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The whole point of trademark law is that the owner of the trademark gets to control how it's used in commerce. If the mark is being used to advertise a company's product, grsecurity has the right to prohibit it; the company doesn't get to make the call.

This isn't a free-speech issue -- it's just a simple acknowledgement of the fact that consumers treat names, logos, branding etc. as indicators of a product's origin, and that there's a public interest in making those indicators accurate. You can refer to the trademark as long as you don't do so in a way that misrepresents your product. In this case, unless there are specific disclaimers to the contrary, a reasonable person would think "grsecurity" means "code released and approved by the grsecurity team", instead of a version that a third party has modified.
Do what they ask me to do, read HN and search for new job.
My brief reading of the iOS guidelines [0] says this is not allowed:

> 2.25 Apps that display Apps other than your own for purchase or promotion in a manner similar to or confusing with the App Store will be rejected

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I don't have the information on traffic fees, but there's strong evidence that lottery fees are supposed to go to charity but get put in general state funds instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
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> And while I seem to be in a tiny minority of 'app' consumers, that is still my preferred method of obtaining new applications.

I would be in this minority as well. Generally, the cost for a good app is so negligible it's not even worth the time to try it beforehand. I paid roughly $5 for a full FTP/SFTP client on my phone. The free version offers 90% of the functionality.

I don't understand the appeal of leasing software.
> you may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

Further restrictions probably aren't introduced if they packaged this the right way i.e. not bind the GPL license with whatever agreement they will come up with. Sponsors will still have the same rights they are now used to, but GPL never speaks obligations on the distributor having to provide updated versions.
That sounds like baseless FUD. Underground is essentially the TV model. While some TV shows do stretch out longer than they need to in order to milk the audience, there are plenty of high quality ones that don't, and many people who have less time watch those instead, or pay for premium, short-time experiences like movies. Which we all know are just as likely to be of low quality despite their reduced length. Meanwhile, people who just want something on all the time they are at home have plenty of decent content to fill their time with.
I know someone who uses this in China and apparently it's fantastic. Faster than commercial VPN services even for streaming video. Not sure how that'll work out in the long run if it gets more users than providers.

The concept sounds quite insecure but apparently it only allows HTTPS connections so it's delegating encryption to that instead of doing it itself.
> Interesting. That does add complication, but it seems doable. Perhaps the connector grain could act as a proxy, embedding the bank's UI in an iframe, where the iframe src of course doesn't point directly to the bank but points back to the connector grain in proxy mode.

You're saying MITM the user's HTTP connection? I can't imagine how that would work with SSL?

This might be too tricky to actually be feasible, just dreaming here! Hopefully it is useful to help you imagine cool scenarios and possible requirements.
Also, depending on when he attended (but based on no later than when he established his practice in 1972), his entire tuition would have cost about a month's income for the average American household, inflation adjusted. Today it's about a year's.
Not in your book? Why? What are you concerned about? Anyone who is part of ISIS, and assists them in any meaningful way, is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, even if they do not participate in any direct fighting them selves. Penalties for conspiracy to commit a crime are usually identical to penalties for actually committing the crime. So anyone materially assisting ISIS can be convicted and sentenced to death (or what ever is the punishment for capital crime in a given jurisdiction) without inventing new laws. Same result, but we don't get a bunch of new laws on the book, laws that can and will be abused in the future. The US government is already doing it. Take the in this idiotic case of a Pennsylvania woman accused of terrorism and chemical-weapons violations. [1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/justice/supreme-court-poisoned...
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<devil's advocate> The existence of his project/business and specifically the fact that other eople not only use but rip off his wrok - seem to strongly provide evidence that supports his "they're all idiots" theory...

(To be fair, "all" is clearly an exaggeration, but enough kernel devs are clearly writing security bugs into the kernel source tree to require an external "adult supervision" project to improve the security focus...)
> Are you being intentionally obtuse? [...] your moral compass needs some serious tuning

Please don't include personal attacks in HN comments, even when another person seems obtuse.

This comment would be fine with just the second and third sentences.
Very nicely written -- as usual for Chris :)

One minor nitpick: near the end, Chris recommends LSH for similarity retrieval. This may be a bad idea. That implementation seems to perform very poorly: [benchmarks](https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks/pull/5#issuecomme...)

As is often the case, simpler algorithms have fewer moving parts, and due to cache localities can even perform better than theoretically-big-O superior ones (see "bruteforce" in that same benchmark graph -- that's a simple linear database scan! Observe how it's faster than most fancy approximate algos).

Note that these benchmarks are run specifically on real world vectors (100 dimensional GloVe word vectors trained over 2 billion tweets), so they're highly relevant here.
I think a Lightning Network might be a good solution, but it's an untested idea: http://www.coindesk.com/could-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-...
Another langauge that tries not to be based on lists of characters: https://github.com/lamdu/lamdu
Been watching Sandstorm for quite a while now, looking great man. :)
I think you're missing my point. If the student does not have the basic understanding of why an education is good for them and a parent who stays on top of them, it does not matter how much money you throw at teacher salaries or school facilities. There's case study after case study confirming that it's not about funding. No doubt my wife would like a higher salary, but that is not going to motivate an unmotivated student. It's the whole lead a horse to water thing...
You mean so they spread European BS instead?
> Interesting. So amazon deals with putting in the ads and the app dev gets paid for every minute the app is used. Seems like an interesting idea, probably useful for games that are very engaging (read: time drain)

Except if you can buy the virtual currency + goods without any real consequences you will be able to quickly explore everything grinding games have to offer.
On the first, these are cultural problems that are not solvable by politicians without creating worse problems (as evidenced by current events).

The second is a misunderstanding of the concept of a republic. Each state has a say. That's not unfair. It certainly wouldn't promote stability for heavily populated cities to have complete control and entire states neglected.

Not sure I completely disagree on military spending. Like most things, it's a balance. We probably needed a rebalance (was done in the gov shutdown deal). However, I'm not sure it needs further cuts. Maybe just better focus.

Healthcare is a joke. What was passed, and the way it was passed, was deceitful. Turns out it was snake oil. Made some things better, made more things worse, and didn't fix the problem (cost of healthcare).

From a politics perspective, it sure would be nice to have a leader that brings people together. This administration is far to willing to leverage our political differences as a tool for political gain. That has made us culturally worse by creating an environment of distrust, disregard, and division Among our citizens just for having different ideas.
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then he could not provide evidence the handle and hack were connected. He would either need to provide enough relevant information for a reader to independently discover that Zu was the correct twitter handle, or leave out enough info that it wouldn't be convincing.
I've been pulled off the jetway and had my entire carry-on searched just before boarding a plane a few years ago. They found nothing of interest and let me go on my way, but I'm still not sure if it was just random additional screening because they were bored.
Are you sure about that?

From what I heard Torvalds refuses to merge patches from folks who won't identify themselves[0], and the PaX Team refuses to reveal the membership of the team.

[0] This is a perfectly reasonable policy.
I've heard of Dropbox.
The high quality shows that don't stretch out the plot are the "must have" shows that drive cable subscription numbers and are somewhat disjoint from ad revenue.
Ah Spender. Always the drama queen.

The real problem here is not companies abusing the GPL (good luck with that), but grsecurity not being integrated with mainline after more than a decade.

You see, if Spender really cared about security he would work with the kernel developers in order to get grsecurity into the kernel but of course being such a famewhore, he never did that. Everything is fine as long as he is the center of attention, actual security be damned.

Spender: I among many have little sympathy for you, you've long exhausted our patience with your antics. Grsecurity is a niche project with minimal actual security impact in the "real world", all because of the deranged way you choose to manage it. Your primary concern, your _ONLY_ concern should be getting grsecurity into the kernel, not companies ripping you off, not companies abusing your trademark, not companies "not playing nice". In the grand scheme of things, these are irrelevant.
Seems great so far! I've been living in Indonesia and Reddit has been blocked - normally I have to pop on my VPN to waste time, now I can do it at my leisure!

I should probably uninstall this.
Privacy for you and me, maybe. Do you think if you have any kind of real power you will be subject to that scrutiny?
You don't get prosecuted for war crimes if you actually win the war. That's like war crimes 101. So, if you are going to commit war crimes, you better be sure you win the war. Then you don't get prosecuted, and you get to write all the history books! Not that I am defending Germany here, just saying, that's how it always worked, since before the Roman times.
In principle, yes. In practice, large companies have extensive legal resources and can afford to drag out a lawsuit far beyond the resources of a team volunteer/hobbyist developers.

It's great that groups like the FSF and Software Freedom Conservancy are using their funds to support legal action when necessary, but they can't be everywhere and enforce everything.
GNUStep is a cool idea (I’d love love love to be able to develop cross-platform desktop apps with Cocoa), but its problem is that it’s lagging so far behind that it’s practically unusable. If you’re targeting Apple Cocoa/OS X too (why wouldn’t you be) you’re going to be restricted to AppKit as it was back in OS X 10.5 or 10.6, and that sucks. Unfortunately, unless the project has a sudden windfall of cash and/or developers, I doubt this will change any time soon.
"The test series, unfit in our view for production use, will however continue to be available to the public to avoid impact to the Gentoo Hardened and Arch Linux communities."

Why would you have to migrate to OpenBSD? Is the test series unstable?
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Downloading now and it is coming from Akamai. Surprised it isn't coming from AWS.
VCs don't invest at the idea stage, so most initial funding comes from angels or accelerators (or bootstrapped because founders are already rich, but that doesn't count). Since having industry experience does not necessarily equate to having a vast angel network, accelerators fill in the gap.
Different circumstance, but I self-published my education book under the Creative Commons sharealike-attribution license, and that actually helped me get the next edition published by an established education publisher, Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley & Sons.

I don't know about strict academic publishers. But everyone else is broke. If you present them something finished, something that looks like a real book, that may well help you get published. Just make sure there's a clause in your contract that acknowledges the existence of your copyleft book and makes clear that that does not affect your deal with them whatsoever.
Not an expert in either so I may be mistaken, but to the best of my knowledge launchd doesn’t have anywhere near the scope of responsibilities or functionality that systemd is capable of/given. It definitely encompasses more than a bare bones init system, but it’s not quite the beast that systemd is.
> I mean, I wish I could support all the FOSS I use, but I'd go broke pretty quick. :(

Yeah I seem to have that a lot as well.

What I figured a while ago, in summary, is this: we will always use more than we can contribute back. As a silly example, I am grateful for the invention of the wheel but in no way could I pay someone back (living or dead) for every single thing like that. The important thing is that we do something. Contribute either with time and skill or with money to a few projects you care about and which you feel can actually use your help. That's still tricky, though, I wouldn't know which of the 2100 installed apt-get packages need my support the most, but realizing this (rather than feeling indebted) gives me some peace of mind.

(If anyone cares, I actually blogged about this: http://lucb1e.com/?p=post&id=121 )
Yes you have to go through all the bullshit.

The job isn't about how good of a developer you are, thats only part of it.

Lets look at this purely from a web dev perspective, most business take in some sort of money, or process payments. Have you ever delt with an integration into an accounting system? If your more of a front end guy and have been doing this in your basement for a while, have you been doing AB testing? working with UX folks? What about the issues that come with scaling (both front and back end)?

Theres a lot more to a SR position that "I can code the hell out of it"
do none of you find the "whiff of the subversive" design oddly incongruous with the author?
Amazon lays off engineers
In practice, yes. First of all, all those organizations have enforced the gpl on behalf of "a team volunteer/hobbyist developers" from large companies. In fact, it's the primary kind of enforcement they do. Second of all, individuals who have zero resources win lawsuits against large companies EVERY SINGLE DAY. Lawyers work on contingency and pro bono. Stop this hand waving crap saying the gpl can't "really" be enforced for volunteer efforts.
gizmodo researched? nice try
They both use libSystem.B.dylib, other then that, I don't see significant overlap. But everything under the sun uses libSystem.B, so that's no help. I am pretty sure that top pulls the data from sysctl. Apple must have come up with some "clever" way of calculating memory. The only thing I can think of is that they are reporting compressible memory. Meaning that if the system was short on RAM, it could say compress the 8 gigs of ram down to 5 gigs, but they are not doing so no, because that would be a waste of CPU cycles.
Gopher

NNTP

BBS's

WAIS

X11 (maybe, depending on how Wayland turns out)

OS/2 (esp. Workplace Shell)

MUDs

Payphones
That is pretty awesome, if they can keep it lean and treble their subscriber base they could likely become operationally cash flow positive. I built a blog using their stuff, after getting to know Handlebars is was pretty straight forward, and I really like that in 'production' mode it is essentially a static page (so easy to serve lots of variable bandwidth with nginx). Haven't deployed it yet though because, well it got to be 90% done and then ... ooh shiny!
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Why should we accept that academics "stole" the meaning of a title that was created for theologians?

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=doctor

It's a matter of custom. Customs can be changed. If I'm injured and cry out, "someone fetch a doctor!" I sincerely hope a "medic" answers the call.
It's like the theory of HTML and CSS - content vs presentation. Much like HTML and CSS, reality is a blur of them both, but we can still aspire to separate them as much as we can.
The monarch has real genuine powers, and real discretion in how to exercise them, in the case of a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crises are rare, but they do happen. Consider a case from Australia - the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr. That is an example of a Vice Regal official exercising real, discretionary power. If the same situation had happened in the UK instead of Australia, the discretion would have resided with the Queen personally, as opposed to with her (largely indepedently acting) representative. Even in Australia, it is plausible the Queen could become involved in a 1975-style situation. If Whitlam had suspected Kerr was going to sack him, he could have tried to sack Kerr first. If there was a race to sack each other between the PM and the Governor-General, the Queen would have to personally decide how to react. e.g. if the PM advises the Queen to sack the GG, and immediately after that advice but before the Queen acts on it, the GG sacks the PM, should the Queen act on the request of the just sacked PM to sack the GG, or refuse? What if the GG advises the Queen to not sack him/her after all, or immediately appoints a new PM who conveys the same advice? Ultimately, whatever she did in such a scenario would be her personal decision, and it is unlikely that any court (whether in Australia or the UK) would entertain overturning it.
There are number of differences that mean Underground is not "essentially the TV model" when it comes to economic incentives. But, there are some similarities that can help us seem what some of the behaviours are going to be for content producers.

- Traditional TV has fixed length programming windows. No station is going to pay you more if you turn your 30 minute show into a 35 minute show.
- However, you might get more money by turning your (25 minutes of content + 5 minutes of ads) show into a (22 minutes of content + 8 minutes of ads) show.

- And, setting up your show to end on a cliff-hanger and encourage viewers to come back next week is great for audience and therefore revenue. That's not "milking the audience" but it is structuring the system/content to maximise revenue.

- TV Content Producers are not generally paid "per minute" but according to its popularity with target demographics. That leads to trying to get more overall audience, rather than just more time. That will be true for underground as well, and it will certainly be the case that content producers will want as many users as possible to use their app as often as possible. But, the economics are such that for a lot of apps, getting existing users to consume for longer is a cheaper avenue than getting new users.

- That said, TV producers often try to spin-off new shows form old ones in order to get more airtime (& more dollars) for a brand. The TV industry graveyard is full of lessons like "Joanie loves Chachi". We similar stories in the app world, expect more of them.

The parent comment isn't FUD in any sense of the word.

Everything gdeglin said is true - just like in-app purchases have encouraged a whole genre of games where you pay to escape the grind, earn-per-minute games are likely to produce an equivalent genre of "just make that cut-scene run for 15 seconds longer" games.

Follow the money. If content producers are paid per minute consumed, then the owners of many of the game publishers will start making decisions that stretch the same amount of actual game play into a longer interaction.
I submitted my reply before being aware of the advertising model Amazon had for this.

It changes things slightly, but I think the issue remains. As you say, the problem certainly exists on television. Most shows do have lots of filler content in addition to frequent advertisements, and the ones that don't often require a more expensive subscription.
Yeah, I was using Perforce in the 2002-2004 time frame in the game industry. I'm sort of surprised to see it still the leader after all these years -- but, on the other hand, it's pretty hard to write a good VCS. It's probably less work than writing a relational database, but not by a lot.

I know Perforce is making a killing off of this market. People here are always asking for startup opportunities... so I would suggest collaboration on large binary files for artists. Not that I really know what strategy to take, but I smell something funny when one company has dominated a niche for over a decade. If you want to be glib you can call it Github for artists :) I guess they do use Dropbox for collaboration already though.
Hackers publicly exposed personal information but it is not the their fault that the personal information was publicly exposed?

I'm not sure how this follows.

You seem to be very glad society hasn't moved on from the "Name and Shame" game. The one that ends in death, violence and shame for everyone close to and including the named.
> Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

Good one. The good news is, some alternate versions of some of those are still available and maintained. And, at least since they're OSS, worst case, you could fork it yourself. :-)

> BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

I hear ya. I've been thinking about setting up a BZFlag instance on a Fogbeam server, alongside some other "classic" technologies and just put it out there for people to play around with.

> - AOL / MSN / Yahoo Chat. People were more open to making friendships online.

Don't forget ICQ. That said, I don't so much miss those, as just wishing people would use Jabber instead of Facebook Messenger or this other proprietary crap.
You can tell you're in some kind of Silicon Valley echo chamber when people start calling every new ongoing businesslike concern a "startup", even if it departs radically from the model of "build something, attract investors to pay for building more, grow and eventually make lots of money".

We have other vocabulary terms like "business" and "firm" (e.g. a law firm) and "nonprofit" and "charity"; I suspect that one of them would probably describe what you have in mind better.

:)
I wasn't attacking them for claiming there weren't ads, sorry if it read that way. It's just that I read that entire page posted here, then went to my email and read the email they sent to developers, and I still didn't understand how or why they were doing this. I feel like they should have mentioned the word "ads" somewhere to explain how this would be paid for, rather than saying "actually free" over and over.