skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea here is to provide a better experience (and equal or better prices) for people who might otherwise sell to trolls. such a term on the transfer would do nothing to enhance the attractiveness of the program to the people Google is looking to do business with (whether or not that's how Google is likely to use the patents), and people who would be motivated to participate by such a term aren't people who otherwise would be likely to sell to trolls, so there is no real reason for such term.

Google might subsequently make such a pledge for particular patents it purchases -- or submit them to reciprocal licensing pools, which such a pledge might conflict with or reduce the utility of -- but that's separate from the purchase terms, and there is no good reason to tie them together.
Roaming is a big source of income for many carriers, probably including Vodafone. Since customers rarely evaluate carriers on roaming charges it's a free-for-all.
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Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

This is quite obviously the NSA adding massive additional attackable surface area to the Linux kernel.

They did it to SSL/TLS, they did it to many others, they are now doing it in earnest to Linux.

First systemd, now kdbus. Keep this up and OpenBSD, or something else, is going to kill the Swiss cheese that Linux is becoming. I love Linux, so it is sad to see this happening.
Inequity Aversion only exists in America and other Westernized countries btw. We're WEIRD like that.

Different cultures respond differently to the Ultimatum Game. Be wary of those studies that only use "Anglo-Saxon American College Kids" as test subjects, which is a group of people that isn't even representative of America in general.

http://bigthink.com/praxis/are-americans-the-weirdest-people...

>>> The revelation that rural Peruvians handle the ultimatum game so differently from American respondents led Henrich on a MacArthur Foundation-funded research trip to more than a dozen more locales around the world, where he found wide variation in the average offers of player #1 and this curious result: “in some societies — ones where gift-giving is heavily used to curry favor or gain allegiance — the first player would often make overly generous offers in excess of 60 percent, and the second player would often reject them, behaviors almost never observed among Americans.”
Interesting that you chose cephalopods - their eyes work similarly in the "basic layout" to vertebrate eyes but cephalopod eyes have a few key differences, which may again be convergent evolution, since the most recent common ancestor didn't have eyes, only a photosensitive spot (which is still present in jellyfish).
Not all game engines, some are free to use.
The way I've understood it: Prototyping maybe be an effort to develop Requirements. It should not be used to develop a Product.
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While I'm inclined to agree, perhaps the grandparent poster looks forward to a lively discussion of the plot at lunch with colleagues. It's not my passion in life, but I could see it being an act of community for some.
The corrollary to this is that sometimes a Company hits scale where having a few "Moties" customize/refine every level of the stack saves billions and suddenly it's financially worth it.

It has always been a cost/benefit analysis. The hard part is figuring out the costs and benefits when it comes time to make that decision.

Case in point. My current work is in C# with some Go sprinkled around. Go happened because the c# Console an IO api's are a hopeless mess. They are bloated with everything under the sun and special cased in the API. And to top it all of they are just about the farthest thing from composable. The creators of C#'s standard library created a monstrosity in the name of abstraction that ultimately was harder to use correctly. What is the cost of that decision? Longer development times than is necessary for projects that do IO in C#. Late refactors when you realize you should have been using a TextReader instead of a StreamReader and you have these seams running all through your app that have to change now.
The part where they also got to sell the game engine to customers, the developers, and then take a cut of the developers profits too?

You don't buy the mod, and get the game to run it. You have to buy the game, then buy the mod. If they want more money for the game, they can increase the price.
We scoff at Soviet psychiatry but maybe the joke's on us
This whole pulling crap out of the Linux kernel mailing list is doing the industry a disservice.

The worst part is that I sorta understand why some low-rent blogo-journolist pulls that nonsense. Hacker News should be better than this.

A juicy pullquote can be an attractive headline and cheap and easy to write article. Start with a basic technical introduction paraphrasing wikipedia but doesn't get the reader anywhere near ready to understand the LKML post. Then pad out the rest with some hemming and hawing about: Has Linus gone TOO FAR!?

On HN, these kind of submissions are just as trashy, but because they point directly to LKML we can be fooled into thinking to be something loftier.

It should be called "kdbus patch review: dbus performance overhead may be in userspace library, not context switching." But nobody would submit that because it's not catchy. I'd still click that link, but the title would be boring and technical, just like the post it links to is. I actually flagged the other front page LKML post "Big-Endian is effectively dead."
Did you click "Allow" when it asks to look the pointer? (seems to work in FF and Chrome)
While it's true that it's not their fault, it's a shame that they've folded to the pressures of the media lobby.

But I don't blame them, business is business. You can't just let the major content creators go to the competence, even if they're massive asshats.
Rapid prototyping isn't a silver bullet (there is no silver bullet). Some approaches can help you better stay on top of unstable requirements than others, but if your requirements are missing or unstable, your project is unstable and poorly defined, period.
From an evolutionary perspective, considering that environmental radiation can harm organisms, perhaps DNA evolves to be highly vulnerable to such radiation so that reproduction will fail in high radiation environments where the radiation would cause other damage later.

So maybe it's more like a fuse than an antenna.
This was our experience with a Samsung Smart TV.

The TV apps are crappy, with the exception of Netflix, which is actually quite good. Best thing on the TV itself.

Over time, my family has consistently preferred either a PC for viewing (laptop), or a game console or a PC connected to a TV for viewing.

The little boxes are crappy, and using a TV remote is too.
> While far from ideal, constraints can breed creativity.

Just look at Biedermeier, Nazi or Soviet era art to get a comparison what wide-spread censorship and surveillance can do to a society.

What's that? You don't remember any because it's either boring as fuck or blatant propaganda?

Oh, hm. Well.

(Okay, it's not that bad in reality. But periods of mass surveillance usually weren't golden ages of creativity, to put it mildly.)
I'm not talking about open source software a-la Postgres, I'm talking about libraries and frameworks a-la Angular/React/Bootstrap and it's ecosystem.
Yeah, the headline is a little bit hyperbolic.

Glad there's some focus on just how ridiculous this practice is, though!
Roundup resistance has led to greater use of herbicides, with troubling implications for biodiversity, sustainability, and human health
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...

Herbicide-resistant crop technology has led to a 239 million kilogram (527 million pound) increase in herbicide use in the United States between 1996 and 2011
http://www.enveurope.com/content/24/1/24

But a new study released by Food & Water Watch yesterday finds the goal of reduced chemical use has not panned out as planned.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crops...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/genetically-engineered-crops-mo...
Work from home, everyday is like a private office.......................................
Here are the other two related commits:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014212727213&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143014250427343&w=2

There are unfortunately a lot of people who depend on file(1); and many of them also run it as root.

Also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439778
An interesting anecdote from Gabe Newell in the reddit thread:

So far the paid mods have generated $10K total. That's like 1% of the cost of the incremental email the program has generated for Valve employees (yes, I mean pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days).

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33uplp/mods_and_ste...
iAd support on apple watch is a stupid idea. who wants to show ads on a watch?
In my (albeit somewhat limited) experience with different dev. companies, it's no (big) issue to use the distro that you're most comfortable with. For me this is OSX, but I've also ran Linux (Ubuntu/Mint) in a primarily Windows oriented company. The only "issue" was that I was my own tech-support in the case where something might not work.
We use DataView wherever we can, but it's quite likely we do have endianness bugs in our code. AFAICT, some browsers on BE machines use LE typed buffers.

Do you know of any modern browsers that use BE typed buffers with full WebGL support for a cheap BE machine that we could buy for testing? Does anybody actually use such? Is it worth the bother?
Neil Degrasse Tyson on GMO:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecT2CaL7NA

Best TL:DR in video form on the issue. It is 2 minutes long and it stumps every anti-GMO friend I have. They don't switch but they also can't argue "natural" apples, strawberries or wheat since they are all artificial.
To clarify--this is a plain-English rundown of the features and functions that a developer can include when building an Apple Watch app. For example, it says that devs do not have direct API access to force touch or the digital crown.

(As opposed to a consumers' view of what you can do with it.)
I totally cool with apple watch to be the toy for kids.

Kudos to Apple's marketing abilities for pimping it as a luxury thing (I wouldn't even call it a watch. Wearable perhaps?) and making people to salivate over it.

Apple's marketing is something worth paying for to learn from.
When they try to make encryption illegal, as ridiculous as it sounds, this is their intent. They don't want us to be outside of their sight.
Isn't Erlang superiority to Node.js grounded in the underlying VM as well?
Until a younger one shows them what streaming is.

No joke.

Commercials are so goddamn brutal now. Just about anyone will do the work to get a better experience.

Same with cord cutting. Just show 'em. They weigh that monthly $150 or so, commercials, etc... against just buying stuff they want and it's a no brainer, save for sports.

That's the reason ESPN is brutal. They know they are an anchor for much of the Cable TV business. Anybody who can ditch that probably is doing so right now.
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HN has always had a bit more spirit of being friendly to the next person even if it's not always evident. The "comic book guy" tone is stronger on reddit.
Just a reminder to the "all GMO is bad" crowd - you're condemning yourself to a life of needles or a mechanical implant if you have or get type-1 diabetes (lack of insulin production). With genetic modification, it's possible to transfect genes to start insulin production but that would make the recipient a GMO...

As people as written, this subject is nuanced. As best you can, try to understand what is involved rather than just listening to the noise.
plus that the seller requires to set a price, which may be too high/low .. but using donations happy customers can pay whatever they feel is ok for them
Copy protection is a form of DRM. It is used to manage rights to digital content. You're redefining DRM to mean "the trend of selling licenses rather than software", which is only one form of DRM.
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Mosfilm--back in the USSR
Your arguing for GMO than. GMO use less herbicides and pesticides.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/06/biotech-crops-use-less-pes...
You misunderstood.

75% is not to the mod developer, 75% was to Bethesda, and 25% to the mod developer.

This is what pissed people off. (Also, the developer would only get paid if he got 100 USD to receive, meaning that he needed 400 USD in sales, meaning that probably most developers would never get any money).
The system in place didn't do anything to protect the mod from being uploaded fraudulently. If I wanted a $0 price tag on my mod, I especially wouldn't want to spend time I could otherwise be working on my mod policing the store to make sure nobody is selling my mod. Fix that and you fix a lot of the issue.
We do office sharing, rotating out WFH days to lend our space to others; we also have open layouts and are all exposed to each other (imagine that, access to team communication). I love it. When I need privacy? I walk to the corner coffee shop with my Trisquel GNU/Linux laptop in tow and have coffee while I produce. Sorry, I don't feel this one.
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However the people who care vehemently about such things are the ones with the motive and means to set up a global convenient alternative content delivery network.
Your links clearly state that the increase in herbicide use is due to the fact that weeds are becoming resistant to the herbicides in common use. That herbicide is glyphosate because of the wide use of glyphosate on Roundup-ready crops.

The same thing is happening to other herbicides, just slower, because they weren't used as much. They weren't used as much because they were replaced with glyphosate.
>propaganda by the anti-GMO crowd

Is this a well-funded crowd, full of large corporate support? What do they have to gain with their 'propaganda' exactly?
You say a share is fair when it's what the market currently offers.

That's obviously a remarkably stupid definition of fair.
True, but that's an injustice which affects all poor communities. But I hope this interpretation of fines as revenue stream gets revisited and tossed out. The problem is this came about from anti tax initiatives like prop 13 in Calif. Money has to come from somewhere to keep the lights on.

I also don't think the fines and other ridiculous fees are used as weapons, but rather path of least resistance in generating revenue because people vote taxes down.
I'm not a software engineer or gifted hacker.

Given that, I was able to use dbus to come up with a quick solution for a department feature in an afternoon using Pidgin's libpurple dbus bindings through purple-remote to create a presence tracker and simple announcement bot with bash.

A little digging into Pidgin's DBUS Howto gave me all the documentation that I needed. It just took a lunch hour to have something functional up and running without any real in depth programming knowledge required or needed. In an afternoon, I'd hacked up an RSS feed that showed everyone in the department's current presence as reported by their IM status and that feed could then be consumed by the required apps.

I don't know about dbus' other merits or flaws, but it did help me solve a specific problem quickly. This was a dead simple use case though.

At the time, I assumed that people more knowledgeable than me could do a hell of a lot more with it.
As far as I can tell, there's no need to do anything at all to keep people passive and obedient. Most people seem to be born that way. They're kinda zombie like. Don't believe me? Look at the Stanley Milgram experiments.
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A label on your food isn't necessarily the truth. If you want want the truth, you really have to take that responsibility for yourself. The government is not good at labeling organic food[0], and there is no reason to believe they'll get GMO labeling right, since the same issues are involved.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification#Issues
> nobody ever got ill from GMOs.

See this 1996 study: Identification of a Brazil-nut allergen in transgenic soybeans.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8594427
It is a little overwrought.

But other professionals who have a mix of collaborative work and collaboration do very well with office-style layouts. (I'm talking about attorneys)

I think a small number of roles (IT Ops types) do well in open offices. For everyone else, having sufficient conference rooms so that a project team can takeover for a few weeks gives you something more like a happy medium.
Luckily at least some malware authors suck at cryptography, too. Generate a random symmetric key, encrypt all files with this key, encrypt the symmetric key with an asymmetric public key included in the malware. Game over. At least until someone manages to obtain the private key.
> So the question is: Why would you want to sell your patent to Google, rather than some other buyer?

There are two basic general reasons that a person who would otherwise be willing to sell to an NPE might be interested in selling to Google instead:

1. Google will pay more, and/or

2. Google provides a quicker, easier process for evaluation and decision that means you close the deal and get actual certainty (and the money itself) more quickly and with less of your own time and energy devoted to the process.

Google's effort to established a streamlined process with a "identify your patent and price at which you are committed to sell" up front step, and a well defined set of steps with fairly short time windows leading to a final decision, attempts to address both of those. (Provide a smooth decision process on purchase at the seller's desired price.)

> In this promotion, Google's answer to that question is that at the very least, you can be sure you're not selling to a patent troll.

No, you've got that wrong: that's not the benefit to the seller. That's one of the benefits to Google (and, presuming Google doesn't use patents like a troll, potentially everyone else in the tech industry and everyone indirectly harmed by the drag patent trolls put on the technology market.)
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Partially logged rainforests emitting more carbon than previously thought
Have some patience. Comments often receive a small flurry of reflexive downvotes right after posting. If it's a good comment it will receive upvotes eventually.

I upvoted your other comment because it was a fine opinion and didn't deserve to get pushed down. On the other hand, I downvoted the above comment because complaining about downvotes doesn't add anything of use to the discussion.

Everyone gets downvoted sometimes; it's not a big deal, just a few fake Internet points.
Yep, I read some of the comments here, then I read the article kindly submitted to open the thread from top to bottom, and then I read all the rest of the previous comments here. The article is more interesting than I expected from the first comments I read. Particularly interesting is the issue of whether or not earlier epidemiological studies were counting the same people over the course of their lifespan, or whether some "Hispanic" people in the United States were moving back and forth internationally, or not being counted at all in epidemiological surveillance, either of which might badly skew the figures.

One question that came up in several comments is what is meant by the "ethnicity" designation term "Hispanic," which is used only in the United States for epidemiological studies like this. The Census Bureau says

"The U.S. Census Bureau collects race data in accordance with guidelines provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and these data are based on self-identification. The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as 'American Indian' and 'White.' People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race."

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_RHI525211.htm

In other words, we can't count on "Hispanic" people having any particular gene assemblage at the individual level and it's difficult even to assume that Hispanic people really, truly share a common culture that differs from non-Hispanic culture. There is a LOT of noise to go with whatever signal is carried by the designation "Hispanic," and people's self-designation by that term or not has changed a lot in my lifetime.

But, as the article points out, there may be some good news here for people in the United States in general. "Understanding the origins of the Hispanic paradox will tell us a lot about the future of health care in the United States. And if the Hispanic advantage does have something to do with culture — with strong, supportive communities and healthy behaviors — then that is something that the rest of the country can emulate." Better understanding the long-term, steady drop in all-cause mortality in the United States at all ages[1] may help us find ways to keep that trend[2] going, further lengthening lifespans for all Americans.

[1] "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why" http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[2] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
Michael O. Church says that open offices induce or exacerbate his panic attacks:

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/open-plan-of...

I'd say that that makes him a victim of the open office layout.
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> no unsigned types,

... except char.

You also forgot to mention their odd utf-8-ish encoding of strings in class files.
OS X isn't a huge cultural shock. It's mostly getting your head wrapped around the dock and some hotkeys, and it mostly Just Works. I made the switch a couple years back after over a decade of hardcore Linux or BSD on the desktop.

Once you get a terminal to your liking, it should make things less obtuse and let you get a feel for the operating system.
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I never understand the instant dismissal of the stock Terminal.app

Yes it's not the most featureful terminal emulator in existence but it's well put together and works just fine.
Do you tether/does your contract allow tethering?
Many mods are interesting because the modder solved a personal problem of his.

And some mods do end having a "studio" backing... For example the Network Addon Mod for SimCity 4, it started with several individual modders solving their own problems with the game, and now it has a official "NAM Team" that act as a professional team (they give release dates, have deadlines, make their own installer, etc...)
Now is the time for Linus to disappear for a few days, and re-emerge with a sane IPC design that both binder and dbus can build on.

Bootstrapped in itself, of course :) (I have no idea what that would even mean in this context. But hey, it's all wishful thinking, right?)