skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To address his lawyer's admission... as I said modified open-source code becomes proprietary so the lawyer isn't wrong. That is why he said that he violated the confidentiality agreement but that isn't the same as stealing trade secret. A company's trade secret isn't the same thing as proprietary code.

One of the legal qualification of trade secrets is that it is a method, process, etc. that isn't known or reasonably known by others for gaining advantage over competitors. It is their secret sauce.

I don't see anything here that suggests he took the ALGORITHM or DECISION MAKING process, or any such thing.
The equity issues you all are raising are very important, but death with in detail here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2343956.
The simplest solution is just to use an artificial currency that everyone is given equal amounts of but can spread over the decisions most important to them. In this piece with Rory Sutherland we discuss this:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9512322/humans-are-doing...
Have you read any of the court filings? Can you point to the one where it's established that Goldman's proprietary code is merely modified open source code? Even Aleynikov doesn't appear to be arguing that. Both sides in the trial had expert witnesses --- the Second Circuit didn't merely conclude on its own that the code was proprietary (in fact, they can't do that: appeals courts resolve disputes of law, not of fact).

Your source, by the way, does not support your assertion about Lewis contracting experts reviewing the source code presented as evidence during the trial. Which makes sense: what would make you think Lewis would have access to it in the first place?
As a recent sufferer of health anxiety, I couldn't agree more. You can really go overboard with tests that are often harmful, and without a really deep understanding of statistics, it's difficult to understand exactly what they mean.

I am thankful every day that I had a great GP who both did enough to be prudent, and also helped me stay balanced and not go overboard, in just the right way. I could have been a lot worse off had I continued to pursue treatment.

That said, in a state where anxiety is controlled and my health is now stable, it's still important to be aware of changes and new symptoms, and to have an annual standard physical with a doctor you trust and stick with consistently so they know you and your body over time. Just don't go overboard.
If you're going to ask a question, then ask the real question. Don't make up a question because you think it's the same thing as your actual question. Otherwise you'll waste people's time because they are answering the question you asked - regarding a single line - rather than the question you mean - several files of GPL code.

I gave three answers. The BSD one was the second.

My third answer, regarding "mere aggregation" should suffice. The GPL says:

> A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.

In a court of law, should this be taken to trial, can you demonstrate that the historical code is not combined with other code to form software which is not compatible with the GPL? If so, you're free and clear.

You elsewhere asked:

> So, if I distribute GPL code in a project's history as documentation, but not in the final version, am I required to license my life's work as GPL, and not BSD?

NO! NO!, and NO! As alain94040 wrote, "The GPL is not that contagious". The resulting program produced must be redistributable under the GPL.

You control the copyright to your code. You can have it be whatever you want. The GPL is only enforced upon the production of a program, and only because the GPL component is part of the result. So long as the resulting program can be redistributed by downstream users under the GPL, there's no problem. You can put the code in the public domain, or the MIT license, or the Apache license, or anything else which is compatible with the GPL. It's your code and your copyright.
if we could find a general way to boost the immune system

We have ways of boosting the immune system. Unfortunately they tend to result in patients dying of multiple organ failure when the overactive immune system attacks cells which we can't do without. Even when dealing with infectious diseases, many deaths are caused not by pathogens but rather by the immune responses to them.

What we need is a way to selectively boost the immune system.
As paper describes, quadratic is the unique function with linear derivative and thus the only one that reveals true preferences.
The Lord could not count grains of sand with a 32-bit word
Flip side - Many doctors will see a high cholesterol number and immediately try to put you on statins. Which is not really that clear cut, statins have a lot of side effects that are downplayed by the sellers - and a lot less potential upside in otherwise healthy people with high cholesterol (because the fundamental cholesterol test given is flawed, the better tests are more expensive and harder to read (variables like cholesterol size and such matter a lot, but not even in the standard test))

So sure - get health checks done. Then be prepared to spend weeks or months double checking what your doctor is telling you, and possibly getting 2nd opinions and more tests.

Personal story: Head health test. High A1C. Diagnosed Diabetic, despite being a very fit triathlete who hasn't drank soda in 6 years and eats < 20g of sugar a day. Literally had near 2 weeks of full blown panic attack. Tried to change my diet to crazy low glycemic index food and eat 8 times a day to try and get my A1C down without medicine.

2 weeks later got into a 2nd doctor for another opinion. Turned out my test was just bunk. A1C is fantastic. Apparently it happens all the time (a bad test). My first doctor did not tell me this at ALL.. just told me I was a diabetic and to stop drinking so much Soda.

My takeaway? If not showing signs, don't bother with routine tests. Too many medical quacks.
I like the double usage of the closing parenthesis :)
Indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wharton_School_alumni with all due respect it's a bit tiring to hear about all those 'uselss MBA' stereotypes. There's a substance to it but I start to feel that 9 out of 10 comments like this one reflect the insecurity of the author rather than anything else.

One of the people not mentioned on the list is founder of Warby Parker - surely he contributed to the bubble by building the 2nd most profitable retail stores and one of the few startups that are actually profitable.
> Instead, with Content ID, if you "appeal", the appeal goes to the purported content owner, who then has complete discretion to say "no, you're still infringing", with no third-party review or ability to appeal further.

This hadn't been true for a couple of years now, as covered in the article. At the appeal either the content owner has to let the content go back up or file an actual DMCA takedown notice.
> If you're still using or accepting RC4 anywhere for any reason (ahem, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft?), for heaven's sake, get your arses in gear.

Amazon AWS signup, as of last night?
http://i.imgur.com/Wq0lnnR.png
Columnar databases all do this. Handy having a library to have a play with.
Billionares are vastly outnumbered by thousandaires. For example, in an FPTP election their ability to buy 31600 votes would, nationally, let them move the 50 yard line, towards which politics converges, 0.001% to the left or right.
FYI: Quadratic Vote Buying as Efficient Corporate Governance
http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/643/
Yep you don't want to hear "ooh " that looks a bit small when you have an ultrasound scan of you kidneys :-(
Can you point to the specific things you're relying on to determine what ALGORITHMS and DECISION MAKING processes may or may not have been taken? I'm not sure why I'm meant to be too concerned about which parts of the evidence you personally have or haven't seen.
Awesome. Thank you for the added insight!
What are the side effects of your blood pressure medicine? Do you regularly exercise? Meditate? Have you looked into treating blood pressure other ways than a pill?

Knowing something (blood pressure is high) is cool.. but turning that into (I must pop pill X) doesn't always seem like the best strategy.
Personally, I am wishing for admission of wrongdoing with an apology letter, as I said before.
I often find bold text helpful for key points, or for the first mention of key terms to help orient me in a document. There was something about the mix in this document that felt inconsistent. I found myself pausing to try to figure out why the author wanted my attention on this particular word or phrase.
I wouldn't stop it -- I'd want to talk about it to understand why. If it was because they were following advice they read somewhere because worried it would influence their offer, I'd try to dispel that myth within the context of Automattic. If they didn't believe me, we probably don't have the level of trust needed to work well together.

Our culture is really built on two-way trust: since we're distributed and seldom see each other you don't know how someone is going about their work, and most of our HR policies come down to the honor system. The company places an incredibly amount of trust in employees, and vice versa people place a great amount of trust in the company, including that we'll do our best to treat them fairly. It's a responsibility the folks on the operations side of Automattic, including myself, take very seriously.
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3D printing may have a larger impact than the internet
Great idea. zq uses the SQLite index built by zindex; so in theory I can modify it to use a 'WHERE index LIKE xxx' instead of 'WHERE index=xxx' -- then SQLish wildcards would be supported.

I've raised an issue to capture this use case; feel free to chime in there! :) https://github.com/mattgodbolt/zindex/issues/12
The levelized cost of power from the battery is approximately 31 cents, which must of course be added to the cost of the power charging it, solar panels running about 25 cents not including subsidies. The total then, for power that won't discharge for longer than some hours (a day or two of clouds, sol), is approximately 56 cents.

The levelized cost of power from a nuclear power plant over its full lifetime is approximately 3 cents generally with 90% uptime. Advanced nuclear, even very small units designed for offgrid use are estimated at 20 cents and less with mass production and 98% uptime.

The battery/solar combo is nice for remote areas, but otherwise it doesn't seem society is ready to pay 10x multiples for electricity, lose all manufacturing requiring steady power, or multiples of prices for goods as a result, with only increases in emissions to show as natural gas is required to stabilize grid.
Side note: I have Mobile Justice installed and do plan to use it if needed. Any musings on how we should view law enforcement aside, this is clearly a needed tool right now in my region.
It is standard to ask in Germany too. But do they get an honest answer or expect an answer at all? I always say what I want instead.
It depends. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation :

> Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged).

> If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program.

> By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.
Yeah. I agree in most of what you say.

I have only lived in China for 5 years, and most of what I know from China is deeply limited as is such a big country. In particular I have only lived in big cities, not in deep China.

I travel frequently there and could talk to people and read most of the common symbols, but I am not native.

About the 4000 years old, it is a lapsus thinking on Egipt, and then the voice recognition system repeating it. I wanted to express my opinion fast without thinking much about it so I did not spend too much on HN, and it was a big error as at the end I have to spend a lot of time just clearing some of my sloppy writing.

"The statement here seems to say that Chinese doesn't use sentence intonation to indicate the speaker's mood or tone."

True. I did not intended to say that but my intent was talking about the range of emotion in tone, putting for example Italian as a 10 of expression in tones, Chinese is a 3, because of the necessity of using tones for language itself.

In fact this is one of the big issues for me expressing in Mandaring.
In my experience, Sales folks make sometimes more than double what engineers make. Glassdoor has more information about salaries for different positions, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Looking forward to trying some of these. I usually try a tech podcast once in a while and feel like I'm working rather than relaxing. :) My favorite exercise-time podcasts have been Spycast, Film Sack, StarTalk, and Radiolab. Occasionally I'll search the podcast directory by personality so I'll find e.g. a podcast where Scott McCloud is interviewed, and listen to it, but not actually subscribe to the podcast.
game development frameworks and libraries!
slightly relevant: I've just built a lighting desk that uses motorised faders for some of the control input. To get the PID values for the faders I built a genetic algorithm tool that would evolve the right numbers. Worked a treat but the first half hour of running had the fader slamming about like nobody's business: I burnt one out during testing... But the really interesting thing I found was that you really need a genetic algorithm tool to evolve the correct set of parameters for the goodness function: different goodness functions produced different results in different timeframes.
I decided I hate this comment and zorched it.
are we 5?
And so? My $100m made me lord tyrant ruler of the universe. Is existing inequality enough that quadratic voting realistically dismantles rather than reinforces existing power structures?

Has QV been used in any practical context? If so, I'd welcome replies as I didn't pick up on this.
It would probably be cheaper for the would-be tyrant to just promise $5000 to each of the poor people (not necessarily in cash - i.e. "if I am elected I will institute a new support program for the people with the budget of $5000 per capita", etc.) - that's how it is done nowdays and works quite frequently.
Distributing the money to other electors gives them a lot more voting power in the subsequent election. Edit: unless that makes wage-earners negotiate to less income.
I find it interesting that the author infers that Indonesia low drug (4% of population), compared to higher drug use in Europe and America, should preclude the from taking a tough stance to prevent drugs abuse from becoming an epidemic.

On the contrary, we should applaud Indonesia for having a system that keeps drug use at low levels.
The Push-Based Web
The thing is, we already have the tyranny of the wealthy. The Tullock paradox is basically that the cost of lobbying is dwarfed by the returns.

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

I'm still getting my head around it, but it seems that Quadratic Voting would actually increase what wealthy people pay to influence public policy.

Edit: Just as an example, the largest "outside money" spender in the 2012 election was Crossroads, which spent about $57M. I have no idea how many votes they were able to get for that money. With Quadratic Voting, they'd get 7,550. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Nothing interesting is happening, so there isn't anything for any press to report.

There were motions to seal things, and rulings on those. There have been meetings between the attorneys for both sides and the court to work out issues of case management, and rulings from the court on case management issues.

Oracle filed a motion asking to dismiss on two grounds: (1) if everything the plaintiff alleges is true, it does not amount to the crimes Oracle is accused of committing, and (2) the plaintiff waited too long to file, and has run into a statute of limitations problem. A ruling on this issued 2015-04-22, and is probably the most interesting development since the case was files.

Oracle lost on the first part of their motion. If all plaintiff allegations were proven true, they would constitute the crime plaintiff alleges, according to the court.

Oracle won on the second part of their motion. The alleged acts in their filing were long enough ago that the statute of limitations applies. The court gave the plaintiff 30 days to amend the complaint to fix this. If plaintiff fails to do so, the case will be dismissed with prejudice. (Dismissal with prejudice means it ends. Dismissal without prejudice means you can try again).

I don't know if this signals anything or not, but the court noted that the case management conference scheduled for the day after this ruling was to still go on. Maybe that means that the court thinks the plaintiffs have a good chance of amending the complaint to avoid the statute of limitations issue, and so expects the case will continue?

I'd expect the next newsworthy event to be in late May if plaintiff cannot figure out a way to amend the complaint to avoid the statute of limitations issue. If plaintiff does amend the complaint successfully, that probably won't be newsworthy, and the case will continue. That continuation will still mostly just be motions by the parties maneuvering to try to get favorable evidence in, exclude unfavorable evidence, and get favorable interpretations of the law, and the judge's rulings on those motions. None of this stuff is interesting enough to most people, even most techies, to make the news.
Could we also stop acting like our girlfriend being a doctor makes us qualified to give medical advice? What evidence in particular, aside from your girlfriend, do you have for the claim that the groin exam for inguinal hernias is outdated? Is this subject in your girlfriend's field? What publications does she cite?
PS: BTW I was born way way after you started learning Chinese.
And Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of the book Lean In, about women in tech / business.
How do you know that the extremely harsh penalty is what results in low drug use?
Thanks! Definitely going to try podcasts you mentioned.

Shop Talk Show is something so cozy that even if they talk things that are work related you don't feel like you are working. More like drinking tea/beer/coffee with friends.
Maybe a better lesson would be to get a second opinion on major diagnoses. Doctors are also human, and medical diagnosis is difficult.

It's a good question what are the best tests to do periodically. I doubt that "none" is the right answer.
I don't know, but I sure would think twice about being involved in drug trafficking if the consequence was death. If most people think that way, then the access to drugs would be much lower.
Musk says Tesla’s new batteries will help world’s poor leapfrog the grid
I was CTO of a dot-com in 2000 when the Bubble first. We had to close the company down and I ended up taking a contract setting up web servers and application servers and doing the security for online trading systems at Deutsche Bank. I discovered that investment banks are very quick to embrace new technologies that give them a competitive edge over their competitors. At the time, that included techology and software that was coming out of the Internet sector - I personally deployed Red Hat Linux, Apache/Stronghold, Netscape web server, Tomcat, Weblogic and nCipher during the 2000-'02 timeframe.

So, there's no doubt in my mind that a significant chunk of revenues found its way from the investment banks to companies like Red Hat and Netscape. Whether that was a "make or break" contribution is another question. They may have contributed to the success of a company like Red Hat but I think it would be a stretch to say that Red Hat would not have been successful without orders from the financial sector.

As well as financial innovation (i.e. creating CDS, CDOs, etc.), the investment banks and hedge funds also do technology innovation. They were crunching "Big Data" more than a decade before it became a buzzword, and using clusters and grid computing, graphics cards and FPGAs long before Bitcoin arrived on the scene. Go read The Predictors by Thomas A Bass, to read how a group of chaos scientists made a killing in the futures markets.

Some of those technologies end upo making their way into wider use but, while their contribution to the world's tech stack is significant, I think it's dwarfed by the new technologies that are created by non-financial-focused companies, like Apple and Tesla.

On the second question, I would question your assumption. One of the ways the financial system could shrink in size is through technology.

But, going with your assumption, my answer would be "Probably."
Reminds me of another recent take - http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/fist-to-brain/
The killing blows at the end of the Griffith-Paret fight mentioned in the article are worth watching.

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

Cranial trauma is frightening to behold, but it probably can't be separated from the sport.
If you don't trust your doctor, step one would be to find one that you do trust. If you don't trust any doctor, then you're going to have a difficult life should you encounter serious health problems.

And yes, you should stop drinking soda, diabetic or not. Nothing bad will come from not drinking it, but plenty of bad things can come from drinking it. Telling you this doesn't make either your doctor or me a "quack".
I think one feature of the system is that the accumulated funds are then distributed equally after the vote. With tokens, this would not be very useful, as if everybody gets the same amount tokens, there's no difference between getting one token and getting one million, tokens themselves have no value.
Note: "exactly" to the first part, not the weird and problematic second part. I glossed over it the first time, and only caught it on a second look.
Have you tried qemu/kvm? You also use the pre-rolled here:

http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/READ...