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The original GPL licensed version had full source code and build scripts provided. How is this different?

The LGPLv2 still contains a clause which prevents you from adding additional restrictions, which Apple do in their policy. (10: ... You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. )

I believe, even if you compile from source, you still have additional restrictions placed on you, as Apple's policy for example, restricts you from putting the app on any more than 5 devices.
I have been toying with the idea of setting up my own vpn server using one of my r-pi's, but really needed some guidance on the right way to do this. Thanks for this overview
There's a fascinating post about prepairing ice at the end of 19th century - beginning of 20th. The post is in russian, but photos are good enough on their own: http://engineering-ru.livejournal.com/39019.html
If the USA really wanted to go down this scary path, then wouldn't Bradley Manning have been executed by now? His leak most likely was much more damaging to the US than Snowden, and he is on trial via a military tribunal which has a much greater conviction rate than a civilian court. Manning isn't even on trial for any charges that carry the death penalty.
I've had good luck bonding with interviewers over this approach. Questions like "So what brought you to company X?" and "What do you do in a typical day, what do you like most about that?" create a personal connection to the interviewer, and offer a chance for them to share something more personal than empty generalities about the company.

As a bonus, if they can't tell you anything they enjoy about their job you get an early heads up that you might want to run screaming from the place.
Imagine instead of letting almost anyone in America watch Mad Men for "free" after reading about it or hearing about it from a friend, AMC had to count on people calling up their cable company and tacking on their channel for a dollar a month. No way does that model make sense, and under it, Mad Men and Breaking Bad wouldn't have been made.

Isn't this exactly HBO's business model? They seem to be doing just fine (and I don't think this is because they're an incumbent as much as they make good TV).

I can't speak for bootstrapping a TV network, but I think long-term if you have good content, consumers will jump through hoops to get it.
Thanks for the explanation of the 'cave' lingo. Is it called 'cave' because it's illegal/underground?

Does the Fortune 500 typically hire remote solo developers across borders, and using 'caves' for payment delivery? I don't think so: they have internal teams or use agencies, and avoid informal/underground mechanisms... at least in the US, in my experience.

My problem was with the categorical statement, "If you are a developer bitcoins are not the best option". It depends; for some developers and some projects that I've spoken to, they prefer to send or receive it.

If I were a startup in San Francisco and wanted to pay an Argentine developer several thousand USD each month for services, how would a 'cave' help me get USD to them, and what would be my costs?

With Bitcoin, I could send the BTC from my laptop, at a cost of less than 10¢ per payment (if I already have the Bitcoin) or about 1% of the total (if I have to purchase Bitcoin). If the developer then wants USD or ARS, perhaps then they can go to their favorite 'cave'; they'll know more about spelunking than me.
Yeah, check out https://github.com/Floobits
I'm amazed by all of the answers in this thread, it's amazing how many people are just guessing or making stuff up. Netflix "cheaped out", wants it for "maximum compatibility" (what?), is doing it to be "simpler", or hand-wringing about whether or not it's technically feasible to automatically zoom in on the faces in that way.

It's really easy to explain why they are doing this: the studio is giving them this version of the movie and Netflix is uploading it.

There are plenty of 2.40:1 movies on the service, mostly newer ones. House of Cards is a nonstandard 2:1 aspect ratio. If they cared about cropping the movies they'd do it to all of them. They don't.

The studios just already have these HD transfers of movies that were probably made years ago for television broadcast and that's what they give to Netflix. Case closed.

That said, every movie should be available only in its original aspect ratio, and anything else is bogus. Film aesthetics rely on someone not cropping the shot. For example, in Super 8 the movie begins with a shot of a metal sign at a factory. That sign is 2:40:1, just like the movie's aspect ratio. It's almost certain that JJ Abrams had them build that sign at that aspect ratio on purpose so it would fill the frame. The version on Netflix, it's cropped off and you can't read part of it. Bad.
Great, exactly what this situation needs, a bunch of self-righteous vigilantes trying to evangelize themselves with another leak.

At least Snowden held back any state secrets that would have seriously compromised national security. I highly doubt that anonymous will be light handed in that matter. All we can do is hope they haven't found any information that may put people's lives at risk if leaked.
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Snowden is risking his life no matter what he does.
I wouldn't think it would that much different. It's just a slightly different problem with a slightly different solution.
seconded

I wonder if there are any methods or tools for developing this? My son is almost 3 years old.
I thought the reason we don't build airports in the middle of our cities is that jet engines are quite noisy and could cause lot of property damage (not to mention discomfort) if operated next to other buildings.
80,000 beta testers?! Wow, great work guys!
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I would rather die than rot in solitary under suicide watch.
> I think this dead man's switch is deterrent against being taken into custody.

Quite the contrary, taking him into custody is always in the best interest of the US. Snowden could be targeted with the intention of purposefully triggering the release of the documents, so the US would need to protect him.

However if he remains alive then the threat continues as well, at least until he expresses desire to not release the documents. So since he's alive then the US will want to keep control of him until the threat is neutralized.

Either way the US needs to take control of the situation, unless they can ensure the "dead man's switch" doesn't get triggered after Snowden dies.
> Why not have 100 servers around the world running jobs to email out documents to 100 journalists at all times if an env variable isn't reset every few weeks?

Because people are smarter than computers.
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Great list. The only thing I'd add is 'Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics'. I've seen too many projects held up for want of a nail.

Anyone who's worked for a larger organization knows that you'll have weekly team meetings hammering on the developers to get project X out the door on time. Then the developers will walk out of that meeting and spend three weeks trying to get the tools and equipment they need from IT with zero backup from leadership.
The picture in the article is confusing me. What's going on with his hand?
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I see this all the time. "Waah, we won't make as much as we did before!".

Who cares? You'll make what you can make, or you won't and somebody else will.

Did the world frantically try to prop up typewriter repair revenues in the 80s? Nope. Those guys marched into the future along with the rest of us whether they liked it or not.
Email stored for less than 180 days requires a search warrant to access. But... email which is opened may be considered to be on the server "solely for the purpose of providing storage or computer processing services", in which case a court order (subpeona, etc) is required. Court orders are easier to get than search warrants.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act

At the end of the day, if you have information that you truly want to remain private, it cannot be turned over to a third party and should remain in your home.
It must be pretty uncomfortable to be in the position where your death may cause trouble that may play out as a big advantage to some entities out there.
thread from 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258922

btw watch Scam City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_City#Season_1_.282012.29 Barcelona episode. the art is not dead.
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I think it depends. There are times in my life when I've wanted a tool and looked for existing products, contributed a few patches and been happy.

Then there are other times when there was nothing like what I wanted out there already. So I had to start from scratch.
(My console-based mail-client, with Lua scripting is a prime example.)

Sometimes even knowing there are similar things out there it makes sense to write your own, for learning, for specific features that you know upstream would never support, etc. (Yes, I wrote another static-site generator. In perl. I also wrote a perl-based cfengine-like server-automation tool.)

In the abstract contributing to existing code might make sense. But for personal, or contractual reasons, it isn't unreasonable to set out on your own path.
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why did the pitch have to drip? Isn't the fact that a drip was forming proof that the pitch was flowing?
> The recent FDA drug quality crackdown has probably saved a few lives at the cost of hundreds dieing from drug shortages.

We're playing with bigger numbers here. E.g. estimates were that Vioxx resulted in 90-140k additional cases of heart disease. The $5 billion paid in settlement of claims is a fraction of the actual damages, as settlements necessarily are.
I agree with you 100% I think that the difference between Anonymous and Edward is that he was public with his identity, and has (IMHO) held back information that is detrimental to the security of the USA.

This seems to be an attempt to stay in the spotlight so they can get their message out. And we are gaining traction from the NSA leaks, I hope that the attack by Anonymous doesn't negatively affect our forward movement through open and above board activist groups.
Maybe because when people do a crime now, it is more violent.

São Paulo (where I live) this article also applies... São Paulo is huge, and has some subways, that were in the past filled with pickpockets.

Now we have for example the fact that in the last year alone we had a rise of more than 100% (don't remember the exact number) in violent robberies.

This year alone (and the year is not even over) we had also around 100% increase in robberies that end in death.

I seriously would prefer someone would try to steal stuff from my pocket, instead of pointing high caliber guns at my head (and this part of guns at my head already happened twice to me personally).
"the component, an emergency locator transmitter powered by lithium-manganese dioxide batteries"

So not the same batteries as the last time apparently. I wonder if they made the same "fireproof box enclosure" change to these batteries as they did the others. If these batteries were similarly isolated and still caused a fire that bad, that doesn't say very good things about the continued state of battery safety on those planes.
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Ask some of the gypsy/roma population in Bulgaria - by the time you are done asking them, they might be done with showing their talent.
There might be an interview trick in there...

Don't have a nice enough outfit? Grab a $5 cast or sling and use it to excuse your lack of suit, say it'll be off in a week.
Playback speed seems to be defaulted to something other than 1x; check out the bottom-right of the video for the > (versus the >>)
Go look at the map a bit harder.

Afghanistan is the neighbour of Iran and is more or less the same distance from the Straits of Hormuz as LA is from San Francisco.
Is network streaming when you can browse windows (smb) shares via vlc? If so, that would be amazing
I come bearing gifts, if anyone would like to host some of this themselves.

This follows the API documented by Stampin (minus the throttling errors)--it does not currently do the OCR, but as mentioned elsewhere by zdw you can probably get tesseract to get you like 80% of the way there. If you wanted to use that, you'd likely just replace the hacky `pdftotext` callout with your preferred toolchain.

You'll need Ruby, Sinatra, and the Xpdf tools, I believe.

Dual-licensed under the AGPL, BSD, and WTFPL licenses. idklol.

The code:

require 'sinatra'
require 'json'

use Rack::Logger

post '/extracttext' do

begin
status 204 and return unless params["file"] != nil

type = params["type"] || "text"
lang = params["lang"] || "en"

tmpfilename = params["file"][:tempfile].path
`pdftotext #{tmpfilename}`
File.delete(tmpfilename)

convfile = File.open("#{tmpfilename}.txt","r")
lines = convfile.read.split("\n")
convfile.close
File.delete(convfile.path)

content_type "application/json"
{"text"=>lines}.to_json

rescue
status 500 and return
end
end

EDIT:

For God's sake run this in a jail and only on an internal network!
That's all good and fine, but I've backed the Kickstarter project for porting VLC to Windows RT, and... where is it?
I must be missing something. This is exactly how a dead man's switch works. On a train, if the driver stops actively hitting the switch ("negative control"), the train assumes he's dead and stops.
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Whatever the answer is, it probably has nothing to do with PHP.
Not travelling through pressurized air.... travelling with the pressurized air. The idea behind the article I linked is that the entire system moves as a cohesive mass -- air, vehicles, and all.
You read it wrong; at no point were any particles in the wave assumed to be going the speed of sound; that's why when you look from the vehicles reference you see a standing wave but at every point on it particles are still flowing towards the vehicle. The picture says it is in a sound-speed reference frame, but it probably confused you if you didn't read that.

At no point is the air doing anything but apply drag to the vehicle's movement; there is just a sweet spot to minimize drag, but it isn't minimized to zero.

Read through this thread a bit and you'll see me talking about the exact same difference of propagation of a disturbance vs displacement/velocity of individual particles...
I think this very much depends on the empathy of the developers. We've a pretty strict rule that PR are not allowed to comment on technology; each time they have they've gotten it wrong and we end up looking "stupid". Now we have devs and PR work closely to get succinct and technically accurate updates out to our community.
Yup, I keep thinking that on every post about this software!
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The end product from a hydrogen fueled rocket is H2O. Of which oxygen represents 88.8% of the weight so there is a lot of weight savings available to make up for the increased drag and a more complex engine design. Also of note you need to accelerate not just the ship and cargo but also all that unspent fuel so weight savings tend to multiply.

An air breathing rocket that hit's Mach 5+ means on the order of 30% less fuel and less structure to support that fuel. Which not only allows for more cargo but significantly more redundancy and a much higher structural safety margins.
OK, thanks. This was a deal break for us a year ago. The issue was even partly solved and with a few hacks juju did survive reboots, but it was later on removed.
Hey, Canada has been invaded by the US on at least three occasions -- Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the Fenian Raids. I don't know of another country with a 3-0 record against the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1775)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_raids

(Does the lack of American effort to impede the Fenian Raids make them an American invasion? It's judgment call.)
Why does it have to be organized around a centralized server requiring user accounts? Why not make it peer to peer instead? Haven't we learned our lesson?
Wow. Did you even read the article? The article was a very well written cultural expose on a criminal activity that has a certain pop culture appeal. Did you not see the numerous citations of literature and media that the article featured? I'm questioning your critical thinking abilities if you actually think your comparison between culturally romanticized petty theft and child rape is valid.
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"that's roughly the sound of the volcano that erupted in Karakatau, Indonesia in 1883 and was heard 3,000 miles away. In these drag races, the sound is trapped in the automobile."

Wrong. This all depends on how far are you standing from the sound source. Probably the car audio is much less powerful than the volcano, only the mic is closer.
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This is just more evidence that our school system is heading in the wrong direction. With so much emphasis on testing easily measurable subjects, emphasis is moving away from hard to measure, such as creative thinking.

I've seen first hard how the results of standardized tests in elementary schools force administrators to shift additional periods towards test prep that would have otherwise been used for arts, music, free play, etc.
Yeah, it sounds like a feeble flickr/dropbox/minus mashup.
My only fear with this recurring disaster is that their sheer incompetence will ruin the public perception of new battery technology. That could spell doom for companies like Tesla, wh o have been designing for safety first, instead of outsourcing critical components to the lowest bidder.
Interesting.

Made me go out and find a reference:
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-...

At the same time, the decline in picketing in particular seems a bit different. It's a much extreme decline in a behavior that's criminal but not necessarily violent.
Wow, I love both of these examples.

On both landing pages you get a really quick idea of what the product is about (without having to read any text).

It took me a few more seconds to understand HookFeed, but once I saw the feed updating (the animation) I instantly understood.
It'd be tricky to avoid false positives
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What really interesting state secrets does FEMA have? This strikes me as vandalism more than a threat to national security.
To those that detract anonymous as a sort of rabid crazy dog that charges into attack without aim...

I think that is EXACTLY their intention, like the US government puts crazy pressure in Snowden as a "warning" to future whistle blowers, anons are using the same tactic against US government itself...

If it works or not, I am yet to see, but I can agree with two things:

One, it might make sense.

Two, it is highly dangerous and might cause lots of unintended collateral damage.
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This is so dang cool! I love it :-)
He who has the money has the power.

With a debit card, an erroneous charge means the other guy has the money, and you have no power.

With a credit card, you still have your money until you pay your bill, so up to that point, you still have the power.
People have waited through so many failed attempts to record the drop that nobody wants to mention that they didn't 'really' record an unassisted drop. The bead is still connected when it hits bottom, and the tail doesn't break until they raised up the suspended platform.

Check the video and notice that the suspended vessel jumps about 2 inches higher just after the drop.

It's a good recording, but I'm looking forward to a better one in 2026.
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Odd sport the "dB drag racing". Made me remember of this Gavras video http://vimeo.com/9357434
Clojure's access to the JVM libraries gives it an edge for certain projects,
but Racket has the edge in places where the bulky, slow-to-start JVM
runtime isn't welcome. (Racket executables can be as small as 700kb.)
Racket has by far the strongest story for beginners due to its friendly
culture and emphasis on documentation.

This has sort of been my conclusion after a survey of Chicken, CL, Clojure, and Racket in which I have burned many hours and have thought many times, "Aha! This is the lisp to learn!"

Given that Racket is branded somewhat as a language toolkit, I'd love to see some of the Clojure stuff I love (pervasive immutable data types, map destructuring) added into a Racket. There's Clojure/JVM, Clojure/JavaScript, and even Clojure/Python. Why not Clojure/Racket? Such a language should even support tail recursion.
The AAIB (the UK equivalent of the NTSB) special bulletin referred to in the article is here[1] with a few more technical details.

Looks like it's just unlucky that this happened with a 787, given that the ELT is a standalone component apparently fitted to around 6000 planes of various types.

[1] http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/S5-2013%20ET-...
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The fact that two of your sibling comments are from people who were confused by this is just hilarious.
And if you work for AT&T its another grey area.
Thanks for the information.

Really does not remember to me my first impressions with cron :)

I don't doubt of the quality of this guy and it's ideas and solutions, I cannot say I'm better. And I've seen many "weird for me" things across the years coming from upstream to my systems.

I'm tired of fight with abstraction layers to try to make things simple. But in my work I use to be condemned to use whatever upstream picks across different versions.

Again, thanks for the information.
I agree about the particles moving in the waves frame, but what you are talking about is drag, I think. The pressure gradient still produces a net force on the object. How big it is compared with other forces, such as drag, I have no idea.
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The Taliban are native Afghanis, mostly Pashtun. The mujahideen were Muslims from around the world who went to Afghanistan to defend it from the godless communists. Bin Laden was one of them, but not necessarily one that we armed and supported back then. (While the irony would be delicious, I don't know of any evidence that he ever had US support.)
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I have sought to answer exactly that question above.

:)

I love the happy little Unix-style legos of productivity.
Holy cow this is an awesome concept. Haven't tried it yet, but if it works it's completely transformative. Can be used as a teaching tool for anything - not just for pair programming.

Very, very cool! Thank you for charging money so you can build a real business and keep improving on it.

Please, please work with the JetBrains folks to integrate w/their suite of products? Please?!
Many shows are available on Amazon the day after broadcast. It's how I keep up with Breaking Bad and Walking Dead. In fact, that pricing currently beats $10 a month for AMC that the article claims.
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