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You're right that I would present the same way.

I just get frustrated being told what I want, being upsold, and being made to feel as if I don't know what I'm talking about when in fact I probably know a lot more than the sales person who has probably never used the device in question the way I've described I will be using it.

I understand that the general case is better serviced this way, but for someone who walks in knowing the part numbers they want, the added friction is a turn off.

I personally avoid going to Apple stores because of how hard it is to actually buy stuff there. Even grabbing a simple USB key off the shelf is incredibly hard to pay for when the cashiers are all hiding in a sea of other people.
Yeah. Ironically, what would actually make me hesitate to hire someone is seeing them post on a public issue tracker that they believe the GPL is unenforceable and that blatantly violating it is a good idea. Leaving aside their critical thinking abilities, soft skills, etc. it's a serious risk of legal liability to have such a person write code for my company.
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> I wouldn't be thrilled with the model where the customer pays with their credit card on jet.com, then jet.com pays me with their own credit card and contact info.

While not retail, this isn't uncommon. When I book a hotel through HotelTonight's app, the last 4 of their corporate mastercard shows up on the receipt I'm given by the front desk.
@kushti I think you might have misunderstood how the consensus protocol works in Bitcoin. It's not the longest chain, but the one with the most work put into it that is accepted.
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Damn, I remember the HN thread about that. The derailing was phenomenal. Interesting that the project lives on.
I hope that some day I may join him too at 'Unemployable Island'
> Even BitBucket looks better.

Slight tangent: I think Bitbucket looks nicer than GitHub in almost every way.
The fact Apple Music has 1/3 of the paying customers that Spotify has already shows you the power of distribution. The ability for them to build it into their on boarding flow for all new iphone purchases gives them an amazing edge especially in upcoming markets like China.
Yes, that's been a problem with at least ZFS on linux and a lot of apps linking to openssl earlier.

Some would even claim that CDDL was designed solely to ensure ZFS could not be integrated with linux.
Except that they would still only deploy the dogs on cars that meet their bias.
Can we restate that in an "Arthur C Clarke" way?

"Sufficiently advanced sarcasm and parody are indistinguishable from extremism."
I fail to see your point.
Genetic engineering doesn't necessarily result in a population reduction.
There's quite a few papers referenced on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid#Decline_in_bee_p...
I was for a while, using a W7 VM on VirtualBox. I hooked it up to the VPN interface so that if the VPN dropped, I wasn't leaking traffic and it couldn't access the local network or host machine without significant difficulty.

It was initially for minimising the risk of false positives while testing remote access from the network I was on at the time.

Probably not enough to be hacking NSA, but it quickly added layer of protection from leaking stuff.
I hope they make it compilable with clang + mingw headers.
I don't believe Apple's runtime (or at least CF and other important parts) are open, are they?
I don't think it's enough since it seems to be storage oriented. You need compute and cheap non-persistent messaging too instead of just data storage/retrieval to reach parity w/ the modern internet.
Also, there are dozens of different pollinating species in north america which are doing fine and have been doing fine throughout all this since they were not subject to the same stressors as domestic european honey bees. For example, one factor is european honey bees have their honey taken by people and replaced with corn syrup, which does not contain the antibiotic elements they produce in their own honey that they eat themselves. The claims that pollination was going to stop and the world come to an end were entirely hysterical, political, and totally without basis in science.

Just think about it. Consider tomatoes, a new world crop. How were they pollinated before the arrival of the european honey bee? The answer is they were pollinated by various north american pollinating insects, which has continued to this day. European honey bees are notable because they produce an especially large volume of honey which makes them a little more economically useful since they can contribute to two different revenue streams: honey and pollination services. Native american bees such as Melipona beecheii and Melipona yucatanica which produce honey produce it in smaller quantities. Both those species are domesticated and stingless and historically were kept as pets by native americans such as various Mayan tribes who used the honey, pollination for their own local use, and religious ceremonies. The reason they are not used in modern production is because of the quantity of honey, not because they can't produce it or don't pollinate.
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If the problem is fewer bees, and money is able to compensate by creating more bees, then there is no problem.

If you view the problem as being that bees are being killed by something, then yes, this doesn't solve the problem. But isn't the problem ultimately how many bees you have, not the rate at which they're reproducing and dying?

The comment I replied to seems to be implying that the death of the honeybee is still nigh, and that this extra money is just temporarily hiding it. But how could that be?
I don't think genetic engineering involves killing off large chunks of a population just because it - for the moment - pays off. I'm not a specialist, though, so I may well be wrong here...
you wish! they don't hire just anyone, at 'Unemployable Island'
Indeed, also see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KC-X&redirect=n...
Whenever you need to implement an algorithm that is described using matrices it is much easier and faster to implement it by calling linear algebra functions instead of coding loops yourself.
Neanderthal comes into picture when you have lots of numbers and still need it to be fast (nano, micro, milli)seconds instead of minutes and hours (or perhaps days).
So, actually any kind of numerical software written in Clojure (and Java) can hugely benefit from this.
In the case of neonicotinoids and honeybees recent research suggests it disrupts their ability to navigate back to the hive: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Or they're a carpenter who builds houses for a living. "Why are you trying to build a house? It's so much easier to just buy one."
Confused N for P_n in that.
Well, why not try it out and then restore the previous OS from the Windows 10 settings menu (before 30 days have passed) if you are not happy?
The complicated problems are not the pain to me. The trivial things are the pain.
> ... I never get into the depth of conversation I once did. That's something lost.

Others have given some good answers, but I think there is another factor: the way discussions are organized.

In a typical BBS, or on UseNet in days of old, a thread was linear, identified only by its subject line. Multiple people could stay with a thread for a relatively long time and have an extended discussion.

Today, most online forum software (HN, Reddit, etc.) displays threads as trees. Each reply begins a new subthread. As a result, a conversion involving more than 2 people will rarely be linear, and a reply 2 or 3 or 4 levels in will be read by almost no one.

But the solution is not to move back to linear threads. Those were abandoned for a good reason: they do not scale. Six active posters might be able to have a reasonable linear discussion. 100 cannot. Linear threads are also much easier for one poster to hijack. Among 6 people, there is a decent chance that none of them is a jerk. Among 100 people, the chance is pretty much zero. So the thread gets filled with troll posts. Conclusion: tree-shaped discussions, along with voting, are what prevents us from being drowned in troll posts & flamewars.

So, what is the solution? I don't know. It's an interesting problem to consider.
I think what he is saying is that the "smart" and "successful" folks take risks. Now it might be less risky to them because of a safety net but that doesn't preclude others from also taking risks.
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I post this because I was astonished to find that GitHub did not provide a way to search commit messages. I was even more astonished to find that they once had supported this seemingly essential search but no longer do. Even with "billions" of commits across the entire site, this doesn't seem like a particularly difficult task, since the searches typically are restricted to a particular project.

So instead of dealing with a single very large, very rapidly changing index, one can reduce the problem to maintaining a large number of small to medium size indexes, most of which change very slowly. Is this somehow more difficult than it seems? Or perhaps an opportunity for a third party to step in and provide a useful service that GitHub might be wise to acquire?
By segregating a colony in a clean room with high quality feed and optimal conditions you could quickly bulk and split colonies. That would basically turn money in to bees.
Actually it sort of directly contradicts you right at the start of that section:

>We do not know exactly what the phrase “probable cause” means, in strict numerical terms. We do, however, know what it does not mean: “probably.” That is, probable cause does not—in the context of Fourth Amendment law—mean that the police must have evidence sufficient to conclude that a suspect is probably guilty or that she probably has evidence of a crime hidden inside her home.

I didn't read the whole paper, but the gist of it seems to being exploring the difference between 'concrete' and 'statistical' and evidence of effects (with a non-conclusive, but general indication that the supreme court leans towards 'concrete' over 'statistical')

Basically if you have a 3 people in a car that contains drugs and thus know 1 of them is guilty, you have probable cause to arrest all of them. (Concrete)

However, if you know that 1/3 of the black people in a certain neighborhood posses drugs, that does not mean you have probably cause to arrest all of them. (Statistical)

Thus my argument is that the low accuracy rate of the dog vs. the baseline of the searched people (which in this case is only known because of the high alert rate) should not allow it to constitute 'concrete' evidence of probable cause.

Additionally, the overall success rate of the dog/officer combination vs. the general population baseline constitutes 'statistical' evidence which is also not sufficient for probable cause.

Generally, my argument would be that allowing the dogs to serve as a final determination of probable cause without requiring high accuracy rates leads to unnecessary harm to the general populace in the form of the unwarranted searched that could be prevented by encouraging effective training and usage.
While not related to the JVM, the functional aspect might be interesting for the scala and clojure people.

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/haskell-school-of-music/
> Then it sounds like your opinion on the drug war is incorrectly influencing your opinion on issues surrounding the acceptable standards for a probable cause search

Well, you set up a straw man, so the rules of logic had already been implicitly suspended in that branch of the conversation.

> the same questions apply on searches for guns, stolen property or any other contraband

No, they don't. Dogs can't generally sniff out guns or distinguish between stolen and non-stolen property, and so dogs can't be used as a pretense in those situations. Using a dog to sniff out stolen property (unless that stolen property happens to be a salami) would make it obvious that the dog is just a pretense.

> It's important to keep orthogonal issues separate

Indeed.

So let's review: the problem is that although dogs can sniff out drugs, unless some very strict protocols are followed, they generally don't sniff out drugs and instead just tell their handler what they want to hear, i.e. that there are drugs (though, of course, the dog has no idea that this is how its actions are being interpreted. All it knows is that if it signals, it gets a pat on the head.)

As a result, dogs are not an effective crime fighting tool, but instead a de facto pretense for doing an end-run around the fourth amendment. The same effect could be produced by other means, e.g. flipping a biased coin, but that would defeat the purpose because that would make the bias obvious, which is exactly the rhetorical point that the original author wanted to make.

Do you really want to disagree with any of that?
My understanding is that the GPL can usually coexist with licenses that are non-copyleft, or with some copyleft licenses, as long as the license doesn't require the resulting work have any license restrictions beyond what the GPL requires.

Anybody who's terribly interested in all of this will probably enjoy reading the GPL FAQ, especially this bit:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WhatIsCompatible

IANAL, YMMV, HTH, WTFBBQ, ETC.
Frankly the "big picture guy" comment is a bit snobbish. If you have big ideas and you know how to build them...go build them. Otherwise your ideas never mattered anyways.
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It's worth noting that KVM doesn't allow remapping the APIC base address at all: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/49d7c6559bf2ab4f1d56b...
Yeah, but where do you draw the line? Efficacy of acupuncture? Causes leading up the US Civil War? Government spending with a fiscal multiplier > 1? 1-based indexing of arrays? Impact of H1-Bs on US salaries and immigrant-welfare?

You may find dinosaurs an unambiguous case, but some people (Creationists, paleontologists) don't. Why should Google decide the truth on dinosaurs but not on <insert sacred cow>?
At D one huge reason we use github is to establish an audit trail of where code that gets incorporated comes from, which:

1. discourages people from committing code that isn't theirs
2. if there is bad code committed, we can determine the extent of it and so take corrective action
3. it's a great defense against false claims of bad code
The irony of the comment calling Kim Dotcom a "piece of shit" is just astounding in context.

I was afraid my post might generate some crap in the comments over there, but I hope it's a net gain overall!
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Ask HN: How can I fight inequality with programming?
One aspect of HN that fascinates and frustrates me is that it's techno-utopianism often masques a strong conservative orthodoxy (lowercase C) - a feeling that Great Men with Great Ideas push forward the world, in a beautiful onward march of reason and capitalism that - even if it doesn't work for the suicides at Foxconn making iPhones - sounds wonderfully inclusive and of course delivers on that promise of faster internet and services integration (for those who Deserve it, at least).

I don't buy that. And I don't want to live in that world, much as I must.

I don't want to build an SaaS app, "another Uber," or anything in the vein of a sharing economy which attempts to fulfill Dicken's fear of "cash beecoming the sole nexus between all human beings" and that commoditizes and monetizes every element of waking life. I'm sick of sitting in meetings and being asked to think about how I can force something someone doesn't want and can't pay for down their throat. I'm sick of engaging in sales meetings that treat humanity as a vast herd, where the weakest and disadvantaged are ruthlessly exploited as a matter of course.

Where do I go? What open-source can I support that supports distributive justice? That actually supports the public good, and isn't just a profit-making machine I lie about to make myself feel OK?

In other words: How can I escape the endless, empty self-congratulations of Silicon Valley and make something that matters? I know people are doing it - I want to help in any way I can.
Seconded - and it looks like this was an acquired codebase, which was put together probably under engineering constraints very different from those that exist in house for Microsoft and other similar large dev shops. Still, would expect Microsoft to have gone over it with even more care than usual before open sourcing it as a result...

Something for startups to keep in mind: if an IP acquisition by a large tech player is among your exit strategies, it behooves you to get your intellectual property ducks in a row, otherwise you're in for some awkward conversations with the acquiring company's legal team about the provenance of your codebase.
You might want to look into what phreakers were doing from the 60's onwards for an idea of how you can stretch the phone network. An old favorite was voicemailboxes as a sort of forum. You'd take over some poorly secured company voicemailbox and use it as a communications hub. Of course nowadays the theft aspect is no longer necessary.
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You can spend more money on your Adwords campaigns and get a measurable increase in absolute page views or absolute conversions. However, the KPI's that your investors care about are things like your cost-of-acquisition.

If it's actually the case that you're spending more just to maintain the same conversion because you're losing customers at a higher rate, that indicates something is wrong.
When I search, all but 3 results are now news stories and blog posts about googling "What happened to the dinosaurs." I don't find those results to be particularly useful either.
@sktrdie Can you please send me link to a spec / source piece proving that?
Indeed. They seem eager for Microsoft to intentionally violate the GPL in order to create a court case which they believe would result in invalidating the GPL. Who's to say they wouldn't see an opportunity for causing this to happen by incorporating GPL into whatever project they're working on at their job?
What is proper procedure for open-source mashups? Setting aside GPL, if I have a project that lifts a single function each from separate projects that are individually zlib, mit, bsd, apache, mozilla, eclipse and boost. What do I do? Put a license url annotation on each function? What license can my project as a whole be?
Can Spotify plan on making local file synching not suck anymore? Over the course of a year they removed every common sense feature that made adding local files convenient, from drag-and-drop to simple filtering. Given that I discover most music through Plug.dj, and that most of those tracks are remixes unlisted on Spotify, the only thing going for them is the audio defaults to a louder volume. Once I can find a decent script to transfer my playlists, I'm not looking back.
This was one of my favorite talks from this year's Pycon, it really opens your eyes up and lets you see the forest from the trees. It's really easy to get caught up worrying about general PEP8 code style without noticing the non-idiomatic code elsewhere.
> It shouldn't be. That's a fundamentally bad idea.

I don't think it's that bad of an idea. The MIT license says:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

What that means is anybody's guess. I'd say if you include one copy somewhere you're pretty much off the hook.
I didn't explain properly. I meant that I think the things that should be stored are things like.

CustomerCreated { stuff }
CustomerMadeOrder { custId, stuff }
ItemAddedToOrder { orderId, stuff }

etc..

This is the event sourcing view of the world.
Don't sell this position short as a mere "political reason". Github has decided that rationality and critical thinking take a back seat. This is a vastly damaging attitude that hurts the world. Providing any encouragement to unclear thinking is a vile thing to do. This is far worse than environmentally unfriendly attitudes; it's far more important than even open source.
Wouldn't be the first time you sent us a PR, Egor :D.

But yeah, we do need to find the time to clean it up.
Experiment and report back! It's entirely possible that the single-author libs are already stable, and simply don't require the work of more contributors because the language makes it easy to get things right & robust the first time. (I don't have experience with Rust, so I'm not saying this is so - just that it's possible).
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That's what confuses me about this. Why didn't Microsoft's legal team have those awkward conversations with this company during the acquisition?
I've seen cats use the shower too.
""Summer sale" popup, "subscribe now"". Closed pop up, read free article, became informed.

Same effort, your loss.
Still around. Same coffee places, but everyone has to sit outside on the sidewalk if they want to smoke. The people are less interesting these days.
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I think the problem is that it takes additional work to figure out what needs to be fixed (especially since the company that has reused your code might be trying to obscure the fact). It's not reasonable to expect the original author to do that work, on behalf of a party that appears to be infringing on their licence.

Even if you want MS to get this fixed and make a success of it (as I very much do) it's clearly their responsibility to figure out the correct licensing.
I understand that this is just a blog post. This post provided me an opportunity to spread the word about behavior analysis. If the author is advocating for behavior change (i.e., "doing things faster"), then we should speak in terms that have grounding in a science of behavior. That doesn't mean you have to conduct an experiment, but base your argument in science. If I were to make claims about how a particular piece of software worked or some law of physics that were untestable, I think people would have something critical to say (especially in HN comments). Why should we treat human behavior differently?
You've basically described a dive bar. They're everywhere. (Serious side note: the only downside is that all of the regulars are alcoholics.)
A source file is reasonably "a substantial portion"; in fact, a per-file license is applicable to that file, and does not cover other files.
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Apple's runtime and most of CoreFoundation are available at http://opensource.apple.com along with a lot of other stuff.

I don't know offhand if their license would be suitable for Microsoft's purposes.
I love Spotify, but I am constantly hopping between them and Pandora whenever I want to use radio. Spotify's radio is terrible. It is about as good as a traditional radio where they repeat the same 10 songs every hour. Hopefully they can leverage some of this tech into improving the radio as well.
Here's the full text of the case for those interested: https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-bentley-13
I think you misspelled 'amazing edge' it's correctly spelled 'anti-trust case'

At least in the EU ;).
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How does relicensing work?

If I'm the writer of a GPL'd piece of software can I just decide to make it MIT one day?

What happens if I die tomorrow, could that code still be relicensed eventually?

What happens when there is no clear owner?
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