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Maybe I misunderstood, but I'm not seeing how this is bad.

Sony wants to write a BusyBox that doesn't use BusyBox's license? What exactly is the problem? If they don't like the license isn't that the best approach they can take?

"A couple of weeks ago, this page appeared on the elinux.org wiki. It's written by an engineer at Sony, and it's calling for contributions to rewriting Busybox. This would be entirely reasonable if it were for technical reasons, but it's not - it's explicitly stated that companies are afraid that Busybox copyright holders may force them to comply with the licenses of software they ship. If you ship this Busybox replacement instead of the original Busybox you'll be safe from the SFC. You'll be able to violate licenses with impunity."

Wait, didn't GNU and the GPL start off for the completely non-technical reason that Stallman didn't like the original license?

I'm also not sure I like the idea of using BusyBox as a backdoor to examine the rest of a product's source code. I didn't realize that was a condition of the GPL, but it makes me glad I've switched most of my projects over to the BSD and ISC licenses.
A few years ago, I hacked an existing blog tool so it suited me, and I recently started a Tumblr blog.

Tumblr makes it very easy to jump right in. There are hundreds of themes, I found a decent enough one within a few minutes.

I recommend going the Tumblr way first, mainly to get over the inertia of setting a blog up. This is the biggest hurdle that stops you. Get into the habit of writing a blog first, then later you can choose another tool that you prefer once you have developed your own blogging style and you know your likes and dislikes a bit better.
In recent versions of Firefox, the back-forward dropdown menu can be activated with a right click over the back-forward buttons. No need for an add-on for that.
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They're big enough to look after themselves for sure, but one way they do so is by convincing people to dedicate a lot of personal energy to defending them. That's one of the benefits of a marketing/PR strategy based on building a small army of feverishly devoted fans.

So in a way, actually, those people defending the company really are helping - they're doing active PR work for free, and the main company (like Apple or Google or whoever) is distanced enough that they don't have any responsibility if any of their footsoldiers says or does anything crazy. You get the benefits of an aggressive campaign without most of the downsides.
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> They also don't mention that you can tell who is 'in' at Google and who isn't by the fact that they haven't written a new snippet in over a year.

As in who still works there? Who is really important? Or who is doing interesting projects? What does 'in' mean in this context?
Would be interested in seeing the profile. Re-ordering it to the following (which the compiler might do too)

low&high&1 + low>>1 + high>>1

Should compute in a single cycle if the register coloring is working in the pipeline. The <reg> >> 1 come out of the barrel shifter stage, the low&high&1 resolves in the load, so you end up with a single sum of three operands. Since its being stored in a separate register that would avoid a write stall in the pipeline as well.
I don't know that anyone is suggesting that it's "finished". In fact, it's not even to a 1.x release yet. I consider anything below that a work-in-progress at at minimum. Generally anything under a 2.x release has lots of room for improvement.

The fact that they're shifting focus isn't a big concern. I'd at least wait until Isaac comes out and says what the future roadmap is before criticizing it.
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some very good thoughts indeed. it's interesting to see your point of view, especially the part about how they're just worrying about market position, etc.

i'm curious to know from current employees, if the change of ceo has made things better, worse? how are things internally these days with larry running the show?
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The implication is that Sony is presently shipping software with Busybox and knowingly violating the licensing terms. If they rewrite Busybox in the interim they will be able to get away scot-free despite their years of flagrant copyright violation. Given the variety of devices Sony ships and their complete lack of respect for the GPL, their plan could very well work unless someone catches them red-handed.

And the point is that the people who wrote Busybox don't want money if you're infringing their copyright - they just want to see exactly what you've done with their code, and get the chance to play with it. Which is pretty reasonable when you think about it.
Is there a check-list for Google products & alternatives? I was just thinking of going through this exercise last night. Don't feel comfortable with them anymore.
The problem is that the rewrite is coming AFTER they've been shipping with busybox and already not complying with the license.
I wish I had this guide 4 years ago :(
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Codecademy is smart - they realize that collecting use/accomplishment data on high-quality lessons carries much more upside than trying to sell the content created on their platform.
This is bad because Busybox has copyright holders that actively enforce the GPL on their product.

They're not asking for this because they dislike Busybox'es GPL license. They're asking for it because they know Busybox actually goes to court to enforce it, and asks for the other GPL products to have their license respected too.

I'll spell it out more clearer: they want to get rid of Busybox, because its one of the only things whose license they cannot violate with impunity.
I think we have two groups of people to blame for this phenomenon:

(A) "Novices" who get confused when presented with more than a handful of buttons, because they never bother to figure out what those buttons do. BTW, what's a browser? You mean Google? No, I use Bing.

(B) "Experts" who don't care whether or not there are buttons in the UI, because they know where everything is hidden, and they use keyboard shortcuts anyway. Meanwhile, everything Apple does must be the One True Way.

When Group B makes software for Group A, you get the results you're describing. Caught in the middle are a large number of moderately proficient users who rely on explicit visual cues (buttons, arrows, menus) to perform tasks.
In order for "robots" to completely "take over" the transition will have to be MUCH longer than just one lifetime. Otherwise we'll end up with 40% unemployment and mass rioting.

It'll probably take us 50 years to have emission-free vehicles dominating the auto market, let alone robot overlords.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic (or optimistic), but I think Humans are too dumb and/or too smart to create an AI that will overthrow us. More likely, we'll ruin our society by overpopulating and draining our natural resources before we can prepare a suitable "Earth 2".

Or Zombies...never discount Zombies.
Wow - this is awesome and uber old, good find....adding to it.

Two things about Social Media:

1. Content is King

2. Everyone's an Social Media expert :P
What would be more "beginner" than that?
You've obviously never gone from NYC to coastal Alabama in a single trip, or Hawaii to Southern Texas, or hell Washington D.C. to rural West Virginia. Sure there are plenty of accents, but some are almost outright dialects.

I'd argue that English and French Canada are about as different as any of these pairs.
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Excellent point. Added to our todo list :)
That's more than fair: you can use our code as long as you don't rip anybody else off either.
But as a copyright holder do you have the right to take my legitimate, bought and paid for copy down?

I know of someone who may or may not have used a site like UU to get recent episodes of the show X. Once UU stopped sharing links, this person looked for other ways to get the recent episodes of X. She tried purchasing them from iTunes, but to no avail; She tried purchasing from Amazon Streaming but to no avail. Her only option is to wait for the DVD to come out or pirate.

There is a case where money is lost due to piracy. The answer is not to sue the pirates but to provide distribution methods.
Where's this rule that just because it is text based means that it has to be ugly? I seem to have missed the memo on it.
This echoes my sentiments quite well. I had a discussion with a colleague today about Google and I realized that I used to be very passionate and trusting of them but as of the past month they are teetering on the edge of that trust I still have for them. Where once I had respect and admiration, a growing mistrust exists. They are powerful and entrenched but I think it's a dangerous misstep to really offend their core users (I would think I am one being a user of their search, paying customer, publisher and many other services). I am not locked in entirely and would be more willing to try alternatives if I stop believing in a company.
In that particular case, I'd be inclined to send over the patch as a diff file, though I can see the point your making.
Text of Paul's legislation that was intended to accomplish the above: http://tinyurl.com/6ecpb8b

(Using tinyurl because the "real" url ends in a colon, and HN has a problem with that).
It would indeed be useful, and since I had a shell open I ventured over with the mouse and typed

$ whois googlealternatives.com

The result made me chuckle. :)

Registrant:
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US
So in a way, actually, those people defending the company really are helping

Oh, I don't dispute that. But I'm still unsure of why they would feel the need to help- Apple and Google would do fine without them. Just a confusing use of time for me, I suppose.
When I first started working at Google, I truly loved them as a user-facing company. And for the first few years, I thought I would work there forever and I could imagine no other place for me. But by the time I left, I was bitter and no longer in love. For various reasons, I felt like I had been betrayed by what I thought Google was at the beginning.

It is my fault for having such idealistic expectations for what ultimately boils down to a money-driven company but I also think that there is a world in which I could have left Google loving it, or at least not so entirely disenchanted.

I look back on my grade school and college with fond memories; I wish I could look back on Google the same way.

Oh well, onwards and upwards.
I'm still not seeing the problem.

On one hand, if the license holders of the other infringing software don't care to enforce the license, why should anybody care? It makes no sense to me, but it's up to them.

On the other hand, if Sony would rather write it themselves than abide by the GPL then I'm not seeing the problem there, either. Again, it makes no sense, but it's their decision.
Yes, this happens all the time in the world of GPL enforcement.
I don't understand why people thought that somehow a publicly traded corporation was going to behave forever in the same way as a garage startup. Once Google reached a certain size, a certain revenue level, and became beholden to institutional shareholders plus (in this case) found itself in a position of largely uncontested market control, I think it was inevitable that it would turn into the all too familiar caricature of a corporation.
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Hi, I wrote the linked blog post. I don't have many friends left at Google but from what I've heard there's a lot of internal debate about the direction of the company now. There's been years of grumbling about how big the company has gotten, but more lately there's a lot of dissent around the outsized role of Google+. If you believe this story, the debate is quite heated: http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/24/larry-page-to-googlers-if-y...
The real crime is creating a library function like printf without also creating a library function to escape format strings. Leaving safe escaping as an exercise for the application programmer clearly doesn't work.
Yes, the binary search I wrote back in the day used size_t and represented the range as (start, length) rather than (start, end). Full range, and no overflow anywhere if you write it the obvious way. Maybe it was a little bit slower, I don't know.

I'd used Bentley as the starting point, so I was surprised when this news first came out and got reported as Bentley's bug. I guess it could be considered so.
I suspect that "the answers are pretty cool, except for <the ones regarding the subject I know a lot about>" is itself the most common reaction.
The problem is that, in many cases, busybox is the only program you can actually "see" and hence enforce the license on. Once that disappears, everything behind it becomes technically invisible; so you could use this "piratebox" plus other infringing software, and be safe.

It's sad, really. I can see a future where a terminal program or command is embedded in the linux kernel and cannot be removed, only to force companies to stay honest.
'Encrypted VPS'? You have an encrypted container on it? Have it installed in an encrypted container? Encrypt all incoming mail?
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Funny that.

Using the advice of this site I signed up for an empire hosting account.

Selected the server and options I wanted, submitted my billing information and got four emails welcoming me and informing me that my account had been created.

Logged into the back end to be informed that my ip address had been baned and I could not access the system.

Contacted support via the live support widget and was informed that to be able to access my system I would have to disconnect from the proxy I was using and use the ip address my ISP provided.

The proxy I was connected through is a linode server that I run and manage, the proxy connection was an SSH Dynamic proxy because I was sitting in a coffee shop.

When I am using public wifi I secure my connection over SSH and route all my browser data through that secure link.

Because I control both ends of the link (my laptop and the 'proxy') I trust that connection more then I do the owners of a wifi hotspot.

I was informed that I would be unable to use the empire hosting account I created unless I direct connected.

Canceled order.

I will stick with Linode, which has NEVER given me a single issue and whos service seems better.

edited to add With them being nice enough to send me back my password in clear text I am glad I used the ssh proxy.
Mozilla Foundation has not moved on its position of bringing good. I think any IPO company is ultimately compelled to choose profits over values.
Great! However the pacing still feels dense. I think beginners reading this could use two things: 1. more frequent sectioning and 2. more examples. Bonus round would be giving the students a way to actively demonstrate their newly gained knowledge inline with the tutorial. Anyway, I think what you've got is fantastic.
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Hey Pamela! I fear you had a particularly rough time at Google. Bad project luck, also coming in later. I do look back at my time on Google as fondly as, say, graduate school. Particularly the early years, 2001–2004, it was a truly amazing place to be.

That's why I wrote this post up, I just feel sad about where Google is now. Fortunately there's organizations like Y Combinator and places like Hacker News with a lot of startup passion and excitement.
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It appears that Twitter is the source for all of these projects, which is not the case. About 14 of the projects are forks of other repositories on GitHub. Many of the project descriptions include references to their parent projects but it would be nice to see them show it is a Twitter fork and not the main repo.
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I sort of had a feeling this was coming for a while. Isaac has been doing more and more of the release updates on the blog, not to mention the increasing shift in commits on GitHub from Ryan to Isaac.
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I use my home server as the primary MX, and a VPS to relay outgoing mail via TLS and serve as a backup MX. This allows me to keep my email on a server only accessible to me, while avoiding the blocklist issues when sending mail.
Looking at Rentul, my first impression was that it took too many clicks to get to a listing. I clicked on Breckenridge Colorado and was given a page that said "here are what we found in breckenridge." I didn't realize at first that I had to click on that text to actually see the ratings. Second impression was that I couldn't find any properties listing their rates. Every one of them said "Contact the owner to find out the rate" but then I clicked "Contact Owner" and was accused of being a spammer. Then I realized I needed an account to ask an owner a question at which point I bounced.

Plug your funnel, put the rate right on the page, and don't make me "click here to read more." Might improve your conversion rate.

That being said your submission was probably just flagged. probably not someone at yc actively discriminating against competitors.
This is bullshit.
To bring these few examples to discredit Google here.

Think of their record: OpenSource, Android, SOPA, Fight against Software Patens and so on. Google is still on our side and we need them against all the Microsoft and MPAAs.

To be on so many battlefields and doing so few problematic things is impressive. Did they ever really compromise their core values? Google tries not to compromise them, but they are not naive, look what happened to Sun.

I don't trust Google as a company as i trust the values of the Founders. I am convinced they are legacy focused and as long as they are in charge they try their best.
On one hand, if the license holders of the other infringing software don't care to enforce the license, why should anybody care? It makes no sense to me, but it's up to them.

Believe it or not, most free software developers aren't dying to spend their time and money to start a copyright lawsuit against Sony. That doesn't mean they're actually OK with their copyright and licenses being violated. Public shaming is often much more cost-effective. But if there's one company that doesn't give a rats ass, it's Sony.

Most free software developers also don't register their copyright (unlike Sony) and so aren't entitled to those fantastically high statutory damages. They have to prove actual damages. For free software.

Good luck.
Isn't that sort of the definition of power? The ability to influence more than others? Reputation and relative influence are zero-sum games.
> Has anyone done a study of how much this is damaging the tourism industry in the USA?

It has been reported here in Australia that the US tourism bureau (or whatever they are called) is very concerned about it. Numbers are way down over the last several years. They will be running an ad campaign this year
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I love weightlifting!

I just can't program afterwards. Which is fine, I have lots of low mental-cost stuff I can do instead.
I have been trying duckduckgo since last week for search, so far over 95% of my queries are resulting in good results, its my default now in pentadactyl. I will be installing Zimbra ZCS opensource edition on one of my servers for mail, calendaring. Haven't found any alternative for youtube yet.
Sony is presently shipping a lot of stuff with Busybox in, but they are not violating the license terms. Here you can download a zillion Sony-patched versions of Busybox to your hearts content: https://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/source_tv.shtml
Don't Sergey and Brin have 10x voting rights? I was under the impression that common shareholders couldn't do a darn thing to them.
I think it's wonderful. I'd been doing this since the days of Firefox 2.x, using a custom userChrome.css file that hid the back and forward buttons, and combined the stop and reload buttons. But ever since I discovered Vimperator (I've now moved on to Pentadactyl), I've hidden all the chrome buttons, since they're entirely unnecessary.
git status usually has a help command to unstage the change.
"The site doesn’t have any current plans to pay contributors, but to help incentivize users to write high-quality courses, Codecademy aims to provide significant exposure to the best lesson creators."

I know Ruby very well (programming with it since 2006) and I have been professionally trained as a teacher. Yet "significant exposure" is not an incentive for me. I already have enough exposure to get the programming gigs that I want. My incentives would either be (1) money or (2) the joy of teaching. Since I have hardly any free time, my only incentive would be (1) money.
You have misunderstood. The current situation has Sony shipping devices running several/many different programs with GPL licenses. They don't want to provide their modified source code for these programs to their users, in violation of their obligations under the GPL. Most of the copyright holders of this code do not have the means to pursue an infringement case.

Busybox is the exception. The SFC actively enforces the license for busybox. In addition, once you lose your right to use busybox as a consequence of a license violation, the SFL will let you ship it again only if you come into compliance on for all of the GPL code you ship.

So they are making their own busybox as a way to continue to violate all the non-busybox GPL code they use.

If you comply with the busybox licence, you can continue to violate the licence on all the other GPL code. But violating busybox means you have to comply with all of your GPL code.

You never have to release your non GPL code.
I don't know the answer. It might. In general, graphics have better CTR (at least in my industry, which is not as tech savvy), but you're correct that image blocking counteracts that to some degree. It's worth doing a trial and seeing which performs better.
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Axiom of Choice has been on shaky ground for the past 50 years and really only continues it's existence through inertia. The second one has some deep wisdom in it though :)
I'm wondering how many down votes I would get for suggesting Bing as an alternative to search.
While I'm not really surprised, I think I did expect somewhat more idealistic guidance from the top, especially considering that the founders still own solidly controlling stakes of the company. They can't run it as a charity or anything, but there are many different possible trajectories a company can take within the parameters possible for a public company, and a strong founder/owner/executive team can choose some over others.

It's hard to tell what really happens from the outside, but Google's founders don't seem to have maintained as strong a hands-on role in company direction/culture/decisions as, say, Microsoft in its Gates-led years.
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