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I think it's less about being spoiled, and more about users increasingly expecting that their habits & information are being exploited. The lower the expectation of privacy, the higher the expectation of piracy. Perhaps.
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yes, it's just the subdomain
Just created: http://latinoup.org

I'll just wait for the DNS propagation and then I'll "Tell HN".
Blush! I contributed that bit of Io FizzBuzz to Rosettacode :)

I originally posted that here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539295
Ask yourself why development stopped after IE6? I remember reading an article that mentioned they had started to build a web based office and it was stopped as soon as someone from the office team saw it. Why risk the office profit machine.

Couldn't find the article now, but I don't recall how well sourced it was.
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I think most of those are probably officially endorsed bots that do things like correct common misspellings, crosslink between different langauge Wikipedias and do huge one-off tasks like category reorganizations.
In the case of Hurricane Electric, I think this has also been a marketing/evangelism/thought leadership activity on their part. They're the experts I think of when I think about IPv6, largely because they've been doing this for a long time and they have clueful people working for them, in addition to the fact that they provide free tunnels.
many apps could get by using a combination of LocalStorage (for storing un-synced data generated by the user offline) and this caching strategy (for storing all of the synced data locally). It's not SQL, but it likely covers a decent amount of use cases.
haha, ok
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Depending on the context, I call myself either "software engineer" because it's my job title, "software developer" because it's closest in meaning to what I do, or "computer programmer" if I'm talking to someone with no background in technology.
Works for me. But the patch is huge.
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Good observation, though--I thought the same when I heard that song for the first time.
Ask HN: is asking HN readers for funding a good idea?
Getting funded by investors is good, but not always possible.
Why not "apply" to the HN community?
Suppose you have a good idea and did not make it in YC or any other program, should you give up?
Why not ask here on HN (if not against the rules).
1000 U$ each, 30 investors and you can start.
It should not be too difficult and a good way to test your idea. If it's not good you'll know it.
I am writing this because I raised 20.000 euros in a similar fashion and it was not that hard.
(This may have been already discussed, in that case sorry, I missed it).
I like it. Somehow I want to click on it a lot more than I would click on Like or Tweet, if I see it on a website. I think it may be because it's kind of like upvoting the article, while with "Like" I know I'm just going to spam everyone on Facebook with an article that 95% of them wouldn't be interested in. Facebook needs to solve the (lack of) context problem fast, or it will become the next Myspace before they realize it.
So, as a Debian User, I can have use of this in 5 years.
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Except I find most of my changes get reverted, even if referenced or simply deleting incorrect and unreferenced information. I don't have time to enter a life-long battle keeping an article correct.
My impression is this:

1. developers find a new way to do things efficiently

2. its good

3. word spreads in the community. Method gets a nice name

4. consulting companies smell money. Develop training for big $. Win managements

5. management wants to be modern, but doesn't want to change key aspects, like number of developers, communication, carrier paths, hierarchies etc.

6. management requires: everybody has to be able to use this method. Name of the method is filled with different contents: easy to understand, fits well into every companies profile, works for every dumbass

7. method stops to work

8. consultants still sell it. Everybody has to do the sh....
>> now, they can demand more funds in the name of security

Yes; sadly, this is what would happen. The authorities would demand and obtain more funds (and authority!) 'to counter the serious threats to websites that are part of crucial national infrastructure'.#

The real deal will begin only when the (incompetent) media notices the episode. Media would encash it by crying hoarse, running debates and discussions (with certified idiots## in the panel) on this trivial stuff, if at all it happens.

#even though that infrastructure contains ultra-outdated and next-to-useless info.

##http://www.ankurb.info/2007/12/05/ankit-fadia-certified-ethi...
http://89.248.164.63/dox/xyz/xyz01.jpg looks like a kid to me...
A synchronous interface to SQLite would be nice as well - I really didn't enjoy using the current asynchronous interface. (I think this might have been part of the original spec. but hasn't been implemented).
The biggies I've been personally waiting to see land in this release are:

* Added OS Process module to manage daemons outside of CouchDB.

* Added HTTP Proxy handler for more scalable externals.

What these effectively mean is that you can write CouchDB handlers in the language of your choice as long as they speak http. You can get the full details from the author of the above patches here:

http://davispj.com/2010/09/26/new-couchdb-externals-api.html

This makes possible things like LivelyCouch, integrating node.js with Couch:

http://www.livelycouch.org/
Learn from this. Piracy offers valuable lessons to the budding entrepreneurial programmer. You learn about: consumer behavior, the nature of black markets, iOS piracy tools and techniques.

Quick story: A friend of mine, Carl Lydon, created www.chamberofchat.com, which is an 3D chat-room for Harry Potter Fans that became popular in the early 2000s. This chat-room was promptly infiltrated by a nefarious hacker who assigned himself moderator status and began spewing filth, casting elimination spells, and harassing innocent chatters. At first Carl freaked out but got a hold of himself and re-built a few key modules of his multiplayer log-in code. By the end, the hacker went away, and Carl learned more about security than he ever could have from any one else. A gold-mine of lessons. A fine-art school graduate, he now makes a fortune programming multiplayer online games. Piracy is a gift.

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or copy machine
I probably didn't follow correctly, but doesn't this only affect Sandy Bridge processors?
Or run Debian Sid, as you ought to on the desktop ;).
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Autolinking is tedious, but valuable, so it's a perfect thing for bots to do, especially for general topic links at the bottom of pages.
The title is a bit misleading, it sounds like its a general improvement, when actually its a patch for the intel driver, so it only affects those that use intel cards and this driver, or did I missed something ?
Thank you! I've actually already created a personal web site with my resume and projects I've done while having my own business while in school that showcases the number of projects I started / worked on.

Your advice on why I made the design and programming choices for certain projects is something I didn't put much thought into. Thank you for that insight as I'll use that to be better prepared for my interviews.
Its just a websites source code, no actual code to the PSN. It does have a SSLCert, but it looks like it expired in 2004. Looks like the dump is an older revision of the website.
At least it's better than spamming the front page with the same topic from multiple sources.
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>"If Microsoft wants to halt the downward slide—let alone regain share—it's going to take more than a new browser release every so often."

That seems to be a big "if." From Microsoft's perspective, it is difficult to see producing the latest greatest browser as a key strategic goal - that's not to say that a solid competent browser suitable for businesses and acceptable as a default by ordinary consumers is not important.

For Microsoft the browser features which are critical are quite different from those of other browser providers - Microsoft needs a browser which above all provides a large degree of predictability, stability, and automation for enterprise and business - pursuing Google's new release every week strategy would be counter productive to Microsoft's need to provide a browser which is well integrated into their technology stack. Consumer choice will never drive Microsoft's browser development (hence we don't see IE for OSX or Linux).

The idea that Microsoft losing browser market share is a disaster lacks an explanation of why. IE's market dominance was a liability for Microsoft (e.g. the EU settlement) and IE itself is largely a cost center not a revenue generator - how many consumers upgraded from XP just for IE9 and how much revenue did that generate relative to the amount Microsoft spent on supporting IE6 over the years?

If Microsoft was like Google or Mozilla, the loss in browser market share would affect their bottom line. But they aren't, and it doesn't.
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I agree. That's exactly why they can't and will never be able to stop piracy on the Internet. Copying and sharing information on the Internet is designed into the Internet, and it's a fundamental principle of the Internet. Trying to stop it through outside "artificial" laws will not work. They manage to stop one thing and 10 better alternatives appear.
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"Measure as much as you can - no feedback == no direction"

Can't agree more. We have built some internal applications where everything was implemented, the acceptance criterias were met and everyone was satisfied until they actually started using the system and said, ".. wait a minute, this doesnt help us as much as we had liked". But, we had already moved on to the next big thing.

"If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse" - Henry Ford, http://bit.ly/kmLhvZ
Not easily found but the Io website also comes with some great code samples: http://www.iolanguage.com/about/samplecode/
LocalStorage only gives you 10mb. If your user is offline for a week or two you will run into problems. Further, if your user wants all their data with them how would you explain that they can only have 10mb of it?

Again, it's not SQL that we need, but a reliable storage mechanism that scales to gigabytes of browser-side data. SQLite is a reliable storage mechanism, interface issues and advantages of SQL aside.
Nope:

we can take advantage of additional efficiencies, such as relative relocations, that have been incorporated into recent hardware advances. However, even older hardware performs better from avoiding the implicit context switches and from the batching efficiency of the 3D pipeline...
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This post makes me very happy. Cleaner code, more contributors, more excitement: these are the signs of a project that will flourish when I had feared it might die.

Kudos to the LibreOffice team! I'm excited to see what you do next.
At RubyConf 2009, the same question was asked he said 'Go'.
Hmm... I haven't heard anybody say it was against the rules, but I've also never seen anybody do that... maybe people just perceive that it wouldn't be seen as a cool thing to do. Certainly I woulnd't want to see HN over-run with "fund my startup" posts if that became commonplace.

Probably the bigger reason it doesn't happen is all the legal and practical issues. That is, legal issues around being an "accredited investor" (etc) and any related SEC rules... and the practical issue of asking people to invest in a very early stage venture, when they're not likely to know you, be located near you geographically, etc., etc.
Internet or no, a lot of people still wouldn't feel comfortable doing a deal with somebody that they can't easily arrange to meet in person and sit down and talk "face to face" with.
and there is Ioke (http://ioke.org/) programming language. its not currently developing i think.he implement io (and some plus points) on jvm. I really like io's design, prototype based++, clean syntax, dynamic, macros...
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Very interesting, but lets also consider the source. I personally have a hierarchy of passwords. Things that are important (e.g. banking) gets unique random passwords. Sites like sonypictures.com that I'll probably never use again and don't care if someone gets access to... they get one of my old passwords that I'll remember.
I think im gonna call the Internet Police for über hijacking
Manning is a totally different story that doesn't even fall the same branch of law. Plus state security in the US is somewhat touchy I hear. They're kids, they're gonna be all-right.
I wish JavaScript's prototypal features were more like io's, or even Lua's. io was the first language I had seen where I really grocked prototypal inheritance.
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If the salt is the same for all the users you can have it on the source code that hashes the passwords. Not always being SQL injected means having the back-end code leaked.
If Objective-C fits your definition of statically typed OO language, then I believe you can return whatever you want in the -(id)init constructor.

The common idiom for implementing constructors in subclasses is to do "self = [super init]; if (self) { ... subclass constructor impl ... }; return self".

Setting self to nil is a common use-case.
OK for PC users.

What if you have a Mac and therefore a tiny hard drive that is full because you use iApps that refuse to read from external media?
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Something does not compute there. If your changes are getting reverted, obviously someone cares enough to notice, so it follows that they should care enough to check the discussion. Are you sure you're not just getting hit by a bot? Maybe you did not tag your changes properly? If anything, there might be a problem that the admins should look at. I would like to see some of these changes you are talking about.
Case in point, Discover Bank doesn't allow special characters in the password. Really now?
A bunch of the other changes are about making CouchDB more suitable as a public-facing web server, hence the SSL support & improved ETag support for example.
I know i use to horde media for the purpose of hording I guess. I would just have to have the latest media released on sharereator.com and suprnova.org(dating my downloading habits to circa 2002-2006).

Overall all that crap I collected most I never watched and it ended up getting hosed from the various hard drives stored on. Even had them backed up on multiple hard drives, yet I don't know why?

A year or so ago I saw an episode of The Office on Hulu where the character Andy was like Im cool I got the latest movies in the theatre right here on my computer. You will like me and think I am cool because of this please watch with me. Yeah I am cool! Thankfully years later Im no longer Andy ... are you?
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Monetize product which shows well in Google search?
My uncle has a company which sells the only dimming compact fluorescent light (light bulbs we have to switch to in 2014). He is selling them through Amazon.com at the moment.

If you Google "dimming CFL" his product is the first result. He asked me how to take advantage of this favorable query result but I'm not sure so I'm turning to the community.

How can I help him sell more of his product and take advantage of the Google result?

By the way, I'm a programmer so open to any technology suggestions as well.

Thanks.
Yep, agreed, some apps could easily generate more than 10mb in a couple of weeks. It's definitely an issue.

Users could take all their data with them following this proposal since, provided the Cache-Storage was high enough, data that is pushed up to the online web app could be served back to the client (as json data, a web page, etc.) and stored in the web cache like any other type of asset
re: Gaming. Did you notice that the article was an Australian one?

Duke Nukem Forever -- is on-sale for me in the Steam Store for $71.99USD. (Remember that the $AUD is higher than the USD at the moment). In the US -- $44.99

http://www.steamprices.com/au/app/57900/duke-nukem-forever

See also -- $1.29AUD iTunes apps/songs
This is a good article on why research into new devices or physics should keep a healthy dose of experimentation in addition to any computer simulations. I've done a fair amount of simulation work and agree strongly with the notion that people severely underestimate the number of failures their simulations contain.
As someone who went to college and thoroughly believes in the value of higher education (even liberal arts), I think this, frankly, is a poor argument.
There are plenty of folks out there who have earned respect and success without setting foot in college. Sure, it's a small subset of the folks who skipped entirely, but that subset still exists and makes itself heard on HN relatively often. Further, it's only a small subset of the folks who went to college that really set the world on fire anyway, with quality blogs, book tours or revolutionary ideas.

Most folks who didn't go to college lead relatively trite lives. Most folks who DID go to college lead relatively trite lives. It's like Thoreau said: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." This guy's just the pot calling the kettle black.
didn't see that, thanks!

excellent news then :)
Sure!

starts off with <Topiary> telling everyone to get off this network, ED IRC (it could be a server in their own network, but if that were the case their network would already be breached)

<pwnsauce> calls for a new operation (similar to how anon has various operations).

Then <Topiary> admits to hiring a botnet to help them.

<joepie91> chimes in, talking about an irc server exploit is basically killing his computer.

<storm> asks for an exploit, <lol> says he has it, but is scared to get it out and give it to him (meaning that, for all his "security knowledge" he still managed to get viruses on his stuff.

About half an hour later, <Topiary> insults a few people they want to crack, and mentions an apache 0 day exploit. The rest is them asserting their masculinity, and a mention of the gawker root.

oh, and then a message saying one of the guys is in FBI custody, but I assume that's not part of what you wanted translated.
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They seem to be still tweeting new cracks. Wonder how long it'll take them to realize that they're being arrested by the FBI.

(edit: seriously, though, something seems just a bit off here.)
"The one company that seems to get online distribution is, of course, Netflix. Watch as much as you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want for a flat fee. They've obviously solved the problem of distributing royalties and so forth to content owners."

They haven't quite solved it, as they get only a limited selection. Every week its coverage of the "B-list" is improved but they've had only limited penetration into the A-class stuff. Still, I would pay easily twice what I do now to get a better selection of updated stuff from them, on the condition that they continue to have no ads, which is rapidly becoming my line in the sand.
Not only that, but the Second System Effect is alive and well. Many times, it's happening because nobody has ever heard of The Mythical Man Month.

If you ever wanted to go out and do something but were worried about Google entering that space, go do it anyway. Odds are good they aren't going to catch you due to the 500 pound weight any project will have to lug around.
>"in order to stay relevant in the browser market"

The question is, "What is the browser market?"

For Opera, Mozilla and Google (and increasingly for Apple), the browser is critical to their cash flow because it allows them to capture data and monetize it through datamining or through licensing branded versions. For those companies, browser adoption goes directly to the bottom line. But those economics don't really apply to Microsoft's core business of selling software rather than user information. For Microsoft having IE used for 80% of browsing was a liability not an asset - monetizing their near monopoly was not a viable option because of the legal problems it would create.
The worst thing about Hulu Plus is that you pay for the ability to stream shows on things like Roku BUT only some of their catalog is cleared for streaming to a TV (I guess because their licensing doesn't clear it for an actual TV screen vs PC screen). I don't have a cable subscription and it's kind of just aggravating to me that the TV studios do this.
Your analysis is dead on. I forget the movie but I remember seeing that it was 'out on DVD.' I decided I wanted to watch said movie so I checked NF (streaming or disc) and it didn't have it. I checked Comcast OnDemand, not there either. So I checked xbox live and even itunes and it was not available. At this point the only way to watch the movie as to either buy it (rofl never) or pirate it.

In the end I just skipped the movie because it really wasn't that important, but look at the effort I went through to try and hand over my money. Number one rule of business is to make it frictionless for your customers to give you money. Movie studios do the exact opposite and then wonder why movies are pirated.
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How is this surprising? If you use their service, you may need a license to a patent of theirs, which is granted to you for use of the service. The patent might not even be issued yet. It seems to me that they are just covering their bases.

So yes, you may need a patent, however, if you are using schema.org, you are not infringing on the patent (because they give you a limited license).

Then again, you might not be infringing on a patent too...
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I have to do the same when I teach new developers and friends about the replication problems with PG.

When you say "replication problems" then you probably mean silent slave corruption?

I'm sorry but this is still a MySQL-only feature. The PostgreSQL-replication can't go out of sync, and worse, it can't even silently fail.

In this regard (and some others) PostgreSQL sadly lacks all the fun and excitement that can be had with MySQL.
well, it's already been fixed now.
For anyone interested, this Ruby code will get you started hacking in the HNSearch API right away. Gets JSON response for @query and puts it into an array of submission hashes (@results):

require 'net/http'

require 'uri'

require 'json'

@query = “facebook”

url = "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=#{C...

doc = Net::HTTP.get URI.parse(url)

jdoc = JSON.parse(doc)

jdoc["results"].each do |result_hash|

@results << result_hash["item"]

end