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I also failed to find recent information on RAND's "e" editor, but from reading the article the interface/commands seem extremely similar to Vi.
Only since December 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns#Copyright_status

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Copyright_status

The change was made because the situation was unfolding exactly as described above.
>If someone then uses the work for their own financial benefit, or modifies it without giving you the changes back, what has that deprived you of?

The GPL is intended as a license that improves software available to the public. By not complying with the license they agreed to, VMware is depriving me, you, Christoph and the general public from software which we have the right to use, modify and share under the GPL (and which just happens to be coded by VMware).
I'm afraid I have to agree. gov.uk has been a reversion to the mean. It's not nearly as good as direct.gov that preceded it. On the other hand it replaces many cruddy government websites that had impossible navigation.

So it replaces variance with consistent mediocrity: the McDonalds of websites.
Google Now Helps You Compare Auto Insurance
Yeah, first we all had our own Geocities site and then there was stuff like LiveJournal. Then Myspace came along and continued the slow decline of options for the user who was interested enough to customize their page. Still, I remember just as many people not caring how it worked and pasting all sorts of "pimp your myspace" stuff into their page and in the process, opening up all sorts of opportunities for phishers and spammers.

Facebook was a little more "Apple-like" in that they preferred not to even offer you the tools with which you might crapify your profile. The most obvious result has been that your profile and feed are only crapped up when it's by Facebook themselves but at the same time, I do think it's a shame that so many younger (or just newer) folks won't necessarily have the same easy opportunity to start messing around with HTML and CSS and other stuff the way people in the 90's and earlier 00's had loads of tools to tinker around with their personal "homepage" of choice.

Not saying there aren't plenty of chances to learn that stuff still but I know the barrier is a lot lower when that site everyone uses also offers some chance to learn and customize.
I wouldn't have use a macro...

A normal function would have done pretty much the same job...
It's almost certainly a modification, if it is New Transport. After all, what makes a road sign readable is different from body copy. But that's an interesting comment!

Aside: I've probably been past the road sign on that Wikipedia page.
Broadly, we aiming for it to be a mature, sustainable and well-supported general purpose Web API framework.

We tend to be fairly aggressive about keeping the scope manageable in order to keep to that. For example 3.1 moves some functionality out into third party packages, so that we can concentrate on the quality of the core framework.

Some of the longer term feature work:

* Admin style interface - See https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest...

* Fuller support for alternative storage backends. Eg. Easier to integrate with SQLAlchemy, as an alternative to the Django ORM.

* Hypermedia support & client library. (Too involved to go into detail here.)
How the cheapest X86 with 6 ports became the smartest switch on MWC15
This is completely wrong. Purchasing a product that contains code licensed under the BSD license does not ensure you get access to the source (unmodified or otherwise). It is the biggest difference between the GPL and BSD license.

All the BSD license ensures is that if they distribute the code they have to retain things like author retribution.
If you're interested, I'd love to combine forces. Eric (the author of the newsletter) joined up with GITenberg. Github gives a LOT of surface area for additional contributors. And with our library initiative, we have the opportunity to distribute our ebooks directly to libraries. Meaning your standard ebooks can be the standard ebooks for libraries.
Does anyone happen to know why the shell got named a "shell"?
That's right :) Funny that it was originally implemented as an alternate way of calling "find" because they didn't want to pollute the namespace.
Most common Git screwups and solutions
Canadian jailed for refusing to unlock his phone at the airport
As you talk to legal counsel, you might possibly ask if you could get a tax shelter of some kind - it may not be feasible, but sometimes colleges will take donated real estate, for example, and the pay an annuity. So say a farmer had a piece of land, it increased to a million, and wants to avoid capital gains. In some cases donation of assets can result in doing something good for an institution but also getting ongoing income out of it.

Not sure it applies to capital gains with options/alternative minimum tax, but a tax lawyer might know.

If the tax bill does turn out to be like the price of a car, aside from taking some form of legal action, or if it fails or is not possible, then you can make payment arrangements, so that in theory, paying off the tax over time will maintain your ability to keep hold of the asset of the options.
Go in Production
Skills for the 21st Century
I'm speculating, but it might help, or at least give some clues.

If we can establish the history of water on Mars then compare it with Earth. Or composition, presence of elements, etc. Do they share a common source? Common processes?

It is speculated that some water came through comets, for example

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth
The 3.0 release notes are the place to start for looking at upgrading. They go into quite a bit of detail about this.
> 1) recent bad press from The Register

The Register is scum. I'm amazed anyone pays them any attention. It's kind of weird that the Register isn't one of the auto-blocked domains on HN. Their stories are mangled half-truths and misunderstandings.

It's got a lot worse since Guy Kewney died, but even when he was alive they just weren't very good.
Andrew Orlowski added 'professional contrarian' to his business card many moons ago. (You can say much the same for the Register in general)

It's a shame because what used to be a useful source is now just noise. Maybe he's right in this case, but who would ever know?
You are completely ignoring the explicit harm that is central to the GPL.

Namely, that if everyone behaved the harmless way you and VMWare describe, there would be very little/lower quality GPL software. And, that GPL contributors give their time and code away on the condition that those who benefit from it give back in the form of contributions and openness instead of money.

GPL coders give their code away with conditions, and VMWare is breaking that condition. If VMWare wants to get code for free with no quid pro quo, then there's BSD.

EDIT - Personal context - I've always liked MIT/BSD license. I just understand the GPL and its intentions, too.
This strikes me as a nice little hack of the system, and I'm glad that it seems like in this case the attitude was "no harm, no foul". It's not a particularly elegant hack, but that's one thing that epitomizes hackers to me: use what you know and have at hand to make it work.
Not the OP, but I think that question moves the goalposts.

The states involved in this dispute recognize the idea of intellectual property and protect it with copyright. Questioning the validity of intellectual property as a concept is a very different from the question at hand.

To wit, an author in Germany should be able to expect that his copyright would be respected by other entities in Germany, as they're all bound by the same laws. Regardless of our feelings regarding the moral validity of copyright or intellectual property.
Unfortunately this article probably won't get much rise out of the SV crowd. It's easy to say that more education merits more salary or that the US is moving to a service economy, etc. Further, it's even easier to ignore when you're not living next to a stamping plant.

My uncle is a factory worker for the Ford Mustang plant, and he easily clocks in 60 hours a week. I won't compare the specifics or 'toughness' of his job with anything myself or many of the other HN readers do, rather instead touch on the corporate culture. The best way i can describe it, as it's been describe to me (yes, yes..i'm aware this is hearsay), is a lack of control.

Imagine you are taking the bus to an interview, but it's running late..really late. There isn't an Uber or Lyft or Sidecar ride that'll get you in time. You call and no one is answering, the receptionist must be out. That sinking feeling that you're going to blow it is soul crushing. You later make contact and your heart is racing to try to explain, but they picked someone else already. It's over.

While the union represents the workers, it also creates a very 'us versus them' attitude, and when contracts are negotiated then that's it...those are now the rules. Many of the Tier 2 workers have to sit and wait for that bus, no matter how late it's going to be, each day until a new contract is in place.
Typing IP addresses to certs is a certificate vendor addition to standard SSL issuance policies. Some of the high end (as denoted by more insurance) certs from say Symantec will be "locked" to an IP address, but again this is mostly handwaving.
It doesn't, but if I GPL my own iOS code, NO ONE will want to use it in an actual shipping iOS app of any significance. The GPL requires the resulting binary to be free of DRM, and the iOS App Store automatically and uniformly applies DRM to all downloads, free or paid. Thus, no iOS developer will use GPL code in their own app since it essentially gives the original copyright holder the power to have your app taken down.

So yeah, I could have made my point a little better. Here's some elaboration:

I will personally avoid applying the GPL, either by my own decision or because of code I am using, mostly because I want the freedom, both for myself and for those who might use my code, to release on iOS.
Yes, it's broken... When MBA start writing 2,000 word essays for the their jobs it might start to get fixed...

I disagree that it's an employers market, I get 5 calls a week from recruiters that want to fill positions. (They usually aren't that great but there is definitely demand.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9107657
They forgot Google Code[1]. It's still "up" but it's obvious it's been abandoned by the amount of spam issues that have been building up. I know people like github more than google code - but I personally liked Google Code for it's simplicity.

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=...
Pandora's Box Model: An experiment in containing stylesheet complexity
>if you were the fastest you probably didn't have most of the really bad mutations

How did they arrive at this conclusion?
not everyone used Google Code either. What's your point?
Personally I've always found it unbelievable that anyone found Tila Tequila sexy.
Netbeans?
"At conferences, don't waste time" and not "Don't waste time by attending conferences"
I'm using Gmail. Should I be worried?
Yeah, it was confusing enough that qmail was dropped from the OpenBSD ports tree.
UTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain
I have been using ggvis for a little while. It is very flexible in terms of changing variables for exploratory use. (My favorite personal use). I haven't done much with Shiny yet but I think D3 is more in lines with RStudio's html widgets. http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/developer_html_widgets.html
"Most never made a dime off the game."
The article lost credibility for me there. You may think the majority of NFL players don't get paid enough for what they do, but I'm pretty sure no one is playing for free.
As long as the Linux kernel exists, the GPL won't die. As long as cooperation want to use Linux, they will touch GPL'd software. As long as you don't modify that software, there's no harm to the cooperation.

Besides, there's compelling reasons for companies to GPL software they code which doesn't overlap with their core business. If you happen to code a new testing framework because you need one, you can GPL it and profit from the community improving it. In that case you don't really care about adoption, you care about getting improvements back, which is the strength of the GPL. It's a great license for infrastructure code, just not for your main product.
Agreed, although I wish there was more documentation on the benefits of each feature, rather than just how to implement it.

E.g. there are dozens of pages on how to implement serializers, which is great, but the section on the benefits of serializers is only a paragraph or two long. So after reading all the documentation I'm still unclear as to the best practices on when vs when not to use them, and what the best practices are for endpoints that don't take advantage of them. I'm sure this kind of stuff is obvious to people who have been using it for a while, but after just going through the tutorial and then reading the relevant API pages I was still unclear on a bunch of issues.
They've already lied to him.

He needs to know what his choices are before he talks to the founders so he knows if what they're saying is bullshit or not.
NASA Eyes Ion Enginnes for Mars Orbiter 2022
The freedom to modify the code w/out having to share those modifications.
Yep, this is the right answer: don't panic, lawyer up.
That's nice, but what about adding backoff? I just came across this blog post[1] over at AWS about exponential backoff - timely because I'd just been working on some retry logic myself and wondered if I'd made good decisions about how to implement jitter. Turns out, I hadn't.

[1] http://www.awsarchitectureblog.com/2015/03/backoff.html
It caused problems until I sought treatment.
From the pastebin:

> "contingent on raising target angel round of financing".

My English is not good enough, so I'm not sure what this means, in particular "target".

If their "target" was $100.000 and they "only" raised $99.000, are they forced to give you the raise?

[Also, as other said, with a 3% you are not a "engineer founder", you are only a "engineer first employed". In any case, talk to a lawyer.]
"what makes a road sign readable is different from body copy"

I thought the very same, seems a odd choice to me. Interesting that they're using it though. It would be wonderful for them to provide more information about it as the current pickings are very slim.
The Monster.co.uk main site is better. They still aren't held accountable to the market. Being for-profit per se is the wrong distinction! Free market may be more apt.

That explains why there's so many jobs from Monster on there.
What if VMWare took the GPL code, improved on some features and did not release it.

Christoph, having not seen the improved code, made changes to the GPL code that ended up somewhat similar to what VMWare did but hid it instead.

VMWare decides to sue Christoph. I am sure the basis for this lawsuit would be weak but VMWare may not care since they have the money while Christoph does not.

I recall the battles SCO did to Linux as you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies

This is why I believe it is always important to defend your license because who knows what happens down the road.
What I learned from my failures building software side projects
It doesn't really pay to win $50k in a lawsuit paying $30k on legal fees, plus the years it takes for the legal system to run its course.

A lawsuit is a lot of stress.

There's no guarantee he'd win.

The corporation can be bankrupt when/if he wins.

You can't keep working there after you sue them or your lawyer sends them a threat letter.

There's no point continuing to work with dishonest people. Given their dishonesty, the shares are probably worthless.
Hm, I would make the distinction, but I do see the point you are making. It ensures people can even become developers.
I havent updated utorrent since it was bought by bittorrent. What a waste of a great product.
The Uber of Myannmar
" Most of those players are not famous. Most never made a dime off the game. They are relatively anonymous men who played the sport in college and only later, for some reason or another, have found themselves struggling in life."

College players aren't paid. Most college players never make it to a professional paying level.

https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Probability-of-goin...
Depends on what you mean by profitable

For a modern top of the range CPU you can expect maybe ~5MH/s (likely even less)

If 1 million people install utorrent and have their processors mining constantly, you can expect a daily profit of about $14
If I understand correctly, VMWare wouldn't have been in trouble here if they'd have just put a link in their docs to the effect of "ESX distributes Busybox, the source for which can be downloaded here (link)".

This is about more than Busybox. Their 'vmkernel' proprietary code seems to rely heavily on code from the Linux kernel, up to the point where it may be a derived work:

http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/linux-vs-vmkernel_...

In other words, their hypervisor could violate the GPL.

Of course, that does not change the point. If you want to benefit from GPL-licensed code, you also have to play by the rules. If the rules are never enforced, companies will systematically violate the license, as we've seen with many Android OEMs.
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It is garbage collected so you don’t have to worry about memory issues.

This is a myth. Garbage collection changes what you worry about. For small, short-lived programs you don't have to worry at all whether garbage collected or not (because you can just abandon the heap when you exit).

For long-running programs you either worry about freeing memory, or you worry about not making too much garbage. What you save with garbage collection is the problem of worrying about memory in programs that don't need to use that much memory (i.e. you eliminate memory leaks). If a program uses a significant amount of memory over a period of time that garbage collected or not you worry about memory.
Cold emailing journalists and bloggers that you don't know
Welcome to the New VR
VMware sued for failure to comply with Linux license
How to block haters on Facebook?
It's pretty simple choice really.

If your goal is simply to get your code used by other people and corporations, under virtually no restriction with what they do with it, then the GPL is not a good choice.

If your goal is to let others use your code for the greater benefit of everyone that uses your code, then the GPL enforces that (at least to the extent it can be reasonably enforced).
It's rather nice compared to VMWare's commercial licensing terms.
Inside Bratislava's low-cost, open source bike share solution
Not a bad start. But have you seen the size of regular rugby players? They still specialize from the looks of it, and even the "small/fast" players are 6ft+ and above average in weight and build.
Its not just ugly as some kind of aesthetic issue, it also hurt functionality. Buttons could be moved or made invisible. Animated backgrounds would make things hard to find, etc.

But that's not MySpace's biggest sin. Its biggest problem was all the freedom it gave just helped turn into a defacto dating site. With no real rules and no focus on anything, girls put up lots of cleavage photos for attention and guys hit on them. Guys put up shirtless leering photos and girls responded. Comments were more often bawdy talk than not. Teens and 20 somethings ruled. It never migrated past a high school mentality. A bit like how Second Life has now pretty much become a fetish site for furries.

Then Facebook showed up with its academic focus. The existing userbase were all college students whose peers, professors, potential employers, family, etc had access to their profiles, so there was a disincentive to treat it like "da club." People put their personal and semi-professional faces up and when the floodgates were open to Joe User, he saw the culture there, the lack of customizations, etc and conformed to what Facebook was. It had the mainstream professional and familial mores its roots were built upon. The Wild West of the Myspace world was just too self-limiting in this case. It couldn't go mainstream with its culture. It was too "young person trying to get laid" focused.
> Capital gains would not be recognized if you exercised the options and held onto the shares.

That's not exactly accurate in the US. You need to pay income tax - not capital gains - on the spread between the strike price and the fair market value. Since the company is not publicly traded, the fair market value needs to be assessed. The IRS has rules on how to do this, but many companies use independent third party auditors to do this, though an early stage company probably would not do this.

Once an investment has been made, a fair market value has been established, and you need to report the difference between the strike price and the investment price as income when you exercise options. Capital gains applies when you later sell the stock for a gain.

Edit: Though I should point out, this is only for non-qualified stock options. If the options are tied to performance metrics, for instance, this may not apply.

Edit 2: See here for a discussion of this: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/07/esoab...
Here are all the files in the project, including a (somewhat) de-obfuscated version of the program: http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/

Absolutely incredbile, I love the IOCCC.
I think that at least in theory, the idea is akin to what Google did for regular web advertising. Originally before targeting the only real strategy was to blanket sites with every sort of ad imaginable and the only way to stand out was to be more annoying and more flashy. Ad space was worth less so site owners made less money to support their services. People looking for new customers wasted more money because they could only target very broadly based on the topic or general demographic of a website.

Then you got Google ads and the like. Since you could target based on someone's general region or search topics or some other demographic info, ads could be more relevant. They didn't need to be flashy and noisy and could sit alongside search results or website contents as plain text or simple images. People trying to attract customers could focus their ad budgets where they were more likely to have a return and site owners could charge more for ad space since it was worth more.

I think that in theory, cable and other ways of getting TV-type content could move in much the same direction. Instead of just running more ads and hoping that people watching show (x) will be interested, they could run ads for stuff in your city or things in the categories you're interested in. Higher relevance would mean less total ads for the TV company to make the same profit selling ad space. It would mean less ads for things you'll never be interested in. And it would mean less money wasted by companies advertising on deaf ears.

But yeah...while this could happen I'm not really that optimistic. A young Google could take on the old model and replace it but the entrenched TV and cable companies would likely just add it to their arsenal. Instead of fewer, more lucrative targeted ads paying for now-free service, you'll just see the same subscription fees and the same pile of interruptions. Just now they'll be targeted.