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> He can crow all he likes about how he wishes he never used the GPL

Torvalds seems to like v2 and not v3[1]. I can't find a source of him saying he wishes he hadn't used the GPL at all - do you have one? It seems that v2 does exactly what he wants - get code back.

[1] "I still think version 2 is a great license": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU - in fact, in this talk, he says v3 is fine as a license (though not for his needs), but his problems with it were the way that the FSF was trying to submarine it into all existing v2 licenses, and misleading people about how it worked.
How do you reach the conclusion that they've learned any lesson from this? Have the officers been reprimanded in any way?

If this couple had any amount of cash on them, it would have been confiscated as "drug money". Good luck getting it back, even in the absence of any evidence. That's why these tactics are tolerated, it's a source of income for the department. Who cares if a few innocent out-of-staters are taken advantage of?

The whole situation just makes me sick, and I'm continually surprised that it hasn't been ruled unconstitutional.
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An excellent article. Something I have myself been trying to figure out ever since I got a $0.4 iPhone 4S case shipped for free to India.
Personal projects are probably the way forward. Juggling life and personal projects is hard, but start out small. I'm far from ready to publish widely, but I have discovered that I can actually program efficiently with one pomodoro a day: http://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/

You will note that I haven't actually done much lately as family tragedies and personal illness have kept me away from the keyboard. But I hope that it will give you some inspiration that even if you devote a small amount of time you can move forward.
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Those are things similar to a mass spectrograms. The tissue picks up particles, and is then analyzed by the machine to create a mass spectrogram of the napkin. If it contains masses similar to explosive powder residues, then you're in trouble.
You can refuse a breathalyzer if you want in the state where I live, but by doing that your license is automatically suspended for a year.
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Has Linus said he wishes he'd never used the GPL? That's news to me. I guess it'd have to have been after he wrote Git?
It's trademark, not copyright. And... ya, maybe.
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It's good for user privacy, but not good for the ad networks wanting to keep an accurate account of how many times their ads are being loaded.
> activity consistent with [terrorism | child pornography | fraud | narco-trafficking]"

Which is probably nothing more than a VPN connection...
It's actually super easy to fix. Just pass a law stating that all asset forfeiture revenue must go into the general state revenue.

Police only have an incentive to seize things illegally because their departments receive the money.
Don't you mean jealous?
> So now I'd have to carry my gun and ammo (or my sport gear, or ...)

Of course there are all kinds of little assumptions in our daily lives that would suddenly change and have to be addressed. In this case though, do you really need 170 sq. feet to store whatever you are carrying with you? Opening parking lots to development will generate enough value to provide a couple 12x18x72 inch lockers for each space removed. That still clears up over 98% of the square footage currently being taken up by parking spaces, and it would obviate the need to use cars for personal storage.

It might even lower theft since a big component of theft from automobiles is that a thief can look into a bunch of cars and only break in when something valuable enough is identified. And since lockers could be located inside where the people are, it would probably opportunities for would be thieves to have alone time with valuables.

> people like to forget stuff in their cars

If cars begin to be produced primarily for the purpose of transporting a single different person over and over again all day (with a smaller number of multi-passenger vehicles being produced for the relatively rare case of multi-passenger rides), then I imagine that eventually they would evolve a design that makes it more obvious when you drop things you are carrying. Currently cars[1] have all kinds of nooks and crannies for your wallet to fall into, because it's not that big a problem in most cases when you do that. But it would be fairly trivial to add a little fiber glass hip that sits flush with the seat. You would have to relocate the seat adjustment controls, but a lot of vehicles have already centralized those controls on the main console, and ridesharing vehicles would actually see enough benefit to consider such a change.

[1] this includes taxis because taxis fleets are made up of essentially consumer vehicles. This makes sense, because you always have at least 2 people in a taxi, so you can't really comfortably make it that much smaller. But if there were fleets of rideshared self-driving cars everywhere, most cars would only need to carry a single person, and you can drastically reduce the size of a one-person car without sacrificing comfort.

Edit: added third paragraph and the accompanying footnote
You start getting special police attention if you try to start a political movement against them.

Most people don't have the time and inclination to do so, and the ones that do are often incoherent or do things that shoot themselves in the foot, like the people who blocked the SF bay bridge on MLK day.
I'm a lead developer for a well funded CRE asset management SaaS company. We are launching this year and have sold a lot. A good number of the big...and biggest, names are our clients. I guess we would mostly fall into the 'mint for CRE' category, except property/assets are just a piece of it. We go all the way up through loans, deals, equity, the cap stack for each thing and the entire portfolio. All with realtime reporting/analytics, data integration from anywhere (extremely simple to use, unlike most systems...), chart of accounts roll ups, etc. It has been a TON of development time (close to 3 years now) and is a massive system.

I think we'll see some more adopted standards in data schemas and APIs with governmental organizations that will really change the CRE world. Underwriting and securitization is a huge opportunity for when that becomes more widely adopted. I'm sure you're quite familiar with the securitization process of today and how crazy it seems...excel workbooks and binders full of reports everywhere is a nightmare.

Argus is such a big player, however they won't get disrupted all at once in my opinion. So many processes, reports and data is intertwined in it, it'll take some time to unravel...but yes, big opportunity.

All in all, many of the 'ideas' in CRE are well known, it's getting the industry on a macro and micro scale to adopt new practices and solutions that are actually good. For example, think of all the CRE loans out there...to get detail information on them ( thousands and thousands..) you really have to pay big money to someone like Intex or something. And then parsing that data even more to be useable at scale is a whole other undertaking.

I'm interested to see how the 'crowdsourcing' CRE world develops. That space is pretty wide open with big but unestablished players.

I've got many ideas for stuff I want to do down the road, let's talk.

Note: I didn't edit this at all, it's probably filled with grammer errors...but it's late and don't care =p
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Why? The tsunami killed more people than the radiation is estimated to even with the most generous estimates of how many people will get sick from radiation. Hell, even the stress/evacuation caused by the worry of radiation is likely to kill more people than the radiation itself would have if they didn't take those steps.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isn...
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Please forgive my ignorance. But does this corporate meddling in governance structure have anything to do with their recent corporations sponsored/bankrolled initiative "Designing Block chain for transactions". Which obviously calls for weeding out trouble making general public.
I find it hard to blame Q-tips when common ear buds these days go just as far in the ear.
I don't really know what you mean. Scrapy is in Python. You can do whatever you want.
The "Talk to the Picutres" books already exist[1].

A good one is Welcome to the Zoo by Alison Jay[2].

Also wordless picture books are popular amongst Rudolf Steiner teachers.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/wordless-picture-books

[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Zoo-Alison-Jay/dp/184011973X
Into the skin of the forehead? Seriously?
What if another passenger has already taken the vehicle? Then you'd totally depend on the honesty of a stranger.

Thanks but no thanks.
Great, if you value those things so much you can pay to own your own vehicle (which you're basically using as a storage bin).

But I think that there are a lot of people who would gladly cut down on the $8K-$10K/year of car costs.
> How do you reach the conclusion that they've learned any lesson from this? Have the officers been reprimanded in any way?

That was sarcasm.

The point was the cops probably didn't get reprimanded, laws probably didn't change. But, they probably got chewed out in Monday morning meeting about taking better care, for example: make sure dog alerts off camera or takes a subtler cue. After precious department funding is at stake here, it is not amateur hour.

Maybe imagine it like a mafia leader instructing his henchmen to properly dispose of bodies, otherwise it leave evidence and makes everything difficult ;-)
Are you confusing the Linux foundation with the Bitcoin foundation?
Not really. for all intent and purpose, the AVR peripherals are very limited. Yes they are easy to use etc, but they are VERY limited -- no FIFO on any of the serial interfaces for example...

There are much, much better IP to do these kind of things if you decide to upgrade the core...
In the tabletop gaming world, it's being used to support lots of people (myself included, in a small way) produce higher-budget content that's not a single product that's Kickstarter friendly.

It's way better than the alternative - ad support in that arena has just resulted in most of the "top" sites being slathered with banners.
Not sure if you've looked at Cycle Drivers, they are essentially services or plugins for side-effects. You manage them through sources and sinks and utilize them where every you like, as they run through dataflow components, very powerful and clean.

See http://cycle.js.org/drivers.html
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Meteor fills a need.

When a developer starts a new javascript project he/she is stuck with the task of choosing from an array of frameworks, backends, libraries, bundlers, etc.

Also, like jQuery, Meteor is doing something in the opposite direction as all of these other frameworks. Rather than being just one piece of the pie and leaving the rest up to the developer, it simplifies development end-to-end (in theory).
Ray Bradbury comes to mind since he, like Asimov, tends to focus on the human element in his stories.
I don't care what they do, but I don't want them calling themselves the Linux Foundation and I don't want them owning linux.com
Interesting to contrast this with 2003, in the wake of the dot-com bust, where the winners were Microsoft (who had just won the browser wars), Yahoo (which owned digital advertising & search on the web), Amazon (e-commerce), and EBay (online auctions), all businesses with strong network effects. Google was a nimble upstart that everybody used but the establishment wrote off; Facebook didn't exist yet; Apple was down in the dumps, though undergoing a slight resurgence with the iPod.

Or in the mid-late 90s, when the five horsemen were (as the article mentions): Microsoft, Intel, Sun, Oracle, and Cisco.

Things change.
Nope - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015...
Traditional media take the side that fits their story. NPR takes the side of the unempowered, even when they might be on the wrong side, other outlets have their own agendas and follow through with that. Usually it's to make their audience feel good or bad about themselves. Confirming biases, etc. If the police are out to get traffickers and the outlet thinks traffickers are bad, guess whose side they'll take. If they side with the victims of floods, famine etc., guess whose side they'll lean towards. You play your audience or risk losing it. It's not like there is only one official news website and you have no choice. You're not Xinhua or Pravda.
Yeah, some more exploration of clusters would have been interesting. Like "this blob here is all the serif fonts, these are the sans-serif, etc."
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I dunno, I find Deutsch's rendition of Popper to be pretty compelling. What don't you like about it? I haven't read Kant. What do you think he got wrong that Popper followed?
> The problem I see with shared cars is that people like to forget stuff in their cars.

And the amount of your stuff will seem miniscule once you have kids. Car seats for different ages, extra food, water, diapers, sets of clothing, iPad holders, random toys, sports equipment, school supplies, and the list goes on.
> Just get rid of the parking

Might as well get rid of the people too while you are at it.

You do know there are real, actual, humans that use those parking spots right? It's not like the car needs the spot. A person needs the spot.

The goal of a city is to provide services for the PEOPLE. One of those services is parking, because PEOPLE need to park.

> Enough with being nice to people that drive personal cars into Manhattan.

Yes, definitely, kick all the people out. Who needs them, right?
Micropayments have been busted down many times, though I find Nick Szabo's arguments the most convincing:

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html

Clay Shirky's got some good additions.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht...

The solution I'm leaning strongly toward is a large-scale, preferably universal, content syndication / payment system. The big problem seems to be the getting there from here part (as usual), and some sort of super-aggregator (possibly Google, Amazon, Apple, or Facebook) might lead the way. Though I'm heartened that other minds superior to my own seem to find the same solution attractive: Phil Hunt (Pirate Party UK) and Richard M. Stallman (FSF/GNU).

Hunt:
http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...

Stallman:
https://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.ht...

My own, with some background:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h0h81/specify...

Why information goods and markets are a poor match
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...
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After the two weeks honeymoon phase...

Do a routine of 8 hour days that slip into 10 then 12. Five day weeks that then slip into six. For a year straight and learn that amount of energy and effort still aren't guarantees of success.

Imagine putting out fires all day every day and learning how to fix things but not having time to fix it properly so you're stuck in a loop of promising to go back and fix it right but just ending up with the problems.

Imagine being put in a constant state of anxiety and fear because sales don't turn out, code don't ship, marketing doesn't hit.

Meanwhile when you check in on Facebook now and then to see what your friends with the comfortable lives are doing and realize you're missing out.

For hard work.

That doesn't guarantee anything.

Good job getting same pay and equity though. That tells me either you're really good at what you do or the people you work with have no clue what they're doing.
Li-Fi can be extremely high bandwidth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

"It is so far measured to be about 100 times faster than some Wi-Fi implementations, reaching speeds of 224 gigabits per second."

I know that in practice, my colleague has tried it, and yes, in practice, it can work.
Honestly, these laws need to be repealed or found unconstitutional. This is out of control.
> You just gotta be smart about it.

They said _no fuss_.
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Looking at the same single 13mm button on AliExpress from New Zealand, I also get the free shipping offer, 15-34 days via China Post Air Mail (I can also choose the DHL Express 3-6 day shipping for a mere $157.45 USD!)

I've noticed how common free shipping on AliExpress is and wondered the same thing as OP. Typically shipping to New Zealand is very costly due to remoteness. We do have a free trade agreement with China, not sure that would make a difference.
These autonomous cars are hardly a full solution.

Or do you expect parents to attach car seats each time they call one up? And where do you put the car seats the rest of the time? Cary them along with you?

It would be nice if the cars came with them built in, but I don't think it's possible to make a seat that can accommodate every size child.
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Awesome stuff! Glad to see that we had a handful of very similar ideas.
I don't advocate the creation of a new media type.

My take on REST is that for an API to be RESTful, the API definition should really be the definition of a hypermedia format. The format definition then informs the interpretation of a hypermedia response such that state transitions can be made by the client. If our encoding of a hypermedia response is a JSON document, the format definition should describe how we can interpret that response to perform some action.

If the service we provide is as general as a Web Page, then using a standardised format like HTML makes a huge amount of sense. If the service we provide is an API to some specific functionality, it seems reasonable to me that we can define the interpretation of some specific media type as a part of the specific hypermedia format that drives the interface.

Then again my interpretation of REST could be completely backwards and I would appreciate corrections.
> with a smaller number of multi-passenger vehicles being produced for the relatively rare case of multi-passenger rides

You clearly have no children. Most people do though. Multi-passenger rides are hardly rare. Going to work is not the only thing people use a car for.
It also depends on the cost of living. Your rent doesn't change much when the Canadian dollar goes down. Your medical care is still free, some utility bills stay the same. Buying things are more expensive now although.

For example, that $2000/mo USD rent is now $2900/mo CAD instead of the $2000 CAD it used to be. Your $900/mo rent in Canada is now $600/mo USD!

So you have to look at the total profit margin to make more sense of it. It's definitely a great time to start paying your Canadian student loans and to work in the USA! It's also really good to work remotely and still live in Canada.
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won't everyone start to demand a commensurate increase in salary

I'm sure it will drive salaries up, but the falling CAD means that (in USD terms) Canada is becoming a cheaper place to live. There's no point earning $50k more by moving to the valley if your cost of living will increase by $75k.
Plain text protocols help keep interoperability honest and open. They also have benefits that are often overlooked, such as more easily avoiding integer overflow and endian issues.

> If you're already using a tool

Often, I'm not.

> illusion of readability

That depends entirely on the protocol design; some are better than others. Binary protocol can also be a mess. More importantly, binary protocols will always require external definitions, while some text protocols do not.

> bug-ridden and rife with security holes

Changing from readable tokens and ASCIIified intege4rs to packed binary doesn't magically fix bus or security holes.

> what do I need to do for compatibility

That's easy: use the robustness principle[1].

(and most RFC-based protocols say you should send a CRLF).

A possible argument against this could...

> how long could this line be

...also be an argument against length fields. If you want reliable parsing - a very good idea - a good argument[2] can be made to only use context-free protocols (i.e. use parser-combinators).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

[2] https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurit...
I have to say, I love this exchange rate. But I have to keep reminding myself that the Canadian dollar will be going back up eventually so I can't just sit back and enjoy the boost in profits.
> Get rid of the war on drugs, and they'll just find another scapegoat to tax to fill their coffers

I am genuinely curious as to how they'd tax terror... The "war on terror" seems like the perfect replacement for the one on drugs.
I don't know Rails enough to really comment on that, but if it takes 1 years to learn it all, I'd say it fails my definition of concise and comprehensible. It should fit in a single volume book that I can read in the evening over the course of a week.

That said, I don't have a problem with frameworks that are larger. Hell, I'm a .Net dev by day myself and that certainly doesn't meet that requirement. I just don't find it elegant.
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...we all know where that road leads.

Code that works without surprises, experience that accumulates, projects that can be executed reliably?

But of course that's not much fun when compared to tinkering around with to-do example apps on the new new thing.
Nope. Responsive as in "Resppnsive website". But instead of views I should have written "breakpoints". Said that: breakpoints get misused as device dependent views regularly, implementing complex .hidden CSS mambo jumbo. So yes, for me breakpoints are views (even if the should not be)
Oh? An Android phone plugged into a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system appears as a USB drive. Android brings up a popup asking if you want to enable USB access (a basic security measure against hostile charging ports) and, if allowed, the phone's storage appears as a folder.
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Once again you're stating the obvious to no logical effect

The logic evades you, that isn't the same thing as it being absent.

Both kinds restrictions are arbitrary limits placed on the institution of marriage by society.

prohibition of poly marriage does not meet the definition of discrimination since the law affects all people equally without regard for their individual traits.

Completely arbitrary and immaterial. The institution of marriage belongs to society and society has the right to define it.

to suggest otherwise is like saying prohibiting black people from entering your restaurant is the same as prohibiting more than 10 people from entering your restaurant... Give me a break.

Not at all. I find it more akin to a baker refusing to bake a cake for a 3 person wedding.
Trades time for parallelism.

This isn't going to scale to large data sets...
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