skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why irony? You can use Outlook as a client for WorkMail. I wouldn't be surprised if they shift to WorkMail once it satisfies their large enterprise requirements (given that it's an MVP right now).
Are there any blind compiler/interpreter hackers? A programming language optimized for the blind would make an interesting esolang [0]. I guess a REPL works great. Does Forth or Lisp read better to the blind? Can you do syntax "coloring" in sound? Are static types helpful or is type inference prefered? Would they like an editor like ed?

So many questions ...

[0] http://esolangs.org/
I thought these rates were for legacy Multimedia Messages, not for Whatsapp traffic.

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

Edit: apparently not. The FAQ page states the SIM works only for Whatsapp, not for texts.
In support of what you're saying: many countries (but not the US) take a less punitive approach, preferring to focus on harm reduction.

For example in the UK, needle exchanges - places where you can get clean needles and other paraphenalia - have been well established since the late 1980s to help protect people who inject drugs against the infection risks of needle sharing. It's been credited with greatly reducing the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis viruses amongst that population.

Similarly, heroin addicts are often prescribed synthetic opiates such as methadone and buprenorphine, to prevent their reliance on dealers. This doesn't much reduce deaths from overdose, but does seem to prevent societal harm. Indeed if you are charged with theft or robbery and it turns out that it was to help feed your opiate addiction, it's not uncommon for the judge to offer access to a treatment programme in lieu of a custodial sentence.

There is however a problem with user compliance. Some recent research over the past decade or so has been in 'contingency management', where addicts are offered financial rewards to attend or comply with such treatments. It's very controversial and so far has had mixed results, but the idea is that the overall cost to the state will be reduced, in that a small 'bribe' can put people on the right path, hopefully leading to feeling more intrinsically rewarded by the success of the treatment, and that is less expensive than medical treatment later on.

But despite all this, as you imply, it does need the political will behind it to have any good effect.
Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?
Say you come up with some great productivity application. It's web based, has a back end and a JavaScript front end for browsers and mobile.

You put it on github under an MIT or BSD or similar license. So corporations or anyone else can download and install your software and use it at no cost.

On your main website, you offer the software but on a per-user fully hosted, running online basis. So your revenue will come from people signing up to use your fully hosted service where they don't need to make any effort to install or configure - it just works. You also make money offering support contracts to people who have downloaded and installed their own copies of the software.

The reason you have open sourced it is to spread the word, gather interest and build community around your product. The theory being that the vast number of free users will be the impetus that leads to a small number of paying people discovering and using your product. Maybe free and open source is more newsworthy, more likely to get press and blog coverage?

Theoretically anyone could take your code and set up in competition to you. Anyone could fork your code and rename it to something else.

So is open sourcing your SAAS application a good way to do business, or is it foolish and giving away the farm?

Is there any examples out there of companies that have actually made money taking this approach?

I'm scared that if I fully open source then I will somehow have given the value away.
Watson's good, but it's not that advanced. It's an 'expert system', in that it's a system for experts, not a system that is an expert.

This is a smarter, domain-specific search engine. You still need to be able to ask the right questions and then understand interpret the results it provides.

I still don't disagree that for certain 'low-stakes' issues it could be a useful tool for lay persons, but they'd need to understand the limitations. Perhaps they're worried that giving such access might tarnish the Watson brand -- if a medical doctor has tried Ross and found it wanting then when they roll out 'House' she might dismiss it as junk based on that experience.
Is there an amazing demo of this tech that i missed ? because if not-this is just another marketing site for watson/ibm, nothing more. we've seen plenty of those done by IBM- without much result yet(for example, where is watson the chef app they promised), 4 years after jeopardy.

So i think it's better to be skeptical.
The French have a lot to worry about, because their country is a serious pain in the ass to a lot of people in the world.

What the French have done to Africa, and what they continue to do to Africa - which should be one of the richest continents on Earth, in terms of world economy - is definitely something that has to be hidden from the French public, or else they wouldn't stand one minute more of their ruling elite lying to them.

Former French colonies are, as of today, being heavily repressed by France. This fact needs to continue to be hidden, lest the world wake up to the repression and demand that the French people do something effective about it. Until then, terrorism is to be expected. You can't rule as an imperial power and not expect blowback; people want to be free to live their lives un-repressed.

EDIT: Read this, and then re-consider your downvote: http://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/

Fact is, the Western nations have a lot of responsibility for imperial machinations in the world, and while the French people - as well as those of us in other Western nations - may not have anything to hide, we certainly have a LOT that must be revealed to us in order to understand just why people are willing to give their lives to disrupt Western imperialism. Its not all religion; mostly, its economic and human rights violations on the part of the Western powers, which motivates such heinous response.
Based on my much less intense use of Twilio, they wouldn't have to pay me a cent to get me to write a glowing article like this. They're really good, their documentation is very useful and crystal clear, all I needed to get my code working, and their system just plain works.

(Again, in my much more limited use of it.)
"Depleting the ozone layer isn't enough."

Unfortunately mixing is good enough that the increased UV will sterilize everything that does photosynthesis for quite awhile, including in the oceans. So yeah its enough.

One interesting part little discussed is that in typical physics fashion, there's many orders of magnitude from weakest (barely detectable, about once a day) to kills everything on the surface not just ozone disruption (Could happen?) and as a rough guess maybe a tenth the strength happens ten times as often.

So the disaster oriented contingent wonders about wiping out all non-ocean vent life on a planet, but its more likely that as a species we'll have way more "fun" with glancing blows or near misses leading to reduced crop yields.

Sometimes I wonder about unexplained civilization collapses and GRBs. All you need to is screw up crop yields to 99% of minimum and the mayans or whatever are all done. Don't need to kill everything green or kill everything living from radiation burns, just a glancing blow bad enough to tip an already tottering civilization over... Maybe there's enough spare capacity in europe / asia that nobody noticed or recorded a 1% hit but it was enough to do the Mayans in.
Thanks for doing that Jadli
The new EU rules are only for digital products right? So how about selling a "magic bean" that comes with a free download of whatever you're selling? Or sell a "planting of a seed" service that has a user area that contains special bonuses, like a download of whatever.

Are these workable or too far out?
So, assuming we don't also all die of burns or cancer or natural disasters caused by the sudden influx of energy into the atmosphere immediately...

According to http://www.epa.gov/ozonedesignations/faq.htm , ground ozone tends to be produced by pollutants, i.e. we are ourselves producing this ozone, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

From http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm , we find that 90% of that is in the upper layer, so 10% is lower layers.

So we have actually already produced at least 10% of the ozone we'd need to repopulate the upper atmosphere, we're just producing it in the wrong place...

From reading these links, it sounds like ground-level ozone is often a seasonal effect, so it could well be that a lot of this ozone is being produced on a regular basis and then dissipates in some fashion.

So... my back of the envelope calculation would be that yes, if we had unlimited funding and a bit of time, we should be able to produce enough ozone just by burning organic matter. The key question would be, can we get that ozone in the right place?

With unlimited funding, and with a deliberate effort to burn fossil fuels at high altitudes, my gut feeling would be yes... I think the key question would be would we be able to do this in time, before we all burn to a crisp along with most of the plant and animal life on Earth...
The problem is that the French people don't see their existing government for the fascist, imperialist organization that it currently IS. If you don't think so, just ask a Cameroon'ian businessman who is trying to get a loan what he thinks about French imperialism. Better ask him before he tells you first, Monsieur!
Inkscape is a great piece of design software. I've been using it for a good 8 years now to design websites, complex application interfaces, prototype many projects and everything in between.
The application has been designed with care and it shows. There is a sense of respect towards the user and you can really enjoy using it for long periods of time. It just fades away and lets you get to work. No fuss.

The interface and workflows are simple, yet extremely powerful if you spend some time understanding the tool. I have used Inkscape exclusively to do all my interface design work during my career.

After moving to OSX, I was put off by the lack of native support. So I tried moving to Sketch and Illustrator. I found Illustrator to be overly complicated and plain bloated. I've always had a distaste for Adobe software and Illustrator maintains that negative image for me.
Sketch on the other hand was unstable when I tried it. It had some serious bugs that made it unusable.

I went back to Inkscape and am now used to the GTK quirks & the lack of Retina support. The software itself remains my favorite tool. And I'm excited to see this major update to Inkscape.
> One of the slide gives a false feeling of equality between two quotes, one by Brice hortefeux and one by Eric schmidt on privacy.
> The first one is about surveillance cameras put in public streets by an elected representative of the people (a mayor).
> The other is about scanning private conversations by a private company who only deals with shareholders.

Don't people choose to trust Google with their data, in the same way they delegate their power to the mayor?

> He later makes the point that even measures taken by governments could be completely misused by fascists regime, which is true. But then the problem is maintaining a democratic power, and a fair legal system.

What are you getting at with that?

The fact is, large amounts of processing power, an incredible amount of data collected (in a way that would not have been possible in a pre-Internet era), and little accountability by design are an extremely dangerous combination. You do not even need to go back to the Vichy era for that. Both Hoover and the Gaullist SAC people would have been delighted to have such information at their disposal...
Thanks for sharing that information created and disseminated by the NSA itself[0][1][2]. Wasn't the original party line "over fifty"? No reason to think they would ever lie[3][4].

Elected US officials don't have access to enough information to verify those claims, guessing you don't either.

[0] http://www.propublica.org/article/claim-on-attacks-thwarted-...

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/nsa-attacks-thwarte...

[2] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/2/nsa-chief-fig...

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

[4] http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/nsa-director-alexan...
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That, sir, is a grown up attitude, and has no place here on Hackernews.
Ironclad. You're so right, anyone who watches a video on any government-approved terrorist topic should instantly be droned.
Maybe. Some countries have all sorts of anti avoidance rules when it comes to tax.

As a small company, do you really want to go to court because you're selling beans instead of downloads? I assume this will be spotted relatively quickly when authorities do an audit. Also, the larger players, they would never use this.
First of all: Guix (and Nix) seems like really interesting projects, I'm just not there yet that I'm going to nuke what I know and love for it.

I probably will one day, but not right now.

But: I'm not sure you're doing your work any justice by labelling it "avant-garde". I think you risk looking "weird" or more dangerous than you need to and might detract people from looking into it.
Is this native engine still html based (eg blink engine or webkit) or is it using the platforms drawing engines? We are currently building user interfaces for STB platforms using a a js platform mapped to a native canvas running on v8. If we could use the react protocol it would be great.
At the same time, shouldn't this be self-evident? It's a bit depressing that the vast majority of employers would need to be educated about this.
Just to spare someone else from googling it:

MVNO = Mobile Virtual Network Operator.
No. Your attack on Google can easly be made in every single market on the planet.

"If I have a mesurably worse Ice Cream Delivery Guy, and Ice Cream is a central my marketing stratigy, then I am not able to compet as well as those who have measurably better Ice Cream Delivery guys."

What you take issue with is simple that you happen to not like on aspect of a service and your complaining about it. Your critic is basiclly a critc on markets as such, if that is what you are doing then say so, if not stop repeating that the world is unfair, nobody said it was.
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Why would a chat-service operated over the internet require a dedicated SIM of its own?

This just reeks of bad design and the limitations of tying the chat-protocol user-ID to a phone-number.

Until I can log on (anywhere) using a username or email, I'm not going to consider whatsapp a messaging-service for the internet-age.
US companies need to comply with these rules, but many of them don't.

I think the main issue here is enforcement. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the IRS to enforce foreign legislation on US companies. And that's exactly the reason why US companies often don't comply.

Edit: I'm talking about digital downloads and digital services. If you're shipping goods then there might also be import duty liabilities, not sure.
Yes. We are two generations out. The memory is long gone.
How far along the Kardashev scale do we need to before we can build a shield?
You have a native mac beta version here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b7tyrnugif2ywqj/qpMx1ygywo

Much better than needing XQuartz.
Ask HN: Suggest an advanced 2D engine for an Open-Source Hobby MMO development
What is the most advanced (both feature wise and ease of use wise) 2D engine out there that can help me reach the goal of developing a basic 2D MMO quickly. I would like to keep initial development Open Source and then maybe fork it.

The engine preferably should have a networking API that lets you go to thousands persistent users scale easily. This will be a huge plus.

Also advanced things like pixel based collision detection, shaders and scripting etc would also be welcome.

BUt mostly engine should be well designed so I don't hit a bottleneck scratching my head what to do and how to do it.

I have MMO development experience in Crystal Space engine (Planeshit.it was MMO).
It's really excellent to see Microsoft understanding the need for cross platform support. I'm much more likely to trust them as a user, knowing that I'll have support for whatever device I'm on in the future.
Look at my message above.
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Your 23% statistic is very revealing; in recent years there's been a lot of research into the underlying neurobiology of addiction. Turns out that addicts are often quite predisposed to getting addicted, either through genetics (such as variants in the components of neurotransmitter systems) or their early environment. And through long-term changes in the brain from substance abuse - as an example, over-consuming alcohol over time can damage the frontal cortex, impairing decision-making, including deciding to stop drinking, so you end up with this feedback loop of sorts.

I find it very unfortunate that society hasn't caught up with this way of thinking and mostly still regards addiction as a moral vice, rather than a lifelong illness.
It depends on the business. That model definitely works, and another variant on the model where paid solution users get additional enterprisey features also works (single sign on, Active Directory integration, etc). Take for example Chef, which has a paid version and an open source version. Paid Chef comes in 2 flavors, hosted and on-prem. There's also Nagios and several other IT monitoring solutions.

You may want to double check on which license is best to use in this scenario, but it definitely is possible to grow a business using it.
Bathing suits don't, but they're still widely worn.
The curves used in iOS are all pretty standard, they're easily to replicate if you want.

It's pretty easily to replicate iOS functionality in iOS itself just because it's a better environment, it's not the 'secret' numbers.

But if taking the example of Paper, it's built on top of Pop which is absolutely open source and handles all the animations: https://github.com/facebook/pop.

So in theory you should be able to replicate all this stuff on the web, but you can't because it's just not build with highly responsive UI in as the focus.
Listening to that blew my mind to the point where I was convinced the audio wasn't being played through my speakers the way it was intended.
No, I'd say. The most self-evident thing to do is do whatever is best for yourself in the short term. Any other behavior is increasingly harder to gather... evidence for it being best.

It's a two-sided marketplace, each side having a big incentive to take the maximum they can get.
Bathing suits don't have protective or insulative properties? What?
Look at my message above.

The native OSX beta already works much better than the broken XQuartz thing(in the past you could not even copy paste real vectors, today it requires a special version of XQuartz and changing parameters and other nasty stuff) .
If the answers are comprehensive and accurate, this could aid the simplification of law by revealing conflicts and inconsistencies.

Reforming law to be machine readable might eventually provide a litmus test to prevent the passage of bad laws. It could also provide a way to flag prior law that is invalidated by a new law.
And I made the same argument as you! :)

Practically speaking, whenever communism or some flavor of it was tried in scale they ended up running a large monopolar corporation, which they called "the state". It was state capitalism because the state owned all the capital.

Capitalism, is short for "private capital" a strange form of communism where anyone can own the means of production if they figure out how to.

The United States, for all its flaws, is really the only country where ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY, with enough gumption can become a major owner of capital.
That would depend on the law about "where should an American company store its emails". If they are not allowed to store stuff abroad, then you can throw the book at them regardless of whether you get those emails or not.

Like for tax evasion vs tax avoidance, law enforcement cannot complain that individuals and companies use rules to their advantage, they just have to make smarter rules.
>Sending a get doesn't mean you download anything.

I don't think they care.

>Sending a few thousand protest gets could mask those you actually follow through on.

Will only get you on more lists.

You're implying common sense, but there's very little of that.
The satirical version of the Golden Rule that "Whoever has the gold, makes the rules." seems appropriate in this context!
Yep - is there any reading-based info on this? I can't bear absorbing tech info via a channel as slow as watching or listening to someone...

Link please!
I think it's time for a serious YouTube competitor with more favorable terms for the content creators. Jason Calacanis seems very prescient now [0].

[0] http://blog.launch.co/blog/i-aint-gonna-work-on-youtubes-far...
> So yeah its enough.

I realize that was a very imprecise statement on my part. Not enough to sterilize a planet is what I meant. It certainly is enough to cause a dent, even a huge dent, in the ecosystem.

> Sometimes I wonder about unexplained civilization collapses and GRBs

You wouldn't be the first, I think it's certainly probable these events did play a role in both prehistoric population changes as well as civilization collapses.
It seems that Guix&Nix have many advantages. Could anyone also elaborate some disadvantages of this system in comparison with traditional package managers like debian's or rpm? [Edit] I'm considering a switch to one of Guix or Nix, and I'd like to know if the pros outweigh the cons.
All I've managed to find so far: https://www.progville.com/javascript/react-native-apps-react...
Less so in France!
There are plenty of businesses running on this model. Wordpress is probably the biggest.
This is just a rebranded Accompli and not a true e-mail client.

From the privacy policy: "We provide a service that indexes and accelerates delivery of your email to your device. That means that our service retrieves your incoming and outgoing email messages and securely pushes them to the app on your device."

So it basically doesn't work if you're trying to reach an on-premise Exchange server via VPN.
I'm installing a screen-reader today ... and I'm going to listen to everything I create on it (at a slower speed - at least to start). We have stringent accessibility guidelines, tools to help find accessibility problems and a person in charge of making sure we adhere to those principles, but wouldn't it be more real to close your eyes and experience your creation yourself?
I seriously doubt this. They would need to sign MVNO agreements with every single operator they support. Unless they have a deal with someone that already has the links to the operators.
Things like case law become more complicated due to the march of time. More cases get decided, more case law is created. Another is the question of legislative intent. The edits to law as it is being drafted can be used to argue a case. These edits increase with time.