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It's a startup, and I've read 10+ articles on HN saying "< 40 hour work week is most efficient for technical work".

While I agree, focusing on getting something shipped every 2 days isn't a huge pace. It means you iterate tightly and goals are understood to be scoped to only 2 days of work.

If something slips the 2-day goal, it's debt, and it's expected to be nailed first-thing in the next sprint. It's a flexible system.

For bigger projects, you _have_ to be able to split them up. I honestly can't think of a single project where you couldn't break it down into constituent parts in which you could iterate through several sprints to finish it.

If you're doing research-based work, I'll admit this probably isn't the best approach. However, from a business and personal productivity perspective, it's working very well.
I'm pretty sure suing you if it causes damage counts as "what the f--k they want to."
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Epiphany doesn't have any SIMD as far as I can tell. Its honestly 16 (or 64) different CPUs working in a grid.

Here's the instruction set for each individual CPU. Each one is small, and weak... but the combination of CPUs makes the architecture very different (and interesting) when compared against the typical SIMT / SIMD GPUs we have today.
http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/epiphany_...

Its really just 64 (tiny) cores hooked up together. Of course, it can be SIMD if you wanted... (you just hook up all cores to run the same program). But in doing so, it will lose out in comparison to dedicated SIMD engines, like a GPU.
Well violence in Britain started to go down a decade later than in the USA, so your time frame counterexample doesn't work for that.
Facebook insistently tried and failed to help "serious" non-game apps before. I don't understand what's the problem with games and why they don't capitalize on it (they should have bought zynga). Facebook is too crowded for anything more serious than gossip.
Lawyers are a waste of money.
We probably will conduct one next year, so Like us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/exospherical) and we'll keep you updated on what's in the works for the future!
This is a wonderful article, and a great summary of the current open-source software licensing issues, but I feel uneasy about the apparent conclusion. After dozens of paragraphs about the intricacies and uncertainties of licensing, it seems to suggest that if instead of asking people to choose from a drop-down list of licenses, things would be greatly improved if they were given a 10 minute overview before being forced to choose.

Any overview, even if vetted by vast teams of international copyright lawyers, can only brush the surface of the issues. At best, you could end up with a list of reasons to eliminate certain licenses based on your personal goals, with the wordings chosen by the ideologies of the lawyers involved. Would this be any better than GitHub deciding internally which license(s) they want to promote, and putting these at the top of the list?

I think we should start to seriously consider simplifying our software licensing environment

This I can agree with. Having seen the amount of time wasted by open-source projects on licensing issues, copyright worries, and patent fears (and the resulting reinvention of the wheel) I think simplification is the way to go. Personally, I don't think this simplification can be achieved by piling more layers of abstraction on top of copyright and contracts.

Most books and papers seem to get along alright without licenses. I'd love to see "fair use" defined more broadly, but I don't think that adding additional licensing would be an improvement. Most electronic parts can be used as building blocks for whatever project you want without worrying whether one part will "contaminate" the others or "infect" the project. Music is licensed more frequently, but I don't think amateur musicians would benefit if they had to agree to terms of service before attending a concert.

Please tell me again why we want every project on GitHub to choose and stick to a license? And who is this "we", and what do "we" stand to gain?
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And GUIDS. I should name my next game 6ef8f4a6-9f9d-468b-b44b-f2dbd38c068d
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This is SO great. I almost cried when I read about the Creator's vision and thoughts about education, experiencing, learning... It's going to be amazing.
Do the ads actually get shipped to you if you use a desktop client?
Ask HN: Which streaming media server and video player to use?
I have a database consists over 1,000 hours of video contents. I have average of 1 million unique visitors monthly. I would like to achieve being under $500 monthly of the maintenance costs.

I am looking for a streaming media server that can stream internationally level and capable of starting 720p-1080p video quality in few seconds.

Also, I am looking for right video player that can be customized the skin and features, and include pre-, mid-, and post-video ads, and slide in banner ads. Some recommended me to Long Tail Video. Do you have better suggestion?
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I would struggle to characterise a company that brings a lawsuit claiming exclusive ownership of the very idea of graphical user interfaces as a good company.
A lot of my usernames for forums, social sites were made a decade ago, others I was just lucky to get but trying to think up email usernames for my parents is infuriating I had to give up and go back to it a few days later.

E-mail addresses as usernames helps but good lord it's nearly impossible to think of a username it's come to the point where I bet you could mash your keyboard with your fist and still come up with something already taken.
> most of the money government generates comes from inflation

I don't believe this. And if it is true then witholding your taxes won't help. The people losing money to inflation would probably stop buying bonds if inflation ate into their returns.
Yes, there is -- which is why I can empathize with Aaron on this one. It feels a lot like being bullied when a company makes the dilution argument.

There was a brief dispute we had with Zynga who wanted us to change the name of CupidWithFriends (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/with-friends-joke-goes-here...). That went away, but they are legally required to try and enforce the trademark or they lose the right.
"Van Jacobson, ...[c]onsidered one of the world's leading authorities on TCP, he helped develop the RED (random early detection) queue management algorithm that has been widely credited with allowing the Internet to grow and meet ever-increasing throughput demands over the years."

Huh? Did RED ever see wide deployment?
Origami, excellent! It never seizes to amaze me how creativity gets to the surface, no matter what people do. Origami, fiction writing, making pixel art in MS paint, that kind of stuff. Awesome!
In other words, being very close to hospitals and well-trained doctors (read: ones working for massive hospitals in the city) means you die less.

Doesn't mean you get hurt less, you just have faster (and some times better) care. Title is misleading.

"Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that risk of death from injuries is lowest on average in urban counties compared to suburban and rural counties across the U.S."

That doesn't exactly evoke "safe", it evokes "not dying".

"...the top three causes of death were motor vehicle collisions, firearms, and poisoning."

Since when? Pretty sure heart disease and cancer should be on there.
Granted, you would have had to use this strange dialect of Forth called Color Forth. Getting a kit together that you can hack on requires more than $99. On the other hand, that array runs clockless and can mimic analog signals.

I think Parallela is easily the most accessible super computer, suitable for hobbyists. I expect a lot of interesting things to come out of it, the way Arduino opened up a lot of device hacking for people. I had passed on kickstarter on it and it wasn't until I got interested in deep belief networks that I kicked myself for not jumping in.
Very well written. When you turn against your customers' welfare, you're almost always going down a path of failure in the long run.
Did anyone notice the line:

What if it will become illegal to sell consumer devices without signature checks for all software running on it.

I find it pretty weird that he's complaining that any country foolish enough to enact such a draconian law would also criminalize all gplv3 software. I personally think the gplv3 would be wonderful in this case since it would create a high cost for enacting such an evil law.
From my friend who is a patent examiner:

"The Mexican standoff bit would be neat. The AIA allows for third-party submissions directly into the patent application file. I am not sure that any of the larger companies would do this, but I think a devoted engineer in some of the smaller companies could use askpatents to stave off predatory patents."
Pretty design doesn't mean good design. Hipmunk works fine.
Maybe for the super rich, but the only way I'm switching off of kayak is if you bring me cheaper flights.

All I want from a travel booking site is cheaper flights.
I think if the FSF could get away with a clause akin to "once licensed under the GPL, this software can not be licensed under any other license for distribution, and it's license can not be changed by the copyright holder".

But that wouldn't fly. Ever. At the end of the day, the copyright holder still gets to change their license whenever they want, and the license itself can't deny that, because it would never hold up in court.
I would hazard a guess that the epiphany cores are more heavyweight than the GA cores. The GA cores are extremely lightweight, to the point where it is expected that even the simplest tasks will involve several of them cooperating. On the other hand the GA chips are optimized for low power and have significantly more tightly integrated IO than the epiphany.
Would you have said that if a lawyer had won the case?
Discussion from ~3 months ago, prior to shipping, has some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5557985
Try renaming it gfacemail and hiring 50 Cent as a partner.
YES! "A Mentoring Course in Smalltalk" is phenomenal! I mean literally it includes a description of implementing perception, you can't get much more phenomenal than that. For real though the part where he discusses conditionals being an indication that you are not demarcating properly at design time was a pivotal moment for me.
In the valley of the half-invented
Exactly. With proper discipline and true 100% test coverage, dynamic languages work well. But over time, that ideal is a challenge for most software organizations to actually live by. Or that's been my experience... it's one of those theory vs. practice situations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6085768
This is an overly simplistic analogy.

No platform developer, when faced with weeds would say "let's torch it".

What really happened in my opinion is that they tried a weed killer. However, as in real gardening, it turned out that distinguishing a weed from a non-weed is complex, subtle, and full of value judgments. In some cases, even if a plant has weed-like traits or capabilities, it's not a weed in the eyes of the gardener. It depends how the capabilities are used.

There were also cascading effects (and here is where I really stretch the metaphor). Once a few non-weed members of the ecosystem were killed, the garden suddenly looked a lot less inviting to others.
Did a double take at this:

"Alexander's meeting was listed as 'top-secret' and divided into two two-hour sessions, the first for Republicans and the second for Democrats."
> A garbage collector is a basically a process itself which determines reachability of objects/memory and reclaims that memory if it can determine it is no longer in use

That's a very.... narrow definition, to say the least. I've never seen this outside of the objective-c world. In my mind, garbage collection is automatic memory management, of which objective-c provides an arguably better solution than imprecise collectors. To distinguish between them at all strikes me as pedantic and counterproductive.

Anyway, the only real difference between python and objective-c is that yes, python has a garbage collection routine that bulk frees objects with refcounts of 0... functionality conveniently provided by @autorelease. This would make ARC a superset of python's GC.
Overzealous is an understatement. Looks like its categorizing everything from ESPs as promotions. Things like my Newrelic alerts to our servers alerts are being improperly put into promotions. Its an easy fix but there's always possibility i'll miss an important email that gets sent rarely.
128gb of flash storage is like $150 retail, probably less in bulk. 4gb RAM is not expensive, yeah it's integrated, but the reason why device manufacturers hold back is they're penny pinchers who are looking to maximise profit, and they're also running mobile OS'es that don't need 4gb.
Google Fiber, or a happy coincidence?

The truth is probably a little in-between. It took a long time for America to lay down a consumer national broadband network infrastructure that could then be gradually upgraded. Now that it's in place, and there's some interesting competition from both mobile and things like Google Fiber, speeds will continue to ramp higher quickly.
"if you include the energy to pump water up to the roof in the first place"

Most places (every place?) I've ever been has had enough mains pressure to get water to a rooftop without an additional pump. I like your idea!
That article does not say what you think it does. It is 50% of new lead pollution, not exposure. According to the reporting of the original lead::crime theory, most of current lead exposure is due to lead dust that was created during the decades of leaded automobile gasoline. The dust has settled in urban areas and it gets kick up by weather and people breath that.
Yes, the morass of software licensing sucks. But unfortunately another side effect of that is that not choosing a license or making uninformed decisions about licensing creates situations that end up with users becoming extremely susceptible to copyright trolling. It is true though that the solution is obviously to ease up on some of the powers granted by copyrights.
> "... know a certain percentage of the startups in each batch are doomed. Some people just aren't meant to start startups, but there's no way for them to know that for sure without trying it."

People are much stronger and amazing than that.

It's important not to forget that all people have unlimited potential, because we are all the same. However, one factor that cannot be measured, is passion. Passion can come from one or any number of factors - and passion can make the impossible possible.

To that extent, I'd encourage comment readers to grasp that idea you love so greatly, and grasp it with all your heart... for off that cliff lies a river where you can pan for gold.

The other driver's cars were not designed for high altitude nose dives into water. The car designers did not care enough to pay that much attention to detail to handle that dive.

However, for the passionate who can make the finest car, there in that river lies the gold.
Except when you actually need one... Which it sounds like you did. The facebook lawyers probably didn't bother responding because they knew you had almost no teeth.
Thanks but that's what I would class as industrial. I'm looking for something I can set up at my parents, aunts, uncles places connected either wireless (preferred) or cable to a standard PC (Win/Mac).

No offense but that camera shown in that link would make the place look like a crack house or Hells Angels clubhouse.

D-Link makes a nice 360 degree fairly low profile camera the DCS-6010L but it's not very durable it can't operate under OC.
Oops, I should have read the article.
In this case there is Facebook (huge, very well known) and someone else (not so huge, not so well known) so it seems obvious to me that there's a chance for confusion.

People are quoting the 36%, but do we know what the other two 3rds said?
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This seems like a great (and concrete) step forward and folks should call their congressmen. However, the following gave me pause for thought.

"... the NSA itself has indicated its willingness to consider abandoning the phone-records collection provided the telecommunications companies it partners with retains the data."
Named for its location, Appalachia, not its methodology.
Vendor lock-in is not avoided when you use large open source software packages on the order of complexity of Mathematica.
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I simply can't imagine a use-case where you would want this and MongoDB wouldn't be a better fit for the task. Redis is good at serving as a cache, it's a good centralized data structure service for decentralized computing systems, but it's not a great permanent storage mechanism.
Marketo's costs for enterprise level service requires a long term bet. The company I work for has invested millions in Salesforce integration but 8 months later I've received 1 lead which was dead wrong.

Our industry doesn't lend itself well to social marketing so that may be part of it, but I wonder how many businesses will actually see a return from using Marketo. Executives stuck in the sunk cost fallacy will keep them going for a few years even in their worst accounts. Their market presence is so recent that their retention rate has nowhere to go but down.
Note, though, that older versions of the MPL (before version 2.0) are incompatible with the GPL, so you end up with things like MPL/GPL dual-licensing. MPL 2.0 is OK in that regard, though I still prefer LGPL or GPL.
Or maybe their email is full of helpful info about their product... But I don't give a damn about their product.
This is why I try to license my personal stuff gpl or agpl still. At the end of the day, I don't want people using it or modifying it that don't release the source, even if it is less used as a result.

The article brings up two camps - gpl vs mit / bsd, and while I use the gpl now on the precedent that the copyright situation is so bad it needs some counter-pressure wherever I can place it, I hope in the long term the outcome is the abolition of copyright entirely. But I put stuff under GPL now because the ultra-restrictive copyrights on proprietary software and their license terms harm creativity so much using the system to force freedom is better than ignoring the problem entirely. To me, at least.

The goal of the GPL is user freedom, in an age when the copyright holder / developer (not always the same person) holds all the cards.
If 20% said Apple, and 20% said Google, and 10% said YouTube, and the rest said "don't know" then a majority did think it was Facebook.
It is a little late - the article was published in 2002.
Just when I went ahead and bought a BeagleBone Black. Would like to see how these boards fare against BBB/RPi.
The Parallella projects sounds interesting, but the parityportal is shit.

The site shows a big banner "Please enable javascript to view this site." that is overlaying the content, but disabling CSS also helps - an other example of js-failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva#Parallella_project would be a better canidate for HN. Its readable, and also shows some critical points.
Gmail new tabs is an incredibly cool feature for people receiving tons of mails. The Gmail team realized that there is spam that's not spam, and is the promotions email, it is awesome to see them away from my inbox...
> Testing is so easy to fluff over.

Good testing leaves artifacts, bad testing is easy to fluff over.
Ah, I hadn't seen that, thanks!

For what it's worth, "Go" as a language is not really implicated in that, it's more like the `go` cmdline suite that was causing trouble. I would also contend that the devs were being foolish to do what they did... Assuming everything was in a git repo, the toolchain makes proper use of submodules, and to my mind this sounds like a case of developers fundamentally misunderstanding git, not Go per se.

But my "railing on Rails" (and, to a lesser extend, Node, Django, etc) will not focus on Go... it's more of a general critique about the lifecycle of large software projects written in dynamic languages.
This is good news, all things considered. A digital currency truly out of reach of regulators would just be outlawed. Exchanges would be raided and shut down. If regulators feel comfortable with bitcoin, it can grow and thrive for now. Then, when someone invents a truly anonymous currency, call it A-coin, bitcoin will be a stepping stone to it. Here's how it could work:

You will buy bitcoins at regulated, fully legal and non-anonymous exchanges. Then, you will exchange bitcoins for A-coins at anonymous, online-only exchanges. Since they can operate only on digital currency they need no physical presence and no connection to the regulated global financial system and will thus not be vulnerable to government regulation or control.
The Pixel Painter. 10 hours a day drawing with Microsoft Paint. Amazing.
I don't know much about solar panels, so a silly question:

If the panels are 15% efficient, what happens to the remaining 85% of the sun's energy?
The problem is infrared light doesn't go through plastic so at night when video surveillance is most often needed it's useless.

An IP66 rated (may be overkill) simple camera is tough to find it may be out there somewhere I'll find one! I'll have to pick the brains of the surveillance guys at work they use Pelco but that's industrial.
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So if I write a piece of software, burn it onto a hundred disks, put the disks in a nicely labeled basket for people to take, go to lunch, and people grab some, at what point does the license kick in?

I find strange your statement that there is no license despite every file header (hypothetically) claiming a license, and this being authorized by the entire management chain.
No one, on this forum or otherwise, is in any position to evaluate whether or not someone else truly might need a lawyer. Every case tends to be full of nuance.

In my case, you have a history with the plaintiff/opposer, some part of which is confidential, someone who just spent a year as a fellow at Stanford Law School, and who has worked with probably thirty lawyers on various cases, including several trademark cases in the past.

I got a motion for sanctions against Facebook's lawyers granted in part, as well as a motion reversing their redaction choices. Granted, I didn't win, but I might not have expected to going in, and it shows at the very least that I'm not your average pro se plaintiff.
Very interesting post, there is so much one can do with a knowledge of both programming and cartography.
This actually seems like a reasonable compromise
Why not to update your app description on iTunes Connect
It looks like Apple introduced a nasty "line-break removal"-bug on all accounts/apps while trying to fix their security issues of the developer center.

Video documenting the bug: http://dt.pe/M92QWG

Possible workaround: Update your description using Apple’s command-line delivery tool (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/transporter/1.7.6/iTMSTransporter_1.7.6.pkg.gz)
I agree about the ISC, that's why OpenBSD, the most free OS (as in you can do whatever you want with a larger percentage of it than any other OS), prefers using the ISC over the BSD license now.
Those hooks have required me three times to extract a partially broken connector from a DisplayPort jack with needlenose pliers. I have never had a HDMI cable loosen.