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First Mojang kills my company by rescinding Craftbukkit's GPL license, and now this. What an awesome week this has been.

Still, though, the weak link remains that everyone has to trust these officials will actually uphold the constitution. Unless we can develop something more binding than swearing on…

Well, it can be seen and it can be used, but just not by everyone yet. I have no idea where I'll go to do a beta now.

While I think it should apply to non-US citizens, the fact that it technically doesn't is irrelevant as long as they're still willfully violating the rights of US citizens too.

>The job of three-letters agencies is to find out all various enemies of the state. Within the confines of the law and US constitution. If all you care about is rooting out enemies…

I'm actually kind of bothered by this. I was about to release signups for a private beta of my current project, but apparently that no longer fits the formal criteria of "Show HN."…

Why not a fission fragment rocket? We could send a probe to the centauri system with current technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket

This isn't 2004. The state of development of the various GNU/ Linux distributions has reached a point where everything "just works". I have yet to see an installation with driver p…

Why should this even matter in the first place? How can we be a supposedly post-racial society and yet have this level of scrutiny on the racial makeup of a company that is clearly…

>As production techniques for hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines improve, cost of access has dropped significantly, leading to increased use of these substances in childr…

There has been a cultural shift lately from "Ha! Those people are nerds!" to "Man, those guys are going to make so much money.". I would argue it has a lot to do with this movie: h…

Well, in terms of package and code validation, there are definitely strong arguments to be made for source-based distribution models and FOSS-backed fuzzing operations. Although fr…

Well, RMS exclusively uses a Lemote Yeelong that has been formally verified to not contain backdoors, and he runs purely free software on it. If that's not enough, he never connect…

Richard Stallman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman He's about free software as well. People that haven't started subscribing to his ideas post-leaks are part of the p…

I realize it's not the most credible source, but there was a purported leaker a few months ago on 4chan that claimed Google is getting ready to turn Android into something like thi…

This is exactly the sort of thing that I have been absolutely terrified about for a while now. When you're being hired, companies often tell you that they're going to run a profess…

Ugh, but Go is slow compared to Java and it's missing a lot of features. Why not something like Mono? It's faster than their current Dalvik/ ART VM and it would allow for many more…

Do the epiphany cores have storage and network I/O access, or are they something more similar to a GPU? In other words, could I write an epiphany webserver?

This is a red herring if I've ever seen one. Honestly, why should anyone care about how members of government sign documents when we have such dire problems as ballooning inequalit…