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by gnat 8y ago
Those are businesses. Businesses are designed to make money. Open Source is a category of licenses designed to facilitate distribution of software. I feel like much of the problems mentioned in this thread come down to people wanting to be
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No, more a function of businesses having obligations not to waste their shareholders' money. By definition, donations are optional things. A donation be heavily questioned afterward if it is allowed to go through at all. But buying mar
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> Such horrible acts were made in the name of both ideology wings. This is 100% not supported by the fact you're replying to: "Every killing carried out by a political extremist in the United States in 2018 was done by a right
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http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup is a classic in the genre. Notes from Peter Thiel's Stanford course.
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In the very early 1980s, my father took me into a bookstore in Auckland, New Zealand. While he browsed, I wandered over to the personal computer section where another shopper noticed my interest, asked my name, and typed 10 FOR I% = 1 T
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The Register article about this discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313698
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I think you meant "doesn't have to be immediately practical".
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Daniel Pauly is amazing. We hosted him for a conference here in NZ a few years ago. Such a mind! What is your connection to shifting baselines and fishing policy? My father (former commercial fisherman) is part of a recreational fishing gr
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What is "bloom on the target"? Thanks!
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OpenAI's original article: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/ "Slanders" comes from the ability of the software to generate text. It was trained on Reddit, so can talk like any Redditor you
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Summary: have one company graph, implemented as federated implementations from different teams, with a registry for tracking the (iteratively evolving) schema. Use per-client access permissions and structured logging, incrementally improvin
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To save you reading: the article discusses and dismisses a lot of the hype of Fortnite exceptionalism, and the author's basis for "Fortnite is the Future" is that it's being used like Second Life, aka a social forum for
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(original: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/20jlv3/n... )
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a leopard seal anus of USB flash drives hurtling through the Pacific Ocean.
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Cool! I worked at an ethylene-sensing IoT startup (fruit ripeness natch). What was the core sensor you used? (We were using off-the-shelf, but somewhat pricey, electrochemical sensors)
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+1 here. I worked at an IoT startup with a lot of gas sensors. When we tested the CO2 sensor, we immediately noticed a correlation between early-afternoon sleepiness and high CO2 levels. Opening the door to the outside world lowered levels
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One particularly eye-watering quote: Huawei also built Zambia’s national data center, which handles all government data and storage. Zeko Mbumwae, the center’s general manager, says officials have no concerns that the gear could be used for
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"Story" is a link to a website's cover page for a slideshow where ... they can get bent. Don't upvote based on title alone.
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Features (from the website, to save you clicking through): 1. Language aware code navigation and search. 2. Source and diff comment for code discussion and comprehension. 3. Rules to protect branches, tags, or files. 4. Intelligent commit q
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This article is from 2017.
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I'm nervous about the source. It has no Wikipedia entry. Its "technical publications" page < http://www.blythinstitute.org/site/sections/11> includes "Review: Knowledge and Christian Belie
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Dated 2016.
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Curiously, Black Sheep is the one weird horror film from NZ that isn't by Peter Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_(2006_New_Zealand_...
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Agreed, those four barriers are barriers for me as well. However, I'd note that enterprise startups all face and must overcome the same obstacles. (I'm sure you know this, just stating it for others who might not) In particular, p
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I'm cautious, so my process is slower than others might suggest, but this is how I'd approach it were I in your situation. First, collate evidence of your professional successes so your value to the company is indisputable. You wa
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"Finally, of all the people who have contributed to the development of EMACS, and the TECO behind it, special mention and appreciation go to Richard M. Stallman. Henot only gave TECO the power and generality it has, but brought togethe
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The paper makes citations for these claims. For example: "Modern reworkings of the Aristotelian hierarchy give primacy to sight followed by hearing, touch, and then taste and smell (20, 21). Regardless of the precise characterization,
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Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321709
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+1. Interested readers should check out the very good book "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall for this and other fascinating stories from how the PET, VIC-20, and C64 came to be. (And parallels to Internet-age com
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"Think of it as a Wayback Machine for executable content." Internet Archive already doing some of this. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary Jason Scott pushed hard for JSMESS, the in-browser emulator

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