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> Well, Ubuntu may have put the ZFS source in the kernel tree, but they still ship it to endusers as a separate kernel module and separate Ubuntu package.

No, they aren't using a separate Ubuntu package, it's gone straight into the main kernel repo.

> AFAIK to violate the GPL they would have to ship ZFS compiled code in the kernel image, but this is not what they are doing.

You can violate the GPL inside a kernel module that you distribute.
1% margin is actually fairly healthy in that industry.
That's just the city's spending though. There (edit: is) other money: state and federal, private donations, churches, the VA system, and so on.
This appears to be inaccurate. They appear to be distributing it as a binary module, outside of the kernel tree, just like many other binary-only kernel modules.

See zfs.ko here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-is-fs-for-contain...

"However, there is nothing in either license that prevents distributing it in the form of a binary module or in the form of source code.":

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue

The binary kernel image is a separate issue from the kernel packages (deb); they could include multiple files in a kernel package (deb) that are licensed under different licenses.
Whether something is a derivative work or not is incredibly unlikely to be determined by whether it's distributed as a module or linked in.
> The GPL states in clear terms what's allowed and what isn't.

The GPL does not trump copyright law in determining what is a derivative work.

> It's like laws.

A little bit. But its less like laws than actual laws are, and it depends on the actual laws; it doesn't have the power to redefine them.
Dropcam had plans to go towards that, but seems they were squashed with the acquisition.
I'm well aware of why people do it. It's rude regardless. If you disagree with someone either use those little arrows next to the post, make a counter-argument, or STFU.

Posting "you're full of shit" or "citation needed" is lazy and rude. You don't want to speak up with something more sensible? Fine. That's why those little arrows next to the comment exist. Don't post rude garbage instead.
Oops, thanks, I'll try to cancel my order.
Not to mention, all of the images take a hell of a lot longer time to load than text plus a font. I had a 16 second load time, granted my connection isn't the best.
But she's not applying for a web designer/software position, so I guess we shouldn't be too hard on the site...
Please can you elaborate a bit on the tattoo link? Sounds interesting.
Here is another post from the parent about this issue specificaly:

- http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-licensing-and-lin...

"We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry's leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to the Linux kernel and to ZFS.

And in doing so, we have concluded that we are acting within the rights granted and in compliance with their terms of both of those licenses."
Worth pointing out the licence is the same for both.
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Yes you're right. I edited my comment, apparently while you were writing yours, to correct myself. I meant to say judicial branch, not legislative.
Desperate times if you're bad at what you do.
I promise you, even a protracted legal battle is far cheaper than significant global sales losses.
Red Hat announcement: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-unveil...
I don't very much care for Uber. I don't want them to have a monopoly in the taxi market. Hopefully a more open taxi industry with competition allows for improved quality.
I've been dreaming of a standardized banking API for as long as I've been using online banking. It crushes my soul every time Mint makes me send them my actual log in credentials just to scrape transaction data. Really hope this catches on, but I think too many orgs have a vested interest in being the gate-keepers of your banking data.
Amazon now has an NFS service (in preview release) called EFS: https://aws.amazon.com/efs/
The second article from a major media outlet about this guy? Yes, he's inconsiderate, but so what? If it were a blog post from a lawyer or school teacher, would the Post or the Guardian have cared? Would we see articles about a "Law Bro?"

The media, collectively, has it in for us. They keep using borderline derogatory labels for us in their articles like "coder" and "techie," and they publish hit pieces like the linked article smearing us as if we were some evil 1%, despite almost none of us making as much as the average dentist.

They are stripping us of what little prestige and respect we once had, and we are just letting them do it. And there's no shortage of programmers willing to argue with you that it's not even happening, and that there's nothing wrong non-technical English majors with an ax to grind attempting to re-brand us "coders" and our profession "coding."

This article (and the comments) are relevant:

http://chickenwing.software/scratches/programming/on-coders-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/45wzup/on_code...
Which of them is contributing positively to our future?

And for the record how much have you personally, directly, contributed to helping homeless people (Both in dollars and hours)?.
wrong. conservatives in the states are more than happy to donate to programs that help the homeless and mentally ill, they're consistently the most charitable americans. they do tend not to like taxes and government waste, however.

it's a myth that the only way to solve these problems is with government.
Waiting for the NERD stack.

Node, Express, React, $DataBase.
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It doesn't matter. The requirements of license seem to be 52 hours of mandatory study/attendance and passing the exam. Zenefits clearly cheated on one of the requirements.

the state wants you to make sure you read everything and that you can answer questions about it. It doesn't seem like a stretch at all, especially considering people run their livelihoods based on that license. It's a license to conduct a proper practice and a career.
SF cares for a substantial fraction of the entire nation's homeless population, who migrate to SF for weather and public services. SF gets blamed because SF helps homeless folks the most, not the least.
Is it time to centralize hiring?
FWIW, she did this in April and talks about it as her most successful campaign yet. I don't think she got a job at Airbnb, but she did get an interview.

Unfortunately, the kinds of talent she showcases on her website is the kind of talent "RESERVED" for higher ups. I see "too much ambition" there and HR may not exactly be willing to approve of her.

(Such is the impression I have received from working in big corporate like places.)
These kind of responses have a chilling effect on debate and progress.

> this is a very loaded and offensive statement

So the fuck what? If you aren't allowed to consider anything offensive, we'd never discuss the difficult issues and make progress on them.

> something that can happen to anyone for any number of reasons, and there are different kinds of being homeless

Yeah blah blah blah he's not saying 'absolutely every homeless person is like this', he's suggesting that maybe the situation isn't as everyone assumes, which may be the case. But you've shut him down with some 'not every homeless' person bullshit.

> It's not that people choose a lifestyle as such

He didn't say choose did he? He said they prefer it - I presume he means prefer it to being institutionalised. You seem to suggest that he thinks they prefer it to being a millionaire, which of course they do not.

Have you ever heard of the idea of being charitable in how you interpret other people's thoughts?

> Being homeless is the suckiest thing you can probably reasonably imagine.

Who are you arguing with here? Who disagrees with you? All he said is that some of these homeless people may prefer being on the street to being taken into the care of the state.

You are destroying debate!
Maybe. Prevalence of collection and brokering means data on individual customers is pretty cheap AFAIK. Grocery infrastructure and deals aren't. If this is their goal, they'd be better off partnering with a major chain doing analysis for them in return for a copy of the data.
When you're unemployed, it's not like you should have anything better to do than mess around with the product you want to support.
True. I think we both generically seem to be saying the same thing. The disagreement seem to be on the topic of whether it should be compulsory or not. I do believe that it should be regulated and compulsory. It's much simpler to teach 300 million people to just check for a license than to teach them about how to vet your broker.
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In fairness, some people are just more interested in the technical side of things than the product side.
I have a habit of compulsively selecting text on webpages for no real reason. So I quickly realize when pages like this one aren't actually using text, and then I find it so distracting that I can't actually pay attention to anything and just give up.
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Speaking as someone who works in a Middle Eastern country, most of these countries would totally lose their minds if AirBnB made serious penetration into the Middle East. They absolutely do not want/tolerate these types of services (Uber also comes to mind).
The article specifically coted the Super Bowl as a positive example. The Super Bowl bullied people away from the venue, didn't help them into homes.
> I've loaded many a homeless into my fire engine

Err... why? Were they on fire? Why is the fire department involved in homeless people?
I think it's a great idea to try and bring some of RoR's developer happiness to JS. Universal React + Redux is a great stack but I could see why beginners, unfamiliar with starter repos, could get overwelmed reading the respective docs. This project is a good attempt at lowering entry.

My 2 cents, I've been enjoying using websockets and redis with this stack. And +1 for considering the term Universal in the tagline.
It looks like this from earlier in 2015 and there's a follow up post on her blog[1]. Ultimately she didn't get a job at AirBNB but seems like she did end up landing a job elsewhere as a result.

[1] http://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...
ZFS is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel seeing as it was developed on Solaris and later Illumos.
The State of Alaska does something very similar with the annual Permanent Fund Dividend (usually in the $1000-2000 range, direct payout to each resident).

It certainly does create a boost in consumer spending.
looks like was built on wix.
I worked at a place where you were ranked and promoted based on how much of your life you were willing to sacrifice to clean up management schedule estimate fuckups and bad technology choices.
Perhaps to avoid search engine indexing?
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I have long agreed with this theory.

There's a reason why the right is like that IMO, and it gets down to this diagram:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/e1aaee07d8101970433020eee016ff9b/...

It is my opinion that people naturally care mostly about themselves, then the people closest to them, and less about people on the other side of the world. It is also my opinion (referring to the diagram) that the closer you are to being the person with the "need", the more effectively and efficiently you can address the need.

So in general, a person is best able to help themselves, less able to help the people closest to them, and even less able to help others. This can be envisioned as rings of concentric circles, where each larger circle represents more and more people, but less and less sphere of influence or ability to understand the "needs".

Along with that goes trust. The closer you are to someone (literally and figuratively) the more trust you will have. So these concentric rings are also rings of trust. I can count on my wife to be there for me when it's time to have my butt wiped. You, who I've never met, probably won't even offer help out. When my BFF tells me something, I automatically believe it, because after 30 years, AFAIK he's never lied to me. When a stranger on the street tells me something, I'm hard-pressed to even pay attention.

So if someone is close to you, then not only can you assess / relate to that person's needs, but you can also trust that person not to abuse your generosity.

So in a family or among close friends, communism (from each according to ability, to each according to need) is usually the norm and usually works fine. What's mine is yours. Mi casa es su casa. I know you, you know me, we won't hurt each other.

But in the world, capitalism / plutocracy / might makes right is the norm. As distasteful as it is, and as much as I understand that the people on the other side of the world desperately need my money, I'm much more inclined to give it to my wife, or friend, because I have far more trust that it will be used effectively and efficiently. And I have to also consider that, being someone very foreign to me, that you might be hostile to me, and use my generosity against me. So sorry, if I don't know you, you're on your own.

That's why I like to call myself a "micro communist" and "macro capitalist."

Now in reality of course I offer kindness to strangers because I'm not a sociopath.

But let's be honest: the kindness I show a homeless man (a dollar or two, or a meal) is not the kindness I show my wife or child (my kidney, my home, my life).
> No, they aren't using a separate Ubuntu package, it's gone straight into the main kernel repo.

How Ubuntu packages is irrelevant. What matters under the GPL is how the module is linked into the kernel.

> You can violate the GPL inside a kernel module that you distribute.

Of course, but they're not doing that. For example, you could violate the GPL by including GPL'ed code in a kernel module under a more restrictive license.

There's a lot more detail here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/copyright.html
Yep, I agree. They're definitely not all the same, and some are more helpable (better word please?) than others.
The IT staff at this hospital should be fired. They should have never been in a position to be compromised.
/aside: I get rewriting for the n-th time some utility (say a db driver) in language du jour, but (possibly poorly) replicating things like Lucene never made sense. Lucene is a fairly solid tech by all accounts.
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I thought I was the only one...
In the restaurant world, the employer would have to make up the difference and ensure their employees make minimum wage if tips aren't enough. While that's still not satisfactory (to me, at least), it at least guarantees that a slow shift, or a lousy-tipping, long-staying, large-group table won't push you down to $2.13/hour level income (though minimum wage doesn't get you much more).
>I think it's interesting to note that Apple has complied with requests from law enforcement in the past...

It's also very important to note that preview law enforcement requests are not in the same scope as the FBI's request published yesterday. All of the information disclosed above is data held by Apple. The new request is for Apple to commit development resources to produce brand new software, not just turn over data.
Working at an organization that does both, the thing that jumps out to me is that SQL is a bit painful from the "application developer" side, but fantastic from the "ad-hoc data analysis" side.

It's tough for me to say "finally killed and buried" when I have a couple dozen colleagues being wonderfully productive with SQL as one of their primary tools. Application developers and analysts don't need to use the same tool, though.
What? The homeless are here because the city attracts more people than there are room for (development reasons) and because SF spends huge sums to care for homeless immigrants
"His father had an unusual philosophy: He would undercharge customers for complicated work while overcharging for easier jobs." -- Maybe this also applies to freelance coding.

“Hard is good. Easy is a waste of time.” -- If I had the motivation and guts, I'd put this on my coffee cup. But I'm sure it would make me a magnet for abuse.
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Things are a lot easier with recent versions of Python 3. Not spending more time on supporting 2/3 compatible codebases was a big mistake in my opinion. I think Guido had the idea that everyone was eventually going to run 2to3 and then be done with the conversion. There is too much Python 2 code out there for that to work. Python 2 was too successful and businesses have no inventive to convert working apps.

The %-formatting (printf style) for bytes is a big deal (introduced in 3.5). Putting a 'u' prefix in front of text strings and 'b' in front of byte strings will not go a long way in making things work.
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I'm fascinated too, but not every text is an image. Certain ones (scroll to learn more, the navbar buttons, etc.) are pure text.

Inconsistency is my trigger! :P
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There's no more political arguments to it. Conservatives, anymore, are simply a tool to attempt to dismantle the government, full stop. They simply don't believe we should have a government, mostly because they don't like paying taxes.
If she doesn't have CSS chops, then it makes a lot of sense. Much easier to build the components in photoshop or whatever and just get them stitched together. It doesn't look like she's interested in any sort of development role, so it's not a skill I would expect her to have.
Precisely my point, who the hell stores credit card info in a f*ing starter app! And your obsession about seeing a disruption in every damn thing!
The solution to homelessness is compassion. Frankly, it's outright disturbing how complacent we have become with homelessness in our culture. The problem isn't that these people abuse drugs or alcohol, or that their mental health goes untreated -- the problem is that they don't have homes. And that is a very bad thing for anyone to endure. People should not let that happen to other people.

The other issues also need to be treated. Those are comparatively complex issues... Homelessness is, by comparison, not complex. Put people in houses. As evidenced by examples in Utah (and apparently Canada too, about which I was unaware until this thread), this is the fiscally smart move. The smart move and the right move aren't always in alignment, so this should be a no-brainer.

There are likely no homeless people who actually prefer to be homeless. There are people whose lives have been so massively changed by their circumstances that adjusting to a more comfortable housing situation might take some adjustment, and probably some therapy, assistance, and monitoring.

The sticker shock of doing this is what seems to keep it from getting fixed at once, as it's apparently much easier to periodically ask for money to develop ineffective piecemeal solutions.

The letter to Ed Lee reads like a parody. It will doubtless be forgotten, but I hope that's not the case. It should be one of a few artifacts used to encapsulate the historic moment we're living in.

'Worst of all, it is unsafe.' Sure, it sucks that it's a safety hazard to area residents. Is that really the worst part though? If you think the worst part of the homeless crisis is that it makes you and your well-to-do neighbors unsafe, you should probably ask yourself what exactly makes you so important.

'My girlfriend was terrified and myself and many people ran out of the theater.' I can't judge anyone for what scares them, and sure, the incident sounds like it would have been a surprise... But this guy makes it sound like an actual monster came into the theater and ran everyone out. A homeless person came in and did something that interrupted the film. Things like this will occasionally happen in a city that has a terrible homeless problem. Justin Keller's reaction is everything you need to know that he doesn't have the emotional or psychological maturity necessary to process homelessness as an issue separate from the effect it has on himself.

San Francisco is a city rich with ideas and capital, but I don't know how you can incentivize tech-community participation in solving this crisis. I keep thinking that we've reached peak obliviousness, and then something like this letter comes along, and frankly I didn't expect to find so many people here basically affirming the sentiments. I really worry that this is how a sizable portion of SF's tech community feels, whether they admit to it or not.
Agreed, but you might be stunned by how many think they do (and are unwilling to trim it down).
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I don't understand your comment. Most geeks are not "bros." As you say, most of us don't fit the "bro" profile. There's no conflict here, there's just different names for different groups of people.
The product is the consumer.
Came here to mention that. Additionally these findings are easily explained if we assume that salt has some positive and some negative effects occurring in different parts of the body. Say salt has some positive effects for the liver and negative effects for the heart, then a paper on liver disease will mostly cite positive studies about salt, that is it cites studies on the liver, and a paper on heart diseases will cite mostly negative.
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I'm 35 and my wife is 30. I was born in 1980 which means some people would say gen-x and some would say millenial. I'm also the younger child, with my older sister being squarely in gen x.

My wife definitely has more of the typical millenial characteristics then I, and talking of our high-school experiences it almost seems like we were decades apart rather than just 5 years, though perhaps some of that is that we grew up on opposite coasts.
Your implication about economic protectionism being a net drain on society regardless of the classifiers could have been made without using a ridiculous example such as Jim Crow -- the non sequitur of Jim Crow lies not with my response, but with yours.

I can't and won't argue that "politically connected", "nepotism" or "random chance" are the best way of doing things, but "ambition", "ability", and "intelligence" play a non-negligible (at least non-zero) role in how much prosperity one can achieve in the taxi, real estate, etc. industries. Under Jim Crow style regulation, "ambition", "ability" and "intelligence" have zero impact on whether or not one can achieve one's fullest potential. "Right race" (a.k.a "random chance") is the only way to end up maximally successful under Jim Crow. Your argument that modern regulations are akin to Jim Crow falls flat with respect to how fungible the upward mobility is in the face of regulation.