skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> more about getting the bad guy then to help the child.

Another way to look at it is that the worst outcome of one is the child gets lonely and scared for a small period of time, the worst outcome of the other is they get kidnapped and worse.

That said, I'm playing devil's advocate here, not arguing that the above logic should be used by anyone.
See long time play in this space w. App called HITCHCOCK on iOS. It's slick and has a good community around it.
* 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.
* Neither the name of ChatSecure nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

I am not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the license was that you had to attribute me if you were selling my source code. Either way, they are the ChatSecure name to promote themselves and representing the work as their own.

Representing someone else's work as your own is plagiarism, regardless of the software license.
:-)

Actually, I hesitated before posting... I had ruled sarcasm out because purely snarky posts are usually frowned upon here, and your parent post was asking a legitimate question...

That being said, we obviously agree on the topic.
I'd argue that if you install Slackware or Arch you get more applicable hands on experience that you can then use towards running a CentOS instance than if you'd simply install CentOS itself.

It sounds absurd but if I remember correctly the CentOS installation is pretty straightforward. At least with Arch or Slackware you learn a bit about the file system and general system configuration by the time you are done.
Note that the whole point of the "retina" branding is that at a certain distance you will no longer see any improvement as you move further back. If those people were standing sufficiently far back (as you might when looking at a store display iPad) then the retina effect will kick in.
> More importantly, I wonder how frequently this happens - pulling down an open-source project and trying to sell it elsewhere?

Isn't that sort of what Sun Microsystems was built on?

I'm being a bit glib, but there's some truth to it.
Here's what I get for your comparison: https://img.skitch.com/20120814-j2xu3wswpure3aji84ah63566g.j...
the bsd license says: "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, .... in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."

much of open source is redistributed at a cost, "(apparently) without adding value". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Section 114A of Malaysian law sucks in the age of social media
I'm only interested in the representation of this software as his own, and including it in his "portfolio". If it turns out the BSD doesn't offer me strong enough legal protection against this kind of behavior, I will consider a move to the GPL with an App Store exception.
I loved how you wrote that! Whenever people talked about stripe I always thought: Stop, wait! What if your server is compromised? You can do any change to stripe.js you like using malicious injected code.
Many people would just handwave that away, but you write it perfectly clear and give the reason why what stripe does still helps:
It basically just avoids the PCI checks without being secure ;-) No, you wrote that it avoids having you inadvertently store the data.

More people should write about obvious security holes so clearly and logically correct like you do
OT: Can somebody tell whats the music track in the video ???
awesome track, made me feel happy :-)
If you didn't download it, how do you know (s)he removed mentions of your name, and the BSD license mention? Because if those things are still there, what (s)he is doing is perfectly legal and fine.

I see two things that you could do (in addition to the DMCA if the BSD license was actually not respected):

- Selling it yourself cheaper than (s)he is (since anyway you weren't counting on making any money with it) with premium/improved features that are not in the version which is distributed open source ;

- Or you could just try to advertise your free product, saying that it is the same thing that this other person is selling, in order to get credited better for your own work.
You sure told him.

May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has used Verdana as the text face for its entire nine-year existence, but I just don’t care much for Verdana for anything other than use on relatively low-resolution displays at small sizes. (E.g. Verdana’s uppercase I and J. Ugh.) Interesting expansion of the two families, though.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/16/georgia-verdana

Ikea Switches From Futura to Verdana

Horrible decision. Baffling, really. I have never seen Verdana look good in any way other than in small sizes on-screen. (Via Adam Lisagor.)

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/26/ikea-futura
For some people, it is not a 'dudgery of system administration' but an opportunity to get to know Linux closely.
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IANAL, but reading this:
- Redistributions of Source Code must retain....

Doesn't seem to me to exclude selling the source code without displaying the information up front, as long as the copyright notice is still included with the source code (which we don't know, because we don't know anyone who bought it). And I can't see the third clause being triggered, because neither the name you gave it, or your name are being used.

Edit: fceccon pointed out that the name and logo are being used in the header, so yes that seems to make it much more clear cut, albeit turning on the legal definition of "Derived"
There is no great mystery behind it. I am the one who posted both these articles. I am thinking of trying out another distro after trying (and loving) arch linux and Slackware seems like a good distro to try.
If you go to the plagiarized product page (http://www.chupamobile.com/products/details/600/Secured+Chat...) and click more info under Regular License, the license terms are more restrictive than the BSD, which is a violation. However, the author is in Indonesia, so there's probably not much recourse.

Edit: the plagiarist is in Indonesia
> for a little over the price of the high end MacBook Pro (about $3000 with tax), I could build you a 64-core AMD G34 with 64 gigabytes of RAM

Can you detail how you would achieve that ? 3000 $ seems insanely low to me.
I don't think weather forecasting is currently good enough for a farmer to plan which crops to plant based on rainfall predictions.

If every farmer planted a diversity of crops to account for all likely weather scenarios, then the average productivity would drop, as most crops would turn out to be unsuitable for the weather that occurred.
I shouldn't have to pay money to find out if my license is being violated. Honestly, I don't even care that they are selling the code, I just care that they are representing my work as their own.
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Ok, but I don't get these tutorials for the sake of writing a tutorial, with no specified target group. It's like I've written "comparing python vs ruby, getting dirty with dynamic languages" and started it with "a computer program is a set of instructions... the source code is written in something called a programming language..."
Incidentally, you mentioned you sent DMCA takedowns, but Chupamobile seems to offer submissions to it's own copyright notice address too on the T&C,

> "If you think your products has been copied or there was some breach of copyright please inform us by sending an email at report@chupamobile com, including:"...

So it might be worth hitting that also. I'd also like to make clear that I completely sympathise with your situation, if my other responses had implied otherwise.
How Algorithmically Created Content will Transform Publishing
This article explains how an algorithm will search for free or copyright free content based on a search seed and then combine the content into a book.

This is not publishing but delegating the search, find and discovery process to a more efficient machine.

If a client’s search terms were “seeded” with their online reading habits via Scoopinion or similar then the “algorithmic publishing process” would be tailored to your reading habits.

You could do this yourself via a search engine, and I frequently do to learn a new topic like. When I search and discover I read and refine and change my search. I see the process as iterative, rather than singular.

In effect you are paying for a search via this "algorithmic publishing"; not for the writing.
yes, exactly. but then the remote audience will miss the cue that you are turning your gaze - so perhaps it can do both: turn on it's axis and rotate in the already transferring fisheye stream.
Doesn't make that much sense to me - the JVM is complex and has disadvantages (slow startup times etc.), so if you can compile PHP to native code, why compile to interpreted/JIT-compiled code instead? You're just wasting cycles again.

The advantages of the Java ecosystem can be accessed through Thrift if necessary, but the C/C++ world is far from being dead.

It might be interesting for the security and debugging aspects of the JVM, but that's a bit meagre for such an effort.
You can package up BSD code and resell it under a more restrictive license.
The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type
> the license terms are more restrictive than the BSD, which is a violation.

I think you are confused with the GPL.

BSD only requires you to acknowledge original authorship, and declines any suitability or liability. It requires you to preserve the first. (You're welcome to take liability, though ...)
More restrictive terms than BSD aren't a violation.

Plenty of proprietary systems have been based on BSD code. That's pretty much the point of BSD.

If you want to prevent people placing more restrictive conditions on your code, that's what the GPL is for.
And I can't see the third clause being triggered, because neither the name you gave it, or your name are being used.

They're using the ChatSecure logo and name on the page[1] header, so I think the third clause is triggered.

[1] http://www.chupamobile.com/products/details/600/Secured+Chat...
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My experience is that it's very simple:

- What was previously Continental, works well.

- What was previously United, doesn't.

I'm sure the Continental parts will converge to mediocrity given enough time - but for now, they're still closer to Continental quality than to old-United quality.
I've seen this before... Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IvanAnywhere
TL;DR there's no science to back up one being better than the other. Other attributes of a typeface can have an effect for certain mediums (example, large x-height making type readable on screens).

Choose typefaces to match the tone of your content. See also: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-...
You have pretty much repeated that in every comment of yours in this thread. Hope we all could have a healthy discussion without gross generalizations and prevent Ycombinator HN from turning into another r/atheism.
The whole point of a BSD licence is that I am allowed to redistribute it (with my changes optional) under more restrictive or closed source terms. This is what you explicitly allowed him to do by offering that licence.

If you want copies and derivatives to remain open source always, then use GPL - which adds a list of restrictions for redistribution.
As p4bl0 pointed out though, if your license isn't being violated then you have no claim here, they're obeying the law and your takedowns are not valid.
Does this not buzz anybody else out? Getting a wee bit future nauseous over here
Yeah, the favicon they used starting around 2009[1] was definitely my favorite visually. It stood out among a ton of tabs; the monolithic favicons they've been using since they just look like blobs to my eye. This latest one is especially bad in that regard.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.h...
> worst outcome of one is the child gets lonely and scared for a small period of time

Actually the outcome could be the exact same thing in both cases.
what's i saw is just a prototype but nothing close to '90% done' like you said. app.net just has only 10,000+ backers at the moment. they probably haven't done any thing about scalability yet.
Facebook's PHP is not normal PHP: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
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I've only been to the US once, and I really wasn't sure how I would find the 'service industries' (waiting, bar staff, shop staff) always asking if I 'had a nice day' etc. I thought I would find it cloying and draining.

In reality I generally felt VERY well taken care of by everyone I met in retail or service industries - EXCEPT for the airlines.

We flew BA, London to LAX, and as ever BA were fine. We then flew Delta to Hawaii, and I couldn't believe how rude, unhelpful and almost angry these people were. I mean coach drivers in the UK are grumpy but these were something else. When my partner requested the gluten free meal she had confirmed with the check-in staff, she was told they didn't have anything and was given a bread roll (!!!) and an apple as a replacement.

Returning we flew United Airlines, and again they were curt, unhelpful, and generally annoyed that we were there on their plane.

I couldn't believe that these airlines could be operating in a country that prides itself so highly on service.

As the parent says, these are companies that need to be built up again from the ground up - subsidizing them is not helping them.
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He is not comparing distros. He is just recommending to newcomers which distros to start with. But yes, I agree that the introduction is too basic first. Maybe, he just want newcomers to know the 'real distros' they should try out after knowing the basics.
I'm still assessing the viability of a new social media analytics and monitoring solution - http://twitcherhq.com
Ask HN: 3 years, 0 Clients - being offered 20% or money back
I've started this as a subcontracting project, later turned into a partnership with a friend based on goodwill.

Timeline:

- [T-3 years]: Partner idea - B2B (enterprise targeted) with a physical-world component in the workflow. Features driven mostly by partner. Target market in North America.

- [T-2 years]: MVP with most time spent in writing/rewriting. Just after a MVP, partner relocates (to Middle East) for his FT job. Target market switched to ME.

- [T-1 years]: Paper company established in ME. Major competitor attempted hiring my Partner - but he rejected offer citing our company.

- [T]: A potential of a client by year-end.

Now, I'm being offered either of:

- 20% partnership against further dedicated time.

- Investing portion of the 20% in the company and cashing the rest.

- My subcontracting money back with no further obligations.

In terms of potential, there's a market. However, I'm suspicious for few reasons.

What do you think HN?
Thanks !

Good luck with the themes info retreival :)
Actually this reminds me of an interview with Doug Engelbart talking about molding CRT displays to the shape of heads and using them as the ultimate telepresence robots.
I found the title misleading; I was expecting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
Note: I think these guys are obnoxious freeloaders, and I'm on your side, however:

> I am not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the license was that you had to attribute me if you were selling my source code.

Perhaps they do - and if they do, they are within their rights (as granted to them by yourself through the BSD license).

> Either way, they are the ChatSecure name to promote themselves and representing the work as their own.

That would be a trademark violation, and potentially false representation.

As for trademark, if you want to take legal action, you probably need to register it with the USPTO (assuming you are in the US). I am not a lawyer either, but when I inquired about it a few years ago, it was apparently required to register trademarks and copyrights before taking legal action.

False pretenses have much higher standard than you would assume: Unless they write anywhere "we are the sole author of this work", they are probably legally ok.

If this affair upsets you (as it seems it does), you would probably be better off with a GPL license - it's a signal to (ab)users that you care, as opposed to BSD which is a signal that you don't.

I think you are the good guy here, but I'm not sure you have much legal standing after using the BSD -- unless they removed your copyright notices.
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Sounds interesting... check it!

Check also free articles about Wireless Penetration Testing http://pentestmag.com/free-article-72011/
Wikileaks website back online after DDoS cyber-attack
Why editorialise the title? It's very misleading this way.
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I never used (and never will use) iTunes, but I can't believe they don't have some type of refund system?
My point is that most aspiring rock stars or world travelers will only end up as junkies or bums. It's like the Klondike. Sivers clearly found a gold nugget whereas most will only find a couple of flakes (if they are lucky).

Sivers talks up all the exiting things he has done, but does not mention all of the work that he put in and all the luck and good fortune that he came across to come by so much wealth which in turn allowed him to be able to do such things.
Well, that's why I hate laws. Some 'douche' somewhere ready to take advantage of some random statements.
If you want to benefit fully, I would recommend GPL( although I don't know what it is, one thing's for sure; it protects)
But the thing is, a standardized protocol is open source, in that if you have the specs, you can implement it. Not just an API to a black box, but the whole workings of that box. So either I misunderstood a lot about app.net, or you misunderstood what I mean when I ramble about protocols. App.net depends on central hosting, does it not?

It's not like I don't wish them luck, but unless they go the wordpress.com route -- with self-hosting/tinkering being optional -- I'm just not interested in "yet another walled garden", even if it has a genuinely well meaning gardeners, no hidden costs, no price hikes.

So I'll be outside, using RSS feeds, thinking about microformats, pouting :D
That is the sort of PR that doesn't get held back by facts.
Also, to pretend that Steve Jobs was some sort of unilateral source of fair reasoning on the matter is either disingenuous or very short sighted. I hope it isn't both.

But please, do not take my word for it:
http://truegryc.blogspot.pt/2010/05/response-to-thoughts-on-...
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While we can't blame any individual team taking an aquihire deal, I have to wonder if their prevalence these days is undermining future startups and sending potential customers back to an old school mindset of going with large vendors who are less likely to shut down.

After all, why work with a company made up of a few 25 year olds testing out a market, who may "pivot" any time, and will shut down their product when some big company wants to hire them? Seems like a justifiable choice to go with an inferior product from a profitable established company which is much less likely to disappear in two years.

Even as a startup guy, I'm hesitant to build on startup products. YC Startups may be even worse in this context as they are frequently picked off and shut down, and the founders are young and not necessarily in the product for the long haul.
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I worked for a company that made a product similar to this and I'm not convinced they work as a consumer product.

Our customers would plug the device in and then use it for maybe two weeks and then forget about it.

The reality is, for most people there isn't much you can tell them. "Have shorter showers, turn off appliances at the wall, and buy new whiteware with a higher EnergyStar rating". In fact, I ended up increasing my power usage as I realised how little I was saving by turning appliances off.
I get the argument you are making and you have restated OP's post in a more respectful manner at least towards the donors.

As to App.net being more of a cause than a product, I disagree. App.net's form is formless. That users are projecting their hopes on the API is the idea. The difference is the users (mainly devs) are being empowered to build out those hopes.

The Twitter interface is just a use case of a realtime API. People waiting for Dalton to build the killer use case have missed the point. Look to the chaps that are paying $100/ year.
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You'll get similar results for most benchmarks. Languages such as Ruby/Perl/Python are consistently slower than Java. There's no such thing as a perfect benchmark, but I've found the language shootout page to be a pretty accurate reflection of what I've observed in practice.
Cool but impractical. Not gonna make it big. It would take some of those Google glasses controlling it (and at real time turning speed) to even approach practicality.
They are relicensing my software:

Regular License - $13.99

The regular license allows the use of the purchased item in a project for either
personal or commercial uses, without the payment of any further fees or charges
after the initial download cost.
The regular license gives you the right to use the purchased items within 1
project of your own or on behalf of a client (commercial, personal, or non-profit).
You or your client cannot offer the item up for resale either on its own or as part
of a project.
Items purchased under a regular license must not be redistributed or resold “as-
is” or as part of any other collection of files.

What you can do:
You can integrate the component in 1 APP.
You can be distribute it only as a binary only (You cannot distribute Source Code).
Commercial use is allowed.
You can customize the Source Code.
e27 did an article on this a while back. Very good read:
http://e27.sg/2012/06/01/darker-internet-days-for-malaysians...
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They invited correspondents from The New York Times. Don't tell me the iEconomy articles wasn't the biggest blow to Apple this year (after the ruling that they had to say Samsung wasn't cool enough to copy them, of course!).