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Disregarding all the banter about what "open source" means -there are separate issues at hand.

One is the actual license terms the older versions were distributed under. Those matter.

Another is how the project itself was run, specifically how copyright assignment worked. If contributors were required to assign copyright to the project maintainer (or whatever) in order to commit to his main branch, as is the case with many projects, then he can likely do whatever he wants in terms of re-licensing. If that wasn't addressed clearly, there might be wiggle room for closing it off - contributors may have some kind of copyright claim if their work was taken and used under terms they didn't agree to.

Another is PR - that one is obvious.

As for the "Open source means you give back" - let's get over it - that's not what it was originally about - you have no "duty" to contribute - it's just a fantastic, common side effect that lots of people like to take advantage of.

End of story - if you are contributing code to someone elses project, be sure you understand where you sit in terms of copyright.
So Nokia has a lack of information but you don't ? What decision should have been made? And whose responsibility is it to make that decision?

Sure there are problems with corporate governance but ultimately we're talking about the risk of misallocating capital belonging to investors, whose job it is to oversee the allocation.
+1 - I love your guys' model, just looking forward to seeing some bigger course projects!
"eventual consistency" was promoted by Amazon, which seems to run a pretty good business.
The iPhone 4S has made great strides in this regard.
woah, never knew about that folder.
Is there another way to control it besides campfire? (like through the web part)
The situation is only understandable from a 'blindly following the rules' perspective. If Apple makes it 'illegal' to probe their AppStore, then only black hats will be the ones doing the probing.

How are you supposed to test whether or not Apple will discover a vulnerability during their AppStore approval process if you are going to tell them that one exists?
Oh I'm sorry! It was intended for this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204525
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Market prices just reflect supply and demand. If there are insufficient numbers of people qualified to act as CEO of a struggling fortune 500 company, and such people are paid very well, then there's a strong incentive for anyone remotely qualified to do whatever possible to appear qualified, so that he/she might receive that high level of compensation.
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It’s vitally important that you sit down face to face and grab a beer with every potential hire. Or sit down for dinner. Smoke a joint. I don’t care what it is — you need to sit down in a relaxed environment and figure out what kind of person they are.

I have an old Mormon friend who would be put off by this phrasing. Good guy, very competent. Positively useless around beer.

As for the "hire someone you want to be around all day" angle, that's why I'm putting personal interests back on my resume. I'm tired of pretending I'm a soulless automaton, only to gingerly feel out the place when I get there for the interview. From now on, there's a list of interests, and a note reading, "if you wonder why this list is here, or if your first reaction is not, 'I want to meet this guy!' please move on to other candidates." Maybe it will come off as arrogant, but I just can't take the games anymore, and I want to work with people that I actually like.
Ask HN: Checklist for starting a new Rails application?
It's easy to create a new Rails application using "rails new myapp" (or using an application template). But after that, what do you do? What gems do you always add? What decisions do you make before beginning development? What important items are often overlooked before deploying an app? I'd like to put together a reference checklist to share. Any suggestions?

For example:

- Create a new RVM gemset
- Modify the .gitignore file
- Switch from TestUnit to RSpec
- Set up Guard to run tests in the background during development
- Add the viewport metatag to the default application layout
- Don't forget to create a sitemap.xml file
- Add a Google Analytics snippet

What else?
I found a simple method that works really well: ask the student to invent their own language syntax on paper. We start with a simple language that can draw on screen, and proceed from there.

I'm noticing that Students naturally discover many of the issues and tricks that they would otherwise have to "study" (such as flow of execution, nesting, variables)

I occasionally teach at schools in NY, and this semester my students "invented" the smalltalk syntax. It was heartwarming to witness.
They don't have to be on the same level -- they both simply have to be engaged in the practice of journalism. And is the fact that they send people around the globe what makes them a journalistic entity? No. It's that they publish information that is important in some way, which is exactly what WikiLeaks does -- which makes them deserving of the same protection as the New York Times.
My Google+ feed is significantly more active than my Facebook feed. I see hundreds of Google+ posts go by in a day, but only about 3 or 4 Facebook posts.

Facebook is dying!
He uploaded malware to the store in violation of his developers agreement. FAIL.
I think the risk is primarily bad press. It's not really a "security hole" for apps to add additional runnable code from an external website, when apps can currently contain pretty much anything at all (as long as they don't link to forbidden symbols). Remember that Apple does not see source code, and relies completely on app developers to behave, beyond a few perfunctory checks.

And Apple has made it abundantly clear that they don't care about bad PR in the security community. So there's really no downside to cutting out Charlie Miller, in Apple's eyes. The winner here is Charlie Miller's career.
"Is there any non-theoretical reason to believe KIPP doesn't work? I.e., do KIPP students underperform in some way?"

There isn't enough data to say.

"But without delving into theory, you can certainly tell me what the measurable effect will be."

Cognitively, I'd be most concerned about whether the program would be harming their executive function and their intrinsic motivation. I don't see any value of trying to predict specific metrics though, beyond identifying specific metrics to look at once more data exists.
I'm no expert, but I don't think they really need to. I feel that many companies do it just because it's "what you're supposed to do".

Some credit should definitely be given to Zuck. He's not here for the money, he's here for the thrill. Definitely a little Jobs in him.
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I hope this is just the beginning of a larger trend. I will check them out and I definitely wish them the best of luck. This is a market that desperately needs disruption.

Does anyone know of any comparable deals like this?
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There's a bunch of MD5 search engines with rainbow tables etc. plugged in, it could tap into that easily as well.
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Seeing as Elop's $6M pay is orders of magnitude smaller than Nokia's $25B market cap, you don't need to be very accurate. Say my 10% was wrong, even wildly so. As long as Elop gives Nokia more than 0.024% improved odds over his next best alternative, he is still worth $6M.

(Yes, I'm ignoring the time value of money, risk, etc, to simplify.)
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Nice. I was using VLC because there's no decent free player (until now) with FLAC etc. support. Global hotkeys worked after I set them in preferences (very nice, since I don't know how to set app hotkeys that work globally using Services keyboard shortcuts).

It seems quite usable as-is.

Request: use replaygain metadata (also, less important, create it)

Request: detect duplicate files (ideally, by actual audio stream, or file content exclusive of metadata, but with file content duplicates is fine too).

Request: sync ratings/playlists (handling different directory/filenames/metadata by hash of content?)

(less important): play order: random-avoid-repeating-last-N (not pure shuffle), repeat-one
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I am getting an error.

This reminds me of a very useful project, Detexify: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Loving this product. Especially the fact that you jump right into a lesson when you arrive at the homepage. Deliver value before asking the user for anything. Awesome.
You can do most of it through the web (actual pause+play controls will be coming soon).

It's got a really easy API, though, so you can build other clients without too much trouble.
Ask HN: What strategies do you employ to get users/visitors?
Hi all -
I've recently launched my own startup, and for lack of a product right now (just got the API to build on) I've taken a content-like approach to marketing: blog posts and tweets relevant to my space.

Now that I've begun that practice, I'm curious as to how everyone else here has gone about getting eyeballs on their content/products? Right now most of my visits are family and friends and I'd like to change this.

Thanks!
> SOME users (me) who really LIKE how you have handled preferences.

me too, me too. it just makes sense that way.
The problem with this is that the CEO gets the same payout if he does a good job and things don't work out or if he fantastically mismanages the company.
That isn't really related to what he said at all. Sure web browsers should be forgiving in what they except, but dev tools shouldn't be. How would you like the C compiler that tried to interpret any old chicken scratch as a valid C program? Never a compiler error again!
"I don't think they've ever done this to another researcher. Then again, no researcher has ever looked into the security of their App Store. And after this, I imagine no other ones ever will," Miller said in an e-mail to CNET. "That is the really bad news from their decision."

Take your wrist-slap like a man, sir.

Apparently the grand are also prone to self-aggrandizement. I have a lot of respect for Miller's skills, but he's not the only smart person taking a hard look at App Store security.
That's after you've already taken out your phone, launched the app, and taken a picture. Three out of four steps.
I just subscribed and...

I feel so wary if you aren't asking for my CVV or Billing credentials. Why do banks even allow you to bill without those details using only CC# and Expiry Date? It feels more than a little suspect and weird (though I know that this isn't the case here for you).
Signed up for an account just so I could say THANK YOU!

Wonderful app, looking forward to its continued development.
I can't speak for the others, but let me make clear that I am being entirely facetious. Selling data of user-provided passwords in this kind of context (an app ostensibly used to provide security) is among the worst kinds of evil. Requiring, or even allowing, users to escape from this kind of evil by paying a ransom is unconscionable.
"As you can see here there's also a download link, so if you legally obtained this music and have full rights to this music, you can download a copy straight from the browser to your machine."

Unfortunately, with the current state of online music store terms of services, it is unlikely that this is the case for the majority of music in most people's collections.
I don't see how base two has anything to do with improving the clarity of base ten.

The only use for it I can see is with adding reinforcement for the equals sign, but that just doesn't seem very necessary when you show dots next to 1..10, then a couple of larger numbers.
Hey @overcyn this is pretty cool, seems like you are the new Justin Frankel for MacOSX and Enqueue is the Winamp-Pre-AOL :)

I would suggest you these:
1. Equalizer (16 bands min would be awesome).
2. Make it hackable as soon as possible, Audio Plugins is a good start. (please not ruby, Objective-C is fine).

Nice work!
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Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record#Playback
One could use that extra daylight without DST by simply doing things in the morning, or having a different work schedule.

Obviously, DST is nice if you have a work schedule that lets you take advantage and you aren't a morning person. But again, that's all dependent on your habits, not simply liking daylight. A morning person with a normal work schedule could very well say that they like daylight and therefore are against DST.
I don't recall any base two which wasn't next to dots.
> Would you say that requiring an actual physical address for each job on the site is feasible?

If I'm searching for a job, I've usually got a max commuting time in mind. Some towns are closer, but take longer to drive to because there's no highway leading there, or no train. Some are very far, but the train goes there, and so I'd consider the commute.

So, when a job ad has an address, that's what I'm thinking about when I see it: commute time.
It's hard to study this sort, of thing, sure, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't been studied. Probably the most famous is the Perry Preschool Project in the 60s, which randomly assigned students to a control versus preschool group and followed the students until they were 40, finding significant differences in life outcomes (earnings, arrests, teen pregnancies, etc) between the two groups.
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Looks great. The only thing that tripped me up is the lack of a scroll bar in the widget. Took me a minute to realize I could scroll up and down. That is on Chrome/Lion.
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Believe it or not, there are still working blacksmiths and horse carriage drivers. But that's beside my point. My point was that the author of the article assumes that with enough work and educational opportunity, anyone can join the meritocracy. But I believe that getting a college degree requires a certain set of talents, which I believe a sizable chunk of the population simply does not possess (I admit that I may be wrong here, and that some people might see this as offensive elitism). It's unfair that those who don't win the talent lottery should be doomed to a life in poverty. Therefore, there should be a bottom in labor compensation, and that this bottom should guarantee a certain standard of living, and that this standard of living should depend on the wealth of a society as a whole. The US has a minimum wage, but that is way to low to guarantee any sort of comfort in many parts of the country.
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Virgin Mobile uses Sprint's CDMA network. Sprint has very good coverage in most major cities and along most interstate highways. That covers most of most peoples' lives, except the relatively small percentage of Americans in rural areas.
Ditto, on both counts. I think we crashed it.
I think the idea is that you spend most of your time at home, work, or school. Places which you generally have full access to the wifi network.
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I think that's overstating it a bit. I mean, he's already a billionaire, so the thrill is really all he has left to seek.
if an alien probe landed on earth today, wouldn't it be a nice starting point to know that they use a mix of base 7, base 342, and base 61 for their number systems?

I doubt that would be useful information. I would be most interested in knowing what number systems they used natively. Humans (almost?) universally use base ten.
I come into your party as a guest and what I do is steal all your stuff. If you would be a white hat, you would knock at the door and kindly hint me to the loophole instead of just doing it ...
Who made Wikileaks about Assange himself? Certainly not Wikileaks?
I'd love to get rid of iTunes, but AirPlay is a complete necessity for me.

iTunes + AirPortExpress == poor-man's-sonos.

Also, podcasts would be good.
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A startup is comprised of whoever you want. Startups are picky. Fulltime on a startup means money is tight and bodies need to be worth their weight in gold. There are enough people who can do both design and development work to seek out someone who purely does design.
In this case, he didn't only probe the approval process, but he also released the app containing the exploit into the store for public consumption. Apple's process allows for submitting an app for approval without releasing it into the store once it has been approved.
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Orders of magnitude worse each time, but likely to happen far less often. Arguably hiring a bad low wage employee, if repeated a lot of times, is way worse.

Wage inequality is not necessarily a sign of corruption.
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Agreed. I was only half-serious. I do think that what this DARPA project could do, for much less than $40 million, is write software that scrapes a bunch of existing websites and newsfeeds, looking for common patterns that could constitute memes. And that Reddit.com would be one obvious site to have in their list.

I would gladly write such a system for a mere -- (pinky in mouth) -- one million dollars, however.
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Totally true. However, I had to limit the scope of this post somewhere, and in this case, I focused on multithreaded upload of smaller objects, as mentioned in the first paragraph. We do have some larger object uploads, though they are a minority. I may do a separate followup post on high performance single file uploads through multipart uploading.
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The board of directors decides if a CEO gets hired, and for how much money. Often this board consists of presidents and CEOs of other companies. Is it very far-fetched to suspect that there may be non-market forces at work when this compensation is determined? Quid pro quo? I don't have a chart handy, but I think the pay of a CEO in relation to the average employee of a company has been rising dramatically over the past decades. Are CEOs orders of magnitude more important today than they were 30 years ago? I don't think so.
The bulk of what the Times does is not what you're describing here. For the most part, it just reprints what it hears from sources — just like WikiLeaks does — and the rest is even less newsy content like columns. By your definition, it seems like only a few pages of the Times are a journalistic organization and the rest is…well, whatever WikiLeaks is.
Jobs left Apple in 1985, the Newton started development in 1987. John Scully was the executive excited about the Newton. Even though it was profitable, Jobs killed it on his return.

I haven't heard a story like that but if I were to guess it would be Jeff Hawkins from Palm. Because while the Newton while cool, it never reached pocket size.
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"tell me why all those professors we paid millions of dollars to study economics couldn't provide a convincing rebuttal to that ideology in advance of the crash."

Because many business and economics professors, esp. the prominent ones, make the majority of their income from consulting fees and by serving on boards of large corporations.

For example Frederic Mishkin a professor at Columbia Business School and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors authored a paper titled "Financial Stability In Iceland" shortly before the countries economy imploded from a credit bubble. As it turns out he was paid $124,000 to write it by the Icelandic chamber of commerce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Mishkin

This and many similar examples are detailed in the documentary "Inside Job", though, it isn't something you hear about in the news much if at all.

In other words the study of business and economics has been corrupted by corporate money.
Putting the exploit in the App Store isn't particularly polite either and doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than generating some publicity for the researcher. It'd be different if he believed Apple wasn't going to fix it or that the exploit was being used or was about to be used in malicious apps - but he doesn't claim that was his motivation.
On my Galaxy II, whenever I want to have the camera functionality ready, I open the camera app and press the power button. The screen turns off, and I simply need to wake the phone back on to be immediately ready to take a blackmail picture.

This is even quicker with the "NoLock" app that disables the lock screen.
It's a bad move for apple. A good relationship with the community of security researchers is crucial - they're talented folks and their research results grab headlines. It takes just a tiny amount of corporate humility and public thanks to win their respect, and in return get goodwill. Treating the community badly will get ensure the next guy won't even try to cooperate.

Over the last several years, Microsoft's MSRC has balanced this very well. Google has done well recently, too. Lots of clued-in people in both places.
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I can't tell exactly what this "AUdACiOuS" project is trying to do exactly, but it sounds like a large part of it is coming up with (plain-old silicon-based) software to model the internal goings-on of a cell. While that will will certainly help with synthetic biology approaches, it's not an especially groundbreaking idea. The problem is that cells don't really have an equivalent of different address spaces: running one process might produce metabolites that inhibit another pathway.

This "article" is little more than a breathless press-release, with pie-in-the sky "potential applications" and no real details on what the project is actually aiming to do.

The Venter project you've mentioned is, in my mind, even cooler than you've given it credit for. It's entirely possible to strip genes out of a cell while it's running, but what JCV did was to take a cell with all its DNA removed, and insert a custom-designed genome. The goal is not so much to build things on top of it, but to see what the minimal amount of information is to make life.
Its funny, because the only code I write that is 100% TDD is the stuff that has to be done right. "Heavy Engineering" without agile, iterative development is actually just "Heavy Wishful Thinking", or "Heavy Waterfall".
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Your demo link seems broken, it prefetches a new page every time you mouseover, not just once. Also, there's autoplaying audio ads, something that I can only regard as a bug.