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No, he's questioning the effectiveness of it. Does putting someone on a panel because[1] they're female/GBLT/black etc. really empower the minority? Or is it merely a token gesture?

1: And by "because" I mean actual causation: the minority status of the speaker held significant weight in the decision.
I agree with you about OF's deal being similar to Wu Tangs. My main point was that in the end they did sign and on a side note I think they are a group that really did not have to. I think they might have less buzz now than they did when they were independent.
You do have a point, but it's not like unlocking the phone gets you out of paying your monthly fees. Hell, they should encourage it because they'd still get your subscription fee and you might not even use their service!
The point didn't seem to be delivering useful criticism, it seemed to be mockery of the code. I guess you can brand anyone who does that with the world Asshole in scarlet, but do you never mock anything? I'd personally reserve the label for people that either deliberately hurt others or don't care about feelings at all.
So it is effectively their fault for preventing the licence of their project from _ever_ being updated, even in the case where some future legal loophole makes exploiting GPLv2 code possible.

It is short sighted essentially freezing the legal status of a project forever, and it is even more idiotic to blame the FSF for being incompatible with projects that voluntarily cut off forward-compatibility by removing the "or any later" clause.
Not sure of the exact timing, but I thought Crank That (Soulja Boy) was #1 before he got signed (after getting popular on YouTube/MySpace).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulja_Boy

Drake comes to mind as well.
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the import takes a while, I love the GUI.
You want to co-exist with bacteria, not wipe them out. Diplomacy versus war.

Se probiotics.
I'm not so sure FSF is trying to say they're in the wrong for using GPLv2. In my mind, it's similar to Apple or Microsoft not releasing a new version of iTunes or Office for one of their old operating systems. They're not saying anybody is "in the wrong," but it's the old version and people should upgrade.

I have a hard time blaming FSF for wanting other projects to upgrade to GPLv3 instead of downgrading their own project to GPLv2. It could almost be said that it's the whole point of the GPL.

And, like you said, this should be a surprise to absolutely nobody.
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Why the fuck would a library not use the LibraryGPL? It's the same stupidity as readline.
Not really -- the directory server can just direct a user to connect to a MITM server. There's no need to control the entire network, you only need access to Skype's servers.
Agreed, lots of glitches that kept me from shelling out for the paid service. I gave it up and went back to Dropbox for OSX <-> Android syncing.

At least the buyer isn't talking about shutting it down.
I'm really surprised and impressed that with such an installment only $11000 is needed to power it per year. LED is such an impressive piece of tech.
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I was mainly making a joke, but the content of the statement was a problem. Let's consider the relative merits and priorities of "spending time complaining about federal prosecutors" vs. "examining our own community". The former is about trying to change our society to make it more just, the latter is aimless introspection.

The comment was a bit of a troll and not insightful so I trolled back. If this were not pg's website, I am certain you wouldn't be defending the statement because it lacks substance.
I believe license changes can be applied retroactively to all versions with the permission of all the copyright holders; I would assume this is what was done.
Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?
I met this person when I was in high school. He made a huge mistake in his early twenties and has almost finished paying for it (bank robber). He gets out of prison next week. I've kept in touch with him through letters and have been telling him that his only chance of financial independence is through writing code.

He's very familiar with business logic, as he was the MS Access dba for the prison factory. And about six months ago I sent him a few conceptual programming books that you all suggested he read. He paid for his own master's degree (distance learning program in organizational dynamics), and even started a phd--though prison officials would not let him conduct the necessary research to complete it (and he ran out of money).

He's about 40, has no family, and virtually no friends (outside of prison). Army veteran, so he has health insurance covered. I think he has about $1000 saved. I'll be giving him a laptop, smartphone, and mobile hotspot. He won't be able to leave Indiana for a few years (terms of supervised release).

Would really appreciate everyone's thoughts and advice. I'll compile all of it and make a list for him. Thanks.
Verizon phones don't use sim cards.
Sounds like what I need, I'll have a play later.
At the risk of starting a flame war, this is why all my shit is BSD licensed.

Like the software, the license isn't a pain in the arse either.
Put your phone on silent mode, and work until you don't feel like working anymore. Then check your phone whenever you feel like it.

Your phone calls don't need to control you. You can just check your phone later and see if you have missed calls / voicemails.

Working on something, but it's not super important and you don't mind being interrupted for a little bit? Take phone back off of silent mode. Easy.

Well, easy for me at least. Judging my all the comments here, this is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for everyone else on Hacker News.
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> GPLv2 has an _optional_ update clause that Ribbonsoft/QCad did not elect to use.

Actually, the clause is recommended by the FSF. Projects that remove the clause do that fully intentionally.

Considering how long copyright lasts (70 after the death of the author), it is IMHO pretty short sighted to make the licence of a project stuck in time and unable to react to any future legal challenges.
That's a great question, and my trivial answer is: Because people want to sleep in a different place from where they spend the day. Now, is it good for us, abstracting out travel time, for those to be in very different places? That's a whole other issue.

I do imagine communities will see many of the same benefits as individuals; that is, lower transport costs will mean its possible to build affordable, self-contained communities farther away from urban centers without sacrificing quality of life (including the ability to go to the city if you want to). But that's behind the event horizon to me; hard to speculate.
As bizarre as it sounds the demand can be outside the scope of the patent infringement. You are right, that typically a cease and desist would be along the lines of: 1. you are violating our registered patent(s), 2. we demand you cease and desist and/or begin paying royalties and past royalties calculated to be "$x".

However, you can be very creative and tack on other demands unrelated to the patent infringement. One very important point here, regarding settlements and settlement offers, parties to a lawsuit are prohibited from disclosing settlement offers/settlement discussions to the Court (again like all things in law, this is the general rule and there are exceptions, example if someone violates a settlement agreement and you sue to enforce said agreement obviously you disclose the confidential agreement to the court).
In Europe where I grew up, we use 900/1800MHz - my original GSM phone wouldn't work in the States when I visited. I had to wait quite a while for the first tri-band phone to come out before I could get one that would work in Canada where I now live where we predominantly use 850/1900. Interestingly 1900 is the predominant band in Canada with 850 being a "backup", but in the U.S. it's determined by regulatory requirements of the location.

A quad-band "world phone" (that supports 850/900/1800/1900) will work in _most_ places (some exceptions) in the world that support GSM. There are some countries that use some obscure bands - Benelux, Russia etc. use 450MHz.

It gets a little more complicated when you get to UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA... but Wikipedia explains it all quite nicely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands

So your iPhone will work everywhere - at least everywhere that uses at least one of the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies... if it's unlocked.
I think there's a place for both. The type of content that is just meant to be consumed and the design that needs to be experienced.

I agree we shouldn't loose site of the experience, but let's make the consumption part easier.
It's GNU policy - see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html
Anyone surprised by the fact that the FSF puts its principles about the purity of free software licenses before pragmatism hasn't been paying much attention. The GPLv3 is the flagship license of the FSF and they think it fixes some issues with the GPLv2, so it's hardly surprising that they will refuse to relicense their high priority projects under the older license. "But you'll gain more users" has never been a reason for the FSF to compromise on their principles.

One may equally well ask why LibreCAD insists on GPLv2 (without upgrade clause), and does not switch to GPLv3 if they want to use GPLv3 libraries.
>Carriers agreed to give you a shiny new smartphone for a massively subsidized prize in return for you being locked to their network.

Another way to look at things is that carriers subsidize the cost of your phone in exchange for you signing up to a fixed-length phone contract with a set monthly price.

Whether or not you can unlock your phone really has nothing to do with this, as you're committed to the contract either way.

The real issue is what happens after you've completed the 18 or 24 month contract. The carrier recouped their subsidy on the phone and has profited from your contract. But you can't use your phone (which you have more than paid for) on any other network.
Or giving their life for Aiur.
There is always the need for somebody to stand up as the opposing side to those who seek to build their business on abusive practices such as vendor lock-in or DRM. The FSF is that voice, and it's a more important role than ever.

For example, the FSF has long warned of the dangers of DRM, and in recent years these warnings have proved themselves prescient now that we have things like Amazon remotely wiping Kindles on a whim and deleting objectionable books. More recently, the FSF has begun making a lot of noise about the dangers of SecureBoot. Will the wider developer community disregard these warnings as the ravings of irrelevant zealots? Based on past observations, I certainly hope not.
You are not paying the roaming charges if you unlock your phone. Thus breaking your agreement.
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Only if you still get it directly from the copyright holder.

If you get it from someone else, and that someone got their copy under the terms of GPLv2, they still can distribute it under v2.
I think at times a different title may serve as a way for the poster to convey some relevant and appropriate commentary on why it is being posted.
That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.
"Then I sob harder. I can’t help but think of potential future employers that are no longer potential."

As an employer, I expect there to be criticism associated with a person's code. Criticism isn't a black mark.

But sobbing in reaction to criticism? Getting all upset about mild criticism from a-hole strangers on twitter? That's a black mark.
Interestingly enough, my participation on Twitter was spurred and continually maintained via OSS and GitHub. So this is really welcome on my end (although I wouldn't mind extra info such as watchers and forks).

It is a bit weird though: the displayed image is the project owner's profile image, which doesn't seem directly relevant, and seems a bit out of place.
Yeah. Recreating from first principles can be a fantastic exercise, but it's not the sort of thing that's supposed to pick up a lot of followers, because it's a thing that's usually more personally edifying for the experience than likely to result in something new and interesting.
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It has got everything do with carrier subsidy. If you don't want the subsidy they will sell you a unlocked phone. Problem solved.
i read somewhere that their video chat can run on 380kbs connections, i would assume its in the works. they did buy drones for Africa

personally i stopped using skype because i had issues on linux recently.
google talk worked out of the box for me, and much much better
It looks like this was brought up on the mail-list Feb. 2012: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libredwg/2012-02/msg00000....
One thing is sure, no one can write bug free software.
I was wondering the same thing.... I was also wondering how he could NOT just get another iPhone for less than $1000? Seriously, if my iPhone died tomorrow, and I had no insurance, I could still easily buy one on ebay for like $300 or $400.
sick app bro i look cool sitting at my desk at work
Yeah, the message to create an account is probably unnecessary more than half the time people will be reading these.
Really cool little project. Kudos.

Someone posted about one of their projects here the other day, Akiban [0]. While not exactly the same it was also bridging the SQL/NoSQL worlds. Not 100% sure on how it works but it has table-groups to let you pre join collections together (I think).

[0] http://www.akiban.com/
For all intents and purposes, blogs are pretty much affiliated with big music now though. And for what it's worth, Drake was only really affiliated with big music after he made it big on his own. Even when he was (allegedly) promoted by big music without being signed, that was in a bid to win build him and win him over.

While I agree that an entirely internet phenomenon is a bit different, I don't think it's a unique case. Macklemore just happens to be exemplifying an extreme case of a trendthat's been going on for a while.
I look at it from a free-markets perspective. I'm a big fan, you see.

Monopoly-inclined companies hate free markets, because they'd rather not compete fairly. They tend to think of customers not as respected partners, but as their property. We are cows that they are entitled to milk.

In this case they are taking advantage of information asymmetries, a size asymmetry, and human cognitive biases to reduce the freedom in the marketplace. It's bullshit, but very profitable bullshit. Profitable enough that they could buy the laws they wanted.
The power of lobbying. The legislation that can bring candidates the most money always seems to take priority. This goes to show that the common man has far less power then is ideal.
Three of the top 1000 websites in the world started accepting bitcoins in the past few months--most notably Wordpress. http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2011/12/bitcoin-bounty-ladde...

Thousands of other sites and hundreds of real life locations accept bitcoins--many exclusively. I get unsolicited questions about Bitcoin from non-tech people who see my posts about it just about every day. The coming Bitcoin update is specifically meant to make Bitcoin much more non-tech friendly. I greatly anticipate swaths of non-tech users buying in very soon.

I think it's a little early to say Bitcoin has "won" against Paypal when the BTC market cap only just recently broke $200 Million USD. But it is certainly here to stay. Bitcoin's exponentially increasing global adoption rate all but ensures that it will be around for a long time to come.
You should try Kicad. Similar problem with libraries, except making new footprints is my favorite part of the suite. It is a pleasure to use.
You are not doing this for "the greater good" you are doing this to make money, as is GETCO et al.

Yes, we're doing this to make money. However, making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive, and making money and stealing are not inextricably linked.

We believe we can make money at this, or we wouldn't be doing it. We intend to make money in an ethical way, giving our users the tools they want and respecting and protecting the privacy of their intellectual property.

Stealing algorithms and protection of algorithms are fundamental issues in the industry.

I entirely agree, but it does not follow that everyone doing algorithmic trading is a thief or that the only way to make money from algorithmic trading is to be a thief.
Not so sure. Given the FSF's patent activism, I would not release software with an upgrade cause in the license, because I don't trust the FSF to not really mug things up with GPLv4, in ways that expose me to liability.
This seems like a totally reasonable way to deal with criticism.

Also, "I can’t help but think of potential future employers that are no longer potential." because some guy called Steve Klabnik and his wannabe follower Corey Haines who wants to suck up to him say your code sucks?

Don't take yourself so seriously please.
Even LTE ones?
No, if the clause isn't in there then it doesn't apply. You can talk about anything you want.
You should check out iCracked. They'll either fix your iPhone or buy it from you!
Why not provide a way for users to download the library separately and execute it as a binary blob? That way, if there's a license violation, it is the responsibility of the user. Kind of like libdvdcss and Handbrake?

On the other hand, it seems odd to me that the kind of person who would be hung up by licenses is interested in using free software. Why not just buy AutoCad at this point?

I guess that's sort of the FSF's biggest mistake. They act like there are no alternatives. Though they seem to understand that with LGPL:

This is why we used the Lesser GPL for the GNU C library. After all, there are plenty of other C libraries; using the GPL for ours would have driven proprietary software developers to use another—no problem for them, only for us.
I don't even see how this can be argued.

Simple: median real wages HAVE NOT RISEN AT ALL since 1970, while the cost of living (particularly prices for housing, health-care, education and energy) has... a lot.

So you can say that consumer technology has increased the quality of life in a non-tangible, non-quantified way. But in all the quantified ways, things are getting worse: people are losing the incomes that enabled them to access consumer goods (like consumer technologies) in the first place.

There are also many complaints about "kids these days", that a current-day education is "inflated" and less worthwhile or indicative of anything than a past one.

The poor don't have mobile phones because they can afford luxuries, they have them because mobile phones have become very, very cheap and, in some cases, government-subsidized.

As to life-expectancy, it's actually started to tick slightly downward for young people today since the Recession started. Infant mortality, too.

So, indicators that have gotten better over the past four decades: educational levels, life expectancy, infant mortality, crime rates (they're down quite a bit). Indicators that got worse in the past four decades: housing, health-care, education and energy costs, real wages, working hours (they increased noticeably). Indicators that started getting worse since 5 years ago: all of the above.
"Except that unlocking the phone doesn't free anyone from fulfilling their side of the original contract"... it does, the contract now says that you can't unlock the phone. If you do you break the contract.
Actually, the iPhone 5 on verizon does use a SIM card. When I asked the sales person about it, they said it was for LTE.

That said, the slot is unlocked on the verizon model, so you can pop another micro SIM in there for travel use.
Man now I wanna know if there are any rappers out there exploring other modes of poetry. Someone doing the alliteration and kennings that make up the backbone of Beowulf, or the tight syllabic constraints of a haiku, instead of rhyme...
I am also sourcing for a designer position. Any chance you could share the list of top design schools and save me a step? Many thanks in any case and great write up!
It requires a sim cutter. I am not sure if anyone in Europe offers pre-paid nano sims, but I'll find out in a few months.

http://www.zdnet.com/nano-sim-redux-using-the-iphone-5-in-th...
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How? To get a student visa you have to be accepted at an accredited university/college/cegep/high school. How is this different?

I ask because I'd like to better understand your argument.
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They do for LTE on the iPhone 5
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I think it shouldn't be surprising, or it shouldn't be called a prediction because these are the people who influenced enough to have Apple create the successful tablet.
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Because support is already awesome, right? :)
I am working on a team that is smarter than me. And I noticed, they don't attach a huge amount of their identity on their code. Taking myself out of it improved my skills.

Having said that though, when you ridicule someone, you've made it personal. When someone ridicules someone else, there's a high chance that they secretly feel ridiculed by others (Jungian shadows).

I forgot who observed this: adult males will kill off younger competition, unless they are teaching. One of the core values of the Open Source community is sharing and teaching. I suppose, if you stick around in opinionated software long enough, then you start moving away from that core value.
The beginning of the end of copyright. :)
That's only for web applications though. I'd like it if Unix utilities optionally output and accepted JSON or a similar syntax. It'd make things so much easier.

http://theatticlight.net/posts/Why-cant-we-do-pipes-smarter/
Seconded! Congratulations Mike, Fred & team.
"I'd feel like I have to constantly jump between computers in case I missed an important email or some relevant news broke."

Sounds like you really need to try this then. Seriously, don't let your "fear of missing out" cripple you.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/fomo-addict...
Ask HN: Best OSX Email Client for High Volume
I'm wondering if there's some email client out there that can easily handle high volumes of email. The default Mail client can get bogged down and outlook for mac is pretty unpleasant to use.

What do you use?
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It's relevant because he likely wouldn't have been signed and promoted in the recording industry of yesteryear.
>it prevents people from taking advantage of the carrier subsidy...Carriers agreed to give you a shiny new smartphone for a massively subsidized prize in return for you being locked to their network.

Aren't you contractually locked? What does locking your phone have to do with your contract?

I'm not sure why there should be criminal penalties if you took advantage of a carrier subsidy anyway. Gaming consoles are a clear example of this. I know XBox used to make up the subsidy on game sales.
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This is amazingly both of the above points

1. A clear and succinct citicism directed at the failings of a language in technical terms

2. Attacking a maker and telling them not to make stuff.

However.

Like Stallman, we take the rough with the smooth with Torvalds. Some people earn it.