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A single, trivial code snippet may not carry a copyright at all.

But a whole collection of such snippets will fall under copyright, even if each individual bit alone wouldn't qualify.

So it is important to make the licensing explicit here. CC0 / Public Domain is a natural choice, given that the code snippets are meant to be used individually and that no "real" license would make any sense on individual code snippets.
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ADS-B includes TCAS support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sys...
It's called Fascism.
Google has a big fuzz-farm and Project Zero looking for this type of thing and even they did not find Heartbleed years ago. They are nabbing tons of bugs but there are many that are simply buried.

This seems to me a bit like when you do a maze starting from the finish and it is, for whatever reason, trivial to go from one end to the other.

It is neat that it is 2015 and fuzzers are cool again, though.
This talk gives one of the best descriptions I've ever seen of the motivations for why FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) is useful. All the other explanations I've seen are too much in the weeds, but this is clear, concise, and understandable.

This part 1 video goes through practical examples and gives a nice intro for what it's like to use the library. He even walks through integrating a live tweet stream right into the presentation. It's pretty fun to see the audience tweets appear on-screen in real time.
> ... and always had false starts with Fedora or Ubuntu. Usually the package manager would break and everything would fall to pieces. I ended up installing Arch as a Subversion server for some personal projects, and that's what finally made it click.

Glad you've had a good experience with Arch. I've been using Debian and derivatives for years. I've occasionally seen hiccups with apt but I can almost always trace them to network trouble rather than the distro itself. In the other cases, reading the manpages or googling a bit helped unbork the system. It sounds like you didn't exercise your sysadmin/debugging skills.
They could do a finer, more sublime job of prodding people to the idea of choosing Scala.
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Google kicks malware off Firefox result pages
Not the best source, but I recall Mythbusters testing some of these things years ago without any success. That site is particularly scammy ($500 to get started as a dealer! "I made over $21k in less than half a day!") but do you know of any that are actually verified to work?
I love me some document based databases. But I find it ridiculous how much FUD there is out there about them. After being severely burned by some "It's not fully ACID" types in my organization I am seriously reluctant to even use them on projects where they are ideally suited. Sorry for the rant. I think they are wonderful tools, but I also think people should know about the political implications of using them in organizations where 'old fashioned' or conservative thinking might come in and ruin their day.
> To trust in sensors and electronics in the way you describe would get a lot more people killed. I dislike this prospect very much.

I dislike how bad humans are already at judgement, both in cars and aircraft. The sooner we automate their jobs away, the better.

If a human can recognize bad sensor input, algorithms can as well, and those algorithms can deployed fleet-wide after a test/release cycle.
Off-by-one error :P
Running the instancing demo on an iPhone6+ I can get to 150k particles before dropping below 60fps. There's an obvious speed up about three seconds in where I guess the JITter decides to get serious.

So, even though there's no official support for asm.js on mobile safari. It still works surprisingly well!
As a FYI I have my browser set on a small perma-zoom on HN. Otherwise the text is on the wrong side of being too small to read.

So no, I didn't set out to break it to score clever points - it just didn't work for me.
Remember when we used to just call them "fads"? =)
What specific language in the ToS do you believe supports this headline?
Bug detection is a problem that is easy to verify and hard to solve.
I'm confused. Is this if it is supported by 90% of browsers, or 90% of global traffic?

What might be interesting here is using my own web site traffic to know whether 90% of my visitors will be supported. A simple transparent GIF should be enough to send the UA to an analytics server (or use Google Analytics)
I found the renaming a bit hard to understand as well.

I think the intent of linking to this page was to highlight the fact that a popular project is being forked in a potentially confusing and divisive manner... not really highlight the content of the comment made.
One day before the decade is out it will be cheap enough to keep dozens of drones flying over a city with continuous high resolution recording so every person can be tracked back and forth from every start and endpoint, car or not.
That can only detect cameras which use flashes (red light cameras, etc). AFAIK the "license plate readers" don't have flashes.

However, they apparently do have infrared LEDs, which could be detected: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/...
Interesting, I read this as being open to hiring good developers even if they don't know your current platform/language. You can train that, and if you have existing expertise then you can pair them with someone who is experienced to teach them the nuances.
License plate recognition capabilities are within the reach of decent programmers right now. I actually wrote such a thing on contract recently. The critical difference between me writing this kind of code and this initiative is the data mining. Government (with private mandate in this case) has huge capabilities to correlate data the individual does not have.
Would the capabilities be lacking if we weren't designing the planes with the intention that the pilots at the controls were there to take over in an anomalous situation?

A lot of people are citing the frozen AOA sensors on the Airbus flight a few years ago as a reason that even a perfect AI would make mistakes, but why did that particular sensor cause the autopilot to drastically change approach? Shouldn't inputs from GPS, Altimeter, and gyroscopic sensors contraindicate the external AOA sensors?

What information did the pilots have that the computer system didn't to let them know to change the behavior? We all know about situations where the pilots intervened to prevent an issue, but are there opposing situations where the sensors indicated an issue that the pilots couldn't observe and they made an error?

What are the hard problems that are really stopping complete automation versus the problems that we have right now due to not expecting complete automation?
Yes, "fascism" is the technical term, but also the "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower was prescient about.
The government isn't a private citizen and is precluded from doing things, like keeping dossiers on non-suspects. But apparently the courts, which only respond to complaints by directly effected parties (which the litmus test for is preposterous), have made it ok to circumvent the spirit of the constitution by outsourcing surveillance. I would argue that if the government is precluded from doing something, of course they would still be precluded from doing the same action by proxy. We are, and so should they be.

And your second question, I would assume you would end up in jail for illegally monitoring government security employees.
Do you have an unlovable problem in mind? I guarantee I can recast it as the sexiest most important problem there is.

Edit: On second though, if you can show that there is big money in solving [unlovable problem], I wont have to recast it. 1000 bay entrepreneurs will be stumbling over one another to recast it on their "Join The Team" page.
I believe the fixed license plate readers are installed on public roadways.
Any other Dvorak users here disappointed?
A smart car's ground clearance is only 5.5 inches, and it still doesn't float
Yes, a private citizen couldn't do this, because a private citizen can only spend so much time and money taking pictures, storing them and providing database access.

If a group of private citizens were to pool their efforts, it would be conspiracy to break the law, just as if a group of private citizens or a corporation were to pool their efforts to displenish any other public resource like airwaves, water supply, clean water, quiet, clean air, etc.
Go? Hah, you almost had me there, until you said "Go".
> Conversely, what would happen if someone took pictures of cars going in / out of NSA/CIA/FBI facilities on a regular basis and posted them online?

I would imagine that person's life would be made very difficult. Even outside of these lettered agencies, I would imagine if someone created a system to capture the license plates of the cars used privately and publicly by government members or high ranking executives in organisations tied to the government they would create a very bad situation for themselves.

If anything has been made more than blatantly apparent in recent years it is that there are one set of rules for us and another for them.
I'm not so sure if it's the standard? I've seen many startups that took 6-12 months to ship the first version of their product. Usually the owners had read Lean Startup but still wanted to fix that one more thing before releasing anything.

Coding something for more than half a year without any real users makes selling the idea difficult, and makes any setbacks bigger in terms of lost morale and keeping momentum.
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> Tech news (and news is general) has a very low return on time invested. Prefer books and conversations

So true. Should probably block HN.
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I needed a vacation from my adult life – from myself, really. I tried “molly.”
hmm, I think my question is fine how it is. I want to learn C, I am asking HN their opinion of a book I am thinking about. If you want specifics, I would revise my question to something like "I really want to learn how to reverse engineer malware so I'm starting this goal by learning C, is K&R a good resource to learn C from?"
I am a developer, but I encouraged one of my sons to sign up for welding school. I am trying to get my other son, who didn't want to go to college and has a crappy call center job, to sign up too. It looks to me like a good way to earn a living for someone who doesn't want to go to college or can't afford it -- not everyone wants to acquire massive debt before launching their career. One or two semesters at a tech school is far easier to pay for than four or more years of college. It's costing me about $6k to pay for my son's classes.
Everyone thinks this until they start pitching ideas. No one wants to steal your idea; in fact, the most common reaction is to explain why your idea is stupid.
Getting Emacs and IntelliJ to play together
That's an interesting point that we haven't encountered at all. I think open source projects aren't always set up for receiving money (and thus causing tax issues) whereas musicians would normally be set up to handle their taxes. In the sense that any additional income would have tax consequences this would too. But if any musician wanted to not receive tips we would gladly remove them from our index.
I like it! Specially because it explains exactly what the code does in a generic way.
But to me, personally, it's far too much "modern" C++ or C++11 oriented, it would be nice to have with the same clean design for the "old" C++.

Any reason for not having any snippet with the "new style" range based for loops ?
"Some smartphones have different [levels of] durability in each [of their] front and back sides respectively. SquareTrade has only tested the front side, which may mislead consumers about the entire durability of smartphones."

What a ridiculous argument. Someone should teach them about chains and weakest links.
The Police Database of Information on Black Torontonians Should Be Destroyed
Marketing 101. Say it till someone else proves otherwise... then say something else.
Along with what others have posted, it may mean that you've chosen a business model that only scales linearly.
Another possibility is to show just a single random post from new. Considering the difference between loads of the homepage and the new page, even that would likely make a dramatic difference.
> I don't see how it gives them any extra incentive to murder.

Schrecklichkeit, maybe?
Unfortunately, gatekeepers make rich content impossible on the mobile web. For example, when will Apple support WebRTC in mobile Safari? Until then, certain interactive content requires an app, yet we still may want to address this content with these links.
I pretty much quit Facebook about 9 months ago[1], and I do feel happier for it.

I've had a lot of conversations about Facebook, because I think the phenomenon there is really interesting. A few things for me:

- I find it makes me think poorly of some of my best friends. The "humble brag" is kind of non-stop and in so many cases I know it isn't a real reflection of how those people feel. Yet sharing your amazing life is the "Facebook way" and is hard to escape.

- Crazy enough, because I am lucky enough to live a pretty great life, I would often get feelings of envy or dissatisfaction from browsing it. This may be a personal failing of mine, but when comparing the best moments of my "closest" 500 friends, sometimes I come up short and for whatever reason I find it hard to separate that.

I do really enjoy the ability to connect with old friends on Facebook and for that I love it, but ya, for me at least, I'm happier using it only when I need to reach out to those friends.

[1] I do still have an account and perhaps browse a few minutes once a week, but that's coming from usually looking at it several times a day.
I think this point should be:
- A good developer is open to any new language or platform and willing to learn.
‘CrypVault’: script-kiddie ransomware, but it’s just as effective
To add to the other comments, it also shows the requestor to have incredible hubris and/or naivete. An experienced entrepreneur understands that raw ideas have virtually zero value, it's the team and execution that matter. If an NDA enters the conversation it's possible that you're speaking to one of the perpetual "idea guys" in search of coders, and you should terminate the interaction quickly.
Be careful about this one. Don't freely tell your idea to people who have the wherewithal to then go and build it, because they just might. What Mark Zuckerberg did to the Winklevoss twins should be enough of a cautionary tale for any entrepreneur.
The Discrimination Double Standard
Agreed, but simple doesn't mean they didn't spend a lot of time/money on it. (NeXT paying Paul Rand $100K comes to mind.) Many logos are an evolution over years.
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Subway
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Adidas
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo

Since we're talking about startups, can't forget Facebook's original name/logo:
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Facebook
Seems to be a lot of "piggy-backers" piling onto the Github page without understanding the history...

> By the way, you (meaning the people who started this phony organization and made this phony fork) know that you've made the front page of Hacker News, right? If you continue, there will be no shortage of people who will constantly point out that you're a bunch of wannabe fakers.

It's sad that HN is perpetuating this behavior.
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Valuation Without Revenue, Revenue Without Valuation
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How to quickly scrape, summarize, visualize content without code
The only slightly suspicious thing that he did was that he immediately fuzzed only the first packet and no others. Although, being the first packet, it's a logical place to start. So I think the Heartbleed bug would indeed have been reasonably easy to find with this technology.
Assuming that you actually want to understand my position, I'll expand my answer one more time. You don't need to agree with me to see that my view has nothing to do with the literal-minded (and admittedly amusing) observation that "Hacker News doesn't offer financial aid to commenters."

The Recurse Center's guideline against "subtle -isms" takes place in the context of offering financial aid only to favored groups. This suggests that "subtle -isms" against less-favored groups might be policed less vigorously. For example, many ordinary white men might reasonably consider the term "underrepresented" itself to be a "subtle -ism", but I doubt complaints to this effect would fall on sympathetic ears.

This issue applies to Hacker News because being inspired by the Recurse Center's policies risks importing the expectation that "avoid subtle -isms" mainly applies to speech against their favored groups. If Hacker News is to adopt Recurse Center–style community guidelines but wants to avoid such bias, it should be explicit in disclaiming any notion of "protected classes", instead insisting that the guidelines be applied equally to all groups.
> It's really easy to become hyper-critical and respond to every idea with "yeah but that won't work because of x". This is lazy, don't do it.

This should be one of the HN guidelines.
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If you have suggestions on how to mitigate that (making the feature less useful as a copy protection without affecting (too much) the intended use, I'm happy to update the spec.
I disagree with the generally accepted one- build something you want. This is a fine thing to do but the overwhelming majority of good software business ideas aren't for consumers or developers. The overwhelming majority of workers who have problems that could be fixed by software are not developers. Lots of opportunities out there...
Electrolyte balance in general seems like a good research question. We load our food with sodium chloride, but natural diets are far higher in potassium chloride. The relationship between the various electrolytes is something about which we know very little.
I read it as "don't spend your time trying to find / meet (real) investors", along the lines of #47 "You're probably either building or fund raising."

Also that meaningful investments don't necessarily come from traditional, real investors.
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"the OP is trying to learn C from scratch"

This weighed heaviest in my mind. K&R is a poor book to learn modern C. Its like saying a person starting out with Fortran today should learn from a book written for FORTRAN 77. It might be ok later once better habits have set in, but for someone who didn't live through that era, it just seems like a waste of time and money for learning modern C.

I am still convinced its a signal to others and an aspiration for what we want out of language authors, but it just isn't up to date for the task of being the first C book someone reads.
Not many people did serious analysis of OpenSSL just because the code was very difficult to debug.
I love i3 and have gotten quite used to it. Although now that I do have haskell experience, I kind of wish I'd ramped up on XMonad. Of course, I'd try to configure it to behave just like i3 (especially with regard to the hierarchical containers, pretty sure XMonad doesn't do that OOTB), so now I'm not sure if I should switch ;)
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Certain features that I depend on (particularly midi input) are only available in chrome as of right now, so I honestly only test it in chrome, though most of the basic functionality ought to work in other browsers.
The Three-Decade-Old 'Out Run' Is One of 2015’s Best New Games
Assuming you mean 'forking': my guess would be that if you fork it, it would look like you're making contributions that could be merged back into the original project. If you import it then it will appear as a completely separate project.
three.js is btw the top result for the "3D JavaScript library" query.
Backup Overleaf → Dropbox → BitBucket
Have you considered a macbook pro?
We may end up having Continuum-style Corporate Congress.
Fascism, Corporatocracy, Oligarchy are all technically valid terms.

However, Fascism is generally used because its scary and [frankly] that kind of Government/Megacorp relationship in general is scary.
The top 100 most influential economists on Twitter: an algorithmic approach
Hopefully someone who really wants this feature won't just spam them with a thousand "+1" messages. ;)
Well utility is a drastically oversimplified substitute for the extraordinarily complex processes by which capital is actually distributed, in the sense that it has the role of energy in physics but cannot be defined in a similar precise manner. Moreover capital itself has no agency (it doesn't need to do anything, compared to say electrons) and any model that describes the flow of capital doesn't have the same standing as say Maxwells equations, they aren't even phenomenological. I guess Finance is the closest thing in economics where you can come up with more or less accurate models for the prices etc. But again those are human constructs and don't have anything in common with laws of nature.
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This is not an invasion of privacy. The UK has been doing this for years with ANPR to catch people speeding, stolen vehicles and people driving dangerously.

Edit: It wasn't entirely clear, but when I said, 'This is not an invasion of privacy,' I meant this to come off as an opinion. Not fact. Please do not read it as fact.
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No, reading that information in one place and time is not an invasion of privacy. Storing that information from almost every intersection in the country for an indefinite period certainly is.

For one example take the paparrazi. While many people consider what the paparrazi does to be an invasion of privacy, it is not legally defined as such, and is therefore legal. Now imagine if there was a paparrazi on every single street corner, wirelessly connected so that any time any person of interest passes through any intersection, a photo of them with a timestamp is uploaded to the internet instantaneously. Would that be an invasion of privacy? Now what if these same paparrazos on every street corner just so happened to not be real people, but cameras covering every angle of the intersection? How quickly what "isn't an invasion of privacy because you're in public" becomes a terrifying scenario.
I use Colemak, so I feel your pain.
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That's a smart one -- I may have to steal it. Other one I didn't mentioned was for our API we have a "Problem" tag for BC breaks.
Most of the other replies to your question have been with the answer "Fascism". However, as I discuss this sort of thing a lot both online/offline, I can tell you that a lot of people think this is some sort of weird property of "capitalism".
> in any case low-latency low-bandwidth mixnet messaging is very hard versus nation-state adversaries with traffic correlation abilities

Indeed, The Pynchon Gate[1] paper indicates that intersection attacks can break any mixnet, to include high-latency mixnet.

The authors' solution is high-latency, high-bandwidth private information retrieval. Sadly, I can't see a way to make this work efficiently with mobile devices.

[1] http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/sassaman:wpes2005.pdf