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I don't loathe him at all. I just think he could spend his time better, especially when he has such a captivated audience. Instead of setting an example of being a troll and responding immaturely (and threatening to leave github, oh my). He's fairly arrogant and preaches his opinions on how to run startups, of which he's never done.

He seems to inflame conversations for the sake of inflaming them. That's all. He likes the attention.
Thanks, good catch. I'm used to thinking about the limit where you have so many bins that the Binomial distribution can be approximated as a Poisson distribution without thinking twice. 10 is sort of borderline but I probably should have been more explicit. If there are only 10 bins then this will introduce a roughly 5% overestimation of the standard deviation in the distribution of n(i). This in turn would be an 11% overestimation of Q and an 11% overestimation of the number of standard deviations you're off by. The statistical error on your estimation of this sigma is generally going to be significantly larger than the errors introduced by making this approximation so it really doesn't matter all that much. As you make the number of bins larger they matter less and less (mturmon probably knows this, I'm just making it clear to anyone reading our comments).
The author didn't consider the extensions gcc introduces? or all the userland gnuisms that Linux relies on? LOC is not a measurement of use.
Find a license that matches your needs and put notices in all your source files. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category

You own copyright on the work, and there's no giving away those rights by licensing it. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping you from granting someone else a different license to the source (one permitting commercial use in consideration of a fee paid to you, for example).

The license permits others to do what you've licensed them to do. It places no restrictions on you, the copyright holder, except that you cannot revoke a license for code already released to someone unless the license permits such action (which no open source licenses do, as far as I know).
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FYI, LinkedIn open-sourced the work they did to build real-time indexing/search on top of Lucene. It's called Zoie (http://javasoze.github.com/zoie/), I've played with it and it's nice from a performance point of view...
I wonder what his advice is for people that care about privacy. All indications so far have been: don't worry about it.

In my personal spectrum of concerns, having my machine occasionally violated by a virus is not nearly as disturbing as full multi year search and browsing histories being stored and shared without my permission or online profiles being consolidated into a single identity. I'm not saying that google does all this - but it's a lot more scary than a virus.
Try not installing glibc someday.
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>I wonder what his advice is for people that care about privacy. All indications so far have been: don't worry about it.

I read most of these cases were intended to be jokes.
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I've sold products.

I didn't spam. I talked with customers before the product was even finished to make sure we were solving a real problem, to make sure they understood our marketing message, and to make sure we really understood the space.

This led naturally to a situation where I had paying beta customers, and even more customers who signed up and started paying as soon as we launched.
You need to work on congress, not Lodsys or Apple.

Lodsys is doing what the law lets them. I'm not going to get mad at them for it - I'd get mad at those that let them do it.
I don't think bsd libc supports linux specifics such as fanotify and such, the libc is usually tied to a kernel. (I haven't looked at bsd libc so I may be wrong)
I do not agree. You can't simply ignore HOW somebody says something. How you say something almost more important than what you say.

If Zed hadn't written a blog post detailing how he fucked everything up (in all his greatness, apparently) it wouldn't have gotten such exposure and would likely have died out.

He had to make his point with a hammer or it wouldn't have mattered. And it's unfortunate that it took a hammer to make the point. I'd even go so far as to say this feature isn't actually all that important. Zed Shaw just MADE it important.
>the whole idea of a Free alternative to Unix

I don't mean to marginalize the gnu project, but there were already free -nixes out there. Starting over from scratch isn't much of an accomplishment other than the license...

>and created the culture and licenses that made it possible

The GPL has ultimately done more harm than good for open source. The only time proprietary software vendors are forced to release anything is when they accidentally mess up because they didn't understand what they were getting into. This happens rarely and when businesses get burnt, they're more apprehensive to do anything with opensource in the future. I know because I still see this happening today.

When people aren't scared of the codebase, they can start using it. If they can modify it without worrying about legal repercussions, they're not afraid to modify it. Sure they don't have to give back, but if you force them to they're not even going to make the modifications in the first place.

If someone wants to build something closed source, they're going to build something closed source even if it means re-inventing the wheel to avoid the GPL. I'd rather have the wheel be a BSD wheel, so even if product X will never be opensource, at least it will be built with good wheels. I'm a realist that knows closed software isn't going anywhere and at the end of the day I'd like all software to be as good as it can be.
Whether or not that is true now, if banks that were friendly from spammers found themselves suffering major penalties, this implication could be made true.

Unlike the other links in the spam problem, banks have the problem that they can only stay in business if they are seen as legit by legitimate banks, credit card companies, and the like. The same is not true for botnets (illegal), spammers (already breaking the law) or the manufacturers (as long as they have money, they can get supplies, and they are hard to regulate as long as their countries turn a blind eye). But if you're a would be Viagra purchaser, and your credit card won't let you purchase your Viagra, the spammer is out of luck.
You can't have "do nothing" mean both "do not accept (yet?)" and also "accept!"; if no action keeps you from accepting, it means it'll take an extra step to actually accept an invitation. If the common case is not trolling, that adds friction.
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How do you think that makes me feel, reading that at midnight alone in my one-bedroom apartment?
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Hardware has progressed far enough to allow a nice abstraction like that.
Ah, the age old enmity between nerds and bullies.
Um...why was it being hosted off Comcast, instead of Linode (for example)?
I don't actively loathe him, but the persona he spends so much time cultivating is brash and irritating. It seems whenever I see his name mentioned, it's because he's making a stink about something, rather than doing something useful. I get that he does useful things, and LPtHW is apparently a great resource, but he (intentionally) attracts far more attention with his antics than his works.

The court jester may make a good point every now and then, but he's still a clown.
With Git you can branch, try something, then abandon the whole branch if you want to, it's pretty sweet.
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I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Obviously "do nothing" can't mean both. Obviously the entire point of a confirmation would be such that it would take an action to be "accept", so that means that "do nothing" would have to be "do not accept (yet?)". Obviously this is only useful for GH if trolling is the common case. And obviously I started my post by saying I did not want confirmations. So what exactly are you trying to argue against?
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Warning: angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin argument ahead.

It's true that the kernel is loaded all the time (though not usually running more than a small fraction of the time), but so is glibc. It's far from obvious that more cycles are spent in the kernel than are spent in glibc (though of course in both cases the goal is to run as little as possible, allowing more application code to run).

It's also worth considering that only a fraction of the kernel's LOC are even compiled in the average distribution's kernel (are the LOC dedicated to Itanium, Alpha and PA-RISC support really useful to Ubuntu?).
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While yes my multi-monitor setup gets used for non-work related stuff, most of the time the smaller of the two screens is covered in documentation and terminal windows while my main screen has MacVim maximised with multiple tabs. Being able to quickly move from one screen to another has helped me be a lot more productive.

So it is also about willpower.
Ok, you do have (kinda) a point with Dropbox since they store the file locally on all computers.

What I'm saying though, is that the cloud storage (not local) can be decoupled from the service. Such that if I decide I don't want to use Dropbox anymore, I still have a access copy of my files in the cloud - just not via the Dropbox software.

Imagine if Dropbox sync'ed your local files with your personal Amazon S3 bucket. That's what I'm hinting at.
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Since this has been on the front page of HN long enough, I expect more in-depth coverage from TechCrunh really soon. That's usually how it works. That could get the ball rolling.

(I know TC has its critics, but they are exactly what's needed for this kind of story)
On the other hand, you can always tell software that was written (and/or bought) by someone who knew they'd never have to use it themselves. It's why most corporate software is so bad: it's written by someone who really couldn't care less about General Ledgers, and it's bought by the CFO who has staff to actually operate it.
This whole thing is a silly argument. Buenos Aires is part of Latin America, but it is probably one of the most European of all cities in Latin America.

Similarly, Boston is part of the United States, but it's one of the most European cities in the US.
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What about dataflow programming? Shell scripting is one example. I think the same thing could be implemented using event driven programming, the event being the completion of some function, though that would be a little less clear.
The author is mistaken, as you point out there wouldn be nothing to look at (well, effectively nothing) if the code from debain was removed. Also the methodology is a bit suspect. The main non-free and contrib repositories are divided along GPL-compatibility lines, so just looking at main doesn't really paint a full picture.
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Indian brands are notorious for arm-twisting their customers. I have seen one senior level executive of a major Indian brand claim that in a population of 1 billion, they can afford to piss off a lot of customers and still get new customers to not worry about the churn rate because people don't have many options and customers know that each one of the option suck equally.
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Okay, how about this: build a Linux distribution using no GNU software.

If you don't think it's critical, try to get by without it.

RMS is a good guy, and I think that his effort to make foundational efforts remembered is equally laudable.
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The Snopes addict in me always goes looking for the verifiable facts, which is what led me to your (very real) Twitter account. Wish I'd dug further and found your HN id as well!

Now, this could still end up being marketing and the world may still Rapture on Oct 21. But if Hidden weren't your client before this, they should be afterwards.
These types of messages definitely appear to fit the CAN-SPAM Act, which covers "any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service".

Airbnb may be spending that $100M sooner than they thought: "Each separate email in violation of the law is subject to penalties of up to $16,000, and more than one person may be held responsible for violations. For example, both the company whose product is promoted in the message and the company that originated the message may be legally responsible."

http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...
Eric Schmidt is giving poor advice in an area that is far outside of his expertise. I would be surprised if he even knows what DEP and ASLR are.
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It was a poll, not a vote. pg is going to do what he wants.
Why not pay them, and have them work on actual things that matter to you, but you don't have time to address?
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The profile page needs tidy up - if only it split the projects into tbose you collaborate on,and those you are invited to collaborate on. Its just wording, but it makes it clear that being added to a repo you haven't contributed to will not be shown publicly.
Consider prior probabilities and Bayes' rule.
It's not being cynical, it just wasn't the experience you had.
You don't need to know what either of those things are to make the (correct) observation that the majority of malware targets the systems on which it'll get the most bang for its buck.

At least currently, that means targeting Windows users - solely because there are so many more of them than Apple users.
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Your understanding of DNSSEC is incorrect.
I think this is a more interesting way of looking at it:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+digg%2C+slashdot...

It's interesting because Digg blew itself up when they tampered with their formula... and Slashdot faded into obscurity because they didn't tamper with their formula.

There's no silver bullet.
I have a Phenom X4 940BE. While Cain isn't threaded for bruteforcing and hence does just 10 million NTLMs, a threaded Cain would do about 40 million I suppose. Optimized software like hashcat would do even more but not anywhere near 3.3 billion.
Seems easy and has a simple call to action.

However, I personally think AreYouWatchingThis cannot be beat. The founder has been working in this space for over four years now and is a model of dogged determination. RUWT? is a great example for entrepreneurs of how to keep going and refuse to go away quietly when you have a hold of a good idea.

http://areyouwatchingthis.com/
The problem I think I'd encounter with a blacklist is that skirting it suddenly becomes an interesting challenge. Proxies and VPNs can get me where I want to go, and the idea that I'm not supposed to makes it more tempting. If I implement a whitelist and block my work comp's MAC address from accessing the admin panel on my router, then I'd have to physically get off my ass in order to circumvent it, in which case It'd be easier to just do the damned work.
Not even a "scam" but definitely an example of moral hazard: I used to live next to a pub which had very little parking which was always full. Across the street was a large parking lot which mainly serviced a bank. Posted signs said that the parking lot was for "customers only" (of the bank) and indicated that violators could be towed. But of course, people driving by at night looking for parking to go to the pub would assume that since the bank was closed, there would be "no reason" for them to be enforcing this rule. Unfortunately, the tow company contracted to enforce it did have about a hundred good reasons. From what I could see they managed to catch a few people every single night. The pub knew it was a problem: they put signs inside the pub warning people not to leave their cars there. Obviously, they had probably had some pretty pissed-off designated drivers (or would-be drunk drivers) at 2 a.m. and having to cab it across town to collect their car.
Wouldn't it also be the case with sauerkraut, then?
This is because running commands is from a one-off dyno vs. the formation dyno's that have requests routed to them.

See: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/oneoff-admin-ps
hahaha thankfully its not because someone is stalking me. but yea, i want it to be tied the same as my other online identities.

didnt want to change it as I wanted to keep the records of submissions that I had in the past. with a karma of 43...its not high, but i kinda treasure it LOL
It's all irrelevant because operating systems in general are NOT named after their prominent components. It does often happen that the kernel and the OS have the same name, but that is not because the OS is named after the kernel but rather the other way around--that is, the creators of the OS name the OS, and then the kernel is known as the X-kernel, where X is the name of the OS.

If I choose to take the Linux kernel, GNU utilities, and assorted other free software and put them together to form a complete OS, I can call it whatever I want, and BY DEFINITION that is the correct name for my operating system, since I'm the one who put it together.
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Spot on. I often use the comments to quickly judge if a link is worth visiting. If so, I click through and then come back for more conversation if I'm still interested.

I think showing comments first was a great design decision.
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You made something of value to people and put a price tag on it.

People bought it.

Nice work!
Would you rather go to a place which has no defenses because they never got hit or to a place which is constantly improving their security?

The recent mac defender showed how simple it is to social engineer mac users because they think its secure.

If you are worried about security , don't do stupid stuff
Actually I think the professor is right -- that should be your initial inference if you expect it to pick up a difference and it doesn't.

For example, if I make a test to tell me which item weighs more between two, and then I weigh myself and my refrigerator and it says I weigh more, then I should look at the test first. Now it may turn out that the test was right, and my fridge actually is a new lightweight fridge, but your expectation is the default hypothesis.

In fact the way you typically calibrate tests is to verify that it signals differences that you very strongly expect.
Yes, Windows has many more exposed security risks. Mac's have around an 8-9% market reach right now. As Apple's market share raises you'll see more and more viruses targeted at Mac's as we have in the last couple of weeks. Let's see what happens if Apple ever is able to get 25%+ of the market using Mac's.

In 16 years of using Windows with no Anti-Virus software installed, I have never gotten a virus. Maybe Microsoft should do a better job of educating users on what not to click on.

I run a company that does IT Support for businesses. Once a week or so, I'll have a CEO bring in his kids Laptop with a virus and a good number of times it was caused by their kid using some p2p file sharing program and downloading and running cracked versions of software which contained the virus. This is not yet as big of a problem for Apple as the number of software titles in general is much smaller and thus people downloading cracked copies which might contain a virus is going to be smaller.

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Well, that wasn't very informative. I suspect an unpaid bill or similar, to be honest.
Did you get the in your pants thing from the Punchd pitch by chance? :)

See below @26:53

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I think the number of steps isn't really that important. For me I care more about permission being explicit and not implicit. I prefer systems where other users have to get my permission to interact with me rather than automatically having permission to do so. It matters more on systems other than github but I think there's still an avenue for abuse with the current set up.

It should be fairly trivial to script account creation, project creation, and marking someone as a collaborator. As such a troll could simply automate the process of creating accounts and junk projects and then add the victim as a collaborator to them. The result is a useless dashboard full of crap that the victim has to manually remove themselves from. The troll succeeds in screwing with the victim by wasting lots of time. If permission had to be explicitly granted there would be no change to the dashboard and all of the confirmation messages could be ignored, or ideally bulk deleted from the incoming message queue. I don't have any idea if there's flood prevention mechanisms built into github to prevent this, but with unlimited public projects on the free accounts it seems like an avenue of abuse for trolls.
You still have to admit that zed went through a lot of trouble just to stop the harassment. I'd probably make a blog post too if the harassment went on for as long as it did for zed.
They are being assholes, which is fine as far as the law goes, but still it's a legit reason for being mad at them.
it's weird to think that a company might soon have convinced a billion users to register for its service. Mind blowing numbers. "users" on Facebook are also typically more likely to be individuals than other services.
Yet another case of pie charts being a poor choice for presenting data.

Besides, GNU mainly shows up because lines-of-code is the metric. If cat -v is considered harmful, what is cat --verbose? ;)
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What about other mobile platforms? Don't they allow in-app purchases?
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You'd just have a dashboard full of invites instead of a dashboard full of add notices. I have a feeling people just recoil to confirmation systems because it's comfortable.

But remember that Undo > Confirmation. Always.
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