skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This flakiness is really hurting Google's B2B business. Google tends to do things in a particularly proprietary Googly way that locks companies in, but the history of killing off products makes nobody want to commit to that.

Thus the B2B offerings underperform, making it more likely they'll get killed off.

I follow google reasonably closely and I haven't even heard of a good 40% of these.
The quote was made in the context of NFL players. (At least that's how I read it)

Still, even though college players aren't paid with money, they still receive compensation (scholarships, financial aid, free tutors, etc). To indicate that they receive no financial compensation is inaccurate, I think.
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Don't they play for free while in high school and college? I'm not too familiar with American sports. But it sounds like this could have been avoided entirely if there wasn't such a huge and obsessive push to get kids on the track to "big time NFL stardom" from high school onwards.
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I wasn't clear.

David Miranda was carrying material which he must have known a government would show interest in.

They (unacceptable) stop and search found the data, and it was mostly unencrypted.
"Gamification of education" is a very wrong approach. Try "educatifying of games".

Children have very good bullshit detectors. They know when you try to trick them into learning. They know when something looks like a game but it's actually a chore. Such thing is just not fun. So if you want to go with the path of gaming, make games with side-effect of education instead of education with side-effect of play.

One way you could approach it is by making the skills you want to teach an integral part of the game world, not something that looks like arbitrary limitation. Say, you want to teach kids that moss on trees can be used for navigation, and sun for telling time. Instead of doing stupid quizes about it, just mod Minecraft so that the northen side of tree trunk is green and put some hint in-game that you can use tree's shadow to tell the time. Kids will learn those things as useful in-game skills and transfer them to real-life.

Another example. You know what's the best MO(O)C for basic astrodynamics? Kerbal Space Program. It doesn't try to teach you math and physics, you just need to know some concepts to play effectively, and the more you know, the better you play. And people learn it, and find it fun.
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>>> I don't know that better equipment and rule changes can solve everything.

Doesn't matter how good the equipment is, it's your body which is handicapped from the outset. It's because your brain floats in the cerebrospinal fluid, there's no way to effectively "anchor" your brain from crashing around in your head during concussions and hard hits.

Anybody playing contact sports is at risk, and even sports you don't think of as contact sports are at risk as well. Baseball's not considered a contact sport, but you see concussions there all the time. The problem in all of these sports is the players are getting bigger and the sport is moving faster. I still remember Wayne Gretzky talking about how we finally decided to retire. He was talking with his father, who asked him if he was going to play one more year. This was his response:

"Dad, I can't compete anymore. The players are getting bigger and faster every year." when Wayne retired, he was 6' and 185lbs. \

The AVERAGE hockey player nowadays is closer to 6'3" and is well over 200lbs. The LA Kings famously had a line where all three of their forwards were 6'3" and weighed 220lbs the year they won the Stanley Cup in 2012.

Take a look at their roster - they only had 4 guys under 6': http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/LAK/2012.html
Developers will be able to use Xbox One retail consoles as test kits in 2015
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One of the worst designed products I've ever used was the Google Search Appliance. I'd never recommend it to another developer, the user interface is just terrible. We'd pay a bunch of money and what we got was a hard to set up box that was kind of buggy.
Yes, Google Checkout became Google Wallet, which shut down their API for digital goods three days ago:
https://developers.google.com/wallet/digital/
Getting Started with the Windows Developer Program for IoT
"Now one fun question that arises: what about single person production? The guy who pays a woman to sleep with him while he films it. Such first person sites definitely exist."

Establish a corporation by which you are the sole owner. You perform the deeds, corporation pays the escort.
What can we do to improve computer education?
I read it as meaning the officer (non-cyber-specialist) kept it awake until the cyber-specialists arrived...

I wouldn't expect a raid party to know much about technology, other than just keep it 'on'.
The specific issue here is that he did "give it away," but not for free. He gave it away under the terms of the GPL as its license. If I give you something, but only under a particular agreement, and you break that agreement, then there are usually some form on consequences, no?

If he were really giving it away for free with no strings attached, then he would have used something like a CC license, which was specifically designed for that purpose.
ThingStudio: Real-Time Internet of Things UIs
ThingStudio is a UI editor and server for MQTT based networks. You can create dynamic, real-time UI's for the Internet of Things using only HTML based templates

Unlike the majority of cloud platforms for the Internet of Things, ThingStudio does not require you to send home network data into a proprietary platform. Your IoT data stays within your network, and we just provide the UI's that you design.

You get the convenience of a cloud based service for the complex task of designing and managing UI's, and the privacy, speed and low latency of your own network handling your data
Of course regulations exist in every country but it's the extent to which they limit competition resulting in poor service and high prices that affects Canada particularly badly. For example, tv/internet services Rogers/Bell provide are abysmal compared to the likes of Sky and they charge many times more too. Same with cellular plans. Really though we're getting side tracked, I do not think border guards demanding your phone will become commonplace in every country like you say because of both privacy concerns and because of the fact that people with malicious intent are not going to be caught out. This is not like a car where drugs may be hidden inside the trunk, you can completely wipe the phone and just get data back as soon as you exit the airport.
Well despite the fact that this is very stressful, I would start with the maxim that one should employ Hanlon's Razor[0] and not ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

It's quite possible, nee probable, that they are just disorganized and genuinely thought you already knew, or that it didn't matter, or otherwise were clueless or inexperienced enough to not really understand what had happened.

I think it would be a mistake to get into it with them on a war footing. Early stage companies like this make mistakes of this kind all the time, and it's not necessarily a sign that the whole ship is doomed. If they have the ability to get revenue and investment and pay salaries and whatnot it's possible that there's a positive outcome in the future.

I would schedule an initial consultation with a lawyer who deals with these kinds of things. Get a referral and schedule an hour or so to go over it with them. They'll probably charge you a few hundred bucks, or even waive it if you have a close friend or existing client of theirs refer you.

Sit down with a lawyer, bring the docs, and explain what happened and get some sense of the implications. Then approach the founders with the attitude that it must be an administrative mistake or misunderstanding. If they are evasive or otherwise shady that should become clear quickly. If they are genuinely concerned and want to help fix the problem then great. But personally I wouldn't blow up your relationship with everyone until you have a better idea which of those two scenarios is more descriptive.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Just speculation, but perhaps it's because it "wraps" the kernel. ie. the kernel's shell...
What Fifty Shades of Grey Tells Us About Gender Bias at the Oscars
The hassle of having to switch is a giant burden though. Imagine grep was replaced every 3-4 years on your machine with some new, slightly different regex tool.
Finally, Diverse Poop Emojis
I've seen a bunch of companies that "ban" GPL, but use Linux. Do you use Linux?
The new Vulkan and SPIR-V specifications
> The problem with this is you keep factoring the costs of a computer, or electricity or an ASIC. It's expensive or the user. But for uTorrent, that computer is free.

How is that a problem in my analysis? It's important.

For example say you bought a Macbook Air and came with mining software, used 100% of your CPU and GPU and made your computer unusable. And it generated 1 penny per year in return. And it'd cost you $100 in electricity.

Would you consider it normal to say 'But for Apple it's 1 penny, for free! Your analysis is flawed because all those costs, who cares, Apple isn't paying for them, for them it's a free penny'.

Of course not. It's ridiculous. Screwing over your user is not without consequence, there is a cost involved. A moral one, for one, which if you can't express financially still matters. That is, locking up 25% or 50% of a CPU, reducing the lifetime of their CPU and costing them $20 in electricity per year is screwing over your users.

But secondly there is also an economic cost, just not directly. But indirectly in the long run, doing things like this will lead people to uninstall and avoid your product. In the exaggerated example about Apple above, it's obvious nobody would ever buy that Macbook Air again. A similar thing will happen for uTorrent on a smaller scale, and that's a cost.

And if your little scheme generates peanuts in revenue, then that cost of losing users is likely bigger than your revenue if you'd built a less intrusive scheme.

As for your example, it's from spring 2013. Spring 2013 the hashrate was about 50k, today it's 350 million. So literally, the same infected computers today would earn $1.17 in the same period, or about $28 per year. And the electricity costs would be thousands of dollars. Even if you didn't have to pay for it, a business model where you screw with your user's hardware performance, generate thousands of dollars in costs for them to make $28 is ridiculous.

Even if you scale that up from 14 thousand to 14 million users, not with heavy GPUs but average users using their CPU, it's absolute peanuts. I showed that already.

I'm not making this up. This is exactly my point, as I mentioned, a few years ago this would've been a brilliant idea, hell even spring 2013, today, not so much.
This is correct for Canada too - Please seek advice of a tax professional and not on the internet however:

In a private corporation where an employee is issued stock options, a taxable benefit exists ONLY when you sell the shares for a profit. Unless this is a public company or a non-Canadian controlled company, you will not face a tax liability. Just make sure both owners and any majority investor is a Canadian resident.

Now - there is another question - when you were given the options, were they in the money at the time. This is to say, were the options priced below the FMV at the time of the option being given to you? If they were not, or there was likely no way to tell at that time (they were worthless, and were priced accordingly which it appears), then you will be eligible for an additional tax credit on the gain (it is approximately 50% of the capital gain, it is substantial). Please do your own research in this regard. Also keep in mind selling shares of a QSBC (Qualified small business corporation) means you get up to $800K in TAX FREE gains, once in your life. This is called the life time capital gains exemption. Please do your research here. You likely will pay no tax at all on the capital gain.
Nice, ad hom, and I can't downvote your insulting comment! How about this: are you too lazy to uncheck a few check boxes? Because that's all it takes, and then you'll only get order and shipping confirmations.
This blog post is worryingly vague about anything of concrete value for users. It suggests a large reengineering effort without any idea of what they really want to achieve. For example, one of the blog posts it links to, they introduce the new VAT manual

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-government-and-...

vs old

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatgpbmanual/index.htm

It's identical, except for a modified stylesheet. This may be 'unapologetically unifying and simplifying the experience of interacting with government', but this is not very much to show for all the time that has been spent on GDS.
All joking aside, I believe this would be a hot selling app. I was contacted by over a dozen friends this morning, who thought this was hilarious and who wanted to use poop emojis on their phone. That is a lot of pent up customer demand. I assume my friends are reasonably representative of the whole world, so I'm thinking there are a lot of people out there who would spend $1 to get something like this.
Or police who know enough to keep machines powered on and not sleeping until the specialists get there.

There are plenty of cases where machines have been powered down and evidence has been lost, so this is probably an improvement.
"The Register is scum."

How so? I find it quite useful in staying on top of IT news in the UK. Their reporting is harsh, but to date, from what I know of the industry, appears to be accurate.

If it's not some examples would help?
I preferred the Slate Google Graveyard with flowers:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
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> But if you give your work away so that people benefit from it in general, then you have agreed that your sole benefit is not at issue and that you don't expect compensation for the work.

Two things. First, you aren't giving your work away. This premise is false. You are licensing your work. It's still yours. Without that license, it's yours. You are exchanging the right to use that work for certain conditions that must be followed. You expect to be compensated.

> what specific asset or benefit have you lost when someone takes your GPL code and uses it in their commercial product?

This can be rewritten as such:

"What specific asset or benefit have you lost when someone takes your copyrighted code and uses it in their commercial product?"

The answer for that is the same answer for the question you asked.
It could be a Bitcoin miner put in by people who don't understand how worthless that would be.
FYI, qGIS is a pretty good free replacement. Not drop in good, but not too bad either.

http://www2.qgis.org/en/site/

Falconview is another option https://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView
Does 18F mean anything special?
Is it really so terrible that they try out new projects and abandon those that don't either don't work or aren't profitable?
In essence it "restricts" your ability to profit from others effort.
> I suspect that helmets and padding are the reason we don't see more deaths at all levels of play.

Given the fact that we have a history of both no helmets/padding and less or less effective effective helmets and padding with much higher death rates, I think that's fairly clear.
At least in the US, AMT can apply even when capital gains taxes don't. The exact conditions are very complicated.
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That was always my understanding. In older mainframe operating systems, the command interpreter was more integral to the OS. In Unix, it's just a process. Its function is to run programs for the user, so it is in some sense a shell around the OS seen by the user.
Super useful tool, thanks to Tom and everybody who contributes. When we began moving some of our APIs from Django to Flask at my company, djangorestframework was the single tool/package that I missed most. It's lovely.

What are the plans (if any) for continued development on Flask-API?
Guess what friend -- GPL is not going to die no matter how much you and your short-sighted friends pray for it. It's survived other legal challenges before and it will survive this one too.

Your companies that "simply banned" GPL did so because they were too ignorant to bother to read it and understand it. Banning LGPL too proves the point.

Your claim that it's somehow not "sane" to use it betrays your own hostility and ignorance. Why don't you direct your anger at something actually evil, instead of a license that has done demonstrably good things for the world?

The good news is you pissed me off enough to get off my ass and donate. GPL Forever.
The article wasn't clear, but I think you've misread it:

"Most never made a dime off the game. They are relatively anonymous men who played the sport in college and only later, for some reason or another, have found themselves struggling in life.

Just like their N.F.L. counterparts, Hoffman and those former college players have been left to wonder: Did football do this?"

The author meant to distinguish Hoffman et al frmo NFL players, who are at least famous and well paid for their troubles.

Also, the Hoffman did not say the players never received "financial compensation". Hoffman said they never made a dime off the game, which is profit. (He's also speaking loosely, as the use of the idiomatic phrase suggests)
If you take substantial contributions from other developers (which is presumably the reason you open sourced it), you won't be the sole copyright holder any more.
> I haven't seen any accompanying MS articles like this, mainly because there haven't been angry posts here of MS shutting down products

Quite the contrary, people seem to be happy when MS shuts down a product.

http://ie6countdown.com
> in the US, you only get taxed when you sell the shares

That's not quite correct with regards to US tax law at least. You can get taxed on the spread between the price you pay and the "fair market value" of the shares received.

It's quite possible to get nailed with an insane tax bill in situations like this. You can end up in a situation where a company raises money at high valuations, and that spread is high, generating a tax bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars on a supposed million dollar spread, and then the company implodes and the shares are worthless, but that tax bill is still there -- leading to a horror story of being taxed on a percentage of the millions of dollars you supposedly got but never realized a dime from. This has happened to real people and is "a very bad thing" to say the least.
If use of GPL code causes more risk to the business than the costs/risks of developing in-house, then the corporation should choose such path. Nobody is forcing them one way or the other. If they use GPL, they have used a benefit that open-source community has provided them which they do in exchange for backward contributions that are intended to help other people/corporations using the same GPL code-base as well.

I like to believe that corporations would generally agree to the above, though some employees may accidentally violate open source licenses or other forms of IP without realizing (and thereby potentially putting the company's business or own IP at risk). Making employees aware of the licensing issues would help.

Interestingly though also, people go through such corporate IP training treating it as bureaucracy. Elsewhere too, I see people copying things from the Internet (e.g., images, music) without adhering to copyright laws. People click on "I agree" without reading, sign employment agreements without having slightest idea of what they says, and so on. I have myself tried to educate people about these several times on Hacker News.

Not to defend VMWare here by any means, fixing/mitigating the bigger problem would require increasing general awareness of IP issues at forums like HN and elsewhere, such that the corporations can sanely honor the IP licensing without high costs of employee training and maintaining a sizeable legal department.

It also seems to me that lawyers at big corporations can also help by making the legal processes easier. They are often so risk averse (to save their own back, not necessarily for the benefit of or on behalf of the organization) that they won't approve even reasonable IP requests sent their way.
The idea behind this app is that most of the questions (be it trivial questions or pressing/burning questions for which we desperately need public opinion) asked by most of the people in our daily lives can be asked and answered in a simple and short manner without elaboration.
No I'm saying you opted in, and can now opt back out.
Germany is the biggest Germanic country (population-wise) but the Dutch and others are Germanians, too. Much like the US is the biggest American country, but Canadians are Americans, too. It would be weird to use the word "Germane" in German for Germans, because we would picture some wild guys fighting Romans. For the same reason, you do not call the French Gallian or the Italian Roman.

I indeed said "American" and at least cited some sort of source instead of claiming that you are "95%" wrong, but lets keep it with this. I mentioned the German-story anecdotally. Nobody really cares. Names are just words, you can just relax, when its clear, what the word was intended to say.

I promise to add a "North" the next time and hope, that I will not get chased by angry Mexicans.
Have you tried googling for "kirk spock"? You don't get a list of other star trek characters.
Apple Added to Dow Jones Industrial Average
In the .bomb era, some people exercised their options and kept their shares. When April 15th rolled, around they had a massive tax bill and now-worthless stock -- because the discount is treated as income but capital losses are limited to $3,000 a year.
On Windows I like the quite light Halite client.

http://www.binarynotions.com/halite-bittorrent-client/
Is there a relatively easy way to import all torrents from uTorrent to some other torrent client?
> It's identical, except for a modified stylesheet.

They're taking legacy sites and modernising them. They aren't re-writing HMRC's VAT manual and never claimed they were.

You call it identical, but they've altered the underlying HTML layout and change the stylesheet to make it work better in modern browsers and made it easier to interact with using touch devices.

That was their entire spec. That is their job. They've done their job. And while the content is "identical" by design, they fixed the part that was broken: bad markup and poor styling.

PS - The old site looks absolutely terrible in Chrome 40. It "works" but I need to zoom to 200%, and with a touch device I keep hitting the wrong link because they're so close together.
You signed up to be their customer, and you can turn these off. That they do this by default isn't ideal, but it's not spam - you have a business relationship with them.