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> If you use BSD, MIT, etc, you can't combine any GPL licensed code.

In the LedgerSMB project, I have started licensing core framework libraries under the BSD license because that should allow easier bridging to proprietary software. We started doing this with PHP libraries, but then decided that Perl shouldn't be a second-class language integration-wise.

There's no reason that GPL code can't depend on BSD code.

These licenses can co-exist and one can choose to license some parts of a project under the GPL and others under a BSD license.
Either that story is not true or it is beside the point. Nuclear fission was the huge topic of physics research in the 30's and the potential to weaponize it was widely understood by physicists, and the government aggressively funded it (the government mind you, not private companies). To say that nuclear physics was considered an irrelevant field by the scientific community in the 30's is just not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons#Phys...
You need a flashier, more colorful logo and a bright red BETA tag and a cute name and silly slogan and a login link and a moving number counter on the front page. gfycat looks alive, yours looks static and cold. mediacru.sh is hard to type and not as memorable of a name. Average internet user won't care about "open source" or features they don't know are missing.

Other than that, great work. You can do it.
Scientists discover potential way to make graphene superconducting
Spotting movement is a different receptor.
For more than half of Windows developers, if you told them there was an object manager, they would ask how you can turn off that service to improve performance.
From what I understand, both dogs and cats have poor "static" vision but can spot minute changes very, very well. A squirrel has a very specific gait and movement style which they can spot very well. If your dog saw a photo of a squirrel from 100yrds away, I doubt it would heed much attention to it.
18,000 pounds, what a great effort by the Django community!

Maybe this is the way to get solutions to unsexy problems....
On what grounds? IANAL (and I am a Microsoft employee), but this makes no sense to me. As far as I know, warrants are for government agencies, not companies. And assuming a civil case where they were demanding that the provider turn over the emails, wouldn't their conversation with the judge go something like this?

Microsoft: “Judge, we demand that Microsoft turn over these emails.”
Judge: “???”

(that is, can you even procedurally attempt to force discovery against yourself?)

Not to mention that the EULA seems to pretty clearly cover exactly this scenario.
Why I care about numbers
"apply color blindness to photo of ron howard" is also a valid query
Ah yes - that's true in the BBC 4 version of the rules, introduced in 1968. I think most countries use that now. In Australia we play according to the original rule set, hence the misunderstanding.
Suddenly the tabs in Chrome look extremely rectangular...
Microsoft Snooped on a Blogger's Email to Hunt Down a Windows 8 Leaker
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I'm having trouble even conceiving of how you could structure that. You can't sue yourself, so to even make the case arguable in the US, you'd have to set up the contract such that Microsoft would initiate legal process against the customer, requesting a declaratory judgement that they would not be liable for damages for searching the customer's data.

I don't think there's any case law on this, so the first thing the courts would have to do is figure out if they even have jurisdiction to handle such a novel claim. The answer to that could vary between different states' courts and between state and federal courts. (And might even vary between federal courts, since federal cases borrow a lot from state laws, both from the state they sit in, and from other relevant states, like the state in which an entity is incorporated, or the state a contract was executed in.)

(And even if you get past all that, you haven't actually stopped Microsoft from doing anything at all. They can still search your data without going to court in the first place if they're willing to risk being held liable for damages for breach of contract. Those damages would not likely amount to much.)
Neovim: 2 days left, U$ 3.500 to go for refactoring Vim into a library
FYI I experimented a little bit with the perf test and instead of using consecutive 32bit ints as keys then I used randomized 64bit ints as keys. I had to reduce the number of keys to 60 million otherwise it ran out of map space :-( Anyway, the resulting LMDB data file ended up as 1.9GB which makes an average of 34 bytes per key,value pair. Even bigger than before. I guess B+trees are only inherently more efficient than hash tables when a significant number of keys are very similar?
Can this die yet
It's ridiculous that we should have to do that.
Which company are you involved with?
"Hey! That's not the wallet inspector!"

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Homer_Goes_to_College/Quotes
Am I missing something or does that seem really really implausible http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wou...
Thank you! You took the words right out of my mouth.
Microsoft defends opening Hotmail account of blogger in espionage case
> FDR turned giving money away into something that was literally awesome

Yeah, like the FDR war bonds to finance war activities in WWII in order to burn Japan and Germany (civilians included) to the ground ? Using even popular children cartoons for propaganda : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99zmpod_zbE

Seriously, if you want to use an example of someone who did good things, choose actually a good person in the first place.
The Edges of The Edge:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e98...
Missing http://instapainting.com/2x2048/index.html
I think you mean Pasteur.
Suggestions on a better name? Ours was suggested by a user, we're no good at naming things. Also, we had a beta tag for a while, but then we removed it because our product was feature-complete.

Lying about "bandwidth saved" doesn't sit well with me.
It's a conscious decision to appear different than the blue collar folks.

The point stands though. Slang is often used as an attention grabber or distractor. Like a comedian who curses a lot to shock you, which conceals that he doesn't really have anything to say.
Why is he/she asking if he/she already knows it is illegal? And also why doesn't he/she know his/her own sex?
If you read the Ars article [1], they specify in the second statement that "Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves, since obviously no such order is needed."

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/arrest-of-secret-...
More succinctly: you were 20 years younger. That will always be a better time. :)
> Maintaining your own VM is no big deal.

As someone who has worked on a VM, I couldn't disagree more. It can take years to hash out things as simple as ideally performing primitives for a target architecture, and then things change.

Add to that the complexity of optimizing compilers, specification of byte code formats and a consistent virtual machine memory model that can be relied upon across architectures, and the art and science of highly concurrent garbage collectors, and your "no big deal" is a load of hogwash.

Hotspot alone is nearly 20 years of big deal.

> A team made of relatively small number of people (high quality, but low quantity) can and do maintain VMs ...

The number of people doesn't matter in this equation; your small team of (expensive, rare, high quality people) can't build a world-class VM in a day. Or a month. Or a year. Maybe in 5 or 10 years, just ask Microsoft.

> ... like HotSpot and V8. LuaJIT is maintained by a single person.

LuaJIT's said "single person" has been working on it for what, 10 years? It's an extremely impressive implementation and I don't want to bag on it, but even still, it lags in certain areas, eg, its GC implementation isn't up to par with the state of the art.

The author's skillset is extremely rare, and LuaJIT itself is an anomaly in the field. Using such a one-off example doesn't really hold water to prove that it's ideal for a company to internalize maintaining a VM for their own custom language built on top of PHP.
>>Or that they lost the keys to some wallets and have managed to crack one.

No cracking. They just found a wallet.dat somewhere, that's all. If they lost the keys(as in, lost the wallet.dat with the keys in it) and were able to generate a valid private key given only a public bitcoin address... bitcoin is dead, game over, pack it up.

Now instead, if we're talking about a passphrase to a wallet.dat...
Wouldn't someone publishing that keys can be cracked in realistic timeframes deal a blow to the currency itself?

Sure, it would have required tons of computing power, but they still would have cracked the key in several weeks' time.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to invent something that will deflect an asteroid?
I've worked with 2 people that worked in the adult industry previously. One was a software developer, the other a project manager. Both were up front about their job history and transitioned successfully into jobs outside of the adult industry without any real issues. They both were very talented at their jobs and were excellent hires. The developer is now an IT Director at a startup that I will leave unnamed.
just curious what your strategy is- i think i found a way to fill the bottom row with the largest number and keep funneling numbers down there... I think I reached 1024 on another computer. not sure if I should go all the way tonight.

I sure do like the hex nature of this version though.
> It's an attitude which says that as long as the elite class of techies get freedom to do as they like, that's good enough.

Well, no.

The question (if you read the blog post I linked to) is whether you go for institution-centric and centralizing controls here or whether you go for decentralized controls and questions of community structure.

The point is the best protection for everyone is widespread ownership over private property. Ownership means "the right to use" here. The BSD licenses demand greater community controls because the community cannot survive without them.

> Freedom to oppress, monetize and lock-in the peons who don't know how to code.

And yet, if you demand that there be a stronger power capable of preventing oppression, then you typically get stronger organizations more capable of oppression. The end goal is, really, to decentralize and ensure that end users have a choice of what to use.

Interestingly I am living in Indonesia right now. It is amazing to see a Distributist economy in motion and see that, although the nation is poor on paper, the society functions for the poor much better than it does in the US, and so real poverty is far less of a problem. Sure the poor may have fewer television sets than in the US but they do have better access to housing and wholesome, nutritious food.....

The reason why things work so well is because the economy is so heavily decentralized. 70% of the economy is self-employed. Self-employment means that capital and labor are not separate. This is what the freedom to produce things with the software has to offer our economy.
This isn't true. Every Linux users encounters problems with drivers. By integrating them into the kernel we have an eco system where drivers are out of reach of many users and OEMs. Consider the difficultly in making a desktop scanner for linux. Additionally kernel changes can break a driver with little recourse on the OEMs side, you must simply bend to Linus's will. At the end of the day we suffer from Linux's driver architecture.
It will help me a lot.
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If this is true, we can assume the computers of all but the very most careful and dutiful admins have been pwned. I'm flabbergasted even looking at my own laptop, the element of trust in any of my own hardware is gone.
Indeed. In fact since the MIT license explicitly grants sublicensing, you can take MIT-licensed software and simply offer it with no modifications under the GPL. This is not safe to do with the BSD license btw.
Automatic server side replacement with HTML5 video would be cool. Also resizing with auto-cache.
While the EULA may "clearly cover exactly this scenario" do you think it would be as easy to extract the information if it was a google or apple trade secret? I kind of think MS would go to the mat for user privacy in that circumstance.
> It's unfortunate that many companies thrive despite situations like this, but it happens all the time.

Would you prefer successful company run by incompetent people or unsuccessful company run by competent people?
> Facebook is a ten year old company with a market capitalization of $170 billion, so "bad" is probably not the most accurate word to describe their technical and business decisions.

How does that follow, exactly? They haven't failed, so any inefficient or sub-optimal decisions were the correct decisions?
Two points:

First, the OP claimed

"Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost
never do."

but gave no evidence.

Second, on finishing, we can consider I. Newton,
W. Mozart, C. Darwin ('Origin of the Species'), R.
Wagner (operas, especially 'The Ring'), J. Maxwell
(E&M), A. Einstein (general relativity), J.
Oppenheimer (A-bomb), S. Ulam (H-bomb), J. Salk
(polio vaccine), D. Henderson (Smallpox
eradication), J. Heifetz (violin), W. Gates
(Microsoft), A. Wiles (Fermat's last theorem), J.
Bezos (Amazon).
Perhaps if the dog is also aware of the direction of the wind during the time of the smell.
Anybody try to call his number? lol
So, I'm still at 1.4.10 for my startup that's still in private beta. I'm feeling left behind very rapidly. Is the effort to update from 1.4.x to 1.7.x worth it before going public? Also, as a general policy, is it best to always stay one version behind?

Is there a good guide for going from 1.4 to 1.6?
It was a simpler time! I miss it!
Any plans to have overrides for return types in the same class? I think that would be amazing.
http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.otherrulesandfeatures.ov...
is postgres as quick as neo4j, in your use case? ive really been into neo4j lately, but im curious if postgres could also be used as a graph database.
Neither. I prefer a successful company run by competent people since it has greater chances of survival ;)
Having access to the internet is quickly becoming an important part of what it means to be a productive and contributing member of our society. If being part of a community means building relationships and communicating with people in your community, why should we expect the working class members of our society to not be entitled to having the same technologies to communicate and build community that you and I enjoy in the middle class? Additionally, let's face the facts: you need the internet to apply for jobs, look for housing, apply for schools, and many other very fundamental tasks. Luckily phones and data plans are getting cheaper, so access to the internet is becoming more feasible, but there is still a ways to go. I urge you to have a bit more empathy. We are all just humans living in a very imperfectly structured world learning how to see each other as humans.
Amazon EC2 API and Console is broken in US-EAST-1
It would be interesting to see if Microsoft has or will disclose how often it has leveraged this clause to tap into its customers' personal emails 'to protect the rights or property of Microsoft'. It may be a bigger number that we think
That was a really weak part of the post. Settlement-free peering is when I route your traffic and you route my traffic and they're about even so there's not really anything to be gained by you paying me $1000 this month and me paying you $1000 next month. If Netflix were to start routing Comcast traffic to the general internet at the same rate that they route traffic from their data centers to Comcast, that would be a rather different story.

Offering to just accept and blackhole traffic is silly, and everyone involved knows it. I'm really disappointed that Netflix chose to present that argument in their post, because it's deliberately misleading about the nature of settlement-free peering.
Mogees – Play the world (Kickstarter .. closed)
Since they are in receivership, what will happen when the adjudicator liquidates th to pay off debts? What will happen to the exchange rate when these get dumped on the market?
This submission is in reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439358
This is phenomenal. So, so good.
There is at this time no viable vaccine for malaria. Malaria is much more prevalent in tropical zones than temperate zones because mosquitos are more prevalent in tropical zones than temperate zones.

Being a wealthier nation does help to develop the public heath initiatives and infrastructure, though the reasons for the poverty in sub-Saharan Africa are in no small part tied to the many centuries of exploitation by wealthier colonial nations. Much of post-colonial Africa started on the path of independence 50-60 years ago after centuries of resources being exploited and populations subjugated, and some areas were still under colonial rule in the 70s. The IMF and other post-colonial organizations have managed to institutionalize western imperialist-style economic exploitation without needing to bother with military occupation. It will take a very long time for those countries to recover from centuries of abuse (much ongoing) and begin to develop a stable national infrastructure that could support the kind of economic growth and the ability to manage natural resources responsibly.

"Technological singularity" - nerd rapture magical thinking won't cure malaria.
Everyone that originates or terminates requests or responses on the internet pays for transport in one form or another.
> For example, let's say there's some "open source" software that allows you to read the code, but prevents you from distributing it.

I think btw that is a bigger restriction than allowing you to distribute the binary but not read the code.
Well, as I tried to allude to, in those cases Apple or Google would file a motion to compel Microsoft to disclose the info. Is it even possible under the rules of civil procedure for Microsoft to file a motion to compel itself to disclose something? Again, I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that a judge isn't going to hear the argument if there's no case, even if Microsoft did want the same level of scrutiny.
Thanks for asking about that. We are in the nascent stages of rolling out deeper features for nonprofits on 1deg.org. We're piloting that with 5 San Francisco nonprofits now, and hope to roll it out more widely in the near future.

In the meantime, if you're part of an SF nonprofit organization, contact me (rey at 1deg dot org), and I can see about getting you in on this pilot as well. Essentially we want to build features based on what our pilot partners say they want, so we're starting with the 3 bullet points, but don't want to get carried away just yet!
This sums up the new Wolfram Language in one command - ways of combining data and algorithms in novel/interesting, but practically useless ways.
I hear a lot about this but never really had a chance to incorporate it in my projects because I didn't understand what it as for and why
By that logic, why consumers should pay anything to ISPs? ISPs don't have obligations to sign free peering agreements to CDNs or other large network owners, like Netflix, if it isn't advantageous to them.

Large network owners agree to peer without charges when it is mutually beneficial. That usually boils down to whether the traffic exchanged between the two networks will be roughly balanced and managed reliably.

One of the issue here is that Netflix doesn't operate an Internet backbone. Therefore, ISPs can't use Netflix's network to exchange traffic across the wider Internet. So this leaves the ISPs two choices here:

1) Agree to a free peering agreement with Netflix and build more capacity in their network at the ISP's expense to support Netflix's egress traffic;
2) Request Netflix to sign a paid peering agreement to support the construction and maintenance of the needed extra network capacity.

ISPs who opt for the first choice believe that improving their access to Netflix will make their customers happy and thus allow them grow their business. The other ISPs who opt for the latter choice believe, on the other hands, don't see the free peering as an investment; they want rather to extract more money from their existing customers. So, it is not that surprising to see the incumbent ISPs, who have locked-in their users already and killed-off most of the competition, going against free peering.

That said, I just can't wait to see Google Fiber kick the behinds of these greedy fools.
Interesting theory, but in software development, doesn't the B player learning from the A player raise the abilities of the B player? I've learned a ton from A player developers, though I am not convinced I will ever be one, they have definitely helped me.

In comparison to the Korean Pilot example provided, software development is rarely a life and death situation, where the silence of a B player will result in the downfall of the product. We luckily have the opportunity to do a test run and make sure everything works as we expect it to.

Lastly, how many people agree that idea guys are B players. I'll admit, I'm an idea guy and as I already stated, I figure I'm a B player, but I didn't think there was a relationship between the two. Thankfully, ideas guys can be as valuable as A player developers.
Numbers are just a different kind of language, according to Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was interested in language and meaning too. You may enjoy his work On The Foundations of Mathematics, where he explores that idea more in depth.
Ugh - everyone speaking extremely carefully, making sure to use language like they would a math proof, makes for a very boring world. Just get the fucking point across; that's effective communication. Slang can be VERY good at fulfilling that.
do you know how to apply both color blindness and dog vision?
> It'll help people who don't start one because they don't have an idea.

Good startups arise from ideas, great startups arise from problems.
I came here to say that. Looks like the colors are all that's needed for the game to be playable.
Recent research[1] has found a fovea like structure on the canine retina. Fovea is a small patch of the retina with increased density of visual receptors. The finding suggests that the dogs has better visual acuity than previously suspected.

Quite likely this visualization were programed before this new development.

[1]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140305191513.ht...
Dogs are hunters, not foragers. They spot movement very well indeed, and a squirrel's hop -- pause -- hop -- pause　movement style is very easy to recognise.
Well not exactly, as I understand it you could attack the passphrase protecting the key.

If you remember any details about this passphrase then you can dramatically reduce the strength? (I'm not sure of the word to use here. Someone help me out) of said passphrase.

But yes, if someone was able to crack keys in a reasonable amount of time then bitcoin would crash overnight.
I agree with pmtarantino, about contacting the publisher, but you can also use those names as inspiration.

Duran Duran (the music band from the 80s) apparently got their name from Barbarella, but when I looked for the Duran Duran Barbarella, we get Dr. Durand Durand.
A lot easier just using a touch screen but its starting to feel tedious. Also reading the comments about the game taking 4 hrs... maybe I'll just quit before I waste too much time.
The following query computes an approximation of the Mandelbrot Set and outputs the result as ASCII-art

That's the biggest nerd-out I've seen in weeks.
Full-Stack Plant Watering System Using Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Current market value of about $116M. Wow.