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You use their code for free and call them "idiotic or malevolent" when they make it harder for you to use their code for free. I can completely understand the frustration of their users if this move makes their life harder but it's still pretty entitled of you to insult them because they changed the license to something you don't like.

It's perfectly understandable if you decide not to use their software because you find their license unacceptable but don't insult them for doing what they want with their own project. If a sizeable enough number of contributors are unhappy with the move they're still free to fork and continue the previous version of Mongo DB with the old license.
I have a T470 -- at the time the most recent T-series 14" Thinkpad. Everything pretty much worked fine? But that's just one data point. Perhaps if they're super new, you'll run into more issues. dom0 is hyperconservative with updates, so maybe you'll need to run testing-grade stuff to get all your hardware to work properly.

I think I had an issue with WiFi + suspend/resume but that was easy to fix, and fixed by default now. (It involves reloading the driver after resume -- that's automatic now but the setting lives in a config file.)
Wouldn't the client code be dependent on which API the gateway is proxying?
While Postgres definitely has support for document-store like behaviors and can function in that capacity just fine, that's not the same thing as saying you can just substitute it for a document-oriented store like MongoDB.

Having said that, for someone who's already using Postgres, it's a great way to introduce some document-related behaviors (as opposed to strictly relational ones) by using the features it already has.

Even MariaDB is taking steps in this direction with many non-traditional relational types of storage options now available.
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Farming is distributed over large areas of land called "fields", or when you have a lot of these over an even bigger area, "Ohio".
So has there been a startup yet that forked mongodb's pre-license change form? Get cracking, VC folks.
I want my dual panes back, isn't this a file commander? Who cares about games
Maybe I’m wrong, but passing laws to centrally limit top speeds in the car loving United States is probably only marginally easier for me to imagine passing than meaningful gun legislation.

I think the car recording the historical data and the police using this as evidence is the much more likely future scenario.

Let’s not forget speeding fines are a revenue generator...

As for life saving, maybe, but I’d need to see a lot of evidence. Modern cars are vastly easier to drive and safer at speed than cars 40 years ago, but we still often keep largely the same speed limits. 155mph in your modern German luxury car practically feels serene.
Organic farmers don’t use them
> they can guilt themselves

I dont feel guilty and wanna guilt trip someone. I'm interested in the subject, because there is a lot of false information.

Is buying Tesla really that great? What if I drive very little? Maybe my totals C02 would be low (expensive production of Tesla).

Is beef that bad for C02? I have to grow grass that captures C02.
Sure. I admit, I simplified things because hackernews can be a rather hostile environment on this topic. It's not that you can't use consent, it's (as you say) that legitimate interest is insufficient as most types of electronic marketing require consent and those where it is possible is made much harder to justify as a long-term strategy.

The PECR section on the ICO website is a good start: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/electroni...

Also, the ICO has an FAQ on exactly this at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... . It is the question "Can we use legitimate interests for our marketing activities?". The whole thing is useful, but the bit below the yellow call-out is specifically about electronic marketing, and says:

"If you intend to process personal data for the purposes of direct marketing by electronic means (by email, text, automated calls etc) legitimate interests may not always be an appropriate basis for processing. This is because the e-privacy laws on electronic marketing – currently the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) – require that individuals give their consent to some forms of electronic marketing. It is the GDPR standard of consent that applies, because of the effect of Article 94 of the GDPR." There's also a helpful table of possibilities below.

There's still the so-called 'soft opt-in', which is for cases where you're emailing someone that you've recently sold something to (or given a quote to) about a similar product or service and that you've given the explicit choice to refuse communications both when you collected the data and every time you've subsequently used it.

It's certainly possible to use legitimate interest for some forms of electronic marketing, but only in very specific circumstances. To give you an idea of it in practice, one of my clients has a marketplace style site. If you try and book a service but the booking falls through, for example because the service provider is unavailable, they'll email you within a couple of days if you don't look for someone new, pushing some suggestions. Then they'll stop emailing. That's legitimate interest through soft opt-in. They also send emails periodically about new service providers in your area, that is not covered by the soft opt-in so requires consent. Same for their general service newsletters.

There is also a PDF guide at https://ico.org.uk/media/1555/direct-marketing-guidance.pdf which has some good info. The header for the electronic marketing section is "General rule: only with consent", which I think is good advice. As others have said, there are other obligations under GDPR, so even if you can stretch the soft opt-in beyond what was intended, you're likely to run up against hurdles when it comes to the balancing test, or your data minimisation obligations. The soft opt-in is specifically for cases where a member of the public would expect to get communications because of the recent sale or enquiry, as time passes that expectation goes away and it starts to become very hard to justify in a GDPR context.
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I think it's a question of division of responsibilities OpenCV focuses on the CV part of the equation. You don't have to feed OpenCV the raw camera feed there can be a separate step that does the kind of image processing you're talking about.
>XcodeGhost potentially affects more than 500 million iOS users

That's cited directly from the article you posted. You're full of it and you know it.
> I realize that Africa is an enormous continent; I'm just curious if this doesn't also help out developers and startups in places like Nigeria...? I don't have a sense of the topology of the Internet throughout Africa vs particular African nations and the rest of the world.

It probably doesn't help developers in Nigeria get lower latency or cheaper access to AWS, but it may help them get more customers more quickly, as some other obvious markets that might be a better fit for services they develop would benefit from the region in South Africa.

However, it is quite expensive to operate data centres in Nigeria (as the electrical supply is not very reliable; I know that at least quite recently many DCs there need to run on generator about 10% of the time, I don't know if that has changed since).

There are, however, some initiatives to get more international intra-continental peering going (e.g. I believe at present most traffic between Nigeria and South Africa transits London).
Elon Musk is a psychedelics user. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates used LSD when they were younger. It’s not really a psychedelic, but I’ve always enjoyed the fact that Thomas Edison loved his cocaine wine.
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Yes. If Larry knew how a LISP is implemented, many internals would have looked better. the symtab, the optree, the stack and esp. the lexicals. Just compare to the ruby internals.

But at least he knew the terminology, and got the concepts right. In opposition to php and python which failed miserably.
This isn't censorship (dang just made a request). Creative people and everyone is welcome; you just have to follow the rules. If you're really after puns and low effort posts then check out reddit, but even there some communities (like legaladvice or science) will "censor" a user for such posts.
IP lawyer here :)

"If so, why can't an author make this part of the license?"

So let's separate out two questions implicit here:

Can you make this part of a license?

Would you win if you sued someone for violating it?

The answer to the first is clearly yes, you can license it however you want :-).

However, like most IP, in basically all countries there are limitations on how you are allowed to license things, to ensure the original goals of copyright are respected.

Those limitations are usually presented as defenses.

Van gave two examples of defenses.

There are others.

For example, patent misuse is a defense to patent infringement.

Here's a concrete example of patent misuse that may be easier to understand than copyright misuse:

You sell a thing that infringes my patent.

In order for you to avoid infringing my patent, I force you to pay royalties for 10 years (Rather than a smaller length of time).

But wait, the patent expires in 5 years!

Can I enforce this?

No. It's patent misuse. You cannot use your currently valid patent to force someone to pay royalties past the validity period of your patent.

Another example:

You have a product X that infringes my patent.
I use my patent on X force you into an agreement to pay royalties on a product Y that doesn't infringe my patent.

Can i enforce this?

No. You shouldn't be able to use the patent on X to force me to pay royalties on something that doesn't use your patent.

To bring it back to Van's examples, the copyright misuse is similar to the patent misuse i just gave you.

You can't leverage your copyright on X to force me to do something with an unrelated thing.

The GPL and AGPL are very careful about this. The AGPL applies to modified versions (which are derivative works) and only extends to pieces that are derivative works.
The GPL is the same - only the derivative works are touched.
That is within the copyright rights of the thing that was AGPL/GPL'd.

How do you know it's unrelated to a given copyright?

If X could not claim any copyright rights over it, it's unrelated. This usually comes down to whether it's a derivative work not because the other rights are not very broad in coverage.

Here, the license is taking X, and saying "You must do something with unrelated thing Y, which is clearly not within the scope of copyright of X". So I am trying to use my copyright right in X to force you to do it.
Note: No lawyer believes there is any reasonable argument that completely and totally independent piece of software X that does say, monitoring, is a derivative work.

So that's a good start on copyright misuse :)

(The other prong is about whether it restricts competition, which they already admit is their goal here)
Just like how the cloud is "hardwareless" functions are serverless.
Those specs mention producing half the competition's amount in optimal conditions, which I assume means 99% humidity. They don't actually say at what humidity level and temperature their product can deliver that much. They don't give any specific numbers at any specific temperature, only the machine's operating conditions and the upper limit on what it can produce.
I mean, its sorta why GMOs exist. To reduce the need of pesticides that are sprayed on farms. I've always considered GMOs to be the lesser evil when compared to standard pesticide usage.

Not all produce have a insect-resistant type however. So pesticides are still needed to protect certain plants.
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You've just invented the time communist utopia.
I've never heard it was bidirectional use, are there any vehicles that support that? The main negative against chademo (besides the huge plug format) is that it's not Hugh enough power in practice.
...which tells us nothing of their XPrize submission.
Already a decade ago there was Google App Engine, which was “serverless” as far as I can tell.

Back then developers were dismayed about the unpredictable cost of App Engine. The same problem remains today with Lambda and others.

Is it just a solution whose time has come now, ten years later? Or is there something else to Lambda that I’m missing?
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You can use JavaScript on the frontend to call a Lambda function that you 100% control (including CORS, etc). You can use this to do things like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, as well, versus just giving open access to an internal datastore.
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This is really simple. If your life allows it, sleep as much as makes you feel rested. Go to bed when you need to sleep. I have been fortunate enough to do this for the last two years and I can't stress the impact it has had on my mood and my mental health. Obviously the "allows it" part is a large qualifier, but still. I think it probably applies to a large amount of HN readers.
I honestly don't see how this can pass OSI or DFSG approval. It's a blatant violation of rule 9, which prohibits restrictions on distribution of other software.
I don't think the 'cold-start' issue should be taken lightly. Yes, some services won't care at all, and you can mitigate it as you say by choosing a particular backend. Yet it is still a big concern for Java for example when you can not use graalvm etc.
And miss out on the free discovery?
Have you tried micro-dosing psilocybin or LSD? Or even regular dosing?

I suspect you are speaking from a highly uninformed perspective.
I think you can absolutely do it (and have) using something like: http://jasperfx.github.io/marten/
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> the article goes to great lengths to avoid saying that the people in question are breaking the law.

Or maybe they didn't "go to great lengths" to use that as an excuse. Really, why is it even relevant? If an organization is doing wrong, no matter who they're doing it to or whether they also do right sometimes, that alone is sufficient to question support for them.

> Police sometimes kill innocent people, but that's not a reason to say the police shouldn't carry guns.

By the same token, very few immigrants are anything but innocent people looking to live and contribute to the American Dream, so there's no reason to preemptively exclude or bother them. There seems to be a bit of a double standard here. Bad cops? It's just "a few bad apples" to handle case by case after the fact (and half-heartedly in most cases). Immigrant criminals? Well, better put up a wall and do "extreme vetting" before we let anyone through.
Total Annihilation was one of the best examples of rock solid software that I had seen up to that point. My friend and I played it across the country on dialup modems, with 500 units each. It would slow down to a crawl, but it never crashed. We would optimize by giving each other 30 mins to build a fort and then we could attack at will. It was truly a thing of beauty.
Just a few thoughts.

For the vast majority of people, the future of photography will depend on how many of the techniques in the article are implemented in smart phones (as they don't have a dedicated camera).

For high-end camera users, the main providers are still in the early phases of introducing mirrorless devices an an alternative to DSLRs. Early mirrorless offer advantages in terms (e.g. framerates, weight, silent ops, previews, etc) but are still largely 'conventional' with respect to the computation techniques in the article. Many of these users are motivated to keep their existing lenses, which may impact the types of computational technique that are relevant (why compute bokeh when you can apply it in glass?)

I wonder what the sweet spot is for devices that really push the computational side.
Serverless is the awful term. Just like a websiteless website.
What you're saying holds true if you assume that everyone modding their car is doing so for the benefit of passing inspection at a track day.

How many people slap a turbo on their car without touching the wheels or brakes?

Nevermind if the upgrades or tune are sound to begin with.
Another problem is that the water doesn't taste great.
This is a welcome development.

FYI: Been using these extensions (or similar) for years to combat the white background fascists that took over the web and removed control of the GUI theme (in all 3 OSs!) in the last decade:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dark-background-lig...

- https://darkreader.org/

In a darkened studio environment, one of these is a must.
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I'm not sure what the question is, but the AGPL is very carefully drafted to avoid the problems Van is talking about.
It’s an overpriced dehumidifier. Pulling humidity out of the air. It’s not magic. It’s not new. There is water vapor in the air, every middle schooler knows this.

They are in Hawaii. An outdoor dehumidifier will work great in a water abundant area. How well do you think a dehumidifier will work in a low humidity area? The places that need water the most. It’s not making water, it’s pulling out the humidity.

This is such a scam.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. All these “smart” folks gave up 1.5mil and there are tech folks here nodding their heads because it’s xprize. Y’all turned off your thinking just because it’s xprize.

Say you want to help 3rd world poor and it gives you magic armor from logic apparently.
I might be way off base here but is that Jim Mason - Founder of All Power Labs? In that case it hints that gasification could be part of the solution.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I did not know. I guess I will have to look for the version GCC version which supported X86_64.. I might have to upgrade distros for GCC6 (older versions were i386).

Btw, this was a nice presentation of the idea: https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016/ocw/system/presentat...
> The owner of the code is entitled to license the software as they want it [1]

> ...

> [1]Whether it is enforceable is another issue.

As per the article, apparently not. Copyright Misuse [1] will stop them setting terms beyond a certain scope. You could argue that that merely makes the licence unenforceable but by that definition the only thing worth talking about is enforceability, so that doesn't seem like a good definition as there are practical enforceability issues to separately consider

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse
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I think your experience is highly atypical. Have you tried any other psychedelics? Or maybe your dose was too small? There are different kinds of mushrooms, but typically, a dose of 1/8 oz to 1/4 oz should be sufficient for a quite mind-expanding experience.
I wish the article had taken this question more seriously. Impracticability is a defense under contract, but a fundamental requirement in the US test is:

> "an occurrence of a condition, the nonoccurrence of which was a basic assumption of the contract"

Impracticability is not a defense against signing stupid or damaging contracts; it specifically releases a party when circumstances change such that a contract is no longer reasonable. Standard examples are things like the outbreak of war or a supply chain collapse, which don't render a contract literally impossible to fulfill but do place fulfillment outside the domain of any reasonable effort.

Defending against conditions which were already in place when a contract was signed is far harder, and even impossibility is not necessarily a defense if the impossibility is obvious at the time of signing. The only common defense I know of against conditions present at the time of signing is illegality, which of course comes up quite often with things like noncompete clauses.

The misuse complaint at least looks plausible, but I'm pretty baffled by the appeal to impracticability.
> Today cars are at least as much software as hardware and it's completely unclear which assumptions are hardcoded into them that you could invalidate by modifications.

This rings hollow as a novelty. If you replace the transmission with one that has higher gear ratios, it may raise the top speed past the maximum rating of other components. Any modification that makes the vehicle heavier may cause the brakes to be insufficient. Any modification that changes the weight distribution may have a number of difficult to predict consequences for steering and stopping. Tires that are better on a track may be worse in the rain. Tires with a different diameter may cause the speedometer to mislead the driver. Tuning the engine to reach higher RPMs may cause excessive hydraulic pressure and damages the brakes or steering. Anyone making any modification or repair may use non-OEM parts with arbitrarily different specifications.

These are all complicated engineering decisions that depend on the assumptions made by the OEM. Maybe the brakes are sufficient with an extra 700 pounds, maybe not.

Hardware isn't simpler than software, the assumptions are just less explicit. And encoding the complexity in software rather than hardware can make them less error-prone because software is more adaptable. It can read sensors and make realtime calculations. The assumptions encoded in hardware are static.
They mention it's based on ethereum, not currently their own token.
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> In rural conditions Bio- Gasification has proved to be very productive and efficient in creating a micro-grid.

That from the FAQ here http://www.skysource.org/faq/.
What’s amazing to me is when companies do things like this that, for the general public, make perfect sense only in retrospect.

Most seemly well-run companies are a total shit-show from the inside. Stupid projects with features that no one wants, that engineering can’t build, destined to never sell.

It’s just plain refreshing when you see a company firing on all cylinders (sorry, couldn’t help myself) to the point where a shrewd move that helps capture the market only becomes apparent, even to industry insiders, months or years later.

It’s particularly satisfying when the CEO maps it all out in public years ahead of time and then executes on that vision relentlessly for a decade, despite the constant hate and doubt.

</Fanboy>
The concept word is not clearly defined. As a programmer it seems natural to assume that a word is a short series of bits. Anything else is composition. Why is of a word but -ed isn't? ab- is from the same origion, as in aberrant. The difference isn't completely arbitrary. Bio Logy might as well be two wods. The keyword is lexicalization and how words are learned. Obviously, shorter words are easier to discover.
Yes. It's an Allwinner A64 chip underneath and they have binary blobs which they haven't ported to anything newer than 3.10
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EPA has this little chapter on organophosphates. Seems like this class of pesticides is well known to be toxic to humans.
Someone smart in this position would 'accidentally forget' to document and fix a bug he/she discovers while scouring the source code.

Then leave Apple and join another company and proceed to 'rediscover' it.