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It has been demonstrated publicly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_70UC0tPUU
How about this attack on journalists (then complain they are one sided):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWqawm81Fo

We definitely don't want doctors in there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFPlJs1GzBs

Hopefully this guy is the one who lost his eye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOv0AktufCQ

When you do stuff like this, you kind of get what is coming to you.
Your right ;) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/number (item 5)
Ukraine isn't under oppression from Yanukovitch and Russia. Current president of Ukraine won last elections being in opposition, after revolution of 2004 showed that nothing changed. But as last government could do any good, current is also considered bad (by people). The core problem is Ukraine consists of two parts - East and West. Both parts are about the same size and population. West part gravitates to west and east part gravitates to Russia. That's understandable, east part has many ties with Russia, because it's almost the same people (same history till 1350-1400 CE) with hundreds years living near. There's families divided by border, they often go to visit each other, there's economical ties etc. Of course Russia wants to see Ukraine as a friend. Imagine Canada would decide to go into union with China and shut down it's border for USA. That's kinda similar.
Anyway, Ukraine stays being two-headed and I don't know how all that will end, but I hope they will find good solution.
I think Stallman has very much lost sight of who his true 'adversaries' are. I consider myself a strong proponent of open source software but there are reasons - imagined or real - for not making everything open source or for using a permissive licence.

Not using a permissive licence for a software effectively bars most companies from using that software. In my opinion licences such as Affero GPL aren't free at all because they limit what you can do on your own machines. I've experienced this first hand with very useful libraries such as iText.

Sure, iText und many other AGPL-licensed libraries are available under an additional proprietary licence. However, this isn't very much about free software either but simply another sales argument: "You've got to publish the valuable source code of your application unless you pay us a lot of money. In that case: Screw free software!" Sounds a bit like blackmail to me.

I understand that the FSF is an ideological movement that's based on strong principles. Stubbornly insisting on these principles without considering pragmatic concerns does a disservice to free software adoption, though.
If anyone wants to organise a bulk send from Australia, get in touch - I've got a few shirts I could send over and the local LUG might, too.
...you're jumping into a big argument that's not actually based on what I wrote. I'm making two main points:

#1 - When I sit down and really take the time to weigh everything, I consistently find that my first reasonable-feeling judgment was way off. So I've tried to stop trusting that gut feel, and I advise others do the same.
If you actually dig into the history of this, you see that the GCC developers were actually quite positive (even about C++) and that merging parts or even all of LLVM (even parts that conflicted: maintainers from gcc stepped up to explicitly say "I worked hard on this piece, but I am mot attached to it: let's throw it away if LLVM's version is better") came up quite often for the following year (there was a lot of interest from the link-time optimization people, as well as gcj for the JIT features), but in the end (much later) this came down to most of the promises from Chris Lattner not panning out. (I was remarkably happy that the comments on Phoronix actually got this right, so if you read over the comments there you see a lot of discussion of this.)

> > The lack of FSF copyright assignment for LLVM is a problem. It may even be a bigger problem than what we think. Then again, it may not. I just don't know. What I do know is that this must absolutely be resolved before we even think of adding LLVM to any branch. Chris said he'd be adding LLVM to the apple branch soon. I hope the FSF assignment is worked out by then. I understand that even code in branches should be under FSF copyright assignment.

> This is a solvable problem, and has been pointed out to Chris repeatedly, by many people, at various venues, for over a year.

> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg01146.html

> He keeps hand waving, saying that it's possible.

> Great.

> I say, enough grandstanding: it's not enough to be possible, it needs to be actual. If it is indeed actually possible to release LLVM under the GPL, then he needs to pick a version and GPL it. Then we can get serious.

> Make it so.

> He seems to be operating under the mistaken idea that the GCC community can go ahead and make plans around LLVM being free as defined by the GNU project, without it actually being so.

-- http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01065.html
I don't see the concept of DMA as unsafe. I'm not that familiar with x86, but it seems that random devices can set up DMA transfers. Why? I guess there were performance considerations, but in that case an IOMMU needs to be used. On the systems I've worked on, only the CPU can set up DMA transactions (which includes transfer length, source and destination), which should prevent trivial attacks.
That falls under the support part I mentioned.
I guess I was thinking more of non-smart mobile phones, since that was what most people used before the iPhone. But even so, it doesn't explain why other closed devices have been, and remain closed with no complaints.

Why do we not express the same discontent over a PS3? Or any other closed environment? I don't think it's because smartphones were "open" before the iPhone.
Isn't it you who are being irrational? That closed source software is the adversary of free software has been the fsf's position for ages. I see no war propaganda and "adversary" is not a synonym to "enemy."
And you all know the IT crowd?
> The only true worthwhile revolution comes when people realize they don't need anyone to rule them. When the majority realizes that, no more revolutions and violence can follow.

Indeed, in an anarchy, you don't have any regime to stage revolutions against. But violence? Oh, you'd get plenty of that. It would just be distributed, instead of organized: survival of the fittest.
> All while endorsing the Affero GPL, a license that doesn't even allow users full control over their own servers.

Thanks for mentioning the Affero version, I'd never come across it before. In what manner does this licence affect the users' control?
> 100% GPL software, from what would software developers live from?

As usual, from their craft, the software development. GPL-everything scenario doesn't mean there won't be need to develop software anymore.

It is quite usual to be paid to hack upon FLOSS code. Neither it seem too weird to be paid to write new FLOSS projects. A customer needs a solution and has money, an engineer has skills and needs money.

The only downside (or upside, depending on point of view) is that developers won't be able to make $0.99-priced apps unless they really make it in mere minutes of their time. They'll have to raise funding using some form of threshold pledge system.
Why we end up doing nothing.
I don't think it's much of a departure from original principles. The original impetus for the FSF was the "closing off" of some previously public code by MIT AI-lab spinoffs, who hired away developers and withdrew from the previously common practice of everyone sharing the code of the systems that were being run at the lab.

That led to his views that: 1) if any software is used by users, its code should also be available to and modifiable by those same users; and 2) anyone who tries to keep users from getting access to the code of the systems they use (or uses legal means to keep them from modifying it when they do get access to it), is the users' adversary.

If anything the Affero GPL fits the 1980s motivation better than the original GPL does, since Stallman has always had the view that users of multiuser systems, not only the sysops, should also have full source access. A user of a SaaS app is basically the modern-era version of a non-privileged user of a multiuser Unix system. 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. If you developed a proprietary app based on GNU software, installed it as sysop, and then didn't want to share the source, your userbase would generally be limited to one site. In theory you could run something more like today's SaaS: a central Unix system where you sold accounts but never distributed the software. In that case Matlab could incorporate GPL'd components without releasing their code by installing Matlab only on in-house servers. They'd sell people shell accounts on mathworks.com, but would never let the software leave the building. In practice this wasn't done at large scale, and instead any widescale usage required distributing the code to sysops at other sites to install local copies (e.g. Matlab licensed its software to departmental and corporate Matlab servers), at which point the GPL would kick in if the software were built on GNU software.

The Affero GPL in a sense formalizes that previous status quo, by saying that the GPL distribution requirements don't apply for in-house usage within one site, but do apply once you're making the software available to users outside the organization (even if "making available" is now via telnet or ssh or vnc or http rather than binary distribution). The law around proprietary software has also been moving in this direction, to consider hosted usage to invoke a distribution-like copyright requirement such as "public performance", even if no binary goes over the wire. 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.
With proper SSD drives you can get seriously high IOPS.
https://www.fusionio.com/products/iodrive2-duo/
These police are just standing there, shielding people who previously happily allowed the police to brutalize peacefully protesting civilians and even tried to poison political enemies. So no, they are not simply standing there.

Further, the protesters in the liveleak video only hit police armed with riot gear and once they're rid of that largely leave them alone. That is astonishing control.
I just want to say how much I enjoy seeing hy popping up now. I have come to really like ClojureScript for my webdev stuff, Scheme from SICP and Python, well, has also been on my toolstack for long

Sometimes Hy seems a little undecided on language issues as simple as (defn vs defun) usage of ! for mutating objects or alphabetic chars, etc. I value freedom of choice, but are there any plans to unify this in the direction of "there is one way to do it"?
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I love the food and the the fact that the Bay Area has a high concentration of brilliant minds in a very small area. Attending Meetups and talks from some of the leading thinkers in technology has been something that isn't as accessible elsewhere.

edit: Rent prices are crazy though.
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That is nice mgz. Not tried this yet. Should give it a try soon then :-)
Any Swiss company hiring? :)
A startup sales strategy, extracted from Steve Blank's book
This may be the sleep deprivation talking, but the wiki page for "marriage promotion" is damn near incomprehensible, the article is even worse, and furthermore the article seems to assume background on both it and some recent discussion that has apparently been taking place over it.

As far as I can divine, it is some sort of idea about giving extra welfare benefits to married people, or withholding them from single people?

Is this currently happening? Is anybody that is advocating it anybody that I should care about? Am I missing something that makes this a HN-worthy topic (if it's just general intellectual interest stuff, that's fine, but I can't tell if that is the angle here or not)?
I think it is the same :-) As far as i can see these are definitely supported: Ruby, PHP, Java .NET, Pythom, Node.js.
In addition (or even instead of) to htop I strongly recommend atop [0]. This tool has been of an invaluable help to me during a lot of diagnostic sessions.

It can collect detailed memory usage profile of processes and when combined with some smart scripting it has a nice leak detection functionality [1]. Very useful when you run out of memory and want to find which daemon has used all of it.

[0] http://www.atoptool.nl/

[1] http://www.atoptool.nl/download/case_leakage.pdf

edit: formatting
Their interface has some nice features, like stopping music in a different tab if you start playing in another. The gui is nice as well. Unfortunately it loads too slow, and just playing the music maxes out a cpu core and even a part of my gpu on my modern machine. For example playing video on youtube with hd and fullscreen, uses about a third of resources soundcloud uses.
Appneta does this for Python/ruby/java/.net/php.

We recently open source our Ruby instrumentation:

https://www.appneta.com/blog/open-sourcing-ruby/
Is this akin to saying it's a problem for the gold market that relatively few companies with specialized investments mine gold?
So, for example, if one builds a custom Linux kernel without support for Firewire, then plugging in a firewire controller would do nothing? It couldn't access anything?
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My housemate works as a marriage registrar.

I just asked him what percentage of marriages in our local area are primarily for visa exchange purposes. He said "a majority".

I think this article makes an assumption that it's normal/preferable to get married. It misses the fact that there are now very few reasons for a happy, two-earner household with children to actually get married. Marriage papers are in no way a required part of a stable and loving relationship.

People don't often get married today unless there's some real political benefit to them: inheritance is becoming less important and free movement of labour is now one of the major motivators.
Stallmans rhetoric and ridiculous hate for apple specifically is nothing new and still makes no sense.

His argument about not being able to install modified versions of open source apps on ios is either a blatant lie or sheer ignorance.

But that doesn't matter - his opinion is quite obvious as soon as he uses the word "win".

It's apparently too horrendous for stallman to imagine a world where some people support and use commercial software and some support and use open source software and some support and use "free" software, without constantly getting into a pissing match.

Stallman is frankly no better than a religious fundamentalist claiming abortion and condoms are the work of the devil, and not only will they avoid them, they will lobby governments to enact laws banning such items.
#2 - I say things because I think they will be useful, entertaining, or persuasive to the person I'm talking with. So even when I'm right, and a person is going to far, someone should talk it over with them, but that's not me; I'm a poisoned source.

I'm offering practical advice, but it's obviously not for you.
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The military has refused any involvement (which is probably why he fired the general about a week ago).
I had no problems installing Linux since 1993, except the hardware was problematic (not supported).

In the early days, I did fine with VESA support. Then, I actively chose hardware that I knew it would work basically out of the box. I had minor problems, never a showstopper. It could be a bit cumbersome at times, that's true.

Nowadays it's a lot easier to install Linux in most computers than Windows. If you want to install a version of Windows that isn't specifically supported by the hardware, you're SOL.

Right now, the biggest problem is GPU support from AMD/ATI and nVidia, which happen to be the leaders when it comes to high-end graphics. You're either left with a partially-working Open Source solution, or with an often glitchy proprietary solution. Intel works fine but it's just for the lower end.
When this came up yesterday[1] I made a comment that a lot of people seemed to find interesting (by votes, not responses: there's nothing in it really to respond to), so I figure I'll make it again today.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7116144

In case anyone doesn't realize this: the ARM64 LLVM backend used by Apple in Xcode 5 to target, for example, the iPhone 5S, is currently not open source. There is a vague promise that it will be merged, but the time frame described was itself long, many months have already passed, and it doesn't really seem like much progress has been made since (although of course things could be happening internally at Apple).

(In fact, none of the code actually backing Xcode 5 or iOS 7, even LGPL code such as WebCore/JavaScriptCore, has yet to be released; but, in the case of the ARM64 backend, there was a specific discussion about it on the mailing list, and in fact some iOS-specific ARM64 patches to LLVM languished seemingly due to the idea that "well, some day the ARM64 stuff will be merged from Apple", so it is already having "chilling effects".)
Running JUnit tests in parallel with Maven
The Race Card (regarding racism, or rather the lack of it.)
Continuous Deployment for Django apps from GitHub to Google App Engine
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States did a great job convincing people that anarchy == violence. Yet what is the evidence for that? If you look at history, an average state over the course of, say, 10 years, murdered more people than the bloodiest of all anarchists did over his lifetime.

And then you should also understand that anarchy doesn't mean no laws and policing. It means that people choose to live by the laws they want (and not by voting, but by becoming customers of different law firms) and people choose private protection agencies to pay to instead of being bitten by state police troopers if they disobey. If people decide they don't like the service, they stop paying and go to a competitor. Now try doing that with a state and taxation.
That is what you get if you're going to San Francisco. The city has been a left/liberal activist stronghold since long before Google even existed. And yeah, things like gentrification and private luxury buses do tend to provoke that crowd.

Maybe Google should consider relocating to a military town in Texas. It seems there is a great convergence between Google's massive (and permanently growing) data collection and the total surveillance efforts of the government.
If you have multiple nodes that includes load balancer and other SOA services and want to link them all to view a request as one transaction (e.g.: a request comes in through a load balancer, gets processed by app-server-1, which in turns calls service-2 that queries to DB-1 {or memcache}, Appneta Traceview can connect them all).

Or you can monitor your web-app using Appview Web too for synthetic monitoring. Plus you can monitor your network as well using Pathview.
Can you write neutral Java? :P
The alternative is:

1. get tarball

2. do full code audit

3. run code

However, almost no one will do step 2, so running code piped from wget is effectively equivalent with doing step 1 and 3. https provides some level of security, but a determined attacker can make sure you don't get warnings from their MITM attack, which gets us back to having to do step 2.
It worked better probably because of the much smaller hardware variation in Macintoshes. Also, it was sponsored by Apple

And for servers it worked great, the problem was the "user friendly" part of it.
> His argument about not being able to install modified versions of open source apps on ios is either a blatant lie or sheer ignorance.

This is only true if you are willing and able to pay (and are allowed to pay) Apple $99 to get into their developer program, for a limited number of devices, to get access to a now closed-source fork of LLVM (the AArch64 support is still not merged, and no code from Xcode 5 has seen the light of day now over four months later) that would let you swap in replacement code; and then, even after compiling it, you wouldn't be able to freely redistribute it to others without submitting it to Apple's store review process (which might very well reject it for any number of reasons, including "similar to existing apps", which is actually a documented rejection criteria).
This article is an opinion and isn't backed by examples or facts

Yes it's an opinion piece. But it's an opinion piece from a large motorist organisation, which gives information about motoring and travelling. France is very close to Ireland and many people travel there, so their recommendations are probably true.

Do they still succeed in keeping the death rates low?

Yes. We have had a massive reduction in deaths on the roads in the last few years, down to 162 in 2012[1], down from about 415 in 2000[2]. The Wikipedia list of road deaths per year[3] also shows Ireland scoring lower than France for various road death metrics

[1] http://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Deaths-injuri...
[2] http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=10717&Lang=1
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
By that logic, would you agree that police should use any force necessary(beatings, etc) to cut through peaceful demonstrators and arrest those who are not peaceful, throwing Molotov's and such, because after all these peaceful protesters are just protecting those who aren't?

Further, the police in the video only hit protesters and then leave them alone. That is astonishing control.
That's cute. I didn't see any science, just badly written infotainment.
It was a business. Of course the biggest priority was money. That does not stop them from wanting to charge money for a a good product. That is what is meant by having their clients in their mind. Their focus was on making money by delivering a good product. The reason to sell to Google was to have more access to more money (and other resources) in order to improve the product. There is nothing wrong with that.
Don’t Scratch the Itch
Software doesn't have adversaries - people do.

Open source and commercial and "free" software are no more adversaries than vanilla and chocolate ice cream are adversaries.

As Steve jobs pointed out in (I believe) the late 90s - "Microsoft doesn't have to lose for us to win". Software is binary, the culture and mindset around it shouldn't be.
Isn’t T-shirt fabric too fragile for seat cushions?
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