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Steven Penny is forcefully claiming ownership of MIT code
So, someone mentioned to me that Steven Penny is trying to claim the ownership of code which he did not write and code that's released under the MIT license.

So what did he do?

1. Renamed apt-cyg to sage (See commits on the 24th of January https://github.com/svnpenn/sage/commits/master)
2. Filed a DMCA takedown on the original repository https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/28ceb5f8dd70b1a7f92d3f9fae053f039b2883c4

There's a counter-DMCA takedown: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/e74005839a278219774a8c53fd57c6574b607eb0
The original source on Google Code: https://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg

So, let's get this to the top so the whole world can see what a major arsehole Steven Penny is.
I'm really having a hard time with the current market conditions. Ok, so the Saudis are acting to stop fracking, oil-shale exploitation and all of the other increases in production from non-OPEC countries. Again. Yay.

I get that low oil prices mean bad days for energy companies, many "emerging" countries, and the financial markets, to whom any news is bad news.

But in the "developed" countries, this makes literally everything else cheaper. In the short and medium term, yay. And when the Saudis have made their point, they'll drop production, prices will go back up, everything will return to normal, more or less.

So why is everyone worried?
This feels like a feel-good article designed to stem the negativity in the market over oil prices. Who thinks of falling prices as wealth transfer? And the article doesn't even show wealth transfer and instead talks about more consumption due to cheap oil.
Sweden has a nice consistent policy on speed limits.

If pedestrians or bicyclists use a road, the speed limit is 20MPH, strictly enforced.

Consequently, they also have a grand total of 0 pedestrian fatalities most years.[1]

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There's a wonderful BBC documentary about how we ended up in this mess and the vitality of beauty in our everyday lives. If you've never had the pleasure, you'll need about an hour, and you will find yourself thinking about it for years to come:
"Why Beauty Matters" https://vimeo.com/112655231
The fact that articles like this even exist is one of the top problems with Wikipedia today. One guy with a crazy theory can generate enough "evidence" and "citations" to make any random bullshit encyclopedic, and there's no "this is provably false" way to get rid of it.
These are usually on blinking orange while you approach, warning that they might go red at any time. Most drivers unconsciously slow down and I haven't seen a rear-ending on these lights for more than 30 years.
How many maintainers won't accept patchsets by email?
Knowing when to quit
It seems odd to say the least that what is usually one of the top threads on Ask HN for that day cannot even be found in the Ask HN section. I mean did it get flagged or downvoted?
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A bit pedantic...but I couldn't help but think, WTF is going on with the Epic Mafia's website? The article describes the troll as effortlessly hacking the site, including locking mods out of their own forum, and sending them emails with links that unban friends upon clicking. The smallest site operator can throw up a phpBB board without such issues...It sounds like Epic Mafia is running on a custom written app that is full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. I hope they've gotten them fixed up before trolls external to the community prey on them.

This is not to say that the troll is just some script kiddie. It sounds like he has some serious social engineering chops, besides programming experience. I'm guessing this is the fake newspaper website he made to post his own obit? http://www.sctribune.com
Oil use is relatively inelastic. If prices drop, money you expected to pay and money they expected to receive isn't going to do what it was expected to do.
Yes, where is this blow your socks off natural language processing? Certainly nothing I've ever used has contained it. The best I see is shitty voice recognition which can't understand me 75% of the time and often terrible attempts to chop questions out into search queries.
To be fair, the case I was testing was node, so the packages could be killing me. Could be much better for a standalone bundled application.
Speeding kills ... your pocketbook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw
>I like that idea but I do worry about it causing rear-end collisions.

Chicago had a pretty significant red light camera deployment about six or seven years ago. Drivers used to be okay with blowing through a red that was a yellow a moment before in the past. Now everyone slams on their brakes when they see a yellow. According to time.com, "a 22% increase in injuries from rear-end accidents."

So yes, you can expect more rear end collisions and injuries when traffic light enforcement automation breaks up traditional driving habits.

Arguably, its okay to speed. Say doing 50 in a 40 when there's no traffic, like late at night. Why do we need a system to enforce this? I wish there was more fuzzy logic applied to traffic systems. Say a peak hours vs non-peak hours speed limit. Longer yellows during rush hour when everyone is stressed and potentially distracted. Instead we get hard and fast rules for all conditions, which doesn't make much sense.

http://time.com/3643077/red-light-cams-rear-end-collisions-c...
Does Automation destroy jobs? Part 3
Is there any evidence that anyone is actually worried, or is it just people worrying that other people might be worried?

I mean, the markets are down, but that's just a "quickly grab a chair now that the music's stopped" situation isn't it? Or alternatively, regression to the mean?

Someone please correct me if I'm grossly misunderstanding here. As you may be able to tell I'm no expert, to put it mildly.
do you have any advice for me?
I don't understand what you're talking about. A foundation to do what?
Makers of NBA2K sued for copyright infringement of players' tattoos
The Best Cloud Storage 2016: Google Drive vs. Dropbox vs. iCloud vs. OneDrive
You don't have to do "internet deals" to have a presence online. Just list your key contact information, services you offer, and pictures of your previous work (if applicable).

It doesn't need to be fancy, you just need to exist.
This is a symptom of short-termism and poor risk management at banks. Controls and costs have been stripped to bare minimums at several banks in an effort to drive profitability. The end result is more fraud and financial crime generally.
Maybe there's issues with carriers?
They aren't comparable to prices 12 years ago factoring in inflation. They are much cheaper than 12 years ago.
That's pretty neat. I wanted to create something similar to this in python, but it looks like you saved me the trouble.
> Mmmm... the Japanese have problems even reintegrating Japanese Brazilians,

That's no problem of the Japanese, but of the immigrants. They're the newcomers, they're the ones who should be putting all the effort to assimilate into the host culture.

And it isn't happening, not even with descendants of Japanese. Imagine what would happen with a radically different culture (no need to imagine, just look at Europe).
They're extremely controversial and unpopular, at least here in Chicago (where traffic enforcement is otherwise zero).
As someone who cares about the environment. It's really sad to me that Truck and SUV sales are going up. It's kind of crazy that people have already forgotten about $5 oil...
What exactly are the limitations on the free trial?

All I am seeing is a green "Free Trial" banner in the bottom left. Is that it?
Me too. The simplicity seems very refreshing. I've been keeping all of my main notes as separate Markdown documents for a long time. This will be a big help.

I've been looking for an Evernote replacement that was more ahem concise. I've been using Evernote to help plan experiments and track papers, but it can't seem to get out of it's way... particularly when trying to share a notebook with collaborators. Honestly, the biggest downside that I see with Quiver is that it is Mac only. This isn't an issue for me, but might be for some collaborators.

Then again, the alternative would be to use some other tool or shared Google Doc or something like that, so Quiver probably isn't too much of a hassle in that regard.

You should be able to script writing new data to a note for simulations / plots, given that the notes are JSON files. I love that the DB is an easy to read / edit / backup set of JSON files.
I never knew it either.

Intriguing: significant white space on the right-hand side. At least you can see the significant whitespace in Python.

I also have my editor configured to strip trailing whitespace but also to highlight it. People can be very sloppy leaving (insignificant) whitspace lying around in code.
The Barbican is definitely amazing — another favourite of mine is the Preston Bus Station: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Preston_...
That beauty is usually abstract, and brutalist buildings, unless they are very deftly placed, typically destroy the civic and aesthetic fabric they are located in. Yes, they can appeal intellectually to the high-minded modernist, but the guy simply trying to find the entrance for a decent cup of coffee's life is ruined on that account.

The problem with modern architecture is that it requires a genius to pull off, and the vast majority of architects, and I would say projects by geniuses, do not even come close.
I believe wealth transfer is not the right terminology. Short to medium term economic leverage would be more appropriate, IMHO. Producers have temporarily lost the upper hand, while over capacity allows consumption growth that would not have been possible otherwise. The opposite mouvement that strong demand and restrictive policy caused pushing prices to incredible heights not too long ago. That enticed a ramp up of less economical production such as tar sands and fracking. The pendulum will swing, it's 100% certain, the key to profit from it is to time that swing... to see the signal in macro factors, some of which are alluded to in the article.
The shortsightedness of this article (and I guess business analysts in general) is breathtaking. Isolated, it might be positive for consumers, but any increase in the consumption of oil due to low prices should be feared. Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great.

We'll pay for these short term wealth transfers with a further uptick in warming and a huge shock in the future when no one's saving energy any more, renewable energy installations have come to a standstill and oil rapidly becomes more expensive again.
While Brutalist tend to be ugly, there's Constructivism which introduced most of Brutalist upsides without downsides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_architecture
Gitter is also a great example of excellent integration and general design that keeps developers from having to do busy work like setting up a GitHub <-> IRC bot. I use it for my own projects, too.
A naming trick that every freelancer should know
Author here: my website isn't about Javascript in the first place, it's about compression.
I could have done something similar with PNGs, PDFs or ZIPs (same DEFLATE compression algorithm) but Javascript is much more widespread.
I totally agree, I've contributed myself to OpenStreetMap for a few things which were not totally correct and I this way at least I know it's something everyone (including myself) will be able to use it after.
Wow, very interesting link!
I completely disagree. There are some companies that make sense from the get go to have paying customers but thefacebook would have never become Facebook with a lot of advertising getting in the way of user experience.
I'd add: no Node, no NPM. Learn the browser and it's tools. Avoid all dependencies at first so that going forward, there will be a basis for determining if taking a dependency is worth the long term cost and the upfront cost of using it.
I'd be interested in speculations on the impact of an off timeline. Surely it affects the "mundane" very little - most people likely do not care about anyone outside living memory (probably a couple hundred years, since a lot of time is reckoned from genealogy).
it means they can sell the bonds for less (i.e. pay less interest) because one source of competition, depositing the money rather than buying the bond, is less attractive for the captial. As with all credit - that's a great dynamic if you're using the funds for capital infrastructure to strengthen your overall situation, but kinda questionable if you're using it for living expenses.
If you were an airline expecting to pay $100/bbl and are now getting oil for $40/bbl, it would look an awful lot like manna is falling from heaven. Or at least that the OPEC countries are transferring a chunk of their treasury to your asset sheet.
A better title would be, "Oil Crash is Ending One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History".

As oil prices drop, less and less money is being transferred from (EU+Japan+AU+China) to (Middle East + Russia).
Announcing Pijul 0.2, a distributed version control system
Unfortunately, for the following three scenarios:

1 - Do nothing
2 - Put a camera there just to get a % of cars going 5+ over the limit
3 - Put a camera there to OCR everything and save it in perpetuity

The distance between 1 and 2 is quite large but the distance between 2 and 3 is very small and doesn't necessarily come with the same public notice/disclosure/outrage instituting 2 would. The safest course of action strictly from a privacy perspective is to oppose anything that makes implementing #3 easier.
Current Thinkpads don't necessarily have the accelerometer anymore, because they don't have spinning drives. ("hdaps" referred to "hard drive active protection system".)
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For those of you inclined to disagree with the idea of learning to love obviously ugly buildings, I would like to recommend two books:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Landsca...

http://www.amazon.com/Bauhaus-Our-House-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0312429...

Kunstler is a bit of a crank, but his analysis of the problems with modern architecture and urbanism are very good. Wolfe, of course, is a genius, and his very short book is a fantastic and deeply funny (if depressing) read.
While this is undeniably impressive and hopeful, it should be noted that these are short-term affects. The article mentions this: "So far, there is no evidence of addiction at the low dose in which infusions are delivered. Ketamine does, however, have one major limitation: Its relief is temporary. Clinical trials at NIMH have found that relapse usually occurs about a week after a single infusion."

It then goes on to talk about possibly alleviating this with booster treatments.

For me, even the possibility of there being temporary relief makes it something I would seriously consider pursuing, for two reasons. First, when my depression gets really acute it basically means that I simply am unable to leave the house. If I were free of that chain I strongly suspect/hope it would be easier to seek out -- and be consistently dedicated to -- treatments that were more long term: meditation, therapy, etc.

Second, just the thought of being happy for a few moments. Well, the allure of that is likely obvious. Were the almost omnipresent internal dialog of "you suck, you stupid fuck, dumb faggot, stupid fucking nigger," etc. able to be minimized or eliminated, even if temporarily, it would make such a great difference in my life that I almost can't quite imagine it.

Right now I escape it by playing video games. This is not exactly the most positive way to live, however.
You omitted the fact that it reduced injuries by 15% from side-swipe collisions.

The Time omitted the fact that side-swipe collisions tend to have more serious injuries than rear-end collisions. They also failed to mention that red light cameras reduce the number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions.
Intel and Qualcomm sync up on 802.11ad interoperability
Traveling to other planets is relatively easy; in our system it takes just a few years using the cheapest chemical boosters + ion engines. A nuclear rocket engine (quite feasible) would probably lower the travel time noticeably. Communication delays in the range of a few hours maximum are not a significant problem either.

It's traveling to other star systems what is hard.

OTOH we live in a relatively sparsely populated neck of galactic woods; thicker clusters of stars exist with much shorter interstellar distances. Conditions there are usually deadly for us, though.
The tutorial notebook is full of individual notes with multiple 'cells'. When creating my own note, it's not immediately obvious how I achieve this. Hitting ENTER just creates a new paragraph/line within the same cell. I've discovered, through trial and error, that hitting SHIFT+ENTER creates a new cell, but this should maybe be more easily discoverable.

Some of the UI elements are a bit out-of-place. I'm not sure if it's just because they're not native controls; I'm still running on Mavericks and it's quite possible these are El Capitan-style controls. Still, it's a tiny bit disconcerting.

On a more positive note, I think this is a wonderful concept which can potentially inform future tools for 'code management' (for want of a better term). I think there are plenty of ways in which the integration of code and other content can improve our discipline, so any work in this area is very interesting.
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I'd probably prefer doing more devops work in the future, but I'm open to pretty much anything if the project is interesting to me.
1) The drop in prices could be a signal that people aren't creating stuff which could be a slow down in growth,

2) It's difficult to quantify the impact the oil and gas boom had as a percentage of global GDP growth and therefore what the impact will be in its absence.
From the link above, here is a site generated by org-page: http://kelvinh.github.io
This is short sighted, and fails to consider what drives the price of oil, and what the current movement means for the chaotic system that is the petrochemical economy.

Oil prices are down due to massive overproduction over recent years, due to high oil prices, and opec sitting quietly on vast reserves that weren't on the market.

The cause isn't important, though - what is is the effect. Over recent years petro companies have invested in getting at fuels based on high prices - deep drilling, fracking, tar sands, all are really expensive. This means that they've invested in stuff that has eaten at their bottom line and they can't currently use as it's not economically viable.

Bp's earnings statement today illustrates this impact, and it's early days yet - if the price remains suppressed, which it likely will, there will be insolvencies, which will then be bailed out or bring down leveraged up to the eyeballs banks and investors with them.

Once that happens, supply will fall again, prices will rise, and we'll have another, even more violent cycle - except maybe we won't, as industry won't tolerate a wildly unpredictable energy price and will look to other more reliable sources.

Anyway. I reckon that we'll see the energy industry turned on its head before this chapter closes.
The article certainly mentions the holistic view here:

"Taken together, the study shows a statistically insignificant increase of injuries by 5%."

Time's source is the Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-red-...

Emanuel has credited the cameras for a 47 percent reduction in dangerous right-angle, or "T-bone," crashes. But the Tribune study, which accounted for declining accident rates in recent years as well as other confounding factors, found cameras reduced right-angle crashes that caused injuries by just 15 percent.

At the same time, the study calculated a corresponding 22 percent increase in rear-end crashes that caused injuries, illustrating a trade-off between the cameras' costs and benefits.

The researchers also determined there is no safety benefit from cameras installed at intersections where there have been few crashes with injuries. Such accidents actually increased at those intersections after cameras went in, the study found, though the small number of crashes makes it difficult to determine whether the cameras were to blame.

>They also failed to mention that red light cameras reduce the number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions.

From what I can tell, no one has done a study on that and it sounds questionable to me to see any results there. In fact, Chicago has a big problem with cyclists hitting pedestrians since it added so many bike lanes. But that's a discussion for another time I suppose and a problem that'll probably take care of itself as cyclists and pedestrians get used to each other.