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Oh, the good old BSD vs GPL religious debate.

I just want to add: If i wanted my map data available "to the industry" (that BSD supporters claim can't use the GPL model) I would have used google map maker and not OSM. And i did not make this decision by accident, but because i believe in free software and free data. Please respect that. I think with dropping the copyleft osm makes itself superfluous and it will get replaced by the commercial products it once wanted to replace. There won't be a reason to choose osm over google anymore.
A revolution/secession is morally and legally wrong unless you win.
So when you have 2 features/bug fixes in the same area, built in 2 different branches and deployed to isolated dev/test environments... the first time you might find out that they dont work well with each other is in Staging? Why wait for that when you could deploy to a common environment and catch issues sooner?

Btw... I am trying to get some teams in my company to get out of branching. So trying to understand your view (which is exactly what these teams are doing), hence these questions...
The guy is right; calculate it through. I did with consumer priced hardware (they can probably get it at near manufacturing costs because of the huge volume) and they still seem to be making a fair bit of profit.
Is much of what is written in this post actually the case? Do they need to charge sales tax for a service? Is employing people remotely really that difficult?
Directory structures, module systems, package managers, build tools, communities, learning resources, etc. Also, the DOMs API and Node's could not be any more different. Their concerns have literally nothing to do with one another. Plus, you really can't pick up a framework in a few weeks. There's a reason why people pay more for someone working in Rails for 5 years, than someone whose been using it for 2.
No. I really don't care to help Google or Apple, and I would prefer it if their proprietary mapping solutions failed. I don't want OSM data in their products.
This has been rehashed a fair amount on Hacker News. My recollection is that they were removed with a specific purpose -- to cut down on Paul Graham getting dragged into the middle of stupid fights, essentially -- and pg felt it was successful. So they are unlikely to come back. He got what he wanted and I see no reason for him to put up with the issue that prompted him to make them invisible.

HN is a free service. It has a business function for Ycombinator but it does not directly make money. I think especially as it became more popular, some hard decisions had to be made to keep it from getting out of hand in terms of sucking up too much time and energy for no real pay off.
I've used the crystal cove and I actually had an experience that is pretty much your example. I was in the demo where you fly around and in the cockpit there was a screen down near my legs and to the right that was unreadable from my normal vantage point. When I brought my head forward and turned to the side, I was able to then read the text on the screen. It was really surreal.
And then a bear eats you. Thanks Obama...
You don't get straight out of bed into a classroom. As for the end of the day, you can either spend the rest of the daylight hours doing homework indoors and then go straight to bed, or you can go outside and do the homework later, after dark (requiring less than 8 hours of sleep). Which is the healthier lifestyle?
Deduplication.
oof, worst of both worlds
You have made this more complicated than it needs to be. You realise that most of what you're telling people to do is already done? Rename password_hash to password_digest and read into has_secure_password[0], that way you will not have to write your own authenticate and encrypt_password methods.

[0]: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/SecurePasswor...
I'd say it's included with the $10 actually.
You can actually do much better than 2 kbps. MELP-E (unfortunately patented), actually can do 600 bps (and is fairly robust to noise I might add). With the advent of great speech-to-text ML, you could actually reduce this even further, to the 100-200 bps range).
Just wanted to say that this looks awesome; I'm going to try it out right now and will definitely be in touch.
>We treat him like he’s mad, but Vladimir Putin’s popularity has just hit a 3-year high

We all know from our history the previous century that madness and popularity are not mutually exclusive...
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Edit: both gone
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Why is that a good thing, and is it really OSM's goal to power all of the maps in the world? Why?
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I've been a frontend/gui developer my entire career, just because I know javascript does not mean I would be a good fit for a Node.js position.
If you are writing a Python, PHP, Go, or Java web app, I think using Google App Engine is the easiest way to get your app live. DigitalOcean is easy, but it still requires you to know a bare minimum of Linux-Fu. App Engine is just brain-dead easy. You literally execute a deploy script locally. And as an added bonus, if you use the Google datastore instead of their RDBS it should scale smoothly too.
The API and mobile clients are better too.

Though the Google Docs API is awesome; apps like IFTT's "add row to Google Spreadsheet" might just eat the cloud DB space from below.
Hmm, they definitely did do that. But couldn't they do that anyway if all the schools were at the same time? Admittedly you've have high schoolers and first graders on the same bus, but it would certainly save on fuel...
It's not Django, but I've built something quite similar for Rails, and have really loved using it. The combination of RDBMS stability and the flexibility of schemaless content is really powerful -- it is (IMHO) the best of both worlds.

Would love to hear people's experience with this kind of setup (no matter what software you're using)...I think it's a very interesting, and useful, direction to go, especially for new projects where you may not want the overhead of multiple storage systems.

https://github.com/ageweke/flex_columns
I reread that paragraph. In context, it doesn't seem so.
I cannot help but think Facebook, Google and such companies business model of monetizing logs of people's usage of the internet is used by governments to legitimise their spying.

The argument would be, if it is okay for big business to record all activity and data mine it for profit then it is okay for governments to record all activity and data mine it to help govern the people.
Using urgency to increase sales
I don't understand why he didn't wrap the cords around the sides?
Indeed. The announcement states, "If you already pay for storage, you’ll automatically move to a better plan at no additional cost," but that does not seem to cover people whose plans are simply becoming cheaper.
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I personally quite enjoy the look, however I find the general inefficient use of screen real estate annoying. There is so much unused white space on the right hand side of search results.
So I guess the (currently third place) "Other" is mostly PHP? I know it's not cool but it still seems strange to leave that popular and frequently used platform out of the poll.
like what was making me avoid those products was the price/storage ratio...
For someone who insists that you don't need redemption, you sure like preaching.
I couldn't find any mention of any benefit to OSM in being used as the baseline for a bunch of proprietary mapping services. Can someone tease it out for me?
Know anything about a split kinesis style keyboard?
Linodes cheapest offer starts with $20, while DO only with $5. It's awesome for experimenting.
Does anyone know what they are using to record the screen and save it as a .gif?
From looking at the chart referenced in your link, it would seem to me that our youngest school age kids should get into school the latest, and teenagers the earliest. If we extend this logic, college age kids should be having classes even earlier (try to read that without chuckling).

Yet most of the news/research I read is about appeasing groggy teenagers. Why aren't we focusing on elementary and middle schoolers? One of my other replies in this thread was about how locally they've shifted high schoolers to a later start time and as a result the younger kids are forced into an earlier time schedule. Makes no sense if we're using the data referenced.
My FOSS app [0] lets you easily configure a full stack LAMP (and other configurations) server using Vagrant/Puppet, which you can then use to easily deploy locally or Digital Ocean (and Rackspace, and AWS, and coming soon Azure).

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I can't help but see the JS-for-everything trend as the triumph of mediocrity. It feels a bit like using BASIC in the old days, only much cockier.
I tried an experiment in Go a few weeks back; The difference in writing to a logfile between using synchronous access (wrapped in Mutex.Lock) and passing a reference through a buffered channel (such that the ownership of the object was received along the channel). There was less than a 1% advantage to the Mutex, and the code was surprisingly clean with channels.
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I recall reading in "Black Hawk Down" that the helicopter pilots - and only them - got to sleep in air conditioned trailers. Piloting a helicopter is so dangerous, and the conditions in which they were doing it even more so, and so many lives were routinely at stake, that making sure the pilots got a good night's sleep was worth it.

Everyone's job was dangerous, of course, but the reaction time of a well-rested versus a not well-rested pilot could mean the difference between a dozen deaths or a routine day.
Pushmon, Pingdom, New Relic come to mind.
>Well, I do think putting yourself at risk should be judged less harshly than putting others at risk.

Perhaps when judged externally by others. But, when the person is judging himself less harshly in a way that justifies his own questionable behavior, then it comes off as rationalization.

And, again, to say he is only harming himself is part of the fallacy that he is somehow exercising better judgment. That is, I believe that someone who exercises the poor judgement to repeatedly drink himself into unconsciousness is very much susceptible to exercising equally poor judgment, while in that inebriated state, that could result in harm to others. It just hasn't happened yet.
My situation is reversed. Foreign citizen, lived in US 10 ys ago. Bought stock options, paid bunch of US taxes on them.

Now, 10ys later, if I sell that stock, to whom do I pay taxes on them? How do I take out taxes already paid in US when I bought said stock?

Thanks!
"Not too farfetched"? It's farfetched to think the President can even start to control the executive agencies.
Metro is a very specific case, and that line in specific - you have a limited variety of vehicles and fully enclosed platforms. Oh, and as far as I can remember, the specific metro line is fully automated.

In practice the incidents are rare (even in case of metros, it's something you read in news papers every time it happens), and the few attempts to implement them were generally underwhelming. And, if anything, the risk of a person getting between them and the vehicle means you're just swapping risks around.

So yeah, they're costly, of dubious use, they're yet another part that can break, and a general eyesore. And, if you want dense networks (and you do, trust me on that), then increasing the amount of space required for a stop is also a Bad Thing.
Or a free Objective-C compiler. Or free software for IBM computers. Or drivers for Linux.
Hip developers are not allowed to acknowledge the existence of ... that language. Uttering its name is forbidden.
I hate to be pedantic, but I don't think "self-selected" is really accurate. In my, and most high schools, in my area, most people do at least one extracurricular, and most do many more than that.
I don't think Zuck is talking about money, but freedom

This seems naive. Zuck has enough money to buty privacy, and he made his fortune by enabling the type of surveilance that the NSA does. Frankly, his actions here are about as credible as the Ivy League's moves towards embracing "diversity". They are just ploys, and their biz model is at risk, so this is like "I'sorry"... only that we got caught.
My (very non-affluent) school started at 7:20, and the stated reasoning was to maximize the earnings opportunity for those students who had after-school jobs.
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> The internet works because most people and companies [spend a lot of our energy making our services and the whole internet safer and more secure.]

By any metric of privacy, security or safety, I don't see how anyone could claim the internet works.

Also, no amount of encryption or 2-factor authentication could turn Facebook into a part of the internet "I want to build." Which is why I deleted my Facebook account and got off (nearly all) Google services. I vote with my feet, and what I spend my time building.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that 17-year-olds tend to speak in hyperbole.
Do you think bureaucracy and regulations make it (deliberately) hard for US residents to invest in seed stage companies abroad?

For example, if a California resident Bob injects capital into a foreign company, say $20,000 for 1% of the brand new company as it is formed in the UK, and receives preferred stock and passes voting power by proxy onto other investors, what are the personal tax and filing implications?

My understanding is that any tax impact is only when the preferred stock is converted to ordinary stock and sold for a capital gain or loss. No different from buying and selling regular stocks from ETrade.

Regarding filing, form 5471 does not apply, as Bob would have <10% of the company, and the voting power is only %1 and has been granted by proxy to somebody else. On the other hand, if either equity ownership or voting power was >10% then Bob would need to file 5471 and translate the accounts of the foreign company which is a major pain (and accounting expense thus reducing the return on investment)

In a nutshell, US residents should only invest small amounts in any foreign companies and make sure equity ownership and voting power is minimal?

p.s. Thanks in advance.
This http://wiscc.org/ shows that small claims has been used successfully against HSBC before, but it takes over a year and seems like a hassle.
An interesting take on Bitcoin's Growing Pains
Not quite the same, you don't need daylight to do ballet or debate.
There is none.

It is the age old debate about MIT/BSD vs GPL.
I've been using this set of exercises as a less-intense interval routine when I don't have time to do a full p90x workout, or don't feel like making up my own set of intervals for a day. Two times doesn't feel like enough for me, but I was pretty tired after getting through four once. Three will probably do it for most people, I'm small so I can do an unusual number of reps for bodyweight exercises.
I like it since it's fairly focused on the core and hits the major muscle groups. You can always make it harder by changing the normal squats to jump squats, doing a different ab move, etc.
> Are you quite sure they aren't collecting content?

It seems to depend entirely on the program in question, and the legal authorities for each program.

For foreign intelligence actually collected overseas under EO 12333 they have programs that collect content (e.g. SMS), which have existed in one form or another since the beginnings of the Cold War.

For foreign intelligence conducted on U.S. soil they have to fall within the boundaries of Fourth Amendment reasonable search (and related legal rulings like Smith v. Maryland) so they wouldn't capture content. But on the other hand they can still capture content in targeted fashion against non-U.S. persons in certain scenarios, and that content might itself involve conversations involving a U.S. person and still be a legal search.
So this means mobile users get to pay the data costs for ad bandwidth?
The slides (as usual for slides) are pretty ambiguous, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#In... says that the companies and Facebook in particular deny cooperation with PRISM, and the only quote from media sources that sounds skeptical about that is from WaPo wonkblog [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/h...] which says that one of the slides talks about combining data provided by companies (with warrants, NSLs, and other legal orders) with data collected by adversarial means.

So, no, that link does not support the claim that Facebook cooperated with PRISM.
Hey, that's great, because I can close the tab or even the browser in less than three seconds, and make a noise like "fuck you farcebook"!
Three separate trips means a third the number of buses to service the same number of people (assuming equal distribution). And a third the number of drivers/etc.
Someone sounds bitter... FYI testing is considered a must in Node's culture.
Unless i am beng obtuse; i think youre missing the point:

Its not that any of these large companies should not have some influence; the problem is that having shit-tons of money is the seemingly only requisite to have ANY influence in government currently.

The term "oligarchy" has real and important meaning.
Other research indicates that teenager's brains tend to receive the sleep hormone later than everyone else. Hence the drive for later start times.
I'm surprised that iOS is winning out as much as it is on the first native side to build.
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If managers only want to log in and approve stuff in batch they're still welcome to do that with Abacus. But we've found that people quickly adapt to the faster flow —

What we've found is:

1. Managers like the transparency of knowing how their employees are spending money. Many managers today actually have to nag their team to get their expenses in before they close the books. This more up-to-date information about how money is getting spent can often be helpful to the manager.

2. Approving expenses in Abacus is stupidly easy, and it shows that you love your employees. Companies (especially in tech) compete so hard to make employees happy (snacks, benefits, etc.) and Abacus is one of the easiest ways to make your employees happier. Rather than treating employees 'guilty until proven innocent' and making them wait months to get paid back for their legitimate business expenses, Abacus lets you easily reimburse your employees, which you're going to do anyway. Win win

3. It's actually a time saver. Abacus syncs directly with your bookkeeping software (time-saver) and we automatically categorize expenses, based on the vendor info we pull from foursquare (time-saver). We've also built the conversation directly into Abacus, so you can comment on any expense that needs further clarification, rather then trying to hunt someone down over email about some confusing expense from 2 months ago (time-saver). The net effect is a much tighter, faster feedback loop.
You might be interested to learn about the successful bus rapid transit system in Curitiba, Brazil:

"Buses running in the dedicated lanes stop at cylindrical, clear-walled tube stations with turnstiles, steps, and wheelchair lifts. Passengers pay their fares as they enter the stations, and wait for buses on raised platforms. Instead of steps, buses have extra wide doors and ramps that extend out to the station platform when the doors open. The tube stations serve the dual purpose of providing shelter from the elements, and facilitating the simultaneous loading and unloading of passengers, including wheelchairs, efficiently. This system of same-level bus boarding, plus the pre-boarding fare payment, results in a typical dwell time of no more than 15 to 19 seconds at a stop."[1]

[1] http://www.urbanhabitat.org/node/344
> What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point?

If you're referring to the service staying around, probably nothing convincing. If you're referring to your data being safe, probably the best, most battle-tested warehouse-scale data centers this side of the NSA. They restored Gmail data when they lost that [1] and nobody was paying anything then. It'd probably take co-ordinated airstrikes in multiple countries, ie world war to cause them permanent data loss.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/google-sorry-gmail-reset/
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It's not hair splitting, it's a deep truth about the nature of communications networks as they're currently designed: they can't route communications without inspecting metadata that discloses the endpoints. They can, however, perfectly happily route content that they can't inspect.
If you're interested in an OS alternative, Bucky also times AJAX requests: http://github.hubspot.com/bucky/
JMHO? You must be an electrical engineer ;0)
fwiw you can now use stripe in Aus :)
I guess that you are 33 +- 3 years old :)

a t1 was "fast" about 15 years ago, so if you learned a tiny bit about business class internet right around when you were 20 like I did, that's how fast a connection would have been around then.
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The report they linked also looks interesting, although I have only read the major findings in the introduction: "Examining the Impact of Later High School Start Times on the Health and Academic Performance of High School Students: A Multi-Site Study": http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/11299/162769/1/Impact%2...
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I base it off of the simple doctrine of first do no harm. If you view food as being equal to a medicine/drug in power, I think the hippocratic oath applies.

There's also a curious study comparing ancient wheat with modern wheat (I realize that may be not technically GMO) in, you guessed it, a blind crossover trial. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24521561?dopt=Citation
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