skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, what would you suggest they do instead of announcing the pricing 30 days in advance? That seems completely reasonable to me... Also, considering several huge sites still use MySQL like Facebook, Wikipedia, etc, I think you'll be fine in that respect for the foreseeable future.
I contributed as well. My first Kickstarter project.
I was speaking to the possible motivation for the leak.

I certainly didn't intend my reply as a counterpoint to the "if it's not official it's a leak" point.
Fun with circles:

Nobody cares about free software. Free software then becomes the domain of technical folks paid by big companies and amateurs. Because of this, nobody cares about free software, so it remains the domain of:
That's nothing. There's a corner of San Francisco where you can head along 9th street until you hit 16th street, turn left, and in a few blocks you'll get to 3rd Street.

(San Jose's 4th street doesn't do anything anywhere near that crazy.)
Siri is not analogous to tablets, phones, etc.

For example, cellphones existed before Steve pushed to build the iPhone but something like the iPhone didn't exist.

Siri existed in near the same form pre iPhone 4S. It's the same Siri, just with deeper integration and the Apple finish.
Free Software truly does deserve better than RMS. The guy is just about the least-suited person to being a spokesman (or any public figure) I've seen. As a hacker and behind-the-scenes guy, sure. But his complete lack of tact, social skills, and presentability makes him more harmful than helpful as a figurehead.
I thought nearly everyone with internet or web socialization was for paper voting and squarely against any kind of anonymous machine voting? That doesn’t strike me as an unusual view at all, it seems like the most common view to me.
I'm not entirely sure, as I'm not the parent, but I'm pretty sure he meant 200 years old, not 20.
I hope they add support to PostgreSQL.
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> The most popular computers and electronics in the world are Apple products because Apple innovated.

I wonder on what basis you're saying this. When I look around me, I see very few Apple products. Maybe that depends on what part of the world you live in.
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You need to call it something else. There is already a Tapestry: http://tapestry.apache.org/
Why MySQL over PostgreSQL? I would like to know how they choose one over the other...
I wanted more details too, but in the age of SMS and Twitter that's like cutting the tree branch from under you.
Ask HN: Who were Steve Jobs' mentors?
Most of the stories seem to suggest his brilliance or effectiveness came entirely from within, but I'm interested to know who guided Steve when he had questions.
Can you expand on that please? Audio-jack interface?
Are there people who understand computing and electronics who thinks electronic voting is good?
The real question is why you're dating a 13 y/o girl.</joke>
I hope the Kindle Fire is better than this :(
Nope.

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 on Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2 and SP3; Windows Server 2003 SP2; Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2; and Windows 7

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0...
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For the record: it's a $30, not $50, price difference.
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Does the phone have to be activated or will it work over wifi?

I've got an HTC Incredible laying around after my upgrade and it would be great to use it for something like this.

I'm trying to dig around on the Romo site (http://romotive.com) but it's up and down.

Btw, I bought/funded one.
> If you are so sure, why don't you start a company to fill that space?

Oh, I just might. I'm chasing (somewhat) lower-hanging fruit right now, but it's one of those things that's brewing in the back of my mind.
I guess you don't actually need to ground it. The Earth end of it could hover above the ground or it could be attached to some insulator.
They are using the audio jack to send command data to the robot base. Notice how the iphone is not connected through a dock or 30-pin connector. Very clever indeed!

Making a "real" iphone accessory through the 30-pin connector is simply not possible for hobbyists/small outfits. This also makes their communication interface with the robot somewhat portable. I like :D
Wow.. I was hoping to do something similar with raspberry pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/). I guess my phone can do the trick as well.
> it's the web.

I couldn't agree more, and it's why I'm so enthusiastic about the web as the lingua fraca of computing. But as Steve might say: "Not good enough yet; make it again." To put it mildly, I think we can do way, way better.
RMS on the Death of Steve Jobs
That is a good question. I hope we can find more information on his biography.
A psychopath might also feel kinship with someone they've never met and defend them like family.

*

Or we could stop calling each other psychopaths.
Me too. I have never created a password for HN. Is there a way to create one now and keep the account?
I think he just called it that for the purposes of the blog.
[There goes my karma...]

Since a lot of people here seemed to have an emotional reaction to Jobs' passing, I had no desire to say anything here. But now the topic is Stallman, and for whatever reason, people are wanting to discuss his comments.

I (and probably most people I know) don't think Stallman's comments are a big deal. Steve was known for acting cruelly to people; apparently acted like a sociopath. If he treated people like shit when he was alive, then it's not the end of the world when someone says a few less-than-respectful things about him when he's gone.

When confronted with the death of someone he disliked, I doubt Steve would be so sentimental. (At least not inwardly.)
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I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round.

I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well.

Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-35yr old women" while Pinterest is absolutely blowing up and eating their lunch. Very stupid and short-sighted view IMO.
http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/10452105095/who-svpply-is-com...

Take note on what your spouse/kids/SO spend their time engaged in.
He's entitled to his opinion. He's a legend himself, just not as widely appreciated as Mr. Jobs was.
Join the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
I am totally with you. If software is going to operate deadly weapons, it sure as hell better be secure.

But you are glossing over a LOT of detail here. The military doesn't work like Apple: they don't design, oversee, or directly control the construction of the hardware they use. And they shouldn't - the government is woefully inefficient at building products, that's what corporations are good at.

Here's the situation:

- The Air Force contracts General Atomics Aeronautical Systems to build UAVs. You can bet your ass the contract covers things like "protected from malware"

- General Atomics contracts out the different components of the UAV. No device worth $150M gets built by one company alone. The radar, the metal shell, the inside components, and each component of the software are all made by different companies.

- Each component is meticulously specified and rigorously tested. The makers of a component is contractually liable if they fuck up, giving them an incentive to do it slow & right. That's why it's so damn expensive.

- General Atomics puts the pieces together into the final product and delivers it to the Air Force after another round of rigorous testing.

- A team of guys in the Air Force are trained on operating the UAVs to deploy on missions.

=====================

So to say something like "Ugh, military, don't deploy UAVs if you can't keep it virus free!" is an oversimplification. These are extremely complex machines, with highly specialized embedded software, meant to deliver explodey things with extreme precision, while being operated from very far away. You can't just slap Norton on these things and call it a day.
A neat hack, yes...but probably not worthwhile from the perspective of an actual attacker (if you've got permissions to load a kernel module, you could just load one of your own crafting to do whatever nefarious things you wanted directly).
Isn't there a new web browser which does this? Name escapes me.
You can't be serious. Web application development is the antithesis of what the OP is talking about, it's a mess.

A hypercard-inspired tool for creating touch applications is going to be disruptive, and is going to happen. It's a glaring gap left open by Apple. In fact, this is the reason I am personally hesitant to start working on one, it's so glaring that I would be surprised if Apple hasn't been working on one that will be released when it's ready.
Isn't the job of a spokesperson to figure out how to effectively communicate the "valid points" of a movement so that people are not distracted by "the poor social graces" of their source? Stallman's ideas don't make him a poor spokesperson- his communication style does.
I'm actively working on this problem, first with the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/) and eventually in general. Stay tuned: http://feeds.feedburner.com/railstutorial
Found it!
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How could they do that analysis without having the virus or other data firsthand? They can only report what they have.
2) ... author of GPL

Yes, imho the GPL (and the idea of viral copyleft that it inspired) deserves to be treated as one of the greatest legal inventions of our time. Given the ongoing reduction of just about everything to information, the ascendancy of code and data among the human race, and the extent to which it will shape our future history, a viable, effective, encompassing legal framework to ensure its freedom is one of the most valuable contributions to computing that anyone has made.
To clarify, I was agreeing that Tesla was beyond them all. :)

The area where Jobs has done what no one else has -- made technology into art we love to buy, use and enjoy, and opened the world up to connecting, sharing and creating, is in the same spirit of what Tesla brought into the world with his innovations with electricity.

I think we can agree that Electricity is a little more fundamental to day-to-day raising the quality of more people's lives in this world than a phone, computer, or ipad. It might be less and less each day, but I still think electricity can transform everyone's life.
In my lifetime, home computers have moved from being tinker-boxes that blink a few lights to consumer-ready products that non-hackers can use. Jobs helped that transition, much like Henry Ford helped the car make the same kind of transition.

That wasn't a mistake either - read the chapters in folklore.org where he fought tooth and nail against having any expansion or ports in the original mac. The openness of the Apple II was mostly Woz.
> Tracking down every last instance of a piece of malware and then dealing with it is quite hard at that scale.

Sure, it's hard. But it's the fucking military. Figure it out.
I don't see people reacting as harshly if it was someone like Jack Valenti that RMS said some unkind posthumous words about. Steve Jobs did embody the lock down of computing. I'd say Valenti and Jobs belong to the same category of protecting the consumer from perceived evil through benevolent restriction.

I haven't seen anyone claiming Stallman is wrong. Just that he was a jerk about the death of a revered CEO who gets worshiped as a tech prophet. Jobs oversaw some great advances in the consumer computing market. That does not make him immune to criticism and especially not immune to true criticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti
The point is innovation. It may be nothing more the neat or cool today, but who know what it could be in the far future? And how can we find out but by starting with this cool toy? One fun step at a time!
That's a bit like saying all a terrorist would need to do to seize control of an ICBM is to infect the missile base with a virus. It's not that easy.
Are you so surprised? Have you worked with the military security and computer specialists? There are some good people but there lots of HBGary types...
No it's the difference between buying a computer and a fucking toaster that screws you with DRM, vendor lock in and a paywall before you can add any value to it.
Good point. A lot of people come to Kickstarter because of Kickstarter and not because they want to donate to a friend who linked to their project from elsewhere.
This story is absolutely crazy. I am having serious trouble taking it at face value. But lets say the article is correct, it sounds like a root kit and they don't know how to remove it properly.
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With IDEs in the cloud http://compilr.com, you can even get that Commodore 64 experience on locked-down-devices and remain free of malware.
He's also an extreme fundamentalist. I don't think he knows what 'compromise' or 'real world' mean.

He lacks taste, class and humanity.
Way cooler looking than the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick. I'd be interested in how customizable the base will be.
The problem is that Stallman is a very public spokesperson for free software and he does an absolutely terrible job.

It’s impossible to ignore the effects he has in his role and they are terrible.
It's true. SVPPLY is mostly a bunch of dudes who all like the same boring JCrew-meets-Hypebeast dad wear. Not an awful market but nowhere near as big as "women age 20-35."
This us the kind of detail Steve Jobs is being remembered for.
Don't look at flagpoles, the wind close to the ground is going to vary a lot more than the wind higher up where the clouds are.
... is really slow for opening large mailboxes, are you using some trick to make it faster? mutt alone just scans all mails before displaying anything. thats not a good idea for 100k+ emails
The source must be available to those who have access to the program. If Google ever distributed those modifications, they would have to distribute the source as well.
I don't know their official reason, but they seem to have a lot of in-house knowledge of mysql internals [1].

1: http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/
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I love how these threads are always full of people saying "Oh, well I agree with the guy in general, but look at that ridiculous beard he has!".

And then we talk about the beard for 500 words.
My thought is to halt all drone operations until this is solved.

The possibility of a foreign entity taking control of one of these things is scary!
Yay for us :)
I'm one of the founders of Crowdbooster, a YC S10 company built on Twitter.

Twitter, and specifically the API team, has worked hard to come up with guidance for where they think there are opportunities in the ecosystem.

They have very clearly told third-party developers to stop making Twitter clients [1]. Twitter wants to own the display of tweets since they are focused on making advertising their core business.

But there are definitely opportunities if you think beyond just making clients. The five main categories that Twitter specifically mentions are: Analytics, Curation, Content, Publishing, and Enterprise [2].

To echo PG, there are definitely still big companies to be built on top of Twitter. You just have to think big to begin with.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/twitter-development-...

[2] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/ecosystem-showcase
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This fixes Ctrl+Plus on LinkedIn as well as sites using Facebook comments.
No, they're complaining about the copy protection on the binaries both legal and technical
I haven't seen anyone claiming Stallman is wrong.

I claim Stallman is wrong. To the extent that people may have lost freedom along one axis, they gained it along others. And these other axis most people consider far more important.

Everything in life has tradeoffs, and most people recognize that. Stallman doesn't with respect to this one particular axis (a warped view of SW freedom).
They just have to bury the license in the documentation somewhere. Who reads documentation?
The limitations of machine learning aside, this could actually work quite well if trained properly, because it wouldn't raise the questions that human choices do about bias. Given sufficient information, a machine-learning algorithm can make decisions based on factors that humans would refuse to consider or would intentionally err on the side of not considering.
You're assuming they make less than $0.50/month out of those people from ads...
Could it be just a coincidence that IV is run by a former Microsoft executive? I'm thinking it isn't. This way Microsoft stays "clean", and Google/Motorola can't sue IV back or threaten them with their patents since it's not even a real company.
Maybe the app engine team just chose the one they had more experience in hacking.
Ask PG: Do the HN moderators have a "merge" button?
I was wondering what tools your moderators have for managing submissions to HN. Today there were numerous submissions linking to the same content and I would suggest that the ability to merge posts would be useful. You could reindex the comments so that they we're all children of one of the submissions, and let the merged submissions id's redirect to chosen page. Sometimes there are several great conversations that would be even better if they were combined.

Thanks
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> A psychopath might also feel kinship with someone they've never met and defend them like family

No, psychopaths don't feel kinship with anything but themselves.
I don't see any disagreement along those lines in the thread under discussion here. The LLVM project is quite clear (it says so on its homepage!) that it is not making a typical virtual machine along the lines of the JVM. What are you talking about? This sounds like completely random and out-of-context FUD.
This also true for other areas of embedded computing.It certainly offers a costs reduction and a lot less work on the hardware.

But the biggest impact would be on the software side. By offering a standard platform with alot of performance to spare at low cost, Embedded software could be written in higher level languages(lua/lua-jit seems interesting), use much more standard libraries, and higher level libraries.

So we might see a creativity boom in embedded devices, just as we saw when scripting languages started being used for web development.
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It's a compiler-building framework and toolchain.
the above clause says the copy protection does not apply to the open source portions, so what's the problem?
I lost a point for suggesting that we not bandy about a medical term as a pejorative. I apologize for offending anyone.
Im not worried. Its the military. They'll soon come up with a "Feynman can open our safe locks ? Don't allow Feynman near the safe locks!" kind of solution.
Perhaps they shouldn't use a platform that runs Norton in the first place?

I suspect that under it all, you'll find an unpatched XP or even Win2000.
Exactly. There is no difference between either the Phelps or the Stallman message. Insane fundamentalists looking to draw attention to themselves and their ideals through an offensive message when they know that the community is experiencing an emotional event together.

It's akin to car-bombing a funeral; something only really insane or angry people do. And last time I checked, Stallman doesn't have much to be angry about.
No, thats not what I said. I just think a brief bit to pause an consider and give people time to bury their dead should be the norm.

The historian comment was to show that the net effect of his life (or any other) will not truly be known until well after death. The morality part was my quick quip on what morals history's judgment will be based.

Its a free country, be rude and add all the pain to the world you want. I just tend to believe a little bit of thought and compassion for others would make it a nicer place.
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I am yet to see a press release saying a company decided to go closed source because they disagree with what Richard Stallman says. Can you point to any specific examples where Richard Stallman and his views have pushed a project that was on the open source path into the closed source direction.
I feel the exact same way. This is the first time I've felt truly sad to see someone die who I did not know personally. I never had a chance to meet him, but I had always held out hope that maybe someday I would be able to simply tell him "Thanks" and shake his hand.

If it weren't for him and his team totally disrupting the phone market with a truly futuristic device, I wouldn't have discovered my passion for making games or be making a living doing so!
That doesn't fix the technical part. You can't copy apps from one phone to another, etc, which is a prime issue with the GPL.
I think for single-purpose machines (like "control a UAV"), custom hardware makes a lot of sense, even for commercial operations. Unfortunately custom hardware usually ends up being a Windows box in a weird case, with some buttons connected over...USB.

A requirement that all components of the TCB be FIPS 140-2 level 3+ for anything which is routinely used in combat operations would please me, I think. Right now that's just for the crypto modules themselves.
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A closed computing environment isn't a prison. I have the choice of using an iPad or something more open. If I choose an iPad and later wish for something more open, then I can replace it with a more open tablet or a laptop. I find the implication that I "prefer a prison to freedom" disingenuous and off-putting.
A tradeoff we've been accepting since the dawn of civilization, in a way. It's a bit like living in a city as opposed to surviving in the wilderness. Yes, there are laws to abide to and limits to what you can do if you live in a city, but on the flipside you don't have to fear being mauled by a bear. I wish Apple allowed users more freedom with the idevice and iOS itself, but as far as the App Store goes, I'm pretty happy at not having to worry about malware and such crap.
"The way it works is some AF guy in Nevada remotely controls the drones flying half way across the world."

Not entirely true. They (can and do) use closer locations:
http://www.military.com/news/article/report-secret-drone-bas...
It is kind of hard to oust a figurehead if he is also the founding father. Perhaps the FSF likes his uncompromising views. (Think of PETA and their crazy-ass leadership.)

Also this isn't new behavior. Stallman has been like this his whole life. People are hitting back in this case because it is about Steve Jobs.
His "How Buildings Learn" is an excellent read as well. In it he argues for construction design, materials and techniques that allow for a building to be adaptable and habitable over the long term, by different tenants with different needs.

The book is empirical in nature: it examines buildings that have been capable of adapting to new uses and demands and those that haven't been. From that catalog of buildings he explores the qualities that make for an adaptable building.

For anyone interested in "user interface," this is an insightful work on designing the built environment.
Arrogant? For sure. Narcissistic even? perhaps. Sociopath? Give me a fucking break.
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