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It is as stated, Exploratory/experimental software.

I am not a formally educated sound engineer. So a lot of this is trial and error. The problem got very interesting very fast, and at the point where I established the signal combinator concept in SOUNDLAB, I knew I was beyond simple implementation and arrived at exploration. Because I truly can not fortell the implications of this approach. Thus this honest comment.
I don't see how this is at all supposed to be convincing. Furthermore: "In my lifetime, I expect the copyright cancer to complete its metastasis. I expect that old-fashioned physical property rights will decline by the same magnitude. When I reach my deathbed and find myself ready to will that old-fashioned property to my unlikely-to-exist children, I'll be sure that document has a nice big public domain dedication at the bottom."

If he thinks so little of software copyright because it's "old-fashioned" and cancer-ridden, shouldn't he think the same of physical property law? Is this the kind of person that would steal your wallet too?
It's easy to speculate: Just like the bad old days of reddit, a post you don't need to read to "upvote your agreement" (not article quality) beats a neutral headline. "Shifts" vs. "too far".
This FSF link says it is fine http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0

The OSI links are here http://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero the issue is about the patent clause in the fallback.
This looks pretty awesome! I will try it out when I get back. I usually just add a load of shortcuts to my hosts file but even that's a pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Pau...
Time magazine is completely off. The entire article is made up of so many bs reports of what coulda, woulda, shoulda logic its unbelievable.

The most important points are, Snowdens passport has not been revoked. Its not even legal per the US state dept website to do so.

He has a completely valid US passport to travel with. What he IS doing is stopping in places long enough to tantalize local officials with the data he has to see where that might lead.

Unless he travels to a country that the US can throw Interpol at him, he is a free man. That sounds easier than it really is. But its still a true fact.

Rather than speculating that he's in a Russian suburb, being drugged by alleged KGB thugs, it might be more constructive to realize he could easily take a private plane out of Moscow and reach his destination if he has one.

No entity including the US is going to kill the golden goose when it laid its egg before it could be hatched.

As Julian Assange said, no state will be able to prevent the release of the complete trove of information.

So if you want to play international poker, you had better be holding the cards.

Place your bets....
Yeah it looks great. Was just about to ask that myself haha
What is it that you think I intend to do? I am fully aware that public domain doesn't exist in all jurisdictions; by the looks of it, it may not exist for long in my own legal jurisdiction! Whether it is legally recognized or not is irrelevant to me.
Congratulations Hampton! You do an awesome job for the open source community with not only sass but all your other projects(like haml). I think this moment is important because it shows that we aren't a community of prejudice but respect.
considering how they rolled over with the banking issue I would not trust my data there anymore than some place else. What is to stop them from doing the same with any data should the US come knocking? Even your President seems to believe criminal investigation of Snowden may be warranted.

Now if your government finally does take a stand on the banking issue and tells US authorities to take a hike I would be more inclined to have similar faith in your nation as you do.
See also https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27081
The reason OSI didn't approve it is because CC0 does not grant you a patent license. So you if you use CC0 "licensed" code in your own projects, you are free to do anything with such code from a copyright perspective -- but the author of the CC0'ed code has explicitly not given you a patent license for that work.
U think they will be able to position themselves on a satisfied market like this? I don't think they will make it!
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For me you can't beat the combination of Alfred [0] and the SSH workflow [1].

[0] http://alfredapp.com

[1] https://github.com/isometry/alfredworkflows/tree/master/net....
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> Stateless? What about that hack known as cookies? Aren't they useful? How about HTML5?

I dislike both.

> And what happened to the calls for SSL everywhere?

It should be, it's just not HTTPs job to provide that

> I'm shocked that your only objection ends up being the protocol name.

I get upset whenever the next version of something is entirely different in philosophy and design than its predecessors. Use spdy:// or something. You can use the HTTP upgrade mechanism, or something like STS to tell a browser that it accepts the new protocol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXpjBxD0Rhg

An example of the braking test - stopping a 288 tonne 777 travelling at 200mph. The disc brakes were on fire, and they then had to taxi around on wheels at a temp of 3000 deg for five minutes to simulate the time it took for fire trucks to arrive.

Cool
just mail them, they are nice people.
Lets see. You have a high level figure arrive in your country. He is a US national. A country you spend a great amount of time, money still spying on. (The cold war never offically stopped - US vs Russia spying still goes on).

You know the figure worked in key area's of the NSA. His own passport has been cancelled. He is in a precarious position diplomatically and he is on your "home turf".

Any Spymaster worth their salt would not hesitate to act. To debrief and learn as much information the person has in exchange for asylum.
This is amazing! I am currently in the process of moving from a Windows machine to a Mac (first Mac of my life...) and was looking for a replacement to AutoPuTTY (http://www.r4dius.net/autoputty/). This looks like it does just about the same thing. Thanks a ton!
And yet I can imagine this is something that could be optimized; why not cross-train the three emergency respondent department members into jack-of-all-trades that can deal with 80% of cases? Or put members of the three departments into a single vehicle equipped to deal with most cases? They could travel swifly to the site and deal with most cases, and call in back-up (like a fully equipped ambulance, fire-truck, or paramilitary SWAT-team in an armored hum-vee) if the situation needs it. I'm not an expert, but that would reduce overhead and cross-department communication needs.

Of course, the risk is that if the one vehicle has an accident in itself, there's no others that can fall in right then.
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Link? Or is this your way of expressing you believe criminal tendencies are a genetic trait?
"I would've been quite suprised if they hadn't done something like this"
"... it makes it easy to generate a dynamic list of hosts from your hosting provider (if they have an API), so you're always up-to-date."

It should at least provide a mapping from the json to ~/.ssh/config formats.
Or (in Alfred) just type:

>ssh [host]

If you keep your ~/.ssh/config up to date and can remember your host names, I find it quicker to do that than bothering with the workflow.
> or cheap petroleum to fuel commercial aviation.

Cheap petroleum will never run out. If the price goes up a new energy source will be used, nuclear probably.

If necessary we can use nuclear power to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuel directly from air. And even easier from wood or coal+water.

So don't sit around waiting for the petroleum to run out - it's won't, not even after centuries.
Can you leave free speech out of this.

Maybe, if you could kindly explain what you mean by that, because I don't get it.

the bigger problem with discriminating based on employer is that employers are very large entities. We cannot expect everyone to know everything their employer is doing, let alone be responsible or actively contributing to it

There are over a hundred hours of Adolf Eichmann trials on Youtube. Watch any one of them, provided it contains him defending himself. So if the bigger problem is a complete non-issue, what does that say about the smaller ones?

Also, as dalke points out, there is legal precedent precident that discrimination based on employers is discrimination (specifically the ACLU kicked out a non-uniformed unannounced police officer). Granted this was only a violation of (California) state law, but the law had a specific list of protected classes, and employer was not on it.

What is legal or not might be an issue for the organizers, granted, but personally I care more about what is right and what isn't. So if they break the laws for this, more power to them; if they can find a loophole, also fine. Private clubs can invite whoever they fuck they want, for example; this wouldn't be very practical, but there's nearly always a way.
I meant 'you' in a slightly broader sense; people who want to put things in the public domain intend their use to be free for anyone to use for any purpose.

You hint at this with suggesting that you're doing MIT but without the last bit of covering your ass. But depending on where in the world you are, you're being significantly _more_ restricted than the MIT, all because of (your words) some 'internet bravado.'

Yes, licenses suck. I'm -1 on most forms of property, and "intellectual property" most of all. But ignoring reality harms more than it helps. Just MIT/BSD and be done with it, or, if you want to be silly, WTFPL.
Thanks. I appreciate your candor and your work on this.

The comment struck me, because I often feel the same!
When articles like this talk about interbreeding, I can't help but wonder how that happened. At the time, were we close enough to them in appearance that it would have happened willingly, or are we talking about rape scenarios?
They said the purpose of using a .json file was so that your configuration could be synced by dropbox or some other cloud service. I would NOT put my .ssh with all my private keys on dropbox.
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People go where for information?

If you are talking about e-commerce sites and think that a higher density of information will win-out over a pretty site you need to start being more data-driven.
D. J. Bernstein (qmail, djbdns, the man responsible for making encryption legal in the United States) places everything into the public domain and has written more about it: http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
Sponsored by the NSA? Some of the weird tech acquisitions start making sense when the NSA is factored in; Motorola, Skype, anything else? It's completely possible in this time and age to have back-doored hardware in Motorola phones, so I think everyone should advice against buying those.
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Thanks for the share. Its a great theme
Looks awesome, is this useful for 3D printing? I noticed it supports STL. I'm actually hosting a largish (100-150 person) hackathon in Wollongong (hour south of Sydney) next weekend: http://hackagong.com

We're including a 3D printing competition as part of it and will have 8 printers over the weekend for competitors. Would love to somehow get a beta access hookup for competitors. Surely beats FreeCAD or TinkerCAD
Is it just me or people are really lacking with names? Rocket, shuttles and similar seems a bit overused...
Yes, but it's easier to find and scan the barcode than it is to find, parse, and input the timing manually.
Just released this edition for the 11th July. We've also added in a jobs section so are welcoming submissions now for any positions that people have. All the best and thanks to all from HN for the suggestions so far.
This piece isn't meant to be an indictment of intellectual property in general (I'll save that for another time). I'm arguing that even those who believe in copyright should agree that it should be optional. The fact that it is now encompassing all creative work, regardless of the creator's desires, is what I regard as cancerous.
As it looks now: All I had to do was enable the SYN cookies feature and restart my web server. Before I enabled SYN cookies none of the requests even got to my web server (on my el cheapo vps box).
Coming in late here, but DotA's difficulty coupled with its focus on spectating any game, including professional tournaments, provides an amazing viewer experience. It's really one of, if not the best in my opinion, game to watch professionals play. This matched with its large viewerbase means that sponsors are bigger, and tournament prize pots are bigger. MasterCard recently sponsored the recent Alienware Cup tournament [1].

As a side note, Valve has recently crowdsourced the prizepot for The International 3 with great success (their large DotA2 tournament) [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/MasterCard/status/354621397135409152
[2] http://www.dota2.com/international/compendium/
Brings back memories of HB Gary and the program they developed for the federal government. The "online persona management service" allowed a single operator to manage a group of digital personas.
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Indeed; the view I have of unions in Europe are worker organizations that protect and enforce the rights of employees, things like minimum wage, working conditions, fair treatment, and retaining of jobs; afaik, they don't do much to create jobs, let alone in an immoral way by paying lots of money to governments and organizations to, for example, increase the incarceration rate and duration.
This is not true on the client I have on my OS X box at work, nor on my Debian and Ubuntu machines at home, nor, I believe, with pretty much any other telnet client I've used in the last twenty or so years. I just tested several to verify whether I'd somehow missed something so basic.

Regardless of the issue of negotiated options, most telnet clients goes into a command mode if you enter an escape character, defaulting to ctrl+], unless you explicitly change it or tell it not to with a command line switch. This happens for me regardless of port.

tcpdump and strace also confirms what I thought I knew, namely that it also does LF => CR+LF conversion also when connecting to other ports.

EDIT: Here's a simple demonstration of how it is decidedly not 8-bit clean:

echo -e "test\035help" | telnet www.google.com 80

Not only will this get you the help text for telnet rather than send the unmodified byte stream to Google's unsuspecting web server, but with default options not a single byte will generally get sent over this connection on Linux at least, as the client starts out line buffered and gets put into command mode without getting a line feed.

Confirm with tcpdump, or this way if you have strace installed:

echo -e "test\035help" | strace telnet www.google.com 80 2>&1 | grep sendto

(the sendto calls you will get are DNS lookups)
> The most important points are, Snowdens passport has not been revoked. Its not even legal per the US state dept website to do so.

His passport has been cancelled according to all available reports. I think you're confusing citizenship (which cannot be revoked) with the passport (which can be cancelled).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/23/nsa-director-sno...

Quote: "As is routine and consistent with US regulations, persons with felony arrest warrants are subject to having their passport revoked. Such a revocation does not affect citizenship status."

There's no official word from the State Department confirming this has occurred due to "privacy".
First, I agree with many small "l" libertarians are not comfortable with the US Libertarian Party. But how is your paragraph 2 above at odds with paragraph 3? You don't say so explicitly, but are you suggesting that small "l" Libertarians don't believe in fiscal conservatism?
ok, so by your theory Snowden is being waterboarded to hand over his laptops to the russians when he would just show them what he has in the first place?

Snowden has literally nothing to lose so whats your point?
If I recall correctly Skype was working with the NSA before it was acquired by anyone.
I really hope he doesn't actually use Google Maps while driving at 70 MPH. That's a hell of a lot scarier than anything Google has done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI

I took my inspiration from this man.
> I do not regard the LICENSE.txt in your Github project as a serious abrogation of ethics. It inspires more of a shallow sigh ...

Note: Not having a LICENSE.txt does not make Github projects public domain. They are simply unlicensed. There are many projects which are unlicensed on Github. File an issue for each one you find!
Sorry check the US State Dept website on the legality of revoking a US passport, not only does Snowdens case not qualify under the law, they didnt even do it.
So all of this postulating is based on the opinions of a KGB double agent dinosaur from the Cold War (Gordievsky)? We know what happens when news agencies start spouting innuendo based on shaky claims by third parties [1]:

>In lieu of any evidence, the NYT circulated this obviously significant assertion by quoting what it called "two Western intelligence experts" who "worked for major government spy agencies". Those "experts" were not identified. The article then stated that these experts "said they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong"

This is the story now that's being put forth to try and discredit Snowden, that the information on his 4 laptops (media: "That's a lot of data!" groan), previously known only to the US government, has now found its way into the hands of either Chinese or Russian intelligence. Until I see some _actual_ evidence supporting that assertion, I'm not even going to entertain that possibility.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/snowden-...
Brilliant! Having suffered an expensive microwave with a dreadful UI - I love this concept.
If he thinks so little of software copyright because it's "old-fashioned" and cancer-ridden, shouldn't he think the same of physical property law?

There are perfectly valid reasons do disagree with physical private property, but repudiating copyright does not entail repudiating private property.

Physical goods have a significant difference, which makes property, if not indispensable, at least reasonably sensible: scarcity. Each tangible good is scarce, and its use by multiple people is conflictive. Property as an institution reduces conflict by determining who can use each good at any time. Copyrighted goods have no need for such mechanism - you can just create more.

See "Against Intellectual Property": http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf‎
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> What in God's name would require them to physically be there?

Why does anyone go there physically by your standards? That is a dumb question.
I've got a 900 right now. I've been waiting for this phone.

Not that it isn't totally overkill for my needs...
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Drones are the future for a lot of missions, but considering the amount of money thrown around, no Congressman is going to turn the opportunity to secure billions in defence spending for their state/district.

Defence spending has always been driven by domestic pressures - anyone remember the 'scandal' when Airbus (with a better plane) secured a contract for US transport airlift?
I agree copyright SHOULD be optional, it should NOT be automatic. However, it currently is. Which then means if I use your public domain code in a project, I am probably infringing your copyright because there is no such thing as public domain in my country.

So, I cannot use your code. Many open source projects are developed by volunteers around the world, they will also not be able to legally use your code. If this is your intent, that is fine, it is your choice. Usually that is not what people intend when they try to put their code in the public domain.
Microsoft changed Skype's architecture drastically, which helps making wiretapping easier. See HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925
Could you post a link or a screenshot to verify your claim?
Nice! Keep it up guys!
Great stuff! I've had all my colleagues at work sign up to this as well!
Depends on what your definition of "use" is - I, for one, have used navigation software while driving in excess of 70 MPH, in the following manner: the phone is docked in a holder within my angle of vision, display is on, map with directions is displayed, closest direction is read out at an appropriate time (note the absence of user input at this point in the use case, as the route was calculated and plotted before entering the vehicle). How is that scary?
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"to my formers competitors you see?"

Basically you are pissed at them because they won in the market space. That's a perfectly normal and acceptable perspective to take. The only problem here is that you have only seen the one set of users that would get your code: your competitors. If you GPL'd your code they wouldn't be able to legally use it any way; in most cases.

The other set of users would be the [potential] contributors. They would take your code, improve it and bring it back into the repository. Eventually that open source repository would be worth more than anything your competitors would be able to put together.

Basically, from where I am sitting, open sourcing your code is the best path to getting revenge (face it, that's what you are after).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
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I don't think anyone's suggesting he's being waterboarded. There is definitely a distinction between torture and interrogation.
You should probably add some install instruction for the workflow, because I have no idea where to start.
Interesting. Re-read Philip Greenspun article about possible cause of this issue (difference between U.S. and other pilots):

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety

There are also a lot of articles about AF447 which crashed while in a stall with symptoms which should have been recognized by any pilot, even a low hour PPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
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