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While this tech is exciting for a wide variety of reasons, this blog post completely misses the point for me in its efforts to hype this.

> imagine it amplified by secure, real-time transmissions of audio and video

Ok, I'm imagining it. And I'll still be imagining it in 12 months time, because WebRTC does nothing to fix the outstanding issues in setting up secure communications.

> Skype, Cisco, and Polycom will all see their conferencing technology commoditized.

Really? Surely you could have said that Cisco / Polycom would be destroyed by Skype, but that didn't happen. Why would in-browser conferencing, which will almost certainly be a worse experience than Skype, which is itself a far worse experience than dedicated conference hardware/software, commoditize conference technology?

And for that matter, why did the wide variety of already-existing browser-based conferencing tech not do this?

Personally I'm more excited about ideas like P2P downloading, and using DHTs to disseminate information.
The GPL doesn't prevent people from selling your code as-is either, though it does prevent them from doing so using a different license.
LFS is good for learning why package managers are great -- especially if you move to BLFS.
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Apple's FaceTime is end-to-end encrypted, "the FaceTime conversation stream is encrypted from end to end, and each FaceTime session has unique session keys for each user".
If you're planning to get big in the Netherlands, don't forget iDeal ( http://www.ideal.nl/?s=&lang=eng-GB ).
Some earlier discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4375713
When they first built the University of California
at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not
put any sidewalks, they just planted grass.

The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks
where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that
kind of language. It is not designed from first
principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

-Larry Wall
I can see why one could argue against using AWS in a generic situation, but what specifically makes it bad for voice/media servers?
Wonder how stable the gyro is. I can just see someone walking around the corner, bumping into this thing and crashing your telepresence to the floor.
How do they cope with stairs? I am imagining something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAPwh0SMzIo
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It's usually possible to move phone numbers between providers within the same country. In the past, phone number prefixes were used by telcos to route the calls meaning that it was very difficult to change your provider and keep your number. Great for the incumbent, not for customers and competitors.
Still, it needs to retain the copyright notice and credit the original author. What the plagiarist in this case did is use it as if it was Public Domain.
Well, I'd already read (and enjoyed) this article outside of Hacker News, so when I saw it on the home page I was quite surprised as the article has no reference to technology, start ups or business in general.

With that said (& in case I was misunderstood) I have no issue with it being posted!
Due process was not followed here in NZ, and that's what the real issue is here. (and court proceedings)
Dotcom was not originally an appealing victim, but our overdeveloped sense of fairness here in NZ was always going to help his cause, and he has increasingly shown himself to be largely authentic. An authentic rogue that is - nobody is pretending that he isn't flawed or doesn't have a chequered history.
"discredited science to vaccines" well that depends who and what doctors you ask.

Heard of Andrew Wakefield? Secondly, what is affecting fathers so badly that the older they get, the more damaged their offspring could become? Whatever's affecting fathers could be affecting children too.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/researchers-warn-of-rap...

Researchers warn of rapid decline in quality of Israeli sperm

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/study-quality-of-i...

Cause of decline unknown, but may be linked to children and pregnant women's exposure to local contaminants.

-- This isn't just about age. (and I suspect it has very little to do with it)
I did not downvote you but I can understand it, something changed on one of the most known pages in the world, one which also happens to be extremely minimalistic making any change probably newsworthy. Also, favicons are a little bit like a logo for a company, people will see that icon on their browsers all the time. I'd say it is interesting enough to have been submitted to this community.
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I'm reading hackernews on links right now. It works. This new version doesn't.
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> I'm designing a mini-configuration-language as I go along while writing a large application.

Why not just use Lua or Javascript?
Ask HN: What sites do you block from your search results?
The web is filled with content farms that tailor their content purely for SEO and advertising.

What sites do you block from your results and why?
In defense of free, time is money.
Post from your WordPress blog to App.net
Chrome doesn’t need admin rights to install for what it’s worth. Although I have to say that if I was working for a company that mandated IE8 or lower as the solitary browser I’d be planning my exit. Maybe I’m just spoiled by working for a web agency.
I've once witnessed how a friend of mine picked up his unaccompanied daughter from a flight in MSP.

I can assure you that handing over the daughter, who was accompanied by an airline employee at all times was not taken lightly.

They very thoroughly checked his identification and checked it towards a list of the person authorized to pick her up.

Alas, this was in the early 90s.

Unaccompanied children are not that far-out as you seem to imagine and virtually any airline (I can speak for Europe and the US, but that probably also goes for Asian carriers) offers the service.

However, it shouldn't be outsourced to some dodgy outfit, which "forgets to send a representative" to pick her up for connecting flight. No matter. It's United's 100% responsibility and the only comfort is that they pay an extremely high price for this (in terms of publicity).

There is simply no excuse for their despicable actions here.
Scraping a rendered HTML view ≠ a stable API in any sense of the word.
The only problem - punching in the face :)
Seems that for some of these countries (at least the UK), Twilio is still some way ahead, in that Plivo can't do outbound SMS or freephone numbers.

Noticed an interesting price thing with Twilio while comparing, which seems misleading to me... The big numbers on https://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing for the UK state 10c/min for mobiles, but lower down the smaller print shows that this price is only for a few prefixes (44751, 44754, 44759, 447500), and that most mobile numbers (all other 447) are 32c/min.
I block:
w3schools.com, I think it's fairly well publicised why these guys aren't a good resource.

about.com, I dont like getting my results from content farms, and these guys seem to show up for almost everything.
I find myself a million times more "productive" in Sublime Text 2 with a "light" theme (Soda Light) than previously when it had a dark theme (the default one). I do look for substance, but we are all machines and can't fight over our limitations. My eye thanks me when it can visually see an "orange" function instead of having to look for a "black" (i.e. misspelled) fuction in code. It's not my fault - eyes appreciate semantically color-coded (or typeface-coded) blocks of code/article/etc (my last sentence is poorly phrased, as a non-English it's hard to articulate what I want to say but I'm sure you understand what I tried to say).
Also missed by many startups is that real customers WANT to pay for a service. Paying means the provider owes you something - quality, support, not shutting down tomorrow, etc. Paying also means you are entering into a mutual exchange of value, and supporting the future of a product that brings you value. Good businesses understand commerce is an ecosystem, not winner take all.

This is often difficult for young entrepreneurs to understand, because they are bootstrapping, have no budget, and want everything for free. Actually, offering service for free often makes customers uncomfortable - they think either you are incompetent or won't last.

Often when a free service shuts down and people complain, there is a contingent of HN that responds "it's free so stfu." While somewhat valid, the converse is that when it's not free, you do have a right to demand something.

Personally, I favor products that charge reasonable rates and have a business model. I would not spend a minute integrating with a service that did not seem to have at least a roadmap to billing me because I would rightly believe the service is likely to shut down, leaving me with the task of replacing it.
I assumed `Jeans' was some obscure language or framework. If `Shoes' and `Rails', why not Jeans?
.... as a business should I care?

If you can sustain that pattern indefinitely, perhaps not.

If you're getting a quick boost at the expense of your long-term reputation, for example because customers signed up for your service and then you left them high and dry, then I think you should.

Case in point: Around 2-3 years ago, certain recurring billing services made rather sudden changes to their pricing, which very publicly upset a lot of their users. I bookmarked those stories at the time, knowing that sooner or later I would be looking for payment services to use with my own companies.

Recently, that day arrived, and we immediately ruled out anyone who appeared to have acted in a way that screwed over their existing customers. I have a list of names of some of the key founders who were identified at the time, and no company of mine will ever buy any service from any company of theirs. Given that they have demonstrated that they are likely to be incompetent, unreliable, or both, there is simply nothing they could ever say or do that would make us trust them with any important part of our operations now.
Okay so this means that the BSD license you chose actually is violated. Please keep us up-to-date about how your DMCA goes!
I hate to bring that site up, but 4chan's recent overhaul was a move to HTML5 and CSS from table-based design for that very reason.

HN Discussion on it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902976
You do not know that. He never downloaded it. So he does not know if the license and credit were changed.
Wake?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(Robert_J._Sawyer_novel)
And if you did, you would be likely to find yourself in cuffs.

As an investor I looked into United and I believe the issue was that, being staff owned for a long time, there was no effective management and poor performers could not be fired. As a result a culture of not-my-problem arose. Cultures, once established, are hard to shift.

I remember coming in to the US on a 16 hour flight, I was having trouble getting my bag out of the overhead compartment and was treated to an extended harangue by a fat, ugly, unpleasant woman (stewardess) about how stupid all men were. All I needed not to hear after a long trip (with another 8 hours to travel to look forward to). This was in business class. Last time I traveled with United.
And what part of that is incompatible with a BSD license?
Outdated - the newest default arch installation iso doesn't have a graphical installer
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There's nothing illegal about doing that. Only the relicensing is iffy.
Ahh, the old times of flying.

When I flew from Zurich to Vienna with my sister she knew the purser of the flight.

While she was immediately seated in business class I was asked if I would mind to enjoy the entire flight in the cockpit on a jump seat

(yeah, I know: stupid question :) )

Even though I was in my late 20s it was a kid's dream come true.

Needless to say that this was before 9/11 and that this would be completely impossible nowadays.

Which is a shame.
That's what happens with BSD code man. Do you know how much BSD code is in OS X and Windows and commercial software in general?

Releasing BSD code quickly turns into repackaging of the code by people who are more interested in money than coding. Next time do research on the licenses that are available before you pick one. I recommend the GPL, despite the FUD about how you can make a 'livelihood' off of it, which I somehow find easier to imagine than you being happy with this person piggybacking.
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I think you're missing an important lesson here: Your product is more valuable than you think.

This guy wouldn't have started selling your thing is it wasn't clear that it's something that people will pay for. Your first reaction when you hear that he's making money off of it shouldn't be how to stop him. It should be "Wow. I could be making money off of this.

My advice:

- Don't worry about this guy.
- Put a price on your product
- Stop giving away the source
- Improve it until your "competitor" fades away

There's no rule saying that you have to give your work away as open source. And as you've demonstrated, there's also no rule that if you give your work away for free, somebody else won't notice its value and sell it in your place.
Maybe you can get him for using the same logo, which you hopefully didn't set under bsd license
What makes you say he didn't? Have you downloaded the app? Because OP says he hasn't, so he can't possibly know.

BSD doesn't force you to put the copyright notice and credit in the app description page.
Given the audience that'd buy this software, I doubt that just dropping in a LICENSE file -- which is all that is needed -- will materially impact this borderline scam. Unlike the 4-clause BSD, which was not tractable, the modern 3-clause I'm quite sure the author used does not say in any way "must display this copyright in the most obvious place." If the repackager simply includes the file, I believe he will meet BSD provisions, per the letter of the contract. I see two ways to look at this:

* If one really doesn't like things like this to be within the grounds of the copyright, don't use BSD. Use GPL.

* On the other hand, what odds are there that the GPL will be reliably enforced against such small fry actors? Maybe you are best choosing a license based on what makes the most sense for the project's advancement anyway.
Nothing you just posted is in violation of the license. Do I really need to give you a link to the license you're using? The BSDL only has two conditions:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
What your "plagiarist" is doing is perfectly legal I think. As long as your name appears in the source code and/or binary, you can't send a DMCA takedown. Also, he is not using your name to endorse his own product, which is what point 3 of the BSD license is all about.

Also, note that the plagiarist's derivative software can be under any license of his choice, be it commercial, non-commercial or personal. He is free to include / modify your source code and sell it under a different license of his choice -- the only restriction being that your name must appear in those parts of his source code you have written. Unless you buy his product and confirm that he has removed your name, you can't do anything.

Remember that BSD license roughly means public domain with copyright notice preservation. That's all. It doesn't restrict anything else.
If it happens to you it is a 100% result.

Just today a man was ordered to move his airline seat away from two young children. Until he proved they were his children.

In another story out today a woman aggressively approached a man and threatened him with arrest for taking his own children to a store.

Another man found a lost child and returned the child to its mother, only to be abused and threatened by the mother.

You see enough of this, eventually you conclude "OK, have it your way".
Voice Calls which heavily depends on Kernel timing for encoding and decoding. Running a OS timer on a virtual machine will mess up things 1. When higher load is pumped 2. Conference audio mixing

Hence AWS or any other Virtual machine wasn't our first choice for Voice/Media Servers.
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http://i.imgur.com/Gy9GU.png

Just priced it out on Newegg.com (see screenshot above) -- does not include shipping, power supply, etc...but gives you a general idea of the price range -- overall, you could probably do it for around $3.5k-$4k, or easily 3k if you dropped 2 processors, which would still be a beast of a machine...
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I'd recommend it too. I used to hang out on comp.compilers back when John was drafting it so, thanks to vetting the AIX bits, I got my name in the final book's acknowledgements (alongside dozens of others). Small thing, I know, but still pleases me when I think of it. :-)
Would you trust proprietary software to encrypt your communications?
"Get him" just means taking it down, since he can hardly prove any damages. Then the guy can just take some other logo and put it up again.
the whole point of the BSD (or any other permissive) license is that everyone is allowed to publish your code/binaries under a different license (including proprietary). if you want to prevent that from happening, you have to use a copyleft license (such as GPL). in this case there is nothing you can do, they are not violating the license, as long as their copy of the program still includes the original copyright notice (however, they don't have to give it to you so you can check).
the best you can do right now is learn from this and use a copyleft license for future releases of your program. that way everyone who distributes the program has to stick to the license you used and you can prevent it from being distributed as closed source.

here are a few copyleft licenses to consider: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.en.html
Absolutely. Time to start charging for it - you've got something here. Might as well pick the fruits of your labor.
“I realize the BSD allows people to sell my binaries and source but I do not believe it authorizes them to sell the source under a different license.”

Er, that's the exact point of the BSD license. The GPL even allows selling binaries and source code, but not re-licensing.

So the gist of this blog post is that you offered your source code under a license that allows re-licensing provided that your copyright and some notices are included, someone did it, and now you realise you want the GPL. I applaud this person for taking advantage of the very point of BSD and making some business out of it, that chap is smart.

If he's using your logo and you didn't license the logo then that's a copyright claim. But you have no right to whine about the source code. He can say whatever he wants about it, that the "product" is his, etc. (You think Google Chrome doesn't use a hundred libraries written by someone else? But it's Google that made Chrome, right?) And in YOUR LICENSE you wrote “you cannot use my name to advertise”, so the only question is whether your copyright notice and license terms are included in the redistribution.

“… illegally selling licenses to my source code for $13.99-$59.99.”

I would be VERY careful about libeling people by publicly outing them as doing illegal activities. Alexander Moskalev may even have a case against you for defamation or libel. I'd take this blog down if I were you. And then go and read some pages from http://fsf.org/.
While you're here, I just created an account, on your login form it says "Username/Email ID" but it only seems to work with username, not email.

Also, I'm sure you've already considered it so probably no point me mentioning it, but would be interested if you could share your reasoning for not offering the free credit like Twilio do. As a single point of data, I signed up for Twilio and started playing around because of that offer (even though it meant putting a little in myself), despite having no use for it at the time. Without it I probably wouldn't have bothered, whereas now I'm someone who, while never had the need to spend more than a few dollars here and there with them, am happy using their service as my go-to whenever I need any voip/sms stuff.
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In my opinion Perl's culture is an exemplary one. Lots of very smart people being polite and helpful to one another. The CPAN is a tremendous tool.

What makes Perl interesting to me is the philosophy behind the language design. "Since Perl was designed (loosely speaking) by an occasional linguist, it was designed to work smoothly in the same ways that natural language works smoothly." (1)

The three mantras that I remember from my days writing Perl are: "tim-toady" (There's More Than One Way to Do It); "Easy things should be easy, while hard things should be hard;" and (borrowed from Voltaire) "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good."

Perl is messy, because language is a messy business. Perl is expressive, in part because it is messy. Perl is fun to write, and if you have the spare cycles it's worth your time to explore, purely for the mental calisthenics.

(1)
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl3/prog/ch01_02.htm
no way.
but, as i have pointed out, you could go copyleft instead.
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I think (and actually, I hope too) that this isn't: "You cannot distribute Source Code". The BSD license may not force you to redistribute the source code, but I don't see it allowing you to forbid such a thing. Am I wrong?

EDIT: It seems I am, since if there was any changes to the product, it can be freely relicensed.

The safest way to protect against this is to use a better free software license which is copyleft (for instance the GNU GPL).
Haha, did you just reference the "smells like updawg in here" joke?
It depends on how many copies have been sold, and what the support costs are likely to be. If he's only sold two copies, then it's not going to be worth packaging it up.
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If he has modified even a single line of your source code, he is free to re-license the entire product as a whole under his own license. As long as your name / copyright notice is preserved in the source code / binary, there is nothing illegal about this. How else do you think GPL projects incorporate BSD-code ?
Look I'm not claiming Steve Jobs is exactly unbiased :) But the "real" reason given in that article can't be right: Apple's stance appears driven by their business need to protect the iPhone platform against the threat of a cross-platform competitor.

Remember the first iPhone didn't have an app store! It had a full(ish)-featured web browser that people were expected to write "apps" for. Apple continues to encourage developers to write web apps for the iPhone. They can hardly be threatened by a feature they actively promote and enable.