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the citation for that should be LGPL 2.1, section 6.a

"a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code for the Library including whatever changes were used in the work (which must be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library. (It is understood that the user who changes the contents of definitions files in the Library will not necessarily be able to recompile the application to use the modified definitions.)"
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> Obama's domestic assassination program

Domestic assassination?

Is this a mischaracterization of the al-Awlaki case, or is there something else going on?
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So, it sounds like 'spriting' in this context is a way of sending a stitched together larger image and then showing a portion of it in each uiimage. I work on Android, and I'm interested in the technique but just was looking for some validation before I go off doing research.
Generally?
Not without permission. They are allowed to place further restrictions on the non-LGPL pieces, as long as they allow the two things they have allowed.

LGPL 2.1 is a weird license.
The section that allows for object code release does not require object code release under any particular license, it only requires that the LGPL portion stay LGPL.
I thought YC specifically did not do follow-on investments because of (paraphrase) what it'd indicate about the companies they don't follow-on with.
"This is the very definition of disruption."

Is that a fact? My interpretation of the Christensen version of disruption (which I'm told is pretty much official since he wrote the book on it- literally) is when a company offers a minimal version of a product, usually much cheaper than those offered by the incumbents that are better than those offerings only on one or two dimensions. Usually these are things like consuming less power or simply costing less. Eventually these products become good enough on the other dimensions while maintaining the original value proposition that they "disrupt" the incumbents from the bottom. This is why the book is about things like hard drives, steam shovels, cell phone cameras, and minimills.

You might want to double-check next time before making such a bold statement. It seems here that you are declaring the definition of a term without having even a tenuous understanding of what it is.

Clearly attacking the market with a superior product at a price point that is more expensive than what you can currently buy is not a disruption. Offering a better product than what's currently available isn't disruption, it's innovation.
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Either the people who watch Khan's video's find them useful, and can do things they couldn't do, or understand things better than they did, or not.

Most public school teachers are awful. They have degrees in education, and most university programs in the teacher pipeline are intentionally easier and less demanding than the equivalent 'real' degree in a given subject. 'Math-ed' is a very undemanding degree compared to 'Mathematics'. If high-school teachers were placed under this kind of scrutiny we would be forced to completely re-evaluate how teachers are credentialed and licensed. They aren't put under this or really any scrutiny at all, and probably they never will be. Teacher unions fight as hard as they possibly can to prevent any measurement or evaluation of teacher performance.

Students will continue to try to fill in the gaps in their understanding of these topics, and if there are free resources available to them to do so, even better!
China has done this to U.S. companies in China, repeatedly, over and over and over again.

The U.S. was able to do this to a Hong Kong company only because it had an agreement with Chinese authorities (specifically, in Hong Kong as it is economically separate from the rest of the mainland) to do so.
I think "land of the free" originally made sense, as it meant "free from British oppression and taxation." In today's context though, it's just nationalist propaganda.
"China has done this to U.S. companies in China, repeatedly, over and over and over again."

I'm curious. Can you can name a few examples?
Yeah. When you load a JPEG image, it gets decoded to a 32bpp image in memory on the device. PVRTC images, on the other hand, stay the same size (2bpp or 4bpp) when loaded into memory. Plus they don't need to be decoded.

So this 512x512 image would take 64k of RAM using 2bpp pvrtc, 128k using 4bpp pvrtc, and a whopping 1MB using JPEG or PNG.
A recession isn't just general bad stuff happening. Recessions do tend to cause general bad stuff, but bad stuff can happen without a recession.
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Wow, the justice system refuses to apply American law to a foreign company operating in a foreign nation, so what you do is go seize his person, and wait until he has an address in Prison, then presto! It's legal to apply American law to him.

Imagine if Iran had pulled a stunt like this to some female CEO of a major corporation was in violation of Sharia law for exposing skin. We can't imprison them while they live in the foreign land, so lets bring them here and then we can apply justice.

Am I missing something that makes this an ethical thing to do?
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I fully agree. If you're a bootstrapping technical founder I'd even suggest going further and doing alternating code sprints and "other" sprints.

Last week I finally switched gears to marketing, design and biz-dev after coding core functionality for three months and it was by far the most productive week ever. I didn't touch code (other than a few bugfixes) all week and started doing press work, coming up with a distribution strategy, hiring interns etc. I should have done this much sooner and it's amazing. I'll try doing the same thing the next two weeks, I doubt not coming out with a new feature every few days is as bad as some of us engineers might think ;)
I love it! A few suggestions:

* Side by side might be better than one over the other. Most monitors are wider than they are tall.

* I miss the sounds. I would keep the audio from both replays, but of course turn off music.

* When creating the videos I'd give the player on the left a slight pan-left for the audio and the opposite for the player on the right.

* Show the production tab dood!
We wanted to make it easy to get in and try it, with no obligation. At the end of the 30 day trial period, we'll automatically switch you to the forever free plan (1 agent) if you don't have any billing information on file.
If I've learned anything about the patent system, it's that it doesn't matter if you've been doing it since 1776- if they've got a patent on it, you better watch out.
For 80 years, America still had slavery. For 120 years, women could not vote. For almost 150 years, minorities could not exercise their constitutional rights.

Assassinating American citizens who have publicly declared war on America is a traditional state perogative that America has always exercised (and which it copied from Britain and France). The only difference now is that such activities receive more attention.

The current federal wiretapping is nothing compared to what Herbert Hoover did as director of the FBI. Yes, the NSA has a dossier on most Americans, collected using computer programs. Herbert Hoover did the same thing, without the advantages of computer automation.

By any measure, America is far more free now than at any time before the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s. In some respects, (i.e, free speech, religion, gun rights, and sixth amendment rights) it is freer than at any time in its history.
Yep. I used to have very vivid dreams (indicative of light sleep) and wake up often. Ever since I stopped drinking caffeine (coffee, energy drinks, and to a lesser extent, tea), my sleep has been deep and uninterrupted.
I have found Identica (Status.NET) to be very slow. Other than that, I dislike the UI.
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I'd say it sounds like his product has actual users.
"Edit: I should add that no chemical is good for everyone, not even caffeine."

I don't think it's the caffeine that causes all these benefits. (Though, being an avid hacker myself, I of course can think of a few benefits of that particular chemical.)

Also, 'water' falsifies your statement. ;)
EA's Battlefield 3 ad campaign on Facebook shows 440 percent ROI
I am a fairly conservative voter. I voted for Obama for exactly the reasons you stated. He will not be getting my vote again because, at best, he followed Bush's lead (at worst, he accelerated it).

I won't be voting for Romney because I think he will be just as bad. Where's the EFF's candidate?
Who expects shuffling to be random sampling and not shuffling?

All shuffle modes I've ever encountered have shuffled the playlist or songs on a compact disc and then played them in the once-randomized order.
I think you're mixing up things.

I contribute to GNOME, and that is not "working for free". It means having a fun hobby. If I'd get money for it, it would no longer be a hobby, but work. I did hear some people say that their hobby is the same as their work. IMO, work is more restricted (try doing nothing at all for 3 months with your hobby, then repeat for your work).
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Only because I'm the nitpicky type...

> The majority of apps (and games) require the ability to show one user X+Y and another user Y+Z

That's authorization, not authentication.
Yes as the USA locks up more people in prison per capita than any other country, how can it call it self the land of the free?
This seems almost too obvious to mention, but they generated buzz based on their differentiator (business model) before showing any hint of the UI.
No, I don't. But it doesn't matter. As an organization you have to go where your users are. And they are on Twitter.

This is something no single organization can solve. It's impossible. And email is about the absolute worst example. No, it absolutely didn't solve the problem. First the users had to come. Before that it was worthless.

I think many here are delusional about how this works.
He had trouble fogusing on his job.
My lad (now 7) has done some of the maths problems and we've used the videos to provide the background to attempting those problems. IMO from the half-dozen videos I've seen they were both 'unprepared' and unscripted - but that might not be bad. They're the sort of thing I think one would come up with if someone puts you on the spot and says "teach me how subtract". Obviously these are low level maths subjects. He's not unprepared in being able to do this sort of basic stuff but I think a little more polish would make such videos a lot better.

One thing I found quite frustrating was the lack of technology applied to making the video - in the few I've seen he takes ages drawing out number lines (for example) and the writing is quite unclear; it doesn't appear to be too hard to have a marked axis that you can paste in when it's needed. Petty issue but something I didn't expect to find on this much touted resource. Another example would be hand drawing bunches of marbles/tins http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D...; I guess it naturally limits the pace, which may be good.
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True, and I believe partly because people underestimate some time-related aspects. They seem to vary a lot person to person, but a few bits:

1. Peak blood caffeine levels come about an hour after ingestion, at least for coffee. So a 3pm coffee, for example, is really hitting its peak closer to 4pm.

2. Biological half-life is anywhere from 3 to 6 hours, and that's counting from peak blood levels, so it's more like 4-7 hours considering #1. So if you have two cups of coffee at 3pm, you might still have a cup of coffee's worth of caffeine in the blood stream well into the evening. Much worse if you had 3 or 4 cups in the afternoon.

My guess is that there will be less sleep disruption if you stick to no more than 2 cups of coffee, no later than mid-morning, which should give enough time for most of it to be eliminated by evening. But not aware of whether there's good evidence on that.
There's a little hyperbole and overly simplified statements in here but this article really hit the nail on the head. Zuckerberg missed the most explosive part of his curve to go out by waiting so long. He took onboard investors who did not push the company - they knew they were good for a great exit no matter what. Now he's going to end up with low morale and scrambling to mature the platform.

He danced with the Devil and right now the Devil is up on points going into the 7th round.......
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Since you're just starting, can you maybe go beyond what Twitter does in some obvious ways? We've learned a lot about social media in the last few years and you're still agile enough to incorporate all the lessons and make things significantly better.

As an example, my biggest issue with Twitter is the noise, which mostly stems from a single issue: people I follow don't only share interesting things, but they also share a lot of irrelevant stuff such as pictures from family hike. I'm sure this is interesting to some of their personal friends, but not to me. I want to subscribe to that person on a "coding" stream, and leave the "personal" stream alone. People are multi-dimensional beings with many orthogonal interests; Consider giving them multiple stdouts.

Also, I have to say, 140 is often too little :) Will you also force me to write up the occasional longer post on Google+ and then link to it?

This looks nice, I just hope you won't be a Twitter bare bones re-implementation that I have to pay for. Ideology gives you many points, but I'm not certain about just to what degree a sponsored tweet here and there really bothers me.
I had a similar issue with Foobar until I realized that 'random' meant 'won't play song twice in a row' while 'shuffle' was more of a 'won't play song again until everything else is played'.
You're right, point taken, I clearly misused the word; it has nothing to do with any personal opinion. I was using 'biased' thinking about its meaning on the Machine Learning context [1].

My intention was to state that idiomatic code is not necessarily the most performant one, and that the codes used in the benchmarks game may contain some not very idiomatic optimization codes [2].

That said, it tends to evaluate the implementation of a certain compiler, and not exactly how the constructs and concepts of those languages result on the measured performance.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_bias
2: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=cha...
The only one I can name off the top of my head is Apex Digital (b/c it was HQ'd close to where I grew up). Apex was competing with a Chinese state-owned agency and rejected a buyout offer. Chinese officials arrested its CEO on fraud charges and tried to sieze the company's Chinese operating assets to give to the Chinese company. Eventually, Apex went bankrupt fighting the case.

There are many more; the common thread is usually that these companies are competing with Chinese companies.
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That's because it is often a separate case that is held against the property itself, so even if you are found innocent, your property might be found guilty.
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I laughed when you only pointed out two of the things I listed in what I accomplished for my CS degree and went on to say it was "insufficient" because we don't have budget and time schedules like companies do in order to actually do production scale work. Not only that, the point of doing those things isn't to ship it to the masses, its to create something useful and to sharpen your skills. Case in point, your professor and sometimes the university are your customers. They evaluate your work, give you suggestions, and help you identify things you did wrong or could do better on.

I also laughed at the assumptions you made about me somehow being a lone ranger and not doing group work... I guess I should ask if you've even went to or been in a college.

You seem to have incredibly high and almost unmeetable standards that would actually require a college grad. Yet, you seem so adamant that a degree isn't necessary which is illogical since you usually pick up software engineering experience, group work, and a solid understanding from graduates. Not only that, its a pretty good guarantee they will do well if the have decent grades. If you're telling me you are willing to pick programmers up off the street expecting them to know software engineering concepts like scalability, modeling, and being on a development schedule. Programmers who've got a couple of projects under their belt that probably involved no human contact and probably aren't even that good due to lack of formal training. And you are willing to train them to be up to par, then you must be living in a fantasy world or we have completely different concepts of what programmer and computer scientist/engineer are.

One last thing. If you think god objects, no early exiting of loops, and lack of enum use are "style" problems, then I can see why you are hiring the wrong people.
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There's a small, but critical difference.

There's 11 million dollars on Meteors side.
As far as I can tell derby has zero story for datastores outside their json racer implementation. There's too much focus on realtime sync in all these frameworks. Even a realtime app like twitter needs complicated relational data. I want a framework that could build github. Derby does get major points for solving the seo and page load issue though.
I agree that Spotlight is dreadful. But that's not really an issue with metadata per se. After all, OSX is still primarily a traditional directory-based OS.

> it's faster to actually go to ~/Reference/Computer Science/CS Theory/

That's fine if this is the only way you ever want to structure your documents, and if you've not got too many of a particular subject. Say you've got hundreds of CS books, some of them have stuff about graphics in them, some of them have stuff about OSX programming in them, and some have both. Now you want to find a book about OSX graphics. Did you store them by subject (maybe not, because the books have loads of topics), or by OS (most of them are OS-agnostic, and some cover multiple OSs, so again maybe not). Do you remember where you stored it?

This is a pretty simple example, but it's exactly the challenge I face on a regular basis when using the fixed hierarchy of the filesystem. Do I store info about my motorbike crash along with other letters I wrote in 2008, or with other info about my bike, or other info about insurance, or medical issues etc? What I want to do is tag it with all of those things, because I might be looking for it for any one of those reasons.

If you want a hierarchical approach, then Lightroom as an example shows how you can still do this - it just allows you almost total freedom with how you do it - files can be in as many collections (and as nested) as you want.
I'm not a programmer. If I read a book on programming for two weeks, should I then teach the world how to program? Maybe, but I imagine HN would not necessarily agree...
Wouldn't you rather have the best of both worlds? Coffee and a regular sleep cycle?
Thats part of the nice thing about the code I sent you - no strictness hints.
But note the news update to OP detailing the slap on the wrist sanctions applied to the three Harvard doctors...

“Massachusetts General Hospital Discloses Sanctions against Three Psychiatrists for Violating Ethics Guidelines”, July 1, 2011: The Boston Business Journal said today that three psychiatrists have been sanctioned for failing to adequately report seven-figure payments they received from drug companies.

Drs. Joseph Biederman, Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens disclosed the disciplinary actions against them in a note to colleagues. According to a copy of the note made public upon request by the hospital, the three doctors:

• must refrain from “all industry-sponsored outside activities” for one year

• for two years after the ban ends, must obtain permission from Mass. General and Harvard Medical School before engaging in any industry-sponsored, paid outside activities and then must report back afterward

• must undergo certain training

• face delays before being considered for “promotion or advancement.”
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Thank you. I had no idea what the "secret" was myself.

What would be meant, in the original article, by the "multiplication algorithm"?

I know that's a bizarre question, but actually I don't think I could explain what that means to someone myself, so I'd better ask.
Ask HN: what would you do with a gigabit Internet connection? 
What new things could you do, with a symmetrical gigabit Internet connection? Or maybe you live in one of the Kansas Cities, what are you going to do with your gigabit Internet connection?
Yeah, they open sourced like... two files...
Why can't the usernames be like email addresses?

send email to username@example.net
=> lookup example.net
=> pull MX record
=> route email to example.com

Looks like a SRV record[1] could be used for this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
A community of 10k people willing to pay $50 sounds like a solid start.
Yup. Caught the typo when I wrote the post, even, but I apparently retyped it the same way.
wow, interesting. how hackable are they?
I think it is possible to fix the DES thing without tearing the rest down...
It's impressive how TorrentFreak can create such a long article out of a single sentence from a slide. Does anyone know why the RIAA believes that SOPA wouldn't be effective for music?
I want a 3D printer, as a Prize.
God lord people, I was not being snarky. It was an honest question.
Right, and it'll also be a civil forfeiture case, not a criminal prosecution, so there's a lower standard of proof.

It does lead to some of my favorite case captions, such as Quantity of Books v. Kansas.
Exposing skin is pretty distant from what MegaUpload was accused of. (The validity of the charges is another matter, I just REALLY don't think it is correct to compare this to not pulling your hijab down far enough)
The grocery store near my house was started by one person. So did my dads mechanic. And my dentist is doing fine in his one man practice. People build successful businesse all them time by themselves. The fact that you are doing software doesn't change anything. A business is a business in a ny way you look at it.
Contrast rebellion refers to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which specify a contrast ratio of at least 4.5. Just for fun, I plugged in the numbers, the site has a contrast ratio of about 4.9.

W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contr...
CNET did a study a while back where they proved more or less conclusively that iTunes plays songs by certain studios (studios that Apple happened to have partnerships with) more often:

http://www.cnet.com.au/itunes-just-how-random-is-random-3392...
Good catch, you are technically correct (the best kind of correct).
That is not the meaning of "Rogue State" and never has been.

US companies have to play ball in China in all kinds of interesting ways, as a matter of fact...