skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I don't have a solution, was just pointing out how the penalties for DMCA abuses end up not being enforced. I actually agree that DMCA takedown notices are surprisingly efficient.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:crypto....

Has a version from Apr 12, 2013 15:33:47 GMT.
Let's say for one moment that was true, which is anything but certain. How is that hypothesis testable?
How to approach a journalist - A list of articles with advice from journalists
Yup, conspiracy was just the first example that came to mind. The actual class of crimes is inchoate offences (found after some brief googling).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offense
Papers that question Einstein are just science. That is the core of the scientific method - to keep refining the models, improving our knowledge and question everything. And yes, even Einstein. Those papers might turn out to be wrong, but not because they were trying to disprove Einstein.

Those "scientist" who believe that Einstein's theories are infallible, cannot call themselves scientists. They are just believers in a different kind of a religion.
donated.
An Annoyance-Driven Blog Post
| The GPL and it's code base exist to push
| the world towards the correct state of
| being.

Whose 'correct state of being?' Would you accept the 'correct state of being' that a jihadist believes in?
It's fairly relevant when it comes to reporting issues associated with China. The paper is known to be biased and sensationalist, that would impact its credibility.
making null fuzzy may save your program from a crash, but it also makes execution unpredictable. I would prefer a crash - which would lead to better localization and bug fixing - than indeterminate behaviour which is hard to debug and maintain.
Looks very nice. Couple of points:

1. Error on Google Reader import
2. Agreed with others it does need at least a single screenshot on the front page (or an About page as a demo).
3. It would be nice to offer a default Google Reader CSS file to add to the styling function.

But yeah, very nice attempt.
Missionary church of kopimism
Please, stop talking about eye candy if you don't have a deep understanding of UI design.

The most important aspects of UI are about presenting information in a way that is comprehensible. Flashing error messages on screen for less than a second is confusing--either the information is important and needs to be visible for longer, or it should be relegated to a log file somewhere.

Upthread, someone said that showing all the output of the init scripts in a tty feels cheap. I agree that it feels cheap--and it feels cheap because it suggest something about the computer. Older OSes spent a lot of time displaying initialization script outputs to the screen because that you had to know about it. At any time, that shit might be broken, and you (or your sysadmin) would have to reconfigure it. That's the wrong message to send to your average Ubuntu user.

So if you thought that complaint or many of the complaints from the initial article were about "eye candy" you were wrong.
I'm not sure how I'm being so unclear.

> So if we're not pegging money to a kJ (or whatever), then we're no longer talking about energy backed money.

You appear to be talking about pegging the USD to a given amount of energy. I think that's a bad idea, for the same reason as pegging the USD to a certain amount of gold was when the US didn't have enough gold to actually redeem it. Using energy as money is not about a fixed exchange rate from some non-energy system. I guess the problem here is that "based" and "backed" are being used interchangeably, and they aren't the same thing.

Instead, I think it would be an interesting experiment to price everything else in energy.

> I get what you're saying: that the increases in efficiency reduce the "value" of your energy holdings

Well, increase the "value". Efficiency increases are personally deflationary if we're using energy as a currency, but without the macro effect of reducing the monetary supply or velocity, I would think.
Sometimes I don't care about rights. I care about results.

Considering market size, # of active developers, and general amount of funding (corporate or otherwise), which is the best/most advanced, a major Linux distro or FreeBSD?

The answer to this question will tell you which license has better results.
because working publicly on software is the right way to make software. Try explaining that to a middle aged balding manager who just wants to get through the next quarter without getting canned. You can make an easier case to use permissive software, and once you're using it you can make an easier case to submit public work.

To me, that says we need more pressure, not less.
Moms, Modesty Also Holding Back Japan's Software Engineers
i use MIT for almost all my code these days, because I tend to work in javascript, and it just feels like MIT/BSD is the natural license of the web.

To even try and restrict what others can do with code that I send to their browser to have it work in the first place, feels dumb.
Darktable is awesome, but should be compared to Aperture and Lightroom.
Well sure, you'd have to actually be seriously planning to commit the crime to be prosecuted for it.
Would you care to elaborate why you think GPL's premise is false?

And I believe you're right, the GPL is (and was designed to be) a political statement.
demo/demo for login works. And it looks good: Just a rss-reader with a list of feeds to the left and articles on the right, good performance in the demo. jk-navigation. custom css.

I'm not exited by it being a java-application (hosting that on my own could be a hassle) and the google reader import doesn't work (invalid grant, error code 400, want the eror message?). Importing the .xml seems to have no effect at all (edit: now it does. just takes some time?).

What is the feed-polling strategy? Does it support pubsubhubbub? Will this instance stay active?

Good work though! I think i might use this.
Peanutty: solve puzzles, build puzzles, learn to code
> You know, if I make something open-source, it's because I want people to use it. I refuse to use copyleft licenses because all they manage to do in practice is ensure no commercial venture will ever use your code.

Because no commercial venture uses Linux or BusyBox.

> The GPL was created to help free software, which is more about freedom of speech, not open-source.

FSF is actually more about making sure that as much software as possible is "open source" than about freedom of speech. Maybe you confused them with EFF.
right, like for example Git. No one has built any commercial ventures around Git that I know of.
Competition for attention compromises value.
I'm not sure I understand your question. If the general relativity can be derived from another, broader theoretical framework, there's no need to test anything. It's just math.

Now you have to test the predictions of the new framework, that relativity did not touch.
I like the Apache 2.0 license -- while it's much lengthier than the MIT or BSD licenses, it provides similar licensing terms with the crucial addition of patent protection. If someone submits code to an Apache 2.0-licensed project which is covered by a patent they own, they're required to provide an _explicit_ license for those patents when submitting the code.
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Obviously, the only thing you know about Gimp is what you've read on a forum somewhere.
Actually not towing the party's line on anything automatically lends the paper some credibility that may not be justified. Such is the mistrust for the PRC propaganda machine.

I'm not saying that your conclusion isn't true, but you don't need to use loaded evidence to get there.
Seems like pretty selfish approach. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I license under MIT and BSD because I don't want to force people to give back. Often they even do without being forced.
And most people don't use most of those features. The hardest thing for many people about Gimp is that it's different, not that it can't do the job or is harder in any way.
You are really misinformed about anarchism.
We wouldn't want them to be confused with the facts.
I can't tell if my sarcastometer is out of calibration but... GitHub?
everybody has a different definition of intelligence.

personally, i don't consider the vast majority of humans to be intelligent.

if we are trying to create artificial intelligence, it's probably a bad idea to use humans as a model.
Companies are people too, you know.

I mean that in the most genuine way possible - companies are made of people, and people make those choices. Those choices may be "good" or "bad" for the organization.

MIT/BSD give people in those companies the freedom, the respect, to make their own choices, good or bad. That freedom is more free, in spirit, than any of the more restrictive licenses.

There is nobody being bent to your will with GPL; someone who wants to use the code either uses it quietly against the terms of the license, or simply doesn't use it.

Restrictive licenses only close doors, they don't open them.
Okay, I've spent the night considering what the MVP is, it will obviously still be tweaked, but I have a good base model & know my core valuation(s). Finding the right technical co-founder is the big question. I appreciate the offers of direct contact in this thread, but I think I need to get a good handle on how I select the right co-founder and what an appealing offer would be.

Has anybody ever searched for a tech co-founder? All the stories of founders finding each other I read seem to be magical, per-destined connections. I don't go to tech conferences, and I can't wait for the right one to come along (I'm on the bad side of 40).

Also, is an NDA standard practice in discussions with founder prospects?
Are those commercial ventures linking their code with the Git binary? Or are they just building tools which wrap the command-line Git tool?

I'm inclined to think that most (if not all) commercial offerings are going to use the second option, because there won't be much difference to the end-user and it means the company won't have to open-source their code. If Git was permissively-licensed, perhaps those companies would choose to link with the binary (or incorporate the code directly into their products) and contribute patches and bug-fixes back to the project.
In the case of a big company they receive contributions, good press, and more important they can retain the power because they are funding developers themselves. If you start your own one person project and Google thinks it is good for their business they can take over it. Yes, the project will retain a specific license but you lost in some way since you can't control the direction of the project anymore.
He has the same rights as any of us. The government chose to slightly jeopardize their prosecution, confession may be inadmissible, in the interest of public safety.
I am absolutely amazed by the reactions in this thread. I don't know if HN readers are bunch of neo-cons (I'm certainly not), but I wonder if people feel threatened by the GPL, because they are current or aspirational entrepreneurs who think the GPL gets in the way of their making a lot of money.
Actually the Spanish Inquisition used similar methods, including waterboarding [1]. Certainly some of the US prisoners have been tortured to death [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Torture

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim)
Well, we have mixed Troops too, at the age of 14 and above, and its optional. But below that, a Boys-only club (and Girls-only as well of course) works pretty good for us.

I'm glad your experience was good. 8 years - so you must be an Eagle Scout? Or do you do that differently?
I've used the DeathAdder since my original IntelliMouse died (Probably about 5-6 years now) and it's been the perfect successor. Just the right size, weight, good movement, simple, etc.
ArchiveTeam already has a system for this. It's called "the warrior" and it's a little VirtualBox image that checks in with a centralized tracker to get jobs and upload rescued data. You can see the progress on the "upcoming" project here http://tracker.archiveteam.org/upcoming/
Burying the lead. The real interesting story is that previously the only science related badges were "science of happiness" and "science of style". Girl scouts: part of the problem.
> Of its an especially unruly customer, I have two: fire them or work with them.

Employees have this freedom with their employers too, but not many realize it or are cowed by their personal circumstance. To compound this, one of the functions of (bad) management has been to keep them in the dark about their options outside of the company in case they get fed up with being shit on all the time.
com.commafeed.frontend.utils.exception.DisplayException: 400 Bad Request
{
"error" : "invalid_grant"
}
at com.commafeed.frontend.pages.GoogleImportCallbackPage.<init>(GoogleImportCallbackPage.java:94)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor187.newInstance(Unknown Source)
...
Google plays that game because it is an excellent press and can receive zillions of free lines code. But they don't give you any piece of their "cloud machine" just things that don't risk their business. The case of Microsoft is different because the desktop/server/mobile source code is their key asset.
No, I think we should admire people's accomplishments and not necessary look for role models. We should encourage people to aspire to do great things like Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, John Harrison, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison), etc. Endlessly debating what kind of a person they were doesn't accomplish anything.

At the end of today, ask yourself what you actually accomplished. Are you making forward progress on your goal or dream? You get about 30,000 days to accomplish it.
yes I was being very sarcastic
> MIT/BSD give people in those companies the freedom, the respect, to make their own choices, good or bad. That freedom is more free, in spirit, than any of the more restrictive licenses.

Exactly. The MIT/BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses are about trust and cooperation, not force.

> There is nobody being bent to your will with GPL; someone who wants to use the code either uses it quietly against the terms of the license, or simply doesn't use it.

I've always found it strange that GPL proponents think the GPL "forces" people to do certain things. They don't discuss the option of simply not using the software. Likewise, no one seems to mention the fact that the GPL, as a license, does not (and cannot) "force" anyone to adhere to it's terms; only a court can enforce the terms, and then only if you bring a suit against a violator.
As a developer, I also prefer to have test drive option. Some apps can't be test drive (for example, casual games), but for productivity apps, it is a must have feature and windows phone has it from day 1.
Its nitpicking and a jerk to say this but.. the "powered by Liquid Helium" tagline is quite corny...
Cool site.

The only thing I dislike is the date format in the URL for past days.

http://xkcd.com/1179/
Adding email registration can be a mistake in situations when users who would have signed up through Facebook now sign up through email instead. Depending on what % of your growth is driven by virality vs organic discovery and how viral your fb users vs email users are (could be a 10X difference or more) you can be better off losing say 50% of players but having the remaining 50% sign in through Facebook than having 80% sign in through email and 20% through Facebook. It really depends on your numbers.
I'd argue that history shows otherwise. GPLv3, with its increased restrictions, proved a bridge too far for a lot of projects, to the detriment of everyone. Apple, the FreeBSD project, the OpenBSD project, etc have all put in efforts to divest themselves of GPL encumbered code because it increased the costs of using the software. Because the wording of things like the patent clauses were so questionable, it became much cheaper in terms of lawyer time, etc, to either use older software that was still under GPLv2, or to use software using less-encumbered licenses, like BSD and MIT.

That balding middle manager needs to make sure that that license is acceptable by his boss, by the people in the legal department, etc. For example, an innocuous throwaway line of a program that can only be used for "good, not evil," ends up needing to get the lawyers involved for clarification and special waivers ( http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions ). If the internal costs of using an encumbered program are too great, then chances are, it just won't get used; the company will either write their own version, or use a commmercial variant.
Godwin's Law FTW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
No one is lacking any 4th amendment rights here.
And if they release it, they can be held accountable [1]. Of course, single individuals rarely if ever take action on those violations, but when the copyright for a codebase is possessed by a large body (company/organization like FSF) they may pursue their rights.

[1] http://gpl-violations.org/
wow, this is amazing!
FreeBSD has to beg for funding http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1726222/freebsd-proje...

I think the BSD's are not a good example here in general. Most commercial Unices use bits and pieces from BSD without contributing much back. Just look at Linux where companies are forced to contribute back and thus the momentum it gained.

Certainly there are big projects under BSD-style licenses which get plenty of contributions back. But I think it's far more interesting how smaller projects do. For a big project it's in many cases better to contribute back because then upstream has to maintain your changes. Small libraries and tools however are quickly copied and dumped into the code base and nobody even bothers trying to send anything upstream. YMMV
To be fair, this was probably just a matter of phrasing on his part. Instead of using the word "assume" (triggering a pithy response) he should have stated this:

If the man the police have arrested is indeed
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man implicated in the
bombings...
There is an argument to made that you shouldn't be looking at your personal bank accounts or medical records on a work computer, particularly if you work at a company that cares so little about their employees that they'd implement a system like this.
Omega-3 availability has increased 44% since 1909. For omega-6 it's 3580%
Some companies contribute to LLVM or FreeBSD because they are users of this software and sharing development costs with others benefits them.

The story could be different if they were in the business of selling closed-source compilers or OS's. Unix was a legal mess because companies sold their customized forks and fought each other. Linux started as a poor man's clone of Unix but it took off because due to GPL there was no business in fragmenting and killing it.
... I've got to be honest. It wasn't until you pointed it out that I noticed the difference.

I thought they were two heads of the same hydra.
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Similar misunderstandings :

"One million British tourists mistake the Romanian capital Bucharest for Budapest, which is the capital of neighbouring Hungary, a study has revealed.

Similar misunderstandings occur for several capitals in the world, the travelsupermarket.com survey shows.

Over 100,000 tourist realise the misunderstanding only when they arrive in the wrong city.

The misundertandings of Palma de Majorca and La Palma Islands, in Canare, Venice for Vienna and Libon (Portugal) and Lisburn (Ireland) are the most common among tourists. Mistaking Bucharest for Budapest ranks fifth in this top misunderstanding list.

The study shows around 1,9 million tourists arrive at their destination with the wrong currency."

source: http://www.romaniantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-06-01/954/Bri...
Lets remember, this guys is just one guy. They have enough on him to put him away for life, even should he say nothing, ever.

Public safety is involved because, lets see, millions of people were locked in their homes, a public curfew was in effect, the dead were piling up, and no one knew how many more bombs or co-conspirators were still at large.

They have a duty to learn the full extent of the terrorism, and protect the public, First. Then, worry about prosecuting this one guy's sorry ass.
perhaps, I think it's some what of a myth that one can't make money from free software. Sure one can't erect flimsy toll booths and extract rents but as I look around I see lots of companies, .eg. IBM profiting quite nicely from free software.
That happens with GPL products too. Look at CUPS for example. One guy operation, Apple liked it, bought it out. Or a lot of the stuff Cygnus did after Redhat bought them out; the insight frontend for gdb has all but stagnated since Redhat took over. GPL isn't a magic bullet that stops companies from taking over projects.
Why do you think it's selfish? Is somebody who sells software selfish? I'd rather say taking somebodies code and not contributing back is selfish...
I have no issues with a company not honouring a mistake, but honouring one will definitely win my respect, and make me want to buy from them in the future.
> MIT and BSD are great for takers who like to take from open source and give nothing back since they are free to take the code, modify it, and release it as commercial closed source software (which is usually what happens)

Is this from anecdotal evidence, or have you run some sort of valid study? Because my anecdotal evidence says the opposite.

MIT licensed software gets more power from being used by companies, especially modern startups and software companies, and consultancies. I've had more attention and source contributions from medium-sized companies than from any individual. The usefulness of my library to these larger companies almost ensures its continued survival.

It appears that the rare exception is when companies or individuals don't contribute back.

If it's GPL, then yes, they simply wouldn't use it in the first place. And if your experience is mainly with GPL and not MIT/BSD, then you wouldn't have much experience with companies in the first place, because they rightfully won't touch it.

And as an employee of a company myself, we use MIT-licensed projects only. We're thankful that most these days are. It enables us to use, modify, and always contribute back to the community. In song form: "You get what you give."

The GPL doesn't ensure you get a return on an investment—it ensures that you get only a small sliver of a much larger pie of possible contributions. It's nothing but a roadblock. In short, I really think your assumptions about this are invalid, and based on an idealistic sense of fairness, rather than real-world results which might contradict it.

Edit: furthermore, the original linked study also reaches this same conclusion, albeit in more professional terms. It's a changing ecosystem certainly, but the trend is toward more permissive licenses.
The point that's up for debate is: Are maimings and killings that are designed to change US govt policy more important than other maimings and killings. I think the answer is yes.

I agree that we don't know yet if that was the aim here. I also would agree that the level of terrorist attacks the west is subject to are too small to make us change any policy at all in the way the terrorists wish.
Maybe you want to give credits/points/stars as a birthday present(or something like that).
But that should be something the user chooses to opt-in.
Physicists are doing quite well in economics, according to economist Steve Keen in his book Debunking Economics.
I pulled on a circle and it became a bicycle.

That is the best bug ever.
House-to-house Searches and the Fourth Amendment