skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why I don't think self policing is suitable. If someone broke the law and endangered other people, you or I as possible community members should not be able to decide no police action is involved when others are the people that were actually endangered. Do the people on the road during this situation not have a voice? We are not incentivized correctly to handle this situation suitably.

The police and judicial system sometimes have conflicting incentives as well, but at least they are aligned more with the public good than ours are. There are laws and they are, for the most part, rewarded for enforcing them.
At this point, they're willfully ignorant and incurious.

The only thing they're good for (in a software relationship) is being mined for revenue.

Do they pay enough for their no/low cost apps and software to be treated otherwise? No.

Do they vote for smarter politicians to have a better regulatory climate for our business and their privacy? No.

Do they do anything other than lap up the bullshit gawker and buzzfeed ads, the simple pandering of Apple ads extolling faux-quality, the lazy hero worhsip of Musk? No.

We've got numbers--hell, millions and billions of dollars of business built around the numbers--proving the users are saps whose only interest is getting sold to.
hhvm has tested compatibility with Laravel. Are you sure you were doing everything right?
I've worked for a small company and we had similar problems. It's not that you have to convince six layers of bureaucrats who have no idea what GPL is but they read in eWeek that it's scary -- it's simply that, when you're that small, long-winded consulting services from IP lawyers is not the kind of stuff you want to spend money on.
In my experience building backend apps, unit tests are way more effective at catching logic bugs than end to end tests.

End to end tests are great for catching connectivity bugs though.
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Are you sure you built it right?

Maybe try 3.9-dev (trunk)to see if it was a bug.
Unfortunately, I think the more realistic outcome would be that the rest of the world would be turned into farmland or pastureland.
i think it usually boils down to "its tests, its not performance sensitive"

then tests take 10x the build time and eventually impact productivity like crazy :(
It's been a week and you may be in danger of becoming productive again, so I thought I'd link you to the LJ that the author kept before starting SlateStarCodex: http://squid314.livejournal.com

You're welcome.
Ask HN: Do you learn more from Tutorials?
Most tutorials tend to provide a step by step solution. But I feel like I would learn more if I had to figure things out on my own. Does anyone else feel the same way?
I'm not really interested in dictionary-lawyering definitions. I'm most concerned about what I, the end user, can do with the software I obtain. To me, it's very important that I be able to modify the software I use. GPL guarantees I will be able to do that forever. BSD does not.
Do I need a 5th web browser?
Evolution doesn't code for just optimal. During the time that we
were actually evolving, there existed pressure, for example, to
optimize our use of the small amount of food that we had access to,
optimizing to be as incospicuous during the dark hours, etc. Signaling
processes weren't optimized for access to post-scarcity (in the
first-world) availability of sugars, proteins, and fats; sleeping for
as long as we do isn't optimal at all (some people have genetics that
improve on this, though), and not to mention that the very nature of
genetics will definitely produce humans that are sub-optimal in ways
that that won't necessarily lead to sterility but will no longer be
removed from the gene pool of the species.

I'm not claiming that caffeine will make you super-human but the use
of substances like these that may have decreased survivability in
pre-historic years (e.g., due to increased metabolism, induced bowel
movements that decrease nutrient absorption) may augment several
aspects of human cognition (and worsen others) in a way that is
towards optimal, for say, coding but suboptimal for, say, creative
writing (I don't claim this is true, just provide this as a possible
example). Many contemporary college students can definitely attest to
both the positive and negative aspects for drugs such as amphetamines
(e.g., Adderall) in a manner that one could describe (though
misleadingly) as superhuman.

I do agree that use of many of these substances can have seriously
deliterious effects with prolonged use, but all studies I have come
across refute this possibility for caffeine.
I wrote a semi-detailed review from my first try today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924721

Overall it's not perfect but I like it and it got the job done. I'm also pretty confident that with time, they'll be able to make this a pretty solid product. I bought it.

tl;dr is that I got this very meh video with no effort:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls+-+bad.mp...

And this pretty solid edit with some tweaking:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gnarhub/hank/whatcom+falls.mp4
I would like to give some other perspective. FCA (parent co. of Jeep) have been slow about a number of safety recalls and are under increased scrutiny by NHTSA:

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/201...

Here is a choice quote about the culture relating to safety at Fiat - Sergio Marchionne is CEO: >> Marchionne said in January that the auto industry may have “overreacted” to some safety issues, especially the massive air bag recalls, which may have been “overkill,” he said. << This is about the Takata recall in the news where the detonators can produce deadly shrapnel.

So yes the demonstration described in this article was somewhat reckless, but the facts that FCA has not notified owners beyond a posting online about a firmware update (who checks that?), tacitly condemns security researchers' decision to publish some details in their communications with Wired, all the while stonewalling recalls - for example in Jeep vehicles where they catch fire in rear end collisions, killing occupants - that upsets me much more.

In my opinion, when a company is notified of a safety or security issue, they should do all that can be done as quickly as possible, here instead FCA has once again done the minimum plus has the gall to respond in writing, "We appreciate the contributions of cybersecurity advocates to augment the industry’s understanding of potential vulnerabilities. However, we caution advocates that in the pursuit of improved public safety they not, in fact, compromise public safety." I guess I embrace hacker spirit more than anything else I considered here is what it boils down to.

So I would have written to the NHTSA trying to make this yet another recall if I thought it would have done any good, but in that culture of 21%-compliance-is-acceptable, I don't think it would do a lick of good, so I won't bother.

Also, I accidentally clicked on "flag" above when I wanted to click on "parent." I am sorry, that was not my intention, I just wanted to refer back to the Wired article as I was responding, and they are small and right next to each other. Ah, I notice when I refresh there is an unflag option, I have just taken that action, again sorry.
It'll also be the checklist for even more of the traffic that drives on US interstate highways once self-driving cars become all the rage.
> Why Didn’t Statisticians Own Big Data?

Because they could not translate their sense of entitlement to actual results.

> pure statisticians often scoff at the hype surrounding the rise of data scientists in the industry

> some statisticians simply have no interest in carrying out scientific methods for business-oriented data science

Statisticians are often too careful. They let tests decide if they should continue on a certain path. Machine learning researchers run blindfolded and trust cross-validation. The latter, though reckless, gets more impressive results.

You can perfectly be a data scientist coming from a statistics or physics background. Adapt to it and use your knowledge to your advantage. You can't keep calling yourself a statistician and own data science at the same time. Start automating yourselves, like the rest of us are.
Why would they do a silly thing like that? That data has got to be worth a lot--imagine, for example, doing accurate brand spread analysis by searching for brand logos in photos and looking at where they're being displayed via that data.

It'd be stupid not to hang onto that data.
Webkit is GPL. Android (Linux) kernel is GPL. CUPS is GPL. Busybox is GPL.

Companies may try to avoid GPL but only if they have another, viable choice.
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CoreOS and Kubernetes 1.0
I don't know of any databases or online suggestions to your answer, but they are probably out there with varying degrees of accuracy (GlassDoor?).

I also don't life in SF, but from HN comments I think the only guideline to salaries is 1) expensive as hell :)

I might suggest using your network to get these answers -- are there other companies that are similar to yours, already located in SF? As a founder, I think you would be building your network anyway, and this is a great question to ask founders of other companies. Like you said, ballpark is key -- so you're not off by a lot that might sink your company from the start.
Agreed. The key word here is "basic". Maps have been and can be downloaded, and algorithms to get to point B from A have been embedded for a decade at least. It's only the newer devices (phones) that have managed to push that all server-side. Real-time data like traffic conditions or weather hazards can be added as supplementary data through secure channels, but the entire system does not require an internet connection to work.

Thinking that "basic driving functions" will need to rely _heavily_ on internet access is thinking wrongly.
I think otherwise though, it seems like the fellowship was to try for remote program. See this article by SamA: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce...

I'm just concerned if they're going to cut out later stage startups who have fundraising but re-launched or pivoted.
While this is quite entertaining, what does it have to do with Hacker News?
> Yes, some companies use BSD/MIT software and lock it up, never to send improvements back upstream. But they ultimately are harming themselves, as they can't trivially update to new versions of the the software, because they're now maintaining a fork, and the longer their code diverges, the harder it will be to maintain. So they are motivated to send improvements upstream. And many (most?) big companies do.

Is there any evidence of this?
My name is zobzu. I fight for the users, and I'm standing up for the GPL.
(seriously tho, same license by default, same reasons - feel free to downvote, it won't change my licensing choices)
FreeBSD has switched from GCC to clang as well.
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Obviously they don't. But chrysler was informed and created a patch. But what they didn't do is ensuring that it gets rolled out to everyone vulnerable.
What does "multiple TCP paths" mean? TCP does not deal with paths (routing/forwarding). Is it just a typo for "connections" or does the library really use multiple paths where available?
It used to be, the further you lived from the city, the better off you were. Mostly because the city had scary dark skinned people, little space, and pollution.

Now, while I'm definitely a suburbanite, I'd take the 15 minute commute any day over having extra lawn to mow.
There is also the announcement that the people who started this company quit Google because they couldn't get anything done there and now they have a new startup...
We also would like to meet with them! If you reach them, could you also introduce us? You can reach me from tahaozket[at]gmail.com
I completely disagree. I think the web has improved in almost every way. Sure, there are shitty content sites whose main goal is to get ad clicks, but those have been around for a long time and the ads have actually become less obnoxious than before. There is so much better content nowadays presented in much cleaner and focused layouts. And the UX of most websites has improved dramatically. Look at sites like YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Vine, reddit, Spotify, Soundcloud and compare them to the equivalent sites 5-10 years ago. It's not even a contest, the new sites are better in every way.
It seems that they got a license from the Italian Government to export their items to other Wassenaar countires: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/07/leaked-documen....

Although it will be interesting to see if anything in the recent dump shows them violating the terms of that license or committing other Wassenaar violations between 2014 when the EU implemented it and now.
Apple Watch Review: My 30-days as Dick Tracy
the official GopherCon videos aren't posted yet, but you can find a recording of this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVc-dTyXDAs
> In the fixing mode, Stallman was not operating as a user, he was operating as a developer. This is a "freedom 1" activity, which is a freedom that is only useful for developers.

If a "pure user" has an issue, and that issue is with free software, that user can go to the open market and hire a developer to solve the issue.

You don't have to be a programmer to benefit from the freedom; that is a fallacy. All users benefit, programmers or not.
Thanks for writing this up, you make some excellent points. Could you comment on why the BSD's (FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD) has so far not made inroads against Linux which happens to be GPL2 licensed?
This makes 0 sense. If I'm reading this correctly, greater freedom to you means more people benefiting from something? How can you argue that?
Those particular means are unjustified. What actually happened wasn't nearly as extreme as you're indicating, and given the previous behavior of auto manufacturers to security hole demonstrations in their cars, this sort of demonstration was viewed by the researchers as the next logical step.

I don't entirely agree with the methodology, but nobody was hurt, unlike what would would likely be the case should even less ethically-grounded "researchers" demonstrate similar capability - probably on a larger and more dangerous scale, mind you.
Thanks for the response. I came to a similar conclusion about eventually having to work for myself, but keep putting it off. It sounds like I need to buckle down and build something.

I've never even heard of relax NG. These days I prefer json to xml, but I'll look into it anyway. :)
>Also, I accidentally clicked on "flag" above when I wanted to click on "parent." I am sorry, that was not my intention, I just wanted to refer back to the Wired article as I was responding, and they are small and right next to each other.

There should be an "unflag" where "flag" used to be.
I wonder if this was one of those "if you don't join us we're going to copy you" acquisitions.
Video game study finds losers more likely to harass women
My question was a rhetorical one to get the OP to think about what the relationship between "making money" and "generating value" might be. The way he put it, it's as if they are completely disconnected. Another way to phrase "making money" is "providing a service that people are willing to trade some of their livelihood for." Could that not be a proxy for at least some "positive change"? And anyway, is "change" the only thing of value?
I ran some numbers and Blake's idea could bring the cost down by 40-60%

https://medium.com/@bluf/the-robotraders-versus-blake-ross-a...
Time to Patch Your Jeep or You Might Get Hacked
Very interesting - well done! Small UI recommendation: round the earning numbers to something visually simpler (e.g. 60k, 1.5k, or at the very least take out the cents).
LHR taxes are definitely brutal. Assuming award space and that the routing isn't too out of the way, you could look into flying on a partner. A quick google tells me that you could look into flying on Swiss, Turkish, or United to cross the atlantic. Flying on these partners using Aeroplan miles shouldn't incur fuel surcharges
If you're only taking into account direct pot odds for NLHE in 2015, you're missing out on a lot.

I like the book "The Mathematics of Poker" by Chen.
Seconded. ETFs at Vanguard are the most cost effective way to start investing.
http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm collects salary information from self-reporting employees of various companies. Twitter, Uber, and other startups are in SF. Google, Facebook, and Apple use private buses to move employees from SF to their campuses in Silicon Valley.

A new grad from a leading CS school would start at over $ 100k, plus tiny stock option. Of course you need free food (at least lunch), and other perks.

http://h1bdata.info/ is a searchable database of H1-B visa requests. It can be searched by company, city, job title. Set the year to 2015.
For example: Twitter software engineer median $127K, Senior SE $155K, Staff SE $ 169K, etc.
Sweet, I am going to borrow your health check script. I can't wait until official packaged support for the ZMQ extension.
Warcraft: Skies of Azeroth (360˚ teaser)
I think the GPL license actually makes user freedom worse by encouraging developers to release software as web apps instead of as client applications. This is because a web application that uses GPL software is not required to release its source code whereas a client application would be required to release its source code.

The difference in user freedom between web apps and client apps is much bigger than the difference between a GPL client app and a proprietary client app. With a client app, even a proprietary one - the user at least in theory can see exactly what the application is doing and what data it is transmitting where.

So for the average user - GPL has encouraged loss of user freedom. Of course this doesn't affect Stallman because he does not use any web apps.
I think you've some confusion about the words "can't" and "won't".
A self-driving car is still being driven, by a computer that has control, situational awareness, and the ability to recognize and avoid dangerous situations. This demonstration was specifically about removing those three factors.
To be fair, with nearly every license you have to do something. GPL just has you do extra things.

Almost every license requires you to include the Copyright notice and copy of the license along with your code and usually in the running program as well.

Of course, that's a ton easier than being required to release your source code and not DRM the binaries.
Firefox Polaris Privacy Initiative
Verge Genomics (YC S15) Wants to Cure Neurodegenerative Diseases with Algorithms
Yeah, there's just much less important OSS implemented in .NET than Java. That was my point.
I think a lot of people would rather work in a busy, noisy coffee shop than commute to or live in the suburbs to enjoy lots of cheap office space.

The entire social structure that produced these towers, a well-paid, conservative, culturally unambitious middle class, is imploding.

Now you have Millenials who value living and working closer to interesting coffee shops, restaurants, clubs, and bars than living in Nowhereville which has a Denny's, a Subway and a Dunkin Donuts as the only options. Plus they're so deep in student debt that buying a suburban house or leasing a car is not an option. They're stuck living in a cheap apartment that's typically in an urban area and living a more thrifty lifestyle. What little money they have goes towards entertainment and social activities.

I'd rather work in a condemned office in the right location than some suburban hellhole where I had to drive a minimum of a half hour to and from work. At least the office in the right location could be renovated and spruced up. The suburban office will always be in the wrong spot.
Though you also have to ask how many additional bugs you'd have if there were no unit tests.
Since MIT-style licensed code gets close sourced I don't see how your logic works at all.
Only few huge projects will share back, and generally only share back partially.

If companies are going to choose closed-source license over open sourcing their own code if not GPL or MIT or similar code is available, they weren't going to help open source code to being with.
How to Promote Your Business on the Internet

http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/website-promotion.htm...

White Hat Search Engine Optimization

http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/search-engine-optimiz...

Painless Serch Engine Site Submission

http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/site-submission.html

Analyze your webserver log files. I use analog but it has not been maintained in years, doubtlessly there are better tools by now.

Avail yourself of Bing and Google Webmaster Tools, also Alexa. Use http://www.google.com/trends/ to find keywords to target. Note the geographic distribution.

I havent written anything yet about pay per click ads like AdWords but I intend to. The key is to bid on keywords that only a paying customer is likelely to search for. I paid $300.00 per month for "software consultant" and "software consulting" with nary an inquiry, but got a signed contract for $30,000.00 after paying ten cents apiece for but two clicks by bidding on a keyword that I will never tell anyone because I might need to use it again.
How does this compare to bbcp ?
I had always trouble getting bbcp to work especially if the hosts are behind a gateway.
When did you try it? HHVM 3.8 was only released officially a week ago, perhaps you were on the unstable branch?
c.f. Stallman squashing the exportation of ASTs from gcc for use in emacs earlier this year.
But was GCC ever top of the heap, compared to stuff like Intel's compiler and Microsoft VC++?
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MS has definitely made strides the last few years.

Still, they haven't given up on their product-key nonsense and their unfortunate cozy relationship with govt-surveillance types which are incongruous with open platforms. There's progress left to be made before I will consider their products again.
Would this be Bookshop Crawl?

Edit: Looks like it is. You could go asking for feedback on one of the popular indie book forums (assuming there is such a thing).

Marketing, at its most fundamental level, is simply placing yourself where your target demographic is, and then socializing with them.

Don't think too much about it.

Where do they hang out, and why do they hang out there - what brings them there other than like-minded individuals?

Remember: simple questions often are best answered with simple answers.

Good luck! :D