skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is, up until the moment the patent is "exerted", the signal does not matter. The process is just a means of recording that the submitter had a certain idea at a certain moment. Which, to me, sounds perfectly legitimate.

With this construct, an inventor could go to e.g. Google, and sell them this idea ("potential patent"). This way, small inventors wouldn't need to have a big pile of cash just to secure their ideas.
Every app literally breaks the rules. I do not know of one that doesn't.
I wonder if some languages write figures RtL , I'm curious about it.
Prof. Hasso Plattner is also co-founder and former CEO of SAP which is currently the largest software company in Europe.
I use both and the biggest problems are for each:

HN = Down votes because someone disagrees and doesn't enter into a conversation. Culture of Start Up more than Hacker News. If you dare use M$ for Microsoft you get 4 down votes and your out of the conversation for being unprofessional and childish though M$ has been use in Hacker circles since the late 80s and points to the history of Microsoft doing what is best for money and not necessarily users (Hopefully this has changed) In Linux circles it is used often by professional coders all the time.

Reddit = Takes work to get just what you want. I usually during work on look at sub-reddits that are work related. This causes me to have a limited view of what is happening on Reddit on a whole but that is good in my opinion.

I don't like Reddit's common core audience and anything with a female or mom goes into stupid mode instantly. I don't like the way females are treated on popular reddit post.

I was so frustrated with down votes and the feeling of you believe with me or your stupid and lack of engagement I tried out lobste.rs but the audience is so small that the front page is 80% static for days.
Hacker news today looks like /r/programming 6 years ago.

As the population of any online site grows, you get the least common denominator. The smaller subreddits are still good, but /r/programming got too big.
Possibly... Node.js/IO.js? Or Arduino.cc/Arduino.org
The article doesn't mention the other obvious comparisons, the non-black latin american countries, such as Argentina and Chile.

For instance, Chile ranks higher than the US here, despite being a poorer country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
Apprenda Shows Some Docker and WebSphere Love--But Will It Be Enough?
On a side note, why is there no notification system for HN?
It would be great to know that someone has replied to a comment.

Incidentally, I will probably never see if you reply to this.
That is not the logical conclusion of my view. That is you slippery-sloping your way to a straw man.

And you again dodge the hard questions: How much oppression are you willing to tolerate so that dominant groups never have to feel uncomfortable? On the other hand, if you believe that civil rights are always achievable through polite dialog, where are you examples? Where is the demonstration that the US's revolutionary war was just a big stupid mistake?

I believe you don't have them because you don't actually have a functioning theory of social change or a big interest in ending oppression. Whether you like it or not, the only real effect of your behavior is to maintain oppressive social structures. You may say that you want something else, but the first rule of working therapists is that when words and behavior conflict, always believe the behavior. Why shouldn't I believe your behavior here?
I guess the only way to find out is to await the emergence of
low-level languages with HKTs and then run suitable experiments.
it's just strange to me that on the one hand parts of the government would be trying to "crack" this system that ... other parts of the government came up with

wouldn't it render the system not-as-useful if it were to be "cracked" or weakened?
> Many modders came right out and said they would no longer make mods under this system, because the pressure to charge means it becomes a job.

Unless I'm missing something, nothing happened that would have forced mod makers to start charging, right?
Does using modules in my Python code look more professional?
I'm fairly new to programming but I've managed to program little app in Python. I'd like to apply for entry level dev job and of course I want to show my code.

However it needs some serious refactoring and since I can't code everyday for many hours (my current day job) I want to be most efficient.

When I started coding the app I lacked some knowledge. The app has CLI. I wrote custom parser for that and later found out that there are modules out there that can handle it (argparse).

Now my question is: Does it look better if I use existing module than my own custom solution?

The advantage to custom solution is that it's already written, it works well and I also made tests for it. The downside is, I'm not 100% if my custom solution is quality code.
The Untold Story of Silk Road
Alternate headline: "Agile Development Ski-Jumps Over Shark!"

Alternate alternate headline: "Final Nail in Agile Development Coffin is Big and Blue."

Agile is dead. Long live the new development process buzzwords.

It is now time again to rename everything, come up with new jargon and trademarks to describe the patterns and anti-patterns of the development processes that actually work for us, and set those words free. Then they can be co-opted and peddled by consultants. Afterward, they are embraced, extended, and extinguished by management. And then the new words change meaning to describe all the old things, and the circle of business buzzwords turns anew.
Separation is done. 1/3 points done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441262

I didn't realise openbsd had a seccomp equivalent, but I'm happy it does! (And it did make the news again)
Ask HN: What tools do you wish existed for SEO that don't?
I'm not from Italy but live in Padova for... a few more weeks :-/ See my profile.
Notification style advertisements, that bubble up as you move about could be a gold mine if users could get over the potential privacy concerns.

Advertising models like this (contextual notification powered offers) must exist for smartphones already - anyone know the leader in this segment?
Biggest differences I notice is Reddit not only tolerates but it rewards jokes / puns / non-seriousness but on HN it's really hard to avoid being downvoted when telling a joke. Beyond that I don't think there is much difference; there is a hive-mind in HN just like reddit (and like any social experience; it's human nature so impossible to avoid).

One thing I will say is on HN, after like 3 or 4 comments within 10 minutes I usually can't post another comment again for another 30+ minutes (I've never been able to quantify the amount of comments required to trigger the throttle and how long it lasts). So it's really difficult to have any type of quick, back and forth conversations / discussions on HN but on Reddit, even though they have a throttle, it's no where near as aggressive so it's more possible there. I'm not sure the HN throttle is necessarily bad but I know I don't enjoy its aggressiveness.
I feel the same way, I actually created a second Reddit account. One for all the cat memes which I'll typically only look at when I want to lazily pass some time. And the other that actually gives me food for thought so to speak. That being said, commenting on HN is a much nicer experience.
Personally for me I do HN at work and Reddit at home.
Cross-unix no. But pretty much every Linux distribution supports seccomp these days.
I'm probably being naive here, but aren't Asian countries' low mortality levels recognized as a result of their diets? If there is one staple one could point to as being shared between Hispanics and Asians, must that staple be rice? I just wonder if the choice of main starch - which is consumed so commonly across cultures - distinguished Hispanic Americans from other Americans, who are more likely to rely on corn or wheat as their staple starch.
Hm. I don't think you understand how Google's paid SE placement works (i.e. Google gets paid by the so-called propagandists to place those links).

Just FYI, I used to do research where I spliced genes for a certain enzyme into yeast in order to study the enzymatic mechanism, so I'm not exactly uninformed.
That's a pretty nontrivial problem to solve technically.
I have invites just let me know if you want one.

email me at mtelesha at not yahoo but the google email account with a title lobste.rs invite. I think I have 3 - 5 invites. Also include your HN user name. I have to verify your not a troll :)

UPDATE: I still have more invites 12:31 Eastern time
>Quotes are taken out of context, used by people who lack the required technical understanding

What? This is literally the maintainer of the Linux kernel on his mailing list voicing his opinion on something kernel related. Funny when he bashes things HN hates like Nvidia drivers, suddenly he's a truth teller and his words repeated on the mountains. When he's bashing something you like suddenly you're "OMG GUISE IGNORE LINUS HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT!!"

Come on.
You actually can customize the size of the dock, and have it set up to hide/show based on mouse position or keyboard shortcuts. There's a lot of options if you install "unity-tweak-tool"

There are also some nice alternative icon sets, like the Numix icons. Overall, I really like Unity now compared to when I first tried it a few years ago, and I'd rather use it than Windows 7 or 8. But it probably does need a couple of tweaks to fit your needs.
It's an old metaphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology)
I agree, totally worth reading, clear, concise, and probably very accurate. I liked the section about efficiency best. "Efficiency is more often a matter of design than of good coding".

Thanks for posting this.
Blinking LED Using Elixir Embedded Image on Raspberry Pi
I "extensively monitor" both channels and find that they have their own advantages and disadvantages.

When an important technology is announced, or there's some important tech event, I really want to see what HN says first. It's more likely to be a focused and civil discussion due to the way it's moderated, and it's extremely likely that an engineer involved in the project or its history will come and personally contribute to the discussion. When I read a huge HN thread on an important topic, I feel like I'm largely educated about what experienced thinkers and specialists on the topic would say.

That said, Reddit has more breadth. There's not just /r/programming, there's subreddits for every specific language, technology, and specialty. Some are better curated and moderated than others but it's a deeper and richer set of information. There might occasionally be a story about OpenBSD around here, but reddit has http://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd.

I probably follow HN more closely, but I do like to see what bubbles up in specific subreddits as well.
Confessions of a Growth Hacker
> It should not be used to develop a Product.

I disagree with that conclusion. Prototypes help in both clarifying requirements as well as eliciting requirements. However, for the latter, a prototype may be necessary but not sufficient.
Instead of explaining it, there can be steps taken to ensure a transition between prototype and product, such as prototyping in a language or for a stack that your company does not use in production.
I definitely agree. I think the great apes, us included, are naturally tribal. As the various sportsball empires show, we just like picking sides. If we want society to work well, we have to consciously work against that tendency. And I share your view that self-policing works way better than other-policing.
It's totally different. HN has very little technical content compared to /r/programming. Some people here say that /r/programming's userbase is less sophisticated than HN. In my experience this sophistication is only skin deep with regards to technical discussion. In the rare technical discussion on HN the form and number of smart sounding words matter more than whether the technical point is correct. It seems as if the people voting know less about the technical content they vote on. HN is just more of a startup and general topics discussion board than a technical discussion board. You can also see it in this thread: most people posting here talk about other subreddits than /r/programming, which indicates that they may not be programmers.

On the other hand, people are more polite and generally nicer on HN. Perhaps this is an inherent difference in the audience, or because the comment scores are hidden on HN.
The summary is when you fork internationally you don't really need to follow trademark law in practice although it'll generate a lot of heat and forkers will end up having to follow the law sooner or later so the lesson from the article is forkers are better off in the long run following trademark law from the start of their fork...

The fundamental argument that generated the fork was the community permanently diverged between simple and complicated and the primary maintainer decided to ally with the simple team, probably from a strong historical "eat your own dogfood" culture. Maybe rephrased some people have to ping 10K boxes per minute and other people have to check 1000 services or files or aspects on 10 boxes and its not REALLY possible for the same codebase to serve both groups equally well in actual real world practice.

Yo, heres some patches to make your screwdriver(tm) more hammer-ish to help professional nail installers work somewhat more effectively. What are you crazy the wood screw installation professionals such as myself will not tolerate that, patch denied. OK we'll fork and BTW we're taking the name with us so on the other side of the planet, people will be installing nails using our hammer shaped fork of Screwdriver(tm) what could possibly go wrong? Oh no you won't, at least with my trademarked name. (consults with lawyers inserted here) Um, yeah I guess you're right we're gonna rename our hammer shaped screwdriver the Hammer(tm). And years later the worlds carpenters happily use Screwdriver(tm) and Hammer(tm) and sometimes both at the same jobsite without knowing the somewhat contentious history of those different tools.

The two user communities have little if any overlap. This near total lack of overlap lets the two communities live together in peace and plugins generally interoperate etc etc. More like relations between the Word and Excel communities than like Android vs iPhone communities. Aside from that exciting little trademark spat a long time ago relations have always appeared pretty calm and cool.

I admin'd a large nagios system a bit more than a decade ago that basically pinged the heck out of a large number of customers using configs generated by polling our own network devices automatically (read only access, auto generated configs, etc). It depended on the system being simple stable reliable and fast, it was always speed limited in deployment. I needed Oracle support like I needed a hole in head, so new complicated slow unstable features held negative appeal for that implementation. So I stuck with nagios, although I can totally understand a user with a completely different use case needing icinga. I wonder if that system is still running at ex-employer? Probably. It was pretty bulletproof software.
What do you mean by astroturfing?
Godspeed MESSENGER. You served us well.

So many interesting, and at the time unorthodox orbital maneuvers were utilized by this spacecraft.

I may send a probe off to Moho in KSP tonight in honor of both MESSENGER and of KSP officially releasing. I'll try to make the flight path as convoluted as possible and include only the bare minimum thrust needed to get into orbit. It will be much less difficult to stay in orbit of course since KSP's physics model doesn't take into account Kerbol's gravity near Moho.
European Engineers Have Developed a Tow Truck of the Future
yes it was

One had to infringe to get it, but it was totally easy to get it for free.

Notice the improved licensing really didn't happen, until saturation did?

Being lax on licensing meant running Windows was possible for everybody, and that bought a lot of share.

If we were to return to that early era, and Windows had the licensing it does today, or even something potent, what do you think would have happened?
From my experience you're OK like 90% of the time. Sometimes fonts look a little different, etc, but generally you're OK.

I agree with the grandparent though, you need to worry more about Safari because of the iPhone users that hit your site. Case in point I recently saw a site work perfectly on in all major browsers on the desktop, but Safari would get caught in a loop of repainting. The result was a webpage that looked like it hung the browser, but it was actually taking like a minute to finish rendering the page.
PayPal Brings Its Instant Checkout Service “One Touch” to the Web
There are also computer scientists who study how humans use computers, e.g. HCI, which often includes hypotheses, experiments, etc. There is certainly a subset that only cares about proofs, though.
10 games to teach children the programming language
In Switzerland, you can use Yallo (yallo.ch - they use the Sunrise network) which has a flat package for 39 CHF/month allowing unlimited calls across both CH+EU.

If you happen to be roaming abroad, they have data plans for 10 days / 100MB for 15 CHF, which is not great, but way cheaper than the example you gave above.
Ooh, I wanna play too!

And as more and more classical information in one region of space has to be simulated (Allude to wave-function collapse), less and less information is possible to know about distant matter and events, which looks like universal expansion to our mortal eyes, but it's actually our instance scaling down.
The Apple Watch isn't as profitable as we first thought
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Italian SIM in Italy -> Italian SIM wherever = 10

Italian SIM in Italy -> French SIM wherever = 30

Italian SIM in France -> any European SIM wherever = 7
> However, you do lose deniability -- if you have possession of that key, you have to explain it.

Full disk encryption + encrypted VMs that are powered down when not in use + religious adherence to TOR and basic OpSec common sense -> deniability is almost irrelevant
My biggest issue with HN is the the automatic dismissal and downvoting of comments which discuss non-sexy legacy technologies. Reddit seems to be far more pragmatic about tech choices while HN leans heavily toward the dogmatic side.
ShadowOS – Free tool for testing Android apps for security vulnerabilities
great, they get "better" sleep, but what tests were done to measure the real world effects of this between the groups, other than "we think it was a factor in cognitive evolution"?
App store revenue includes in-app purchases, right?
Does Apple publish the percentage of revenue that is from in-app purchases, and specifically game microtransactions?
Introducing the Directors in Symfony
Study: Obama most followed on Twitter, pope most influential
Getting updates published on the Firefox add-on site takes a few weeks [1], and as I understand it (haven't needed to do it myself recently) queuing a new version bumps you all the way to the back of the line. If the add-on needs to update non-code things (such as what sites to block) on a shorter time frame having its own service is pretty necessary.

See also the various lists adblock plus / uBlock / lightbeam use. Or for that matter the safe browsing lists Mozilla uses instead of shipping it in a new version of the app.

(I still don't use Ghostery because their relationship with the advertising industry freaks me out, but that doesn't mean I have to be critical of them about the list updates.)

[1] latest status update seems to be https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/08/add-ons-update-63...
I always find it odd that generalizations can be made such as "[this] was the most abundant animal to be found 145 million years ago" when it is based on so infinitesimal a fraction of the evidence. Perhaps this article is simply missing the bulk of the data, but it strikes me as odd that a corner of the Andes could be accurately representative of the world so very, very long ago.
I always say "people don't have requirements, they have problems they want solved". IMO too many people in software get hung up thinking "requirements" means some kind of detailed design document. You're gonna wait a long time for someone with a problem to tell you how to solve it...
> no unsigned types

Java 8 has unsigned types[1]

> boolean that cannot be converted into integer types

Don't know why you would want to do that when a boolean is a primitive type... and also has an object variant, but...

int myInt = (myBoolean) ? 1 : 0;

> no typedefs

A typedef is really like a java bean or class object... it's just a custom data structure.

> It's really freaking hard to write optimised code in this stupid language.

Not true, some of the most highly performant systems on the planet run Java... HFT, stock exchanges, banking, nuclear plant control systems, etc...

There's also the JVM with it's optimizing compiler... one of the best (the best?) optimizing compilers around. Long running Java applications eventually compile hot paths down to native machine instructions, achieving C performance without a lot of the hassle.

But then again, Java wasn't intended to do bit-twiddling, it's a higher abstraction.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Integer....
The term was made up to remark that Latin America is closer to France than to other countries like England and USA.

From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America#Etymology_and_def... ):

The idea that a part of the Americas has a linguistic affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe", "Anglo-Saxon America" and "Slavic Europe".[8] The idea was later taken up by Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France.[9] The term was first used in Paris in an 1856 conference by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao[10] and the same year by the Colombian writer José María Torres Caicedo in his poem "Two Americas".[11] The term Latin America was supported by the French Empire of Napoleon III during the French invasion of Mexico as a way to include France among countries with influence in the Americas and to exclude Anglophone countries and played a role in his campaign to imply cultural kinship of the region with France, transform France into a cultural and political leader of the area, and install Maximilian of Habsburg as emperor of the Second Mexican Empire.[12] This term was also used in 1861 by French scholars in La revue des races Latines, a magazine dedicated to the Pan-Latinism movement.[13]
This strikes me as one of the most fair/balanced comparisons of YC and Techstars that I've ever read. Thanks!
What does it say about the balance of power in a society where the media is completely unable to fend off relentless attacks on its sovereignty?

This is a very slippery slope that we're on.