skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, and I even referred to the labor justification later on (i.e. copyright is a good thing because creators are entitled to the fruits of their labor). But it's still an unnatural fit, because unlike things that the labor theory of property has traditionally been applied to, ideas are inherently shared, or I suppose you could say created in the head of each person exposed to them. To claim ownership over other people's minds is far, far beyond anything John Locke or King David ever contemplated.

Ideas are just inherently unlike physical property on a very fundamental level. If my neighbor lends me his hammer, I can give it back. If my neighbor lends me an idea, it never left him, but I still can't ever rid myself of it.

No matter how much I care about content creators being compensated fairly — and I do, both for philosophical and selfish reasons — it is a farce to pretend an idea that exists in everyone's heads and originated in none of them is the exclusive property of one person. It is simply unnatural in a way that physical property isn't.
Buying a one or two year old car is far better than buying new. The first few years of depreciation are the worst and if the car is a lemon you'll generally know in the first year.
In what crazy world do you live that it takes a week to fix a car? And that there are no transport links or taxis?

This whole discussion is coming across as if Americans have crap transport links, have no such things as taxis and really bad quality cars.

Because this discussion is just plain bonkers from a UK perspective.
Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D
So you're against the income tax?

Straw man. I said nothing of the like.

How can (s)he not afford to pay, if it's "a fraction of what they make from profits from that work"?

Because poor people don't have very much money? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question.

In any case, that sounds like a poor objection to the general idea of a tax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
> The whole point of BI is to be a low-middle class income

Some advocates of BI may support that as the desired level, but few even of those who support it as a target level see it as the point.

A couple things that people generally cite as the point of BI:

(1) replacing means-tested social support programs with high bureaucratic oversight costs and perverse incentives (disincentives to outside income from means-testing) with a simpler system with lower bureaucratic oversight costs and fewer perverse incentives,

(2) increasing labor market mobility, mid-career educational opportunities, and entrepreneurial opportunities by making voluntary temporary lack of outside income less catastrophic of a cost.

(3) accommodating a transition to more automated society where market income will increasingly go to capital holders and labor will drop in value by redistributing gains that otherwise would become intensely concentrated.

People can dispute about the ideal target levels (both initial and long-term goals) for BI while supporting it, and I don't see many people seeing "low-middle class income" or $30K/yr as the point of BI, or even necessarily either the short or long-term target level. (I personally think its both too high as a near-term target and too low as a long-term target level.)
I then drove it 65,000kms (40k miles) from Alaska to Argentina

That sounds interesting. Have you written about it anywhere?
To be fair, after years of being neglected it's probably better that they admit nobody is working on Aperture.
I know what your point is, but if you imagined that I repeated your point, you're wrong. What I said was that targeted assistance was MORE likely to cause price inflation in areas like, say, housing than guaranteed income was, precisely because it generates "income" that can only be spent in competition for this particular housing category.

The benefit of basic income over targeted assistance is that basic income is relatively low-administration cost to flexibly meet the needs of people who don't have housing needs, and in that it is a relatively non-market-distorting intervention.
Couldn't agree more. I got butterflies when thinking about node-webkit with gecko instead of webkit, but reading through the post just made me really disappointed.

The reason I really want something like node-firefox is the build process for firefox is so much easier than webkit, and if I make a desktop app that I want people to be able to build from source node-webkit is such a huge beast to compile. I'm basically stuck with the binary versions, which is not the way to go for software that does crypto.

Does anyone know how hard it would be to make a real node-firefox (as in, FF version of node-webkit)? Why is chrome the go-to for all the web-app-as-desktop-app frameworks?
Thanks for the donation link, I just used it. It seems odd to me that an article bemoaning the fact that GnuPG's author is going broke gives no information at all on how to help rectify that condition.
I generally prefer to either "pull through" into a spot so that I can "leave forward" or, if the lot is full enough, back into a spot... logic being that I either have to back in to the spot or out of the spot, and backing into the spot is slightly more controlled (given the minimal foot traffic into a spot) compared to the challenge of backing out of a spot into the lanes where people/children/etc are walking.

I can't imagine a reason you wouldn't be able to do the same in a farm truck, except for the sometimes when it's towing something. Care to expound?
Metrics alone is not worth much. But if the app could help you optimize for higher gains, it would make it valuable.
Ask a simple question: "almost always". Keep your word. That's the only thing you need to remember.
For practical purposes, free and open source software are the same things with the same licenses. They're just different philosophies and goals.
something like this is just too important to not donate money to.
I am intrigued by this approach (I have Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics on my lengthy to-read pile) but I do wonder whether expecting ~sophomores to be trying to pick up Haskell and the physics at the same time is a bit much.

The aspect of this that interests me most is related to a classic observation that, for most people learning physics, it's hard to separate difficulties with the physical content and difficulties with the mathematical content. The distinction between these is vague, but the separations like "set up the differential equation" vs. "solve the differential equation" that this functional style suggests seem like a good approximation to "physics" vs. "math."
If you have to regularly transfer large amounts of data over a network, it might be worth looking into a wan optimization product like Riverbed's Steelhead, Silverpeak's VX/NX lines, or Bluecoat Mach 5, or one of the other vendors' solutions.

Yeah, you could try and roll it yourself, since really it just comes down to compressing and deduplicating what you send over the wire, but doing that well and also making it simple to use is not a trivial problem. Why reinvent the wheel badly?
Most things are complex and it's quite usualy to not know exactly what will happen. What i don't like is the fact that they usually make their policies as if they understood the topic with absolute certainty. Economics is simply not hard science, and it's failing to admit it. And even if it was science, erring was a absolute normal part in process of science.
This is the rub though. If you are (e.g.) distributing a desktop app that uses a LGPL library, you may not be able to assume that the library is installed on your target platform. For example, you may use libxml2 for XML parsing, but not be able to assume that it's installed on Windows (assuming for the sake of argument that libxml2 was LGPL instead of MIT licensed).

It's one thing to "cash in" on a GPL/LGPL project (e.g. writing a nice GUI around GnuPG, but not giving back to the project) where you are just wrapping the functionality of the GPL/LGPL project. It's another thing entirely to just use a support library (like an xml parser) where the library itself is not the main functionality of the program and have someone saying that your project has to be GPL.
Borrow a friends phone and use it as your own
Domain registration doesn't necessarily mean anything; my employer owns similar domains, just in case we need them. This is standard crisis plan stuff these days.
The numbers are a bit harder to meet than that, as gpg isn't the only project that needs funding. Heartbleed was caused by a similar issue.
I agree. However, there's a HUGE need for a hub of some kind. Possibly, open for anybody to develop on top of it.
Reading some of these replies, I have to shake my head at the people who are expecting 100x or 2000x "profit" on domain squatting.

I agree with supply and demand, and letting market forces dictate pricing etc etc.... but domain squatting is one of my biggest pet peeves out there.
But that's the thing. It's far easier to 'program' a static HTML than any other dynamic alternative.

What people seem to not understand is that the exact same template that they are using on the client renders exactly the same on the server.
We stuck with facebook to keep it simple, but I agree it would be really nice to login via twitter. This is definitely on our roadmap, but I don't think we'll get to it for this time. If you have a great idea and think you can get people to vote for it (where they're on facebook), then feel free to email it to appoutloud@coshx.com and I'll try to enter it in on your behalf.
I stand corrected! Never seen that before. Pretty awesome.
Do the rules forbid holding cash? At least for capital adequacy, I was under the impression that cash, like own-country sovereign debt, is not risk discounted. Normally you'd prefer debt to cash, but if it has a negative nominal yield, I'd think you'd prefer the opposite.

Ditto for bonds as currency play, why not cash instead?

Frankly the only rational reason I can think of to buy a bond with a negative yield is if the loss is less than the carrying costs of cash. And while that's not free, it's hard to see that anywhere near 100 bps per year on large sums of money.
PGP is not open source.

Parts of its source code are viewable and reviewable, associated with key cryptographic functions. Much of what PGP builds is structure around that, and most of that isn't open in any sense of the word.

Phil Zimmerman (who's long since left the building) does understand the value of source review, and the team who supported PGP continued that legacy. But it was quite limited in scope.

That said, PGP also did work with other implementations, including GPG, to resolve compatibility issues -- I'm aware of a few of those personally myself.
Almost nobody would call merely viewable source "open source". Certainly not the OSI.
Warning: Don't Use the New Piratebay!
Looks like it runs by the government.
(sources: http://bit.ly/1KjVrXB | http://bit.ly/1zcVsnG)

This is what a friend of mine got a day after downloading a movie there:

"Dear XXXXXX (Primary Account Holder),

We have been notified that copyrighted content may have been shared using your internet connection without permission of the copyright owner.
What does that mean?

Content owners (artists, moviemakers, authors) and their representatives routinely monitor peer-2-peer networks to see if their content (like music, movies, and TV shows) is shared without their permission (without it being paid for). If they notice somebody sharing their content without their permission through a Time Warner Cable account they let us know.

As the primary account holder, you are responsible for making sure your account is not used for copyright infringement. Please note that we don’t know which computer or device may be the one to have triggered the notification; it could be any device using your account.

Did you give them my personal information?

We have not shared any of your personal information with the content owner to help them find the files. The content owner simply provides us with an IP address and we contact you directly on their behalf.

And what if this continues to happen?

Sharing content without the owner’s permission is a violation of U.S. copyright laws, and our acceptable use policy. Under the Copyright Alert System (for more on CAS click here: http://www.copyrightinformation.org/alerts), further instances of infringement using your account may result in our undertaking measures that will temporarily affect your internet experience. The range of actions may include redirection to a landing page for a period or until you contact Time Warner Cable.
"
Thanks. We are all very excited about this. :)
Render has been hijacked a bit and AFAIK all (most?) web frameworks refer to HTML generation from templates as 'rendering', e.g.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/shortcuts/...

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html
I would prefer if they had layflat photobooks.
Cross-Platform Multiplayer Game in Unity – Part 1
I don't think a generation has been tricked into giving "free" (as in beer) software; I think the generation brought it on themselves, and continues to do so. We've always been free (as in speech) to charge money for our free (as in speech) software.

People are very eager to work for free on free (as in speech) software just for the pats-on-the-back from "the community", it seems to me, at least as often as people do it because they're truly passionate about their craft.

With the rise of "have a github profile/opensource contributions" in job posting descriptions, it's only going to get worse. "Open source" is very rapidly becoming the "unpaid internship" model of hiring and distributing work in the software industry, and it breeds a sort of contempt for the notion of receiving compensation for one's efforts. I'm not sure that's a good thing with all the very-much-for-profit activity around software development.
Ignoring (without downplaying) the referral limit mistake, I don't actually detect any "snark" in the response from the CSR.
I'd like to stand up and be counted as saying that both

1. Ember absolutely isn't to my taste and I've successfully avoided it so far and intend to continue doing so in future

2. The work you're doing is really cool and I'm looking forward to seeing it completed, both for the benefit of my friends with different tastes who're happily using ember and for the benefit of everybody else in that it provides a worked example of an awesome idea.

(and people who dislike it just because they dislike ember might, possibly, need to remember that trailblazing is important for new ideas)
If you're part of the deal, then it's as much your deal as anyone else's. What makes a deal a deal and not a done deal is that people can walk away.

I would recommend taking good deals (based on your definition of "good") and declining bad deals on the converse. The key point of a deal is that it's all arm's length in theory and in practice hand-shake deals are predicated on square dealing. Square dealing in turn is predicated on nobody claiming "you owe me" when the debt is not some piece of another square deal. The square deal of being an employee is that you show up and work in exchange for a check that doesn't bounce.

As others have suggested, maybe you do a favor that helps someone you know get rich. Maybe you don't for any one of a number of reasons, e.g. the person needing the favor isn't going out of their way to make you rich or happy or whatever. This kind of change is stressful. There's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself.

So, in my opinion, it's ok either way. There are consequences to either decision and making the deal go through may not be in your interest. Clearly making it go through is not slam-dunk obviously to your benefit.

Good luck.
Red hat pays people to write open source software. The skinflints are the companies publishing closed source stuff and the consumers using free software.
Graph the two of them and get back to me. I'm talking about the slope. I do realize that the total sum is basically trivial either way. But slope is an actual mathematical term and I used it as such.
I have always been a fan of Smugmug. It's super easy (imo) to use, and there are a number of great export plugins for LightRoom.
With iPhoto, you can easily move your photos elsewhere, but moving the metadata with it (what photo is in what album, recognized faces, etc) is another thing.

I call that a form of lock-in.
HotSpot compresses pointers on 64-bit systems to 32 bits by default.

https://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/Compressed...
Thanks! I am working in this area and have some ideas for deep learning type methods which move away from concatenative synthesis. It will be nice to compare to what they are using.
True, but mostly because writing a JS engine from scratch is hard although not impossible.
Quasar uses byte code instrumentation to do things you can't do with "regular" java. How exactly they can do things whne the JVM is the same JVM? good question, I don't know, I know implementing user threads simply means keeping stack information, keeping a scheduler, handling signals, without asking the kernel / OS for a native thread (had to implement user threads in C in the past, not fun)

Maybe the JVM allows for more fine grained control on PC location, and allows to "go to" different places in the code without invoking a native thread. But I know that when you create a Quasar co-routine / green thread / user thread / continuation or whatever we want to call it, then it's not the same as Akka.

In Akka, if you have a "conversation" between a million actors in a circle, you can still get 1 thread to be reused, if there is no need to use more than one. But if you try to do 3 things in 100% parallel, you might find yourself with 3 threads (from the little that I know).

In quasar, you can do all that, without invoking an OS thread, I think this is the main difference.

http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
Totally, but I don't think it's going to be a physical device.
I don't understand how someone can drive but not know basic car maintenance, especially if you can only afford an older used car and depend on it.

I don't mean everyone should know how to replace a clutch but you should know the basic wear components (filters, belts, lights, brakes, etc) and how to diagnose and replace them. On most cars these are fairly simple (except on some newer cars that make them overly complex).

This is a rule I feel should be applied to your entire life. At a bare minimum you should understand the basics about things you use on a daily basis. Computers, cars, homes, etc.
Me too! 25EUR. Many thanks for bringing this to my attention
Damn You Art School
Really? I'd imagine most Ember projects are more like Gmail than Bustle (in the sense that they probably have at least login). If even a single byte of the payload changes, you're looking at O(n=users) instances and then you're potentially back at the problem of having the db hit happen before the first pixel on screen.
Rearden metal?)
It's actually very useful if it can detect with reasonable confidence that there is a person in a picture.

One example of a use is at Kiva we require borrowers to have a picture of themselves posted for their loan. But sometimes we get pictures of things like goats or cows instead (those are kind of nice to but gotta follow policy). Currently this is something we have to manually review for, but if we could automate that review piece it would save a lot of time (especially if at some point it could also count the number of humans in a photo).
So, use case would be something like:

Software is shareware, gets a little naggy within 30 days of license expiration, send money to get a new license file, which makes the nagging go away. No cessation of service.

I'm not worried about clock spoofing--I assume basically good-faith customers.

Signing would help people from just copy-pasting certificates around. If they want to go into the executable and rewrite the routines, well, there's only so much one can do, yes?
I'd take issue with your description that socialists seem to hate it. Plenty of socialists (especially libertarian socialists) like it a lot.
Its the consequence of assuming no change in supply and assuming that there are other competing goods (e.g., food) which will compete for the marginal dollars for the same population of buyers (and hence that demand is not perfectly inelastic.)
Some socialists hate it, some don't. Lots of libertarian socialists are in favour.
Hah! I'm glad others have seen we've come full circle again :)

As a developer of isomorphic (there's another term to pick apart!) React apps, I'm thrilled Ember and others are reaching the same conclusions on why server-side rendering is crucial.

I'll still call it Progressive Enhancement, since a server-generated response is "enhanced" with client-side functionally that still functions for those with it disabled.
Nope what? You didn't actually contradict anything he said.
thank you, will do that
Ah right, I forgot about the 'actions'.

As of right now (10.0.3 beta), Photos.app does not have any available access points to "Actions", etc. Hopefully soon!
I see. I call that free software, because "having access to the source code" is part of free software licenses.

The kind of "open source" I was talking about is source code that is released under a non-free software license. What do we call that?

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@alexvoda "it's not really open source" is the part I tried to contradict. I may have been wrong though.
An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning
> Then I get this bit of snark along with some questionable information

What snark? They apologised and answered the question ($200 Vs. $75 point not withstanding).
You can substitute the international PISA, TIMSS, or the national NAEP for SAT in my final statement and all that I wrote will remain the same. The rest of my comment wasn't referring to the SAT.

And even the SAT depends on how big your vocabulary is (comes from extensive reading of challenging material that is no longer fashionable at elite campus schools of education), how fluent you are in the math they use (fluency comes from what "progressive educators" ridicule as "drill and kill"), and so on, which is why the College Board had to "recenter" the scoring in 1995 after three decades of decreases in educational "aptitude".
There is some costs associated with securing that amount of cash and then I guess you'd want to insure that money in case of theft. The insurer would then need to store a large amount in safe assets, which would then go into bonds.

I guess, maybe storage companies might move into this business but it's probably just safer and more convenient to buy a piece of paper.
Can I get a glimpse of what it looks like when the page changes? Can I see a diff of the page, or do I simply get an alert that it was changed?

This could be immensely useful to my company for another use case, but I really need to see what the output looks like.
After Apple suddenly (and still no longer "officially") killed Aperture, I no longer trust them with long-term data storage. So no "Photos" for me.

I am still thinking about how to deal with the collection that I have in Aperture.

And before you respond with "just keep the files" or "export the files and import into Lightroom", it's no longer 1999 and it's not just about the files. There is metadata, tags, collections, stacks, and other kinds of organizational structure that are not easily reflected in a directory hierarchy.

I've been bitten once, I won't be fooled again — this time I intend to develop my own solution for keeping this data in the long term.
The anti-GPL , pro-BSD/MIT consumers are a selfish minority.

But there are library authors who publish BSD (governnent funding) who can't partner with GPL. It's unfortunate.
Humans are wired for prejudice but that doesn’t have to be the end of the story