skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For speed, you can either move back to the HTML version https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ or forward to the Inbox interface https://inbox.google.com/
Such bullshit.

How on earth is it a "zero sum game" that they are paid their fair share of the cut?

> There is little difference between 99% of the artists getting peanuts, and 100% of the artists getting peanuts.

You just pulled those numbers out of your ass.
C# again.... Not interested
I wish he had a bit more empathy for whatever poor grunt at Microsoft had to slog through the process of open-sourcing it only to get this in thanks
Congrats for making the third front page.

http://i.imgur.com/A07YxCp.png?1
They only work for small volumes.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=youngblood
Give this interview with Brandenburg a try:

http://youtu.be/NBuN3uHnjYY

(courtesy of the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association cult)
better title: "Who first distributed personal computer viruses?" Still informative and entertaining.

I would credit the original virus to John von Neuman and Bob Thomas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_an...
Funny.. new chat app stealing market share
this is funny, it is as if they are going directly after their customers, as tawk.to grows, liveperson.com plummets, check it out > http://postimg.org/image/u7hx26r7h/
I don't think MSBuild is the solution.
By performing interpolation on the image, adjusting the color levels, and applying sharpening filters, you are seriously distorting the image. The resulting image is in no way representative of the original data.
> A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff

If you don't allow the user to define "important", it's the same thing. You're just replacing the editors with random fact-checkers who are most likely regurgitating the headlines editors put on their screens.

I was surprised I couldn't filter by region. I think Aaron's point was that if it doesn't affect me, why should I follow it?
Writing is a tiny part of telling the news.
What's puzzling is how often FOSS advocates, especially from the permissive camp, frame the idea of contributing code as a purely altruistic action, in that code should be open-sourced and contributed back to because it is the Right Thing to do, resulting in warm fuzzies. The code is both the means and the end: you have the code, do as you wish with it, and please do contribute back if you've made any useful improvements.

Now consider the original motivation behind the GPL, which is to ensure software freedom [1]. Being open-source is merely a necessary prerequisite for software freedom. The GPL is much less idealistic than permissive licenses, and more practical about ensuring its goals. RMS had no illusions about the motivations of people and companies; the GPL's absolute requirement for open-ness is an acknowledgement that there will be licensees who are more than happy to use FOSS software against the spirit in which it was intended.

One side effect of the GPL's demands for open-ness is that when FOSS usage reaches a critical mass, companies will have no choice but to employ programmers that work on free software. These programmers will then contribute back as necessary, creating a self-sustaining FOSS ecosystem. This is already happening with Linux.

In a perfect world full of truly free/libre software, we probably wouldn't have articles like this complaining about "unpaid OSS labor" and GitHub resume padding. The playing ground will be evened out, and there will be proportionately fewer developers contributing because of "love and a lot of free time." In that sense, developers who contribute to FOSS under non-copyleft licenses are doing a disservice to the rest of us who don't have that luxury.

[1] The phrase 'software freedom' is used very specifically to refer to software that satisfies the four freedoms: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I have incredibly complicated feelings about this whole topic, but I certainly agree with you.
My girlfriend tried this when she was getting chemo. The logistics were pretty daunting - buy a cooler full of dry ice in the morning, show up at the hospital, and then keep changing caps on the half hour, out of a huge wheeled Igloo cooler. We had to monitor their temperature with a big gun-style IR thermometer, and it was very difficult to keep them in the range where they were both still pliable and cold enough to be effective.

Cold caps were an excellent way to make an already miserable experience much worse. She gave up after three chemo sessions.
"Why have they not bothered to come get us yet? We have our own nukes. They waited a little too long, or so it would seem."

Oh, any alien genocider that may or may not exist would still be thoroughly unimpressed by our ability to fight back. Anything that could cross the stars in any period of time since civilization started need simply ram Earth to wipe humanity out as we know it. Call it a 10000 kilogram craft travelling at one-thousandth the speed of light from Alpha Centauri, setting sail 4000 years ago or so; if that simply rammed Earth it would be ~150,000 Hiroshima bombs [1]. That's pretty conservative for a genocider's capabilities, really, too. Obviously they're not right here, so anything that can travel here in time to get us is also a weapon that can wipe us out.

(This is to say nothing of the extreme opposite end of the scale and what a mature nanotechnology ought to be able to, even without Drexlerian extremes. I sometimes ponder "Our entire civilization was uploaded in its sleep ~3000BC and the real Solar System has long since been converted to computronium, and the simulated universe is lifeless to keep the processing simple." Pick your date of upload to suit your taste.)

To be clear, while I remain open-minded my current "top-probability" pick for resolution to the Fermi Paradox is "life is far more rare than science currently guesses". But it's still fun to discuss the alternatives and it's not like I could put that even remotely near 100%... it's just my best guess in a field where we have virtually no data, and YMWV.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=10000kg++*+%2830000km%2Fs%29... - 63TJ is the Hiroshima explosion size.
March Madness: Where does your team stack up?
Good comment, sets lots of context right.

> Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that?

I don't think a black hole can fling any particle with speed orders of magnitude higher than the initial speed of either the black hole or the particle.
What do you see wrong in PG's early essays?
I doubt that it's anything as ephemeral as "public relations" that's driving this. They want developer mindshare. Having developers writing for .NET means more software available for Windows users and for Azure services. That means more people buy Windows devices and Azure time.
Do I need to remind you that no clear connection has been traced between Humans (and its evolutionary path) to any other creature? Attempts have been made to get closer to a common ancestor but all have failed.

P.S. Not that I support the OP's line either.
Growing ConvertKit to $5,020 in MRR
It's a shame RMS made no reference to the current activity around RISC-V http://riscv.org/ a freely implementable instruction set architecture with BSD-licensed reference implementation.

At lowRISC http://lowrisc.org/ we aim to produce a fully open source SoC and produce it in volume. The aim is open source down to the HDL - that is the Verilog (or in this case Chisel) that describes the hardware. There is an extra step of place and routing the design for a specific process, but ultimately this relies on a process design kit for the process in question which comes with stringent NDAs. We are actually fortunate enough to be taking part as a mentoring organisation in Google Summer of Code in collaboration with a number of our friends in the wider open source software and hardware communities, so if you're a student and open hardware interests you there's an opportunity to get paid to contribute over the summer http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/
There is also a trick (read: algorithm) in computational geometry that computes (2D) Delaunay triangulation by mapping the points onto a (3D) paraboloid, and then computing the convex hull of that. E.g.: http://i.stack.imgur.com/OuWmZ.png
I'd suggest that almost none of the users would be aware of this anyway, so their usage patterns wouldn't in any way shift.
Suppose that it is a result of a natural process. How would you create the conditions necessary for supercriticality given only plate tectonics, an atmosphere, multiple asteroid impacts, and liquid water? One necessary prerequisite is enrichment of the Uranium. We currently use industrial processes to do this. How else might uranium become enriched, absent an industrial process? Are there other elements or isotopes that are also capable of supercriticality? Could those become enriched through a natural process?

I'm not arguing against Occam's Razor. I actually think, given those broad questions, that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the simplest explanation(A).
"Twitter poll for Unix users: do you still use SSH v.1? If so, how often? Pls. only reply if 'yes' to first question, otherwise RT welcome :)"

https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/570409396913614849

Damien Miller is part of the OpenSSH team, so I guess they are considering cleaning that part of the code.
I meant psychoactive drugs.
Like this?:

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

India ranked 101 out of 136 countries in 2013.
I had originally meant to include an argument about voters' pamphlets - I am glad that I did not as you covered it well. The pamphlet summaries, which issues are used for the face of a campaign and how these issues are carefully written about is all carefully crafted PR and not representative of the interests of the candidate, their constituents and investors or of their track record of fulfilling campaign promises. The information you get from a voter pamphlet is what a candidate wants to appear like and which voters they are trying to appeal to. This can help to understand their publicity campaign but it is not enough (alone) to understand their platform agenda.

Similarly, seeing the high coverage of Coptic Christians where coverage of attacks on Muslim minorities (which are much more frequent and equally horrifying) by ISIS and sometimes America, allies or contractors (or of similar atrocities by Mexican drug cartels in the Americas) is missing helps to understand how media and state moral narrative diverges from more universally applied and internally consistent humanitarian compassion - and how and when this and these narratives may align with broad geostrategic policy goals. Insofar as Coptic Christian moral narrative may be used, as an example, as justification for some activity or funding, one will know to look to see if that activity or funding has been a long-standing objective or has been proposed and denied before due to a lack of public support.
Do you not think the fact that a large proportion of jobs will be made obsolete by technology in favour of lower-paid or casual work is worth a rant, then?
A lib to create live prototypes with Angular but without having to learn to code
Spotify should set aside X% of their equity and distribute it to artists. Each full play of a track would generate one 'artist' share. Then when they exit each artist gets their fair share. For example (to keep it simple I will use small numbers) let's say there are 100 plays in total on Spotify before they sell up, 1 of which belongs to Vulpeck (awesome band) then Vulpeck get 1% of X%. This way everyone gets paid fairly. The way it is now Spotify are basically monetising piracy. All the major labels have invested and are waiting for their pay day while the people who produce the content get shafted.
It would be up to the smaller artists and their fans to pressure this change, and I'd bet there are some popular artists willing to join the cause at a small personal loss. It's good to consider the incentives, but people are invested in having an equitable society as well.
Take a look at https://owncloud.org/ which may fit your needs
Not sure how comparable these are, really.
Reaction–diffusion model of hair-bundle morphogenesis
> What you contribute and the quality of what you contribute defines the respect and influence you receive as a result

Except it doesn't. Racism, sexism, personal arrogance, etc. all influence the way that people treat each other. People who feel they are not being treated with respect may never make it to the point of contributing anything, or they may decide it's not worth the emotional burden of dealing with assholes.
I have a hate/hate relationship with msbuild as a build tool.

However the mono xbuild tool has subtle incompatibilities and holes in functionality as compared to msbuild so for no other reason than having the "same" build tool in mono and .Net I applaud this move.
Nice to see this makes the old approach of using reflection to use msbuild internal classes to parse solution files obsolete.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/707107/library-for-parsin...
Opensource OpenTTD [1] (based on Transportation Tycoon Deluxe) is still around and in active development it seems. It was a great Simcity replacement in the past for me. Obviously graphics are dated, but gameplay was great.

[1] https://www.openttd.org/
"Allowing some individuals to make the decision for lots of other people" is the purpose of a representative democracy. It may not be ideal, but it's necessary because of the size of the group and the logistical nightmare of implementing a pure form on such a scale. Which is, I think, the issue to which this article is a response.
Trim unused code paths from ancient C code, usually work-arounds and legacy platform support. Or trim large accumulations of #if 0 that similarly build up in old C code bases.
> Ironically, you are probably a better bet for a lot of employers than that average young single male because you value stability. You're not gonna jump ship because you want a foosball table or expect to have lunch catered every day.

Unfortunately, the market for labor is notoriously unequal and illiquid. The desire to save via a large workforce of what you're calling "averge young single male"s often looks much better on a balance sheet than a few well-paid older folks. There's lots of different kinds of capital, but SEC filings definitely favor "objective" measures like number of desks filled.
Can't it be done simply by checking out...

-Local events site

-Wikipedia's world events page once a month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015#Events
news.ycombinator.com

But of course, he doesn't mean junk clickbait tech articles!... Those are useful!
There have been over 2,000 nuclear weapons detonated in the last 70 years. There are 10,000 total warheads on earth (~4,000 active).

The world could fire off every one of its functioning nukes simultaneously, and it would not come even remotely close to ending multicellular life. Most of the planet would not even notice the event; it could destroy, including the damage from fallout, an area smaller than the United States. Humans of course would likely become an endangered species were the blasts spread out targeting population centers.
I think the future of jobs in general is a great topic to explore and discuss in length, but this article reads more as an attack on technology with Silicon Valley as the focus which doesn't make sense since technological achievements are happening world wide... eliminating jobs, creating efficiency and automation to many industries.
Yeah; I've had to deal with MSBuild, and I've never really liked it. I have to assume that the big motivation was that they'd prefer to port MSBuild to OS X and Linux than to port MS solution files and MS project files to CMake, Automake, or some other build system.
> Nobody is seriously going to fork this

https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/network
Most of the time, duplicate urls are caught on submission and you're forwarded to the previous entry rather than creating a new one. At least that's been my experience.
Darrell Issa: Government Shouldn’t Protect Dinosaur Industries
https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/commits/master

3 commits. Because MSBuild just happened.

The whole point of open source is that you get to go back and see how the software evolved. Git blame. Everybody learns.
Data and technology are starting to up-end the insurance business
A propitious beginning. You'll need xorg-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, and go-gl/glfw to install. Getting can't find "Arial.ttf" panics? But looks quite nice, though windows take some time to build. Here is a screenshot of "polygons" sample:

http://imgur.com/9xyfaEd
What's the difference with Roslyn?
Here's the tallest structures in the USA of which many are towers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_t...
Google Music does it the same way: https://play.google.com/intl/ALL_ALL/about/artist-terms.html

"""
(a) “Subscription Fees” shall be the greater of:

(A): Monthly Subscription Minimum * number of Google Play music subscription service subscribers on the last day of such month * Your Subscription Activity Ratio

-- OR --

(B): Subscription Revenue Share * Music Subscription Revenue * Your Subscription Activity Ratio
"""

B is exactly what is laid out in the parent article, A is a subtle twist on it. Both of them are still [Google's revenue] * Your Subscription Activity Ratio, where "Your Subscription Activity Ratio" == "the fraction: (i) the numerator of which shall be the total number of streams and plays of Your Tracks from the Google Play music subscription service; and (ii) the denominator of which will be the total number of streams and plays of all tracks from the Google Play music subscription service."
The value isn't in creating a new version of MSBuild. The value is in getting PR's merged into mainline. If you've ever done any CI based work, you'll know how valuable this release is! (says the ex .NET developer)
Yeah that book is one of the most important book in functional world
Some of course prefer the Al Willson musical version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZBqpEUbik

Clasic Northern Soul
This is totally a tangent, but I've also noticed that juggling is very popular in math circles.
Make is just fine. I haven't found a case where it doesn't work, and it's almost always simpler than a mess of CMake and autotools.
Right, but he's specific about two types of technology-fueled role: minimum wage warehousing jobs and sharing-economy jobs. I think it is undeniable that the latter is directly caused by Silicon Valley-style startups. As evidenced by their multi-billion dollar valuations.
Hi, I don't know your gender either, but I know lots of F/OSS developers whose names and legally represented genders have changed, even in projects I've committed to. There's a fairly big mix of attribution errors available, and ignoring the presence of silent women, non-binary folks, and transgender developers hasn't made my communities more welcoming to those folks.

Community building is very, very hard work and it involves a lot more than linking to classics like ESR's smart questions. In fact, in my experience, those responses tend to put off newcomers with backgrounds that are different than programmers like me (and presumably you) who have been tinkering in this community since the early 90s.

YMMV, of course, but I think personalities are incredibly important and the most valuable thing you can do in building big communities is making sure that as projects grow they gain stewards, shepherds, or whatever metaphor you prefer that can welcome as well as gatekeep.
DNA Nanobots Set to Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells in Human Trial
No Brackets at Work
"It's not because I thought the audience would be hostile, but I don't like those last few lines (mainly because of that turn), and think it's a better poem without them. Do you think it's better to leave it intact?"

This is the part with which I disagree. Let's just drop the nonattribution that you did indeed fix after the fact.

You said you edited the writing to alter its meaning. Is this not the case? While I was indeed blunt, I was not incorrect in pointing out you took the writing of a noted Lebanese author and removed the lines that offended your sensibilities.

Like I said, I am a nonbeliever. Misquoting (and that is indeed what you did when you removed those three lines) makes you look petty. Take care.
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Oh that's nice. I sat with Kent and Eric at the very same Lisp conference in Berkeley at the very same dinner table, Eric was just elected as some sort of community spokesman, which was odd but nice, and he was the nicest person. He was never arrogant.

We always respected him, because he was mostly right in his endless and beautiful posts to comp.lang.lisp. He used the emacs news reader with block aligned paragraphs.
But it was also a bit threatening to newbies, because he easily lost his control with them. I rarely dared to ask something.
Similar to other famous figures in SW mailinglists. I know of 2 others, who I also highly respect. Just because they were always right and their code was beautiful.

His posts were so famous, someone even made a searchable archive out of it: http://xach.com/naggum/articles/

#<Erik>

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sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony
Not a bad time to remember that Ron Wayne has said he does not regret getting out of Apple.

$60 billion is incomprehensible to most people. It's money so big that it is not money anymore, it's the power to make society-level decisions. In a sense it is so big that it becomes an obligation--see Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

Steve Jobs himself was not nearly that rich because he made decisions for reasons other than money--like selling all his Apple shares out of spite when he got fired. And sinking huge amounts of his personal wealth into NeXT to design the computer he thought should exist (but which never sold well).

In a macro sense it is good that it is so hard to make large sums of money. It ensures that the people who make that money will at least have some ideas about what to do with it. Contrast with the typical fate of lottery winners. Most self-destruct in pretty short order.
I'm not saying you're wrong but this is a great opportunity to roll out the phrase correlation does not imply causation. http://xkcd.com/552/
I'd much rather have someone charge up fraudulent charges on my credit card than Bitcoin, I would much more likely be getting that money back and letting the CC fraud department deal with it. That guarantee is a major selling point of why so many people use credit cards in the first place.
Congrats on the work and more importantly about the idea!

Two things that I find ( in my opinion ) unpleasant :

1. Source code is hard to read ( some strange indentation and a lot of empty lines )

2. Support for dynamic content will do a lot of repaints.
I finished _H is for Hawk_ last week. Good stuff, but I admit feeling pain over the way TH White's skin is flayed out for all the world to see. I'd rather think of him as an ignorant would-be falconer, guided by an ancient book that told him nothing about how to achieve a responsive hawk. (_The Goshawk_ is depressing -- it's about everything a falconer should not do -- but he does succeed in the end, so there's hope.) I'm less interested in his sadism or pedophilia or the gyrating frustration White may have felt in not being able to express both and still be a decent person in his mind.

BTW, is this appropriate for Hacker News?
crazy, this is one of those "it just seems so obvious" models to crack.. olark, zopim, liverspon etc.. must be shitting their pants.
Were these ancient texts as summarized in "Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky?