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The web and mobile team over at Blizzard uses Oracle.
I'll be there tonight Chris & I work closely with a seriously tech orientated green energy company here in the city.

Recruiter hat off - Start-up fanatic hat on: I'd be more than happy to chat with you about some of my experiences with them.
Julian Assange has been detained for 6 months
This is way off-topic, but that last frame of the extra credit looks like a beautiful color scheme for a website. Not that I'm going to steal it, you know, or anything..
Copyright law. And in Europe at least a deeper moral right to be identified as the author of a work and to have a say in how it's used. For example, I would be very upset if my work was used in advertising, or a political campaign that I violently disagreed with. It's not a black and white issue and that's why this went to the lawsuit stage.
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And the intersection of these two viewpoints is where Fair Use doctrine comes in. I'm not even remotely a lawyer and this isn't my country's legal system anyway, but the case as to whether this was covered by fair use was felt to be arguable by both sides.

The real story here isn't 'unreasonable artist sued me' but 'lawsuits used as scare tactic'.
It sure seems like fair use to me, especially since he had his friend draw it, rather than deriving it from the original by putting the original through a pixelating program or something.

It's sad that since the potential losses of going to court are so high, most people have no option other than to settle.
Staying at FF3.6 wouldn't make them the most out-of-date by a longshot. A majority of our site's corporate users are on IE6!

But it seems to me that part of this problem is that they're trying to accomplish two things with the browser, that for their needs might be better separated into two.

For internal corporate apps, there's probably little reason to upgrade. In particular, the security risk posed by accessing internal systems on a backlevel browser is pretty minimal. They could retain FF3.6 for use in this context.

For general web browsing (research, etc.), you really want to be as up-to-date as possible, but there shouldn't be any repercussions to doing so. If you're accessing the internal apps on your old FF3.6, then you can have a separate "external browser" that's kept current.

So my suggestion is to stick where you are for the internal apps, and separately install Chrome or IE or something for external access. Set up configurations that restrict each browser to only be able to access its intended sphere.
Well, if enough people click "Lame", the song will be skipped, and hopefully the DJ would get the hint.

> Right now it's "experience what it's like to be a cool dj!"

Sad but true. "Look at me, I have a macbook with an iTunes playlist, and I clicked 'play' at a bar! I'm a real DJ, now!"
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I have never had this happen and I have been a Netflix customer since about late 1999-2000, IIRC.
It is an annoyingly 20th-Century notion that one's original work must be untouchable and sacrosanct.

It is an annoyingly 21st-Century notion that one's original work must be free-for-all and a commodity.
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nasa is trying to stay relevant, but the truth is they themselves are turning to unmanned probes to explore our near neighborhood. indeed unmanned expeditions now appear to be their most fruitful

humans are not leaving this planet. we have co-evolved with the earth and we cannot survive without it. all of our manned excursions into space have taught us the same lesson over and over: man cannot survive in space. i find it amusing that people believe that humans can prosper on a planet circling another star yet we routinely see people dying just from the impact of traveling to another continent. humans can't even survive long term on this planet unless a temperature remains in a narrow band...how do you expect to pick some planet out in space based on spectral analysis and expect you would not die nearly-instantly upon arriving? we're fragile. we were not built for space travel, and we aren't going to evolve to prosper in space, earth itself will become inhospitable in the time that would take and humanity will likely vanish.

i often hear the refrain that man once thought that crossing the oceans was impossible too...but this has been beaten to death: scale matters. travelling to another star is not comparable to crossing the ocean, even modulo technology.

something from this planet might one day land on another planet, but it will be a robot.

just as it is a sign of maturity to accept one's own mortality, it is a sign of species maturity to recognize that we as a species will have a finite span
For those who wonder how useful JavaScript closures can be. They are very useful. Take a simple pattern. You are iterating through a statement, and you want to use the variable i of the statement in another function.

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
console.info(i);
}

This works fine. And the console displays 1, 2, 3 and 4. But let's suppose that you have the following code:

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
$(DOMelement:eq(i)).click(function() {
console.info(i);
});
}

The console will always display "4" whichever DOMelement you clicked. Surprise? That's because it calls i which holds 4. JavaScript passed the argument by reference to i and by the time you clicked, the iterations already finished.

JavaScript closures help solve this problem (Luckily). Here is how:

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
$(DOMelement:eq(i)).click(function() {
return function() {
console.info(i);
}
});
}

That's because JavaScript returns now a new function for each DOM element. Each new function holds the i value while iteration and now the final value.
Am a little bit surprised Google hasn't incorporated SSD more.
Or rather, UCL's servers.
The other story is to what extent is a private company obligated to implement a feature pushed by its competitors? This is often done in the name of it being a "standard", but C# is standardized too.

Furthermore, these standards often haven't been well vetted. As I noted before C++ ran into this problem with export. It caused no end of headaches and wasted time. It was eventually effectively dropped (although EDG did appear to get a decent implementation in-place finally).

At the end of the day each vendor should feel they have the freedom to implement what they deem as important. Other vendors should respect it. Whether its Apple not supporting Flash (not a standard, but hugely popular) or MS not supporting WebGl (a draft, but not widely used).
> Spanking is far less emotionally manipulative than twenty nagging reprimands, it’s fast, and it’s certainly effective.

I disagree. Spanking is coercive, psychologically harmful and it teaches the child their body is ruled by a bully.
{Disclaimer : MSFT intern. Opinions mine, not MSFT's}

I purchased a new WP7 device recently - my first smartphone (HTC HD7S). The useful stuff on the home-screen is actually v nice (1 tile for weather, one more tile for people etc).

Also, here's an article on how 3rd party apps can leverage the tiles for notifications. It is obv. not WebOS-like or anything but it is a neat approach to delivering notifications : http://chriskoenig.net/2010/08/16/customizing-wp7-push-notif...

Right now, the third-party app catalog is not exploiting the tile feature so well. I expect this to change soon.
Mongo is by many measures worse than "a folder with clear text files."
No no no, Andy is amazing and does wonders for promoting the interesting and relevant out on the net every day ... I'm just trying to bring up the point that he has an art, he is paid for that art, and I think that's a subtly in a lot of fair use issues. Arguably the iconic nature of the photograph was at least in part, because of there being sponsorship of the site capitalized on. It's fair use, I'm sure, or at least it should be, I'm not a lawyer... the point I guess I'm making is what I posted which is to elaborate 1) that money is changing hands during these publishing acts 2) you can support this sort of fight or possibly be complicit if it is not deemed a fair use, and to me that's just a weird spot to be in, and I wonder what those lines are, or what they should be, or some way to codify fair use, or a way to codify that it shouldn't be codified, or some way to monetize the problem, and hence conversely a big part of that is that fair use should be incredibly clear in cases where there is no profit motive, but this is a sponsored site, so that specific aspect of my own inner debate doesn't apply, and really should it make a difference?
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Why was this downvoted? It's a valid and inoffensive view point. Are we just downvoting people we disagree with now?
How has Turntable.fm grown so rapidly with no marketing?
are you volunteering to be the first human test subject?
Valid question - I'll try to put together a coherent answer and I'll post a link to it here on HN.

It won't be soon, though - currently too busy.
Exactly. Be prepared to be bullied by Shazam -- at least, that's what happened the last time someone posted audio fingerprinting code online. And inventing something yourself doesn't save you from patents. I'll be watching from the sidelines to see how this plays out.
That indicates to me that we need higher density and less sprawl. And before someone says well how do we force people to stay close to the center, check out Portland, OR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_%28Oregon_regional_govern...
Thank you! Isn't the whole idea of fairness that people should be able to work to support themselves. Isn't that a basic human right? So to all the people clamoring for amnesty for Vargas but think Indian and Chinese workers don't deserve jobs, please think about the logical inconsistencies. The free market has benefited a lot of people. Its about time it also benefited the underclass of workers, who are not part of exclusive unions, whether they be SEIU, or protectionist parties in different nations.
Now you'll be sued by Yahoo: http://www.delicious.com/favicon.ico
So he agrees to a settlement where he pays a fine, and agrees to never use the artwork again … and then he goes and uses the same image as well as a variety of other variations of that image as part of his blog-post on a website at least partially supported by ads?
the dumps are in a format that other code understands (fastingest.py)

The code data is compressed using zlib (and then base64'd.) It's all on s3-- in our experience, big data dumps like this get relatively little traffic after the original hype dies down and a torrent doesn't make sense. We're pretty sure amazon can handle the load :)
the author posted this shortly after your comment:

" I've taken it down for a little while while I upload the most recent version that has a lot of small errors corrected. It will be back up in a couple of hours I expect. It's worth the wait..."

So it doesn't seem it's a bandwidth issue so much as a quality issue.
I hate how the full document loads, is displayed for 100ms, then I get redirected to a "This document is not publicly available" page.
nitpick: DB2 on the iSeries (nee AS/400) is DB2 in name only.

That being said, I do the same thing using Python.
If the kid wants to go read books, she could ask permission instead of throwing a tantrum.
Probably confusing the "he" in the comment as the solution-creator rather than the Zodiac guy.
What are you not understanding? He's an influential blogger who has ads on his site and is writing about something that happened in his life.

There's a flow of money around every Tech Crunch article that is posted here, yet I don't see the same comments.
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Because the only thing HULU has over Netflix, is sweetheart content deals. Deals that are poised to evaporate for the publicly stated reason for the sale in the first place.

(the networks don't like how HULU is encroaching on their TV money)
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Chinese Tumblr clone Diandian growing 5x as fast as Facebook
Wan't to get into the BankRate business?
Hubris has nothing to do with it. It's just the reality in companies with existing revenue streams.

If you have hundreds of agents using a web-based front-end to process loan applications, failure of the front-end app due to an unexpected change in the browser means an instant, measurable, and substantial loss in productivity and revenue.
Too expensive, too prone to failure http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...
That's because of PostgreSQL's MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) architecture. And, yes, while some aggregate queries can tend to suck on very large tables (for which there are a good half-dozen workarounds; this is the FAQ-est of FAQs), the upside of MVCC is that read queries can never block write queries, and write queries can never block read queries.

The benefit that has in terms of increased concurrency is worth far, far more than having to implement a workaround for quick-and-dirty row counts for simple things like pagination, IMO.

(Aside: InnoDB is also MVCC-based, which is why its COUNT(*) is an estimate. The MySQL folks apparently decided that it was better to provide an estimate than an exact count, while the PostgreSQL folks decided the other way. There's a part of me that wants to call that symbolic of the way the two projects operate on a much broader level...)
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It is always a pleasure to read from Urs Hölzle. I've been in touch with some minor spec of his work[1], but I'm always impressed by it.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/author79.html
That inherent beauty and balance which you pick up on is a part of why the original photograph is such a great one.
I've seen CDATA elements that contained complete XML documents including other CDATA elements. Good thing they had a hand rolled non-standard XML parser that allowed nested CDATA tags.

I noticed it when I wanted to read the doc in with tinyXML while working 70 hour weeks to fix up some other issue before a deadline. I ended up doing a memset(nestedXMLStart, ' ', nestedXMLLength) as a preprocessing step to bulldoze the whole construct. Not pretty, but it worked.
If I took his album "Kind of Bloop" and compressed it by 50%, could I start selling it as my own? Andy sez that is cool.

I don't see Andy's side at all.

The artwork is a copy, used for commercial purposes and without permission.

Copyright restricts copying. This isn't fair use. It isn't a parody or an even an homage – which can blur the line.
Game Maker is the software that introduced me to programming. Assuming it has kept its roots as a learning tool (it's been 5 major releases since I last used it), I can't recommend it enough.
You can read the seeds of the downfall in his own words:

"I went out of my way to make sure the entire project was above board, licensing all the cover songs from Miles Davis's publisher..."

All well and good; or mostly well and good, as he didn't seek to license the cover shot. Therefore, the "entire project" wasn't "above board" and the statement above is disingenuous. So why didn't he try to license the cover shot? Apparently, he thought that wasn't necessary. Leading to this conclusion:

"If you're borrowing inspiration from any copyrighted material, even if it seems clear to you that your use is transformational, you're in danger. If your use is commercial and/or potentially objectionable, seek permission."

As a visual artist, I don't like getting ripped off. It's happened any number of times, on a small scale. So I can sympathize with Maisel, even if he comes across as a hardass. I can also sympathize with Baio, but not as much, because he explains pretty clearly how he did it to himself.

I should also note that the US Congress ratified the Berne Copyright Convention, which includes protection of the "moral right of the artist." This includes explicit protection against someone else modifying one's work.

One person's "transformation" is another's "mutilation."
I'm assuming you have significant peer-reviewed documentation of this? You are certainly very definite about it - can you point me at the research that supports your point of view?

Note, I'm not questioning it, and I'm not saying what my stance is, I'm just asking that you provide some evidence.

I know some people who were never physically chastised as children and who have been - in the opinion of multiple independent professionals - deeply screwed up by the psychological manipulation.

I also know people who as children were "chastised" to the point of requiring hospitalisation. The damage there was more obvious.
Ask HN: Using my laptop as a keyboard + mouse
I have an old IBM (really old, so not Lenovo) Thinkpad. I really like the keyboard and the trackpoint on this device, but it is no longer powerful enough for my everyday needs. Is it possible to turn this machine into a USB keyboard+mouse combination, by using a USB bridge cable and appropriate software? It has the latest Debian running without any problems (except for speed and HD capacity).

I would also be very happy to turn it into a standalone USB device (so I do not need to plug in the power), but I am guessing this would be much more complicated. My electronic shop skills are limited to soldering and using a scope. The closest thing I found on the net was this [1], which looks rather cool. Unfortunately, I cannot tell if the keyboard remained as comfortable as it is and more importantly this project does not address the trackpoint issue. Still, if anyone has any ideas (or better yet experience), I'd appreciate if you shared them.

I am aware that Lenovo sells a USB Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint, and I am planning to order it. However, 1) some reviews say it is not really the same feeling 2) buying a keyboard is not nearly as much fun as increasing the usefulness time of a piece of hardware that I love dearly.

1: http://www.grynx.com/projects/converted-laptop-keyboard/1/
> Corporate IT has to get better and faster, or they will get marginalized by cloud hosted solutions that can move faster and deliver superior experiences at better cost.

That's easy to say when you're not responsible for a system where an hour of downtime comes with a seven-figure number in brackets on this quarter's review.

Corporate IT guys get a lot of grief about imposing picky rules and making life difficult, but the bottom line is that they are the guys who are going to take the flak if stuff breaks. Most of these policies are not there because someone at the head office wants to throw their weight around, they are there because a lot of people on the corporate network really could cause serious damage without even knowing how or why if left to do whatever they wanted.

If you want to blame someone for this cultural problem, blame the big software and infrastructure providers, who haven't yet collectively invented a robust global IT architecture where risk can reliably be localised to the user at fault. Or step up and do something about it and get very rich, because it's a real problem facing literally billions of staff every day.

Alternatively, you could take the view that cloud computing is the way forward, releasing a new browser every three months will make these sorts of problems go away, and everyone who develops in-house tools and operates a conservative IT policy is a moron with no idea how to run a successful business. Good luck with that. :-)
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I accept "minor" (but not "ridiculously"), and point 2. As I said in comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687417 I understood my comment wasn't clear enough. My edit should have added clarifications, not whining. Sorry.

I deny point 3. The probability I assign to downvote due do religious disagreement is very low. I was nevertheless surprised. My comment was the second ever written on that thread. It was very short. It wasn't really meant to spur answers. And the contribution, though very small, is real.

I don't understand "not supported by the article". It explicitly talks about the continuum between Homo Sapiens and all other Homo species. If they hadn't disappeared, we could have seen it, and may have revised our long standing assumption that we are special among all animals. In that respect, they do recognize we are not so special, at least not a priori special. But still, they used the vocabulary in a way that does assume we are a priori special. All this is pretty obvious for me, but I suppose that "Humans are animals" is not a thought that most cache. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cached_thought
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Vying for the title of "worst submission to HN this year", a political article in which a caricature argues with other caricatures in defense of hitting kids.
> (Note: This post was reviewed by both my and Jay Maisel's legal counsel.)
I'm not familiar with the project.. did he go on to sell the actual album?
I actually had the pleasure of witnessing this in development and it is _very_ cool.
I think this is a challenge especially for open source projects. I'd rather write documentation then have to maintain an old, deprecated codebase.
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You forgot sponsoring/petitioning a relative AND the visa lottery (a relative of mine was lucky enough to receive one of these, was able to bring his whole family here, eventually). It has taken us 20 years to bring about 35-40 relatives from South America (more are waiting--in line)... it takes time, money and a LOT of patience. Also helps if you don't get into problems with the law.
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I recommend visiting http://instantwatcher.com It's been around for at least two years, I know, just for this reason.

It's a good site. Each title has a "Remaining" area where it shows how many days it's got left on Instant Queue availability, and you even even click "Expiring" at the top to see what's ending soon, so you can make sure you fit it in!
They just push false news, propaganda, no body hates the west and what it stands for!
This is a significantly emotion-laden topic that, while truly important, I'm not convinced belongs on HN. Here are some predictions:

* There will be much heat and very little light.

* There will be much anecdote and no significant, independent data.

* No one will change their minds

* There is no definitive answer.

Classic flame-bait.

So before you reply, consider - are you annoyed? Angry? Otherwise emotionally charged? To be so is natural and reasonable, the topic goes straight to the heart of many people's humanity.

Will debating it here help at all?