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1. If you aren't selling it, the UCC doesn't apply. Most people don't sell their open source software.

2. Most folks are aware of this risk when they start companies to sell open source software.

3. Most do not sell the software directly to consumers, and outside of the few states that don't allow disclaiming at all, most states are fine with disclaiming warranties in b2b transactions, just not b2c.

Most don't sell the software directly at all, and those that do are often selling support anyway :)
Sure. Dating back from the days of radio and cassettes, it is (to my knowledge) absolutely legal to make copies of streams for private use. Since artists are payed for copies via the GEMA, a organization distributing the german hidden taxes for it, people have the right to make such copies.

Copies for private use are as such not a gray area, but explicitly legal. I fail to see how a site that helps making those copies could be illegal in any way. There was a court fight in Germany over the backups the site was doing, but it is telling that it was only about that, not the core functionality, and that this current attack on peoples right was launched from an US court.
Factory tolerances are not the key ingredient for weather tight buildings. Water and air management at the joints is. Good management can be achieved by careful design or by proven practice. Proven practice is why shingles can be weathertight with only moderate attention.

The reason hippie domes leaked is getting the details right during construction is hard and foregoing proven practice makes it much much harder.

Like pretty much every machined building concept other than the mobile home, Fuller's ideas were unsuccessful. Mostly because building weathertight buildings is a solved problem. The solutions are just not evenly distributed.
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With traditional (coal, gas, nuclear) electrical power generation, one unit of energy is delivered to your wall socket by dumping about two units of heat directly into the environment somewhere else.
If You’ve Never Lived in Poverty, Don’t Tell Poor People What They Should Do
Its a pretty basic assembler built in. Most of the Go library is written in Go itself with assembly for a few critical functions so that is the intended use. You can still use a proper macro assembler for full blown assembly and link Go code against that.
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What does mean for AntMiner and people that sell the hardware for hashing power? SHA256 & scrypt hashers can't take cryptocurrency they are trying to mine with it? Not the end of the world, but ironic nonetheless.
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In the case of California specifically, the difference between federal taxes paid and federal money received represents about 7% of the state budget. Foreign aid is about 1% of the federal budget, though. Why would California spend more? (Edit: Of course its budget might have to triple if it didn't get all that federal money, so there you go.)
> I'm more concerned with someone being able to build a set of shared libraries on their distribution of choice and those shared libraries being able to interact naturally regardless of which compiler s/he uses to build each of them.

Sorry, but this is an unreasonable standard. Literally no language, including C supports this. With C it only works inasmuch as the C compiler authors work really hard to make it works, and even then it sometimes breaks (if your compiler inlines a call to malloc, and you free a pointer compiled with a different C Compiler that inlined a different malloc implementation, it can break horribly. Yes I've seen this happen.)

Some languages support cross-version linking (or whatever the language's equivalent of "linking" is), but I'm not aware of any that specify a complete ABI for unrelated implementations to support. IPC libraries do typically support this though.

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I don't want to go on a shared-library rant, but I am fairly strongly opposed to them (except perhaps in cases like how nixos manages it). You can take a statically linked binary from 1997 and run it unmodified on your linux machine today. It is a virtual guarantee that any dynamically-linked binary more than 2 years old will not work correctly. Linus puts a huge amount of effort into backwards compatibility, and it is completely destroyed by dynamic linking.
> No

Can you be more specific, especially with regards to private property and enterprise? Are you arguing that it's my human right to publish on the front of the NYT, or have my submissions on the front page of HN? Or to give speeches in your living room?
This is the first time I've heard of "initial coin offerings" but eg. the Bloomberg article doesn't bother to explain the term at all. I can't be the only one, right?
> But by collectively enforcing mandatory taxes we can make government work.

It's arguable whether giving government more money results in government working better.

By some accounts government is a demonstration of waist and an exercise in excess.

Government departments are always chronically underfunded, primarily because no government department PR employee ever got promoted by saying "we have enough money".
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I asked for a point, not for a pointer to source code. I can RTFS myself, but after 20+ years of reading and writing code relevant to the question: again, do you have an actual point?
> but the politically active folks terrified me

I hear this. It's frightening how some people can rationalize taking extremely punitive actions in response to encountering mere disagreement or differing identity.

Everyone needs to remember that the people they disagree with are people too, and treat them as they'd like themselves to be treated.

> I think the current level of political discourse is downright dangerous.

I would call it polarization. The discourse is just a consequence of that.
It would be interesting if you figure out a way to connect it with the actual source of the document. So for example instead of banks or other utility services sending statements/bills etc to my email they should send (upload) it here.
This is my fear for the future that all companies will adopt a similar system. Products will only be available to the rich, unless you submit to identification practices.
University of Houston just recently dropped Calhoun as well: https://www.click2houston.com/news/university-of-houston-to-...
Thank you. That paper was really good.
One major difference is that ReactOS uses windows drivers for your hardware.
The majority of farmers weren't running a farming business--they we're sharecroppers who grew 1 or 2 crops and took the price they could get.

>I believe that leaves the electorate less susceptible to magical thinking, less lazy

This part is just romanticizing the past and fetishizing hard labor. You really think our current electorate is more prone to magical thinking than it was 100 years ago? Chain gang convicts from a century ago should be fantastic at picking leaders right?

>and less inclined to expect the government to fix their lives and less willing to have the government run their lives.

And this part is just demonstrably wrong. The New Deal was very popular among farmers and coal miners--they were most definitely calling for the government to fix their lives in a way we haven't seen in decades.
Most loopholes are aimed at big corporations and high-income people ($1M+). You and I cannot take advantage of them easily.

Loopholes:

- obfuscate the fact that "certain" people, who should be paying 35% are not, in fact, paying a penny.

- give incredible power to the people who decide what "certain" group to reward with them or threaten to withdraw them
Honestly - I loved the first iteration and have jumped in to play it again this time round. I love it still (again).

It's changed a lot. It's upgraded again there is a tonne of stuff to do, lots to see and explore and plenty of "hooks" to give you the excuse to see them.

NMS gets a lot of hate and I don't think it's deserved but hey if the author doesn't want to play it, then it's no skin off my nose.

They can do what they want.
Microsoft already has a patent on using in-home censors to set fees based on how many people are watching a TV. I'm excited to see us reinvent TV taxes as a shady, privacy-destroying rent we pay to tech companies...

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
I remember that story well. I still assert that someone could find out EVEN MORE with my web history and location data.
Given what was said on business-insider I'd look at the statement to potentially be far more far-reaching -

http://uk.businessinsider.com/initial-coin-offering-china-bi...

It could be that all crypto-currency trading, either between crypto-currencies or from crypto-currency to 'fiat' in China is now illegal.
Open world games are notoriously disappointing. "What is this game supposed to be?" is a great question. Are you trying to explore? collect resources and upgrade grind? build things? combat (ground or space)? By being all these things, they became nothing. All encompassing space games (for example EVE) take years to build, usually in the form of updates after release.

As for the UI. It looks like its designed so the PC and consoles have similar UIs. Also they are inspired by context menus, which sacrifice UX for flexibility. (Pretend the inventory is a file system).
For a lot of people in the US, the two options are either make more money, or move to a bad neighborhood. There are $30k-45k houses for sale that would turn my commute 14 minutes via bike, but it's not somewhere I would want to live.
I am using the built-in "Adaptive brightness" with my Pixel XL and have also used twilight, f.lux (on a rooted Nexus 6). I would say to just go with "Adaptive brightness." It has the least issues overall and definitely won't be a bother in terms of persistent background notifications or anything else, especially with the new Android.
> confessed that they simply read the textbook out loud to their students in classrooms without computers.

The root of the problem is this kind of rote-based Asian education system. I started learning to code when I was about 6 years old because it was fun and it was empowering to be in command of this electronic monster that could do all kinds of awesome stuff at lightning speed. There was simply no other reason at that time.

People learn well if you make it fun to learn.

Have a hackathon with the school computers. Have a contest for students to build the best website for the school. The best chatbot. The most useful application. The most educational application. Give prizes. Make it so children enjoy it. Repeat.
(disclaimer: I like make but not macros)

> And make has deficiencies that are a nightmare to work around and get right (e.g. spaces in filenames, recursion, ...)

Yes! we seem to be stuck in a local maximum with make. I wrote my own make replacement, as have many before me, and learned the folly of my own ways.

Nowadays I use (and love) make despite its terrible handicaps, but I really wish there were something fundamentally similar but a) less C-focused and b) containing many fewer footguns.
Need support for booting from the USB flash drive in the drivers. http://vgal.ru.com/
It goes from being a post blaming problems on SV to a post pointing out that there are problems. I like it better with SV removed, but that's not what the post is.
Given that it has already been tried in the Detroit area, and has resulted in the state of Michigan arguing that "literacy is not a right" [1], there's no reason to see that as a good thing. When a school system so utterly fails the students that 18-year-olds cannot read, expanding such a system is beyond incompetent.

Trying to change the status quo is only a good thing if you are trying to change it in a positive direction.

[1] http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/11/21/state-m...
Do they risk anything if they lie about the fact that the videos are unedited? Could investors sue them for example?
What did they get wrong?
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/verizon-wants-to-build-an-a...
For a very long time, Swiss banks were bastions of impenetrable secrecy. The wealthy from all over the world used to stash their wealth there because they knew it was safe from prying eyes and even from the nearly all-powerful IRS. But then a couple of decades ago, the US government successfully made Swiss banks much more transparent -- to the effect that they are not nearly as reliable a safe haven for tax evaders as they were.

This doesn't mean that the wealthy have no more places to hide their money, but it does make it much more difficult for them, and is a sign of progress.
> all a sovereign nation needs to do to kill it is make convertibility to the local currency illegal.

This only works if all countries do it, and as is evident from the difficulty in getting coordinated world-wide action on climate-change, this is problematic. As an example, if I have tokens worth enough to say, buy a mansion in France, I can certainly find a local person who vacations in France that will take them for payment in exchange for some local asset.

What I'm saying is that it can easily be an asset without being a currency, and that is OK. A government can make it not viable as a local currency, but they can't make it not be an asset.
The tech powering Boxy 2, one of the most successful web wrappers for the Mac
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Don't see why not.
I doubt WhatsApp chose XMPP first and then ejabberd/Erlang. Even if they had built a custom protocol, the massive-scale concurrency required would have made Erlang just as good a target to build on. Java could have come close, but Erlang was the language with first class Actor-model and native massive-scale concurrency support.

Actually, they do use a custom protocol, one that heavily derives from XMPP. Turns out, they didn't need to build a backend from scratch in their chosen language because a similar one already existed.

Without inputs from the WhatsApp engineers on their early choices, my version of things^ is at least just as valid as yours.

EDIT: I was wrong. Source: an interview one of the creators of WhatsApp gave to wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/whatsapps-co-founder-on-how-th...
Not totally sure what you're responding to. I was just commenting on this statement from the parent -

>The business leaders who really matter are motivated by their passion and curiosity, shaping their legacy, changing the world, etc.

I agree though. Most laborers work 10x harder than I do. I'm just rewarded from having some obscure knowledge. I do not necessarily agree that we should be going after individuals though. I think corporations are the correct target.
Plus now they get to spy on us using tiny little cameras !
That's a pretty big "if".
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Ugh NMS. Didn't get superhyped but bought it at launch, listened to that soundtrack by 65daysofstatic for a few weeks, played the game for about 30 minutes. It was just so boring. They had the tech to make universes but made the core gameplay so boring you didn't care. How is that possible?

The game is now what it could have been, but it makes me uncomfortable even enjoying the game because I remember the dev lying on the day of release about multiplayer. That breaks some kind of contract between producer and consumer. Oh, and the FOV on the PS4 version is horrific, interesting way of extending a consoles lifespan.

I think NMS is a glimpse of the future, but hopefully someone else will take their formula mainstream.
So what's your personal take on the posted article?

The post article would suggest NMS is being pulled in a lot of different directions... it has a single player quest, but it's not a great quest-based game. It has sandbox elements, but no obvious gameplay loop to make the sandbox compelling. It doesn't speak to the multiplayer elements, and I don't have personal experience with them, so I don't know how well they fit.

The Verge seems a fair bit more charitable regarding the changes, while acknowledging that the game is still flawed. They seem to like the additional quest components, and feel the overall engine improvements have been well done. But it still doesn't seem to address the core issue this article is focused on, which is that they feel NMS is a jack of all trades but a master of none.

So what's your take?
This post has extra meaning when one looks at your nickname! I am with you, we are dealing with too much unnecessary stuff.
In order for the windmill to turn, some energy must be taken from the wind and turned into that rotation. This hinders the wind.

If you were going to try and go turn that windmill, would you just freely spin it with 0 effort? No you'd have to push, it would hinder you.
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The real problem is that if you need a person who knows things like reading, writing and basic maths then you better ask for a 4 year degree since high school graduates are no longer expected to know those things. This is a huge problem for all of those who actually learn the things you should in high school since they will be forced to pay a ton of money and spend 4 years just to show that they aren't idiots.
The comment up above in the chain was wondering whether running Solaris (or derivatives) offered any advantage. While I'm sure the packages you listed _run_ fine, how difficult would it be to find support for each when running on Solaris? You can run those softwares on Solaris, but is Solaris on the "supported platforms" list?

Not debating here, BTW; I enjoyed my time with Solaris and then its offshoots.

Edit: The thinking here only applies to systems running in production where official support is pretty much mandated.
Note: I disagree with the previous poster's 'guilt by association' ideology for reasons you posted.

To be fair, I bet that Reddit would have an easier time than toll roads in identifying those criminals and banning them. With that said, however, I think that the issue is very foggy in who is guilty, and that Reddit is actually relatively accessible for law enforcement compared to other sites the criminals may be on.

For people who are truly guilty of it, their presence on Reddit may offer law enforcement a greater chance at apprehending them.
Exactly. When getting started initially, it can be a huge time savings to get your basic full text experience running in Postgres directly, if that's already your main storage DB. Setting up ES is not at all trivial for the average developer and can waste a lot of precious time too early in a product's lifecycle.
Yes, Even though I think it would be quite hard to get many of these businesses on board. Probably it would be easier to act as a pipe. The user enters e.g. username@documentdeck.com as his email address with the provider and all emails are then forwarded to the user. Thereby intercepting all invoices.

Maybe I'll do custom integrations with big utility companies as you mention. :)
A guy who's an investor in one of the biggest ICOs of all time (Filecoin) wants governments to not ban them. But it's not about him; it's about "beating China to market". ok.
Biggest game changer in terms of my skills as a developer was learning to write cache friendly code ie: principal of locality/locality of reference. Even within the confines of the JVM https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/6hlpbn/techniques_fo...
Github repository => https://github.com/getbannerman/babl/
In other words, the provider's attempting to "look into your eyes," and determine how much value this is providing, thus how much you're able to pay, and base what they charge you off that.

It's called price discrimination. As Joel Spolsky says in his essay on the topic [1], "it pisses the heck off of people."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
>NMS gets a lot of hate and I don't think it's deserved

Should we just ignore all of the hype and promises made by the developer/publisher which were never delivered on? That's where the hate comes from. They promised something much more than what they delivered.

Yes, they've made improvements, and that's great, but it still doesn't contain some of the biggest features promised while the game was still in dev. The marketing of this game was very deceptive, and they deserve what they got for that.

Besides... most find the game pretty boring.
I've seen people earnestly discuss climate skepticism here, which is a pretty taboo opinion to have these days, at least (let's say) in tech circles. So I don't think it's thought police. More like fun police.
Perhaps slightly off-topic, but what are the best hardware/carrier options in USA currently if you want vanilla Oreo that updates reliably instead of a custom ROM (w/ no carrier or third-party overlays and skins)?
Eh, different strokes. Every time I have to use Makefiles I yearn for the comparative flexibility and simplicity of the JS ecosystem.

Make files just seem good to users of the due to experience. They work, but let’s not pretend they’re easy to work with.
> I should hope the coding exercise would reflect what they would be doing!

Sadly, I have not found this to be the case almost anywhere I have worked or interviewed (seems to be especially relevant the bigger the company is).
I didn't actually say I agree with you. I said I get your point.

My point was that you admitted a single argument won't convince everyone that database semantics matter, and then went on to list two features that MySQL handles just fine, regardless of how well it handles the other things you care about.

You may as well have said "a pet badger is better than a pet bulldog in so many ways, for example it will attack/chase home invaders".

Edit: I have no actual idea if you can have a badger for a pet, or how effective they really are at home protection but I imagine they'd be badass at it.
I don't understand your comment. You drive your kids to school without complaining, but if you weren't working you'd also drive your kids to school without complaining?
I too am very interested in the kinds of niche jobs you do. Or rather how I might be able to break down what I do similarly.
Open world games are great for me. I can't stand it when a game locks me into a pattern.
What makes you think that poor people are unaware of what's going on? Like they must be simpletons that can't comprehend the concept of privacy? In my experience, they know how messed up the world is. They don't have a choice, but they know... and they are constantly coming up with low-tech ways to screw the man.
Agree. God forbid you have to maintain cross-platform compatible makefiles either.
>> You think 7 percent is a small performance improvement?

I think a 7% reduction in CPU utilization for TLS is small given the vast bulk of systems that spend most of their time IO bound on network interfaces and/or storage and will see little to no improvement in throughput. I allowed that Facebook may see this as an important improvement given their scale; it could be worth millions of dollars in power and/or hardware.

>> that's a good thing ... it's still a good thing.

Sure, it's good. I didn't characterize anything as "bad," merely "small."
At least one seems to turn up in every ICO discussion on HN :)

AFAICT it's a way of issuing your own coins/tokens, which people pay for (usually in ether) and they generally act as a sort of share of the enterprise they are funding - promises of profit sharing etc are usually there. Many seem to be rather worthless, and some ideas have apparently achieved masses of funding based on some buzzwords and a white paper. These tokens can then be traded, with values dictated more by hype-cycle than the actual progress of any product.

IMHO it's part of the current trend of reinforcing and amplifying the wealth of those that already hold crypto-currencies and are already plugged into the scene. Witness the BCC fork a few weeks ago now ICOs, etc.