skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To me, a piece of software is "more free" if its source code is available, but people are still able to do literally anything they want with the source code, including distributing binaries without providing access to the source code."

Yes, because AIX is more free, because Solaris is more free, because Irix and HP-UX and a small plethora of other operating systems are more free.

That whole "more free" idea? It's not theory. It's history. It didn't work.

That "legal limitation on freedom" came about for a specific reason: because software released under things like the BSD license that were "more free" were taken, modified, and made proprietary. All of those operating systems essentially started as BSD Unix; the last time I saw any of the AIX source code, it had BSD copyright notices all over it. (Including on parts that clearly weren't BSD, like the journaled file system. Weird.)

That works fine, if you are a member of Berkeley's CSRG and thus the best programmer in the world. Those people touching your can't improve it; the best they can do is tarnish your brilliance. I am not the best programmer in the world, so I'm not terribly impressed with your interpretation.
It's slightly more than just interesting. It's been a fairly long-held belief that, at least in New York City, their continued and constant drop in crime was largely attributable to the fall in popularity of crack and cocaine usage.

I'm not sure why he's been downvoted to gray. I don't know that his ideas extend well to areas outside of NYC, but there's at least one (fairly large) data point lending credence to his notions.
Offer HN: Free Domain - "OuyaOuyaOuya(DOT)com"
When the Ouya was announced, I registered "OuyaOuyaOuya.com", but never ended up using it. I have it registered through GoDaddy.

The domain expires today. Either comment here or email me about why you want it, and I'll give it to the first person interested.
PG is an authority. If he told me in person that he thought my startup idea sucked, I would listen to him.
Yes and there are workarounds for it. If they aren't willing to do a workaround and neither of them are willing to compromise on their position (LibreCAD should probably switch to GPLv3, btw), then it's both of their faults.

>the FSF, who see anything but the latest and greatest GPL version as undermining free software

This is false. The FSF has no problem with people using licenses that aren't the GPLv3. It's suggested that you use the GPLv3, but any license that meets the criteria for being free software is an acceptable free software license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Trolling makes it quite clear.
What's funny is that none of these people are actually working software engineers, at least anymore. Even Linus doesn't write much code. Perhaps that's a consequence of being famous, or necessary to be famous. But it also allows the counter-argument that Emacs has been supplanted by newer editors by active practitioners.
If you're interested in starting to play with Satellites: Install MacDoppler and track SO-50. Then get a cheapie VHF/UHF dual band radio that can tune to 436.800 Mhz. You don't need a big antenna, just figure out where the satellite is from Azimuth and Elevation and point the radio's antenna at the ground so that it's upside down and perpendicular to a line from you to the satellite (like you're shooting a snake with a ray gun if the antenna is the ray gun). Tune up a few Khz as the satellite is coming towards you and down as it is going away from you to compensate for doppler. You'll hear lots of hams using the satellite as a repeater.

If you want to talk too, get a Technician ham license which is very easy and an Arrow II dual band antenna and point it at the bird and chat away. [And then call me, I'm callsign AD0ER]

There are over 50 amateur satellites that were launched as repeaters, most of them dead. FO-29, SO-50, AO-07 and a handful of others work. I believe Turksat-3USAT should enable any day now as a repeater. There's also the ISS. You can also get telemetry from many other satellites and it's all mostly just VHF and UHF.

The author of the project should turn the project into a kickstarter to provide hams with auto-tracking of satellites. I wouldn't even care about radio integration, just save me having to stand outside with a hand-held yagi looking like I should be wearing a tinfoil hat. Post something to QRZ.com and see if there's interest.
To give an example: In line with Google's mission statement of "Don't be evil", I figure that it could extend to "Don't be annoying".

> My question is: Why should a company make it easy for people to do exactly what it doesn't want them to do?

Because its just plain annoying to users. Running a business and designing your application / system to trick people into behaving in a certain way is one thing, being transparent is another.

I think users these days are becoming a lot more educated and wiser to these techniques, as a result their loyalty is beginning to side with companies that offer a more honest level of transparency.
> Also, MPL allows static linking, the LGPL doesn't unless you explicitly state it.

The LGPL allows static linking, as long as you provide the means to relink with a modified version.

> For the record, would 'GPL + Linking exception' be incompatible with the GPL and LGPL?

Only in one direction. You can take code under the GPL plus a linking exception and merge it into a GPLed project, but the result will not have the exception, so you can't add proprietary code to the result.
This post is very gladwellesque; presents an anecdote then draws a very general conclusion based on it (being honest is good).

This is off-topic, but: if "gladwellesque" ever becomes a popular word, I hope this post gets recorded as its first use.
Ooops http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/207799/don_t_use_ema...
Modern art used as CIA 'weapon' in cultural Cold War
Billing Incident Post-Mortem: Breakdown, Analysis and Root Cause
What’s on Edward Snowden’s laptop?
I'm not really sure what you're saying with this.

Do you mean that they're worthless because he could have done so much better? Or that the methods are worthless because they won't translate to other programs? Or do you literally mean that they're worthless because they were done in MS paint?

EDIT: Ah, your edit clarified. Yes, you want to move away from bad tools ASAP. Which means that nobody here should be using MS paint when Gimp, Paint.net, Krita and others are available free of charge.
I blame anyone for not opposing it on principle. If you're ok with some trumped up bullshit because you don't like the person, fuck you (not aimed at your personally).
Not famous. Because they are managers or otherwise in senior roles.
How someone looks at a beautiful piece of art (regardless of whether it's done in Paint, Photoshop or yak dung) and claim "the examples shown have 0 value of any kind" without the age, software and year prefix, is beyond me.

I'd love to have the forest paint in particular in my living room.

Edit: And you've heavily edited your original post to the point it has completely lost its original context. As I recall, what you originally wrote left no room for "misinterpretation" or else that's rather like claiming you intended to fly to Canada and bought a plane ticket to Russia.
Then you need to get out more. Stupid knows no limits.
Acting shady hurts your brand.

Harry Brignull(the author) discusses this in a talk[1] that I found on the dark patterns website(I checked out the website after loving the article).

He makes the argument that sure, many of these tactics might increase your conversion rates or make you some money, at least in the short run. But it also causes you to come off as seedy, to come off as a back alley discount store instead of as a premium brand.

He points out that if you're doing this and you're aware of that and you're ok with it, that's one thing. But plenty of sites might not have realized what they're doing and how it comes off.

I know I personally resent it when sites leave boxes like "sign up for our newsletter" checked or when they have fake download box adds. Making it hard for me to do what I want to do, no matter how you do it, bothers me. It feels like you're the adversary of the site, not a customer or friend.

I believe he talks about it around 12 minutes in but the entire presentation is easily worth watching. He has another one aimed at designers that I plan on watching as soon as I find my headphones(the sound is too low for me to hear it on my MBP).

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/17/dark-pattern...
But this argument is like telling painters they produce stuff of no value because they could just take a photograph. Or use a painting effect if they insist on the style.

Art has often a self-limiting aspect that makes it beautiful.
Note the point about starting to apply a CLA after the fact to an existing project. KDE certainly consciously took a risk when deciding to try and collaborate with a corporate entity, but that doesn't mean the community can't be disappointed at the outcome. Nobody is complaining about a CLA they knew of in advance - because they did not.

And personally I don't think a CLA makes sense for the specific code in question, which is purposefully designed as an interoperability solution and so implicitly multi-stakeholder.
Older tools can be liberating because you have to work within their modest set of features. Choice isn't always a good thing etc.
Reconsider Being a 'User'
The future doesn't need us - or at least many of us.
Already now we have no need whatsover for 15-20% of population to get jobs, as demand for low-skilled labor is permanently reduced.

Soon it will be 30%, 40% and more. As soon as robots for stocking shelves, driving trucks and flipping burgers will be cheaper than minimum (or any livable) wage, we can expect that there will be no practical need whatsoever for large parts of population to work - the goods/services will be more and better if they don't get involved, and instead of "job" the question is how social policy will distribute resources to them - welfare, universal income, crime or starvation?
It was even more interesting to me as a set of 'canaries in a coal mine'. If you are working for a company and start to see many, or one, of these patterns, it should serve as awake up call. Move on or don't, but be aware of the corporate behavior.
Interesting, but we'll need a faster selling rate, any friends? ;)
http://movebits.net/2013/07/23/ubuntu-edge-funding-level/
It could still be the main driving force, and it just so happened that an associated force or two started a little earlier.
A simpler Git? gitless
Atari bankruptcy auction results
> The bar for prior art is very high ... Even an actual real product made and sold by a company - not published. Even standard industry practise, established for years, if not written up and "published" somewhere, may not qualify as prior art

If that's true,[0] seems to me that the US has a much narrower definition of what can be part of the state of the art than Europe does. Here, the state of the art is "everything made available to the public by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way"[1]

E.g. in the UK there was a famous case where a patent for a windsurfing board was invalidated because it was anticipated by a primitive board hacked together by a 12-year-old boy a decade earlier, and used by him on summer weekends.[2] That "the user was open and visible to anyone in the vicinity of the caravan site where the family stayed" was enough to qualify it as prior art.

[0] To be clear: as a Brit I have no idea about US patent law, and don't know whether the parent description of it is accurate. (It's not impossible that the USPTO's rules on what they'll look at when considering an application are narrower than what a court can consider prior art, just for practical reasons - a court can call and cross-examine witnesses to give evidence of oral disclosures or prior use, unlike a patent examiner. That's just a guess, though).

[1] Article 54(2) EPC

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chilvers
He explained this at the end. Companies that do this succeed in the short term, but in the long run they fail.
I think CS is the accepted abbreviation. This made me think of C.S. Lewis.
Not one of your statements are true. In fact, everything you just said is 100% bullshit.
Pieces like these (and others, like a 5 year old's painting) can have monetary value.

People might place value on its level of enjoyment, such as yourself.

But artistically, you'd be hard pressed to find any value in this due to its only merit being "made in Windows 95 in 2013" or "made by a 7 year old" or whatever.

Typically, intentionally doing work in a difficult manner for the sake of making it hard on yourself isn't rewarded because it doesn't really add anything.

This piece isn't made better because it was made in Windows 95 and Paint, yet that's the only reason why we're talking about it.
That would be surprising. If more than 2% of my customers every year were going out of business, I'd come to the conclusion that I was selling to the wrong audience.
"How costly? The U.S. Department of Labor currently estimates that the average cost of a bad hiring decision can equal 30% of the individual’s first-year potential earnings. That means a single bad hire with an annual income of $50,000 can equal a potential $15,000 loss for the employer."

"How do you find your “cream of the cream”? What are your unique or tried-and-tested hiring strategies?"

Am I the only one who was thinking "How do you expect to hire the “cream of the cream” if you only pay $50K a year?"
+1, this is the kind of thing that changes the way you think when you find out.

Sometimes you don't need to be the genious inventing every single part of something to build something great, but we emotionally think we need to, because we often look up to people that did that as it looks too damn hard and wonderful.
Recommended UI: Have one of those gray placeholder texts in the input box saying "+11234567890" or whatever format you require.
<devil's advocate>If you "consider" stealing thousands of credit card numbers, break into a business and collect all the required data, then get lazy before you get around to incurring fraudulent charges and just boast about it instead, perhaps you _do_ deserve jail time</devil's advocate>

weev fucked up - and he _knew_ he was "fucking up" when he went from "finding a vulnerability" to "automatically exploiting that vulnerability to collect as much data as he could". Felten, Blaze, Schneier, Kaminsky - they would all have tried incrementing the get parameter - when it worked they would all have tried a bunch more times to confirm their assumptions, none of them would expect to get away with subsequent wholesale download of AT&T's customer data. Neither should weev.
you toke the words out of my hands :D +1
That's a great question. I like the experience of simple. I get push notifications when I swipe my card. I enjoy the "Safe to spend" amount that takes into account my goals. Photo check deposit is great too. It's early days for them, but I like backing that horse.

USAA is a great company. They give you ATM fee reimbursements which is a huge benefit over simple. I feel guilty getting them since they have to eat that cost. In dealing with them, they're always pleasant and friendly, but they have policies like photo check deposit is only available if you're ex-military.

Hope that helps!
I never saw a picture of Stallman so young.
The average plane owner is richer than the average car owner. The average plane owner needs the plane less than the average car owner needs the car. The average car isn't burning leaded fuel.

I would still say "rich jerks" is overstating things, but there's not zero relevance.
if he had spent 5 months on photoshop

Or acrylics. I'm pretty sure everyone involved was aware of acrylics and he was really just using MS Paint as a pastime. Chill.
I have to admit that the video made me tear. As a graphic artist myself, this man is my ultimate hero!
DataHands cost hundreds of dollars, have huge brick interface boxes, cables everywhere, a mains power brick, they don't let you type one-handed while you drink, eat, mouse, or hold a phone, they take up a lot of space for each hand unit, and they look weird.

But in terms of changing behaviour, they are pretty much a qwerty keyboard. In use, they're not ever-so different at all. I would be very surprised if that was a significant contributing reason to why they 'never really took off'.
So pump.io doesn't use AGPL. Other than that, is it not as interesting to Free Software? Does it not federate with OStatus?
Ask HN: Would you use a check printing service via an API?
Assume these checks would be printed with all security features enabled: colored background, coin rub watermark, microprint border, thermo-chromic ink images, magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) technology, and Positive Pay protocol to combat check fraud.
I agree, several of those people are famous in large part because of their contributions to Emacs.
They usually have one of the many clones of vi, installed as vi. Very few use actual vi, because for many years it was out-of-bounds because it used AT&T code from ed.
Wow!

Just goes to show it's not about what tool you use, it's about your skills and what you can do with it.

We would do well to remember this in all the programming language debates we like to have here.
LibreCAD can't switch because their project depends on a large amount of GPLv2 only code.
The FSF won't change its position because LibreDWG is a FSF project.
Catch 22, who's right?
I don't take that as a rule, if even after a really nice and long talk about the problem with motives and perspectives analysed I still think he is not right, I would try it my way.
Hiring good people.
Ensuring good communication between people.
Getting the team to perform to its potential.
Well, he is doing pointillism. How is that going to be better in Photoshop?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism
Hanlon, actually. Just for the sake of terminology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor . It keeps me sane.
yes, all bad practices... I think of this like when you buy something at the store at the advertised price and it comes up at a different price at the register (almost always higher)... this is wrong.
You can blame the copyright system for that for making it not possible to negotiate license changes in the event the original copyright holder is not contactable for whatever reason. But again, there are workarounds and it makes no sense for them not to consider them, so this whole thing is a non-issue anyway. If they want to save DWG files, is there any reason they cannot invoke LibreDWG from a separate command line program using an intermediate format?
I don't like the term user either.

I'm not sure customer is the right term for our service. I can understand e-commerce sites using customer but for a service like Twitter? I would think member would fit better.

What does everyone else think?
They're both limiting media; the only variant here is degree. The Excel artist prints at a higher resolution... and that's about the only difference really. This is contradictory to your original assertion that it was "worthless" because of the technique used.

The method used is interesting, but art doesn't have to have a higher resolution to be enjoyable. I mean this is in a museum for crying out loud : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malevich.black-square.jpg

Quality of the lines, the resolution, the medium are all irrelevant when art considered on an individual basis and not comparatively.

For the record, I feel like creating my own piece. Not in Paint, but with snips of fabric, paper and glue. It will be a lot of effort, but that effort will be fulfilling. Maybe that's another reason why I appreciate this. There's effort involved that aren't necessary.

But then most of Pollock's work is just splatters of paint without "passion" isn't?

Edit: Arrrgh! I hate it when people delete posts. Now I don't remember what the hell I was replying to or what arguments were made.
Unless it's about text editors. Then you can't get _anything_ done if you don't use ed.
I'm astounded. Is this really a web-app. Did you roll your own client-side framework? My mind is blown. And there are rulers as well?! Where did you learn to code like this?
Interfaces communicate with their users (at least, if you ask me), and I sometimes find it helpful to explicitly put into words what I think an interface is saying. I interpret The Ladder's cancellation screen as saying, "You cannot cancel your membership without giving us a reason."

Imagine if you were trying to break up with a significant other, and they told you that you were not allowed to end the relationship unless you gave a reason first. That would be horribly controlling, and totally unacceptable.

Of course, a romantic relationship is rather more significant than a subscription, but I think The Ladder's exit process is controlling in the same way, and the only difference is that it occurs in a less important relationship. It still gives me the same feeling that my wishes and agency are being subjugated, and I believe that's a bad thing to do to a person, regardless of the particular situation.
This is true. I am not expert in PS, so when I use it I basically only use the basic tools that MS paint provide. Unless I use the auto blend feature which is a fantastic.

I think some of this art would be great backgrounds for indie pixel games.
Art is quite subjective, and opinions are... well, personal. Can you declare I'd like Mona Lisa, and not like Hal's work? This guy's work is specifically 8-bit art, where you are meant to see the pixels.
Use Persona - that way you get a valid email, and the user doesn't need to validate their email address (unless it's the very first time they use Persona).
Sorry, but this isn't the martyr you're looking for. Have fun in jail beardybutt.
>On the other hand, if he had spent 5 months on photoshop at any point in the past 20 years,

On yet another (third) hand maybe not. It is like saying. "Yeah look he can bike 100 miles _but_ just imagine if he had his drivers' license, he could have driven 2000 miles!". Yeah maybe he could. But it wouldn't be the same story.

> The art is (would be) much better, and useful without the story.

Not matter how much we try it is always tied to the creator. The same doodle can be made by me, but if an elephant does it OMG it is amazing, sell it for $200k! If you don't see the creator or know how they are, it is tied indirectly to them via understanding of the work went into it. For example, maybe I don't know the name but if someone shows me a a large pointillist painting it will be impressive and the work put into it is part of it.
Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.
Yeah, I meant whatever generic vi-alike is installed instead of vim.
Ask HN: Anybody looking for a PHP/RoR freelancer?
I'm working on kicking off my freelance career again and was looking to see if anyone on HN was looking for somebody to help with web development.

Thanks!
How something is made can be a significant part of the price. I remember a report on a painting that was unsigned. Experts were divided on who had painted it. I can't recall the painter's name, but if it was him, the painting was worth $200k. If it was one of his students, as half the experts thought, it was worth $2k. Same painting - only thing different is the 'metadata' for who made it, which made up literally 99% of the value.

Similarly, there is art out there where an aficionado knows how difficult it is to do and hence will pay more for it, where a layperson will say "what crap" and refuse it. The story of a piece often has value over and above the piece itself - and making something to a certain level of quality while using inferior tools can be a valid part of that story.
Stole the words right out of my keyboard. This is fixed, just not deployed widely yet.