skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the immediate feedback. The problem comes when the programs grow and the feedback is no longer immediate.
The GPL and copyleft are not magic pixie dust. Just as proprietary software is pirated very frequently, so too do companies and individuals ignore copyleft licenses. Like the BSA spends money to enforce proprietary licenses, so to do the FSF, SFC, gplviolations.org and others have to spend money to enforce copyleft.

There are also lots of violations of permissive licenses, but generally the authors of permissively licensed software do not bother to enforce their licenses.
Have you written about your (and your employees's) experiences? I would certainly find that a very valuable read.
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AFAIK, vanilla kernel improved a lot in terms of functionality, so Android can work on vanilla kernel if code will be adapted to use these new APIs instead of Android homegrown APIs. Anyway, it's open source, so anybody can use Android patches without restriction. I see no problem here. Kernel version 4.4 is fresh enough for me: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/android-4.4... .

BTW. I'm not sure if my distro (Fedora) will work with vanilla kernel without Redhat patches. There was times when it wasn't. I compiled kernel myself with my own patches and configuration in between 2001-2008.
EmptyWheel (good article) is comparing consensus vs formal U.S. assessment (unanimity?).

FWIW, the FBI is one of the 17 agencies in the Intelligence Community and Comey+FBI were definitely tipping the election.
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Just to be clear, my original comment wasn't disputing your point about international enforcement (on which, once again, it seems we agree on the main principle). I was challenging your characterisation of the RTBF as "an individual's ability to censor true information simply because that information happens to be about them".

The original CJEU ruling was pretty clear that, in the court's opinion, there were some circumstances under which restricting the promotion of personal information by search engines, even if that information was true, could be justified. However, the court was also pretty clear that merely disliking the fact that some information about you was being shared was not sufficient grounds for the law to restrict that sharing.

I'm happy to debate more specifically the circumstances where that sort of restriction might be reasonable, but if you believe as a philosophy that freedom of expression and the right to say true things should always outweigh an individual's right to privacy then it's unlikely we're going to agree on so much there. I don't personally believe in an absolute right to free speech regardless of the consequences. I do believe that there are many good reasons that privacy is important, and sometimes that it is the more important of the two.

To give one concrete example, I think it is a general good that anyone -- including public figures with influential and highly stressful jobs -- should be able to seek help for mental health problems if and when they need to, without fear of suffering criticism or abuse for doing so. That makes respecting the privacy of those who do seek help important, regardless of the truth of any statement that they are doing so.

To give another example, the evidence appears to be overwhelming that punitive "justice" systems are far less effective at reducing crime and improving general quality of life than systems based on the rehabilitation of offenders. A huge part of that rehabilitation is allowing past offenders an opportunity to move beyond their old situation, to "turn over a new leaf". It's pretty difficult to do that if stories of the chocolate bar you stole from a store aged 18 are still keeping a very different you out of good job opportunities aged 28 or 38 or 48. Again, it might be true, but there is a strong public interest in concealing that fact once it is no longer relevant to understanding your character, which is exactly why concepts like spent convictions and probationary periods exist in many legal systems. In the age of an Internet that never forgets, that concealment becomes a lot harder, but the evidence for its benefits not just for the individual but for society as a whole is still the same.
This is my view exactly. The NSA/CIA/Pentagon are not new to the game. This is what it looks like when it's done to everyday people, the kind of thing Snowden was concerned about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-puti...

And it looks like the people working in our US intelligence agencies also get toyed with from time to time. Either that or there is a bigger pedophile ring in the intelligence agencies than the Vatican:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6W8H5Z0XAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf5T1lFyaL4
I'm OK with that, I will find someone who has better knowledge about situation in the world and USA. Just don't downvote when you are simply disagree.
made it a blog post: http://miker.org/this-old-smart-house/
> Trump's open collusion with him

Can you provide some proof of this 'collusion'?
This Old Smart House
You are ignoring the fact that users exist in society, around them there will be programmers who may be friends, colleagues or consultants. Some of those will be willing to modify the software gratis, for a favour or for money. Others will be willing to teach the non-programmers enough to be able to make the changes they need.
For me it is the opposite, flashy new websites make me think they are all style and no substance.
I have no idea what is «TFA». However, I am in war with Russia and I welcome republicans, so I assume that Russians are opposite to me.
Stallman has compromised in some ways, even when it comes to using proprietary software. For example, before there was grub I believe he made an exception and used non-free bios.

Ultiamtely, even RMS seems to suggest a convenience standard. If the tradeoff is too harsh, at some point it is permissible to use proprietary software. And this is even leaving aside the various non-relative exceptions he has made, such as use of proprietary software in devices that are not primarily for general purpose computing.

So even RMS is OK with proprietary software where there are no free alternatives, or where using proprietary software is somehow not part of a "computer". But now that there is a good free system in Gnu + Linux, the user has no excuse for using proprietary programs in general computing. There is still a sacrifice to live by RMS' standards, but it is relatively small compared with, say, the sacrifices demanded of civil rights campaigners in the 60s.

Of course, one could debate whether reasonable free alternatives exist in certain areas. Perhaps to RMS it is only a minor inconvenience to use only free software to view web pages, and to avoid websites that run proprietary scripts or that spy on users. What kind of moral weakling would betray the cause of freedom for the convenience of one-click ordering of crap on Amazon. The obvious weakness to this argument is that there are surely people for which proprietary software offers convenience that they view as essential to their lives. This is a hard problem, both in philosophy and practice.
I think that programming has a pedagogical bonus attached to it that other disciplines, except maybe writing and various arts, don't have.

With programming you can build something gratifying and real at no cost, which, if you're good enough, can actually lead to monetary reward rather quickly. This type of instant and rewarding feedback is immense when it comes to learning something.

Think of every other STEM subject. With Chemistry, sure you can learn about the subject, but to perform experiments you need money to buy materials, and nobody will hire a chemist without a degree. With Physics you're in a similar but different sort of situation, where even if you could afford the materials, you're limited to rather boring experiments along the lines of projectile motion, which doesn't seem to offer an rewards unless you become big on youtube. With engineering, I guess you can build some stuff, and that might actually pay off in the long run and be useful in the short run, but again, material costs.

With programming you just need a computer and you can pretty quickly make something that you can monetize, even simply using free hosting if you're idea is decent enough. With a super minor investment in a market license you can put a good enough app up and start making bank. The only real limit is your brain.
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“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the Republican nominee said at a news conference in Florida. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relatio...
The linked article?

Also, this is probably nothing that severe, but Ivanka Trump vacationed with Putin's girlfriend[0]...they have indirect personal ties, at least.

[0] http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/291465-ivan...
Except it's inverted. Shadowrun is cyberpunk with orcs and elves. This is orcs and elves with cyberpunk.
66% of Americans live within 100 miles of the border. It would make more sense to move all the Americans living in the middle (sometimes middle of nowhere) and focus on making the cost of living in major cities more affordable; 9 of the top 10 cities are all within 100 miles of the border.
Several studies have confirmed the effects on humans. AFIK, this one was the first: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Neurogenesis...

If you google for studies citing the one above, you will find many more. Purely from a standpoint of scientific evidence, running if one of the best things you can do for your brain. Bilingualism and cognitively demand work are also a good ideathough its less clear whether they have cognitive protective effects or actually lead to neurogenesis.
I know this is an unpopular idea, but even the belief that you're getting more than something is worth can cause negative emotions which is a negative marginal utility.

The marginal utility is really the sum of the economic utility of the dollar and the emotional utility, you can in fact have a negative emotional utility that is greater than the strictly economic utility of the dollar.

And to be honest, I don't think I'd ever have that feeling, but it can be a realistic phenomenon.
Yes, the creators of the malware could also run the network. But they would spread wider by paying a bounty for each ransom, based on through whom the targeted system got infected.

The benefits are that the creators get more people to hero then spread their blackmail.

Call it affiliate, call it MLM, call it resellers, call it a distributed crime syndicate. Same thing.
If I invite some friends over for drinks and one one them takes a shit on the carpet in my living room I will kick them out. Shitting on the carpet is not playing nicely, according to me and "normal perceptions", whatever that is supposed to mean. I invited them over because I wanted some friends over for drinks, but there are a few things that I will not tolerate in my home. How can you possibly not understand this?
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> But even as
Windows-based "zip" products nibbled into PKWare's sales

Anyone remember Niko Mak? I heard whisper numbers back in the late 90s of high six figure monthly licensing revenue from companies that were desperate to remain BSA legal (their employees downloaded WinZip for personal use and exposed businesses to legal liability for using unlicensed software). He seems to have disappeared, as he rightly deserves. I assume he changed his name and lives on a private island. I still get WinZip marketing spam on my old email account. Last I remember, they were at version 67...
I'd say that parent is more accurate and that is the sanitized version...
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Maintainerless Debian?
How people with schizophrenia stay productive while managing symptoms
> #2: Goal: To be able to understand this function:
>
> // The .bind method from Prototype.js
> Function.prototype.bind = function(){
> var fn = this, args = > Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments), object = args.shift();
> return function(){
> return fn.apply(object,
> args.concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)));
> };
> }

I do not want to understand this absurdness. I want a comment that tells me what it does so I can rewrite it in a sane way.
> I guess that's part of Google's R&D process

It wouldn't have been the first time they allegedly do it like that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/339sty/ju...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp#Private_company_.282009.E...
Phones do have accelerometers, they're generally MEMS devices and are quite tiny. Many games use them as controls.
Have you considered that some of the 34% of people living in 'the middle' prefer to live there? I find it hard to believe you are seriously advocating the forced relocation of citizens in the name of making 'more sense'...
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Yes, and the user would have to whitelist them.

However, how much software do you really have that rewrites even 1/10th of all your documents?
Python Systems for Algorithmic Composition and Computational Musicology
Your raspberry pi note is interesting. My house has an alarm system in place from the previous owner which I've turned off and is not in use. I've been curious to know if there was anyway for me to utilize the fairly complete set of sensors without involving the original alarm company.
The author also doesn't realize how intertwined many agencies are, including the NIH.

It's not uncommon to have meetings that have NSF, DoE, DoD, NIH and HHS employees all in the same room. This was especially valuable during public health emergencies.
Putin girlfriend is Chinese married woman? LOL

Russia will eat Putin alive if this is true. Do you have any evidences for that, please?
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> The CIA is an "ends justify means" organization.

Yes, so take what they say or do with a grain of salt. For instance, as I wrote, they told us they had proven Iraq had WMDs but that was later found to not be true.

> Also, Bay of Pigs was far from an invasion. We didn't even send in air support!

You're manipulating the definition of invasion. An invasion is an invasion. Yes we did not send air planes.

And I already agreed with your point that the CIA is an organization whose intentions are allied with US national interests, I wrote that in my post actually.
Recently, came across reali.com which claims to do the same....
To be honest, yeah, in a lot of social environments that I've been in, if someone were to make a show of some really bizarre beliefs, they would be openly mocked.

I've worked on construction crews were people will rib each other over almost anything. If you start spouting off about the earth being flat, you're for damn sure going to catch some flak and everyone is going to have a good laugh at your expense.
How can you increase demand for housing and decrease the cost of housing at the same time?
Windows has all of those implemented in the windows store world, yet everybody is yelling how anticompetitive Microsoft is for wanting people to switch to that model.

If we had Linux on the desktop, we'd have Linux ransomware.
ARTIQ: next-generation control system for quantum information experiments
How is deep learning implemented in Amazon Go?
IMHO, Stallman made two mistakes:

1. He moved into politics (which is in my HO, one of the failure points of a lot of tech people. Everyone has a right to an opinion, but certain people have more talent at politics than others, and certain people have more talents at code than others).

He's a great programmer, and could have pushed the FSF community directly by committing and improving code. And even if he can't code anymore, he could have focused on fund-raising/raising awareness in winnable (as in, not facebook)/worthwhile (as in, not HURD) battles, where others would benefit also.

Like a free Flash or free CAD (which are "FSF High priority projects", though practically dead).

What new coding projects were they involved in since HURD started (OK. Replicant.)?

And how did his political rants help the FSF (and the Free Software movement as a whole) lately?

2. He doesn't let the FSF be larger than him.

Who's their 2nd in command?

Who'll take over after he passes on?

What will the FSF look like in 30 years?
That's the same rule that has been there for years and not related to the "experiment".
If you did that, a handful of people would be responsible for a huge number of votes in the electoral college. That might be interesting.
As opposed to anyone else in this discussion?
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Stonic Is Not an Ansible Fork
If they want to by it, that offer will not go away just because you ask about terms.

That being said, there are many reasons why a large company may not have the ability to partner with a very small side business (having to do with transaction cost and management overhead)

It never hurts to ask.
This is fairly old. It goes with John Resig's book "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Released" which was released at the beginning of 2013 [1]. I remember seeing this site up well before that. He started the book in 2008.

If you can work your way through this tutorial you'll gain a decent grasp of ES5 prototypes and functions.

[1]: http://ejohn.org/blog/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninja-releas...
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I'm suggestioning that American stop subsidizing vast unpopulated areas of its country for the benefit of a subset of the country. Once the subsidies are deverted, the areas will naturally depopulate.
Keep in mind that access to the source code not only to your software but the OS itself would mean the ability to modify or remove any locks you imagine are supposed to keep people from running unlicensed code. Given the way a lot of hardware works it probably requires licensing hardware and drivers as well lest someone sell dongles that interfere with the operation of the OS in such a way as to compromise its checks on the users freedom.

Thus the situation you imagine requires that the manufacturer only allow specifically state or corporate sanctioned hardware/software to run after all how do you tell the difference between random free software off the net and non free software that has had its license and identifying information stripped.

Of course now that we have all this great control over what OS/software you are allowed to run we can use our newfound control over the primary tool for communication, commerce, and culture for the entire human race to exercise any sort of control we want.

So all we have to do is implement 1984 and all the tools and systems required to enslave the human race so software makers a truly microscopic portion of the human race can make a few more pennies and thus be inspired to share with us the blueprints for some of our toys.

If this seems sarcastic maybe it is but you truly can't implement an effective way to give the user the source without also providing the freedom to use the software without paying without effectively taking away ownership of the device from the user.

What you are proposing is a terrible idea and you and those like you are truly a threat to the future of the human race. I hope you think through this more fully.
You aren't alone. Should you ever want to chat/commiserate/pair program, you can contact me through my HN account.

I don't have it all, though I have a lot, but I still find myself continuously drawn to a side that defies my own logic. I both glad and saddened to hear that I'm not alone.
At the very beginning, Google advertises it as custom domain service. And I joined due to the feature (I can get my domain email without any harassment of setting the email server). Later Google changed it to business oriented and abandoned users like me.

Eventually, I opened new account with gmail.com address.
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With all the exhaust in major metro areas you'd need cartridge-based filters. Personally I'd opt for 3M Multi Gas 60926s with P100 caps.

Then again, hauling your own air supply would result in far easier breathing and better cardio due to the added weight.
Surely not forced relocation, but on the other hand I don't quite understand why people think it's a good idea to fight urbanization on a policy level rather than embracing it.
Dark corners of Unicode (2015)
He's 15, I think it's okay to cut him some slack
Numato Opsis
Yeah, that's common for large companies, intentional or not.

They have a large set of stakeholders who need to sign off, and they work on different timelines, and they have whole departments of people whose job it is to develop and propose acquisitions, of which maybe one in ten actually happen.

A real offer comes with a real check. Don't engage more than very high level without a letter of intent. Don't stop what you're doing until the check clears.
Always escalate is my motto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
I think you're right that that is not the point of HN, but I think HN attempts to automatically (and the HN moderators attempt to non-automatically in some cases) detect various kinds of voting abuse, including that kind. It's possible that these detection mechanisms are flawed and that this story was upvoted in that way but managed to get past those mechanisms, but another possibility is that people found the concept interesting and upvoted for that reason (or hoped for it to produce some interesting discussion). Many of the other comments (most of which do post-date your original complaint, of course) do seem to support the hypothesis that some HN users would find it interesting.

With that said (and assuming you have sufficient karma to flag stories), I think that believing a story to have reached the front page via such abusive voting would be a good reason to flag the story, which will bring it to the attention of the mods, who hopefully would be able to determine whether anything improper was in fact going on.