skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why can't we equate the software inside a computer inside a vehicle with the mechanical equivalent? What then would our rights be?

There really isn't a mechanical world equivalent to the DMCA anti-circumvention law or the derivative works restriction of copyright.

I think the DMCA anti-circumvention laws should just be repealed since it doesn't appear to be effective.

And I think there is a good argument that modifying software you license already is fair use.
Suggestion for dylanbfox: Add a $20 one time charge to create a droplet preconfigured for $WEBSITE.
Does your setup solve the awkwardness with configuring the root domain at http://example.com to point to Heroku?

Does the hosting autoscale or is it a basic one dyno (or share of a limited number of dynos) setup?
My train commute is one of my favorite parts of the day, due to all the reading I get done. It's what you make it.
GP said "without an army and/or international recognition". None of the countries on that list lack international recognition (and most have not only recognition, but treaties outsourcing defense responsibility to some other country -- often the United States -- so they have an army committed to protecting them, its just someone else's army.)

And some of them (even under the "no armed forces") list actually have a military from the descriptions there, its just a reserve military, an armed police force officially designated to serve military/defense functions, or, in the case of the State of Vatican City, the military of the entity -- the Holy See -- to which the state is itself subordinate.
What's really wrong with this? As a provider of goods or services, I should have the right to say, "I'm only renting you this, not selling it to you. If you want to buy it, go see someone else."

If I build a house, I should be able to rent it out, and not sell it if I want to keep it. If the market demands builders to sell it, some will find a way. There's no intrinsic right to forcing people to have an option to buy.

If I make something that requires tedious upkeep, and will hurt my reputation if it breaks down, shouldn't it be ok for me to say, "I'm only going to rent this to you, and will take care of the upkeep myself."? (Example: A piece of machinery in a factory)

Uber is selling rides. Should they be forced to sell cars too? (ok, that may be a little stretch, but it's along the same line of thought)

If enough people want to fully own cars and trucks, they'll go somewhere else and drive JD and GM out of business.
May still be corporate, because corporations are a way of structuring a business, not an indication of how large or how many people are involved with the business. I expect most family farms are also corporations or even multiple corporations.
Except Docker perhaps, which is a "me-too" originally based on LXC?
Downloading video games is worse for the planet than ordering disks
"The effect became noticeable once frame rates passed a certain level in the early 2000's and after that I was unable to play most FPS games."

This is a little surprising to hear given that it it's usually low frame rates that are associated with motion sickness in VR. Indeed achieving sufficiently high frame rates to minimize motion sickness is currently one of the primary technical challenges of developing VR experiences.

How did you conclude that it was rising frame rates that led you to develop this reaction?
Ask: How do you turn a hardware prototype into a real product?
I'm trying to figure out the best approach at creating a new hardware product that I've come up with.

The idea is pretty simple and my sense is something like Arduino or even LittleBits type of thing would work fine.

What I'm not sure about is whether Arduino or something like LittleBits is the right way to start because I want to eventually turn it into a commercial product. How do you take an Arduino prototype (or little bits, etc) and turn it into a real product? Has anyone had experience with this? Googling it didn't produce anything useful though I'm still digging.
As someone who is studying actuarial sciences ... if you use some real data against the Gompertz you see that it doesn't really fit that well for very small and very large ages. Which is why this guy Makeham did this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of...

As a student with a mathematics background (and boy do we love 'simplifications'). I can never stop theorizing and thinking about what would happen if we would just insist on a maximum age of lets say 80. It will probably never happen, but just think about it. It's both morbid and fascinating in it's own sense.
Really great dylan. Addressing the overhead of DNS settings, and a cumbersome flow for getting a site up (especially for people who aren't too familiar with routing, etc.)

I'd promote the email-address thing a bit more. Often people want a branded email address, but don't know exactly how to go bout it. That would stand out to me (eg. plug-and-play with your existing gmail)

Best of luck!
This is exactly the point. If your car is a lemon and always in the shop, at least it's trivial to get a rental, even if you're out of pocket the cash. Any number of car rental companies will drive a car out to your house or the shop where it is.

If your tractor is broken down and you need to bale that hay that's been drying in the fields today before the rain comes tomorrow and ruins it, you're screwed unless you can find a nearby farmer to help.
I've recently become interested in this, since I bought a 2015 vehicle with a computer in the console. Do you have any advice/resources for a budding car hacker?
There's something I don't understand in these comments. Why is everyone interested in language comparisons instead of the huge difference between EC2 and bare metal?
thx for the suggestion
Generally that error happens when Play tries to bind to a port that's already in use. Looking at the start scripts for the Scala projects, the RUNNING_PID file is just being removed if it exists but your script should probably kill that PID if the file exists before deleting the file.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Do they successfully predict any data besides the super-exponential decay?
John Deere would say that you can reflash, smash, or replace the eeeprom if you want. But you can't create a new piece of software based on the old one.

I think you should be able too, because what is the harm, but I don't think the book analogy holds.

You aren't allowed to rewrite a book, even if you keep the copy yourself.
I don't think caring for the well being of animals is that far out of the mainstream of ethical thinking.

Besides, it's my own take on the book, and perhaps Mark Rowlands wouldn't even recognise it from my description. Perhaps I didn't do it justice.
> £20k/year doesn't actually strike me as that much.

You should learn about investing.

If he invested the initial amount without spending it, a moderate dividend yield of 3% would make him $15000 a year. Add 25 years of dividend growth, and he is probably receiving $50000-$100000 today, or even more if he reinvseted some of the dividends.
Pleased to hear that, thanks for doing the benchmarks!
What part of it sounds like pseudoscience to you?

It's 100% valid mathematics and statistics, based on verifiable observations.
Interviews on building startups from nothing (using email)
The majority of the bottom quintile do not stay in the bottom quintile. The movement from bottom to each of the higher quntiles is quite similar to the movement from the top down. Here is one look at it [1]

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic...
This was a concept film from Philco/Ford:

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

That's Wink Martindale (US TV game show host) in the husband role in the film. A few years back he was interviewed about the project:

https://vimeo.com/15063245
I think the problem with this line of thinking is that most people think they're buying a car (including on board software). If it were clear to everyone that you are in fact only leasing the software, it might be better.
Beside the following minor nick picks, I really love your project.

Please reduce or make your JavaScript a bit more efficient - mobile devices have little RAM. (cut the JQuery-extensions)

The Wayback Maschine (https://archive.org/web/) could look more lean like the Google frontpage.
> I now wonder if some of our commenters here are employed by the Chinese government.

Say anything critical of the Chinese government's policy towards Tibet and/or the Dalai Lama, and watch the broken English "rebuttals" pouring in like the flood.
Microwave ovens were absurdly expensive in the early days though, even up until the early 80s.
this justifies the library's existence but does not justify it's inclusion upstream.
I'd like to see some ASP.NET running on Owin. Perhaps I'll find the time to add it myself before round 11.
> Shown above are the results from a simulated world where “lightning bolts” of misfortune hit people on average every 16 years, and death occurs at the fifth hit.

I think that graph would look almost perfect if the decay was exponential rather than linear. A better hypothesis would be every time you are hit by a lightning bolt, you are twice as likely to be restruck every year. So if you are hit and it was a 1/40 chance, next year would be a 1/20 chance until you are hit 5 times.
> Sadly, I bet the way we'll end up equalizing this will be that somebody will eventually bomb a TGV and we'll have to start doing the two hour confiscate-your-kids'-apple-juice routine at the train station too.

It would be easier to economically restructure passenger rail cars so that you had independent bomb resistant compartments. Trains have the disadvantage, in contrast with planes, that you can bomb the rails to wreck a train. However, they have the advantage of adding mass more economically. I suspect that we can eventually come up with good (though imperfect) countermeasures to rail sabotage as well. In any case, safeguarding the rails wouldn't impact boarding passengers as much.
If you ever fly within New Zealand, you'll know how air travel should be. No security at all. (Self)Check in and go have a seat in the lounge area with nice couches that anyone has access to.
I've used a few different approaches, and Rails-Assets works really well both from an ease-of-use and dependency version management standpoint.
Monitor your network usage/performance for free, accelerate TCP for $10/month
The class as a whole may have increasing wealth, but that does not mean the people in the class at one snapshot in time remain there.

Care to cite where in that book they make a definition of rich, and then show that exactly those people in the rich group remain there?

I have not seen anyone claim the books shows this. The class of rich people is very fluid, as the above datasets show.

In academic circles, there is ample criticism of that book, so much that it's considered wrong on many points by economists of all political persuasions. It's right about some things, provides a lot if good material, but is also wrong in many things, so don't just take all it says as truth without reading ample scholarly work after it's publication. Google is your friend here.
There is little wrong with DRM except everything about DRM. None of the exceptions you've called for would even be an issue without DRM.
But each company has it's own tools. That means redundant development. If they just worked on one set of open source tools, it should reduce development costs. It also opens the door to researchers to try things directly in the mainstream tools. That means not having to re-implement things published in papers, but instead deciding weather or not to merge a feature from a branch.
Not really, but seems to be basic statistics to me with some obvious trickery in place. My complaint is that he kinda glosses over (cut outs?) high infant mortality which would bend the curve in a not so aesthetically pleasing way. I imagine elderly mortality would do the same towards the end of the curve. People in their 80s and 90s aren't doubling mortality rates in 8 years, they're doing so practically yearly.

wikipedia: The Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality describes the age dynamics of human mortality rather accurately in the age window from about 30 to 80 years of age.

So, he cuts off the high risk childhood, teen, and 20s and everyone over 80? Yeah, that's how you get such a smooth graph. So not exactly pseudoscience, but definitely dishonest. Seems to me there are a lot of people who think nice clean graphs are 'beautiful' and try to fit in data and act pretentious about some 'mystery' link to math or the universe or somesuch. The same way every hack pop-science writer fits everything to the Fibonacci sequence. Uh, no, all this seems to say is that if youre healthy enough to hit age 30, you probably have a nice normalized mortality rate from then on to about 80.

Skipping the first 30 years and anything over 80 is the only way this "beautiful" math and "mystery" works. When we include all ages, its a pretty predictable graph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_of...

Lots of craziness at first then a regular slope until the end.
ah excellent, went ahead and updated my properties :)
Historically creators didn't starve either, they worked on patronage assignments to pay the bills, and did whatever for the love of art once that was taken care of. Michaelangelo hated painting, but was commissioned for the Sistine chapel, one of the world's greatest works of art, because he was hungry.
The team at Keen.io recently shared a fantastic blog post about being rejected on stage at YC startup school, and their success since then: https://keen.io/blog/116400439081/lessons-from-a-failed-yc-p...
Thanks for pointing out the list and detailed views. I missed that when looking this morning as was bummed because I can't stand the unaligned-boxes-of-different-heights view that so many websites go for these days. Maybe I'm just not used to it because I recoil from it every time, but it messes up my read-from-left-to-right nature.

That said, two annoyances I just noticed with the list view (braindump style):

There is no header. I have no idea what the columns are. I can only guess, and that is useless for e.g. the rightmost column here [0]. Mental thoughts as I view it: It's just an icon? It's not clickable and doesn't appear to show anything useful. The speakers change to blue when I have my mouse over them. What does this mean? It's still not clickable... what is it doing?

Another problem related to not having a header: when I sort by e.g. views, the views are not actually shown. Maybe I wanted to see that information as well as having the rows sorted by the column.

Oh wait, I just noticed that there is a header there... but it's not clear it's for the columns of the table underneath it. They're not aligned... and it still doesn't explain what that column of icons is. But now I see that the number of views is shown as the leftmost column. I guessed that it was some sort of filesize initially (1.6B, 377.7M, etc.).

One last thing, I wish clicking the column in the header would toggle ascending/descending sorting like almost every other table I've interacted with. It's not clear at first that I need to go all the way over to the left to toggle that behaviour.

[0] https://archive.org/details/audio
It's not that people blame Google for the site looking crappy, but they do blame Google if the top search results aren't useful -- and that includes the site being unusable. Google also makes a huge amount of its revenue off of pay-per-click display advertising, and if it's referring customers all day long (through organic search) to sites that don't convert, then it's bad for everyone.

This is nowhere near the first pagerank modifier based on site performance -- it's well-known that Google penalizes sites that are slow to load, because users click away from those sites more frequently.
Life Lessons from Power Rangers That Have Stuck with Me Forever
This looks like a great one:

https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork
Python 3 is now default in Fedora 22 Beta
iOS 8.4 Cydia download for iphone 6 and 6 plus
Apple Environmental Responsibility Report (covering FY2014) [pdf]
The best way to start is to not buy a vehicle with a hundred proprietary computers in it.
Our suite takes a nuke-from-orbit approach when it comes to killing processes, as this has come up in every round. The idea is that now all tests are run with a specific user, and instead of relying on the test to shut down properly (which MANY could not reliably do), we simply nuke all processes owned by this runner.

It has the downside that if a process forks other processes and drops them into another different user (recently addressed for hhvm, for example), we cannot capture that. However, we have made great strides in trying to avoid that. Additionally, the logging for the application WOULD suggest if a port were bound prior to start-up, and that does not seem to be the case in this example.
I'm pretty resistant, I got slight nausea after playing Unreal Tournament on the DK1 for 20 minutes or so but I've yet to experience it with the DK2 even with low frame rates.
Obviously it isn't really working well yet, so newer versions with better DNA are released and old ones get retired regularly. ;-) Perhaps we could have fewer such DNA "updates" if we didn't mess with our environment (= living conditions) so much that frequent adaptations are needed.

I'd really like to see a study that examines people's life expectancy when they move (very early) from a modern environment to one that resembles their parents' living conditions 10-20 years ago, the hypothesis being that their genes would have adapted to cope with those conditions and not with more recent changes, so they might live longer and healthier on average. Usually we do the opposite, many people move from rural to urban areas, so they need to adapt to more changes than those happening at an already fast pace in one area.

(apologies for half-serious unscientific techie ramblings)
You need to adjust for market size, competition and GDP growth.

US at dot.com peak was already very competitive market. Chinese technology sector and markets are still undeveloped. Even decreasing GDP growth is almost double what US growth was during the bubble. This increases profit potential.
That sounds like doing it well, in accordance with principles, rather than doing it badly in accordance with consultants...

--edit-- I wouldn't claim to know about XP, I've never worked somewhere that embraced XP specifically, just places that decided to go 'Agile' and then proceeded to bog themselves down in so much procedure that projects started to fail.

I've only worked in one place where the morning stand-ups actually worked as they were intended - 5 developers go round the room, give a quick status and state any problems they have, identify who they need to talk to to get it solved, the get out again in under 10 minutes. Everywhere else I've worked they devolved into either developer chat/argument time or management info-broadcast time. For at least an hour. Every day. groan
40 acres is probably about the absolute minimum worthwhile size to farm corn and it would be handled by a tractor much smaller than the one shown in the article. And that's probably if you inherited the land for free. A "normal" farm will have hundreds or thousands of acres of corn, so the cost of equipment is amortized across a much larger crop volume.
Extrapolating Collaboration to all Industries
The world is full of people like Zed, only people like Zed don't typically hang around on the internet. They're at the bar, or playing is a softball or bowling league, yelling at enlisted in the military, pulling over speeders, driving taxis in New York, or selling pizza by the slice at a pizzeria. what ever. These guys don't give an damn about your sensibilities, they're going to tell you what they think, whether you want to hear or not, and if the language is too coarse, too bad.

Dude can be an asshat no doubt. But that's allowed in my book.
Yeah, looks awesome. Looking forward to documentation on running it.
I am not familiar with Owin; how does it differ from Mono?
"It seems silly that this is still an argument."
No, it wasn't written for that purpose at all. Many of these undefined behaviours exist in the spec because long ago, there was some exotic architecture where doing that thing caused a hardware exception or behaved strangely. For instance, on some systems that are no longer in use, trying to obtain the pointer in this example would cause an access violation and abort the program because pointer calculations are checked in hardware. It was never intended as an excuse for compiler writers to randomly decide to be dicks.
Ship.io brings mobile CI to app developers
Because Rails has become bloatware and has been since they lost sight of the future of the web and stagnated on innovating...
The world probably needs less content creation. We're long past the point where there are too many useful books to read in one lifetime. Even in narrow fields, we're producing comedy television, historical fiction novels, or cat pictures faster than one person could consume them all. You could spend a lifetime just researching what's worth consuming.

With this kind of overproduction, it's no surprise creators can't make money.
Very interesting question I'm curious to know about this as well, because I just found that there is a company that sells delivery management as a service.

https://onfleet.com/

However, to answer to your question in more detail I would say:

User management & Delivery management/tracking.

Those two are very crucial parts of any SaaS and can be tweaked in many ways towards the business.

The tracking can be either cheaper or more accurate etc.

And the user manipulation have to be dealt with inside, regardless some generic stuff, there are always industry specific user management stuff.
The movie also had the computer telling the boy that he flunked. Back in 1967, they didn't predict that by 1999, every child would get a trophy just for showing up.
A different type of risk matrix
Hard to ascertain - does this service provide automated route recommendations? via some path finding optimization?
Price is set by the market. The lease cost will match the purchase price today. It will all be the same for the consumer.
> What's really wrong with this? As a provider of goods or services, I should have the right to say, "I'm only renting you this, not selling it to you. If you want to buy it, go see someone else." ...

It's a good question, but an important consideration is whether your customer has the option of saying no. For example, if you are a small farmer, you can't really negotiate with tractor manufacturers because you lack the market power; you just take what they give you. If they all deny you ownership, you're stuck.

Consider someone who wants a smartphone that doesn't track them, a credit card without waiving legal rights ... I was thinking the other day of people who might have been opposed to lead in gasoline (I assume there must have been some), but they had no choice. Their fate was determined by those who had the market power to control the technology.

Also, most people don't undertand the implications of what they are buying. Nobody has time to study and learn all that.
Great read. Although services like Uber and Lyft are getting more popular, I didn't know the freelance/part-time market as a whole was growing.