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If you've ever read some ToA, or EULA, you won't find GPL that bad regarding the language and length. Also, simplified/explained versions exists, which should make it more digestible.

As the author of the article said, it's a tool, and you may or may not use it. Don't downplay the need for a copyleft licence (which a cool hack around copyright, if you ask me): some people use is from a philosophical reason, and some - as the basis for their entire business model.
No, I don't think this is "common knowledge" at all. Can you site any source whatsoever for this or reference a concurring post somewhere?
Just because something is better than nothing, doesn't mean it's optimal.
Doesn't MN have a large Scandinavian population? There might be a genetic factor there.
That number was based on a silly division that went something like this: nb bombs (~20k) x average yield (~ 200 kT TNT) / nb people ( ~ 4 bn at the time) = 1 ton of TNT per person, which is enough to kill you about 100 or 1000 times, pick a number.
> If I'm overnighting a meal it's probably not going to be a $25/head dinner. I'll go out and enjoy that but it's not an 'across the country' experience. It's not even a steak from a non-steakhouse. Here, it's a chicken alfredo with no appetizer or sides.

I think we've both relied on our own local price scales here. I don't live in San Francisco; here, $25 per person will generally get you any entrée and dessert on the menu, from anywhere other than a high-end steakhouse or similar.

And in any case, I was making the assumption that the selection of meal was driven more by some specific shared nostalgia than by five-star cuisine. If anything, I'd be less inclined to attempt to ship the latter, since quality would suffer more from transit than nostalgia would.

> 2-4 people is going to be more than 5lb after you load up on dry ice.

I don't think you can even ship dry ice via normal shipping processes; it falls under "hazardous substances". The couple of times I've had chilled items shipped (http://www.spokandy.com/product/murphys/ , highly recommended), they arrived packed in gel-like sealed "ice"packs, still cold to the touch.

> Anyway - like you said, I'm also erring on the higher side of "what, to me, would make a meal worthwhile to ship like that". But hey, we had a civil discussion about it. Yay us.

Indeed!

Going back to the original point, the examples given on the homepage for this service certainly target people with seven-figure salaries. But I could imagine people using it for somewhat saner purposes while having "just" a high-five-figure/low-six-figure salary.
I wonder if they could just wait until a suitable earthquake happens, and then just lie it was a bomb they detonated?
Is the Oregon Standoff Evidence of a Racial Double Standard?
Maybe try asking your doctor about Trazodone. It is so old school that it doesn't have much of a stigma unlike the newer drugs out there that have bad reps for being addictive or encouraging drug seekers wit recreational uses (benzos, narcs, beta blockers) it's sort of an old mellow antidepressant that has sleep benefits. Doesn't get abused much because literally all it does is make people sleepy. I'm on a super low dose- 25mcg and it knocks me out with really good quality sleep. I think my "anxious brain" was what was keeping me up and when trazodone first came on the scene it was shown to help with anxiety.

Good luck with everything.
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It's weird how uncommon the knowledge that Google lost the lawsuit is. They lost it in appeal at the Federal Circuit. There is a remaining "fair use" decision from the lower courts but Google doesn't have much hope there.

Google's current approach using Harmony's clean-room API implementation has been basically deemed illegal. Google will likely have to pay millions if not billions to Oracle for copyright infringement. And they will continue to be infringing as long as they are distributing their current Android systems.

P.S. The law of the land is now that when you create an API it is copyrighted.
I think the road to destabilization would be for the US to give nuclear weapons to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, and then tell China to deal with it.
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This seems a worthless reduction. I tried having my online dedicated box on ec2 for a while, cheapest server. Bill per month $120 USD. Yes that is mostly traffic. It was over 200 the month I decided, foolishly, to host a video on a blog.

Doing exactly the same on a dedicated provider: 10$ per month. With more traffic than I did on ec2.

Also, it's an (atom powered) dedicated machine. Performance is far better. 4G memory instead of 1G. Disk space : 1T (of the rotating kind though), but of course I can have ramdisk now for most of the stuff. Compared to 100G SSD for 10$ on AWS. But egress traffic, that's what's costing me.

Downtime since switching : 0 (but I will agree that it's lower quality. Not 12x lower though).
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It's never going to work absolutely, though the 4 main factors I see are fairly significant;

1 & 2: Licencing and checks stops people with a violent history purchasing/owning guns legally. If that personality decides they need a firearm to hurt people there is a month+ between their desire to do harm and actually owning a firearm.

3: Compulsory safes (and the police check each owner has an appropriate one) reduce the likelihood of a person accessing anothers firearm.

4: More dangerous firearms like handguns and semi-auto are harder to get yet again thus less prevalent stopping what might be a small shooting from becoming significantly larger. A significant shooting becomes much harder with a double barrel shotgun than an AR-15.

Another benefit I imagine is restrictions would stop police feeling there is a potential firearm around every corner and may help calm down ongoing US cop shootings/mentality too.
You need a better landing page.
why would you want to do that? Kill innocent civilians because the leader has a hydrogen bomb.

There are better ways to deal with this. Diplomacy ... perhaps
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Looks like he's trying to reinvent math as a drawing program instead of complex notation.

Or rather that is the least common multiple of everything on that site.
I'm not an expert but according to conventional wisdom, NK has enough conventional-arms firepower (mainly artillery) to do massive damage to Seoul before they're taken out. Looking at a map, it's a bit unnerving how close Seoul is to the internal Korean border.
Title should be "Some guys start a magazine about construction."

There's Engineering News-Record. And tons of trade magazines, from Tunnels and Tunneling International to Structure Magazine. There are lots of Discovery Channel specials on construction jobs.

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Agency has a good Flickr feed documenting their construction projects.[1] The East Side Acccess project is impressive. They have built another level of train station underneath Grand Central Station, without interfering with anything above it.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/
The latest valuation is $5B, according to the WSJ[0]. The latest (series G) round was led by Fidelity, but Founders Fund, ARTIS Ventures, and SV Bank also participated in it[1]. Also, there's actually talk of Fidelity bringing sanity to startup valuations[2,3], rather than pumping them up even higher.

You're right that Stemcentrx, unlike Theranos or Nootrobox, doesn't smell of SV hucksterism. However, rather than comparing Stemcentrx to Theranos or Nootrobox, compare them to OncoMed, Verastem, and Stemline, which have current public valuations of $700M, $65M, and $116M, respectively. And none of them ever exceeded $1.2B in their public valuations.

0: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/09/16/peter-thiel-b...

1: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/7db717567346f07e604...

2: http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/snapchat-isnt-the-only-startup...

3: http://fortune.com/2015/11/12/fidelity-marks-down-tech-unico...
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First of all thank you for respecting my opinion. I appreciate it.

1.) Free speech is a completely different topic. Snowden's quote on this page makes no sense to me no matter how often I re-read it. If free speech didn't exist I wouldn't be able to express my opinion about privacy :)

2.) Privacy means hiding the truth. Hiding what really happened. Hiding who you really are. I believe it is a flaw of the human personality that makes us want to hide information and eventually lie about it.

I don't care if Google or the government knows that I'm searching "[insert embarassing keywords for you here]" or if Facebook knows my location, or if Twitter knows what I like based on the people I follow.

Who is the government? It's people. People like you and me. If people decide to make assumptions based on data they collected and the assumptions aren't correct it's their own fault for assuming something in the first place (because...you know...it's an assumption...it can be wrong).

I am not aggressively opposing the concept of privacy. I respect other people's opinion.
Was anybody else was really moved by this...up until the last paragraph
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I wonder how well these compare to LG's Web OS TV's interface wise.
They are not particularly sophisticated, or safe to use, but it is possible to build semi-modern firearms with nearly medieval technology[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_Copy
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Not saying an attack is the solution, but diplomacy has been tried for decades and hasn't worked at all thus far.
Interesting, a bunch of my instagram friends use it to share memes and reposts. Facebook seems to have more "personal" photos whereas instagram seems to be (at least amongst my friends) more of where they share cute random images or pictures of celebs, what bands they like, etc.
> Or did you think that if strong AI showed up the Governments of the whole world would not rush to have their own?

Governments can't "rush" on the same scale an AI can, and a strong AI with an appropriate value function wouldn't permit the existence of any other strong AI that doesn't share its value function (since such an AI would fall somewhere between "counterproductive" and "potential existential threat"), nor would "of their own" have any meaning unless that value function was hopelessly broken.

There shouldn't be a "second" strong AI, only a first.

> It's not clear that an emulation in a computer would be anywhere near as fast as the actual thing

Humans operate relatively slowly on the scale of computers; we're just massively parallel and have a fundamentally different architecture. That's not at all insurmountable even for human-built technology, let alone technology-built technology.

> All your assumptions are predicated on the ability to emulate a human in software

Several of my assumptions are, true, though I can imagine other possibilities that would have similar effect.

> An even larger assumption is that it's even possible to do that.

That's not a larger assumption, that's the same assumption I stated.

> Can an intelligence program something smarter than itself? I don't think so.

On what basis?

> I don't think humans can.

Humans don't have to build a system smarter than ourselves, just build one as smart as ourselves and run it a lot faster with access to a lot more data.
Reading the GPL at length, it seems as though it were written as if the only build process were C, and the only way to run software was on a single computer. The GPL is unclear when it comes to how it applies to something as complex as a content management system that could be deployed and running as a single service across multiple servers. The language it uses (linking, distribution, even 'code' itself) is ambiguous. And apparently the only clear way to ensure that you are in compliance with it is a shakedown from the Software Freedom Conservancy to grant you permission to use it in ways it was never written to handle.

The principles of copyleft are tremendously valuable, I just wish we had a modern license that reflected the reality of the modern internet, and modern software.
>P.S. The law of the land is now that when you create an API it is copyrighted.

No, it's just the law of the Federal Circuit and only when interpreting 9th circuit law. Their decision is not binding precedent on any of the usual circuits, and their usual domain is patent law, not copyright law.
> I believe it is a flaw of the human personality that makes us want to hide information and eventually lie about it.

At the very basic, we want to hide things because other people do not like it (which leads to reaction from shaming to prosecuting and stoning). Fundamentally, the only way for it to not happen is to have a completely homogeneous society, or all human to turn into saints. I will just assert the former to be bad, and the latter to be impossible .
depends on the definition of bomb: Ivy Mike was not a weapon, was a nuclear device, as big as a building
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There are definitely enough nuclear bombs to wipe out a large fraction of earth's population, if not all. The US alone has a few thousand.

Not to mention that nuclear winter is a very real (though unproven) concern.
For comparison, here is the link to the recent quake off the BC coast. You don't need to be an expert to realize the differences between a bomb and a natural quake.

Natural: http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/5169662

Bomb: http://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/5170265
> If you have a cap on how much you can accrue, which is pretty typical [1], that's not true. Once you hit the cap, you'd still lose the days; thus, they are a sunk cost.

It's not a sunk cost at all. It's only a sunk cost once you hit the cap.

In the current SF engineering culture the average tenure at a company is around 18 months. Most caps are about the same timeframe.

Leaving and cashing out PTO is a very common occurrence. Getting acquired also results in PTO being cashed out.

>The only days that cost you are any days that would be paid out at the end of your employment, and even that really only matters if you're going to roll from one job into another in less than the number of days you were paid out at the end, otherwise it's still just a rearrangement of a constant number of paid days and unpaid days.

The paid out PTO is a "sunk windfall". Every day you choose not to work between jobs costs you regardless of whether you had any PTO paid out.
It's just like how in reddit when the "front page" subs get too popular, the lowest-value, easiest hanging fruit, fastest digestible content (images) always floats to the top, same with the news feed. The lengthy quality discussion posts get bogged down and the popcorn candy content fluff of memes overrun everything.
Fuck man. I'm sorry about your friend. That really fucking sucks.
Comments from Linode employees, Linode customers who were hacked, and a guy who hacked Linode (different incident)

I love HN.
This is a really positive thing to do.

As an original backer, it makes me feel like they are genuinely grateful for the initial support.

There are many projects where the opposite happens and the initial backers feel like they missed out (or have to pay twice) once the final commercial product gets released.
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For server user management, my company Foxpass (S15) makes it easy with our cloud-hosted LDAP interface on top of Google Apps, plus SSH key hosting.

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This is all true and I agree wholeheartedly.

And when The People incorrectly decide that based on data you raped a 15 year old, you will be in prison for the duration of the trial, you will be on the sex offender list forever, and you will be inconvenienced with anything requiring a background check. You, not The People.

Ideologically, I agree, privacy is a lame side-effect of how groups of people work. Pragmatically, please don't take it away.
The fact that the measurements we got so far show it matches their previous detonation makes me wonder if it was an H-Bomb, or at least if it was a successful one. Since they have a fission bomb as part of the core, it could just be a failed H-bomb or, as someone else said, an attempt at a tritium enriched bomb.

As far as U.S. presidential politics goes, meh, it's 10 months from the election, we don't even know who the candidates will be for either (especially the GOP), and the only people who should be sweating are S. Korea and Japan.
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Who is he?
Unfollowing is freaking awesome. I unfollowed a bunch of my old college friends who "work from home" now and are caught up in MLM pyramid schemes selling beachbody, energy drinks, arbonne makeup and other MLM junk. It is awesome.

I actually wonder how popular "unfollowing" is and if facebook is worried about it, because everyone I know is psyched about the ability to do it!
My money: a boosted device. A fission weapon with a drop of liquid hydrogen thrown in to qualify it as "thermonuclear".

It had to be an h-bomb. The korean people have been told that the regime already has nuclear weapons. So any test has to be a marked improvement. The only way up from nuclear is thermonuclear. Whether that H contributed anything meaningful to the force of the blast is very much secondary (pun intended).
A batch of kindly old grannies with popguns could cripple NK's military capability.

The problem is, they have hundreds (thousands?) of artillery pieces buried in mountain bedrock and pointed at Seoul. Even if we dropped paratroopers on Great Leader's palace and captured him in the first two hours, it is simply not possible to find, let alone knock out, all of the artillery within a few days, which is how long it would take for them to level Seoul.

...If any of them still work. An awful lot of NK's military equipment hasn't been maintained for decades and has rusted solid where it sits. So the artillery could be one big bluff, for all we know. But can we risk it, with South Korea's largest city at stake?
Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at.

(That made my day, stranger, thank you).
What a well-conveyed opinion, and a great dictation of it.
The debate in the oral argument is a great listen as well.

District of Columbia v. Heller will be one of my sources from now on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

It's a shame that the transcripts are not great. They contain, at times, the complete opposite of what is said.
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There is plenty of propaganda, sure. However that doesn't mean NK isn't a state dangerous to the world in which you and I live.
Is there any disassembler to rival IDA Pro?
I realize that you've staged it for a photograph there, but when in use I hope you have a lot more ambient light. Your monitor should not be the brightest light in the room shining directly in your face.

Given appropriate ambient lighting, the desk lamps seem a bit redundant, and likely to create screen glare (quite visible in the photograph).

Make sure people take the time to adjust their chair properly, and get walked through how to do so.

Apart from that, seems like a plausible computer lab.
The existing users will preserve the character of twitter as new users arrive(http://i.snag.gy/kdu77.jpg).
I spun up something like 200 "cores" to archive a large Cassandra cluster to Google Storage (Kubernetes cluster plus 200+ containers running the archive worker). Could have gone much bigger to get it done faster, but it wasn't necessary. ETL or archive jobs would be the most common case, to answer your question.
Also, the "viewfinder" is one of those (relatively speaking) huge panels that fold out from the side. Try doing that with a 100% analogue camera! I reckon it's a clever hybrid.

(Plus it has SD, USB, etc... but there's no documentation as to what they do. Maybe you can store lo-fi digital versions for rushes and offline pre-editing.)
Agreed. Why do I get the sinking feeling that titles and articles like this are the next step in the evolution of clickbait?
Just because it's already competitive doesn't mean the best people are competing. If you're really good at math, you can end up with a full 10x difference on disposable income being a teacher versus other available careers. There's no way we're getting the best people or anywhere close to it into education, competition or not.

(Your point about the difficulty of measuring performance is a very good one though)
App on AWS, data on S3, Varnish caches on Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. Route53 for managing geo-DNS.
Personally, Amazon's UI has a long way to go and doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon.

If you know what you're looking for, it's fine, but as soon as you try to comparison shop it falls apart fairly quickly.

I've gotten into the habit of looking for experts on other sites that do hands-on comparisons for the thing I want to buy (some recent examples: rain jackets and fitness meters). Amazon is honestly a terrible UI for this sort of thing.

I know that they're trying, but at this point they've lost my trust that what they show in search results is relevant unless I'm being extremely precise.
> but it is the only answer to how much those services cost

No it isn't; and that which can be asserted without evidence, can be refuted without it as well.
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But this article seems to be saying that Oracle's version is GPLed. If that's the case, then how can Oracle sue Google for copyright infringement? Is it for violating the GPL?
Statisticians have frequently noted the difficulty in making such comparisons. Many European countries are much more homogeneous than the U.S. Also, you mentioned the porous borders between states reducing the effectiveness of said gun legislation. We have a fairly porous border with Mexico. Mexico currently has more drugs and people than firearms, but there's no reason we couldn't see a marked increase of arms smuggling into the U.S. in the event of stricter gun laws. In many ways it is more straightforward to manufacture firearms than meth, for example.
This is a decent "basic" guide. I look forward to the "intermediate" and "advanced" versions. Hopefully, Mailgun will come through and actually deliver those in the near future.
Wishing privacy on the internet is like wishing no turmoil while shagging during a massive religious events of paranoid gunned puritans.

If privacy is such a problem for some it is not a technological problem, it is a political problem. If so, people concerned should make their revolution in an appropriate place: the real world, and let internet stay a public media.

PS noticed another fun topic there are blacklisted keywords on HN, like F words. Isn't censorship more concerning than privacy on a media? And funnily enough all the "lite" censorship nowadays are first about sex and gross words. Are sex and slang that dangerous?
indeed, this north korean 'seismic event' is different than other 'normal' seismic events, with exponential dampening.

but is it still a proof of h-bomb? maybe just ordinary (if you could call it so) nuclear bomb test?
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