skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also help out at Mageia, the systemd packager (Colin Guthrie) is fairly busy but does find the time to add patches to systemd package (e.g. backporting fixes). Before systemd was integrated, he also fixed a fairly important journald bug. He doesn't work for Red Hat. Every time before systemd package is upgraded, he performs a lot of testing, often pushing things upstream again. It's not without bugs by far. Reason it is stable is continued coordinated effort across distributions. If you check the release notes of some versions there are fairly big changes every so often. It requires a bit of expertise to sort that out. Though a lazy distribution could just wait a little and backport the "stable" marked patches.
edited the title to simply "Copyright Law Illustrated: Video Game Clones"
> Sysvinit is not adequate anymore (and I don't think you would disagree with that). Systemd was a solution that someone came up with, and was able to get a number of influential groups to agree to standardize on that solution.

Absolutely. I'm just sad that the people behind the solution are making it harder and harder to replace that solution for people who'd like to, and anybody who sees the issue with that is labelled a "troll" or a "hater".

On the other hand, at least you can parse systemd unit files to convert them into whatever (nosh has a utility to do that). I think that's going to be a standard well after the Linux community diversifies from systemd. It's a fairly solid format.
I created something a while ago (that I haven't updated in a while, I shamefully admit) that also handles dot files:

http://configr.io

I also do namespaced dotfile saving (folder by application), but I focused on WGET/CURL-ability (which is unfortunately hard to divine from the current website UI -- the curl command is not obvious, as you have to have content-disposition turned on.
Sounds like the company is growing too quickly for them to implement things like Human Resources & a new hire training program.

BYO Technology? that should be an OPTION, not a requirement...especially at 35K.
Just having the simulator isn't enough for us Xamarin developers. One big issue with Xamarin is that you need a mac (with xcode installed) on the network in order to do builds. If you could solve that issue along with the having the simulator online then you have my money.
I'm not surprised that a company that would treat its service providers so shitty would also treat its employees that way. Between stories like this and the things I hear about other service startups like Task Rabbit it makes me never want to use one of these services ever.
> If what she wrote is accurate I don't really understand how they managed to raise $30 million in funding.

Probably covered by the part where the founder was at Harvard
Another example of regulation being used to protect older, more established businesses from newer entrants that would supplant them.

Sigh.
BYOBaaS: Bring Your Own Backend as a Service. Open Source, bootstrapped funding model, easy to use, Offline First, private data by default, cute domain name: http://hood.ie — Very Fast [Web] App Development.

Previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7767765 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514284

Disclosure: Hoodie core dev here.
Food isn't supposed to kill you, but the internet definitely is supposed to identify you. It's only through extraordinary measures that you can get on the internet anonymously, but it would take extraordinary measures to kill yourself eating at the grocery store.

If someone told me the corner grocery store was selling deadly food, I would be just as likely to believe them as someone telling me that posting on Whisper.sh keeps me securely anonymous on the internet.
Sexism, racism, homophobia (I assume that's what was going on with the marketing guys and "Josh"), long hours, low pay, "boys club", overbearing/micromanaging boss, unpaid full day "interview", false hope (Seemed like the idea of getting your own franchise was a carrot dangled before them on a stick that they would never get), and little/no structure. Wow.... And these are the companies that are getting funded?
It's my understanding that it's not fixable without some help from the kernel. The fundamental problem is that a program can race ahead of a userspace syscall policy enforcement framework (i.e. sysjail) by trapping to the kernel directly. The authors identify several ways this can be exploited to gain privileged information or invoke syscalls the OS allows but the framework tries to prevent.
Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama
That's a really bad example. I suggest www.kennedyandoswald.com/
> "Having to provide your own device is not really that insane for small teams."

Not that unusual to garage or ramen-stage companies sure, but these are guys with an office in one of the hottest startup hubs of Manhattan with $45 million in funding.

It's also insane - trusting hardware of unknown provenance with your customer experience? Is it really that hard to buy a few iMacs (or cheapo Dell desktops if that's your speed) for your support reps to use? That way hardware that's critical to your support infrastructure isn't traveling on the subway every day, getting broken, stolen, or god-knows-what.

This is a Series B startup with $45m in funding so far, they should be way past the point of being able to buy some company machines for people to work on.
In general, startups do not follow the professional practices of established companies. When you interview for an established company, they're usually professional and they get back to you afterwards. When you interview for a startup, you can run into all sorts of issues. The founder might not be there, the employees may have no idea what to do with you, or you might just have a 15-minute interview after traveling for 90 minutes to get there. They often won't get back to you. Though this example is particularly bad since they're asking applicants to do unpaid labor.
Is it possible for two holograms to be on the same holographic film?
Count me in the "Thank God I'm not a Firebase customer" camp, because that was my reaction on reading this news. I think Google is still a net force for Good in the world, but the fact that the reaction here is so more-or-less uniform cannot possibly be healthy for the company.
No surprise here. The first thing a Harvard grad will tell you is that they graduated from Harvard.
"Of course" - no red flags.

"WHAT?! We expected you to start tomorrow! Can't you just quit? Don't you want to work here?!" - Aaaaand, we're done here.
How long will jobs take to start up? Is it seconds? (i.e. you have a queue, and machines ready to go)
Very true sir in a small fraction of cases, see http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/Ming_etal_Sex_chromosomes_2011....
(well, if you wanted to be precise, you could have said "there are more sex determination systems in the world than just XX/XY", since these letters only make sense when it comes to comparing different systems, sex loci relate to one chromosome within the same species)

In this particular case however, it's not true, Cycads are in the XY/XX system, see http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/2/261

So we may proceed and clone those females :)
>It's not like objective-c is closed to other people, and the extensions to Objective-C that Apple has made are open.

When Objective-C was developed in 86 it was closed source. NeXT purchased it (in 88, still closed), and planed to keep it closed source. Orginal Obj-C would be parsed into byte code to be compiled by the GCC, not directly parsed. GNU didn't agree with this (adding a way to compile byte code).

Eventually The FSF/GNU sued them over this because the Objective-C compiler was simply a modification of the GCC, without code contributed back to the GCC.

Thus, it was open sourced.

As the Clang/LLVM toolchain removes "FSF lawsuits" from possible things that could happen. I think its unlikely we'll see Swift be open sourced.
Red Hat is a military contractor based in America. This means they can be forced to introduce vulnerabilities under a gag order.
Read the article. It's about the "modern evolutionary synthesis" [1] - the current paradigm, developed in 1936-1947 - vs. the "extended synthesis" [2] (2007-ongoing).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis

[2]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19566710
Tweet NLP from CMU.

We provide a tokenizer, a part-of-speech tagger,
hierarchical word clusters, and a dependency parser for
tweets, along with annotated corpora and web-based
annotation tools.
I know some folks at Basho where they do just that with Riak, a high-availability distributed database. It's not an unworkable strategy, and clients know the product's not going to vanish out from under them.

https://github.com/basho
You can see people in this very thread still expressing the same thought — "Oh, it's just not finished yet. It'll be open-sourced when it's finished."
Santa Emoji is sad, when Santa should be jolly
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Projects might include working on the marketing site, designing new templates and landing pages, designing new features for the core web app, or creating icons or illustrations, and developing the brand. Sometimes we even work in print.

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Segment is growing fast. We’re scaling our design team and you can help define our process and culture. Right now we’re small, with only one person working on design full-time, so this is a chance to help shape the design direction of the product and play a vital role in its future.

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I just had a flashback from one of Misko's early talks about Angular's original vision as a full set of tools that included a managed database and security rules.

Here's his blog post about the topic:

http://misko.hevery.com/2009/10/04/sweet-spot-for-angular/

Some quotes:

"<angular/> provides the database hosting as a service so that your <angular/> application does not have to worry about it."

"The cost of building security and authentication into your web-application is often overlooked when building web-applications. <angular/> offers both out of the box."
Handling dotfiles doesn't have to be a hard problem. Here's a simple script I wrote that copies them to and from a git repository.

https://github.com/Lambdanaut/dotfiles/blob/master/cp_dotfil...
At a minimum buy some mac mini's to leave in the office with some phones. Requiring use of own hardware on top of 12 hour shifts for a company with $45m in funding is just silly.
Wow, this is pretty sexist. It's the equivalent as somebody building letamandrive.com because, you know, woman can't drive!?
Castigating someone for shilling for the sugar industry in the context of unsweetened fruit juice makes no sense. The guidelines you cite are obviously infants and toddlers. I suspect the poster above is thinking of more active older children. Accusing him/her of being a paid PR person is unjustified and unnecessary.
Lots of knowledge in here, but my favorite piece has always been this treatment for intestinal parasites:

"Tobacco: Eat 1 to 1.5 cigarettes. The nicotine in the cigarette will kill or stun the worms long enough for your system to pass them. If the infestation is severe, repeat the treatment in 24 to 48 hours, but no sooner."
> GNOME doesn't rely on systemd, it wants an API

The problem is the following: GNOME depending on GTK+? Just an API.

Of course, it's not your fault, the problem is systemd developers don't want to separate the components as individual programs. So if you want to use logind you also have to install the whole systemd, requiring linux to boot. (pun not intended)
A lot of the "fruit juice" (in America, at least) contains just as much HFCS as soda.

I don't know if this is the case in the rest of the world or in this study though.
Show HN: Gun – A distributed, embedded, graph database engine
Startups led by non-engineers just leave a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. This comment definitely evokes that feeling.
What is his problem? I think they are all trying every-possible-trick-under-their-belly to slow down the storm called TESLA. The day TESLA becomes mainstream the mafia of car dealers, oil rigs will go down the drain. NO MORE OIL.
I believe that this law is in direct violation of the commerce clause[1]. The commerce clause was designed to prevent tarrifs from being placed on products from one state being sold in another state. They wanted to prevent inter-state trade wars. Being forced to go thru a dealer network that (theoretically) adds no value while extracting a cut of sales is a form of a tarrif (or at least, I think it is arguably one).

Therefore, I think it might be time for Tesla to take this up as a federal matter.

I believe Tesla's constitutional rights are being violated in the states that do not allow them to operate their own stores.[2]

[1] "Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce ... among the several states ..." At the time the constitution was written, the definition of regulate was something like "to keep free of obstruction, to allow to occur without hinderance".

[2] This is completely separate from regulations that require car stores to operate safely, e.g.: if the state required that service departments have barriers around pits to keep people from falling in, that would be fine, and Tesla could comply when they open a service department. But forcing a business model on people is quite different from protecting public safety.
Your statement:

> Nobody at Apple has expressed any intention to make Swift free. Zero. Zip.

Chris Lattner:

> "You can imagine that many of us want [Swift] to be open source and part of llvm"

So Chris Lattner (who works for Apple) has stated that he, and many others at Apple, want to make it open source. I'm not sure what else you're looking for.
How does a company like this get $45 million in funding? Is that really cash in the bank, or "on paper, committed under certain circumstances, with only $1 million actually in the bank as of today?"

I guess I just don't understand how a business like this could ever get funded to $45 million.

Where's the competitive advantage?

India sent a satellite to orbit mars for $74 million, these guys have people answering phones to book odd jobs for $45 million?
Russell Brand’s happy hippy horseshit
Survive because we say so
How are these people justifying these changes to their constituents? It's pretty hard to justify mucking with the free markets except to protected vested interests. Most of the time, these vested interests have very little to do with the voters.
Nothing too exciting. If I were more creative maybe I'd come up with something more clever than http://word.center
It's a conspiracy then!
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Some of your criticisms point out things which exist mainly because the piece was originally written for a class assignment. e.g. Digital audio was not covered in the course, so I added some information in order to better provide background for the detection theory stuff, which was in the class (and also to make the article more self-contained for the reader unfamiliar with that material). Naturally there is nothing groundbreaking in that summary, but I thought I did a decent job of helping the reader with the legwork of understanding the principles. Additionally, the references are in APA format which was required for the class but, as you point out, is not ideal for the web. I will likely tweak the web version when I have a chance so it's a little more easily navigable.

The fact that the residual spectrum is uninteresting I totally acknowledge; that was admittedly an afterthought. I'm going to check out your hydrogenaudio link for details on how to better that section/figure.

As far as the fact that I only used MP3—that was kind of the point. I wanted to pick a seemingly low-hanging fruit so that I would have some nontrivial results to work with (i.e., cases where I could hear the difference). If I'd used high bitrate AAC and it was entirely transparent for my ears 100% of the time, I wouldn't be able to do much talk about false positives and hits and misses—talk which was ultimately the meat of the assignment, and thus of the article. The goal was, as I say in the "nota bene" at the top, not to say "Hey, look how unreliable MP3 128 is at being transparent," but rather to use MP3 128 to demonstrate the concepts of transparency and compression perceptibility.

As far as converting MP3 back to a WAV for ABX playback, I hadn't heard of that but I have to think that it would have made little to no effect for my test. I have a solid state hard drive so had no disk noise, and I did not hear the cpu fan on for either type of playback. It is something I'll consider for the future.

Again, I appreciate your feedback and thanks for taking the time to comment!
> The author of this piece made the classic, and often unavoidable mistake of being between a rock and a hard place and not vetting the company she interviewed at and ultimately worked for for a day.

Vetting a place for a hostile work environment, esp. when the company is small and has had few employees, is really difficult.

> First, I didn't find Ajay's interview to be that weird, saying why you came up with the idea for your company and your qualifications should be expected, not interpreted as a way for the founder to diminish the potential future employee. If you don't believe in your leaders, and don't trust them, you are in a lot of trouble.

His attitude isn't troubling except in hindsight after we learn that sexism and sexual harassment are A-OK in the office and that service providers shoulder a ton of blame for little reward.

> 12 hour days is insane, and wrong. Having to provide your own device is not really that insane for small teams. Obviously it's great if a company provides it, and probably larger companies should always provide a workstation, but this doesn't come across as totally abnormal.

For the low pay those customer service people received, it is abhorrent that they must also pay for supplies to do their basic job. It's a safe bet to say that the programmers there didn't have to buy their own desktops for development.

> The constant "want to hear a joke" and racist/sexist tone at the company is also not acceptable, but clearly was supported by the people working there at the time, if the anecdote is taken at face value.

Uh, the author clearly related that several people seemed uncomfortable by the sexual harassment in the office. Did you even read the anecdote about 'Josh' being harassed in plain view of the office?!

> There appear to be a lot of growing pains at Handy, which isn't a surprise, but hopefully they can move fast and get their support/service wing to be as tight and focused as the rest of their team.

A hostile workplace, sexual harassment, demeaning low wage service providers, and being general assholes isn't growing pains, it's a sign that the company is horrible and no one should do business with them.
9 votes in 10 minutes is suspicious. If you're asking people to upvote for you, it doesn't work.
In the country I come from, corruption is rampant, and it makes governments create anti-public, pro-corporations laws and regulations. But there it's still called "corruption". Here, in US, it is called "Lobbying", and is official.
No, I'm hinting at the potential corruption of language, if not used properly. Sorry for the sarcasm.

>An etymology is not a word's "true meaning".

Anyway, it's still a good indicator.

>Given the wink, you may well know this

Indeed, I have no hope of convincing the MW editors here, or correcting what seems to be

>A word derived from another language can (and often does) acquire an entirely different meaning in its new environment.

It's not derived. It is the same word given a second meaning. Languages aren't separate entities, they are intertwined and defined by the speakers. In that sense you are right, a word should mean whatever it is intended to mean.

Still, it's a loanword and that implies a certain responsibility for the user, as with any loan. I don't see any argument for the necessity of transforming the meaning. I think the transformation is a mutation, coming from ignorant usage and that goes against my grain. Simplification might have merit, but I'm all for generalization.

>You can certainly regret what you did not cause. You can express sympathy for what you did not cause. I think an apology is necessarily an expression of regret for something you had a role in, however. The word "sorry" expresses regret, but that regret is only part of an apology when there is some level of culpability.
Apologizing on behalf of someone you've been associating with for a long while is regret that your impact did not lead to better behavior from them. Apologizing on behalf of someone you've just met seems weird to me. Apologizing for things done before you were born, even weirder.

What's the reverse of the euphemism treadmill? Apology is suffering it. A proper apology would explain all the reasons for the laws, which are by the way still in action. The focus shouldn't be on acknowledgment, but on correcting the understanding of the situation, to ease any confusion.
To my understanding

>As I've said elsewhere, that doesn't mean I have a strong opposition to people doing or saying weird things - I just think we should try and be clear in our thinking.

Exactly.

Therefore words heavily rely on context and the context here was clear. The GGGP demanded an excuse, a justification or most importantly a clear explanation as to why the law has changed.

Obviously though, that couldn't be expected, because there is no clear situation, on the federal level it's still illegal, there was no change. That, I think, really requires an explanation. That is a double standard, don't you see a new-speak reference in this?