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The genius of this license is that not only does it stop semi-evil people (because truly evil people don't care about the author's wishes), it stops stupid people. Which, in a long about way, is a type of unintended evil.
Here is another habit-breaking project I saw from a fellow HN reader. If you missed it, check it out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5131995
Definitely harder, but I just wonder if I'd feel comfortable with this as my only plan to avoid prosecution.
Unfortunately this seems like a drop in the ocean to me.

In January 2010 there were 24,605 schools in England alone [1]. Add more for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Then subtract the fairly small number of private schools. My guess is that that about 1 in 3 of UK schools will see even one Pi. And then, since the Pis are being given to pupils not the school, they have to identify the lucky pupil who gets to take it home. I wonder how that will work?

I'm not trying to be cynical, but is this actually meant to achieve anything that is related to education?

[1] http://www.education.gov.uk/popularquestions/schools/buildin...
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Upvoted, to me Musk is being a publicity whore and scoring cheap hits over Boeing. I.e. his comments do not help us in advancing our understanding so can only be intended to publicise his own company's products.
Is it safe for work? Looks nice :)
I'm starting again electronics, but I was trying to design the power stage of a BLDC motor. So it's mostly about MOSFET half-bridges and their driving.
In this case you have to check you are using every components in their ratings.
If you are designing a battery-operated system it's also good to know about power consumption of your output stage.

And I totally agree about the components, if I add a connector for PCB routing purpose, I should be able to simulate anyways.
No lives are in danger (because the planes are grounded) but lives were in danger.

How about: If he would not speak up he would be remiss. Imagine the situation where an engineer at Boeing could be ignored but where someone of Musks standing would could not be ignored. If Musk has this knowledge and does not speak up that would be far worse than if he does.

After all, either he is wrong (which Boeing can prove, in which case Musk gets to eat some crow) or he is right (in which case his words force Boeing into more accountability, which in the case of air travel with multi-hundred-ton planes is a good thing all around).

This does not qualify as a formal review of one engineers work by another. This is simply commentary by one of the companies that has an extreme amount of knowledge about use of batteries in vehicular applications commenting on the implementation details of the structural arrangement chosen by another company for a similar (but of course still different in many way, but more critical rather than less) application. As such it is something that Boeing should - and probably does - take serious.

I highly doubt that they would take input like this and discard it either because the 'source' does not have his chartered engineers paper (the guy puts rockets into space, which I think might offset some paperwork) and makes his comments in a forum where he can't be easily ignored (which may very well be the whole point).
Closed minds of "Open Source" eject iTWire from Linux conference
Are you afraid of failure? You don't want your name associated with a certain project?

I think it's better to launch and "fail fast", than not to launch at all (unless there are significant costs?)
So this is kind of what its like to have interesting things to share as filtered images and friends who care enough to enjoy them!

Now I just need friends :'-(
Inside the iOS terms & credits page deep inside settings, this license is present. So I guess you can't use iPhones for evil.
I think it's well worth a repost.

Excellent tip though, excellent.
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I agree, it looks really polished.
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It'll be an uphill battle, as I can't see him doing a preference deal[1] with a major party. The Greens might prefer him, but I can't see the two major parties doing so. It will be a publicity coup though.

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[1] Explanation: A preference deal means a party agrees to place another party further up it's how-to-vote card, the order usually being determined by what the party thinks will deliver the most self benefit. In the Australian Senate, voters can either indicate their own preferences by numbering every square (typically 150 of them) in the bottom section of the ballot paper, or a single mark "above the line" in the top section, meaning they agree to vote according to the party's how-to-vote card. Most people do the latter, as it is quicker, requires less thinking and is far less arduous (a single number wrong means your vote is informal, and may not be counted). Consequently preference deals are key for minor candidates.

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Edit: fixed error. Federal elections are not optional preferential.
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^ As an aside, putting 'evil' in your licence is pretty dumb. There is no definition of evil which can be argued over in any court. What you consider 'good', someone else almost certainly considers 'evil'

Actually, one of the real dangers is if a court does recognise an act as evil, which they do all the time, just search court records for "evil". (For example, if a rapist uses your code, that would probably count as evil to a court)

Then you're definitely breaking the law.
Similar to Mark Suster's[1]: What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/19/what-makes-an-...
I'm not saying there can't be process continuity when someone is frozen.

There isn't likely to be process continuity if you are freezing people after they are dead.
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Look, I wouldn't enter personal data anywhere on the internet. If I write 750 words a day, I write about personal things that could be clearly related to me (by name or by my company name). I can't take that risk. Not because the guy behind 750words is not trustable. I don't know him. But because I have no idea whether or not his webserver is secure enough, whether or not he stores his FTP password somewhere in plaintext on his mobile or his laptop.

It doesn't have to be him who is the weakest link in that security chain.

What I don't get from your posting is the second part. Personal computers aren't prone to failure at all. I never had a single HDD crash. I backup my data on a second HDD just in case. It's incredibly unlikely that my data is going to be lost and that the cloud is the only solution for that.

So, there's clearly no compromise for me. Rule is: No cloud, no internet service for private data. And heck, I don't even use any analytics software or other software on my company website that I cannot self-host.
Your comment reminds me of a CMS-like system I built over a decade ago based on plain old unix 'make'. 'make' tracked all the dependencies to determine what parts of the site needed to be updated when new content was added or updated. Content was authored unstyled in a simplified subset of html, and make ran it through an XSLT to do styling and aggregation, like to build indices. The whole thing worked very well, building over 2k pages in seconds. I still miss it!
PC Build Generator http://8bit.co/PCBG

1.)It made a few hundred dollars in Amazon referrals in the first month and very little the second month.

2.)Front page of a few (non default) subreddits, generated 65k builds, 4k visits last month.

Pretty pleased for my first PHP/SQL project put together in a couple of weekends.
HTML 5 video: iOS devices won't play video tags in the
DOM, they instead open in a standardized player. Apple
also stops them from auto-playing on iPhone.

This is what makes Vine so useless on iOS outside of the native app. It makes it preferable to use GIF sans audio generally, whenever it's an option.

I get where Apple is coming from, but this is definitely sorely needed for some use cases.
You might enjoy Jeremy Kun's primers: http://jeremykun.com/primers/
It would probably be much easier to create great web design tools if HTML/CSS was a little saner and not a constant moving target.
This is exactly why he is out in front of this issue.

I worked in a hardware store after the first space shuttle accident in 1986. More than one customer thought the store should not be selling O rings since they caused the shuttle to blow up.
Nothing mysterious going on here. It's not uncommon for another prosecutor to reopen a case if there are reasonable grounds for it.

You can't seriously argue that someone who is accused of rape should just be set free like that. Guilty or not he should stand trial.
This is what mockup software is for i.e. Balsamiq. Once you have what you want there, then you go to Photoshop. Then export your pretty images, insert them into Balsamiq and keep tweaking.
On the other hand how many of the smart audience actually click on or buy something through an advert? How many things do you buy on a whim due to a shiney advert? Being on the Internet I am only a quick google away from tens of reviews of practically anything and I'll factor that into a purchase decision more than a neat advert full of marketing fluff.
Well said. Engineering is a game of higher-dimensional whack-a-mole.

You can test, and push stuff to the edge all you want - but things will still hit the fan in some corner case.

Failure is the only constant.
i'm a green voter but i'd vote for assange in the senate - because he at least stands up for what he believes should be said. the other two main parties in oz are competing with each other to attract the swinging 20% that will give them the election. so they do not care about their electoral base (don't forget we have compulsory voting here, and long may it reign - none of that attracting younger voters crap we had to endure in the UK in 2004).
btw, i believe from what i've read that the charges against assange in sweden are trumped up. the US has put pressure on sweden to deliver another 'example' of how powerful they are.
The thing that will "remove any pressure Boeing engineers may feel to give their battery issue less attention than it deserves" is heat from the NTSB and FAA, not self-serving pronouncements by some guy who happens to run a couple of tiny (compared to Boeing) high-tech engineering companies.
Rule of thumb with vague terminology: if the words or concepts used in any arbitrary argument are vague - said argument is often full of bullshit.

And for the smart asses out there: yes I know that the above argument is itself vague. It's an example of a self-referential heuristic like Hofstader's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadters_law).
Recovering from a mistake is something i'd like to see. I've been able these past few months to recover from wrong rebase/squash/merge/reset even after a few days by using "git fsck" and "git reflog" but it was hard for me. Hard to find the proper commands and especially understanding why the last one worked in the end while the previous did not.
It doesn't appear to be in this linked article, but Musk has indicated that he is already in contact with Boeing's lead engineer in this area. I think even by the strictest interpretation of official engineering ethics Musk is doing everything right so far.
I'd almost respect this effort more if it were part of a plan to get diplomatic immunity, as suggested by others. But otherwise, this should spell the end of Assange as a "folk hero" in some corners of the digital world. I suspect that he could accomplish much more in his Wikileaks capacity than he ever could as a politician.
The majority of people Are Lazy - This is why java and other languages abstracted further than C/C++ became so popular. Functional programming is more natural and comes with a smaller learning curve. It does not require the same amount of discipline to become proficient - nor the conceptual, analytical problem solver skills to master. But that is just the language, what about the design of an large scale application suite?

So people with less analytic abilities and problem solving skills, (I think of those who HAD TO choose Humanities and arts majors here?) Can actually pick it up. This can be looked at as good or bad, in the long run it is probably good overall because the understanding of hardware and memory become less important as processors, memory, storage, and bandwidth become cheaper There will always be the geeks who still understand everything and can design and architect the software for the developers to code.

One downside may be that those with the analytic/problem solving minds will lose their art in a sense and lose the very thing that keeps their minds sharp. Another thing worth mentioning is, there is going to be a lot of changes for developers. Wages will go down as it gets easier to learn how to program - thus more programmers flood the market (supply and demand), also their will be a separation of Architects and code monkeys - the latter being the Humanities graduate type.

To sum up - This will "Dumb Down" your average developer and create a clearly defined separation between developers and designers/architects.
What else? Shorting. Chemical impurities (less likely). Failed peripherals like fans (hopefully less likely to have this result, due to thermal cut-offs). Improper assembly. Those are my next candidates anyway, after a thermal design defect as you said (which is fairly broad).
Antony Green wrote a posting on this issue (and Assange's general chances of being elected) here: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2012/12/what-chance-of-j...

The short of it is that being qualified to become such an elector is a broader category than actually being on the electoral roll - you don't need to be on the roll to run for the Senate, just meet the basic requirements in S93.
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I don't know the full plan, but it makes perfect sense to start with a more reasonable number as an experiment; if it works, it'll be much easier to raise funding for the rest of the country. Even Google can't be expected to donate millions of $ (or £) straight up for something in it's infancy.

Just because it does not single-handedly fix computing education does not mean it is worthless - to make such an inference is a fallacy (I forget which one; there's a particular name. Essentially the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good). Helping 15000 people is better than helping 0.

At the end of the day, even the ocean is still made of nothing but drops.
No two candidates are ever equivalent.
I'm surprised that apparently so few of you can see satellites going across the sky. I live in Amsterdam and can see a few bright satellites somewhat regularly with the naked eye.

What I'm surprised about is that they came up with the theory of "man-made fires" all by themselves.
Throwing good money after bad?

Dell circa 1997 wouldn't approve.

> "I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders"

- Dell (on Apple)

But more seriously, you gotta give the guy credit for trying to save his baby.
In SF at the memorial she mentioned it as a good try but not good enough.
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"back into"? Rose-coloured glasses perhaps?
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I mainly buy from Amazon, but largely as a "default fail-through" option for random goods (and books/kindle of course).

I'd probably buy camera gear from B&H preferentially if they added a few features to their buying process (tracking all my equipment whether bought there or elsewhere, checking compatibility, maintenance, etc.). I'd buy computer equipment, car accessories, etc. from other vertical vendors who do the same thing (and generally do buy from Tirerack for that purpose)

There's loyalty to Amazon, but it's not absolute. I could start a new retailer in a given niche today and probably defeat Amazon in that niche.
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Wow, a $70 billion market dominated by essentially only two major players. Sounds like a market ripe for disruption.
He could do that right now.
Uh, major issue in that headline - to be accurate, it should be "Closed minds of iTWire ejected from Linux conference".
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For me as well. And I have three grandmothers, courtesy of my stepmother. Two of them died while I was in college, the third is 97 y.o., and I've got two more semesters to go, so there's a chance I may be one of those people who dips into the "negative grandmothers" category.
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Good point. As well as that there is the question of him being relatively forgotten during the 8 month election 'campaign' that's just been announced.

Australians are going to be even more tired of their politicians by September but that's a separate story.
I had problems with .slugignore not working recursively in folders. Otherwise I would use it alot more.
Man charged in 'sextortion' case targeted 350 women, feds say
Check out the Sex Party. Despite the stupid name, they're actually a civil liberties party - equality for all, privacy, net neutrality, that sort of thing. At least at the last federal election they were.
Well, they might do - temperature, pressure etc.
I've been meaning to comment on this for a while, e.g. on Slashdot, but the thought of arguing this with some of those guys sends shivers down my spine. I've been impressed by some the discussions on HN so I'll share this with you, let's see what you think.

First of all, this is cleary fraud and those responsible should punished harshly. The whole concept of Libor is also flawed, mainly because it's not based on actual transactions and so is sensitive to manipulations like these.

Now having said that, let's make a couple of things clear:

1.
$300 trillion is not the amount of money that has been 'stolen'. If the total amount by which the rate was skewed from what it would otherwise have been was 0.01% (which probably isn't wide of the mark) then it's $30 billion per year. A lot of money still, for sure.

2.
$300 trillion doesn't mean what you thin it means. This assumes that one group of people 'loaned' another distinct group of people $300 trillion. But this isn't what happens, the number doesn't take into account that vast majority of these 'loans' are netted against each other. So at any given time the total amount 'lent' is a relatively small proportion of that, say $1 trillion (I think this is roughly true). So I think a better estimate of what was 'stolen' was about $100 million per year, within an order of magnitude.

3.
It's not clear who stole this from whom. There are two main types of manipulation that have been reported:

a) Individual traders or desks manipulated submissions for personal gain. It's not clear that this actually skewed the rates in any particular direction over time, they might have increased one week and decreased the next (and so traders were perhaps paid higher bonuses for one year). In this case one trading desk or trader 'stole' from another trader or trading desk, perhaps even within the same firm.

b) During the recent crisis, the industry as a whole submitted Libor rates that were lower than the otherwise should have been, because they didn't want to look weak (and we know what happened to those who looked weak). This would have benefitted borrowers at the expense of lenders.
I need to send this guy some beer (it's like flowers for men).
The author omitted the fact that Apple propaganda struck preemptively in the possible social immune response against their tactics. If you'd searched in 2009-2011 materials like „anti-apple” or something similar, you would have found all kinds of pseudo-critics meant to ridicule anti-Apple policy/sentiments (which might include you of course). In fact I think a lot of Apple-related critique was carefully directed by Apple (like say, the term „Apple fanboy” which is the mildest option of that could occur otherwise). Now the pressure is fading and it bothers less, but, but I still remember Apple and perceive the past years because of it like nightmare, a dark chapter in the industry.
They're a gimmick party and we all know it. Numerous parties have stood under those policies without resorting to cheap marketing tactics.
Depression is very much a bug in the system. But for various reasons people don't see it that way.

If someone has a heart attack, we don't say "why didn't the body just increase blood flow to the heart." Yet if someone commits suicide, people ask why they didn't just change their behavior.

While some people are against psychiatric or other medications, their goal is to fix or compensate for the bugs in the system.
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Haha.. Effin' would have been a better 2nd word for the anagram.
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That's not true at all - for example Adair Blain was re-elected as the Member for Northern Territory in the 1943 election whilst being held as a POW by the Japanese.
When you invest in startup you lose by default. Investing in Ivy League grads does not seem like a good strategy. Let's say 95% startups fail; 90% Ivy League grads' startups fail. An obvious improvement but you still lose by a wide margin. Someone who is able to invest in the top startups of which say only 75% fail will run circles around you.
Parallelism currently is just a nice bonus - say, I lose 3x performance by not detailing a great execution path manually in C++; but I gain 3x performance since most of the code is trivially parallelizable to run on 4 cores.

Parallel extensions have been (and are being) added to OOP languages to make it's use not only simpler, but even as a preferred general design.
"using a small, elegant language called perl" - The Economist.
Why suicide is bad thing?
Most people don't do science for a living. How is your advice relevant.
its unfortunate that not many programmers are going to read this (i wasn't going to until faced with the dire necessity to procrastinate) because there's some impressive information about quora's backend^Wmiddleware (what would you call it?) in there. they seem to have very good support for integrated, componentalized dynamic update. i wonder if they will ever open source it?
Maybe he should join forces with the Australian Pirate Party (http://pirateparty.org.au/) - they have some similar views.
I still think a court would be asked to rule on the question of "intention to reside", which is what the whole thing revolves on.

Assange can wish to reside in Australia inside the 6 year deadline. But that's not the same as being realistically able to. In that case, he may be unable to form a legally meaningful intent.

Or the Act might be read in the sense that intent is intent, regardless of whether such an intent could ever be realised.

In either case, watch for this section to be rewritten after the election. Or even before.
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The license refers to evil actions, not evil people. If a rapist uses your code to rape people, your example might be more true, but I don't see how JSLint helps with that.
I've said in other places that there are two Sydney Morning Heralds.

One is an old fashioned high-church leftie yawnfest staffed mostly by people who dine out on stories about being stoned in the 60s.

The other is a tabloid bilge pump.

The bilge pays for the yawnfest and everybody tries to pretend that the pulpit isn't being subsidised by the people it rails against.