skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yeah, I agree. I'm not saying that Mojang hasn't likely been willfully ignoring the license violation, just that Bukkit seems to infringe on the letter of the official Minecraft Server license. And yeah, I don't think that that has any bearing on the copyright claim.

Incidentally, the link has been changed since I began commenting. I find this assertion from the now-linked post to be odd: "Additionally, we believe that Wesley has no right to prevent the continued use of his contributions to the project – which he gave freely, knowing them to be subject to applicable open source licenses. We believe these licenses continue to bind all those who contributed to the Bukkit Project." This doesn't really address the primary charge from Wolverness, to paraphrase, that essentially the bukkit and related projects are distributing code incompatible with its license and therefore are not permitted to distribute the copyrighted code contained in the bukkit project without express permission. If the license for the code is not adhered to, then you don't have permission to distribute the copyrighted material... So one party is saying that the license was broken, and the other party responds by saying that there was a license. That's kind of a non sequitur.
People upset by this (as I am) may be interested in EndForfeiture.com, a very slick brochure-style site you can send to your friends.

The organization behind it is the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that has performed ample pro bono litigation against civil asset forfeiture abuse.

If you choose to donate to them (which I encourage), note that they do legal work in other areas that you may or may not agree with, so you should take a look at that first.

(Note: I am not affiliated with IJ, I just admire their work.)
I enjoy hearing people comment on their own "terrible" design decisions, though they never seem as bad as some of my own. :)

Regarding performance, did anyone else have absolutely awful frame rates when zooming? On my beefy Macbook Pro in Chrome it would drop to two or three frames per second.

Edit: and on my Windows PC in Chrome, which was fairly beefy three years ago, it's more like a frame every few seconds.
Because it's brain mush, and because it's old enough to be plainly seen as such by most people. Just like aluminum tubes, or telling (intellectual) children that "Al Kayda" is going to blow up their beloved shopping mall.

If OP wants to take the easy route by getting his world view from common propaganda (look at some of those other comments. "checks and balances" - that rich!), that's his right (assuming he's not just part of an organized program to stifle discussion). But that doesn't mean we should respect such drivel as legitimate discourse - mass media prevails precisely through sheer attrition.
On large two-stroke engines a blower/turbocharger is often used to not only introduce additional fresh air for the next combustion cycle but also to more rapidly/completely purge the combustion gasses out the exhaust ports (this is called scavenging).
Even if the GPL did work that way, I believe he actually contributed his code to Bukkit which is a seperate project that doesn't contain the decompiled code from the Minecraft server at issue here. That code then got reused in CraftBukkit.
I could totally imagine wanting to rewrite ElasticSearch, and go seems like a reasonable language to do it in. ES seems to handle downtime extremely poorly, and is very difficult to make "safe" for people to write arbitrary queries against it. And by difficult I mean there is circuit breaker and nought else.
Sure; I just always assumed he's writing the code himself.
The real criminals just use big banks for money laundering: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-...
For certain large types of crime such as fraud of stolen creditcard data and others, the only bottleneck is the ability to launder the stolen money - with the current limitations, it generally requires recruiting (scamming) 'mules' to do your laundering for you in limited volumes.

That means, if tomorrow suddenly it'd be possible to launder x% more funds with the same effort, then immediately that fraud will grow by that same x%.

Also, for certain types of crime 'following the money' is pretty much the only way how they get solved. Anti money laundering laws have valid uses - of course, they definitely don't need to prescribe seizing legally obtained cash.
The only obligation of the police is to investigate crime and arrest criminals. They have no requirement to protect people, much less property.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=...
That money isn't related to buzzfeed. This article is a self entitled rant that he doesn't like gossip rags. Big deal, I don't really like them either, but if I saw them as a good investment and I had the money I'd use it.
I'm baffled by the claim that Mojang "obtained rights [to]" Bukkit. I'm not involved in the community, but to me it looks like they hired some of the lead devs, and maybe had those devs transfer their copyrights to Mojang?

But unless Bukkit/CraftBukkit had a copyright assignment policy, which it doesn't appear to have had, the developers Mojang hired could not transfer the entirety of Bukkit to Mojang's ownership, and thus the "obtained rights [to]" language by the COO seems either inaccurate or meaningless.

Doesn't Mojang have lawyers? Their behavior seems baffling and their public statements even more so.
coincidentally I am working through land of lisp, recommend it:
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159327...
Do I see myself using lisp in production code? Not in the near future. I do think there is value in learning something that exposes you to thinking in different ways, till now what Ive gained is that Python is pretty lispy!
Remember that choosing to take less than US$10k in order to avoid the reporting and customs paperwork is a crime in the USA, too.
Why couldn't you deposit the money in a bank, and withdraw it as close to the casino as possible?
I guess I haven't paid too much attention to Salon and Slate. I always confuse them. Why do you consider Salon pandering and always in outrage, but not Slate? I do agree Salon does do that. Does Slate not?
> The point is that this is a terrible company that acted in bad faith, and took advantage of an admittedly naive person, and nobody in the developer community should ever trust Unbabel again because fuck them.

Wow, just wow. Is the world really so black and white to you?
>Execution sounded pretty reasonable

>Misjudged the market

This business was a pure play "do this thing you already do, but now with a computer" model. Understanding the market IS the execution. He subbed out the design of the site and frankly most of the actual company. So really, the "execution" was essentially knowing product/market fit. I would argue the execution was, in fact, horrible. He did non-representative research, tried to start at full scale, and had no idea what sort of market he was operating.

>failed to pivot when his launch did 12 orders first week.
> “Those laws were meant to take a guy out for selling $1 million in cocaine or who was trying to launder large amounts of money,” said Mark Overton, the police chief in Bal Harbour, Fla., who once oversaw a federal drug task force in South Florida.

If that was your intention then why on earth did you allow seizures from civilians? Seems to me that the best way to seize a million dollars from a cocaine dealer is to arrest him if you have reasonable suspicion, and if he's convicted, seize the money.

But of course, it's a lot easier to just take his money without being able to prove your suspicion. :\
The subreddit which contains resources to help you explore classical music
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Very interesting. I love to see how people deal with such tight deadlines, especially when they hit that eventual point mentioned in the article where things just sort of work out of sheer effort and it's too late to change their approach.

I am curious, however, about this comment: "We anticipated a higher proportion of the Colbert Report referrals would be using IE." What was the rationale behind this? Maybe I'm just wrong in my assumptions about the Colbert audience, but I'd definitely have expected a much more mobile-heavy (and non-IE) group.
I couldn't resist.

http://common-lisp.net/language.html
China overtakes US to be biggest economy by 2024
Controlling the location of the temporary directory does not cause a security problem as long as the attacker cannot predict the name of the directory.

Also, regarding FUSE: that's one of many reasons that FUSE mounts by default don't allow other users (including root) to access them.
Yes, I totally echo this sentiment - Javascript has the traction and the stability to be a good transpiler target. That Google is actively trying to push both Dart and Go simply makes no sense for me, especially since Dart is supposedly (as far as I can tell with half a degree in googling) aimed at frontend work more-so than Go but at the same time seems to come with even more complex language structure than Go..
sounds like a pitch to go to the sit. that not a real testimonial.
They're not slippery-sloping anything. They're saying your data is theirs, period.
I really enjoyed reading OkTrends posts, but having near radio silence for three years (apart from one post last July) followed by a full-on PR blitz for a new book (comes out on Tuesday) makes me a little sad.

This piece almost makes it sound as if Rudder has been blogging based on OkCupid results this whole time... and if you go to the OkTrends site, you see huge inline placement for Rudder's new book.
As long as the war on drugs continues to be waged, injustices like this will continue to happen. Civil forfeiture, SWAT team raids, mandatory miniums, etc. It seems to me that our society is so well off, it has to make up criminal laws, criminalizing victimless, ordinary activities, so that the police and courts have something to constantly do, so they can fund their operations. Another problem is that much of the rest of the world follows suit, usually because they have no other choice. They are pressured through the UN (basically an extension of US policy), sanctions, aid, etc.

It is these actions by police that truly terrify. Foreign organizations don't even hold a candle to the terrorism of our domestic police and law enforcement agencies. Some may point out that freedom of the press/speech still exists, but to that, I will point out that our government has realized a long time ago that it does not need to control speech to control people. In fact, many public channels, especially TV are already controlled by the people in favor of government (see FOX news). By allowing such pretend freedoms as freedom of speech and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, it makes it much harder to fight all the abuses.

Every single amendment in the Bill of Rights has been decimated and rendered powerless, especially in the last few decades. As another poster here pointed out, however, the cases in proportion to the total population affect a very small percentage of the population, and in most cases, they target minorities who have less credibility and power to fight them in our racist society.

Injustice is everywhere in our society and there seems to be little incentive or even means by regular people to fight it. How does it feel to live in such an unjust society, one that persecutes not only its own people, but also invades other countries based on lies? It's infuriating, helpless, depressing, and most of all, terrifying.
Did they say what, exactly, they had "acquired"? Obviously they could continue distributing and developing the GPL/LGPL source, and depending on whether the name is trademarked they could keep calling it Bukkit.

Does Mojang own the issue tracker, the website, etc.? In that case, sure, they can keep those going, although without any developers I don't see the point.
Me too. What an honor to work with the man.
weev is right! https://blog.ageispolis.net/speculating-fbi-silk-road-unmask...
How Google works
Exactly. Sites like BuzzFeed and Vice have some pretty trashy stuff, so people dismiss their small forays into "real" journalism as irrelevant posturing—but I don't think that's the case. In the past, quality journalists went to quality publications because the only place to find quality journalism was in a quality publication. Now, with people getting their articles from aggregators, social media and cross-linking, it's no longer important what publication a writer writes for. A journalist for BuzzFeed can write (nearly) the same article they would for the New York Times, and (nearly) the same people (within the younger audience, at least) will be able to discover it. The publication is less relevant as an institution and a brand — BuzzFeed, HuffPo and the ilk are just investors and CMS's for the work of individual writers.

Tl;dr: online news has been unbundled.
Ah, thanks for the clarity!

Regarding GoF, I think having more well-known constructs to reference can provide some value even when those constructs are motivated by overcoming limitations that may not be present in a given context. Picking more broadly useful constructs will provide more value, but you may or may not be able to get there from here, and certainly (perhaps unfortunately) enough people still find themselves coding in contexts where GoF patterns can be directly useful.
Thanks, insightful.
> most people program by page faulting

As I said, Common Lisp is not for most people.

This Web 1.0 page describes the concept: "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" http://norvig.com/21-days.html

> But again the landscape is dominated by FOSS.

Which landscape? There is not one landscape. Is Apple's XCode FOSS? Windows dev tools? Open Source?

If you believe in FOSS, you can use SBCL, CMUCL, CLISP, ECL, MKCL, Clozure CL and several others. I use SBCL and Clozure CL.

> CD's are more old-school than landlines.

Write games with Land of Lisp then. But sorry, the Common Lisp community is not large enough to rewrite books every so often. In the mean time there are classics like Peter Norvig's PAIP, which are even older and even less exciting. Still it is easily one of the best programming books ever written.

> Ada were hot

Ada was never 'hot'. It is a tool used in a lot of mission critical software.

> I mean, what's the case of Common Lisp over Clojure?

I think you have to find that out yourself. Don't be sad if Common Lisp is not for you. Few people drive a Mercedes Unimog, though Arnold Schwarzenegger had one. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/04/1409847539952_wps_...
You might ask what the Unimog does better than some Toyota, why it costs so much and why so few people have one. If you might spend some time, you might find out what the Unimog is, why it exists and who uses them for what...
Interesting! From what I'm reading so far, this seems not to be Illumos-specific (despite being motivated by Illumos's needs), but rather a cleanup that'd be applicable to any POSIX-like system. A fork of less that assumes POSIX-like functionality and cleans up a lot of things accordingly does seem like a worthwhile project. A bit more "unixy" design that uses the system versions of available functionality (like globbing and UTF-8!) should also reduce the risk of weird bugs & inconsistencies with how the rest of the system operates.
Where is the Burning Man Auto Wash service? With powerful vacuums for that special "no residual seeds" detailing? Or at least the Burning Man Avoid The Man infoproduct? It must not be common knowledge if so many cars hit the highway with dust.
Can you expand a bit on your experience with ramnode? The prices look great. Is it reliable, and do you get the performance you expect from them?
That's interesting. It seems strange to secretly acquire a public GPL project from a subset of its developers. It seems like perhaps all they bought was the option to carry over the name and a fraction of the code if a fork became necessary. Or perhaps to cripple the project in case of disputes.
I'm biased toward reading dead tree books - last month I paid 99 cents for The Standard C Libary, so I take that into account.

What I also take into account is StackOverflow. There are a lot of programmers who don't even read a page of google search results.

I will also say that from my time on HN, the number of people who read dead-tree technical books versus the number who read ebook versions of technical books may be less than dead even. They're cheaper [new] and services like Safari provide entire libraries at reasonable prices. [I've commented elsewhere in this thread on how Seibel's book exemplifies the some of the Common Lisp community's tone deafness].
less was started (~ '83) before getopt() was made available to the 'general' public ('85).

My guess is nobody bothered to replace these parts, since options were only added gradually; if at all. Coincidentally i'm in the same predicament with a tool a coworker of mine (initially) wrote, convoluted option parsing to say the least; but I'm too busy with fixing other parts or adding proper functionality to it than to replace it.

Sometimes, 'less is more'.
Using aggregate data (ie. not any individual's personal data) about interactions to study societal behaviour is unethical? On a website that you willingly sign up for, no doubt with disclaimers about how they're allowed to use your data?

As far as slippery slopes go, Facebook crossed that line quite a while ago...
The blog was dormant for 3 years, apparently they just posted a new post... Of course I unsubscribed last month :D
> So what does Common Lisp gain by purposely avoiding contributions?

Does it do that?

Contributions are welcome. It's just that it is not easy for most people to contribute to something like Haskell or Common Lisp. Many people just don't have the time or capacity to learn in. There are some people who learn Common Lisp because of specialized tasks (like composing music), but they have a motivation to learn a special tool.
Simple Way to Organize Chrome's Bookmarks Toolbar
On "still leaves thousands (if not hundred of thousands) of collisions", here's some research:

"In 2010, Eckersley demonstrated that benign characteris-
tics of a browser's environment, like the screen dimensions
and list of installed fonts, could be combined to create a
unique device-speci c ngerprint [7]. Of the half million
users who participated in Eckersley's experiment, 94.2% of
those using Flash or Java had a unique device ngerprint,
and could thus be identi ed and tracked without the need
for stateful client-side technologies, such as browser or Flash
cookies."

Source: http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-2334....
Know what's fucked-up? I used to be a long-haired handsome kid. Not that pretty boyed. Now? Men should wear buzcuts and facial hair.

If taking an avatar photo for OSDEV? Don't seduce the camera, homo! It's dudes, dumb fuck.
This same article was published on planet Lisp http://planet.lisp.org/ by Pascal Costanza
Oculus VR might count
I haven't been able to find any evidence that Mojang owns a trademark on "Bukkit", or even that such a trademark exists. They apparently don't own the domain name or the hosting accounts. And they don't own the entirety of the source code.

Mojang is definitely claiming they "acquired" some kind of rights to Bukkit, but I can't find any description of what those rights are -- and, for a community project, I don't understand what they could possibly own that isn't public knowledge. You can't own secret trademarks.
Many people don't have the time or the capacity to contribute to Python or C++ or PHP, either. Yet I rarely see comments as dismissive of the general programming population such as yours, coming from Python/C++/PHP users.
And yet it seems that the headlines are dominated by "The Terrorists" and "The Evil Drugs Lords", not "Surprisingly Annoying Credit Card Fraudsters".

Indeed, the very fact that credit card fraud is effective is more proof that the existing credit system needs upgrading and that cash-only is not an unreasonable way of handling these transactions.
"Taxi company is the 'little guy'" analogy is wrong.

There are many different structures of taxi companies.

Some Fleets are owned by drivers (similar to employee owned companies).
Some fleets are owned by a single company, who got into the business at the right time to benefit from it (of course with a high upfront investment).
And then there are some groups of fleets owned by a single company, sometimes across many cities.

So a 'Taxi Company' can be worth anywhere between a $100,000 company to a $100 million, based on the structure.

The 'little guy' analogy was false for sometime since Uber and Lyft disrupted the market. But now, compared to Uber and Lyft at current valuations (multiple billions), these fleets (any type) are certainly "tiny" if not "little guys".

TNC disruption has been necessary for a long time, since regulations didn't evolve continually to reflect market demands/requirements. Now its time to turn the heat on the TNCs to ensure the driver/rider is not screwed due to lack of valid insurance and licenses.

I foresee a point where Uber and Lyft will get more regulated, existing taxis will get a fair playground in terms of insurance and pricing flexibility, and more transport options will become available for everyone.
Thanks dang. I don't think the story should have been killed, since it added very relevant information that was not included in the previous post.
It makes me remember John Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding[0]

> The Indian before mentioned [...], saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked what the elephant rested on; to which his answer was—a great tortoise: but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied—SOMETHING, HE KNEW NOT WHAT

--
[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10615/pg10615.txt, 2nd book, chapter XXIII, paragraph 2
I'd say it was the simple assumption that the general internet audience uses IE at a much greater rate than typical XKCD visitors... And he does mention that they aren't TV watchers so didn't have any experience to draw on there.
No. Cultural adaptation takes time, especially coming into a leadership position. Newly recruited managers should do a couple of things to get up to speed.

1. Meet with all your direct reports, even if it's 5 minutes, introduce themselves, ask what they're working on, what the holds up are, etc. You're leading them, make an effort to get to know them. (I'm a big fan of peopleware in this regard).

2. Take the time to read everything. A former boss of mine gave me this tip and said when you walk into a management role at a new place, your first job is to read everything and understand what's going on. Reading the docs (business and technical) gives you insight into what's going on and brings you up to speed.

3. Figure out the politics. Every office has them and the higher up you go, the more you have to play them.

4. Learn the tech stuff as needed. Understanding how team's tools work helps you, as the manager, when it comes to cost/time estimates and understanding your team. Ramp up sessions explaining the processes behind major tools and the tradeoffs are valuable in this regard.

I disagree with brudgers that management is supposed to focus on management and not understand the technical side. If you're managing tech people, the easiest way to understand how to smooth the path and get out of the way is to know which way things are going and how the tech works.

Management isn't about micro controlling your people, whose got time for that? It is about understanding what they're working on, running interference, and helping them develop towards their professional goals.

(Peopleware is a great book in this regard)
Off-topic, but why am I getting told to log in on the NYT website?
HaaS: Can This Work for Seed Stage Companies?