skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually

vx^2 + vy^2 + vz^2 - vt^2

the minus sign in front of the vt is very important and gives the SR (hyperbolic) structure of flat spacetime. The rotating a vector thing is just an analogy to euclidean space rotations.
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A mess of lawsuits, withdrawn devices and shut down code repos most likely.
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And being nominally a guy who is supposed to get rid of these inefficiencies it just drives me crazy and really ps off that each time you finally got rid of one, it's only another excusse to get down on people. You know, we are even more effecient now, so better get up to speed.

Ahh, and I never wanted to become a cynic...
I've updated the title to hopefully dispel any unintended interpretations.
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Sorry, I'm missing the point of this submission.

The author has described anecdotal experience with login screen of some product but he hasn't actually stopped using that product. So what is this to do with user retention?
In Fork the Cookbook we solved this by not having any passwords at all - you request one every time you want to login.
"Originally, it was either public domain or GPL."

He's claiming that this is actually GPL code that Samsung claimed as proprietary (which they can't do). Is he wrong?
I agree with the actions of the repo maintainer.

Why should we play along with unjust copyright laws? GPL sheep are just part of the problem, creating their own nest of licensing woes everytime you touch their code.
Yes, it uses sampling. And the numbers might be way of. We had times, with stats fluctuating 40% if I look at the numbers from yesterday and compare them to the numbers taken more then 48h after the fact.
If the being is all-powerful, it's not restricted by physics. We are.

Or you can say that the all-powerful being exists outside spacetime, and FTL is impossible to anything within spacetime.

So the all-powerful being sees all of spacetime laid out in front of it, like a canvas. The painter dabs paint on the left margin and they streak out toward the right in interesting patterns. The painter dabs paint here and there, the patterns respond, and he continues until he likes the picture.

Asimov had a concept like this in The End of Eternity.
The most interesting part (for me) was the mention of the pay for credit to continue. Now that is an interesting use of IAP rather than 'shiny golden boots, £3', as it works on an established model that was reasonably successful for a number of years. Does anyone know of any other games using the same mechanism?
Money is also a lot tighter in research labs, so lab heads have to run a tight ship and account for everything.
Why not just use this?

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/2142213/open-source...
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> Basically, I did microsoft's job, they even owe me money for the time I've spent fixing the code to work on modern kernels and "throwing the GPL tag on it".

Wow.
How about Fastspring/Saasy?
What would your government have to offer to get you to use a front-end API to PRISM to build apps for the personal data collected by the NSA?

What would the government have to do to make you trust them more than you trust Facebook or Google or Apple?
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It's your own website though, you can already put any lies you want on there.
There's a severe fault in rxrz's logic here, if I'm following this correctly:

"This code was originally under a Samsung proprietary license"
Wrong.

exfat_version.h:/* - 2012.04.02 : P1 : Change Module License to Samsung Proprietary /

this is version p2. I could've technically stripped those comments and changed the version number to / - 2012.02.10 : Release Version 1.1.0 */ But I didn't. Originally, it was either public domain or GPL.

Nobody would've ever found out by the code alone, which version this actually is."

Let me pull out the key statement here:

"Originally, it was either public domain or GPL."

That's an assumption. Samsung placed a license on it, and rxrz assumes that prior to that, it must have been GPL or public domain. However, the driver was unknown and didn't exist prior to rxrz's release. It seems likely something could be classified as public domain when it was kept under lock and key.

My guess is, this was given a license when the code was finished and bundled for distribution. Assuming otherwise seems dangerous, in my opinion.
Resize it, or perform a similar change so the file sizes wouldn't match up.
I'm having a hard time believing the post. It's way too entertaining. I feel like I just watched an episode of The Office. Sure there are inefficiencies in corporations, but coupled with this type of storytelling and walking in on a VP in such a compromising position, it just seems scripted.

Not to mention, I was in a similar position for a couple of months. But given that I'm generally a hard worker (much like the guy in the post), I almost went crazy for not doing anything productive and ended up writing code for much needed tools at the company. And I don't think I could put up with not doing anything for that long. So, something smells fishy about this story...
Samsung may not have intended it as such, but aren't all derivatives of GPL-licenced code also GPL by definition?
"Of 746 people listed as killed in the drone strikes outlined in the document, at least 147 of the dead are clearly stated to be civilian victims, 94 of those are said to be children."

And that's just the ones they are "declaring" as "innocent", while the administration unilaterally decided who's guilty and deserves to be assassinated with a drone, as an "enemy combatant".
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Nobody cares about CDNs in Australia :(. The CDN companies with PoP in/near Australia/NZ are ridiculously expensive.
As a Pakistani, even though am an atheist, If one of those strikes killed one of my siblings I would totes go nuts and become a terrorist for sure and try to recruit as many others as possible. It's pretty obvious that U.S. is intentionally producing terrorists.
The ZeroMQ documentation suggests that you should use ZeroMQ to communicate between threads within the same process, as well as between processes. Given that context it wouldn't make sense for it to be thread safe. That would be too much overhead for no benefit.
Wow. 60%! That's amazing.
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In my experience, ZeroMQ is very fragile in RPC-like applications, especially because it tries to abstract away the "connection". This mindset is very appropriate when you're doing multicast (and ZeroMQ rocks when doing multicast), but for unicast, I actually want to detect a disconnection or a connection failure and handle it appropriately before my outgoing buffers are choked to death. So, I'd evaluate other alternatives before settling on ZeroMQ as a transport for internal RPC-type messaging.

If you are fine with having the whole message in memory before parsing (or sending) it (Http is not that bad when it comes to transferring huge documents over the network), writing raw MessagePack document to a regular TCP stream (or tucking it inside a UDP datagram) will do the trick just fine. MessagePack library does support parsing streams -- see e.g. its Python example in its homepage (http://msgpack.org).

Disclosure: I'm just a happy MessagePack (and sometimes ZeroMQ) user. I work on Spyne (http://spyne.io) so I just have experience with some of the most popular protocols out there.
With Ubuntu Edge closing in, I'm still in doubt whether HTML5 can power ALL the apps on my phone. Ubuntu Edge isn't really HTML5-powered, so that also makes me think. Firefox still has some quirks regarding their HTML5 implementation and the Android Firefox browser is still no way near the iPhone experience (although I'd better blame this on Android, because other browsers on Android don't compare either).
Nevertheless, the Firefox OS website is something worth seeing - can anyone point me to a Javascript library that can achieve the same scrolling effect?
A following (and related) action of protest was attempted in Republic of Moldova:
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I'm not a big fan of the drone war. But I don't want to see it only from the one side. The big question I am asking myself is: What is the alternative?

In Pakistan for example, the government condemns the drone strikes and vows to stop them. Well, they could, instantly. They can just "really" ask the US to stop it, or they could put pressure on the US by closing their borders for Afghan logistics, or they could even shoot them down. But they don't. That makes me think the Pakistani government is in tacit collusion.

The alternative to these drone strikes is not peace eternal. If there is no pressure on the Taliban, they would become a bigger problem and headache for the Pakistanis. They would have to send troops into these areas.

I highly doubt that Pakistani troops "cleaning" or even just policing the tribal areas would yield a significantly lower death toll among civilians...
There are those of us who completely disagree with copyright law. How many years have been wasted on projects like Samba because of draconian copyright? Much simpler and cleaner to acquire the source.
It doesn't quite work like that. Councillors and the council are separate entities. The council is usually a private list of subcontrators these days who work on behalf of the councilors and the directors, nothing more.

It's not that they're crap, but they're powerless due to the contracted out power they have had to accept due to the budgetary constraints that the government have forced on them. They can deal with individual issues fine but there are problems bringing in full scale accountability when you have to shift 99% of work onto other people.

You've probably experienced the subcontrators, not the councilors who due to the low budget are crap.

Next time you get an issue, call your local councilor - you might be surprised!
What kind of multicast are you using?

ZeroMQ can do multicast using PGM -- http://api.zeromq.org/2-1:zmq-pgm
The questions are - is it a derivative of GPL code, and if so have they distributed binaries?

I don't think drivers necessarily have to be derivative of GPL code (look at, for instance, nVidia's closed source drivers and lots of Android/ARM graphics drivers).
> Others end up "relicensing" similar to the guy on github, [...]

Hmmm...

https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse/issues/5#issuecomment-2... :

> And I don't need any permissions from anybody, I'm a big girl.

Fun fact: Females also do stupid stuff.
Yeah, seems like just another scammy F2P mobile game. Kudos to them for making money hand over fist, but I don't think I could sleep at night if I built my business by exploiting users.
Any reasoning behind it?
> Makes me wonder why Google itself doesnt do it like that.

I do believe Google does do it like that.

At least, when I had a Twitter search widget on my site, Google indexed the content in that widget.
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Those are technically GPL violations, but kernel devs haven't (yet) complained much.
Exactly. While it's a compromise, I feel like they missed the point. As someone who has completed one year of college, but opted to drop out and start working, I would rather drop outs be given a chance.

I mean, if I have 12,000$ in the bank, a VC in Canada willing to invest, and can speak French and English, then that should be enough. My main criticism of this Visa is that it isn't inclusive enough. If we could even get 10 more accepted applicants by dropping the educational requirement then it would be worth it in my opinion.
I wish I lived in the perfect world you inhabit :( Some of us are dealt shitty cards and told to make it work.
The banding is almost imperceptible though. I had to get close to the monitor and squint a lot to see it.
not a retard "movement" conservative, but a non-Progressive

Hey, care to give some details? This is exactly one point of view I've been trying to understand without much success: why people would be non-progressive for intellectual rather than emotional reasons. I'm sincerely curious what your rationale is.
It's only natural to act defensively when someone abruptly turns up and accuses you of removing some comments from code.

If you talk to people who aren't licensing and legal enthusiasts, most don't have an interest in those topics.
On the other hand, if you want to switch distros or OS, you'll have to rewrite everything.
I wish HN would mandate all submission to have [years] behind it. This is from 2010!

Github was invested $100M as many would have known.
Asmallorange has been sold to Endurance Group.
ZeroMQ is very poor at communicating between threads within the same process, because messages are just binary data. The messaging library I use shouldn't dictate the way that I program; the dog wags the tail.

That would force me into an asynchronous style, but in my case, I was able to convey intent much better using threads.
The last 2 paragraphs should answer your questions...
Im willing to bet that if you are going to do a statistical breakdown on most successful companies investment money has has directly or indirectly (ie through connections) family money,with friends or personal connections a close second. While would largely agree with Daniel on the downside of the three Fs there are upsides too. You dont waste 6 months pitching at the most critical time of your business startup,you dont get screwed by information asymmetry dealing with experienced investors and most importantly you actually get the money rather than "we will call you back".
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Stack Exchange Peer "Review"
I am asking this here, since I trust the HN community. Ok story goes like that, I have just signed up to stackexchange.com, and fixed a solution, it was mathematically incomplete, I have also improved the LaTeX style. To be exact this one http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/449672/prove-that-n-2n-for-all-natural-numbers-n Instead of writing a new answer, I have improved"user71352"' s answer, by thinking it will be better for the community. To give you an idea it was about 5 lines and incomplete(if you give it to my mathematics professor back in university, you would get 10 out of 25), after my improvements it is 13 lines, expressive and a complete proof.

The site told me that it is going to be peer reviewed before anyone sees my edit. I can understand that, cause I have just signed up.

Although what I write is there, only differences after "peer-review" are

"Step 1.)" changed into "Step1.:"
"Step 2.)" changed into "Step2.:"
"Step 3.)" changed into "Step3.:"

and It writes "Edited by m0nhawk 4 hours ago", not me. It was not there before.

I don't know how this site works exactly, I don't blame a particular person. Yet the question arises:

What is wrong with this site? What is peer review? I don't care about "reputation" but I don't like someone or some site take me for a fool.
Yeah, this was posted on SA years ago as fiction.
Interesting. Can you enlighten us with more detail?
The article links to an earlier article of his. He does seem as extreme as I suggested, more or less.

I also don't see what's wrong with the behavior he was criticizing. It seems that the offending angel said "If you want me to do more of what I have in the past, please pay me something." If the angel did something worse than that, he wasn't clear in explaining how or why.
Among all aspects of that discussion, the author's gender is about the most uninteresting detail. "Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position."
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Lawsuits aside... I guess a bunch of illegal-but-everyone-uses-them binary blobs of highly varying quality with some sources floating around.

Oh, we had that, that was called "pirated [Stallman forgive me] Windows". I believe I had leaked W2K sources burned on some old CD, if they're still readable...
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Bastard Operator from Hell yet. It's a similiar story if somewhat more violent and on the technical side. Recommended reading for every sysadmin.

http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php
That is absolutely not the community consensus. Linus and the kernel community as a whole have taken the position that this is specifically allowed by the GPL as using a public interface isn't creating a derivative work.
Oh it gets better. I had to stop reading the thread on Phoronix out of fear that my brain would pop out of my head and leave for Portugal.

> People with emotional insecurities are trying to make up something depressing and horrible, point a finger and make lots of noise.

> For me it was just sad to see people complaining more often than being grateful or happy about something.

> I hope they will patent and release a license on negative thinking.[0]

Actually, the entire Phoronix thread is an amazing display of incompetence.

> Were do you assume "this source code is not under GPLv2"? Source of this please? This implementation (code) was on github, that says something to you? [1]

My mind is boggled so hard right now. This better be a conspiracy to discredit FOSS, otherwise I'm losing yet another piece of trust in human sanity.

[0] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?81642-Native-Linux...
[1] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?81642-Native-Linux...
Wasting man-years on reimplementing software is not a large enough problem to decide that authors no longer have any rights with their product.
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I've been able to find a statement from 2008 in which many kernel devs publicly said they think that closed drivers are harmful. But violations?

I'm not convinced. Got a link that might convince me?
I tend to forget the number (is it 6 months? 9?) and just say, oh hell, make it 18 months.

It won't kill you to have more dry powder rather than less. But then, I tend to be a bit conservative and paranoid about money. :)
Maybe it's a way of self censoring, and not because of the fear of karma loss, as your comment might suggest.
No. The authors of GPL-licensed code has no say in how other people license their code they don't own the copyright on.

Derivatives of GPL-licensed code is either:
1. GPL-licensed
2. Illegal

If it's not explicitly 1 by the license on the derived work, it becomes 2. It is not automatically "forced" into category 1.
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Even if you don't want to play along with copyright laws - and I can perfectly understand why one wouldn't - that's not a reason to deceive people by claiming the code to be GPL licensed and make them liable if they redistribute it.

If one wants to say "fuck copyright", putting a copyright license in the code is not the really the most appropriate way.
I don't know why so many people are saying that it needs to be made clear that this is in China, and that it doesn't apply elsewhere.

I'm a programmer in Finance in London, and a good day rate for a Senior contractor is 600GBP/day. I have a good friend who started out doing "grilled chorizo in a ciabatta bun" at a London market, and easily made 1000GBP his first day. Now he uses employees to man that stall, and has moved on to the next idea, at a different locations doing something different to allow him to do something that appeals during different seasons. By now I imagine he is easily making double what I do.
I'm 30 and I don't know about your internet connectivity in your teenage years.. but even before broadband I had access to racks of porn. IRC, Usenet, private FTP sites.. forget about the web, porn was everywhere if you knew where to look for it. Pictures, videos, and then there was only ever more of it as the web took off and broadband proliferated.

I emerged unscathed though. I think the people most at-risk will either A. Not watch porn. or B. Get messed up by the rest of the media anyway.
Except that the flash stuff still loaded with the eolas mod, it just didn't respond to the first mouse click.
Pretty cool. A shame it shares a name with this, though: http://dronestagram.tumblr.com
(Which, imo, is a more interesting, but completely different idea)
Steve Gibson did a great job explaining this last year on his podcast http://twit.tv/show/security-now/345
What about interoperability with external services? With HTTP, you could just open your APIs to the world, when it makes sense.
> Fun fact: Females also do stupid stuff.

Nah, pretty sure the "I'm a big girl" is just fratboy posturing.

Otherwise I agree with the commenter next to me: Breathtaking inanity is the interesting aspect here, not gender.
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Operators sometimes think they are using the good stuff but aren't. Same thing happened with COMP128, operators were unknowingly using it for years and years after it was broken and thought fixed in new SIMs.
While I'm arguing that modern libraries can avoid threads...

Since you have Haskell and Actors, but worrying thread-safety of some other libraries. You can consider a single-threaded/multi-process deploy.

By setting the thread pool to 1, Actors in a single process can still handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections, while there is surely no thread-safety problem.
Agreed. I didn't even take the time to find out what their gender was since it's not any related issue. "Guy" was just used in a generic sense[1].

[1] http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/generic-s...
btw- just to be clear, I think that Africa deserves a lot more aid that it is getting, and the the U.S. has a lot of areas that could use more money- one of our largest cities, Detroit, just went bankrupt. And with atheism spreading through government, entertainment, and media support, the money given by the world's largest charity, the Catholic church, has started to go down because fewer are giving, which will affect the entire world. We definitely don't need to stop giving. We need to start giving. But the progressive, statist agenda in the U.S. unintentionally adds layers and layers of bureaucracy that poorly administer this money. I would be in favor of putting more money towards U.S. teachers (which should not be tenured but should be higher paid) and education in-general, and even smart housing programs that don't colocate the poor, but not welfare.
There was a similar thing in Japan with the kompu gacha ban a year or two ago, but the companies have just found ways around it and are thriving the same as ever.
Why so insulting? Is there a way to flag a comment, or I need more karma on this account?
Agreed, there are much better reasons for doing so.
What a great way to raise awareness and to motivate young people to take an interest in their network technology and privacy!
Apparently the Fuse-based driver hasn't got very good performance and is not quite production quality yet (according to the Phoronix article).

In addition, the person who put the leaked driver on GitHub seems to have a negative opinion on Fuse (in some of the forum threads where he's ranting), which does not seem to be based on facts.
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