ago, and there are no comments yet. ;P)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8453042