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I have to take issue with TldrLegal’s summary of the ISC license: https://tldrlegal.com/license/-isc-license

It starts out with, “The ISC license is not very well regarded because it has an “and/or” wording that makes it (debatably) legally vague.” Um, really? There is only one person who thinks that: rms. The ISC license isn’t the most popular permissive license, but it is reasonably common, being used by several large organizations (like, well, the ISC), and of course by a number of people for personal projects.

So aside from it not being copyleft, why _does_ rms (and thus the FSF licenses page) dislike the ISC license? Well, the ISC and Pine licenses both contain the following wording:

“Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software… is hereby granted…”

University of Washington apparently tried to claim that this disallowed distribution of modified versions of Pine. Of course, that interpretation is completely ridiculous, as evidenced by 1) the reaction on debian-legal https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/11/msg00138.html and 2) the large number of people who use the license to this day.

But because _one_ copyright holder interpreted those words in a way that nobody else does, the FSF has claimed ever since that any license using such wording is dangerous (not nonfree, just dangerous). Which is silly. Anyone can misinterpret a license—I have seen several people release code under the GPL and then try to claim that prevents commercial redistribution. Would the FSF list that as a reason not to use the GPL? Of course not.

Anyway, the thing that bothered me the most about the TldrLegal entry was the statement that it’s “not very well regarded.” More accurate would be to say “not well regarded _by the FSF_”, but even that wouldn’t paint the whole picture because it doesn’t account for organizations like OpenBSD or ISC who actively prefer it.

By the way, here’s some interesting reading from Paul Vixie about the history of the ISC license: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.protocols.dns.bin... In response to the noise made by the FSF, the ISC changed the “and” to “and/or,” though of course that didn’t change the FSF’s mind at all. OpenBSD still uses the “and” wording.
My friend has a 25 minute timer, during which time, he only focuses on the task in front of him. It is more to curb ADD but ends up helping with productivity.
I imagine this to be CYA on his part rather than magical thinking about how this question might improve productivity. "Yes, superior, the developer PROMISED this would not cause problems and gave me his 100% guarantee." It's a ticking time bomb.
Wondering about stock price and investors does not imply that we stop caring about the people who died. The two actions are independent. Thus, if we consider the impact of this event, independent of the human impact, it seems obvious that the effect on business could be quite significant. This doesn't diminish the human concern; it's just a different topic.
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The title is "Can We Learn About Privacy From Porn Stars?". We, by definition, are not porn stars. We are taken to be the masses of regular folk. The article had almost no thesis points, however, it did have a theme. The theme was the personal experience of a famous person. I assumed that the article had something to do with privacy online. It does not. It has to do with notoriety of famous people.
So I think of this and then I think of

'THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.'

Could the poster be up for some nasty legal surprise?
He/She already expressed his sadness at the news as the first thing. It's not like he/she can change what happened to the flight. We're all saddened by it. Learning/Observing the real changes/differences it makes is just another aspect of respecting the impact of the disaster.
Check out EULAlyzer as well:

https://www.brightfort.com/eulalyzer.html
This seems quite nice. Two things I'd love to see, which would make it even more handy:

- I'd love to see each license that has a standard SPDX identifier (https://spdx.org/licenses/) include that identifier as metadata in its tldrlegal record. (And ideally tldrlegal.com should have a standard URL to reach the one-and-only license corresponding to a given SPDX identifier.)

- I'd love to see standardized tags for OSI-compliant Open Source licenses, GNU-approved Free Software licenses, GPLv2-compatible licenses, and GPLv3-compatible licenses. (For the latter two, it'd be interesting to have a generalized tagging mechanism for saying "compatible with (other license record)", but in practice those are the two cases that matter most, and too much generality might not be a good thing.)

Also, this site seems to be doing something with icon fonts that doesn't work: I see missing-character glyphs for characters F098 and F099 where Facebook and Twitter icons should appear, and an "fl" ligature where a search button should appear. (Firefox 27 on Linux, in case that matters.)

I also don't see the placeholders on the username, email, and password fields in the form that pops up when clicking the "Sign Up" link; the placeholders in the form on the front page do appear. (Consider using real labels rather than placeholders for forms like that, to make them more accessible.)
Venezuela opposition holds anti-Maduro rally in Caracas
Has the NSA weakened cybersecurity and made life easier for cybercriminals?
It's not something that can be taught. He just need to have a thicker skin.
I read the preview to your book and it looks fantastic. Just what has been missing in school. I'm an engineering student and like many other will greatly benefit from this text. Have you considered writing more on math and physics? I would surely buy even more advanced topic like electricity, magnetism, and discrete math (Sets, proofs, induction etc.)
Aligning the decimal point can be done in a single cycle with a barrel shifter in base 2.
Not really. My point still stands, regardless of whether it holds true in the future.
"ABD" tends to be "all but dissertation" - a PhD student who has completed course work, qualification exams, research proposal, and possibly other requirements, but has not yet written or defended his doctoral dissertation.
That's exactly my point. A famous person has different rules and different problems in society. I don't think this article is meaningful or even about privacy in society. It is merely about privacy for people who live as entertainers. It has no points, only an observation or two. I find the notion ridiculous since the article didn't even attempt to make a connection between regular folk and their privacy concerns. It is about people with fake names getting recognized because they are making tons of money doing pornography and then complaining about awkward experiences associated. It has almost nothing to do with tech, online privacy expectations for regular people, or online privacy in general.
The best way to have a great idea is to have tons of ideas, but without sharing these tons of ideas, you don't know which ones are the good ones, and which aren't.

Rather than just accept that his ideas were 'shot down', he should try to understand why a certain idea was 'shot down'. Maybe it was outlandish, wouldn't work because of things he hadn't considered, etc. etc. If he uses each of these experience to further hone his idea generation, he can look at each proposal of one of his ideas as an opportunity to get further down the track to the right idea.

I think a big part of that is in HOW he proposes the ideas. Rather than jumping in whole heartedly with "this is how xyz should be done", he could come at it with "I was thinking about the way we do xyz, and maybe it would be better if we did it by abc..." then he gets the feedback and gets to hone the idea.

I fondly remember why my favorite mentor became my favorite. I had never had a mentor before, but we were working on a large project and when we'd discuss ideas, he would say little things that would open up my thinking further, which I would grab hold of and push further again. I called it 'leapfrogging', where people were coming together to discuss an idea and each others ideas would progress the whole together further. There was no ego, as it was a truly collaborative environment where ideas flowed freely. Not every idea worked, but the experience was fantastic.
Most startups aren't paying significant taxes in the first year, anyways, since there will be no profits.
Seriously. This is just unconscionable on behalf of the Austin police, especially considering that drinking seems to be _the_ pastime in Austin. I suppose people have to die first, as always, before things get better.
Just say yes (assuming you have done tests!) and have confidence in your changes. If it breaks something, put in some more tests to make sure it doesn't happen again, or find the bug unveiled by your fix, then correct this!

I should note that this is legally unenforceable. Bad place to work, but if it ever came to court, you just cite the halting problem to show that you cannot say in all cases that a problem won't be halted. What is being asked in impossible, so unenforceable.
what is the best license where you maintain the brand name of the open source software, and allow end user to modify it according to their needs but not release it under a different brand name OR use it to run commercial services off the software (that will require commercial license) ?
When I hear from a manager that I must be absolutely certain that some complex system utterly beyond my control must work without the possibility of error, I leave. (I have done this.) Life is too short to spend it working with manipulative turds, let alone smug imbeciles with no comprehension of computational complexity, recusive unsolvability, probability, the problem of knowledge, the philosophy of science, and on and on. I hate to sound so negative, but surrounding yourself with individuals capable of this kind of psychological torture when the subject of software guarantees is a research industry with an extensive literature going back at least to the Mythical Man Month is bad for your health. I find it deeply offensive that one has to respond respectfully and professionally to outrageous demands as if they were reasonable.
I didn't create this, but http://viralnova.com is known for being run by one person and has been quite successful. Maybe the most successful that I've ever seen. http://www.businessinsider.com/viral-nova-considering-a-sale...
or nay...
It is. In most smaller cities in the US, calling a cab means waiting 45 mins for it to show up. The SXSW crowd doesn't have the patience for that.

And you're right about Austin's growing pains: the taxi shortage is very real even on a normal weekend. But Texans are also some of the friendliest people you'll find; which is a big part of why people love Austin enough to cause those growing pains.
No, the developer said that be believed it would not cause problems. They didn't give their 100% guarantee, only that they were sure it wouldn't cause any issues, to the best of their ability.

There's a big difference.
It is part of the promise your country makes to you and your family as part of you going to war. You know if you are deployed and subsequently killed you know that your country will make every reasonable effort to return your remains to your loved ones.

Seems a minor cost compared to a life, or thousands of lives.
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I was thinking about creating a QR code adventure game!. The QR codes will be placed around a certain location and you tag that location. You use your phone to find these using a radar/compass. Once you scan the QR code you have to answer the question, and get it right to be awarded points. Was seeing how viable this idea was for something like a school or a zoo to teach kids about the enviornment and what not.

I also looking to implement it in a way that you can have different games. Such as Capture the Flag.
Yes, but the population of the US is something like 310 million.
Good discussion here http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=1160981
Correct, and a startup with low profits might benefit in tax exemption early on for long-term success (and potentially avoiding fundraising early on).
I use a pomodoro timer and find it is amazing at keeping me focused and makes you realise how long your spending on a simple problem.

At the same time, it's amazing to see how quickly 25 minutes goes, and sometimes it's a bit stressful to see the clock ticking down.

I don't track my time in a log.
what would you like to see in #4 that would spark your interest?
Free forever

How do they define 'forever'? Google Fiber defines 'forever' to be seven years.
Perhaps it has something to do with the imposter syndrome[0]. Feeling like you're not a "real" programmer who doesn't "deserve" to have the position you do would (I'd wager) cause that phenomenon of analysis paralysis; it would cause us to want to get it right or we'd be "found out" for the "frauds" we are.

I hate it, and I've found personally using the techniques like Pomodoro[1] has helped immensely with just doing something! along with TDD coupled with exploratory programming.

How does everyone else deal with it?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
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I'd agree that expecting to be able to hail a cab is probably not wise, but it sounds like you can't even reasonably call for one.
I define forever as the lifetime of the app. Also I will be adding a feature to export sites for use on private servers
I don't interpret that to mean that you can violate the terms of the Apache license, but rather that modifications or derivative work can bear a different license. Every user is still bound by the terms of the Apache license, including the patent indemnification clause which does not appear in those other licenses. If you disagree, could you point me to a legal opinion? Note that OpenBSD still ships Apache 1.3 because they believe Apache 2.0 is incompatible.

http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0402/msg01095.html
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ABD stands for "All but Dissertation".
Reminds me of a story which Tom Limoncelli tells in which a very good candidate for a sysadmin position came in and impressed everybody, but the diagrams of server solutions the candidate showed them were all marked as being confidential internal documents of the candidate’s previous employer. Because of this, they did not hire the candidate.
Small correction: I believe it was a JA-37, not JAS.
Do you mean cooked or just the ingredients and what would be a fair price to you? I'm building a product in this space and am interested in your thoughts.
I remember that website. In college my friend and I called it the Pet Rock of the internet. Still can't believe that idea made $1 million.

btw - I'm making a club for people to discuss/show their side projects and startups with other devs, check my profile for the link.
Like prosecuting murderers? That CSI don't come for free. There is a reason society makes un-economic promises to victims of crime and casualties of War. They are not too dis-dimilar when you think about it.
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"OK," [IBM] said, [to Sun in the 1980s] "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.

Patently Absurd, Forbes, 2002: http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
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I work in a small team of developers (there's about 15 of us). It's been an "unofficial policy" at our company for years that no more than two developers can be on any single flight.

Back when we were smaller still (it was just five of us for the longest time), it used to be no two devs could be on the same flight. When we used to go to conferences as a team, managing the logistics of getting five people across the country, leaving from a rather small airport, without duplicating flights took several hours of planning and usually resulted in staggered departure and return days.
Six weeks lead-time is not a lot for a presumably major conference like that. If you have a tight travel budget and have to scramble, having that short a lead time may exclude you.
Thanks for clarifying. Even though you may not have bad intentions, there are several points of failures e.g. server logs falling into wrong hands, man-in-the-middle-attack (using http) etc.

Maybe put a big disclaimer in red on top of every page.
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Well done! I don't need a business website, but I felt a slight urge to give you my money after reading the value proposition. I especially liked the "what we do vs what you do" part.
Last I checked, police don't write the law. Blame either the politician or the bureaucrat.
Fair enough, I have seen plenty of comments on here assuming that SEPs are better patents than others but your view seems clearly much more nuanced. I mostly agree with your actual view and did incorrectly interpret the section I quoted.

I'm not sure the bounce back patent is inherently garbage (although it may be invalid due to prior art) but that sort of patent is entirely possible to work around. I'm not saying it is great patent but it does strike me as somewhat inventive, novel (AFAIK). I do understand what you mean about the likelihood of juries putting too much weight on what they understand.

I'm not aware of the details of the Samsung radio channel efficiency patents but I wonder why Samsung didn't bring them to (or didn't win with them) at the ITC where there isn't a jury. I'm not actually disagreeing here but it would be something ai would want to understand before completely agreeing with you about the lack of value in true technological patents (I'm in a don't know state rather than disagreement at this point).
Holding her down
I think the problem though is that while legalese is hyper-defined, it is also formulaic and still defined by usage rather than specification. Software development has been less helpful for me to read legalese than reading philology textbooks.
Ask HN: How do you forecast revenue for your SaaS?
Suppose you've been operating a SaaS for a bit. Now you've got some data on how users move through your conversion funnel. Things are fine, but what about next month, and the month after that? What can you expect? And what do you, SaaS owner and tech savvy HN user, use to forecast revenue based on the data you've gathered?

I was looking at some data today and noticed the following: after we onboarded a user, time-to-conversion roughly follows an exponential decay curve. Most of our signups convert within the first few weeks of onboarding. A handful convert much later, but the probability of conversion drops off sharply with age. Makes sense. I also assume this is pretty typical (yeah?).

So I did what tech-cofounders do...busted out numpy and scipy and did some curve-fitting ;) Assuming the probability of conversion follows an exponential distribution in time, the expected value of total future conversions should be a sum of exponential decay curves, one for each user, with each curve offset by age. The results of this match intuition so far. I'm curious if anyone uses a similar approach. (Or a dissimilar approach...that would be even more interesting.) Thanks in advance!
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Ever had a cop overlook something? It's not rare.

We can blame the cops.
the average Ph.D. is smarter...than their friend with a bachelor’s degree.

This raises an interesting question: what is intelligence? A cursory Google search shows there's no solid consensus in academia. Having said that, there was a symposium years ago (1921) in which thirteen leading psychologists proposed definitions. [0] Here are a few of them:

1. the tendency to take and maintain a direction

2. judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative

3. adjustment or adaptation to the environment. . .

4. global capacity to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively. . .

5. the ability to plan and structure behavior. . .

6. the ability to solve genuine problems or difficulties. . .

While Ph.D. students have an impressive amount of specialized knowledge, they don't seem to meet all of these criteria for intelligence. Some Ph.D. students are spending hundreds of thousands on degrees without having a clear career plan, then struggling to lead successful, productive lives once they graduate.

This seems opposite in some ways to the qualities of practical sense, judgement and planning ability that characterize intelligence.

[0] http://www.unc.edu/~rooney/iq.htm
Hi tictac, and thank you for the kind words.

I actually have a draft on E&M which is 70% done, but I've now learned that it takes me about 1 year to get a book into good shape so I won't try to finish it just yet and instead spend the next six months working on the business side of things: scaling distribution and sales.

Two other topics which I feel competent enough to write about are probability and vector calculus so by 2015 I'll get to these topics too. I don't feel I have enough experience teaching more advanced topics to write about them---also there is less need for No Bullshit guides, because advanced math/phys books are quite good and bullshit free. It seems it's the freshman-year books that suck the most.
Probably companies paying for their employees' training... Expensive if you ask me, but when you have 500 employees who need to learn some Linux basics, you can't just tell them to learn it themselves at home (and organizing their own training would be expensive).
And likewise, they're still shutting down from software, perhaps unaware that the power switch will do the job, and are conditioned to do so after years of operating systems complaining when they weren't shut down properly. So maybe it's not just Windows 8 that Microsoft did a poor job of explaining to Windows users—maybe it's every version of Windows since 95.

Can't speak for Windows 8, but in Windows XP, Vista and 7 if you have an update that requires a shutdown, pressing the button won't install the update.
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Check out the UCI Machine Learning Repository for a (huge) list of data / problems to test your ML-fu on : http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

library(randomForest) in R comes with some automobile data from the above repository and a small worked example which can be greatly expanded upon. For example, it's fun to try and predict manually whether the car is a 2-door or 4-door by staring at the data, which has 26 columns, so it may be not that obvious:

> summary(imp85$numOfDoors)
four two
112 81

The variable-importance plot reveals all : the bodyStyle is a key predictor!

> varImpPlot(numDoors.rf)

I uploaded it here :http://i.imgur.com/IU98gfo.png

> summary(imp85$bodyStyle)
convertible hardtop hatchback sedan wagon
6 8 63 92 24

Hope this is useful.
But don't you have a higher chance 3 developers dying in individual car crashes than of 3 developers dying in a single plane crash?
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Poor RedHat gets no recognition...