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Reminds me of the JSON / JSLint clause :) and the funny IBM story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSLint

"The JSLint license is a derivative of the MIT License. The sole modification is the addition of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.""

The story (transcript from a conference):

"About once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a different lawyer, at a company – I don’t want to embarrass the company by saying their name, so I’ll just say their initials – IBM…

[laughter]

…saying that they want to use something I wrote. Because I put this on everything I write, now. They want to use something that I wrote in something that they wrote, and they were pretty sure they weren’t going to use it for evil, but they couldn’t say for sure about their customers. So could I give them a special license for that?

Of course. So I wrote back – this happened literally two weeks ago – “I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”

[laughter and applause]

And the attorney wrote back and said: “Thanks very much, Douglas!”"

http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions

That said, these kind of clauses do cause legal problems.

https://www.change.org/p/douglas-crockford-remove-the-not-ev...
I agree so far as some progressive activists are fighting against being offended rather than fighting for rights. No person has a right not to be offended, and not every creative piece should be required to target all demographics.

Yes, laws exist about harassment and should be enforced since that can effectively violate rights. But, I have no right to require the content from artists, TV producers, movie producers, and game companies meets my word view. I can simply not buy the game or movie, but other people have the right to do so if they wish. And, I cannot harass the producers about the content that doesn't meet my world view to an extent that violates their rights--i.e. several internet catastrophes that resulted in lost jobs and people scared to leave their home due to death threats.
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> As a FreeBSD person...

Much as I like FreeBSD, ease of use on it is rarely a predictor for whether a language is successful or not (so long as it can be made to run on it).
As far as I'm aware, the port of pg 0.17.1 is alive and well: https://github.com/headius/jruby-pg
Also see Peter Wegner's Monument to Change as It Changes at Stanford:

http://peterwegner.com/work_detail.asp?id=212

One video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHf2sezptLU
Those are for the most part 'employee free' businesses as far as I understand it. Any company that needs a real person for its day-to-day management will not fit in the '4 hour work week' concept.
Automated system with little to no oversight?
Sorry friend this is nonsense. One of the key pieces of negotiation is access to information. Organizations and managers respond well to rational appeals like "so and so has the same experience and does the same job but earns 10% more" or "I have an outstanding offer for X I am currently at (X-$10000), I know your position(BATNA) to imply a cost of (X-$1000) I think its reasonable to settle here for (X-$5000)"

The key is having information specifically to formulate your company's BATNA. The notion that salary sharing is bad for the employee is hogwash from unfair labor practices developed over decades.

Would you buy a car from a dealership if the dealer told you "you shouldn't comparison shop it will only make you resentful"? Yet we are willing to accept that claptrap from a company. Not in this lifetime.
And actually "its potential effectiveness in removing CO2 from the atmosphere remains unproven."
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Could be something to do with the Stephen Hawking announcement of lots of money going towards SETI? Perhaps Kepler/NASA is announcing what they're doing as part of that.

Or, you know, aliens have contacted us. But probably the Hawking thing.
> So the recommendation engine just has to come up with something you'd try to watch and perhaps enjoy.

Heck, if it did that I'd be happy. I don't even know why I still have my Netflix subscription. The selection is basically as good (bad) as Hulu and Crackle, the price is higher and the recommendations are laughable (right now they're pushing: Velvet, a TV series about a Spanish fashion house; Sense 8, the latest lameness from the Wachowski brothers; Elsa & Fred, aimed at old people, a Robert Pattinson vehicle, Orange is the New Black, The Butler and piles of other stuff I would never watch if you tied me to a chair).

Frankly, I don't believe they have a recommendation engine anymore: I think they just suggest whatever is cheapest for them to play.
Calling it a "vote-ring" is a bit of a logical leap, that would imply that its individuals purposefully upvoting one another's products.

Yet with such a low amount of posts meeting this tests standards, and the fact that Product Hunt was specifically designed to focus on influencers it doesn't seem unlikely that a small group of users would vote in similar patterns on either quality products, or ones shared by influencers they follow.

And, when you take into account that they share via email posts from influencers you follow it just adds to this behavior. The last few times I've been on Product Hunt was because I got an email that Hiten Shah and shared something. I follow him because we have similar interests. I opened the PH link, agreed it was a great find and upvoted it. It doesn't make me a vote-ring.
You don't have to spawn a separate instance for each CPU core. Granted there are web servers that take care of some of that by having multiple workers.
If you've ever been paid interest on savings, paid into a pension, invested in the stock market, rented out a possession, or taken advantage of your relatively privileged upbringing as leverage over others you're a 'rent seeker' too. It's a meaningless epithet.

It's quite possible and moral for a business owner to invest money in a business, pay their employees a good wage and keep them happy, and extract profit in return for taking on more of the risk, and having capital in the first place. In fact, that's the way most businesses run, and they often depend on investors who merely provide capital too.

Now if they inherited the money, extorted it, or gained it illegally, perhaps you have a case that the situation is unfair, but the mere fact of exploiting capital in order to make more is not in any way morally dubious.
Proposal to split up Qualcomm is patently absurd
yeah you're right, and you're not the first to tell me that ! i will make a 'traditionnal' resume in addition, just in case :)
Thanks for your answer. I was more curious about what kind of costs are associated with apps like Periscope, Mixvid or Vine rather than simple web pages, but thanks again for taking the time to provide an answer.
Army of lawyers and business people with zero technical knowledge?
So don't do that. Make a few UIs. They are a big company, they can do that if they actually have anyone who knows how to program.
If I recall 4HWW correctly, mostly the employees were contractors who worked for distinct companies to which you outsourced that function of the company. You were more there customer than their boss.
I've done that, but I was more wondering if there was some place (a blog series or something) that people here would actually recommend. The top hits are all just lists with single terms like "B-to-C" and the like. They're fine if I need to know a single term, but don't really explain much else.

For example: this article (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/glossary-startup-and-ven...), gives the definition for "preferred stock" (a random selection) as "stock that carries a fixed dividend that is to be paid out before dividends carried by common stock." As someone not in the startup business (and not knowing much about finance in general), this is not really helpful. I'm not sure what it means for a dividend to be fixed, nor is there a definition of "common stock" anywhere.

I realize this isn't really the right thread to ask, but these things come up all the time so it seems like there might be a respectable reference somewhere online.
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Why would you want to join a company that didn't appreciate this reason for leaving?
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Other replies have indicated, surely incontrovertibly, that this is some sort of automated framework gone wrong (or wrong-er); but, in that case, I think a question is: what's changed so that that automated framework has discovered 127.0.0.1 now, and not before?
I was hoping this would be on public display somewhere.

Still, I submitted a picture of Ada Lovelace.
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Theoretically, is this idea possible?

1) Make a casino with slot machines/etc. Connect slot machines to a stock market day trading system that acts at random on each lever pull (I.E. buying and then selling 10 seconds later, when the price is a bit different)

2) Gamblers will gamble as they usually do, but since the stock market grows on average by 7% a year, they should theoretically come out ahead.

3) Casino can take 3.5% for setting everything up.

What would make this impossible?
All ideas are welcomed ! I take note ! Thank you !
The proposed breakup of Qualcomm by activist investment firm Jana Partners, as reported by the Wall Street Journal this week, would be a blunder of biblical proportions. The equivalent of Delilah cutting off Samson's hair while he slept, dividing Qualcomm into separately traded semiconductor and technology licensing businesses would produce two companies of lesser value than the former whole.
Since when do anarchists care about "tradition"? Tradition is central to right wing ideology. And since when is feminism central to anarchism? I guess since marxist-inspired leftists (and now SJWs) hijacked it distorting the meaning of this word beyond recognition in the process. Where's the feminism in Bakunin, Kropotkin or even worse Proudhon?
> complicated code base

So then the answer is certainly "yes" with the same level of certainty that algorias is claiming. Large, complicated solutions are inherently likely to have subtle flaws.
> The problem for YC is that each YC batch has 30-50 companies in it, most of which will fail. When those companies go to raise later rounds, new investors want to know whether YC believes in them. If YC exercises pro-rata rights on just some of their companies, the ones that don't see the exercise are damaged goods. So instead, YC is committing themselves to pro-rata all their companies (this is a lot of companies) so long as they can afford it.

Does this mean a bunch of money is being thrown away on signaling?
The Intel manuals have become ever increasing in size

I remember around 2000 it was 3 manuals, last time I checked it was 5 or 6

New instructions, new functionality (virtualization) etc

But the old manuals still have a lot of relevant stuff, especially if you want to work at the low-level (like switching to protected mode, page tables, etc)
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For sites that are important to my life, I prefer not to have plugins modifying their contents in potentially intent-changing ways. Ad-blockers make no guarantee to preserve functionality.
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Probably someone forgetting to comment out some debug code or whatever... it doesn't take much imagination to see how this might happen.
Many parallels can be seen between the founders of Vector Halt and the Clarks in the Halt and Catch Fire series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWrioRji60A
OH NO! 127.0.0.1 THATS ME!
I got through the first paragraph before the whole page was replaced with an interstitial ad.

What would you call that, Flash Of Actual Content?
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A controversial observation might be they maximize profit by having the most people sign up and then stream the least possible, correct? And they have a semi-monopoly, correct, where theres no real competition? I mean, I have and use Prime but I don't seriously watch videos and I'm in it for the shipping...

Anyway there's this assumption that they'd want to present results that encourage you to watch as much as possible, yet they have a financial incentive to present results that are just barely good enough that you won't cancel and/or sign up for a minor competitor.

This is NOT like a public library card catalog where next years funding depends on increasing circulation counts.

In some ways I think my proposed search result criteria are more difficult than presenting result I'd actually want.
How would that help them? It doesn't seem like they have any incentive to prevent more people from using the JVM. In fact, I would imagine they want more people to use it, and multiple languages compiling to it makes it more popular.
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Going on a tangent:
Checking DMCA notices seems like this is a good way to find sites which have a copy of the move ?
> that makes for 8,000 kilometers of driving, 100 hours at the wheel in a bit more than five days.

And the article calls him a hero?
Maybe, but I'd think you'd have to take the age weight with a pinch of salt.

The are 14 year olds who are obsessed with jazz and blues, while some 70 year olds only listen to hardcore punk and deathgrind
the tweet is gone, what was it about?
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Eh, first time I played Nintendo Land, it felt like a new experience to me. The asynchronous gameplay of 1 vs. 4 players in some of the minigames was unlike anything I'd played before. Gave me that "delightful" feeling that you only get every few years when experiencing something new and exciting.
My money's on someone running a Plex server (or something similar) on their own machine, then going to reddit and saying "I have a copy of [X], you can watch it here:" with a link to 127.0.0.1 (since that's how they watch it, so why wouldn't it work for anyone else?).

I.E. We're dealing with the intersection of an automated framework with a "normal."
"The firm ultimately shared its fate with the every other PC maker that didn't jump on the IBM clone bandwagon. The only consumer PC company that survived into the 1990s with its own significant platform was Apple, and even then, just barely."

What made Apple SO different from all the others that failed?
I don't see why that had to be an insulting animated "let me Google that for you link."
I wonder how long it will be before the majority of this planet's computing power is devoted to automated processes interacting with other automated processes in such a way that the end result is complete nonsense.

Imagine spambots communicating with honeypotbots. Adbots serving clickfraudbots. Recommendations engines suggesting new content to ratingbots. Chatbots lying to each other in channels devoid of actual humans.
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So you mean if I live in North Korea and I want to encrypt something on my computer off the grid and THEN go on the grid and send ONLY the encrypted data I can do that? And then the recipient can download the encrypted data and THEN go off the grid and read our secret plot against kim jong un unnoticedwe can....brilliant
I notice you use the words 'aim' and 'try' in your message, what do you think is the risk that if YC does not simply always do this it will be perceived as a very negative signal by other investors in later rounds?
> I'm not sure why you seem to think that ensuring license freedom is mutually exclusive with documentation and tooling

Really? Where did I ever say it was mutually exclusive? Why would you ever think that?

It's a good thing, but it's not always necessary. It's tangential and kind of misses the point.
That's brilliant, even if only for it's pugnaciousness.
> For example, how do you evalute postfix addition? If you have v1.0.0-alpha3 and v1.0.0-alpha10, are all semver implementations supposed to do an alphabetical check until it sees a string? Or should you zero-pad anything with text postfixes?

That's not semantic versioning. Semantic versions are for communicating feature additions and breaking changes to technical users. Alpha/beta are for marketing and communicating stability to nontechnical users.

If you're releasing to a large user base, there's no reason to do more than 1.0 alpha and 1.0 beta before 1.0. Releasing a ton of times before your big release causes a lot of deploy thrashing that's pointless. Unless your user base is truly gigantic, I'd even be hesitant to release an alpha.

If you're releasing personalized changes to a few clients, then alpha/beta don't make sense: they don't care about a general sense of reliability, they care about features they've requested, so just tell them, "This is the release with X feature you are interested in."

Internally, there will always be technical users who might fine use in semantic versioning. If you're doing alpha/beta, 1.0 alpha can be 1.0.5 and 1.0 beta can be 1.0.23 and 1.0 can be 1.0.75. Similarly, changes delivered to specific users can just be specific files earmarked for them.

> And how do you deal with labeling branches or architectures?

Why are you tagging branches with a version number? Version numbers are for stable, tested, cohesive, coherent code points, not for whatever random state exists in version control. If you're trying to map version numbers to your git tree, of course that doesn't work: git trees are complex. A semantic version should only ever correspond to a stable point in your "source of truth" branch. A version is a commitment that the versioned code point is something you're willing to support and put your name on.

There are a few ways to deal with different architectures. If you have architectures that are relatively synced and coming from the same codebase, just version them the same: 1.0.1 for Mac and 1.0.1 for Windows are the same, they're just different files from the same release. If your architectures are drastically different (Mac is far behind Windows, for example) then version them as separate products: 1.0.1 for Mac can release at the same time as 2.1.5 for Windows.
Considering that all DMCA notices must include various dire assertions under penalty of perjury, has anyone ever tried to sue/prosecute over a negligently false DMCA notice?
Thanks for this reply!

Its nice to hear that this is just a question hiring managers ask cause they are there to ask questions. I'm going to keep that in mind next interview and make that answer the most boring, forgettable answer possible!
that's the plan idea!
What's with the mixed case "Crispr" acronym, but the all caps "RNA"?
You don't think there's a difference between exploiting physical access, and remote network exploits? Given physical access to a computer, you can break into it almost trivially; but you don't see people sweating about that.
How did you take this screenshot? Thanks
I'd love an overview of how GitHub Enterprise is deployed and maintained as a product. How are releases handled? Are all installs on-premise, or any hosted at on GitHub infrastructure?
Did you get significant improvements over the 2D cell lines? or 3D cell lines?
"Police should be trained, and it should be a point of pride for them, to be ultra-cool in the face of upset or rude people."

They are trained in de-escalation techniques. The issue is that in so many of these videos, it's not the person they've stopped or arrested, but the police themselves being the ones _actively_ escalating a situation until a use of force is near inevitable.
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That looks interesting. I wonder if nowadays that result could be replicated with readily available algorithms from scikit-learn.
> he did not want to stand there waiting to be hit by a car... while trying to explain to her that he was just issuing her a warning with no fine.

Except asking her to put out her cigarette kind of seems to imply he intended to stay in her face for a good while longer.

> Being nasty and combative might be your right, but it in no way helps you.

Same for being an apologist for this. People have the right to be that way; I don't have the right to let them.
Absolutely. OTOH, the far weightier suspicion is around the eventual death of Ms. Bland. An effective PR strategy might be to do something relatively ancillary that heightens the overall degree of suspicion. You then unequivocally address the ancillary issue (i.e. by rleasing the full video), which has the effect of reducing suspicion overall, including on the far weightier issue. That is, people think "Hey, maybe these guys aren't so bad. Maybe we are just jumping the gun".

Not saying this is happening. But, if the full video suddenly comes out and is "all-clear", then the police department will certainly receive that benefit, whether intentional or not.
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In what kinds of tasks? Single-thread performance has increased very slowly since the Core 2 Duo era. 8GHz is blazing-fast, even for an "old" processor.

eg. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1335
"When living in remote parts you have to have a car, otherwise you won't even be able to get to the workplace in the first place."

The bus works pretty well. Every city I've ever lived in has a bus system, which is pretty affordable.

"Not everyone has that choice."

Yes, they do. They choose not to leave because it's not the path of least resistance. Going through the interview process, meeting new people, and having to learn a completely new set of tasks is not easy or desirable. I've had to do it plenty of times throughout my life.

The other problem is living within your means. If you have student or credit card debt, don't buy a house or a car until they are both paid off. If you pile on the debt, you will be putting yourself in a position where your employer will have more power over you and you will have less options.

After college, I had to rent a room in a house for 2+ years to pay off all of my debt before I could get the apartment I wanted. I bought no new electronics during this time and I treated myself once/month to some Chinese carryout (Sandwiches and $1 frozen dinners the rest of the time).

Most people don't have the discipline to do this, which is the same discipline that is required to build a successful company.

It's ironic that with so much freedom, many choose to make themselves slaves.
And ::1 while they're at it.
Ask HN: My cofounder has turned toxic. What should I do?
Hello HN,

I cofounded a startup last year and things have been going well, we have a product/customers and the future looks very bright for the company. I love my work and am contributing a lot of value to this future.

My cofounder is also a very valuable person in the company, but recently (for several months now) they have been increasingly toxic. Specifically they are insulting me, calling my motives into question, and getting upset with me over petty issues. It has gotten to the point that I dread interacting with them.

We are both necessary for the company to continue, so one of us leaving and the company continuing is not really an option. If I decide to leave now the company will probably fail.

What should I do? What would you do?
Concurrent threads using magic regexp vars like $1 stomp all over each other, quite nasty: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/3031

Stumbling over a serious race condition in the first 5 minutes of trying it with real code makes me a bit wary. All the performance in the world isn't much good if it's randomly wrong :/
They bundled their machine with their own OS. Vector didn't.