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Release me from my prison and I won't bind you to templeOS.

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A New Touch for iPhone
Apple has $140B of cash/near-cash. It just get's bucketed as long term investments because of GAAP rules.
Don't they claim that the linking rule works via derivation?

Yes.. it was the closest thing I could think of where the two pieces of software are fairly separated. I mean you could have a huge proprietary program, and a developer calls gsl_pow_int() from the GNU scientific library, and the entire program must be licensed under the GPL.

I think that's about as close as you're going to get.

If you're looking for a case where the FSF said a piece of software had to be licensed under the GPL, even though it was NOT a derivative work, I don't think you'll find it. The reason it must be a derivative is copyright law.. the GPL can't unilaterally change that.
In the cases where I got old games to play in windows 7 when they were having problems it had a lot to do with running them as administrator. Which is a shame, as I bet many of the multiplayer games are riddled with security exploits.
...warmed my cockles.

Pray tell, kind sir, from which corner of our good planet does the phrase "warmed my cockles" hail?
I meant the Prolog-like inference where MonadWriter w m implies Monoid w.
it already happens. Drug laws, etc. I'm sorry, but you have your causality backwards. Official (or unofficial) selective enforcement of the laws is a symptom of questionable laws, not a cause.
Luxury Prisons are the Best for Society?
Parbuckle Salvage
A partnership between gog.com and valve could really, really be something special here.
are we not worried that RICO was effectively the template for PATRIOT ACT?
This is why social discovery doesn't work the way it is right now. How to make it work?

1. Solve a problem to be a pain killer

2. Leverage an existing community to reduce critical mass and make your users fall in love with your app

3. Lazzer focus
"Games are also universal. Girls and boys, young and old, physically fit and physically infirm, poor and rich: pretty much everyone can enjoy a game.[1] It is a form of entertainment that is capable of demanding zero to full emotional, financial and intellectual engagement."

Really well put. My wife and I play FPS's as a way to chill out at night. Despite being violent, fast paced and the lobbies are typically full of boys, my wife loves it. As a result we purchased a 1ms response monitor, Scuf controller and new Billion (Broadcom chipset) fiber-ready modem so that we could play more competitively (financial-intellectual-engagement).

Anecdotally, we've both noticed our reflexes to real-world things such as driving, traversing busy sidewalks, making quick decisions, catching objects etc has improved. I guess when the difference between dead or alive is seeing something, forming a strategy of engagement, and pressing a combination of buttons while manoeuvering - all in the space of a second - helps you process unforeseen events a little quicker.
He was most certainly not "doomed to be caught" in his lifetime. As you say, he's probably been crooked his entire working life, yet enjoyed a very successful and lucrative career, and was busted only at the age of 70. Plenty of "lucky" criminals die of natural causes before being busted.
Cloward–Piven strategy
Why should it be rational? Who cares if you understand it or not? Frankly, no one has to.

Fact is people do end up feeling that way, and it costs sales. Worse still, it costs loyalty. So know it exists, the accept it as a reality to deal with.

Lastly, ever had a boy/girl friend who cheated? Were you still interested after the other person was dropped? Did all return to normal? Is that rational?

Some people are still human, with human emotions, and no, they are not rational.
Depends on the person. I love to exercise first thing as it carries me through my day; conversely, exercising too late in the evening means I have trouble sleeping, and historically I'm more likely to find an excuse if I'm already tired from a day's work. Gaming, on the other hand, is a perfect evening activity for me. It's certainly possible to have both.
> it is not about repairing damages. it is about the feeling that his/her actions had tangible, long lasting consequences.

How would that help me? Is there any evidence at all that this actually helps victims?

> i feel the big differentiator is if you yourself have ever been victim of a crime. once you have experienced the feeling of utter helplesness your perspective changes.

This is too easy a dismissal. Even if it does change your perspective, that does not determine whether or not harsher punishment of the criminal will help you - people often wish things that has different effect than they believe it will have. There is also to my knowledge little indication that e.g. most Norwegian victims of crime cry out for drastically harsher punishments, despite sentences that in the US would often be slammed as slaps on the wrist, so it is by no means given that victims of crime will feel an urge for harsh punishment; that seems to be more culturally specific.

> practically all young parents i know turned around their stance on punishment once they thought about someone maiming/hurting their kids.

I have a four year old son, and though the thought of anyone harming him is one of the worst things I could imagine, it has not changed my stance on punishment at all. I am sure I would feel an urge to kill someone who harmed him; at the same time I am very much aware how little my urges reflect my long term emotions, and how often they will temporarily be out of step with what I consider moral once I have had a chance to calm down.

There is a reason why we do not let the victims judge or sentence.
I also agree. I run a pretty heterogenous set of servers, mostly linux, with a single FreeBSD machine using ZFS with about 100TB on it, and I really like it. There's a lot of missing conveniences from Linux, but overall FreeBSD seems better thought out and orchestrated. It also has some really cool technologies that receive little fanfare, while newly arrived linux equivalents get hailed as the "next best thing™".
Think of jails as VMs without the overhead of having the same OS multiple times in memory. Similarly you can't use host's IP by any of the guests.

That said many people go around that by simply binding the jail against an unsused loopback address (127.0.0.0/8) and then use firewall such as pf to redirect specific ports to given jail, like here http://blog.burghardt.pl/2009/01/multiple-freebsd-jails-shar...
The Income Challenge for Medical Professionals – Part 1
Except that at least Diablo 1+2 were for everyone. I remember playing those for the story and the gameplay. The loot and levelling were a means to an end for me - finishing the game.

The whole repeating the game again on harder difficulties, requiring better loot and grinding was very much an added bonus.

Diablo 3 decided to throw those who were there for the gameplay and story out the window, and was purely targeted at the grind. I finished the game in 2 days and still had half my characters skills left to unlock. What kind of RPG is that?

The Action RPG genre used to be about more than JUST loot grinding. It used to be about so much more, that welcomed players who were looking for all sorts from the game. Some people liked fast twitchy action mechanics, some liked the RPG story elements, some liked endlessly tweaking character builds and some liked loot grinding. But Diablo 3 is almost entirely focused on the last, with little room for the rest.
It's also central to The Innovator's Dilemma.
Finding Significant Phrases in Tweets with NLTK
It exists and it's pretty good so far, but it's still far from the functionality and polish of ZFS.
Yeah great point. They are worried about the crap we wish didn't even come on the phones to begin with.
For what it's worth, as someone who does not unlock, I see this as potentially negative. Why? Because the so-called "Unlocking Technology Act", among other initiatives, has been using the clout of the unlocking issue to promote essentially a wholesale repeal of the DMCA anticircumvention, citing its interference with exploit-based software unlocks as a core justification. This recommendation would require carriers to provide unlocks themselves rather than making hackers do it, which would be much better for unlockers, but obviate the need for circumvention. Yet all the other other use cases harmed by anticircumvention would remain, many of which affect me personally (and probably many HN users), but which might not gather as broad public understanding and support as unlocking currently does.
I'm surprised that after learning all those lessons, he still writes: "We started Sonar with a belief that everyone has the potential to be amazing and that technology can unlock that potential." And doesn't take away any lesson from that.

Building your business on making everyone amazing through technology is a conceit. Most people I know have no desire to become "amazing." They want to make ends meet, they want to be good parents to their children, they want to make the world a little bit better. Being amazing is nowhere on their list of priorities.

Maybe he should focus on a start-up that solves problems people face in everyday life and do that with technology.
"...you might think that you have to spend months assembling a foundation in computer science before you can build a website of any sophistication. Not so! Web development and CS are different enough that you can start learning the former without having a strong base in the latter."

This is very true, and I'm gonna go a bit further based on my own experience: if you dream of being a coder, developer, or web designer, and you're starting or planning to start a Computer Science degree, you need to back up and reconsider. I can't speak for all degree programs, but I spent years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars getting a CS degree that was practically worthless for doing what I wanted to do with my life. By the end of it, I knew a lot of interesting theory--some fascinating details about electrical engineering, compiler and processor design, algorithmic complexity, and so forth--and I couldn't begin to design the most basic web or desktop application.

My most successful classmates used the degree program as an opportunity to meet and network with like-minded people and learned marketable skills on their own time. I'd've done the same if I'd known I needed to. Instead I trusted my advisors, did the homework, and spent my spare time on other things. I was lucky enough to get hired by a small and desperate local startup, pick up the basics by trial and error, and go on to a decent career, but not everyone is so lucky. There's a reason that Slashdot keeps coming up with new variations on "why are there so many straight-A CS students who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag?"

Edsger Djikstra is famously misquoted as saying "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." It sounds nice and profound until you realize there are hundreds of thousands of aspiring telescope designers being told to get an astronomy degree and then not understanding why, four years later, they don't know a damn thing about building telescopes.
Yeah, I'm always skeptical about how much information those kinds of visualizations really reveal. How much of the pattern is truly present in the data vs. a result of making it pretty? Is it possible to gain insight that wouldn't already be just as easy to see by looking at the data in a simpler way?
The iPhone 5s Review
Apple also has $15B of MBS (mortgage backed securities) on its books. Near cash it is not. GAAP is correct.
New Google logo
>> When you're targeted by a patent troll, the rational thing to do is to capitulate. Defending a patent infringement lawsuit can cost millions of dollars, and trolls carefully calibrate their settlement demands so that it will always cost more to fight than to settle.

This is the crux of the problem. We need to make things such that this is no longer true. In practice, given the cost of legal fees in the real world, I see no other way than banning software and process patents in their entirety - and retroactively.

There may be those who argue the line between those kinds of patents and others is somewhat gray. If that argument holds, I'd be in favoring of scrapping the entire patent process rather than conceding.
I agree with you, but the energy example is flawed in that it assumes we will find alternatives that aren't very expensive. We won't run out of oil, but we may very likely run out of cheap energy.
Talk about over analyzing something to death.
The GPL can't extend copyright law, but it can refuse to let you distribute.

It's possible to make a license that would say "can't be distributed with other software that does X".

But good, I'm glad there's nothing like that in the licenses here that I missed. Just the normal derivation-based questions.
How often do you need one of those auto-ma-whatsits anyway? They're really only good for a few blocks of downtown where the streets are flat cobblestone. They're useless on most trails. Just get a higher resolution horse and be happy with it.
For reference, the current logo being served is hosted here:
https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png
I think they'll need to work on their definition and enforcement actions if this is to become a reality.

Verizon are already supposed to unlock their LTE devices in exchange for the use of their LTE bands, but many Verizon LTE devices are crippled in software when unlocked (with the notable exception of iPhones where Apple control the software).

As an example, the Verizon HTC 8X does not allow the user to alter the MMS gateway or roaming options and Verizon Samsung Galaxy phones used to need to be rooted to change the APN for data.

Sadly the mobile phone market is enough of a cabal at this point that more and more specific regulation might be the only way to make competitive consumer-friendly measures like this work.
Ask HN: board control after series A?
See http://paulgraham.com/control.html, from 2010

How common is it now (3 years later) for founders to keep control of their company (of their board) after a series A?
The anticircumvention requirement is one of the worst parts of the DMCA. If that was repealed as a result of this, I'd be thrilled.

Can you elaborate on how this eviscerates anticircumvention?
Requiring hackers relegates it to niche market and means most of the consumer benefits are lost.
StayFocusd
You might even say this field is ripe for... "disruption"?
Declaring patent trolls to be terrorists and sending them to Gitmo or someplace like that to be tortured until they confess to whatever we want them to confess to would also work, I suppose. It surprises me the reporter didn't mention that option.
"When everyone wants you, it's hard not to let it go to your head. Especially if till recently no one wanted you. But restrain yourself."

Reminds me of a great quote from a family member. When my cousin's son started playing football, my cousin told him "the first time you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before".
http://citynethost.com/vps.asp

They used to be a lot cheaper. I got mine for $2.50 off a lowendbox.com sale. It has not been super reliable through the turmoil in the region, so there were a few days of downtime for the VPS and the control panel/website. In other words don't rely on it to be your single point of failure, but for me it has worked well as a secondary machine.
"How not to have to raise money" should have been more useful to startups. Unfortunately, many have been conditioned into thinking that success can't be achieved without fundraising.
Hmm, the C code and C++ code aren't even solving the same problem, and they aren't using the same data structures. C++ uses inheritance while C uses a union, for no good reason. What in C++ is struct A : B { } is in C struct A { struct B b; }, not some weird union. Of course unions are not type safe.

And in practice, you can come close to the template solution with a macro for the loop. Sure, it will be a little more explicit about which functions are being called, but that's not a bad thing in my book. And, as with the C++, you'll have to build up the equivalent scaffolding and associated code, which I notice is conveniently left out of the C++ examples.h
Because rehabilitation is a very nebulous concept. Does it mean having employable skills? Being nice to a parole board? Being apologetic? The reason many in the US are very skeptical about rehabilitation is because there's not a strong link between rehabilitation efforts and recidivism rates. There are far too many factors involved than whether the prisoner was treated "well" while incarcerated.

And if "rehabilitation" is all that's required for freedom, it shows a disconcerting lack of value for the victims of crime.
Why not just define that the phone must allow the user to change provider settings that might otherwise be specific to one carrier?
Maybe it is just my circle of friends, but people seem to be gaining some immunity from media attempts to create a craze.

I would bet the headlines and maybe a politician or two would yell it, but I would also guess that the overall reaction would be much more reasonable.
> There probably is a way to "monetize" the Diablo community more successfully

I think this is a solved problem: Player contributed Hats.
Web scrapers (there's a lot of them, SeoMoz is even one of them) is a pretty big market for that kind of stuff.
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that this country should be run for the benefit of the people who already live here as well as their posterity. That's just crazy, as all enlightened thinkers know.
I love the sentiment that Bezos expressed through this quote, and I sincerely hope to apply his advice to my career.

Having said that, this long-term way of thinking about happiness and regrets may conflict with human nature. The vast majority of us are incapable of predicting what will - or will not - make us happy:

http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2008/04/22/happiness-pr...
I disagree with respect to causality. If selective enforcement were not possible, then it couldn't happen. Imagine a (flawed, but fair) system in which, if an executive selectively failed to prosecute anyone for violating a law, then the law is nullified, just as (approximately) in the arena of trademark. An executive bound to enforce the law would result in more citizen/legislative/lobbying effort directed toward implementing better laws and fixing those that were broken or out of date.

In practice, executive (and judicial (and in general!)) discretion is important. As an example, mandatory minimum sentencing has attracted criticism. An adaptive front-line response is a good thing, but only to a point. Leaving vague or unenforced laws on the books has the potential for both abuse and compassion (see national monuments and the Antiquities act, for a non-judicial example).
The Scala and Haskell type systems are incomparable, and the typeclass aspects that are most relevant to monad usability are doable with implicits.
I dabbled in ZFS on FreeBSD + OpenSolaris 3 years back. It was nice and all, but it hasn't been worth the overhead of running another OS to get its features since. I'm therefore glad to see some unity in the ZFS community to create more trust around its use in Linux, and proud to see my beloved Gentoo in the list of standard-bearers! Bring on the unrivalled pragmatism. Quack quack.

Observation: Gentoo packages still point to http://zfsonlinux.org/ not to http://open-zfs.org/ .. is this the same code? I suppose so.

Further observation: The kernel code looks like, as packaged by Gentoo, it can only be compiled as a module. Generally I disable LKMs on production systems. Grumble.
the psychological obstacles to self-driving cars, people need to gradually get used to the idea or else it will just be met with fear

I'm sure the NSA is working on something right now...
Take Time Off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_filesystems#Feat...
single digit percentages of a given population being deterred is not something to be taken lightly; a penal aspect is both an extant and an historical imperative.
I think the RAIDZ is also less susceptible to data loss due to the RAID layer and the filesystem being tightly integrated.
What my comment says is that this (the NTIA recommendation that is the subject of the article) might obviate part of the impetus for a pre-existing initiative (http://fixthedmca.org/unlocking-technology-act.html) that would essentially repeal anticircumvention, and thus could be a bad thing.

Edit: If you want to know what the Unlocking Technology Act would do, see http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/1892/text, it's pretty short.
Everytime I think about using instacart I see the prices are all significantly higher than me schlepping my butt down to whole foods / berkeley bowl and I don't see it as worth it.
Yes, you are right.. I didn't think of that case.. They cover this question in the FSF GPL faq:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

And they do have a requirement if you do so: The only condition is that you cannot release the aggregate under a license that prohibits users from exercising rights that each program's individual license would grant them.
Review: iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s
Your rights when flying with a laptop
I thought they had their own equipment colocated at tsmc, or somewhere. This is based on their earnings call last winter, but my mind is fuzzy.
Having a harsh boss
At the age of 32, I finally get sports, thanks to Dota 2
Vupen Contracts with NSA
Intriguing title.
Well, it's like fork but it's the other way. After Oracle bought Sun, other projects that adopted ZFS continued fixing it and adding new features.

So FreeBSD has its version, Illumnos (fork of Solaris) has it own, Delphix own and so on. Those projects were using patches from each other but managing all of that became problematic.

So they basically designated one central place to do ZFS development from which all of the projects will use.

So now instead of many ZFS forks there just two:
- Oracle - which is now closed source
- Open-ZFS - which will be now the official open source ZFS that all Open Source systems will use.

Unfortunately it will still be CDDL, since no one in that project has power to do it. This would require Oracle and all contributors to allow for changing the license.