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> No. There's no such thing as an "implicit" GPL exception.

You don't think a court would use some equitable doctrine such as estoppel to find that if I explicitly contribute my code to a project with the intent that they include it and distribute it, I am giving them whatever licenses is necessary to allow that?
I actually commend BuzzFeed for having unabashedly liberal social viewpoints. So maybe through listicles and what not, it can help push for more openness in our society to heterogeneity.
I found another way of doing this, we can use ruby codex with the sandbox, it worked for me like a charm, I will also try using the python sandbox. It sound relativly safer this way.
I have a lot of respect for the people behind OkCupid. They tread a lot of grey areas that many online entities are scared to.

On the whole, I also think usage of willfully submitted and gathered user data for things other than advertising is amazing. Too many companies have invested too many resources into data analytics purely for increasing revenue from advertising.

I think if companies can find ways to gain better social understanding and from that provide better value to end users (rather than to advertisers as in the advertising model) in a way that gets them revenue, it will be amazing. I am all for social media companies doing research from their user data, in the hope that we can move on from the ad-driven web.
The scale generation algorithm described here is really interesting - it starts from the natural core of harmony (using rational relationships between frequencies), and gives you the option to keep the resulting natural-tempered notes, or to adapt them to the modern-day 12-tone equal temperament (12TET) and its irratonal, twelvth-root frequencies.

The question of whether 12TET is "natural" or not is an interesting one, and in my opinion, it was great for a few centuries, but at some point music will move beyond 12TET. Take a look at one of richest websites exploring this question [1], whose author has a different opinion from mine.

As for skipping the 7th harmonic -- i'd say you shouldn't do it. If you scroll down [1] until you get to the "n-tone equal temperament" graph, you'll find one of the nicest ever justifications for 12TET. However, if you added more harmonics to that graph, you'd find that the 7th does not fall anywhere close the 12TET frequencies: that's why we're not used to hearing it, and it sounds the most alien to us.

[1]: http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/wtcpage004.html
It is currently possible to share 90% of the code between a Windows Phone and a Windows 8 app. Heck, it is even possible to write the UI of an app once and make it work on both platforms. The binaries are now the same on Windows Phone and Windows 8 (I think you can submit a single one for both apps), and universal apps are already a thing (you can buy it once and get the app on Windows 8 and Windows Phone).

It's a matter of time before people realize they can use Xamarin to port a Windows app to iOS/Android in a matter of days.
Live Stream – MHacks Fall 2014 Final Demos
The Mizar project has been verifying a good share of math results for decades, not to demerit HoTT but to clarify the article.
Really nice, although the site seems to load somewhat slow for me...
Common Lisp has macros. Paul Graham's book On Lisp is usually pointed to as the best treatment of macros in Lisp. CL also has many more features than Scheme, as mentioned in the other comments here.
I live in London and really don't think the idea was ever going to work.

His market was for people who wanted to cook for themselves, but didn't know where to buy the ingredients.

There are lots of shops, so this really isn't a problem.
Section 3.5 doesn't seem very safe to me, because I think it allows the user running the script to dictate where the directory will be created via an environment variable.

I don't know what specifically would be gained with that control. Maybe an attacker could specify a TMPDIR that resolves to a path on a FUSE mount and start doing nefarious things with the data in the tmp file?
Kokesh is particular is extremely unpopular in the gun community.
Haha a few people have noticed that so far. But I do it for all my apps and I don't mind that people notice it.
True, but for most stuff it is quite good. I use Clozure CL with Emacs/SLIME on ARM/Linux systems and it works great.
I believe that if the evidence were found to be false or otherwise inadmissible, then a jury would never see it.
Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Actually, legislation HAS been proposed, but it has been opposed by some in law enforcement. Part of the reason may be that this now provides a noticeable portion of the funding for law enforcement in certain jurisdictions.
Good Idea. For 1) I could use a small switch and for 2) then this driver?
I looked at a16z portfolio [1] and could not find any "real" liquidity event, meaning IPO or big acquisition. There are a number of really high valuation companies, though, which are mostly based on the last round funding, often led by a16z. Now, a natural question is who exactly is benefiting from the high valuation? OK, certainly not the employees as most of them are not vested, and even if they have, they can't sell to anyone, and there is no cash dividend. The founders and top management sometimes can negotiate a better deals financially in these funding rounds [2], and in general can be resume boosters for them, so they do benefit somewhat from the high valuation. The LPs are not exactly getting anything at this time as the gain is not realized yet. That leaves the VCs who have a huge incentives to lead big rounds, as their incomes are proportional to the size of the funds they raise from LPs as detailed in this HBR article [3]. Given this dynamics, I am not surprised to see average startups with average products get funded at a hugely inflated valuation. I just hope that the LPs are investing with their own money, and are not retirement fund managers (specifically, not MY retirement fund).

[1] http://a16z.com/portfolio/

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20111001/vcs-unite-chamath-palihapitiy...

[3] http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-we...
We assigned the second url to the story. (It used to have no url.)
Good call on these scales.

For those who are new to music theory basics, the easy way to remember your Modes is to relate them to their first step.

For example. C D E F G A B is a C major scale also known as the IONIAN MODE.

Beginning this scale on the 2nd note: D E F G A B C is the Dorian mode.

So continue in this ++ manner and get the rest: PHRYGIAN, LYDIAN, MIXOLYDIAN, AEOLIAN (The natural minor scale), and LOCRIAN.
These are all "Natural Modes"

The significant one here is the 6th Mode or AEOLIAN. That is the minor key enharmonic (using the same notes) as the 1st Mode, our Major Scale.

Why is it significant? Because the minor was a target for early composers to modify. Primarily the Melodic Minor and Harmonic Minor are based on the Natural Minor by using accidentals ( sharp notes and flat notes (a modification up or down by a half step)).

Once we take our Modified Minor scale and play it starting on each individual scale step, we get our Fancy Jazz Scales.
Voila. New Scales. So easy it is criminal. But, for some, very pleasing to the ear.
That was true twenty years ago when the fallout of the lead epidemic[1] was being blamed on lax law enforcement. Today it's just hollow rhetoric that people use to try to scare politicians into funneling more money into irrational policies. The American people have no sympathy for corrupt law enforcement.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
Author here.

BankAPI is actually using HTTPS, but doesn't depend on SSL alone, as the files/messages are also encrypted/signed using OpenPGP.
This means banks would not have to trust all the CAs who issue SSL-certificates, as the OpenPGP public keys are imported once for each bank you wish to communicate with, and won't change unless you explicitly update them.

The value it adds is the two layers of security (HTTPS+OpenPGP) and the "DeliveryReceipt" which makes it possible for both parties (the sending and the receiving bank) to prove they did send and did receive all files/messages sent over BankAPI.
To me this case is extreme, so my judgment and measures are extreme. Of course it's easier said than done, but that doesn't change anything.

The vast majority of which population? Are you referring to Europeans or Germans alone?
Using Python inside Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT) Environment
EDIT2: I might have been a little harsh here. I was missing some context that I've been avoiding over the past few weeks. On further reflection, I have nothing but anger for the way Mojang has handled this situation. Even though they claim that they "own Bukkit outright", completely devaluing the many, many, many community contributions made, they continue to refuse to support the project in even the most trivial ways, and I have nothing but respect for many of the community leaders they've driven away, including @mbaxter, @EvilSeph, @amaranth and many more. Mojang is absolutely to blame for this, no matter how childish Wolverness' behavior may be. I've left my original comment below, to give some context on the complexities of the situation, but I can maybe understand where Wolverness is coming from at this point.

This is my perspective as someone who was once inside of the Bukkit community as an outside developer (not one of the core team), but Wolverness has been a very toxic maintainer of the project, especially as it regards to responding to pull requests. Either your code complies 100% with the contributing guidelines (including confusingly written and sometimes unwritten rules about spacing, formatting, naming and pull request formatting) or it gets rejected out of hand. Any mention of forks of the Bukkit project (such as Spigot, Glowstone or SportBukkit) could get you banned from IRC, the forums and your comments deleted on Github. This upon many, many instances of just caustic behaviors and treatment of interested developers and contributors.

I'm still subscribed to the projects on Github, and I was never burned by these rules personally (so these feelings are not out of spite--they're out of sorrow for the developers who were turned away) but I don't think I'd ever have a chance of getting any non-trivial PR integrated into the project. The standards were just too insane. I'm no fan of how Mojang has been handling the minecraft community recently, but anything that would drive this guy out is just fine by me.

(This takedown is BS btw. CraftBukkit has ALWAYS linked against the minecraft official server library--a release of CB made by a Mojang employee doesn't change ANYTHING about the GPL status of Minecraft. Note that the proprietary minecraft server DOESN'T link against in any way shape or form)
'Why must the people opposing asset forfeiture come up with a "legitimate situation"?'

I read the parent as specifically disclaiming such an implication.
A couple additional notes:

1. Many (most?) of the servers running with Bukkit also had some form of payment for items, skills, ranks, etc. that can affect game play, also known as "pay-to-win." Mojang recently announced that they were going to be cracking down on this since it's a violation of the license, though I don't know what if any enforcement has actually happened. Enforcement was due to start August 1.

2. Mojang has a couple of multiplayer options without Bukkit - the Minecraft Server piece that is part of this discussion and Minecraft Realms. If Bukkit is dead (which may be the case no matter what happens because W. is not the only outside developer who could pull this kind of stunt), there are still multiplayer options and Mojang could likely implement some of the features currently in Bukkit but under their control - perhaps under a licensing model that lets them sell the server software as well.

Basically this guy has managed to shut down something being used by folks with business practices that Mojang was already having some issues with, while leaving available some less feature-rich options fully approved (and controlled by) Mojang. The odds of that resulting in their giving in and open-sourcing something that's included in Minecraft as a whole are somewhere around nil - worst case for Mojang is that the Minecraft server community that they're not a direct part of takes a feature and popularity hit for some time while they get to point at this guy as the reason why.
Ask HN: Solving the problem of “No Results”
One of the issues we are facing is when a user searches a word in a specific city and there are no tweets within the last 15 minutes. Right now we have a page suggesting words that have been previously searched with having results. However, some words might not have results based on locations i.e. "Tech" in San Fran shows results and "Tech" in Key West might not.
Looking for some type of solution to keep users engaged and still getting meaningful information.
Thanks in advance!
What are some of the most counterintuitive mathematical results?
The issue of license violation is that someone had to claim damages. Mojang could have, but didn't - and you could argue in a court benefited greatly from this state of affairs (selling Minecraft licenses).

The fact that Mojang now wants to distribute GPL code without providing full source would, I suspect, stand badly against that since a claim of license violation has been made now. Generally, you can't ignore copyright by yelling "two wrongs make a right".
can we use the same website for C++? I'm sorry, I'm very new to all this..
Isn't step 2 illegal in some states? I think, but I could he wrong, that Illinous prevents audio recording without permission.
Actually they'd just ignore it if it all came from one person. If it came from multiple people, that'd be a case of "people with power get what they want" as a collection of even ordinary people is a powerful and wealthy force on its own.
Show HN: Burners
You could with benefit send FIX messages over BankAPI, as it doesn't define the content of the messages transferred.
I like most of my neighbors, and I am proud of what our country aspires to. Alas, the rich and powerful are a huge lot of real assholes. So, yes, we're a bit overdue for another round to take them down a notch or two.

Once in a while, things do happen in the U.S. to piss off the assholes:

* abolished slavery

* gave women the right to vote

* changed tax structure to try to encourage more of a meritocracy (alas, largely rolled back)

* overturned prohibition (again, losing ground due to war on drugs leading to Al Capone 2.0)

(maybe only once every two generations or so, but there you go)

Alas, there's a list of screwups that could parallel the above list, but we're trying...
"That's only 15stacks."

I read the GP as saying 15.3k bills (i.e. £306k), not £15.3k in £20 bills. In which case, that's 306 stacks.
Laravel Forge

https://forge.laravel.com/

Other notables (might not be considered tools):

sublime, vagrant/laravel homestead, Digital Ocean, stripe, mandrill . . .
It's a nice mapping site, but how do these qualify as charts? Am I missing something? I didn't see any depth or current information, aids to navigation, etc.
Ebola outbreak: Why has 'Big Pharma' failed deadly virus' victims?
I'm not an expert on 3D printing, but it looks like this uses force sensing to make sure the effector velocity vector is nicely parallel to the position of the base plate. The effector is not exerting any force on an object. So it's velocity control not (the more demanding) force control.

Let me know if I have misunderstood what's happening here.
> That being said, always say, "I'm not refusing, but you may not search my car (or persons)"

I can't imagine why you'd want to preface a refusal by stating "I'm not refusing." That just seems willfully obtuse.

The "I don't consent to searches" line seems a lot more appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kVX6NIPzB0
Funky. Maybe I started with a cash equivalent card and added time to it. I'm positive my metrocard deducts from the $5 after it expires.
There are plenty of things I think could be updated about CL, and I wouldn't recommend LispWorks as a first place to start either. But I think you'd have to be part of a really niche area of tech to consider the very concept of reading books to be obsolete. If I want to get into a new language, the first thing I look for is whether there is a good introductory book, vs. just a scattered set of HOWTOs/READMEs/Wikis.

However there are books online as well, nowadays, if you really prefer to read on a screen. Seibel's Practical Common Lisp is a good starting point: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
* you don't need to read AMOP to use CLOS. It's there if you want to know 'MORE'. Much more. Much more than you ever wanted to know about reflective OOP. Alan Kay of Smalltalk fame recommended the book as the best book on objected-oriented technology in a decade. ordering it over your book store is easy. But I don't recommend it to anyone wanting to learn Lisp.

Certainly not. The AMOP teaches you CLOS assuming you already know CLOS. In the words of Edmund Blackadder describing Johnson's dictionary, it is the most pointless book since "How to learn French" was translated into Fresh. And therein lies its brilliance.
These are pretty and simple. Bookmarked for future use.

It was only 15 days ago when I changed the background in my app to use a gradient [1], and I still think it makes it look much nicer.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go/commit/92ed6d952f0...
Ah sorry, missed the toolbar. Looks like depth marks, at least are appearing over land and not over water. They're labeled 'beta' so I can't throw stones. Anyway, I am all for access to good charts, but until these can be used for actual navigation they aren't really charts. More like maps based on chart data.
Note that the bank will probably be filing an SAR, but also that that probably doesn't matter.
I don't understand the objection against email costing money. I send you a mail? I pay $0.0001 to you. You reply? You pay $0.0001 back.

There is idea that this somehow blocks access to email for people who have a hard time paying for things on the internet (for whatever reason), but it is misguided: everybody who has access to the internet pays for it. ISPs could easily give every subscribed 10000 free emails every month.

Texting costs money and yet people do it.

What am I missing?
Big events take proportionate longer. A16z simply hasn't been around long enough yet.
Very interesting, nice shear
Something isn't 'Constitutional pending some future case'; it either is or is not constitutional, period. It may be recognised as or presumed constitutional or not which I think is what you mean.

Regarding money transfer, I think it's clear that the Congress has the ability to regulate interstate and international money transfers. Whether it should or not is an entirely different matter.

Despite the current (ludicrous) interpretation of the commerce clause, the Congress has no authority over intrastate money transfers whatsoever; that authority rests with the states.
Stupid question: so it's not Randall Munroe who's making XKCDs such as Pixels of Time?
The War on Sitting
Where it says (the “June 12 Request”), I guess that is referring to a document included with the statement (or otherwise available to the participants in the case). Anybody manage to find it?
It may also depend on people's background and their language mix. I hear good things about the fully integrated Lisp systems, but I'm so used to how I've customized my text editor, and how it's integrated with various other things I also use, that the bar for prying me away from it is fairly high. If I did 100% CL development it might be different.
After your account has a small amount of karma, a link that says "flag" will appear beside each story. When you see a story that you think is off-topic or otherwise harmful for Hacker News, you can flag it.

Flags cause a story's rank to fall and, if there are enough of them, kill the story altogether. When flags kill a story, we sometimes unkill it so the existing discussion can continue. I did that here.

I'd guess that the flags on the current post are because the it is just a reprise of a story from earlier this week, so more or less a duplicate.

A caveat. Please don't flag stories merely because they are on some unusual topic. If a post is intellectually substantive, and not flamewar prone, but somehow obscure or out-of-the-way, it is welcome here. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5979384. We definitely want such diversity on Hacker News. (I mention this in case anyone still has the misconception that HN is for technology and startups only.)
MasterCard backed biometric ID system launched in Nigeria
Now at 1800 users !
Nope, IPv4. (You'll have even less sympathy from me complaining IPv6 NAT is painful to set up...)
The wearable – Can Apple
> we are Americans and aren't going to allow our liberties to being eroded by a bunch of fear mongering asshats

I can't count how many times I've heard this comment along the lines of "hurr durr this is Murica and no one is taking muh freedom away". No, your freedoms are already gone and it looks like you haven't woken up to it yet.
> Well, so what right? Google Forms will dump your data into a spreadsheet, SurveyMonkey can export to csv, but the data in Exversion Burners can be accessed via API just as easily as any other dataset. Which means you can program on top of them.

...and you can't program on top of Google Sheets or a CSV?

It's very unlikely for an ad hoc survey to generate enough responses for something in which ad hoc analysis would not be sufficient.

> There is no comparable system that allows anonymous users to change their responses after they've clicked the submit button.

I don't believe anyone would actually do that.
The subreddits that somehow aren't banned
> I personally see IPv6 adoption going to a full stall if users are told that advertisers found a way to tattoo cookies on their machines.

Heh. Better not tell them about https://panopticlick.eff.org/ .

Seriously, tracking via your v6 address is a minor concern. Browsers already provide more than enough information to an advertiser to do a really good job of tracking a person as he changes his attach point to the Internet.

Let me ask you a question. (Please address this question, and not some hypothetical situation that isn't covered by this question.) If the combination of my User Agent string, screen resolution, and installed browser plugins uniquely identifies my PC, why should I be concerned that I also have a stable, globally unique IP address?
Will Apple's wearable add enough convenience to justify a new product category?
I appreciate what you're saying, but that just goes to show how large the barrier is to entry in governance. I fear you may be right that it may need to get worse before that resistance gains momentum. Which saddens me even more as I don't want to see any more lives destroyed.
Use your arrows.

B-but I'm on an iPad. Swiping maybe? Nope. Nothing happens. Just broken layout pieces strewn about, plus some inscrutable green bar (seemingly) loading something.

And then, just when it looks like something is about to happen... the page crashes Safari. Repeatedly.

I wish I could comment on the concept itself, but the UI keeps stubbornly getting in the way.