skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bothers me both about the article and the comments here that they speak in the context of the pro-GPL/anti-GPL debate, but what actually gets discussed is lax vs. copyleft FOSS licensing.

However, the two topics are not the same. I, for one, like the idea of copyleft licensing (for cases where its appropriate), but don't like GPL. GPL has taken the status of "the real copyleft license", but indeed it's an abuse of the idea of copyleft.

Here's why: create the Merry Mermaid Public License (MMPL) as follows: take the text of the GPL and replace all occurrences of "GNU General Public License" with "Merry Mermaid Public License". Also remove all references to FSF and refer to yourself / another non-profit whenever a legal entity is to be named in the text. MMPL will be essentially the same as GPL, just called differently. However, GPL will condemn MMPL in the sense that the two won't be compatible. You can't mix and distribute code bits where one is GPL and one is MMPL licensed. An aggressive monopolist drive is built in to GPL as it decrees incompatiblity with other licenses not on base of licensing conditions, but on base of not being originated from the FSF.
In production code, I actually try not to be obscene lest somebody else come across it.

However, the pervasive wtf undercurrent here in the comments actually makes it colorful yet oddly not too distracting. I like it.
You forgot the best part.

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I posted it, but didn't edit the title. I'm assuming a moderator did that, but the reason for it escapes me.
Indeed, prewar Westchester is one of the few suburbs that isn't an utter abomination, both architecturally and land-use-planning wise. I think that's because they built them before the current bad ideas were in vogue.
Well... why shouldn't they? I think there's potentially an argument against it based on genetic disorders that may come about in reproduction between siblings, but I'm not enough of an expert to know how much it's based in reality.
What if you have two children?
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Considering that marriage can be more of a business relationship, does the sibling marriage issue matter at all?
I think before that happens we need to separate religious/spiritual marriage from legal marriage. Legal marriage is a shortcut for a lot of civil laws, like rights of survivorship and power of attorney. IT made no sense to let certain pairs of adults enter into this legal contract but not others.

Polyamory, or any type of other relationship involving something other than two adults who are old enough to sign a legal contract, would not fit that legal shortcut. I have no problems with polyamory or plural marriage, but our laws just haven't been designed to handle that case. There would need to be new laws, but first there needs to be a separation.
Oh wow, did all of your Milwaukee's Kohl's shut down? We have them here (Puget Sound area) still, and when we left Missouri in 2008 they were still there doing fine.
You're repeatedly posting on this thread that "the manufacturers" have ignored the researchers' previous tests.

That doesn't seem to be true; Chrysler (the singular manufacturer involved) have, after being alerted to the hack prior to this report, already issued a patch. The researchers are practicing responsible disclosure, have the co-operation of the manufacturer, and are going public with the details at Blackhat next month.

This Wired piece is NOT part of that responsible vulnerability disclosure, it's a teaser to hype up their blackhat talk. It was not necessary to get this piece in Wired to save "hundreds of thousands" of lives. I guess you could argue that the vividness of this imagery will encourage people to follow through on getting their Jeeps patched, so there's that, I suppose.

Since you've repeatedly made this claim, do you have a link to back up the assertion that there are manufacturers who were ignoring this research who will now pay attention because of the crazy stunt Wired pulled?
This makes it clear that Apple Watch isn't the kind of category creator like iPhone, but rather like Apple TV.
> there will still be plenty of infrastructure necessary to ensure cars are near their potential users.

Ubers are rarely parked when on-duty and in a city this doesn't seem to be an issue.

> considering how bursty transportation usage is

I would like to introduce you to the Bay Area and LA freeways, where there is a lull from approx. 11am-2pm, and the roads are fairly packed until 8pm. In large metros the traffic is less bursty than you think.

> in exchange we get massive parking structures tying up a lot of space

We're already doing automated stacked parking in some high-density areas (I've personally seen it in Berkeley and NYC). It could become the norm: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Multi-le...
> "You know you're going fast enough if there's a low-level discomfort, people feeling stretched. But if you're going too fast, you'll see it on their faces, and that's important to spot too"

Most people can't tell the difference here, and failing to do that is deadly. You can lose a lot of good engineers by forcing too much crunch, and that can kill or significantly delay projects.

This happens not rarely in game development.
> TL/DR? Apple places ADDITIONAL restrictions on software distributed through the app store. This violates the GPL.
>
> [...] You say that the GPLv3 prohibits use on the iPhone,

Didn't you just basically say the same thing? The GPL forbids distribution under the App Store ToS, no?
Congrats on the launch, guys!

PickTrace is solving one of those massive problems that I assumed was already solved by technology, until I spent a week on a family-owned farm a few summers ago.

The amount of labor to track the crop yield and the time-tracking/pay of your workforce is staggering. There are some really expensive solutions out there for huge farms, but the 400+ acre farm I visited used manual scales, clipboards, and a huge team of "counters" - essentially verifying and QAing the whole process.
Am I being asked to take seriously the company that produced this atrocity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMJIBxtDUHc
Realize that you sound like the people that said:

"I see my spouse as the person of the opposite sex that I want to marry."

There are real challenges to handling society with n > 2 marriages (pension splitting, wills, children, etc), but how a person feels about their personal choices shouldn't impact consensual adults that feel otherwise.
Is there a reason why stock would drop so much? Did they fail to hit some target?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9911355
That seems a rather odd distinction to make. Developers are also users, and users can more easily cross the line into tinkerers and developers if they have source access.

In fact I think it's a false distinction.
Hey! I'm a recent grad an have spent a lot of summers interning at some SF/Swiss Biotech companies and I'm particularly interested in how your software/algorithms work to directly impact the drug development process. Can you provide any insight or is everything still under wraps?
Yes, it would be like dissolving a business partnership of more than two people which..er.. happens every day in the US. I'm sure it's not fun, but that's hardly a fundamental objection: divorce of two married people sucks too, but is not a reason to prevent people getting married.
The "funniness" is probably subjective. This type of code rant aren't exactly rare. However, these particular complaints about BSD sockets are common and IMO fully deserved. That design isn't exactly brilliant. Another insightful critique (by DJB): http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/twofd.html
How much will it hurt if you do nothing? is a decent heuristic. Any time the answer is "a lot" there's a big complicated change that needs to happen. If there was an obvious or easy answer, it wouldn't have gotten to the "a lot" level.
If you prefer, you can think of the referral link as a way to redistribute some wealth from billionaire Jeff Bezos to not at all bad off, but certainly not even millionaire davidw.
Many people around the world have a different experience. I'd encourage you to research other viewpoints before making a blanket statement that a certain relationship style "doesn't work out."

The book "Opening Up" by Tristan Taormino is a great starting point. (http://www.amazon.com/Opening-Up-Creating-Sustaining-Relatio...)
Wallaby.js is another way of speeding up tests during development.
FWIW, a LOT of San Jose is exactly like this. We call it "Suburbia on Steroids".
There should be some optimizer for npm modules. The current system is silly. Popcorn Time installs around 5000 files as part of its node_modules. How is that useful?

There should be some way to combine things into a single module/file or otherwise glob it all together, while removing pointless test, docs, and Adventure Time animated gifs from your deps folder.
> It's perfect if you've got a great big POSIX C + SDL codebase that you want to run in its own self-contained environment in a browser, but it's not very helpful for writing idiomatic Javascript code that just needs to drop into optimised asm.js occasionally for some heavy lifting.

That's not really true -- it's pretty easy to call into an Emscripten module from javascript. You have to do some data marshalling, but that's true of any dynamic language -> c binding.
No Apple Watch numbers = lousy start
Unfortunately for some zoning prevents you from living in those spaces. A friend of mine tried to get a zone variance to turn an office building into essentially a multifamily dwelling and the city turned him down flat. They suggested he could buy the property, tear down the building, get it rezoned, and then build dwellings there. But not go in and convert a perfectly usable space into a livable space. Sigh.
A O(log(n)) approach to syphilis testing by using the physical equivalent of search trees. Very interesting.

It only works well if a small percentage of the population is infected.
For faster tests during development use wallaby.js!
My favorite function names: gethostpoop and getportpoop, hailing from the get*poop family.
I have a hard time believing that large pharma research labs are limiting themselves to single loci for a given disease phenotype. But if they are, it makes sense why YC would see value in this.
We can agree that act(s) of marital infidelity cause people to suffer. Sites such as AM are not my favorite thing, but it is simply not my place or yours to tell other people how to manage their personal lives. I do not think that the existence of AM causes anyone to think that infidelity is okay who did not previously think that was the case, therefore, AM is not contributing to the moral decay of society. I'm not going to transfer the blame to the third party. AM did not force anyone to participate. There would still be marital infidelity if AM did not exist, and as you say, I expect their contribution to be marginal.
Really enjoyed this. Great applications to both cost reduction and privacy. I've seen pooling strategies like this for monitoring cars.
expected 49-51b revenue. rev was at 49.6. i think aapl has been beating rev estimates for a while, while this one was right in the low end of expected

edit: was incorrect on my numbers.

spiralpolitik:
Expected revenue for Q3 was 46-48b (see Q2 earnings press release). So they beat the estimate by 1.6 billion.
The 49-51b number is the Q4 estimate.
As a former tunnel boring engineer, I can attest that mining tunnels through consistent rock is vastly easier than through mixed geologies such as Manhattan island. Also there is less stuff (utilities, metal debris, etc) underground in Austin. There are undoubtedly historical reasons why Austin lacks sane transit but technical difficulties while boring is almost certainly not one of them.
Apple's suppliers: AVGO, CRUS, INVN, NXPI and SWKS are also being hammered.

Possible trading strategy here, trade the suppliers, and main games makers on apple results?
They missed revenue estimates by a mile. This is why serious stock watchers tend to prefer links to industry analysis and not press releases.
Pack mammals typically seem to give special privileges to the breeding pair. It's just basic behavior in the wild.

If our species is going to extend these privileges to non-breeding "couples", then why stop there?

Just give the everybody the same rights, including polygamous folks and regardless of genetic relationship.

Why limit the expansion of special rights to non-related homosex pairs?

The US Constitution must have something about equality in it to make it legal.
Really? I've seen the opposite. The downtowns of places like Indianpolis, Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville, etc. were underinvested wastelands not too long ago. Now a lot of young people want to live in these places. Not to mention the hipster paradises of Portland, Austin, etc.

SF, Seattle, NYC, DC, Boston, etc., are still the major magnets, but "hip" urban living isn't as confined to the coasts as it used to be IMO.
You can't compare the regulations/education on cars to those on airplanes, just like you can't compare the regulations/education on bikes to drones.

Airspace is not a road way, it can't be compared to one.

I'm specifically talking about the USA (Hence FAA regulations) but this does affect every country.

Edit: added /education
Do you have an email I could contact you on? I can't see one in your profile.
Wow. Will next year China be a bigger share of the revenue than the entire Americas?
The office parks are still out in the middle of nowhere with nothing around them for errand running or stuff to eat at lunch besides a McDonalds.
Can't you draw the shadow as a blended polygon where you gouraud shade from full opaque to full alpha the penumbra area? (so you thus have to draw triangles in that area)? This will produce soft shadows (due to the shading) and will take not much calculations (per vertex in the model casting the shadow, you have to cast its shadow point on the surfaces the shadows are casted at from the lightsource which isn't a point anymore (so you get the penumbra, like in the image in the article)

Not sure if this will work, I thought about this years ago when I was still in the demoscene but never had the time to implement it.
Was hoping to see an update on this. Might mark (2014) in title.
This is expressive and beautiful. However CRON is easy to setup using sites like http://www.cronmaker.com/.
Then you are discussing the wrong product here.
My remarks were strictly based on the claims of the article. Nothing more, nothing less. The article claims that the researchers performed prior tests, and that said tests were dismissed by auto manufacturers. If we're going to take one component at face value (the idea of the reporter putting others in danger), it would be unfair to not extend the same courtesy to the rest of the article.
Probably for inventory control so they don't send something out for Fleas when a customer purchased one for Ticks.

Anyone interested in slightly used magnetic bracelets? I don't think my dog will ever forgive me for having him wear them. LOL! ...... ok, just kidding.
Sony has spoken about the problems associated with maintaining a private fork of Clang for the toolchain of the then-unreleased PS4.

See "￼Working with the LLVM community": http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....
Look in the data summary (PDF below). "Other Products" which includes the Apple Watch grew 'only' a billion year over year.

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy15datasum_2.pdf
Show HN: Nitrous – Cloud-Based Web Dev IDE in a Chrome App
I personally would rather people steal GPL software than go an ideological rampage so they can safely subsume free software into proprietary products. Stealing would be a more morally honest action.
Mathew Herper's hype is more subtle than Tech Crunch's but it's hype nonetheless. He plays his favorites just like Tech Crunch. At least he's not as unseemly as Tech Crunch though.
I don't know. Anecdotal, but I've seen more projects die due to not executing fast enough than due to being overwhelmed with technical debt. There needs to be a balance. If you've gotten to the point where you're refactoring technical debt, then you've probably at least shipped version 1 and have customers to pay for that refactoring.
polygamy allows “high-status men to hoard wives” and destabilizes society

They already do and they have always done it. Whenever there is a unbalance in the relationship, the party with less power will turn a blind eye to what the party with more power does. I have know of both males and females who prefer not to ask what their partner does when they go out, not to put at stake the relationship that sustains them economically.

The shame society imposes upon them and the lack of formal recourse only makes it worse. Hopefully we can fix this in the coming years.
Patreon is an incredible crowdfunding platform. "Continuous Funding" is how I'd like to call it.

Continuous Funding solves the problem many high-value funded Kickstarter/Indiegogo projects have: not being able to deliver at a constant pace. It's one thing to write a business proposal to raise funding with excitement. Another to settle down and budgetize the money to prevent burning through it too fast or investing it too slow, meanwhile not being able to focus on the product.
The security researches behaved irresponsibly by performing this demo on a public highway, especially one with no shoulder. They could have driven around a private track just as easily. Performing the test on a public road endangers the journalist, other drivers, emergency assistance personnel, etc.
It's interesting to log failed SSH attempts, I normally get someone trying to brute force access within an hour or two of brining a server up. Changing to a non standard port doesn't deter them for long.
I agree. I'm asking around to see if we can get the default changed in Visual Studio.
It's not just about the person who creates the schedule. It's about anyone being able to understand, at a glance, what it means.
This is a good strategy if you want to trade parts of the Apple earnings report.

For example, INVN is barely down at all while Apple is down >7%, implying that whatever component INVN supplies is still in demand by Apple (i.e., that part of their earnings were not bad).
Stock tends to over-react in after-hours trading, I think. I don't do any after-hours trading, but it seems like it usually settles in someplace before market open the next day. I'm not saying it will or anything, but that seems to happen immediately after an earnings report is dropped.
Suppose you're baking a cake, but it's a custom cake and you're not 100% sure you have the best recipe for frosting.

Suppose Modernizr were a book, and each feature Modernizr tests for was a recipe. What I'm suggesting is this: Instead of going to the library and checking out the entire recipe book just to refer to the icing recipe, just copy out the list of ingredients and leave the book on the shelf. you're customizing the recipe anyway, so if you just add their list of ingredients to the steps you're writing for your own customized icing it's going to be easier in the future than if you write your recipe steps with a little note that says: 'refer to ingredients on page 24 of Modernizr Cookbook'. I also think buying a personal copy of the book for the same purpose is overkill - it makes more sense just to list the specific ingredients you want to reference directly inside the new recipe you are writing and keep it all on the same page, plus not have to worry about where that recipe book is every time you want to whip up a new batch of icing.
I had an f-bomb in shipping source for over a year before I noticed it. (Was a chunk of code that had been object file only then we switch to shipping source.)

Somehow it even got through the lawyers' Bad Words filter.
You essentially implement ray tracing capabilities inside the G buffer. Have a look at this presentation from GDC for more details and let me know if you have further questions.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020688/Practical-Techniques-fo...
I don't currently have access to those publications and not willing to pay just to read these articles but from the titles, abstracts and citations it sounds like basically you are taking a systems biology and GWAS approach?

The Institute for Systems Biology has been around since 2000. I remember interviewing people in an internal systems biology group at one of the largest pharma companies in the world in 2004 and writing about their work. Admittedly, they were a small unit intended to drive innovation within discovery at that pharma. By 2007 it had been at least tried in most major pharma companies and John Russell was writing about the Awkward Adolescence of Systems Biology.

http://www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2007/sept/cover-story/

Even if your characterization that large pharma prefer a different approach is mostly accurate it is a substantial disservice to the intelligence and hard work of hundreds of scientists who have worked on applying systems biology to the study of disease and treatments.

Maybe I am over-reacting to this article and your video ...but from 2000 to 2004 I heard so many biotech and related software executives tell me that their company was going to solve these same discovery and development problems. Most faded into oblivion, others found a useful niche and a few got targets identified and development started and were acquired by a large pharma to bring them to market.

I sincerely hope that you have discovered a new approach to system biology that will in fact provide breakthroughs. If you have something great let it stand on its own merits; there is no need to misrepresent the hard work and investments of other scientists or the companies they work for.
Ask HN: Email thanking me for applying to Lockheed Martin but I didn't apply
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I just got this email, from "donotreply@trm.brassring.com"

Subject: Your candidate reference number - Lockheed Martin.

<My Full Name>,

Thank you for your interest in Lockheed Martin. We appreciate the time and effort that you have taken to present your qualifications to us.

This e-mail serves as confirmation that your resume has been submitted for the following position(s):

Sr Mbr Eng Staff / Java, C++ / SW Apps Dev / 4-12 Yrs Exp / Moorestown, NJ 322160BR

Your skills and experience may be reviewed against the requirements of all open position(s), including the one(s) to which you have submitted.

Thank you for considering Lockheed Martin in your job search.

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Please do not reply to this email.

I have a job. I did not apply to Lockheed Martin. The email was sent to an email alias I rarely use.

Googling the job listing, I find: http://search.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ShowJob/Id/33659/Sr-Mbr-Eng-Staff-Java,-C-SW-Apps-Dev-4-12-Yrs-Exp-Moorestown,-NJ/

"Security clearance: Secret"

I tried logging into Brassring with the email address this message was addressed to. The account was recognized, but used none of my usual passwords. I could not answer any of the security questions.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Is my identity being stolen? Why would this be a step taken by an identity thief?

Worth noting I have been apartment hunting recently and I stupidly gave my SSN to a guy from Craigslist who it seems was posing as a landlord. But I don't see how lockheed follows from that. I would expect him to try to open a credit card or something.
It's definitely a chicken and egg problem. Part of why these office parks are rotting is that no one really wants to be there, usually due to the fact that there's nothing there.