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A quite irrelevant statement. If you pick BSD, you get its set of restrictions and political baggage.

However, you are quite wrong about Eclipse plug-ins, and I suggest that one reads the eclipse legal FAQ before going at the license flame war.

For clarity, merely interfacing or interoperating with
Eclipse plug-in APIs (without modification) does not make
an Eclipse plug-in a derivative work.

- http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php

Making a Eclipse plug-ins does not make it a derivative of Eclipse. As such, you can have any license on the plug-in. Any. Only derivative works of eclipse will have to be under the Eclipse license, and only in those cases will the work license be incompatible with GPL (since both licenses has their unique requirements).

A less protective license such as BSD might allow for different use cases than GPL, but some users of that BSD work will be faced with the fact that they are going to get sued if they try to modify or share the program. Be that because of the person who happened to distribute it, or patents, or DRM. The greater freedom you are talking about is then the "freedom" to get sued for doing hacker-worthy programming.
Hmmm, that is definitely a part of the mystery.

According to their annual reports, Chase, Bank of America, Citicorp, and Wells Fargo had a combined $15.3 billion in card services revenue/card fees.

If you add that to the $7.4 billion in revenue from Mastercard, $10.4 billion in revenue from Visa, and $27 billion in non-interest revenue from American Express (of which $17 billion was "discount fees", which I think means cash-back), you're up to $60 billion dollars.

I feel comfortable going from $60 billion to $100 billion just extrapolating from the top companies to the rest of the industry.

Any guesses on where the extra $400 billion is going?
Traveling home from upstate NY, I've been stopped (having never left the USA) at a border patrol checkpoint well inside NY, we were within 100 miles of Canada.

They didn't ask to check my laptop or anything, but did want ID etc.

Can't talk to the legality of it all but they do exist.
Now that I noticed, Frapuccino is the only menu entry with a (R) mark beside it http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks

I have to check next time I'm in a store
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Only if you don't pronounce the "h", which is pretty nonstandard.
If you are concerned with that then you should be just as concerned that the USG was providing arms to Syrian "rebels" and weapons to Mexican drug cartels in only the most recent examples of supportin terrorism.

The USG is basically a terrorist incubation machine.
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It isn't "bullshit" to complain about something unethical. I feel that it's this type of thinking ("because I can and it's legal and it doesn't matter that it's wrong") that's the cause of a lot of the world's problems: from patent trolling lobbying for corporate welfare, to even more mundane stuff like spam and crapware from installers. When people start thinking that this is acceptable, it's not too far from thinking "because I can totally get away with it, there's nothing wrong with not doing it regardless of the ethics and legality" leading to even worse shit like selling fake food or dumping pollutants and waste into rivers.
This is the second C&D story on the HN front page in so many days. In both instances the recipient of the letter conceded.

If this ever happens to you, at least avail yourself to a free consultation with an attorney. In this instance the Brewer would likely have prevailed.

As a lawyer, the first thing I did was go to the USPTO trademark database and search for each of the registered marks listed in the C&D. The key here is none of Starbucks Frapucinno registered marks are registered for beer specifically rather non-carbonated soft-drinks. What does this mean? This means the burden shifts from a presumption of Trademark violation by the Brewer back to Starbucks to prove they 1. have a valid Trademark for Frapucinno vis-a-vis beer, and 2. Once a Trademark is established for beer, Starbucks must establish there is likelihood of confusion in the market place (e.g. people are buying the misspelled Frapicino under the belief they are buying an actual Starbucks product).

The funny part is the misspelling, intentional or not, creates a difficult burden on Starbucks to prove the reasonable consumer would believe a legit Starbucks product is spelled wrong - think Fony/Coby/Sony electronics.

I myself once received a C&D for Trademark infringement for V-Blood, a vampire themed energy drink I manufactured and distributed. The registered Trademark owner of Blood asked I stop using the mark blood in commerce with my vampire themed energy drink, perhaps I will post that C&D and my response on HN one day. Needless to say I did not stop my use of blood nor was a lawsuit ever filed.
There's nothing on the Kickstarter page that appears to imply a return policy. I'd say if someone sends you some hardware in this early stage of a company, then it's a reasonable assumption you would get to keep it. Whether keeping it is the right thing to do or not is another matter entirely. Startups.

Ideally, you shouldn't change the rules after engaging with someone who pays you money. If the company is making a bunch of rationalizations about it with you, you may want to point out to them how frustrated you are with the process and hope they hear you. I really can't tell if that is the case here or not as you haven't posted the correspondence!
Has Your Snapchat info been leaked?
At what point in these ventures do you try to get funding? It seems much harder to bootstrap than a software startup because you can't expand easily to demand. At the same time, I doubt anyone would give you money without a prototype, and prototypes are expensive...
I'll be shocked if someone doesn't make a similar looking case for a stack of HDs.
> The hysteria since and "hollowing out of our democracy" is the goal of a terrorist.

Exactly! "we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms" - George W. Bush (9/12/01)

It's a pity he (and/or Obama) didn't actually follow through with that promise.
* Battery tech makes a leap forward - on the consumer level not academic.

* Google Glass goes nowhere. Makes for very interesting case study though - much is learned.

* Apple faces an uphill battle on all fronts. Manages to hold its ground well.

* US keeps pushing the copyright angle hard. Zero real world effect - pirates keep on happily pushing bits and bytes around the world.

* Startups in northern Europe soars. Not UK. Probably Germany - as rdl said in his prediction.

* Germany continues to kick ass on the economy side. Spain / Italy / Greece still in trouble. Tension within EU as a result.

* Elon continues to kick ass - at least on the Tesla front

* Startup scene becomes (more) overcrowded. Even the people with good products struggle to get noticed.

* Steambox takes off. xbone loses out to PS4 by a sizable margin.

* Win 8 adoption picks up significantly at home. Zero corporate interest though.

* The year of the Linux desktop doesn't happen. nix dominates everywhere else though (server, tablets, home entertainment etc)

* The hits keep coming for the USA - whistleblowers, NSA etc. Real world financial consequences - but only noticed by the tech crowd.

* More people start using VPNs. Internet security expenses become a must for the tech crowd (i.e. in addition to paying for internet).

* UK economy wobbles significantly. If the wobble is anywhere near their housing market then things could get shaky world wide.

* At least one serious flash crash / HFT drama of sorts. Widespread acknowledgement that its dangerous. Nothing happens to curb it due to powerful players protecting status quo.

* Military drone tech keeps soaring. US starts doubting their big budget manned fighter programs. China drone tech makes more progress than expected - USA caught off guard.

* Renewable energy takes off. Drama because the grid & energy sector just isn't ready for the distortions it causes.

* Epidemic of some kind comes from India. Everyone realizes global coordination is inadequate & medical sector panics about drug resistance.

* Fukushima keeps being a problem. Japan mans up and asks Russia & USA for serious help (i.e. not gestures) - only 3 years late.
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Thank you. This is good to know. I was rather frustrated to find binary data handling being changed with no easy translation in Python 3.

Here is another annoyance:

In [207]: 'abc'[0] + 'def'
Out[207]: 'adef'

In [208]: b'abc'[0] + b'def'
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-208-458c625ec231> in <module>()
----> 1 b'abc'[0] + b'def'

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'bytes'
It's funny how most PC review sites get into trouble for allegedly fawning over apple hardware once they start reviewing it regularly. I wonder why that might be?
So if your username is the same on both, there's no downside, and pug upside!
Your traceroute doesn't show that you're behind a cache, just that your ISP uses transtelco.net for IP transit; at least to the destinations you tried.
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A Nodejs-based app for playing local videos in-sync, in the browser. Dedicated to my fiance, for watching movies and tv-series with her. ;)
I didn't post the correspondence because it's extremely long. I've been back and forth with them over 13 very long emails. My prodding them for some evidence that what they're saying lines up with reality, and them rationalizing it without providing any evidence. I really wanted to work this out with their customer service, but instead, they dug in their heels and made the situation worse.

I waited a while after my last round of questions before writing this up. It was pretty clear that they had no intention of responding, or at least not within their own deadline.
This looks awesome, if I had more free time and I was more capable I would apply. Good luck!
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PVM0SXo...
Deep learning, as in "series of individually trained autoencoders"? It's a quite specific learning technique. Even if it's currently trendy, there is no particular evidence that any part of the brain works like that. Sure, you can always forget as many details as you need and come back to the basics and say "it's all Hebbian learning anyway, QED", but that's not deep learning anymore.
Twenty years ago I was a libertarian. I thought the system could be reformed.

One does not imply the other.

The system is not fixable because it is not broken. It is working

I think this is the thing that most people miss. It's not that the system is malfunctioning in terms of being self-inconsistent. It's working perfectly fine. So when people defend the various governmental abuses in the U.S. by saying "but we've decided that this is legal" they're right: we have decided that. And those things shouldn't be legal. So the system is being perfectly self-consistent. It just doesn't address the needs of the governed effectively anymore.

Governments, like every other manmade system involving people from development teams to civic groups, need to be refactored on a regular basis. There has to be some self-correction mechanism built-in, because the participants will actively game the system in hopes of gaining a slight advantage.

All we're really seeing is hundreds of years of this at work. Various participants have gamed the system to the degree that it's obviously way out of whack from where it started, even though many of the participants refuse to see it.

No need to burn it down. Politely supporting reforms in the primary process and 2-party-lock would probably do wonders in the U.S. There are lots of options open aside from the flame thrower. The important thing to remember is that the parts needing fixing are the auto-correcting parts, not all the other stuff like the high-court, low-court stuff. Focusing on that stuff is only a distraction -- and only serves to keep true reform from happening because it diverts needed reform energy elsewhere.

Having said that, the things that this author lists (and others) sure fret the hell out of me most days.
That's not true. The USG tried to make this case in the 70s and was rejected at SCOTUS. I believe the confusion here is between the notion of a 100 mile wide Constitution-free stripe of the country (which does not exist) and the presence of specific, preordained customs checkpoints fixed within 100 miles of a border (which do).

From 'rayiner's post, here's the 3-part test suggested by CRS:

* You have to recently have crossed the actual border

* "an agent should know that the object of a search hasn’t changed"

* Reasonable suspicion must exist

The first bullet here torpedoes the idea of a "100 mile wide Constitution free zone". But: that's also just CRS's interpretation; CRS is simply a Congressionally-funded think-tank. Without digging up the SCOTUS cite, I'll suggest that the judicial branch restrictions on these searches are even more severe.

One way to think of the "100 mile" concept is that the USG probably has the authority to put a border control check that would have applied to someone crossing the border anyways as many as 100 miles from the border, rather than at the border itself.
Is the "Error establishing a database connection" message that's currently showing an actual error message? Or is it just a play on the "Burn the Fucking System to the Ground" theme in the supposed article's title?
If popehat.com is still down, I was able to find it re-posted on this site: http://www.occupylv.org/blogs/burn-fucking-system-ground
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Why this this being reposted yet again? Let's give this story a rest.
I have no idea what went on behind the scenes, but you could just as well say that Newscorp borrowed Walt and Kara's personalities until they didn't need them anymore, after which they redirect to a new URL and continue on their own.
I agree with you. On top of that, the response wasn't even that well written, and the fact that the business owner somehow thought he was entitled to use a Starbucks trademark just because he was too small a fish to fry is rather ridiculous.
Burning the system to the ground is not very constructive (duh). In fact, this article - well, it's not clear what it advocates, but it sounds like it advocates some kind of violent "line the bastards against a wall and shoot them" revolution or civil war.

The "system" certainly is corrupt and flawed (particularly in the US), but I'll pick this flawed system any day if given the choice between it and a bloody revolution with millions of dead and wealth destruction on a gigantic scale.
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What you are looking for is imap(). In Python 2 there are entire collection of iterator variants. You can choose to use either the list or the iterator variants.

The problem with Python 3 is the list version is removed. You are forced to use iterator all the time. Things become inconvenient and ugly as a result. Bugs are regularly introduced because I forget to apply list().

>>> "".join(map(lambda byte: chr(byte), b'abc'))

Compares to ''.join('abc'), this is what I call fuck'd. Luckily maxerickson suggested a better method.
There are at least 11 definitions of terrorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorisma
Yes, but it has six external PCIe plugs (in the form of thunderbolt) to which you can hook up whatever you damn well please.

I really don't understand the importance of the distinction between internal and external. It's sitting on your desk for pete's sake, just plug stuff in.
The contact pages are now fixed. I'll be adding a link to instructions for download/trial of sandman. For now, you can use the Python installer, "pip", to install it via: "pip install sandman"
My comment wasn't specifically about Google or webmail. That was simply an example. It's the principle of trading private information to another service in return for something that doesn't scale. Whether it's software, network infrastructure, web apps, etc -- the specific type of trade or vendor involved is not the point.
>"The more scarce a supply (e.g., your equity in a hot new patented technology business), the higher the demand"

Ooof. That's not any economics I've heard of.
Seems like a hassle. TimeMachine does an otherwise satisfactory job and is much less manual, which is the important part for 90% of users.
Overlapping heredocs
Looking at Google scholar results might be interesting:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computergra...
VVVV ¦ A D3.js based Visual Programming Language
There are two things a currency needs - wide acceptance and store of value. Your point about agreement can solve acceptance, maybe, if there is enough impetus to switch (like a failing dollar).

However as it store of value it fails because people holding currency do not want volatility. Dollars are created in response to increase in goods; bitcoins are created by algorithmic mining. There is a disconnect in creation vs. supply of real goods, therefore the value of bitcoin will fluctuate more. You might say that bitcoin's positive value increase bias makes people desire it over dollars, but that would cause people to hoard bitcoins only to dump and crash the market.

Now, you can adjust bitcoin by CPI, but then you'd just transform bitcoin into a system just like other currencies, along with entrusting a central banker and other problems.

The transactional advantage seems nice, but there is no reason a system can't be set up for dollars either.

I'm not going to say it's never going to happen, but it seems unneeded at this point.
What i meant there is democrats are a lock to win both the house and maintain the senate, provided Obamacare ends up being accepted by the public.
Not necessarily. If this guy wrote bad checks, he may well be given an option to make good on it to have his sentence reduced or removed.

A similar thing happened to a guy who scammed me and others. One of the guys who was scammed went to the local cops who took out a warrant. The guy who scammed us was arrested and released almost immediately. He paid the guy through the court and his attorney. I still remain unpaid...and I didn't go to the cops(mostly because nyc cops didn't care much about the case speaking to them on the phone). You can read more here if you're curious: http://cliffkaplanfraud.com/
Well, you can just tell them that it's not connected to your email, which would be the truth.
If you start selling a pasta dish called Coca-Cola, does the same logic apply?
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I couldn't work out on your site if these are Perm roles or Contract, specifically the Tech PM one?
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I would comment on this, but I am afraid it would be brought up by a TSA agent when trying to enter the US.
What I like about a good window is its ability to let in light without also letting in the air, as I've observed that outside air tends to be rather colder (or hotter) than my preference.

Cool science, though. If they can build these cheaply and preferably thin, it might be good for inside the house. Or in the paper-thin apartment walls, and maybe along with some much-needed thermal insulation while they are in the wall anyway.