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Ask HN: What are the drawbacks of releasing my language under GPLv3+link exc?
Hello,

I was going to publish the source of my language under GPLv3 with the linking exception.

To me it looks like an ideal option: it protects the project and its contributors, and it doesn't result in any inconveniences for companies, since a compiler is not a library that has to be linked. And of course it can be used to develop proprietary software.

But several people are confident [1] that if I don't go for a copyfree license like MIT or Apache 2, lots of developers and companies will be scared off from contributing.

I'd understand if it were a library, then most simply wouldn't be able to link it. But you don't link a compiler, and the linking exception allows to use the stdlib without any limitations.

If they want to modify the compiler, it's easier for companies to contribute rather than support their own fork any way.

And if someone really needs a copyfree license, I could always have a separate license for them.

What are the drawbacks I'm not seeing?

Thanks

[1]: https://github.com/vlang-io/V/issues/22
And Monkey Island 2—though that wasn’t generated, it was just a large pile of musical glue that let the music flow from one area to the next.
I was reading a chess book and it had transcript of a match played by someone Duchamp; was amazed to learn that it was the same man as the artist. At one point in his life he transitioned from art to chess, even wrote books on openings.
Fascinating. Curious how on waking up at the end, the body flattens somewhat and adopts the shape and color pattern of the surroundings, as if adopting a defensive stand and hiding. Not unlike dogs and cats waking up after what seems like a violent dream.
[1] doesn't have anything to do with parsing (the problem would exist even if the compiler were fed the AST directly; the parser does not perform type inference).

[2] hasn't been an issue since 2011.
Imagine how it goes for military aircraft. If a Boeing military jet crashes, there's no NYTimes coverage, no foreign governments pressure, no dramatic images of emergency response team around crash site. Maybe just a single family voice, or one over zealous Pentagon officer asking questions. But if Boeing doesn't even acknowledge risks after a phone call with Trump, I can imagine Boeing always claiming their military jets are the safest aircraft ever.
Interesting that you mention the 707 since the UK ARB determined it to be wholly unsafe until Boeing was forced to install hydraulic boost for the rudder. Several of the type had already been lost in training accidents due to lack of pilot command on the rudder. The US regulator showed little interest.

> Altering the 737, with known and proven characteristics, is low risk

But that's the problem; altering aerodynamics, adding three tonnes of empty weight, new FBW wing spoilers and a higher thrust line means that the characteristics are no longer proven and you should be testing from scratch again.
The Myth of the Overworked American
Learn to Use NMAP for Port Scanning, Port States and Port Scan Types
Background music in games has had weird dynamic elements for decades. Lucas Arts adventures that used iMUSE occasionally had variants of tracks that they would blend between. Early versions that relied on MIDI hardware could also incorporate tempo changes anywhere in the track in sync with the on screen transitions. The graveyard in Monkey Island 2 is a good example: it has one track that shifts its mood slightly between screens.

A more generative example is the music in Portal 2. There are several aspects to its music that are subtle, purely generative and integrated with the gameplay. For example, the each receiver for the laser beams start playing an additional, random voice over the background music track as long as it is hit by a ray. It is a bit faint, bit it is there. It becomes cool in those levels where you have several of them next to each other
They are starting to play a randomized concert while you are solving the puzzle. Someome made a long and elaborate writeup about this and other aspects of the game's music, but I can find it now.

It is a but funny because games shifted away from using sound synthesis amd sampling for music to studio recorded tracks over time as they started to have enough storage space for it. But this now limits how you can process the music to make it dynamic.
I've heard that the procedure is quite similar in price (ie new tech, high $$), but when you compare a 4 hr open heart procedure, 3 days in CICU and another 3-4 days on the ward with 1 hour in the cath lab and observation overnight there is room for significant savings
> Microsoft already has an operating systems business in Windows.

Windows the OS is gonna die sooner or later, it's a question of time. Windows the legacy application API layer is probably gonna stick around forever.

Linux kernel + proprietary Windows application compatibility secret sauce seems like a killer combination. (Think Wine, except easy to use and actually working, and commercial.)

I think the only thing stopping Microsoft from following this plan is legacy devs and managers having a vested interest to keep their jobs around.
They were going to hit up the Federal government for almost half the cost but not even apply for that in the first 20 years of planning?
Those are not at all better. They're mixed materials. Much harder to "recycle," in practice even if collected, usually just burned.
Anki Vector places shoes with machine learning
Apps like WhatsApp/Insta have relatively small feature-sets. I doubt you can pin their success on their tech-stack. It's more like they aggressively avoided feature creep.
So what you're saying is the chair needs a leg device the periodically squeezes your legs a little to pump out those clots. Gotcha.
This is their eighth Show HN.
It reminds me of a certain kind of sheath. Don't want too come off as too vulgar, but latin roots reveal all:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sheath+latin
Arrange redelivery time when I missed package delivery. Actually it is a chatbot (or simple webapp) inside IM. I don't need to install a separate app or go to the official page to find the page.
I'm going to point to this article next time someone argues with me about covering their mouth when they smile.
The site was just down for several days, apparently due to high amount of comment spam so likely that’s why they are now extra fussy about the what accesses it and where from.
nope, and by a very long shot.
I agree with you, but cars have optional packages for warning lights for lane changes and automatic braking. It’s not that hard to imagine.
Meanwhile in China we have 9-9-6. The US needs to wake up to whether it wants to stay in the game.
Python has (optional) types on the right, and no variable declaration keyword.
But can you have the audio from their mobile web player continue to play in the background?
Pyrex has changed; it's not a conjecture. Modern Pyrex is physically and verifiably a different material than traditional Pyrex.
No, codepoint length is totally useless for monospaced console output, see the third example. Grapheme clusters are closer, but still wrong in the presence of wide characters.
Are you saying blame is the answer?
Came here to mention mynoise. Absolutely love the website (plays all day in my home, I've spent an embarrassing amount of time curating my tunes) but think the app needs some work.

If the author does indeed peruse HN, I've got a few suggestions for sounds, but I'm sure you're completely inundated by such things :) Thanks!
Nobody will use it -- you need to reduce, not add friction to people trying out your language. Nobody wants to read the license, or negotiate a special license for a new language.
How is it different from node.js?
Did you read the poetry? It barely even makes grammatical sense.
> for all this experiment to be valid to begin with,the idea that superpositions exist must be true, correct?

Depends what you mean by "exist". All that needs to be true - and is true - is that QM provides an accurate model of the experiment. For many of us, QM is just probabilistic mechanics; i.e. probability theory applied to mechanics[1], and so long as you maintain the distinction between (epistemic) probability space states and (ontic) configuration space states (something the article under discussion here unfortunately fails to do), no ontic existence of [superposition] states is ever assumed in the first place.

[1] More precisely, a natural and necessary generalisation of the classical, Kolmogorovian probability theory you might be familiar with (necessary because of the noncommuting random variables):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315457

See also: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/files/2011/...
Well, one use it has is to know when to stay away from something that requires it despite not needing it. Do not install such application.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407599
Seems like such an odd name for a cord that “stops” production... I imagined by the naming that the world must have resumed flight of the 737 Max or something like that. “And.... on!” or a race “and... go!”.
Good to know, I wasn’t aware of these in factories.
A lot of commercial flights are on single-aisle planes. The 737 is a very old design, with many updates, and a brand new plane designed from the ground up to fit today's market will likely be more significantly more efficient.

It's just that the 737 has been good enough with changes every so often for a long time, so Boeing has done a lot more fully new designs for larger planes; some of which had tremendous gains in efficiency while increasing passenger comfort; the 787 is reported to use about 20% less fuel than the 767.
That is not a difference of politics but of what you are looking at. If the subject is public health policy you look at statistics and the big picture. If you look at one particular patient you don't. Same here: If the subject is the fate of one person and one person only (meaning that person isn't a "Fake" stand-in example and the subject really is the big picture) then you can and should talk about that person's behavior. If the subject is the big picture that's useless because you can't change people and you should make policies that work and don't demand a huge genetic change. Same in crime: Individuals are and should be held accountable, but public policy should not and does not rely on people to change but sets the framework.

So, no contradiction necessary. The exact same person can have both views - depending on what the subject is. However, lots of discussions and comments focus on individuals (even if no concrete one is chosen) when the subject is the big picture.

I think so-called conservatives and progressives would find that they are not actually all that far apart at all if they really looked at individual cases. It must be true individual cases - people tend to extrapolate and still think about the population (coming up with things like "slippery slope" arguments, or giving small criminals huge sentences to "send a signal").
A Master Regulator of Regeneration
No but we should be careful not to make it seem like 800k salaries are the norm.
While Kryoflux was first at dedicated hardware, it's worth noting a software solution using Amiga 1200 was used beforehand by softpres.org to low-level read floppies, and that there's open hardware alternatives to kryoflux today.

Fluxengine: http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

As an aside, for Amiga floppies specifically:

USB floppy controller for Amiga disks: https://github.com/jtsiomb/usbamigafloppy

With an Arduino: http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/
I thought it was also due to micro movements of your body trying to remain stable. Kind of like driving a truck on a rocky road but at a much smaller scale for much longer.
I’m picturing a room full of these in the next season of “Silicon Valley”...
Wow. What a plot twists. I was expecting something like "The periodic table has inner logic and structure based on profound lows of our universe, while html is a random pile of crap made by fools like us". Instead, I got a much more interesting explanation.
A lot of (or most) music in video games already is procedural.

• Disasterpeace's most famous soundtracks all incorporated some measure of procedural music happening at runtime — Fez, Hyper Light Drifter, The Floor Is Jelly, Mini Metro... this ranged from simple mixtures of tones and textures at random intervals to very advanced, tightly integrated (re-) composition systems.

• Most games will dynamically mix different "stems" together based on the action in the game. Amon Tobin's soundtrack to Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a great example of this, but it happens in pretty much every AAA game now (and most indies, if not something more ambitious like the above). Another great example was Banjo-Kazooie on the N64. In simpler cases there are 3 or 4 different variations of each piece of music, but it's not uncommon to find a game with many more. Couple that with Fmod to apply filters at runtime (like a lowpass when diving underwater) and you have a very lively, dynamic soundtrack that adapts to the gameplay.

I could list a ton more examples, but that'd be tiring. A key point is that while this music is procedural, it's not generative. In other words, while it's common to find games where existing music is remixed dynamically, you rarely find games where the music is being composed on the fly.

Another interesting aspect to consider is the relative rarity of generative or procedural sound effects. Most sound effects are played back as-recorded, with perhaps some Fmod filtering. Mario Odyssey one-upped this by playing different sound effects depending on the moment-to-moment chord changes in the music, so that the sound effects would harmonize and "play along" with the music — to beautiful effect. But rare is the game that fully dynamically generates sound effects at runtime.
It's almost more profound in some ways - on a lot of modern TVs, a dead channel is displayed as being a solid field of bright blue. So, it changes the way Sprawl's sky appears to each reader, but it makes the change take place in Case's head. If it's bright blue, and a person recognizes that first as related to a TV, what does that say about the way they perceive the world? Especially with how bad Case wants digital access.
The track format[0] of OS/2 is quite special.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Extended_Density_Format
That sounds like a recipe for terrible productivity and inability to do creative work...
There were these social networks called high school.
Bought Corelle dining set which had ‘Made in USA’ printed on the box. Opened the box and the white color of the mugs doesn’t match white color of the rest of the set because they were Made in China. One of the miniscule and still very irritating thing. World Kitchen is the owner of both Pyrex and Corelle.
The only reason this is coming up again is because Instant Pot was just bought by the Pyrex parent company, and everyone is worried they will reduce product quality in the Instant Pot the same way they did for Pyrex.

Pyrex was changed to stop people from making meth. Instant Pot will be changed to stop people from making bombs.
They call it "voluntary" then say the creepy machine locates a nerve in the cows rear and stimulates it to induce urination. Nothing voluntary about forced urination... But these are animals routinely force-impregnated so maybe they're used to be abused.
From the article:

> Lion Air 610 should never have been allowed to get airborne on October 29, a conclusion shared by those familiar with the inquiry. The plane simply wasn’t airworthy.

Get the feeling there will be a large amount of cognitive dissonance on HN once the final report is released.
Oh boy, ok. Just making sure that's what you'd say. Good luck out there pops.
I've been trying to find cheap 48v power supplies for 1A and less telcom gear, but they seem to be pretty spendy. Cheaper to buy old gear that includes the PSU than order the PSU itself.
I have a hard time believing this is a serious product, the number associated with this, is someone's person cellphone.

and never in all the years have I been coding have I thought, you know if I was just pitched at 140 degrees, my life would be so much easier.

but hey, if someone has 3600 bucks to throw away on an awkward "nerd throne" this is the place to pitch it right?
Yeah people need to let go of the idea of cute happy cows living free in grass planes. The drawing on your milk carton is far from the reality of these animals.
Did anyone use Teletext? I booked a holiday from an advert on there once. Of course you had to just phone them when you wanted to book. It was also good for a laugh playing Bamboozle [1]. It was like a mini internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle_(quiz)
There are people everywhere who work very hard. A corporate culture doesn’t tell you much about socially positive outcomes in research.

A faith in corporate culture may, though. Conformity, in any country, is incompatible with effective R&D.
Your comment reminds me that (AFAIK) there aren’t really great rental sources for many pieces of gear. I have often wished something like this existed, and not even for computers (considering I am a dev and have a MBP). But, it would be nice to be able to rent a high end tool that you may only need for one small project, or a high end piece of music gear - like a $2,000 microphone, or guitar amp, etc. - from a well-known and trusted supplier with simple shipping techniques and easy return process (ship back in original packaging with included label, etc).

I suppose enough people use Amazon like this, but they will eventually ban you for abusing their return process.
Note that 'younger' in the title refers to people in their 70s as opposed to 80s, so perhaps confusing on Hacker News. From the article:

> Aortic valve replacements have been performed for decades, and surgeons know the valves placed during surgery last at least 10 to 15 years. It remains to be seen if TAVR valves will fare as well. The question is especially important for younger patients. The average age of subjects in the current studies was the low to mid 70s, younger by a decade or more than most patients getting TAVR now.

If anyone here needs a new aortic valve, you might also want to read about the latest results on the less-known Ross procedure and whether it might be suitable in your situation.
It's been a thing since the 1960s especially for young patients (children) but I hadn't even heard of it until last year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_procedure

Ouzounian, Maral et al. 2017. The Ross procedure is the best operation to treat aortic stenosis in young and middle-aged adults.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(17)31124-8/fulltext
That was really helpful with regards to understanding how to get saturation and brightness from hex. I hadn’t seen that explained before.
Protip: You can tell soda-lime from borosilicate by using a homemade polarimeter. [1] Get a pair of polarizing sunglasses, and hold them in front of a computer monitor at such an angle that the screen looks black. Hold the cookware in between the glasses and the screen. You should now be able to see the screen (see my synchronicitous comment [2] yesterday about the link here to quantum mechanics). If you see a checkerboard pattern, you are holding tempered soda-lime. (The pattern is due to the tempering process.)

Soda-lime also has a distinctive greenish tinge when viewed edgewise. Borosilicate is clear.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=2746878#p27468...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19406122
But why, what's the friction?
Submarine anecdote: we'd bump up oxygen levels a little bit to make the crew more alert. Oxygen had a max spec that we worried about because high oxygen could cause fires.

Anecdotally a submarine crew is too exhausted to feel effects from CO2 when it's in spec. If atmospheric controls were down and CO2 shot up, headaches were normal. Far from a controlled experimental environment.
Meat is highly subsidised. If it wasn't cheap lab meat would be here in 2 or 3 years. It's crazy to think that I have to pay for meat, whether I eat it or not.
No sources are actually blanket "banned". Some exceptionally bad ones like the Daily Mail are "deprecated", but that does not mean it can't be used anywhere ever. For your edification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per... (there's a legend at the bottom)
"Raising children is the primary function of society."

Uh, says you. If people can't afford something, maybe they shouldn't get it - children included.
"Not enough oxygen" is what laypeople usually say when they experience elevated concentration of CO2.
Putting "tool borrowing" into Google comes back with multiple apps already.

The one that I hear about people using most often is https://fatllama.com

The liability side of this will be interesting. I know with Fat Llama the reason I generally hear about them is due to items being damaged or stolen.
Killing this cows is probably the best thing farmer's do to them, considering the helish life they live.
Fair enough. I ought to have omitted the "(and therefore more liberal)" since it's a bit inflammatory. Either way, in comparison to other communities, HN users tend to be more academic, etc.
Isn't it too costly to produce vacuum for every object pick ?
But glassware can be used in microwaves, and metal can not. I don't cook in glassware, but I very frequently heat food in glassware.
> Not everyone is motivated by success. Grigori Perelman?

I don't see how he wasn't motivated by success. He wasn't solving recreational math puzzles.

True, his definition of success didn't include money or prestigious prizes. Still, proving a great and long-standing theorem is a way greater accomplishment than becoming a millionaire.
Sorry I was not clear. I meant in the US.
If you're going to keep the Windows API then why would you replace the NT kernel from under it when it is, in many ways, better than the Linux kernel? What's more likely is that Microsoft buys Canonical so they can initiate the extend part of the EEE strategy with Subsystem for Linux.
Git + Jupyter notebooks is a disaster though.
A created date might encourage an assumption that the date is a reliable way to order events.
I said "kind of", because there isn't a direct link no.

But my chances still increase. If I roll that die once, I know my chances of rolling a 6 are poor, if I roll it 10 times the odds would be better, a million times almost certain.

If my chances of success are steadily increasing, why is that not progress? (especially for an algorithm based solely on chance).
>Are you saying no one ever messes with the results of paper ballots? There's plenty of dictatorships committing voting fraud as it is.

And we know they do, because it's trivial to observe. Without paper it would be totally opaque, you would just have a raw number and nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvQXQLoq8Q
Really nice design, was there any inspiration? I would like to use something like those squares to illustrate an ebook.
The comment was insulting, and you'd already crossed into incivility before that. The reason we've banned you, though, is that you've done this way too much on HN—usually on the same topic—and ignored our requests to stop.
thank you, never heard of Kubic until now
tosses brake rotors in city recycling pickup bucket

No core charge or other incentive from the parts store?
It doesn't work for me. There is nothing that accepts a tap or click on those words or in that entire box. I tried with iOS and Firefox on a computer.