skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that. Sony are not smart, but not that dumb or stupid, to leak some fairly disruptive corporate secrets to the public and their competitors just to promote a crappy Seth Rogan comedy.

(They may however reasonably be trying to make lemons out of lemonade now. What else could they do - try to unleak it? - oh wait, they're trying that too.)
That's not an answer if you are a library author. You can't ship only for browserify users. Which leads to frameworks because to reach everyone (including people who don't use a modular loader at all) you have to have 0 dependencies.
You are correct. You don't need anything. I didn't argue that.
> "Ever since a clock was first used to synchronise labour in the 18th century, time has been understood in relation to money. Once hours are financially quantified, people worry more about wasting, saving or using them profitably."

Right. Cavemen lived lazy through the day. If they did not find an animal to hunt one day they told their children not to starve but to go and get some chicken wings from KFC.

Surely they were happy to live before the industrial revolution. The time when time wasn't evaluated by economic ratio. This is a great fairy tale in social sciences.
>If I want to drive somebody and make money I don't need no licence. There's absolutely no justification for requiring a licence.

What about the client's rights?
The world is not falling apart. Personally though things are wearing out. They should fix that!
Greetings and Merry Christmas from Louisiana.
> that is merely a formality to confirm their view point

Is there a term for this? I often give out to people when I see they're just going to discard my advice if it's not what they have already decided.
No, they get it:

http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks

(That's a post assembling a light framework from libraries...)

They just didn't go through the list of features and explain that each one doesn't necessarily need to be coupled to the others.
I suggest Stripe change the title. It's actually not a Bitcoin guide, and anyone looking to learn more about Bitcoin or for a definitive guide would be disappointed.
Not really, because of information asymmetry. Users of taxi services, like users of medicine, are vastly less informed about the quality of the service than those that provide it.

Contrary to Uber's propaganda, legislation around taxis is not there, for the most part, to increase the revenue of taxi operators.
Slashdot actually had a simple (and probably accidental) solution to this problem. The slogan is (was, I don't see it there any more) "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". People would frequently complain when political or social articles were posted by the moderators. The response, almost invariably was that the articles were "stuff that matters".

Obviously Slashdot is a bit different since the content is moderated, not voted up or user-created. However, the idea of having "catch-all" rules that allow the community to apply its own value judgements, rather than making the rules ironclad and inflexible, seems like a potential solution to the problem.
I used to edit things at WikiPedia now and then. Mostly grammar fixes, formatting fixes, errors in tables, etc. I haven't done it in a long time, as I felt kinda overwhelmed with the bureaucracy of the thing. I don't really have a problem with CAPTCHA (I run it on my own sites), or with the anti-spam measures (I use a bunch of anti-spam tools on my sites, and they occasionally trip up legitimate users). I understand those things, and hate spam more than most. I'm always OK with knocking out spam.

But, the people making the decisions are occasionally just ornery. I seem to recall trying to straighten out some errors about Open Source stuff I work on, and having it reverted and moved around, sometimes in ways that simply made things confusing (removing pages and redirecting to related but different projects), etc. It's been years, but it was frustrating, and I just kinda gave up. I don't have an interest in territorial battles.

I might give it another shot some time. I've switched our documentation wiki for Webmin to MediaWiki a few weeks ago, so I'm back up to speed on MediaWiki markup, so that's less of a barrier for me these days (never was a huge barrier, except for a few of the special stuff, like info boxes and automatically updating stuff). I'd be interested to see if these complaints have been taken to heart by folks involved...it's a drum that's been beaten for some time by a variety of long-time contributors.
Nah, there is too much JS on their agenda. Locking web to legacy languages is not cool. Please do not donate.
Should apps run on slave made devices?
There's some good technical information here:

http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/Jasmine_Technical_Resour...

What pleases me most about this is that it's probably the first time this level of documentation has been released for a commercially-used SSD controller; in fact the biggest thing I see coming out of this is not the hardware, but the possible development of alternative open-source firmware for existing commercial SSDs with the same controller. The majority of them are going to be virtually identical to this reference design. The schematics are theoretically enough for anyone to make their own. That's why, for their other platform based on an FPGA, I don't think it's as interesting.

Unfortunately this comes a bit late to save all those bricked OCZ Vertexes (or would that be Vertices) out there, but maybe similarly nonfunctional/damaged drives with the same controller could make good test platforms for this firmware...

Open SSD firmware would be another way to prevent maliciousness; see http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack for example.
I would actually be somewhat happy if it were; at least it'd peg the DPRK's malware capability at "rank amateur", only a threat to actors with extremely negligent security…

…if 'happy' is the right word to use about nation-states of any size sabre-rattling with malware, and I'm not sure that it is! But it's clear whoever did this probably isn't a highly technically competent threat (or, at least, are pretending not to be).
In the current economy, service providers are no longer incentivized to provide ease of use. Everything is commoditized. Grocery shopping, banking, plumbers, auto repair, travel. We want it as cheaply as possible because we're all strapped. This creates time bloat on both sides - it takes longer to get what we want, and it takes longer on the other side to actually provide services.

We're currently in an artificial starvation economy. When you're starving, it's important to conserve energy (or in this case capital) which means that things take longer than they should. You spend a few hours more to save a few dollars more, but, long term, the stress of being stretched causes impulse purchasing, which creates a positive feedback loop.
>If I want to drive somebody and make money I don't need no licence. There's absolutely no justification for requiring a licence.

No but you should be properly insured and bonded to prevent client liability. You can argue Laissez-faire, but we tried that in the 1860-1890's and it really sucked. We collectively decided individual safety is worth more then a fatter wallet.

Your argument works from an Objectivist stand point, but Objectivism doesn't work in the real world.
2 years? It's time to change regardless. They are not your family.
Do convicts in South Korea get a choice? I'm assuming the judge decrees a sentence and the convicted serve it, not that you're given the choice between going to jail and paying a fine.
As a personal corollary, this year I started doing nights and weekends consulting. After having spent years playing video games in my free time I now feel like any hour away from my 9-5 job that I'm not billing is an hour wasted. My bank account has never been healthier but I know I'm burning the candle at both ends and it will catch up with me. I can't shake the feeling of time not worked being time wasted, though.
I've never heard of a product/protocol/whatever named Ripple, which might not mean much due to the fact that I am a random internet person. By all means stick with it, sounds like the name definitely applies to the product.
European countries have been fighting to keep their polycentralism for at least a century but it hasn't stopped them becoming more monocentric (both within cities and in comparing cities themselves) than ever today. There is a continued trend in the west for jobs to want to be located in centres, particularly as most white collar jobs want physical access both to other workers and to government buildings (courthouses, politicians, central govt offices, etc). None of this shows much sign of abatement.

The big trends to deal with this now are improving transport (which you argue against), moving people into dense centres (which you seem tacitly against) and remote working (which is a trend in tech but hasn't taken off in any other industry).

There is little to suggest that smaller centres will be the focus of future economic activity, though I'd be interested in your sources. this is my field as an urban deisgner by the way
I purchased Bitfountain's iOS 8 with Swift course a couple of months ago so I'm hoping to reserve a few days to watch that. I've also been reading Big Nerd Ranch - Android Programming which is good.
Poll: Best project management tool for small team?
I have a hard time deciding which way to go for bug tracking+repo hosting for a small team (2 at start);

* free and open source, but much work way (e.g. Redmine hosted on Digitalocean)

or

* more expensive, but less work way (e.g. FogBugz on demand)

What's your opinion on the topic? Does more expensive tools worth their prices? Does anybody have experience with multiple products?
JIRA + Stash
FogBugz + Kiln
Mantis bug tracker
Taiga.io
The rise of European super startups and the search for the ‘winning formula’
Of course they could. This is about revenue. Governments don't make nearly as much money from Uber as they do from taxis. There's the licensing factor, but there's also the way the service is taxed. UberX drivers pay personal income tax, but in most cases are probably not companies, so they probably don't pay company tax. Even Uber's cut of each ride probably isn't recorded as revenue of the local Uber entity, assuming Uber uses the same structure as most other large tech companies.

Long story short, governments are losing a lot of revenue due to Uber and (similarly) Airbnb. Consumers won't abide that as a reason for shutting Uber down, though, so they claim it's less safe. Taxi companies are happy to play along with that.
Not major, just vocal in these circles.
> Isn't that what Wikia is for?

Says who?

> No single website can reasonably hope to cater to everyone's interests

Why?
Read the linked page. It has an accuracy comparison for the face detector.
a film with a second-rate comedic actor about North Korea, which in the United States on its own being released normally, would draw precisely no one

the only proof it has on North Korea’s involvement in the hacking, is “that the FBI said so,” apart from claims by the “Sony Pictures’ PR department.”

Sony was domiciled in Japan, specifically in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. And so it’s a Japanese multi-national corporation not an American one. And one would think that some sort of an offence by a state actor or anyone else against the Japanese corporation would be a concern for the Japanese government, and not the United States government,”

The North Korean government insisted on Saturday that it was not behind the hacking and proposed a joint investigation with the US to prove it had no involvement in the cyber attacks

outraged by the film showing the assassination of leader Kim Jong Un - also claimed to have 'clear evidence' that the U.S. government engineered the project as a 'propaganda' attack against North Korea.

the North Korean government is also convinced that directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were under direct instruction from U.S. officials, who told them to include extra scenes to 'insult the dignity' of North Korea

a group calling themselves the Guardians of Peace has claimed credit.

Guardians of Peace responded to the FBI with a message on Saturday, mocking their investigation and trolling them with a video that essentially called them idiots.
Performance advantage, maybe not, but in terms of reliability (which I think for storage devices is far more important than absolute performance) there's definite advantages to having the SSD have its own processor; an SSD is running a realtime control firmware so it can react quickly to events like sudden power loss and act appropriately to flush pending writes and update the BMTs before the power completely dies, whereas the host CPU would basically have no chance at that due to the fact that it's probably doing something else at the time and the latency of communicating to the SSD.
2 things:
- This is the same test / trial that got a lot of publicity 6 months to a 1 year ago.
- The body camera manufacturer paid for all the cameras involved. From the full report, "We collaborated with Taser Inc. to provide all frontline officers with their HD bodyworn-cameras."
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I don't understand your analogy to medical service. Surely I can assess the quality of taxi service I just received to the highest degree imaginable. And we now have fantastic systems in place to spread this information (e.g. Yelp, Facebook, etc.).
Superb, hilarious article on this topic: http://www.kenrockwell.com/business/two-hour-rule.htm
Thanks!
I am not vested. I was promised since the beginning but it has never happened.
I think asking for more equity is no good when you have a hunch that the startup is not moving ahead, no?
> we need better accessibility

So why aren't more localities actually innovating around this principle instead of blaming their constituents?

Off the top of my head:

* Encourage telecommuting

* Encourage flexible work schedules

* Encourage new product delivery systems: delivery groceries, delivery laundry, Seamless, Uber, etc.

* Hold employers accountable for commute times, especially in the absence of telecommuting and flexible work schedules

* Make employers accountable for reassigning employees (you're working across town now, but it's still within driving distance, so no relocation benefits)
Like US law you can be fined for a crime OR serve time (proper Boolean or: one, the other, both). The fine/prison limits are maximum, and decided on sentencing.
It has nothing to do with Jobs, there were plenty of bugs and other problems during his reign, too. So much that, in fact, it was an axiom for tech minded people not to install any new versions of the OS until at least 10.X.1 version.
Stop this Randian nonsense. There are perfectly valid reasons to regulate taxi services - such as ensuring that passengers are safe, or that they aren't ripped off. Those requirements are beneficial as a whole.

It's perfectly valid to question whether or not the current regime in various places has been effective at achieving these goals. It's also fine to change the way it all works. But dismissing it out of hand like this is purposefully, dangerously ignorant.
Does the peer review process stifle scientific innovation?
I am from India and people here stereotype a dev as not a good employee if he changes jobs too often. Happens in your country? How do you counter it?
The dragon cannot be slain, only pushed back. It is the halting problem.

Yes, further automated analysis can find some of these problem. That's what the author of the essay proposes, and it's good to know that there are some solutions.

Let's go down the road further and expand the system so there are multiple loggers, and where subsystem logger configuration via an external configuration file occurs at run-time. Some configurations are acyclic, others are not.

This could be prohibited by edict - if a program cannot be analyzed then it's not valid. As the essay points out, there are also formal verification techniques - and that very few people use them. As I pointed out, it's surprisingly easy to make a Turing machine by accident. (See http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... and its HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577671 .)

In practice then, it's very unlikely that most complex software will be able to use these tools, because it's hard to restrict the solution space to what those tools can analyze.

Here there be dragons.
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> “North Korea is one of the few countries that doesn’t have a real animal as a national animal,” Alperovitch said. “Which, I think, tells you a lot about the country itself.”

Like Scotland and the unicorn? Not entirely sure where that one's going.
Voted for other. Any reason why Trello is not included?
An objective way to think about features
We want it cheaper because nowadays is more difficult to make money.

Nowadays is more difficult to make money because we want it cheaper.

The busyness and time bloat comes from this. The perpetual looking for the best deal and the perpetual looking for work.

The "bad guy" responsible for this negative loop in western world (besides ourselves): Mr. Globalization.
I work with a small team (10 devs) working with JIRA Agile + Stash, the seamless and easy integration between then makes the whole development process very natural as we also use JIRA to Customer Support (tickets via email).

But i also used Bitbucket for other projects, which i think is a better option than JIRA+Stash for less than 5 people and has free accounts.

Before we go to Stash we tried to setup GitLab, but we had a hard time setting it up.
Just because information can be disseminated to the general public does not mean that it is understood or acknowledged when making a decision.
On the other hand, a blind devotion to the regulations in question without reference to passengers' overall well-being and ability to afford a ride is equally nonsense, and a common feature of the current regime's defense of itself. (For instance, when all the London taxi drivers were complaining about Uber using boring reasons about taximeters).
Reading this made me think about where the easiest place to contribute to OSS is.

Either you build code to hook up two things where there is no existing hookup (or do something someone else has done in a different language, framework, or you address a bug or add a feature to something you are familiar with. Occasionally there is low hanging fruit... like as I get better at languages, I can submit a pr for cleaner or more idiomatic code.

But honestly, If you want to make OSS better, don't code, clean, format and add to documentation/comments/examples/distribution methods. Because often useful code lacks the documentation that tells you what it does and how to use it effectively. Often it doesn't provide a simple explanation of how to install, much less a way to install directly.

The best way to get people interested in a project is to show how it can benefit them and make it easy to use.

If you are just learning, then reading and interpreting code is a skill you need to build, because much of professional software development is about reading and understanding existing code.
> Specific frameworks like React are great too.

Except React is a library. The slogan [1] clearly says "A JavaScript library for building user interfaces".

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/
Many places tax personal income much more heavily than company income, so I'm not sure that argument is universal.
There's plenty of existing SSDs using the Indilinx Barefoot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indilinx

You probably need to do a bit of reverse-engineering, but the project has released the firmware source code and controller programming information, so go for it!
You can make your English look a lot better by starting every sentence with a capital letter, and capitalizing the word "i".
I think yours is the traditional take on frameworks vs. libraries, so you're not alone. We have a lot of frameworks in JavaScript because we're still expanding and exploring the space where they can work. Eventually I think we'll settle on a smaller number of frameworks, but even so I doubt we'll see the level of consolidation that happened with libraries and jQuery.
Maybe this could be of any use? https://work-opportunities-without-a-diploma.zeef.com/robin....
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To anyone who knows more about law, is it legally/morally justifiable to hold individual executives liable for company tactics to this extent? Why don't they just ban/fine the company instead?
> Grocery shopping, banking, plumbers, auto repair, travel

Arguably, grocery shopping, banking, and travel are all easier than they has ever been. Plumbing and auto repair seem more or less the same to me, but car ownership itself is simpler due to improved quality of cars overall.
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I am not arguing this point on licenses or no licenses, however I would say that assuming the client has provided an informed consent, then the client should be allowed to use whatever car service they want. If I hitchhike, I assume the risk with no expectation of protection. Consumers should have a right to use whatever they want -- provided they are aware of what they are consuming.

However the odd thing about Uber in Korea is that taxis are already relatively cheap. It isn't quite the overpriced racket it seems to be in other places. Also I find it odd that suddenly Korea is concerned about safety especially given the overall lack of safety consciousness at the government level (for example overloaded ferries sinking due to government officials looking the other way in regards to permitting and safety inspections.) I lived in Korea for a total of 4 years and, it comes down to this: nationalism and protectionism. This isn't about safety at all -- this is about someone getting (or not getting) paid. The mad cow hysteria a few years ago is a great example -- North American producers were effectively shut out of the market over unsubstantiated government claims of a mad cow risk.. Thus effectively subsidizing a far less efficient domestic market. During the time of their 'concern' over mad cow, not a single American or Candian was harmed by the so-called tainted beef. Yet safety was the propaganda with which they effectively killed beef imports. The Uber situation is no different. The Chaebols own Korea -- to an even far greater scale than large corporations 'own' the US. Korea is almost entirely run by three (perhaps 4) corporations. Everything from media, communications, heavy industry real estate, autos, food production.. All owned by Samsung, LG, Daewoo (and Lotte.) Wrong or right isn't my point, my point is that Uber isn't playing with (or paying) the right people, thus this action by the government. There's a reason the largest Korean banknote was no bigger than 10,000 won ($10) (though now they apparently have a $50 note) -- it was a result of a feeble attempt to reduce large cash payments under the table. Here's a badly written article discussing that idea: http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=15...
Modern webapp/OAuth2/REST stack security checklist
Wikia is not a satisfactory alternative to Wikipedia, at least in terms of ethical status of the host (Wikia is a company and there are ads on Wikia wikis), in terms of internal consistency, and in terms of content licensing and of availability of dumps.