skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are about the open source part: http://opensource.org/osd. The 'Naming' section of your link references the osd.

Calling it just one or the other is enough though. Being "under a Free Software license" by definition means "the code is open (i.e. you can study it), so no need to say "and Open Source".

I do however prefer calling it free software over open source as I find the free software definition simpler and than the osd. And also because the term open source seems to place importance on the code being 'open' instead of 'libre', which you'll here rms talking about everytime someone says open source.

"Free software" has issues as well as a term, since free can obviously mean two things, gratis or libre. However, once the reader/listener has understood the difference between free of charge software and software that preserves your freedom to study, modify and redistribute it, I think open source is the more problematic term as it can more easily cause confusion as demonstrated by your comment (where you think open source means that the code just has to be 'open').
It sounds like there is a market for either a. Tractors with very limited electronics, but easily repairable, or b. Hi-tech tractors that are completely open systems.

What you have here is an industry ripe for disruption. John Deere makes enormous amounts of money on farm capital expenditure but also operational expenditure. But their service is crap (two days for a sensor to be fitted? Someone tell the weather not to rain or disrupt harvest, John Deere's equipment needs time to be repaired!).

In a market economy, one would think that someone would see an opportunity and, you know, compete.
Precisely. Their "brand" is being counter-cultural and edgy, so these antics just help support that and keep them relevant.
It seems like if you sell off a little land in the first few years to plant as much land as possible, you'll keep having enough wheat everything going. Within a few years you'll be able to buy that back and then some.

And then you have a plague.
From 2013, but it's a big list.
Its going to be heavily censored anyway, Twitter has an excessive amount of trolls, harassment and negative tweets in regards to any major social news event. There is no way Google will let that hit the search results.
I always do the "name your price" and get a full size car for $98 - $105 a week. Smaller sized cars should be much cheaper.
Great, I'm waiting for it, actually I can't do so much with the preloaded domain on Q&A service.
Making open source beautiful
If true, Google collected revenue from the advertiser on "Mac" and "Skype" from a company obviously preying on people's level of sophistication. In 2000, claiming naivety would at least be plausible. Today it ain't.
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What's the economic model? Supporting systems no one else will with clients that can't migrate to some other system?
It's fascinating that we've built a model of a computer, which was impractical; then we've modeled the brain with very high abstraction and then actually built a computer. Now we're back to modelling the brain because while the abstractions are universal they're not efficient enough.

We need to nitty gritty details on efficient ways of learning and computing approximately ("probably approximately correct"), quickly and efficiently.

Which is what I believe the article tries to convey as the last epiphany of Pitts.
This is personal impression, but there haven't really been any advances in research per se, but there's been a lot of advances in tooling.

Now having type inference is an "expected" feature of most languages, now that there's a good amount of institutional knowledge. Along with first-class functions and the like. These are old things but it takes a while to propagate
Sounds like both you and traditional medicine were theorizing about the same cause -- you tried a cure that has to be repeated if the situation develops again, while they were aiming at something that might be a permanent fix.

Why did you conclude that traditional medicine wasn't the answer?
News spreads however it's first reported. Sometimes it's corrected later, but often times it's picked up and spread, even by major news organizations. You are assuming that news will eventually be corrected by news organizations. First, that's a false assumption (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757421), and second, for many it's already too late by that point.

An anecdote of one false rumor not mattering doesn't change the fact that accurate news makes a difference.
Edwin (the text editor that comes with MIT-Scheme) is not quite emacs, but when I used it for SICP I kind of liked it...once I figured out the debugger. (edit: that sounded sarcastic, I actually liked Edwin)

Apparently there's an important library for the course called scmutils that the Racket people gave up on porting a while back: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2005-October/0099...
One-atom-thin ‘silicene’ silicon transistors invented
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FWIW, in NSW Australia, the average land size of farms is just over 3,300ha.

Heavens knows the average size in Australia - the biggest station is 2,366,700ha. I guess it probably needs to be defined by the sort of farming being done.
Alternatively, you could just note that your example reduces to 100*(100+1)/2. This simplification decreases cognitive load even more substantially! Taking a strictly programmatic view of a problem allows you to be lazy, and I believe that you lose a lot in the process. There is importance (numerically, even!) in thinking about things in a more formalized, mathematical way.
Considering literally anything can be used to harm, kill, or maim (I actually have a friend who was severely injured by a pineapple) if used incorrectly, I say it's better to have open-source knowledge so we learn how to properly use something rather than sit in proprietary ignorance and hope nothing bad happens.

Besides, knives, cars, guns, indoor plumbing, house wiring, etc., are all just as if not more dangerous than farming equipment. Just slap a good ol' MIT license agreement somewhere on your product so that it's clear to the user "if you do X, you void the warranty and you're solely responsible for whatever damage you might cause."
1) Yes.

2) People involved in the banking system, by definition, are willing to fractionally reserve something

3) Nothing particularly complicated, same fence that fractionally reserved frauds have been running for a thousand years.

_shrug_
This is exactly what I'm talking about. People ignoring/dismissing information and jumping to wrong conclusions (with some effort, I might add) based on the omission.
That's a pragmatic approach drawing information from the sources available and not drawing a hard line anywhere.

I've never been able to understand people's tendency to insist on extremes. If you're Republican, everything Democrat is bad, and vice versa. If you are an advocate for Eastern medicine all doctors are quacks. Yadda yadda yadda. These may be extreme and a bit simplified but the tendency seems to run strong in some point.

Although, to put it in another frame, perhaps the people more likely to espouse their views are also the ones more likely to take a strong stance which means as a result I tend not to hear from the more pragmatic among us.
Make it open. Then add warnings and void the warranty. If someone has a legitimate need to modify it they should be able. If it's that dangerous one would hope the care used in operating goes goes tenfold for any modifications.

If it is big and complicated, your users probably don't want to modify it for fear of causing damage. If they do, the risk is on them. If someone wants to modify it they will. Wouldn't you rather they have all the information rather than trying to obscure it?
> big oversight on the part of Facebook IMHO.

Status updates != tweets

For one thing, most status updates aren't public. It would be absolutely horrifying if they suddenly became so, just to be fed into a search engine.
Correct. Northward of 90% of all URTIs (Upper Respiratory Tract Infections) are caused by viruses and never develop secondary bacterial infections. [1]

If you have a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection you usually feel much less well than when the average viral infection.

The usually route of antibiotics appearing to work is that a course of antibiotics is usually 10 days, by which time you're mostly over the viral infection anyway.

1.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098742/
I guess you do well if all your people die from the plague on year 10.
It disallows the move, but still deducts the resources. I don't have access to a real computer at the moment, but I imagine the bug would be easy to identify in the JavaScript.
I'm just curious, how have you been able to avail yourself of their unlimited storage?

I signed up too but their API rate limiting is draconian enough that I can't realistically use that for uploading large amounts of data.

Their native clients might fare a little better but they require a ton of disk space if you're doing a large upload it seems.
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The NSA already have been doing this for 15 years. Any picture that goes on the wire, to any cloud or other service, is in their system..
> It also somewhat astonished me that the schools are so poorly funded;

You don't give money to schools, you give it to the school districts. Which already have a set of their own financial obligations such as pension liabilities, outstanding bond payments and current overhead.

Pension liabilities increase any time the investments do not as well as projections, and any time people live longer http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2013/2/teacher-p...

Bond companies have their own way of structuring municipal bonds to arrive at nice upsides
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bonds-496091-school-bank....
Yeah, totally, that's ridiculous. Essential oils should never be taken internally. Having said that, the oils from most culinary herbs can usually be diluted one drop per litre safely.

I studied herbal medicine formally for four years about ten years ago, and I always just tell people "never take essential oils internally" and they say things like "but what if an Aromatherpist (actually a qualification in Australia) tells me to, to which I reply "never take essential oils internally".

Never take essential oils internally. Unless you want kidney failure.
Xbox Services were down for a good amount of time today(still down)
Okay, but that doesn't change my point that a single global scope is archaic, and for good reason.
Cloud Magic handles pretty much everything (except POP3) and has much of the same UI of Mailbox.
You're right, constants are only "half" of the equation, so to speak. The other half is the equations themselves. In information theory, the combination of the two is usually referred to as the Minimum Description Length (MDL):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length

It would be interesting to know what is the Kolmogorov complexity of the complete description of our universe. Or for that matter, what is the Kolmogorov complexity of our current understanding of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Whether it is 'just' or not, however you're defining that, it does not align with the way human culture works, and degrades cultural innovation resulting in fewer works of poorer quality. If cultural progress is one of the things you want to optimize for in copyright law, then this is bad policy.
I think his point is that when he made the payment, that service did not exist. His payment was for other services (such as unlimited 2 day delivery).

Now, without exchanging any further currency or otherwise paying, he receives another service.

I'd agree that that constitutes free.
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The other ones, the ones we need, are correctly called EFAs - Essential Fatties Acids[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid
I think the Common Core standards are supposed to take care of (1) and (2). You have a common set of knowledge against which you're tested, the paths to acquiring that knowledge (public school, private school, parents, hired tutors, YouTube videos) are really up to you.

On (4) there's not hard quantifiable data to suggest homeschooled kids lack social interaction, as amount of quality of social interaction at public school is questionable (and could comprise of bullying another kid). There are home-schooled socialites and public school hermits and weirdos on both ends of the spectrum.

Schooling is only part of social interaction for kids; sport leagues, scout organizations, local clubs can fill that purpose as well.
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The article claimed that the (original) article's conclusions about strenuous running were suspect because they were based on 2 deaths out of a sample of 40.

But is that really the case? I get sick of hearing that "the sample size was too small" when no analysis is done of the statistical significance of the results. In this case, the difference between death rates for strenuous vs moderate runners was significant (by my calculation based on their 95% intervals).

Given the small sample size, there are still questions to be asked about the methods they used to correct for age, sex, etc. But still, outright dismissal based on small sample size is not reasonable. If the sample is big enough to give statistically significant results, that should be an a priori reason to accept the results.
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People loved me when I let 2.5% die of starvation but ended up with almost 11 acres per person, and hated me when I kept every single person fed but ended up with 8 acres per person.
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Private cloud? Cool. It looks good.
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Funny that I've started to think of Apple's easily CNC'd aluminium as the standard instead of 6061. That Apple stuff is about as strong as wax, not even as tough as others' plastic shells. Sure looks good on my iPhone and MacBook, though.

I'm glad to have 6061 on my bike instead.
I remember we had to play this game in high school, back in 1983. I had a political science teacher who thought this was a very clever game. He was fascinated with the primitive simulations that were available then. There was another one where we had to manage a restaurant, buying ingredients and selling meals. I did very well with that one. Funny how everything became a lot more sophisticated within 10 years. 1983 was still the era of personal computers that had 16 to 32 k.
Put this in a blog post and it should rise to the top of HN tomorrow. Thanks for posting it!
But Common Core testing standards would take care of it, seems like?
Great people know they are great? not in my experience. Usually it's the opposite.
And more recently we've learned things like:

Cinnamon for stomach ulcer due to inhibitory affect on H. pylori

Cinnamon for blood sugar regulation

Cinnamon for Parkinson's disease

And that's just one of the 214 herbs I've studied intensively.
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PR, as it's being used here, doesn't increase awareness of security in general, it only increases awareness of a single, specific issue. There are many more major security issues that don't get branded and hyped up, they just get solved.

Would you have all major vulns receive the same level of PR? If so, there would be a C-SPAN style, 24 hour channel constantly discussing the latest issues. This channel would not be commercially viable as the majority of people would ignore it. No amount of PR for individual issues will increase the public's awareness of the real problems. The media coverage of Heartbleed was particularly useless, as it didn't tell anyone what they should, or could do. The sysadmins updated their systems, the developers patched their libraries, the general populace just worried non-specifically about something they couldn't do much about.

I would also like to point out that the human race survived without PR for thousands of years. It's not "absolutely essential" for anything.
PyPy 2.5.0 Released
Here's an analogy for you--what if supercomputers and mainframes failed because the technology was not yet there to allow them to perform computation more efficiently than distributed data centers?

Command economies don't scale. Their inefficiencies are perhaps acceptable in groups of humans from the size of a family unit to perhaps a medium-sized corporation, but when you're talking about an entire polity, the deadweight loss just becomes too great.
Interesting article! lwn.net always has great stuff.

Related:

> Linux x86 Program Start Up - or - How the heck do we get to main()?

http://dbp-consulting.com/tutorials/debugging/linuxProgramSt...
Arguably, OpenBSD deserves that funding more for the ongoing process of fixing the OpenSSL codebase than OpenSSL does for making it as awful as it is.
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How much of Scala and its APIs can be used? For example can you use Scala Actors in Scala.js?
what about calabi-yau manifolds and lg orbifolds?
Uh, real estate is much less "you didn't build that" than Harry Potter. You're almost certainly not the one who brought your land out of the wilderness, cleared and leveled it, etc.
So if you were to replace them at the 80% mark of those miles... Then you should be very unlikely to have them snap on you unexpectedly?
I am calling it now: self-driving Barbie cars.
Well, that would require github making some changes server-side, but it seems like an entirely reasonable thing to do. You can browse the source, but you can't really download it until you pay.

There's no reason why free software should just be given away. The point is to make sure users have the source code and the permission to modify it and redistribute it. It was never to make sure they don't have to pay in order to acquire the software.

Sure, if they can redistribute it, perhaps they could undercut you, but if we believe that piracy doesn't really hurt sales that badly, it seems likely that this secondary moneyless distribution might not substantially hurt the primary one.
> I imagined something like 3D printing/laser cutting for silicon chips.

That's sort of what a fab already is =)
The site is terribly slow. I don't know how a software could be good if its main site is in that slow quality. Bad developers or bad policy ?
Hopefully it is obvious that without DRM "protecting people from themselves" is still better served; with DRM the only winner is the company who locks out everyone else.

Example of how it might work without DRM: Farmer A hesitates to bypass the flaky hydraulic sensor. His $100,000 tractor is offline for about 2 days each season, and he pays $2,000 each time to have a specialist come check the hydraulic system with specialist tools.

Farmer B is foolish and just shorts the wires on his sensor. The hydraulic system has a massive failure and he faces a $50,000 repair bill.

Of course, with DRM, both farmers are forced to pay John Deere certified techs who are in short supply during harvest season (all the tractors are breaking down) and who therefore feel justified charging $10,000 for the rush service. Also the parts can only be replaced with Genuine John Deer replacement parts. Basically only John Deere comes out the winner here.
One issue is that arable land isn't, along with other resources, evenly distributed over the plant, nor do the people have equal access to technology maximise production output.

This is why we need trade, which is arguably better than one form or another of centralised government controlled redistribution.

So the issue isn't, and probably never will be, limits to resources, but limits to human resourcefulness - of which there are none.
Even from the POV of the interviewer it's a great question. I'd give my answer then brainstorm with the interviewee about how they would propose solving that problem.

Would you feel comfortable asking an interviewee the same question about their last job? It could give a sense of how they think / why they are looking for a new spot but might be a little invasive.
I noticed the rather pitifully empty donation bar last week, and made a mental node to chip in a little bit as soon as I could. Donated €5 today, and visited the website again just now and the donation bar is more than full, which is just incredible.

Werner's engagement on the mailing lists is awesome enough, let alone the software he writes. Genuinely glad for the guy that he's getting some of the financial support he needs.
Yep, that's the proposal I'm making.
So true. "change in gene expression" is one of those three-word-slogans. A change in gene expression occurs ever time we eat as our liver and pancreas ramp up production of various enzymes.

It's probably true that every activity we participate in cause a change in gene expression as the underlying physical manifestation of a change in biochemistry.
Into Arel, you mean? Happy to do that. It would be a good opportunity to really understand that code better!
Carl Sagan, in his book Demon Haunted World, described his bologna detection kit, a set of principals and tests used to get a feel for the veracity of a claim. Here is my Medical modality bologna detection kit.

1. It is claimed the modality cures or treats a wide variety of otherwise unconnected symptoms.

2. Claims about the modality are unspecific. "It boosts the immune system." "It removes toxins."

3. It is claimed the modality is as effective as already substantiated treatments but trials are not controlled.

4. Purveyors of the treatment invoke any benefit besides its efficacy and side effect profile. They emphasize its antiquity or how natural it is.

5. Top researchers of the modality stand to profit from positive outcomes of their research.

6. There is no likely way for the treatment to work.

7. Trials are not double blinded.
Because the links are actually wrong, or because they're in a confusing order? If they're wrong somewhere, definitely let me know!
You're certainly free to make an email app too, and you can make it support anything you'd like. Google isn't stopping you.
The quote at the end is almost certainly taken out of context:

> We found that 89% of Twitter users are cricket fans, they follow cricket in some way—either they follow sports, people or teams.

That came from someone in India, who surely was referring to Twitter users in India. Globally, I doubt 89% of Twitter users could name a single cricket player, team, event, venue, or rule.

It's interesting how authoritative-sounding people (here, the "managing director for Twitter") can have their words used in ways that are definitely not true yet appear on the surface to be sensible.
Universities are bureaucratic, yes. in the same time you can encounter "academic" people there, who are genuinely interested in doing research, even for crappy money. That what they are, that's their nature.
In corporations it's more often some a*holes working towards promotions/power not giving a shit about "advancement" or greater good for humanity/society.

All IMHO of course, but based on personal experience in both areas.