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Thanks for replying, but it seems to me that under AGPL you relinquish full control of the distribution of the source, which is different than having partial control of the operation of your own server. I'm not disagreeing with you as of this moment as I don't think I have an innate understanding of the issue.

May I draw your attention to a quote from the webpage in question:

"If some program on this server is released under the GNU Affero GPL, the server is required to offer the users the corresponding source of that program. That is good, but having this source code does not give them control over the computing done on that server. It also does not tell them what other software may be running on that server, examining or changing their data in other ways."
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Does this evidence really show that expensive weddings decrease divorces, or could it be that expensive weddings signal marriages that are less likely to end in divorce?

Consider:

Parent of the Bride or Groom: "I really like [whoever] and think they are great for you; let me pay for your fancy wedding."

Parent of the Bride or Groom: "I really think that [whoever] is sketchy and is wrong for you; this marriage will not last, pay for it yourself."

Or potentially even:

"We are two young successful people in love, lets get married."

"We are two young impoverished people in love. Let's get married, but since money is a source of constant stress and anxiety for us, let's keep it cheap."

Either way you slice it, divorce rates are high so if a divorce is an idea that concerns you, you should probably not get married.
>...Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Dune, Foundation series by Asimov...

It's the most influential books ever written, not a list of books the HN crowd is most likely to have read. I think there's an argument for HG wells, but Dune? really?
Very neat, thanks for the tip.
There is a time and place for everything and he clearly seems to be enjoying himself. I would not be surprised if half of these guys didn’t want to be there and wanted to join the people. So given the fact that he is clearly having a good time during all of this – yes I hope it is him vs. someone who is just there cause it’s their job.
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I love how you told everyone what a wonderful and caring person you are. And then slammed engineers. Well played.

Next time I'd advise telling your story and avoid the temptation to smear an entire profession.
Your argument is based on the idea that people make rational decisions.
This is a bit off topic but I created a tool a little while back for my specific (very basic) needs: https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash

Demo here: http://afaq.dreamhosters.com/linux-dash/

Easily extensible if anyone wants to use it.
> Taken to the extreme, 100% GPL software, from what would software developers live from?

From people who pay them to develop software that they need? Last time I saw statistics on the subject, developers paid to code for internal use was still more common that developers working on software meant for the public.

But lets disregard that, and only look on the proprietary model. You trade software for money, and then you threaten them with lawsuit and jail if the customer share or modify the work.

Can we have a software industry without the threat of lawsuit hanging above every customers head?
So back it up in the cloud - confiscating the hardware would mean nothing. Maybe the guy should have paid someone to help him install the system...
"Well organised protesters have blocked buses[...]"

Bet they've been using Google Drive to organise.
I'm guessing this is one of those legendary examples where startups consisting of young urban professionals only know of, and only attempt to solve young urban professional problems. In SV, or maybe Manhattan, or Mt View, that anecdote is probably true, but in the rest of the country the situation is a rounding error.
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Another problem is that the GPL is quite easy to circunvent (that's why the cloud is big), but Affero is a horribly restrictive, and quite probably illegal in nearly the entire world (copyright laws are very similar).

You know, I'm under the impression that nearly all of the current problems would simply go away if copyrights duration was reduced to a sane amount. But one of those problems is that there is a set of incompetent people with way more power than they deserve, and those people won't help fix it.
The comments on that article are definitely worth reading.
Almost no developer works on shrinkwrapped software sold as proprietary. Such developers are a tiny minority.
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Texas has prisons out in the dusty plains, where prisoners are not bound nor fenced. Its the distance that makes it a prison.

So in this way a very remote campus IS a prison - you have no practical choice but to exist in that ecosystem.
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from the article's first comment:

"On the other hand, Stallman's goals (having the best compiler technology be foverer a copylefted one) is perhaps achievable by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang relicensed to GPLv3 with continuous merging of Apple's work, and make that fork far superior to Apple's version."

I assume this person means the changes would be licensed as GPLv3 because you cannot just go and relicense someone else's code without the copyright holder's permission.

Calling it "Apple's version" might be a tad bit offensive to the other companies working on LLVM / clang.
If you take the terms technically, it is private mass-transit. However, considering its function, it does cut directly into the market for public transport (that already is difficult in many US cities due to lower density and more car-use). The terms don't matter that much (except for politically perhaps).

As for solving traffic problems, they don't necessarily do this more so than public transport would, if Googlers took that.

I think the issue is more that MUNI might have to think about introducing first-class busses, or first-class sections, or something like that. Because many people don't like sharing a bus bench with smelly (homeless) people.
And he meant to say that the other country looks like heaven from his perspective.

People you call poor and downtrodden are pretty well of by Eastern European standards.
I have become better at executing on projects by spending a lot more time thinking through the execution of potential projects instead of actually executing on them.

I ask myself things like what kind of technologies or 3rd party libraries I might want to use, what the data model would look like, and how many REST endpoints I would need, and how difficult it would be to find a nice UX abstraction for what I want to build.

This allows me to better evaluate how long it would take to finish and to evaluate the complexity and perhaps pick a better project to tackle in a short amount of time. Most projects that I have started will take between 1-3 months from start to finish (in my spare time).

Before, I was never able to finish anything and I have a project folder that I worked up over the last 8 years that has probably 15 half finished projects that I never got a chance to complete. Heh and lets not talk about all the domains I have bought through the years for ideas that never went anywhere. I suppose I've been practicing idea squatting.
I think this post is really good for what you want to accomplish http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly...
Exactly. A PCI(e) device needs to ask things of the kernel for it to initialize. Until it gets that info, it's just a motherboard warmer.
Wonders of propaganda.
I think you already recognise that this anecdote is difficult or impossible to measure, but let's try e.g. http://www.immigrationboards.com/ireland/large-number-of-sha...

Here is a politician admitting that 3% of Irish marriages are 'sham':
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0728/465110-sham-marriages/

Edited to clarify: Not a majority, but 'sham' is a far stronger condition than what I'm talking about. This represents evidence that people are motivated to get married for residency: but the type of marriage I am talking about is not counted in these stats (those where marriage papers are motivated by a genuine goal to live in the same country as your partner).
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The biggest problem (possibly the only problem, but still a severe one) with Stallman's views on software copyright licensing is that he seems either unaware of, or unwilling to accept, broader social, economic and political issues of our civilization. Software and processes around it, like any other product of human social production, doesn't and can't exist in a social vacuum. It's nice to be focused on a specific social issue, but when your work scales to a certain level it becomes impossible to consider it in isolation. Reading the comments on that article made me glad to see an LLVM developer who chimed in (silvas) understands this perfectly and he articulated it quite well:

We don't do everything in public purely because of internal constraints of the companies that we work for and those won't go away without significant societal changes (i.e., the necessary changes vastly transcend the developers' own attitudes on the issue: we're talking changes at the levels of entire business models).

[...]

> What about iPhone platform support?

I assume you mean that the platform is locked down?

Well, that's their platform. They make the rules for who gets to compile for it. Now, you may say "well, they shouldn't restrict who gets to compile for their platform!" and that's fine, but it's a different issue, one which goes to the core of Apple's business model and the society that enables it and the individuals that make up that society. Even if LLVM/Clang were to magically become GPL'd tomorrow, the platform would still be locked down.

[...]

It's myopic to think that the software is somehow the key factor here: the assault on freedom in this situation is the incentive to keep it proprietary, and that is a much larger issue. There is a similar assault on freedom from the fact that their hardware designs are proprietary as well, and the incentives are similar.

[...]

In my experience, Stallman's view is extremely myopic because the real impediments to free software are larger societal issues[1]. Within the hacker community these issues don't really exist (Eric Raymond's essays cover this well), and so the default is that code is free software (four freedoms), but the other 99.99% of society is still stuck with archaic principles, and any time that a hacker's paycheck comes from "the rest of society", they are subject to a world where these issues exist.

[1] The GPLv3 "anti-Tivo-ization" wording is a perfect example that shows that confining your view just to software is myopic. Why shouldn't we want the entire device and all its chips to be free also? Why shouldn't the company's internal discussions be done in public? The answer to these questions is the same as the answer to "why does non-free software exist?".
> I'm not sure why that use-case wasn't included in the original GPL, come to think of it. My guess is just that it wasn't in practice possible to do what Stallman objected to at a large scale, given technology of the day.

Stallman isn't exactly known for letting practicality and feasibility compromise his ideals. Given that, as you said, the usecase was widespread when the FSF was founded, I consider it much more likely that he considered this case and didn't include it on purpose.

However, if you or anyone else has a good (older) quote from RMS on whether he considers it evil to connect your free browser to a proprietary HTTP server, I'd be very interested to see it.

The only thing I could find (actually rather recent, 2010's The JavaScript Trap [1]) only argues that a free browser shouldn't run proprietary JavaScript on your own computer, because that would violate your software freedom. It says nothing to suggest that the HTTP download of data from a proprietary server is considered a problem.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
New Relic is great for application monitoring, but the systems monitoring is kind of meh.

And I've been getting way too may false positives on the systems alerts.

If you only want systems monitoring and not deep application performance insight, New Relic is way too pricey and not really that good.
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Yeah, it seems a bit rushed. The "thou" was consistently used at least, but all these things distracted me from really reading the last third.
No, C is perfectly capable of OOP. I can't think of a general purpose language that inherently isn't.
Really cool drag&drop tool to make music/loops
>If offices were built closer to the city, they could be smaller but I'm fairly convinced most people would consider it an upgrade to quality of life in general.

What is this 'solution' solving exactly? These protests are targeting tech workers and tech companies because tech workers want to live in San Fran and thereby drive up the price of housing. How would that change if Google had offices in San Fran?!
Really cool! A pity that I live in Spain. I guess it is just the same price sending as actual buying those tshirts in the states.
As a matter of fact, I am from Italy :)
So what? Being a standard connector made it easy to repair the connector. What more would you want? Implement the ADB ASIC? Why on earth would you have done that instead of licensing from Apple?
It tends to be difficult to get people to spend money without something in return.
As of 2000, the Married Couple's Tax Allowance in the UK only applies if one of the spouses were born before April 6th 1935.
Sounds controlling. Who is the doctor to 'let him live his life' at all? The doctor is there to work on the disease. The life part belongs to the patient.

Maybe the issue discussed here is with the doctor entirely - what they think of themselves when seeing a patient respond to their expert opinion. So the patient cries, or panicks, or leaves their family? That is nothing to the doctor; not their business nor responsibility.

Its not irresponsible for the doctor to tell the facts, no matter how they lead. Because the impact on the patient is not their responsibility at all. Trying to make it so is wrong and selfish and manipulative.
>For example, if I buy an NES game legally, but then I sell accounts where thousands of people can VNC in to my server and play it on an emulator, that is probably not legit, even though I am technically never distributing the ROM to them (it never leaves my servers). This isn't completely sorted out though.

I'd guess the textures and sounds you would transmit are copyrighted anyway?
To be fair, the MVP for a wedding is already less than $1000. People can choose to pay more to get stuff they prefer (it's their money after all) but they aren't forced to.

To use an analogy, just because the rich like to take long holidays in distant countries doesn't mean the poor can't take short holidays less far away.
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Note I said big not expensive weddings as large weddings need not be expensive. It could simply be that having a large extended family and or lot's of friends close by is the important factor.

As to not getting married, married men live significantly longer. Again that may speak more to the type of people who get married than the actual value of marriage. However, anecdotally having someone else push you to go to the doctor and follow there advice probably has significant value. Still there is a lot of evidence that not getting divorced has significant value now many people think that relates to who your spouse is but the number of strong / successful arranged marriages suggests having the right mindset is vary important.
What you call anarchism is really a very specific subcategory called anarcho-capitalism.

In any case, it is similarly naive as other strands of anarchism. Power vacuums will inevitably be filled. The question is: What do you want them to be filled with.
RMS certainly agrees with the first part of your comment: he doesn't in any way argue that the software is an adversary of other kinds of software. Rather, he argues that the makers of proprietary software are acting adversarially towards users, by attempting to limit users' control over their own computing platforms. Since the FSF's purpose is to promote user freedom, those proprietary software makers are therefore also in an adversarial relationship with the FSF's mission.
The underlying problem, as with all property bubbles including the UK's, is planning restrictions.

In the past, people would move to areas of high employment from areas of low employment, and new housing was built for the economic migrants - this is how cities expanded. Now, restrictions on building new accommodation entrench expensive neighbourhoods, and mean economic migrants can't move nearer to the employment. This leads to both a property bubble market and lower employment overall in the nation.

This was all proposed/explained in this article a few months ago:

"Stay Put, Young Man", http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november_december_...

(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6563854 )
This is probably the best write up on it:

http://www.businessinsider.com/understanding-euromaidan-2014...
I understand the sentiment, but from what I can see the important ingredients that made the Dreamcast great have mostly been lost. To me, the Dreamcast was the swansong of arcade gaming culture, a culture that has largely disappeared. Sure, there were some games without that type of focus (I'm still hoping I'll kick Lan Di's arse one day), but I fail to see what the mere existence of Dreamcast 2 would do to encourage publishers to move away from making what works for them in the short term.
Dune has influenced or flat out inspired plethora of writers and their novels and films. The most popular, I'd say is Star Wars, which is arguably the most recognized film of all time. Dune, in one way or another, has touched majority of the people who are alive today. And that is leaving the techno-psychological, political, sociological and philosophical arguments in the novels aside.

HG2G does not belong to the list, I agree, dunno what I was thinking when including it.

And if you don't call Asimov's work influential, I don't know what else constitutes as such.*

* if we agree that when talking about sci-fi we should waive the test-of-time argument
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The name doesn't do that. All the Social Justice Warriors that have invaded HN are doing that. If they spent more time actually programming something they'd be less time to moan about the name of a command line tool.
> I think you forgot to provide an actual argument to back up that claim.

I purposely refrained from giving one because it is a hypothetical situation. If you want a potential example I had a quick scroll through the GPL FAQ:

> "All GNU GPL versions permit such combinations privately; they also permit distribution of such combinations provided the combination is released under the same GNU GPL version. The other license is compatible with the GPL if it permits this too."

Imagine BSD under GPL, since in this universe it is apparently used on Apple OS's.
How do you tell that the 'bad impact' is due to under-sleeping, and what effects do you notice?

I have sleep issues with some regularity, so I'm very curious to hear of your experiences.
"There is evidence that big weddings decrease the changes of divorce"

Nope, in our case, being a bit older, stable higher income careers, somewhat older lifestyle meant two unrelated things 1) we could spend money that lovesick teenagers could never hope to afford 2) Being older / stable / whatever you want to call it, means the marriage can't suffer growing pains when we become older / stable / whatever so divorce is much less likely. I think it a fair assumption that people change a lot more from 18-28 than from 28-38 or 38-48. From looking at my parents I don't think they changed a lot from 38-68, although I don't wanna know whatever they did as hippies before they got to 38.

I think these two conditions internally correlate much better than they correlate with each other, although anecdotally I suppose it randomly happens to be more than a minor coincidence.
Not that I have a problem with your premise, I'm just curious what criteria you used to determine a)?
Either big or expensive, I don't think the direction of causation there is clear without more information. The number of attending family members could easily signal the number of family members who support the wedding or think that the marriage will last.

(The size of a wedding is also closely related to expense. Large venues are more expensive, and catering/booze is more expensive when you have more people.)
Ironically: I've got a reasonably large screen (1920x1080), but with a 16x9 aspect ratio, height is constrained. The physical size of the display is fairly small, so px-specified layouts (particularly for fonts) are often painfully small.
This is a quintessential embarrassment of riches. San Fran is powered by a real 21st century economy, which many other cities and countries are trying to recreate, and you still find something to complain about? What's the solution here? Not have tech companies that employ thousands of people (for upper-middle class wages) in the area?! Not have thousands of young educated people from all over the country and the world, want to move to, work and live in the city? Not have those employees wanting to live in the city, but instead go down the route of the 1950-1980s generations and settle suburbia, and leave the downtown-core decrepit and crime-ridden?

Even in this specific case, what's wrong with a corporation providing a mass transit option to their workers so they don't have to drive in and needlessly congest the roads and pollute the environment.
I've never been near a frat or anything related to an American college and I lots of my female and male friends use the word 'bro' to greet/reference each other.

It's terrible that you've had such a shitty life, but it'd be great if you didn't push your stupid 'I'm offended by everything' agenda down everyones throat.
I understand the analogy, but anyone outside tech that reads an argument like that, especially if they've ever BEEN to an actual prison (even as a visitor), will have an extremely hard time hearing anything else about your argument.
Bingo, bingo, bingo.
3% is not even remotely "a majority".
Because then things like restaurants downtown would have more foot traffic during lunch time to help make sure local businesses don't shut down. Also, it could help make downtown "bigger", so even if the end result is the same (higher rent), there'd be more apartments available (instead of the suburbs that take a lot of space for not many families).