skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - if MKLinux hadn't of run, I might have discarded any interest in Linux for a few years, not learnt how to build my own PC boxes and stuck with Redhat (I think back then). After a successful initial experience I was ok dealing with bad display drivers et al. That's kind of my point, why I'm really glad I started with Mac: I had no-one around to guide me and powered with Mosaic (soon Netscape) and the growing access to mailing lists, I was on my way. I got more than a few non-techy friends running Linux shortly thereafter, given I could build them a machine cheaper than at the store and most of us went on to have successful technical careers in some form or another (whether in the Arts or architecture or whatever). That period of 96-2000 was, for me, made possible by the convergence of a few wonderful things that for the first time in history made it possible for an otherwise non-educated person in technology to access, and help make, the world.

I had looked at taking a few CS classes at university but the overwhelming perceived hostility towards women, or anyone not clearly 'belonging' at my science department at the time kept me away. So you can imagine just how much I love the Internet, and the Mac, and Linux. Times have changed and that's cool - I've run some coding classes since then primarily for women and everything they need is at their fingertips and my university's CS and Science department is far modernized and getting a healthy balance of women and minorities. I'm very aware that my jump into CS was made possible by a very special convergence, freedom, and surge of information.
It's probably worth adding to this article as you find new utilities or new ways to use them - look at all the great suggestions in this comment page!
Membership is required to distribute via the App Store, not to build and install to a device via USB.

There is also nothing stopping you installing the app onto others devices the same way.
Youtube has a much higher diversity than SoundCloud, regarding both mainstream and non-mainstream music. Obviously there are some really good niches they work in, Drum&Bass for example, but in other categories they kind of suck.

Not really sure why one would prefer a music platform that celebrates low diversity.
>>most Engineers can't logically rationalize giving something away for free to someone who has done "nothing" for them.

You're not the only engineer who feels this way. Thanks for your story and a great suggestion on how to help ourselves become better people through service to others.

Solving a technical problem gives me an ephemeral and fleeting feeling of elation, which I admit is nice. The positive feelings I get from assisting someone, however, persist throughout my lifetime.
The FSF's FAQ on the Affero GPL explains it best: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

Quote: 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.
The problem with a pledge system is that my $.99 on it's own won't make or break the project and since I'm getting the software for free anyway it's more rational to keep the money in my pocket. So you would have to impose it as some sort of tax, which has it's own problems.
I've been following this story since last year and that is what I am wondering about as well. The procedures were performed at the request of law enforcement, so the way I see it, law enforcement should be responsible for any charges incurred.

Maybe there needs to be something in the law that people can't be billed under these circumstances.
Was expecting to find on empathy as an important aspect of invention, innovation and product development; after all we create products or sell services to relieve customers of a specific pain.
Would the spreadsheet, visual operating systems and even high-level languages exist without empathic inventors?.
As usual, from their craft, the software development. GPL-everything scenario doesn't mean there won't be need to develop software anymore.

It highly depends on the category and user. Outside crowd funding, no one will pay for the development of a game if there is no return on investment.

Despite having a slight preference for FLOSS software, I also believe that whoever invests the money or time to develop a piece of software should be able to choose how they license it.

In some cases it makes sense to open source some software immediately, e.g. when there is little loss of income. Sometimes it makes sense to sell it first and open source it later (e.g. see Id's engines). Sometimes it does not make sense to make the code freely available (e.g. if it destroys the value of your company).

Does it always lead to the best outcome? Certainly not! But with freedom comes responsibility. And ethical individuals and companies will want to contribute to their community and society in ways that is possible for them.
A tour of ZD Labs in 1993
Until your significant other gets injured and you try to show up at the hospital to make the decisions any married couple is allowed to make. That is _one_ of the issues you will face as an unmarried "partnership."

This is also the reason why those uppity gays are not content with the crumbs of "social unions." Non-married couples do not have the same rights as married couples.

of course this is US-centric
Good luck! I have had recurring epididymitis for the last 15 years or so, starting when I was around 19, and every time I wonder if it could be cancer, but it proves to be an infection that is treatable with antibiotics.

Well done booking the doctor visit straightaway. It took me weeks, and I was massively stressed the whole time.
I just bagged up a ton of old t-shirts to donate. I'll have to stop by this weekend and drop them off.
On the other hand, you also know that if everyone applies the same reasoning, the project will not be completed, and your loss is probably greater than $.99.
All the suggestions here is amazing. I will take a look at this later. At least make an edit with a list of the suggested software. Did not see this coming :-) Thank you everyone.
woah. Getting (the awesome) Mozilla t-shirts is hard enough as is. It takes effort even when working there. :P

/me is sitting in my living room rocking a Rust T-shirt right now.
> I've never worked in Google-like environment, but the whole closed-off , prison-like state of the campus seems very off-putting.

Where is this prison like Google environment you're talking about?
"Adversary" might not technically be a synonym to "enemy", but in modern-day, common, spoken language, they are both thought of as very militaristic terms.
But DIN is just the physical connector.
Well this is quite useful to know. I'm going to hope, then, that I can build or buy a clear plastic version of the casing. :)
I think it is amazing with all the great suggestions everyone here support this post with. Much appreciated - thank you :-) I will add them to the post later, as a list with an URL to their website.
Having just gotten back to the UK after my first trip to SF I can see why people like it - it's got a great buzz, and the culture is varied and attractive.

My biggest concern - though it might just be because I was downtown, or that I've not spent much time in US cities - was the large number of homeless. Maybe the Googles and SalesForces in the area could help those guys out?
Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed in Chandra/Hubble composite photo
DB2 9.7 optimzer doest this as part of query optimization
You sure sound angry over a quick review of a new open source project done on your mobile phone.
It is typically more efficient to share spaces like a kitchen than for each to have their own.
"It misses the fact that there are now very few reasons..."

I'm going to take the wild guess you're male. As an old married guy with a daughter I can assure you there is enormous investment in advertising money to specifically get females interested in spending around the cost of a cheap new car to get married.

I'm not even claiming this is a large part of the reason for marriage propaganda, however, thousands of advertising dollars are spent to convince females that spending tens of thousands on a wedding would be a great idea. Probably fairly heteronormative and once civilization arrives and gay marriage is more widely "permitted" then we'll start to see a lot more advertising dollars spent convincing guys that spending $10K on a wedding is fabulous.

And if you think marriage is expensive, try divorce.

My wife and I paid about $10K for our wedding, and felt we cheap skated out on a few things. This kind of social pressure is fine when its only about one months income, but for poor people, its kind of a dumb social policy. Giving the same $10K to the educational-industrial complex or real estate/banking industries isn't going to improve their lot in life either, so its puzzling.

One interesting thing to think about is our marriage was basically a little ceremony followed by two co-located family reunions, and it cost about $10K. In comparison a couple years ago my wife hosted and organized a family reunion at a city park for her family, about as many people attended, and our out of pocket was $82 for a park pavilion rental. So we're looking at almost two orders of magnitude of cost inefficiency.

There is a large market full of money to solve the difficult problem of providing a storybook princess wedding to women for something between $10K and $100. This is not exactly a stereotypical YC startup idea, but SOMEONE is eventually going to do it and rake in the cash.

Having been a starving student and starting out on a low salary in a medium cost of living area, I assure you there are very few investments available. If I have $10M there are plenty of interesting ways to invest it to improve my life, but if I have $100 laying around there's almost nothing to do with it that is not brainless consumerism or basically throwing it away. You can't bootstrap yourself if you can't invest in any way. Maybe microlending will help, although seems like lots of scams in the field. You'd think advanced computerization and networking would force microinvestment and microtransactions into the financial markets, but you'd be totally wrong. Check the price of NYSE:BRK.A and get back to me. We keep people poor by preventing them from having a profitable use for small amounts of excess money. There's probably a startup idea in there somewhere... a bitcoin powered stock exchange where you can trade any rational fraction of a stock or something like that.
Actually, bwm-ng is a nicer alternative to iftop. more information an nicer presented (I think)! try it :)
I have just thought of a hypothetical scenario:

Someone writes a revolutionary piece of software, then it is released under ....

0 > a closed source

1 > a bsd style

or

2 > gpl v3

.... licence.

I think the last choice would have a far more profound effect upon the science and business of computing than the two alternatives.

EDIT: Oh, tor is under bsd, how would things be if it were released under gpl v3?
The protesters absolutely have been a peaceful bunch. You when they turned violent? After the first video I posted. Had that never happened there would probably be no one on the street right now and he can continue raping the country as usual. After that day or two it goes back to being peaceful and a few weeks later he tried it again. Every single time this thing kind of starts fading out he goes in and fails at violently clearing it up then 2x the people join in.

Are there radicals? Sure. They are limited in number and are definitely not the majority or "uncontrollable" as the Russian media reports it.
Event horizon or not, still impressive.
The problem is that most others will apply the same reasoning regardless of whether I pay my $.99 or not.
If you think ahead, you can give someone those rights without marring them. The only real exclusive benefit is sharing healthcare and retirement benefits which is far less significant in a two income household.
I don't understand what's so difficult to use about self-checkout. Once you've used them once or twice, you know how to use them at pretty much any store. I always prefer self-checkout to going up to a cashier. Cashiers are always so slow and take their time. I can get done extremely quickly if I use self-checkout though.
I set up Retroshare on my home server and sent details to a dozen coworkers and friends (all in IT) that had previously used IRC / ftp for similar purposes. Not a single one decided to use it after varying degrees of trying it.
> Until your significant other gets injured and you try to show up at the hospital to make the decisions any married couple is allowed to make.

Sure, it depends on the law in your local area. As non-married couples gain rights, it removes reasons for people to get married.

Whatever additional rights you get for being married are your primary motivator: that's what I was trying to say. Here, it seems primarily to be EU work visas.
If you use the software (ie install it on your own server) and make it accessible to third parties, you must make the sources available to them.

That was quite a surprise for some after they got used to slapping GPLv2 software on a server and making it SaaS.
Swedish public TV claims copyright to everybodys Twitter sports photos
All these "revolutions", are foreign secret agencies' creations.

..Downvote all you want, and ask for impossible to find evidence. Just read history.
Why do you hope that guy loses an eye? That's rather harsh, he's just taunting a little bit. You know the guys on the other side are having a hard time too right?
In the UK it is called the Married Couple's Tax Allowance. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/married-allow.htm

It means I pay at least £304/yr more in tax than I would if I was married.

Whether you should care about UK tax policy, I don't know.
From what I've read, they usually build a gap under the platform--enough clearance to hide under if you get stuck down there.
relying on the goodwill of an entity will almost always get you nowhere. Apple (or any other major corporation) does what they do purely for profit - and of their decision to unilaterally release source code (without coersion from a license) is made based on the positive PR gains, on the fact that releasing software to commoditize the competition will help their own business, or for some other publically unknown reason.

It's always better to encode, into law, ethical behaviour we want, instead of hoping for it from people. Doubly so when the 'person' is a corporation.
bwm-ng really has a neat and to the point interface, but it doesn't gives break up of individual established network sessions. Some times the individual details are needed too. That's where iftop comes in handy.
The "kristallyacht" joke is improved by knowing that Tom Perkins killed a guy yachting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Perkins_%28businessman%...
No: the $99 registration is required to get a provisioning profile that will let you install code onto a limited number of devices. (Have you ever done this before?...)
Well, considering the fact that Apple made a program called "Bootcamp" which simplifies the process of installing Windows on your machine, I'd say other OSes are officially allowed by Apple.

In fact, I have Win7, OS 10.9, and Arch Linux on this computer (early 2013 MBP Retina)
There is evidence that big weddings correlate to a lower divorce rate so it might not be pure waste. If nothing else a big wedding creates a clear separation of married vs unmarried life. Much like a difficult cumming of age ceremony may influence long term behavior.

Then again it's hard to separate the mindsets of people that get married at a justice of the piece vs inviting 100+ people to the big event. I suspect cost is less of a factor than the amount of effort spent planning the event as thinking about a wedding probably promotes it's importance more than it's cost or the day it's self. aka deciding which table cloth to use is not important, but thinking the wedding is important enough that the table cloth choice is an important decision is probably meaningful.
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Easily add an NSA backdoor into your Rails app
I think you forgot to provide an actual argument to back up that claim. Personally I don't think the direct effect will differ depending on the license, but it will have a big effect on how viable the software is in the long term. Closed source will be abandoned when the original authors lose interest, and with BSD code it is arguable that companies taking work but not contributing back has a negative effect on the sense of community, but this is of course hotly contested by BSD license proponents. One big example is the Linux kernel which is GPL; but of course its success may or may not have anything to do with its license.
I'm not up on PC controllers these days. We were building a Fibre-Channel switch/router for Dell back then; all proprietary hardware.
I've run a lot of Python apps on New Relic and definitely some great detailed monitoring there too.
Google Chrome Bug Lets Websites Listen to Your Conversations
Have you even visited Google's campus in Mountain View? There is no such thing as closed-off prison-like campus...
> Membership is required to distribute via the App Store, not to build and install to a device via USB.

Nope, you can't install to a personal iOS device without the dev cert either.

Unless you've jailbroken the device.
I'd like to see a citation for that rather than anecdotal evidence.

There were a bit over 2 million marriages in the US in 2012. There were some 27k K-1 visas issued in 2012 (there were more IR-1 and CR-1 visas, but those are generally issued to people who married abroad). I don't know the numbers on change of status applications, but I doubt they'd be an order of magnitude higher, especially given that if you're not on an immigrant visa already, you may be in for additional scrutiny.
I'm impressed how little infrastructure they where make due with previously. PyPI hasn't been too bad considering the backend.
I just got back to the UK after my first trip to SF and was disconcerted at the lack of culture shock. Evidently I moved into a J. G. Ballard short story some time ago.
Yeah; it could very well have been the case that had the researchers given a quick, five-minute lesson about how "short bouts of sleep deprivation improve cognitive function ...because SCIENCE [wave hands frantically]" that they could have shown the opposite result as well ;P.
It wasn't a "demo", it was the real thing. Everything worked. Right, there was only one level of undo, but going from 0 to 1 was a bigger step than going from 1 to n. And Apple may want to leave some innovation to third party developers, it wouldn't be a good practice to make a perfect product for release 1.
My law firm (also a protection service) has simple rules - in all conflicts with clients of other law firms our clients are right by default. We have the best security enforcers, so we can deliver on that rule, too.

We may be expansive, but having your home burned cause you signed with inferior security provider is far more expansive, right?

How exactly this situation differs from payign mafia for protection? At least with state there's just one mafia to pay off, and you can vote for the godfather every few years.
Please do not leave out context: if you run the program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code

If you do not let other users communicate with the program, you do not need to do anything. For the AGPL to go into effect, you first have to make the active choice in making your computer and program public accessible for others.
Obvious question is obvious, but may also be helpful: have you seen a competent psychotherapist?

If the tension is indeed psychosomatic, then treating the psychological cause may be the way to go.

Other things that would be worth investigating: Alexander Technique, Pilates (yes, seriously. What you're describing could be breathing-related in particular, and Pilates is good at that stuff. Go for a teacher accredited by an organisation with a multi-year training program.), Tension Mytosis Syndrome, T'ai Chi (again, seriously. Good t'ai chi can be very useful), trigger point therapy (read http://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-Tr...), deep tissue massage (painful but effective).
Germany gives you the 'Ehegattensplitting' (spouse splitting?), which allows you to tax both incomes according to the tax bracket of the mean. If one partner earns a lot less than the other, you're looking at a lot of money here.
I got a great nights sleep so I'll try a short TLDR.

Lots of socioeconomic stats are better for married people than single people, therefore some cargo cult believers swap cause and effect and have been pushing marriage as a path out of poverty, also social/economic mobility in the modern USA is a downward-only random function, and social class is stratifying, which makes marriage significantly more risky in the future than in the past, and more so for poor people than (whats left of the) middle or upper classes.

Classic hacker themes of confusing cause and effect. Also any time you mention "cargo cult science" all the Feynmanites ears perk up. Also classic hacker theme of extrapolation of past performance into inappropriate future conditions is a disaster. Someone with a lot more time on their hands could take classic hacker themes like the abov and turn them into traditional fairy tales / fables / morality tales, which is unintentionally (probably) what the linked article is doing.

I think a smart lawyer with a smart marketing guy could create something like a marriage with all the good parts and none of the bad parts. A little far fetched for a HN startup idea. Something like a small business combined with power of attorney for each co-founder. The marketing guy has the fun task of convincing women that decades of princess fairytale weddings was all a bunch of bull and they really want this newfangled contract.
As far as I can tell, the proximate cause of the discussion was a speech a few weeks ago by Marco Rubio, a Republican Senator and seen as a rising star in the party. For the 50th anniversary of LBJ's "War on Poverty", he argued that the biggest thing the government could to do reduce poverty is to promote marriage: http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?...

This seems to have produced some revived discussion of a more general initiative by some conservatives (especially social conservatives) to shed the "conservatives don't care about the poor" perception by arguing that certain conservative social policies are in fact poverty-reduction mechanisms, and should be renewed with vigor. Promoting two-parent families is one of the main ones that's seen as a "win-win" strategy: conservatives can put forth a poverty-reduction strategy that also aligns with their other views, allowing them to back away from the more hardline (and favored by the libertarian wing) view that poverty-reduction is just not the government's business at all, while also avoiding a "liberal" approach to it.

Here's a recent column from someone favorable towards the position: http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/is-marriage-prom..., who also wrote a book proposing a kind of "new conservative" politics that aims to reposition conservatism as addressing the concerns of the working class: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307277801/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
> Having said that, I find Stallman's war rhetoric increasingly disturbing

When a set of powerfull people vow to destroy one of your freedoms, you only have two options. And yes, this is disturbing.