skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit is considered a "refined" language, implying serious effort to systematize phonemes, grammar, declension and even verb classification distinguishing recipient of actions (1-10 ganas, PP/AP padas, etc.). Refinement can give subtlety, accuracy, concision etc. but does not automatically and objectively mean "universal", "perfect" or "excellent", even though proponents conflate those aspects.

IMO, Sanskrit persisted as the language of metaphysical and scientific treatises for a long time because of practical advantages. A large library of concepts, allowed easy reuse and concision [1]. Being trained in Vedanga (phonetics, metre, grammar, etymology, etc.) allowed practitioners to compose new sutras easily, much like PhD students using mathematical notations and proofs in papers.

It was used conversationally, at least in courts and debates. Its decline into a quasi-venerated read-only language over the last 1000 years would be an interesting (and contentious) topic for dissertation.

[1] Patanjali Yoga Sutras http://www.arlingtoncenter.org/Sanskrit-English.pdf
I would just like to say that I am increasingly in agreement with you. I'm starting to think that many of my new projects will be AGPL. Congrats on being calm and explaining your position well downthread, even though there's a lot of GPL hatred here.

> After all, that's exactly what they expect me to do, write my own versions of their software.

This part is particularly well explained, thank you.
Thanks! I knew I had read something that was along these lines and that was it. I've been thinking about this problem for years. Perhaps it's time I worked on it myself.
AT&T changes privacy policy to sell user data
>That's fine. They're happy for me to not share any changes I make with them. They explicitly told me this when they released it under MIT/BSD. That's their choice, and they are free to make it.

Thank you for putting it so well. I'm amazed by the number of comments on this page that disparage GPL developers for not sharing reciprocally, while promoting licenses that intentionally don't require reciprocal sharing. It's nuts.
Autistic man breaks through the silence
Most likely they're afraid of old Pokemon keeping people from buying new Pokemon on a new 3DS, a new 3DS that would have led to other 3DS game sales.
They're gonna have an uphill battle. The DHS is digging in, literally: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/133423

DC institutions don't just go away. They fight tooth and nail to survive. So if you want to make it go away, prepare for a tough fight.
It's no longer quadratic in so many cases, but it's still true that UTF-8 string operations require, in the best case, several CPU cycles per character consumed, even when the input is an ASCII subset. LC_ALL=C pretty much guarantees one or fewer CPU cycles per input character. Basics like strlen and strchr and strstr are significantly faster in "C" locale.
> Nobody ever said anything about removing copyright
> notices or breaking license terms.

You did.

Your earlier posts stated:

> almost all non-GPL open source code can be relicensed as GPL.

and

> changing a license to GPL does not violate the conditions of the BSD

Which, to me, appear to be clear and unambiguous statements that you feel it's legal to take some BSD-licensed code and change its license to the GPL.
I attended a California high school in the 00's and most of the courses I took were prescribed; each year we got to take one "elective" course. Some students use these elective courses to take additional levels of courses that they are required. (For example, students are required to take one year of chemistry; some students such as myself opted to take a second year of chemistry. However, these students were a very small minority; I believe that only around 20 students of a graduating class of 1000 students opted to take more than one year of chemistry in high school. There were also only two tiers of each science course, meaning that you couldn't take a third year of a given science.) I lived in a county with a large Hispanic population (whites were a minority), so Spanish classes were offered and were a popular option for an elective course, with many students opting to spend multiple years in Spanish classes. Some of the elective courses were tied to non-athletic extra-curriculars, like band, orchestra, choir, and the speech & debate team. Other electives included various visual arts, creative writing, "agriculture" (learn how to maintain a garden, "computer skills" (learn how to use Word and Excel), welding, drafting, and cooking, as well as the yearbook committee.
the FSF was involved in a counter example: http://lwn.net/Articles/247806/
In limbo after beta testing
This is my first venture.
I got a bunch of beta testers, bettered my product,and have rolled out with something slicker, faster and smarter. People like it.

What should be my goal now? Enroll more beta users until I feel I've built a solid enough foundation to open registration for everyone?

Furthermore, my beta testers were sourced organically. (word of mouth, phone calls, personal contacts) I've definitely hit my limit (surprisingly large!) in that respect, and I'm wondering what you would do if you had to take the next step to break from beta 1 to beta 2.

I'm ready for more action, I just need someone to point me in the right direction. I know I'm about to enter the realm of marketing and to be honest I'm quite lost.

Gracias
Can you expand on why? OpenVPN has long been an example of solid development (and crypto) practices.

As far as the bastion host, you need an actual VPN to do more than forward SSH connections. For instance, connectivity to your LDAP server, internal web services, etc.

Port forwarding gets you part of the way there, but it's inconvenient to use with SSL, requires using weird local port numbers when connecting to services, etc.

SSH does have VPN support via tun/tap, but it's not nearly as functionally complete as OpenVPN, and you still have the entire SSH authentication path exposed to the world.
I wasn't attacking your choice. I was explaining what your choice consists of and why I made a different one.

If you don't want people to do something particular with your code, yet you choose a license that permits it, then by definition, you chose the wrong license.

I'm going to chalk your childish, immature and unprofessional insults down to frustration. And to prevent further noise, I am not going to reply to any further comments made by you.
How to become a better writer? Fail like a comedian.
I doubt you can "join" PRISM. You're forced in.
I doubt that the majority of Americans feel repugnance toward the DHS. Most people I have met seem to believe that the DHS is important to keep us and our children safe from terrorists. Most people fall victim to the classic "something must be done, this is something, and therefore it must be done" fallacy.
> There are people out there that very much want to cause regular citizens harm

And what happens if the government becomes the one that wants to cause regular citizens harm? How do you protest a government that knows everything, monitors everything?
Is that really the point it's gotten to? "At least they didn't kill me for trying to protect my rights".
Only between the air and the inside of the tube? Instead of a 100m train with air flowing around it, you get air at length of the track moving along the inside of the tube at the same speed.

I know as good as nothing of aerodynamics, but even if you get the latter flow perfectly laminar, I doubt it is a net win, as the contact area is 1000 times as large or so. But educate me.

Also, when you move cars into and out of the tunnel with the rotating air, you must take care not to 'plug' that air flow. Even if you do that only partly, there will be a pressure front (read: noise, vibrations, energy loss); each car will, for a moment get a sidewind at the speed of the train.

Here is a variant that, to me, makes more sense: it is not a vacuum, but they use the motion of the cars to push air out of the tunnel, so that air pressure drops. I don't have the vaguest idea how that would work, but if you can get it to work, it would be a nice trick.
What if your gluten intolerance is all in your head?
How does it know if I am doing useful work? If I just leave me vim window on and leave for lunch, will it know I am idle or log the time? Also, opposite scenario, when I am concentrated on something, I basically read the code for a good 30-35 minutes, without typing anything into vim. Can it distinguish it as useful work rather than otherwise?
Anybody looking for a more technical dive, Matt Strassler (String theorist formerly from UW, now poached to Rutgers) has an incredibly readable exposition here: http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/relativity-s...
Disclaimer: I work for Apiary

I'd say that just for getting started, hosted solution works better ;)

Anyways; we love OSS and we are gradually open-sourcing more and more from our toolbelt. Parser is completely open-source (current one https://github.com/apiaryio/blueprint-parser as well as the upcoming version https://github.com/apiaryio/snowcrash ).

More is coming soon ;)

(But yes, if you prefer writing JSON over Markdown...)
Hard data: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf Looks like HR departments, insurance underwriters & clerks, lots of healthcare positions, hostesses & waitstaff, and flight attendants. And as you mentioned, child care and teachers.
I think quite similar about this, its in some way like training wheels on a motorcycle.

But I think there could be quite interesting uses for Cello, namely you do your prototyping with it and then you trow out the library and refactor the code to pure C.
Mine has had 100% uptime during this outage. The issues are probably spotty.
Tim Stevens out as Engadget Editor-in-chief
With all the talk of spying and monitoring citizens' whereabouts via license plate scans -- can anybody setup a camera to take snapshots of license plates of cars entering & leaving NSA & other such installations, and cross-reference these against license records?
I monetized it with good content. I got hired along the years because my writings.
PC Duino
pcDuino is a mini PC platform that runs PC like OS such as Ubuntu and Android ICS. It outputs screen to HDMI. Moreover, it has hardware headers interface compatible with Arduino. pcDuino can be used to teach Python, C and more interesting stuff.
Yeah, but the stories may be much more uncommon not because it's safer, but because electronic fraud is much easier to conceal then physical fraud.
I am very surprised that the OP, and nobody in this thread, has mentioned port knocking.

You are absolutely better off / more secure, with port knocking enabled. The scans never touch your sshd, because your server does not even answer port 22. As far as the outside world is concerned, you don't run an sshd.

On my own systems, I set up port knocking, I delete the allow rule for the IPs I knocked from every 24 hours (so fresh knocking is needed every day, and I don't leave a trail of "open" IPs as I travel the world) and my .login script spits back at me the current days list of "knocking IPs" so I can immediately note if someone else is knocking.
ISec hacked a Verizon box: turned it into a backpack cell phone SPY tower
The PogoPlug also meets these specs for $20. Even though it has these specs it never reaches close to full speed. I suspect this could hold true for this pc as well.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5240/pogoplug-series-4-introdu...
Privy Raises $1.7 Million Seed Round From 500 Startups, Atlas, And Others
The "third-world countries" equivalent would be: if third-world labor were cost effective, then people would be hiring labor in third-world countries and crushing the competition with their greater productivity per dollar, and getting rich in the process.

Which is exactly what happened over the past 30 or so years.
Too bad MPEG-2 licence on the rPi doesn't make it (yet) easily play DVD.
Absolutely. Like I said, I have no problem with other people choosing other licenses which meet their requirements. My requirements are different. The GPL is most appropriate for myself.
Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin with zero confirmations
In that respect, is it any worse than being in possession of a copy of GPG?
Cool idea,

My problem with this type of granular time applications is that they are to granular :)

I don't only work on a project when I'm typing on a text editor. I actually do a lot of thinking before using a editor in fact the actual time I spend in the editor is maybe 60% of the time I work on a project.

So for my case I will have to use it with some other time tracking tool witch is to much of a hasel.

Keep us the good work, I am sure there is a market out there for this.
What's up with the period instead of a space to separate words?
Xvid and Divx play nice but I have had problems with Theora.
Slightly related tangent:

I'm looking for standards / set of libraries / best practices for "modern" C development, but I've yet to find a comprehensive resource.

Stuff like typedefing a manual fixed sized int type to be cross-platform compatible, that books don't really tell you to do but are important and come up often.

I'd be okay with a small, well written example library too. Does anyone happen to know something like this?

edit: Ah, sorry if I misled you, that was just an example of the kind of tips and pointers I was looking for. Or weird bits like the linux kernel list_head. http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists Or common libraries like bstring that make life easy. Or even a single, comprehensive implementation of good data structures, since everyone seems to have their own vector.h and/or hash.h that fails to cover much other than their own use case.
Generating a server stub was done long ago, in swagger, which is completely OSS:

https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-codegen#to-build-a-server...

And it's based on an intuitive JSON structure.
Well, it can make sense when the added bureaucracy aligns well with an unexpected functional requirement that otherwise cuts across organizational boundaries. Even if you don't move every agency under the new structure, simply having a single point of responsibility for that new function can help with communication flow.

I think that's the real issue, is that functional requirements cropped up with no point of focus, but when they instituted a new agency to handle that they wrapped it up with a whole Department and a grab-bag of other tangentially-related agencies.
A few years ago at Defcon someone rigged up a Twitter scraper, and found all the tweets that geolocated to the massive NSA headquarters parking lot. That said, it's not clear to me that it's legal to actively attempt to "out" NSA employees.
That argument is also stale. Your favorite artists might be Girl Talk and Public Enemy, but Parquet Courts and Neko Case don't do a whole lot of sampling, do they?

Again: the problem is not that music is "becoming a commodity business". IT CLEARLY IS NOT, because consumers don't want "commodity music"; they demand Yeezus, Magna Carta, Hail To The King and Random Access Memories.

A commodity business is one in which prices are driven down by substitutes. But unlawfully downloaded copies of Daft Punk albums aren't a real market substitute for authorized copies of Daft Punk albums.

Instead, music is a market in which middlemen of varying stripes have achieved control over the market sufficient to dominate the returns for recording music in the first place. The middlemen of 2013 are actually worse in some ways than the middlemen of 1990; record labels worked on the VC model and signed artists were often ensured a middle-class standard of living, but today's middlemen are companies like Google that aren't in any way incentivized to compensate artists at all.

Music has been made to seem like a commodity by what is in effect a monopsonistic cartel. But that commodity status is an illusion, not a valid market outcome.
I wonder why CompuLab chose an ARM SoC over a recent Atom-based one. The Atom-based Clover Trail SoC, for example, is competitive with the Tegra 3 in terms of power consumption and performance. And of course an x86-based system can run a lot more software out of the box.
This is what a hidden fee looks like
I find it funny that you would read me like that.

Among my colleagues, I'm that one guy who, in his private life, is friends with "regular" people, who chooses to live in a rural area and who speaks with his native hillbilly accent.

I'm aware that everybody has biases and preconceptions. I was taught to be aware of mine, which I think I am (and boy, they're something). But nonetheless, the dismissive tone of (some parts of) the conversation disappointed me and I think, given the standards to which HN holds itself, rightfully so.
Finding Meaning At Work Even When Your Job Is Dull (2012)
Who cares why she's doing it? You don't vote on motivations, you vote on positions because those are the only objective criteria you can hold (or attempt to hold) a politician to. Betting on motivation is a receipe for political weakness.

I supported Obama but I knew perfectly well that he was a security hawk because he said so. He stated perfectly clearly that we was willing to impinge on other countries' sovereignty in pursuit of his national security objectives and stuck to that position under criticism from other candidates. People that express surprise about his policy choices clearly didn't listen to what he was saying, but told themselves fairy stories about what he 'meant.'
Regarding the coding standards - I meant on these things: no spaces after/before '=>'/ or dots for concatenating strings, mixing camel and snake cases sometimes, naming of certain classes/methods weren't so clear etc.

Thanks for the Gii templates; will definitely have a look at that.
I agree that I could have been more precise. Again, I thought this was widely understood. I apologize for my lack of clarity. I was never suggesting some extra-legal method; it simply didn't occur to me because I would never consider this in a software licensing discussion.

When I say relicense a BSD project under the GPL, I mean take the existing codebase and go through whatever legal steps are necessary (without additional permission from the copyright owners) such that the resulting distribution can accept future contributions under the GPL.

So do you now understand what I mean, and see that it's possible with the right legal wrangling, per the link from the Software Freedom Law Center?
Heh - we had the same idea... I adapted the lyrics:

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"Every Post You Make"

Every call you take

Every post you make

Every name you fake

Every pic you take

I'll be watching you

..

Every single way

Every word you say

Every game you play

Every stat you update

I'll be watching you

..

Why can't you see

You belong to me

How my server aches for every byte you create

..

Every pal you make

Every one you meet

Every like you fake

Every thing you read

I'll be watching you

..

Since you've leaked I been exposed to such disgrace

I search ALL posts just to track your face

I tap all lines so you can't escape

Secret courts won't stop this trace

I keep spyin' 'bama, 'bama please

..

Every pal you make

Every one you meet

Every like you fake

Every thing you read

I'll be watching you

..
Nasa tests 3D-printed rocket engine fuel injector
>Stop it. Feminist bigots like you need everyone to view women as the "true victims" in society, so any discussion of men's issues is inevitably and swiftly met with that bullying phrase.

Do you need to go to the powder room and have a good cry about it?

But in all seriousness, no I don't need everyone to view women as victims. That's absurd. I also don't think that there's anything wrong with discussing situations where gender inequality harms men. In fact, I think that it is essential to the larger discussion, because there is often an intrinsic connection between harms to women and men caused by gender prejudice.

Would I would like however, is for obscenely privileged morons to stop acting like female privilege is anywhere close to (much less greater than) male privilege.

Yes, there are some feminists who disempower women and men alike by treating women as the frail victims of sex-crazed men who are biologically incapable of showing empathy or controlling their emotions. There are feminists who don't consider valid the intersection of sexism and other forms of oppression. There are feminists who accuse trans women of "objectifying" the female body. Fuck all of those people. They're idiots. But reversed stupidity is not intelligence. If someone thinks that all sex is rape, and that same dipwad thinks that male privilege is a problem, that is not evidence that male privilege isn't a problem.
Well, it is anecdotal, never claimed otherwise. I did not do particular optimizations on XP however. I was just much more responsive out of the box.

I also agree XFCE isn't really lightweight - but it's included in a helluva lot of things that describe themselves as lightweight and target older machines.

Maybe we can say the netbook was second generation then. It was an Acer Aspire One. I think you could choose between a weird crippled Linux or a Windows install. Or maybe it was dual-boot? I installed a fresh copy to get rid of the crapware anyway.
Sorry, when I wrote that I was thinking the TSA. Forgot that the DHS is more of a shell organization.
There's a similar base in the UK at Menwith Hill. They don't welcome visitors as such, but activist/comedian Mark Thomas discovered that due to a quirk in a law, it was legal to fly a hot air balloon over it.

So that's what he did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBksQsAZ2hQ (short version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWTJUajIdI (full episode)
Number of people identified as having been killed by NSA surveillance: 0.

So no big deal: We should just shrug it off, right?

Obviously we worry about more things in this society than body counts, like civil liberties and the liberty to live our lives out of the shadow of bombers.
Instead of assuming ignorance, we should simply assume intent. But I think ignorance probably is sufficiently explanatory - access to snake oil sales pitches doesn't ensure informed decisions.
Indeed it is one of the scariest departments simply because of its name. "Homeland Security" is ironically, especially un-American sounding, in that no one ever uses the word 'homeland'. See http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/kausfiles_sp...

They should have gone all in originally and just named it the "Committee for Internal Security".
It was always hoped that it would be in addition to mainstream rather than gender-specific events.

That makes sense.

Special events for specific sub-communities is good. And participating in the broader community culture (and criticizing / opposing it when necessary) is also good.
"It may be one of the scariest departments in the government right now, but it serves a fundamental purpose: to secure the nation from the many threats we face"

1. The actual threats we face are a secret.

2. There is no evidence that the DHS is or ever was actually protecting us from anything.

3. There is no evidence that the DHS is or ever was doing a better job of protecting us than the intelligence, military, and law enforcement communities had done before the DHS was established.
The problem is that it's harder to setup and is less convenient to use. Can you point to any guides that make it simple to set up port knocking?

Would it fairly secure to setup a VPN service, connect via VPN, and then SSH in over the VPN connection?
If you must then just limit connections per minute that can be opened per address to the sshd port in the host firewall instead. Sshd should be configured to close the connection after a number of failed logins. Now you get the same effect without a daemon parsing logfiles.