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> GPL and copyleft further a cause. It's primarily for increasing user freedom.

I don't disagree that that's the intent of the GPL and copyleft; I'm not convinced that (once the pragmatic case for Free software was established), that it is the actual effect of the GPL and copyleft. User freedom is maximized by having the most software available under the least restrictive licenses; copyleft licenses add restrictions with the intent of using those restrictions to compel downstream developers to also release modifications as Free software. However, if there are already pragmatic benefits to releasing Free software, the marginal benefits of those additional restrictions in terms of actually promoting practical user freedom is reduced, while the additional restrictions are, themselves, restrictions that can limit the freedom of users.

> You're free to disagree with its agenda. But recognize it as a cause.

I can recognize it as being directed at serving a cause and still think it does so poorly.

> Basic software dependencies, with few exceptions, are subject to GPL. Why would anyone expect otherwise?

Because interoperation with something doesn't make it a derivative work requiring a copyright license usually (though, I suppose, that view of Stallman's is consistent with the still-on-appeal ruling on API copyrights in Oracle v. Google.)
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I switched to Chrome primarily because of that doubting. For a while a pretty good chunk of people were complaining about Firefox's speed and memory usage, and the dev team stuck their head in the sand and blamed plugins, extensions, slow hardware, OS problems, malware, and everything under the sun except Firefox itself. At some point people just said, "Fuck it, I'm not even trying to convince them any more, I'm just switching to Chrome."

Also note that Firefox was "winning" objective benchmarks on things that didn't matter. Rendering speed doesn't mean much to me if it takes 10x longer to open the tab before rendering begins.
There's a governance structure? That's news to me.

I was under the impression that a few primary contributors (mostly/all mozilla employees?) are gatekeepers to merging anything.

Having an "RFC" issue tracker isn't the same as having a governance structure.

Edit: I suppose you could call the above a 'governance structure', but I'm having a hard time seeing anything impressive/different about it from other open source projects
> And apartment blocks had shops on the ground floor.

This is one of my favorite features of the Mueller area: the apartments do have shops on the ground floor. I actually live in a live-work unit in one of the apartments. My wife and I live upstairs, and she runs a hair salon on the ground floor below our unit. The other shops nearby include a small convenience/grocery store, a chiropractor, a shared-work space, restaurants, a small gym, etc.

The shops on the ground floor really improve the quality of the area, so I'm glad that Austin is finally pushing for more of this.
If you think this is about espionage or surveillance, then you A) didn't read the article linked and B) didn't read any of what I wrote.
Apple Pay wins big during Tim Cook's security speech
I would like an intro to this kid..I have work i need help on for my project and would happily pay him for his time and skills
The processes of using Deuterium in Cold Fusion is different from that of regular Hydrogen.

Cold Fusion is a whole field of science - so depending on what one wants to achieve there are different approaches.

Want nano diamonds? add a bit of carbon on a wire of ferry - ala Celani

For the latest "dog bone" technology, its not that easy, as to just use Deuterium Gas instead of Hydrogen Gas. You have to have nickel powder with the right properties- as Rossi has his own, one would have to fumble in darkness so the best approach is to just stick to something proven.
Even though 1.0 isn't out yet, today you can use Rust for many real projects. I'm unsure whether I'd bet my business on it yet, but I'd be open to the idea. And I'm usually a very late adopter.

I've been building a 3d game with Rust and OpenGL, ported from a C++ codebase. So far, my experience has been very positive. Despite Rust's supposed immaturity, it feels more polished than C++ in many ways. Forward progress has been much faster than it was with C++.

Does anyone else have a story (positive or negative) about using Rust in real projects?
The biggest bullshite in Austin is that now that Google rolls into town, Time Warner and AT&T are scared, so now they are complimentary upgrading everyone. Yes they may have made recent upgrades too, but it takes someone like Google to make them provide something better.

And even though I got a complimentary upgrade to 300mbps down, it's capping out at 100...
Also reminds how porn industry is often on the cutting edge on content delivery and analytics as well.
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> For those who are currently more in touch with the situation, does this
> release date look realistic, without quality suffering? Is the 1.0
> release premature, aggressive, or very realistic?

I think it's aggressive, but I don't think it's unrealistic. Personally I had hoped for a late June/early July release to give more time to solidify the docs and to shake out bugs in the compiler.

There will definitely be people who say that the release is premature, but I'm personally not one of them. The core of the language is ready, even if some pieces around the edges could still use some refinement (and will see refinement, backwards-compatibly, in the coming releases).

> I'm surprised at how aggressive the release schedule is,
> given how things are still churning a good deal.

You'd be surprised at how much of a motivator a concrete release date is. :) Churn is happening now because of the impending release, not despite it. The language intends to have a solid compatibility story (via semver) for post-1.0 releases, so everyone who'd been holding off on changes for the past few years has suddenly come out of the woodwork to implement them.
"Create opinionated material and share the shit out of it." ... this is downright terrible advice, for either introverts or extroverts.

And introverts are generally capable of going through life without being noticed as much as extroverts, and don't feel the need to create divisive clickbait to share like an asshole. That's why we're introverts. It's okay!
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Ask HN: LinkedIn bans exceeding comercial search limit on page with Ads
How cute is that ?
I'm in no way surprised. I thought this was a questionable idea when it debuted and it never struck me as something that could actually grow into something popular.

Part of the issue, I think, is that Google as a company fundamentally does not understand content. (YouTube is the one exception here and even with YouTube, the way the whole YouTube partner program works, the way the ad side is run and other aspects make it clear that they still really don't get content -- they just happen to have a great platform and a few people trying to convince people who make more than them to think outside the algorithm).

It was an interesting idea but marred with poor execution and a dwindling Google+ audience.
I wish there were some way to tell companies like LinkedIn not to create a shadow profile on you. I've never trusted LinkedIn enough to create an account - their email practices are too shady, and I'm totally happy with StackOverflow Careers - but I periodically get emails saying "Bill Former Coworker wants to connect with you!" (And then of course I get follow-up emails for several weeks.) I'm sure my shadow profile is quite accurate. For all I know, they're emailing people on my behalf saying "ksenzee wants to connect with you!"
Please just use both Chrome and Firefox. Having both is great. I keep the Nightly's open for each.
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> Prechelt compared multiple implementations of the same task by multiple programmers in order to control for the effects of differences in programmer skill.

It would be interesting to compare these programmers' salaries as well. I think that a lot of companies would still make a completely rational decision to stick to Java after such an analysis.
The whole point of having separate processes for each tab is that it isolates them. If one crashes, the others remain up. It supports multiple processors, too.
I just had to look up how to do it, but in Firefox you can search bookmarks from the url bar by starting off with a * and a space.

(I'm glad I looked it up, this makes me more inclined to make bookmarks without sorting or tagging them)
In general, nobody should be scared of such an eventuality. If large companies didn't have massive, major handicaps by their very nature, there would be no small companies.
Kepler’s Tally of Planets
It's Bandai Namco that has the actual patent, but what's really interesting is the fact that it is is set to expire in November of this year.

Since installs have become so prevalent in console games, I would love to see these sort of mini-games be used to ease the wait.
Somewhat relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046789
I still like Gregory Benford's space umbrella.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

The guy is not a dilettante, he's professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine.

It would give us basically unlimited control over solar input (depending on how big you make it). It would be a massive project that would require global cooperation, which is again good - especially in the current geo-political... um... "climate".

Also, massive undertakings such as this have a way of galvanizing creativity and progress across the whole society.

Or maybe it's my personal bias towards giant, Pacific Rim style, howling-metal projects. Big problem, big solution. Don't waste your time putting around in the mud.
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There are a lot of industrial applications for agricultural products. Loss of arable land will put a pinch on those supply chains and increase costs of non-food manufactured goods.
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Completely agree. The complete lack of OS X native feel turns me off. There's not even a swipe animation for going back/forward in history. I know most of the work is done, but just finish this already, it's been ongoing for like 4 years now.
I agree. A good heuristic for interesting music: create an expectation model, and exceed it with an unexpected but inventive twist that's consistent with the surrounding grammar but adds unexpected entropy.

Building representational models of that process is hard. So most people don't bother - they mush stuff up at random and keep the bits they like.

Like this.

Unfortunately this music prof is ignoring 60-odd years of computer music history and reinventing the glitch-with-Max thing that was big 10-15 years ago.

Autechre, Amon Tobin, and many many others have been making music like this for a while now. The sound/sample world is different, but the techniques are very similar.
Here's a company using Rust to sandbox executable financial contracts: https://codius.org/blog/codius-rust/ . The blog post is unfortunately light on details, but I'm hoping to hear more from them soon. I'd also love to see wycats or carllerche weigh in on Skylight.io's use of Rust from within a Rubygem.
No, then decent cops would leave, and we'd be left with jerks who have low job-mobility (no other skills), but are adept liars who can cover their asses when they get near trouble.
I just think it's a shame the author didn't make a full writeup about the exploit involved.
Then why is this an issue?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/02/11/256304/government-wond...
More detail on the role of planespotters in discovering the CIAs network of rendition flights and black prisons:

"How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA": http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/10/usa.terrorism1

"The CIA's torture taxi": http://www.sfbg.com/40/11/cover_plane.html
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If less rain means that the relative deserts of California and Arizona can't be irrigated/subsidized as heavily, the resulting price increases will shift agricultural production back to more natural locations in the Midwest. There was once a dairy industry here, for one thing. We couldn't compete with the desert alfalfa of the Salt River Valley, but then again maybe their advantage wasn't an environmentally sustainable one. It requires a certain perspective to bemoan the fact that deserts aren't great places for agriculture.
And they're all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same.
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One more vote for http://www.safaribooksonline.com and http://www.pluralsight.com If you do check out pluralsight, take a look at http://www.lynda.com. It's also a video learning site but also allows you to download a project to work on along with the course you're taking.
There's a core team (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-core-team) responsible for final decisions on the direction of the language and libraries. Proposed changes go through a public RFC process (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs#what-the-process-is), including those proposed by members of the core team -- which are frequently revised or even rejected as part of this process. See for example the path API RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/474).

PRs can be reviewed by anyone from a large pool of reviewers. PRs that introduce new features etc. have to come after an RFC is approved, however.

The core team includes Huon Wilson, Yehuda Katz, and Steve Klabnik, none of whom work for Mozilla (though the latter two have done some contracting work). We hope to continue expanding to include other stakeholders.

EDIT: Steve tells me he's currently working as a "seasonal employee" at Mozilla for doing Rust docs, but it's a short term thing.
What is there really to question about having others do code review and development for you for free? Most software systems have 0.1% business logic that you might want to keep for yourself. The rest can be candidates for open source components.
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Yea, I've tried that - no luck so far, but I haven't given up on the idea.

I usually consider "my neighborhood" to be the ~0.75 mile road that I live on, which is about 18 single-family homes. I've met just about everyone, but I've only lived here for ~1 year, so I wouldn't say that I know anyone really well.
"the next time Goldman calls the FBI, they are going to be treated much more sceptically...."

maybe. but I sort of doubt it.
Similarly, I became uncomfortable with the integration that Chrome was encouraging. Add to that the issues it was having with font rendering and displaying at different DPI's, and FireFox has been my go-to browser ever since.

Additionally, I've found FireFox to be more consistent about it's quality, vs having occasional releases with a jump in bugs/instability.
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That's completely unrelated to cyber threat intelligence, except in situations like spear phishing, where the government (or anyone else trying to protect against attacks) might want to know what domains the attempts originated from or where the malicious links point back to.

Your linked article is completely irrelevant to this conversation. Why do you think they're related? Because the government is involved in both, and both have to do with the Internet?

You do realize the Internet is a big place, yes?
Not necessarily related to introverts per-se, but I see it a lot in the geeky stereotype.

Try getting good clothes. Go to a good store and let the people do their thing. (Or otherwise find some fashion advice).

I did this as an experiment a few years back. Just walked into a place, gave em some cash and said make me look less of a dork. (I usually just wore slacks and a plain tshirt, mostly dark colors, nothing worth noting other than it's lameness and banality.)

The difference was immediate. Night and day. People just noticed and responded better to me, everywhere. It was like this secret power, just putting on a Wardrobe of Charisma +5. It was bizarre.

I haven't kept it up at all, mainly due to lack of need of charisma in general. I've known that dressing up, like wearing a good suit, can be effective in social engineering situations, but I wasn't aware of how powerful just dressing "nice" versus "usable" had just walking around.

I'm sure this is all well-known to most people and you might be shaking your head at the basics of life I am so amazed by, but perhaps someone will find this an interesting anecdote.

Edit: I'd also note that I did what he suggested, too. I look back at my blog and cringe. But I got a fair amount of contacts, book deals (which I never followed through on properly), even respect from strangers on a few occasions, on account of me being active publicly. And back then people linked a lot to random blog posts (maybe they still do) and without any effort, I had a PR6 site which was sorta cool. As a bad career move, I got embarrassed about things and decided I wasn't as good as I thought I was and stopped writing and self-promoting. Traffic and PR went down accordingly.
What I love is the beautifully pure metric offered by the 2008 trade, where they gave up KG and basically nothing, received a de-factor All Star (Jefferson) + some other stuff in return, and imploded to a degree that is rarely seen in the league.

It's funny for a 20-10-5 guy to be chronically under-rated form a stats POV, but I think he was. I always tell people he was like having some kind of die-roll modifier: opposing teams took -3 on all rolls, and members of his team got +3. 20-10-5 doesn't begin to show everything he did.
Great name! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel
And they pitch it like it's a great thing...
And this is also for the 1st level contacts which I have built over 10+ years now and the 1st level contacts or any level of contacts are user's labour for that matter. No matter what tech LinkedIn may apply, they cannot get our contacts automatically from our heads to their Databases

And LinkedIn aren't you making monies already not just from my contacts but showing up ads on all your pages and monetizing my data already ?

Are you in some deep trouble and storage and database queries have sky rocketted in last few months. It makes sense if you restrict machines and competing sites to use your data (debatable) but why me, the labourer who worked for you.

Give me my data back LinkedIn
I've using firefox on a 4Gb linux machine for about two years so far.. and it's working just fine, each release it keeps better and better
Goldman ("given their role in the financial markets") is effectively above the law.
The current consensus is that the drought will extend to the Great Plains. See for example this paper (recently discussed at the AAAS meeting): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400082

This is not a possible shift to an environment with a recent (human-timescale) analogue. If it comes to pass, we will not be able to farm or live in the same places or at the same volumes as we are currently capable of.
Rational, yes. Prudent, no. As a corporation, developer salaries is not where you want to be trying to save money in your budget, because having your software produced by low-quality talent is cause you to spend much more money on maintaining poorly designed and poorly tested codebases in the long run. Hence why it's 2015 and we still have people working in COBOL, and writing Java code that interfaces with it.

And several of Paul Graham's essays mention this--using a language other than Java (or C++) can actually be an advantage in hiring because those are languages that many people learn just to get a job, so the quality of the candidate base is lower on average, whereas if you're hiring for a Lisp hacker, you're going to get applicants who are genuinely passionate about programming. Then you also get the benefit of Lisp being a more expressive language that's faster to develop features in.
There is a HN clone (https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...) written in Anarki, which is a community fork of Arc.
I would ask you to open up your task manager and try picking the largest-in-memory Chrome task and kill it, then see if you still think they are completely isolated. I agree with your point, but give it a shot.
This is probably one of the reasons why I have been using Firefox for web browsing and Chrome only as a dedicated gmail reader. I doubt this is what Google wants, but it has been working great for me.
The US and Canada share the largest bodies of fresh water in the world (the Great Lakes). That's a pretty strategic reserve.
I think the most easiest solution to this problem with the existing technology we have is to start building water collection reservoirs in the surrounding mountains of California and the Colorado rockies too. Then Desalination plants in and around the Gulf of Mexico and pipelines to move water where needed.

This is an opportunity to employ both blue & white collar workers as well as tech professionals as well and should be considered.
I'm very happy to see Rust stabilize, about time we get a systems(ish) programming language with a half decent type system. With that said... I need to get some bikeshedding off my chest:

I hate to let such a triviality lower my enthusiasm for a language so much, but I just can not get over that awful inconsistent closure syntax :/

I don't get it. Most everything else has a nice unique keyword syntax, fn uses (args, in, parenthesis), proc syntax made consistent sense, then lambda is this crazy || linenoise thing that doesn't fit in at all. The "borrow the good ideas from other languages" approach has resulted in a great language, but "cram random syntax from other languages that doesn't fit" doesn't work out so well.
Tabs were one of the major reasons I switched over to Chrome. At the time, firefox resized the tabs as soon as space became available, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain. They don't do that anymore, but now they have the tab scrolling feature which adds a gui element if there are too many tabs. Thing is, once you close enough tabs, those elements go away immediately, making closing a bunch of tabs a pain.

Biggest reason I switched, which is still the true (though less so), is that Chrome takes up less screen real estate.
The real problem is that flow control needs to happen at the pair-of-machines level. If we had that, opening 1000 "stream" connections to a server would be exactly the same as opening a single 1000-channel SCTP connection.
Most police officers already are jerks with low job-mobility - but I do think a framework where the department suffers for an individuals actions (and not the taxpayer footing the bill) would have a positive feedback effect.

If another officer's indiscretion or negligence were to reflect on your pay check, you would be less likely to help cover it up or ignore it.
It's a Gawker site. Expecting anything more than clickbait trash is just going to bring disappointment.
Well, that was a poor choice of words, but what I mean is that I hope the FBI would exercise more skepticism when they receive a report like this.
It would be really cool if such a device could also be used for harvesting solar power. Getting the power back down to earth would be tricky, though.
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Top 2 things that suck in FF that makes me stick with Chrome, despite wanting to part ways with Google mothership :

- sync (Chrome syncs everything while being reliable)
- mobile Android app (FF mobile has insane scrolling behaviour, that's out of place on the platform).