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And this is where our views differ:

IMO nobody can impose restrictions to your MIT licensed code unless they can somehow threaten you and your users (think patents, law enforcement) in which case you have lost anyway.

They can reuse your MIT code and impose restrictions on their modified code but we still have the free MIT code that is way free-er that AGPL and we also have an additional proprietary option.

Edit: And if your worry is that they will use the code to create a commercial product with a slightly different file format etc this is a standards issue, not a open source issue. Furthermore, if there isn't liberally licensed code available they will just create their own broken/different version.

Summarized: I am fairly convinced that for many companies the option to using BSD/GPL/LGPL/MIT code isn't using AGPL but rather using a commercial solution or write their own. Both this more or less guarantees you get no patches back to your open source project. AGPL is then just a way to make a statement.
If the puzzle questions seem like high school math, I second the idea of building something. Try to get a website set up if that interests you. If not, try building a command line tool to help you with something you do regularly.

The act of trying to build something that works is an incredible learning experience, and will teach you a lot about whether or not programming is something you should pursue.
How to interrupt the world: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-interrupt-world-marcus-ki...
Can a mod change the title? This is a spammy headline but is actually a relevant topic - it's a github project in node/javascript for manipulating timestamps. OP is new and doesn't seem to understand the guidelines for posting content.
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Actually, having traveled a lot I have come to appreciate bavarian cops (and northern/central european cops in general) as being professional and downright civil when compared to some of their southern European counterparts (say from Spain, Italy or France). I've noticed, though, that it always helps to have at least some knowledge of the local language.

There are always A-holes around in the police but consistently getting the frisky treatment would make me wonder if something in my appearance could be seen as cop-bait. Maybe the dreads and the weed silhouette on your cap? Just kidding, but since we don't know what you looked like, it's hard to tell if what happened to you was plain bad luck or something in your looks and/or expressed attitude. Definitely not something that happens to everyone.
Let's cover the US together! We don't have to wait on big corp's to do it, let's make it ourselves!
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I listen to a lot of black metal, so by popular belief, I guess I'm evil.
This discussion doesn't take into account shared ride services (like uberpool). They're the thing that might enable the shift from private cars, and without considering them, this discussion don't teach us much.
You will when other startups follow suit and the society disintegrates. Civilization is not a default state for humanity - it's built on fragile framework of mutual trust and playing "by the rules".
Bavaria is the Texas of Germany.
>Shouldn't this problem be handed over to the CDC?

I wouldn't want them handling any male issues. In the 2010 study of intimate partner violence, they specifically used a definition of rape that turned most male rape into contact sexual assault and not rape.

Then in their summary, they focused on rape and non-contact sexual assault. Anyone doing a light reading would have assumed from the study that males did not experience much sexual violence.

Personal anecdote: my experience has been this misunderstanding is the more common than not among those who have done a light reading of the study.
The Schengen zone is pretty valuable to the EU and to Germany, it seems likely they'll re-establish it.
What is SNAP?
Brazil's extremely high import tax is a large part of this, that's why it's not arbitraged away.
If you consider it a moral imperative to honor a regulatory monopoly granted to certain members of an industry, then I guess it would be immoral for Uber to do what they're doing. Personally, I consider laws and morals to be two separate things.
I'm not doing any psychiatry, only stating the conclusion that follows from available evidence.

Evidence we spent last few years discussing here, on Hacker News.
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Can you be more specific here? At a glance it looks like they're upturning a very corrupt, half functioning system with one that works. (anecdotally, I'd have taxis I've called never show up and for me taxi prices are 2x Uber. Furthermore, we all know Taxis are a government enforced monopoly in many places.)
The post seems to indicate that you will be using micro-payments to address individual issues on a single code base (CALC). This would appear to be bid splitting to avoid acquisition requirements.
I had the pleasure of chatting occasionally with Marcin when I was at Google. I love that I hear more of the exploits now than I did then.
We have to tackle the problem together, to keep accomplishments like Schengen, because the argument works the other way round, too:

The Netherlands have much stricter asylum laws than Germany has, with or without border controls. Maybe you could take some of the 1.5 million refugees, that will arrive in Germany this year. You took only 25k last year. Stuff like the border controls are really just measurements to prevent our versions of Geert Wilders from gaining traction.
While living in Munich I was approached twice by police officers later in the evening (around 10-11pm) coming out of U-Bahn stations.

On one occasion the seemingly plain-clothed officers flashed a badge and started rifling through my jean pockets in the same motion. I actually thought I was being mugged.

After the fact they were all smiles and conversation, but whatever the local laws are, they're badly missing the point of who they're trying to protect.
Bayern gehört zu Österreich... duda, duda.
One of these companies is going to figure out that they're better off paying and then paying for a secure infrastructure. I guess a few have quietly done step one.
Show HN: Num command – simple Unix statistics tool – seeking feedback
Num is a simple Unix statistics tool to input numbers then output min, max, sum, standard deviation, and more.

Example: echo "1 2 3 4" | num min max sum => 1 4 10

I'm seeking feedback and early adopters. I'm happy to answer questions.

https://github.com/numcommand/num
Imagine you make an omelette every morning, or a grilled cheese sandwich every lunch. Imagine when you first start this habit, you make every meal with care. If you've seen the movie "Chef," remember the scene where he's making a grilled cheese sandwich; I've never seen such care.

But you're not Chef, you're just a guy making a routine breakfast or lunch. As time goes by you get used to the routine. It's just an omelette or sandwich, you'll never think of each particular one once it's consumed. If there's a hole in an omelette, or the bread in the sandwich is skewed, you won't even remember it later in the day. It's just a thing you do every day, and despite any earlier desire to be the best omelette or sandwich maker, the only really important thing is that you've eaten.

Those cops do that job every day, and the only important thing to them is that they've taken someone off the bus and searched them, and they can then report that. Discovery of contraband is just a bonus.

The do it every day, and unless they find something they will never see "you" ever again. In fact they don't even see "you" during the event. You're just a resource so that they can make a report.

You're just a resource.

Would it ever occur to you to apologize to your sandwich for being less than perfect?

Would it ever occur to those police to notice the individual, in a routine played out every day, and apologise or even acknowledge?

You're just a resource.
As you say, Schengen does not allow for large-scale border controls in Europe. Random checks are allowed though if they have the purpose of stopping illegal activity such as drug or money trafficking (e.g. from Luxembourg, the Netherlands or Switzerland).

The stricter controls that have been in place for the last weeks, which also only involve randomized searches on a slightly larger scale but only at several points of the border, are also legally covered under the Schengen accord and serve the purpose to get a better handle on the thousands of unregistered immigrants flowing into Germany every day (this year alone, more than 1.5 million regugees might come to Germany, many of them completely unregistered). Concerning the scale of the current crisis I think these measures are absolutely appropriate and not overly extreme.
Storj (http://storj.io/) is an interesting decentralized approach to this problem too.
Kind of surprised at how poorly Google handles this (I would have expected at least a correction suggestion)! Heck, it might open the door for an obscure blackhat/phishing technique...
Well, my boss is travelling for business next month, and one of my coworkers was trying to talk him into taking Uber over renting a car (don't know whether or not he succeeded), so I can totally buy that Uber is eating into rental cars.

Honestly, I'm fine with it. I don't have a car, and the all my transportations needs are met by a combination of Lyft and public transit (ultimately, it's cheaper and probably faster to take the train downtown). I'm fine with everything else going away.
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It's the same with eyewear. Check out the 60 Minutes story on Luxottica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM

They control over 80% of the global market, from manufacturing, to opticians, retail stores, and brands, including the second largest vision benefits company in the US.
I think the secondary motive to be concerned about is not length of time in court, but the filing of marginal lawsuits because they can attract financing.

Lawsuit financing is a speculative investment. We've seen repeatedly that the more money there is to invest speculatively, the more people and companies start pushing the envelope to attract investment.

In the last 20 years we've seen big bubbles in Internet services and consumer mortgages. What would be the effect of a bubble in lawsuits? Aside from the financial harm, it might crowd out or delay more worthy court cases.
Some first day pop is natural even with auctions, because the issue price has to be a lowest that buyers support.

Consider a company that wants to raise $100. Suppose there are 19 buyers who value a share at all different prices from $1 to $19, and are willing to buy 1 share each. The issue price will be $10. Those who offered $1-$9 will not get an allocation; those who offered from $10 to $19 will. The buyer who thinks a share is worth $19 will probably buy some at a > than $10 price, so voila a pop.
I thought everyone just used consolas!
I'll give Gates credit: it only took him about a decade of futile ultra-technological attempts to understand that curing disease is often best done more simply.
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There is a reason for higher incarceration rates: they commit more crimes proportionally.

It is easy to put the blame on "evil racist cops" and whatnot, it is much harder to stop ignoring the issue that a small part of the population represents a vast amount of the criminals and start thinking about real solutions. What are the causes of the violence? There is welfare to those who need it, there are opportunities for those who work for it. Is it an economical issue, a social/cultural one? Perhaps prison life is "comfortable" compared to working your ass off, perhaps education is lacking, perhaps a bit of everything, and so forth...
"the man" has won
Who on earth would say LeBron James is underpaid? He makes $24 million in basketball pay, which is third in the league to Kobe and somehow Joe Johnson, plus god knows how much in endorsement deals.
The most likely outcome:

-- Getting a response so nasty it's easier to get "you" into trouble "now"

I have tried this (I am from India). Any question to authority, whether police or TSA or Immigration officers will make sure that instead of ~30 mins, you will end up wasting 3-4 hours.

Of course, results might be different if you belong to the same race as officer. But that was the point of the article.
Would you torture and rape to win? If not, why?
Num command links:

GitHub https://github.com/numcommand/num

Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joelparkerhenderson/num...
My opinion, and this is after looking into it with my wife, is there are a large number of sellers, selling mass produced stuff. Etsy does nothing about it either.
I have not had the exact same experience but I traveled very often by car through Germany (as a Dutch citizen) for holidays. My experiences are as follows:

- Drive in a (new) Audi A3 on lease:

Get stopped every other time. Completely strip my car and luggage. Throw everything on the ground until everything was spread in a 3m radius around my car. Leave me to pick everything up and tetris it back into the trunk and instead start complaining about how the car is not registered on the same name as my passport.

- Drive in a used Toyota Prius:

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>Evopsyche is pseudo-science.

No, it is just wildly abused. Take all the arm chair physicists running around talking about spooky interaction. Same problem, except misunderstand and misusing the principle of spooky interaction doesn't lend itself well to issues that have nearly as much emotional involvement.

Psychology as a whole has a problem of being used by armchair psychologists and applied to all sorts of issues in society and things like chemistry and physics does not. Evolutionary psychology has an even greater problem with it, but this is an issue with how society consume science, not with the science that is consumed.
They're arguably symmetric. Based on my very limited understanding:

Diego works by auctioning tasks/LRPs to cells, which bid based on free resources.

Mesos works by auctioning free resources to tasks/LRPs, which accept or reject based on their own policies.

The analogy I got from Onsi was that Diego is "demand-driven", Mesos is "supply-driven".

They have different sweet spots. Diego is built to be the heart of a PaaS, so it aims for fast success or failure for accepting tasks and processes. Consumers can decide whether to build further scheduling intelligence, but Diego doesn't make it explicit.

Mesos exposes some of the placement/scheduling logic back to the client explicitly. For example, if you are OK with a gigantic batch job running intermittently, Mesos can more or less do that without fuss. The job will simply wait until enough free resources are available on the cluster. This is one of the observations that drove Mesos. Whereas Diego will tell you very quickly if that capability is unavailable currently.

On the flipside, Diego requires no additional configuration. It also doesn't require a central view of available resources to be maintained in order to perform placement. That said, Diego does maintain a central view of tasks and LRPs that have been placed, in order to relaunch failed ones.

That said, I have sometimes been wrong about my understanding of Diego and Mesos, so YMMV.
You're asking on HN. That tells me that you have the interest. The question becomes if you're willing to do the work. Are you willing to put in daily practice to learn coding? Even when the "passion" is gone? If so, you're cut out to be a programmer. Aptitude does not apply.
Because of all those unfair taxes universities are paying?

Last I checked, the universities in my city get their land tax-free, given that they are non-profits. Not many American corporations can claim the same.
> But if you don't care who your customers are, why are you asking them to log in?

I may not care who they are, but I do care how their identity maps to information in my system. Simple functionality such as favorites or saved preferences doesn't require any information about the user, other than them being able to identify themselves as someone who has previously used the site.
It's strange that the service looks quite promising but I don't know any company that uses this service. Isn't it mature enough (it's actually kinda strange argument for a managed service though) or is it hard to use? I skimmed the documentation but the pricing model seemed unclear compared to AWS's managed services.
>the interest must come from somewhere

This is one of the primary problems of the financial system according to Prof. Franz Hormann. In his banned TED Talk he explains that when money is created and loaned out by the central banks, the money to pay back the interest which is owed is never created, only the principal is created.

So basically we are not playing a zero-sum game. The money owed in the form of interest physically can never be paid because it does not exist, and this unpayable debt is what is shoved down to the bottom rungs of society and is what creates the "rat race". We are told we must work to pay off a debt that literally can never be paid off by default.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWVbdSX7B4
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Only if there is no prior art.
Obviously selling TV shows and movies by the drink does work as (part of) a business model. However, I would posit that a lot of people watch sports games pretty casually. They catch a bit of the baseball game while they're eating dinner or whatever. Some sports certainly work PPV (boxing being the clear historical example). I'm guessing football might do OK as well. But you'd really cut back on the audience which would mean a lot fewer ad dollars too.
Microsoft does the same thing with many of their logins. You put in your user ID, and it uses that to know what server is going to authenticate you and forwards you to it.
Consider that laws, be them right or wrong, are what keeps society together. Those particular laws seem to be outdated and it's good that someone challenged them. But there are many ways and motivations to do it, and Uber is doing it in a very bad way for very bad reasons. It worries me they're so loved, because the mindset they promote is "just fuck the law". It's not the example we want every new startup to follow - because as you point out, companies tend to grow amoral, and the law is the only thing that keeps them from hurting people for profit.

Also, if you look outside the US, we had Uber-like companies in Europe for some years. The process of destroying taxi monopoly was way under way here. It was going slowly, but in a way that didn't threaten the social order.
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I'm not entirely certain why, but the logic you employ here strikes me as very similar to the justifications used to support the Citizens United ruling.

The abuse of the legal system is, from my perspective, extremely tied to the fiscal means of the involved parties. I say this having been called to potentially be on a jury involving a claim of breach of confidentiality over a Rothko painting, asking for more than $30 million (eventually the jury verdict was a pyrrhic victory of $500,000 - likely the cost of the suit in the first place).

I guess what I'm saying is that for small-time folks, even judgments in small-claims court are tenuous in enforcement, because...well...there's not enough money involved for authorities and other entities to follow through. To me that's a distortion of the purpose of the legal system, and one where money certainly plays a role. Rather, economic inequality may result in justice inequality (a study of this would be very helpful).
Call me a young one, but I think it happens every time before a major downturn :)

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500831h.html#c12
You could easily extrapolate this argument to the Internet of Things if you need a way to understand the poster's point differently. Do you want or even really need a toaster with a computer in it? A refrigerator with a computer in it?

Analog toaster and refrigerator technology has been working quite well for us for almost a century.
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There was Sparx in New Zealand, but that appears to be not available.

https://www.sparx.org.nz/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130511003457/http://sparx.org....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparx_(video_game)
> Getting a response so nasty it's easier to get them into trouble later on. :)

I know the comment was tongue-in-cheek, but it bears mentioning: when dealing with the police, your objective should be to escape the situation unscathed, not to provoke them. Remember that criminal charges, severe injury, or even death are possible consequences of any encounter with law enforcement.
So it's prior art all the way down?

Also, does the patent on all prior art cover itself?
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It was probably more useful as a method to get some of the surplus beavers into remote areas that needed them. Following the Guardian link to the original source (http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/remember-parachuting-b...):

Fish and Game is transplanting beavers now in the Owyhee desert, where years of watershed use has denuded the vegetation. The beavers can go in to help restore the land. [Statewide fur bearer manager for Fish and Game Steve] Nadeau says beavers make good ponds that can hold water all year, and that’s important to the landscape.
Respoiler: Most people who use such tactics blindly email and don't care. Just as blast as much email as possible and hope something returns.
Yes, the smell was specified in the article, you can't smell anything else
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I am pretty sure they've asked hime where he is going.
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>Are "racist" drugs laws the cause of "mass incarceration" of blacks in the United States?

Are sexist laws the cause of mass incarceration of men in the US (and in other countries)?
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I am just a regular normal white guy. You can book a night bus from Breslau/Kattowitz to Munich and I guarantee you will get stopped and searched too.

The cops never found anything, but they succeeded in making me hate their guts for the rest of my life.
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It's the difference between someone selling a house in 2009, vs. waiting until 2015 to sell it.

A sale will always fetch the current market value (pretty much by definition), but market value fluctuates. Sometimes just the difference between selling in January vs. May can make a difference in the final price.
Slightly tangential:

In Russia there is a government procurement portal. Where gov organizations have to post their requests to enforce competetion and best prices.

The usual tactics [1] of corrupt officials was replacing cyrillic (russian) letters with respective latin homoglyphs so only affiliated companies can find and win this contract.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/russian/rolling_news/2013/04/130409_rn_st...