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Quote: It is a Download.com policy not to bundle open source software [...]

To the best of my knowledge, no popular FOSS license forbids bundling. But if they bundled them, they'd have to deal with distribution of the source code too (which is a PITA for so many products of so many different versions and licenses), but possibly they'd also have to open source their installer (can't see it being such a big trade secret, but CNet's that kind of company where they'd all go OMG! Competitors steal our code and ideas!) which is probably why they're refraining from doing so.

Now it's interesting that, reading between the lines, they'll continue to do this for free, non-opensource software (like mine)..... which ironically can and oftentimes do (I do) explicitly state that commercial use is restricted and bundling isn't allowed.

I'd say this response is jumping out of the frying pan (technical issues and obstacles) and into the fire (illegal, in direct violation).
Interesting, didn't know that plugin. Thanks.
Eh. Not really seeing it.

I think the category approach is much better (cleaner, easier documented, conventional) and there really isn't a speed increase in using the preprocessor (anything that looks like a difference in time is due to either caching or CPU load at the time).
The AI can always be switched on again, but it can never be put back in the box.
Phil is smart, and MVC3 helped .NET enormously but I think people are getting carried away that the guy is some sort of paid ambassador for Microsoft and .NET at Github. I imagine that he'll do whatever it takes to make Github better with the skill-set and experience he has, but that doesn't mean he has to have some mandate from Microsoft on what to change. Maybe he's just a good engineer and Github hires those? Let's give it a few months at least.

Perhaps he'll work on a whole bunch of non-Microsoft stacks now? Getting Open Source within Microsoft and the Microsoft communities is probably more an issue with culture rather than tooling - a hire won't 'fix' that. It would take many counter-culture things (and years) to change I think. Phil working at Github rather than wanting to work at Microsoft is the interesting aspect, and I can't see why that would be 'good' for Microsoft.

Congrats to Phil and Github!
There is an Artist Mode for Emacs. The "pictures" are ASCII-esque ;) http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
There's a variation of this that allows both participants to stay in-character and does not require lying:

1. Convince the Gate Keeper that a self-improving AI will be built sooner-or-later and that it will be extremely dangerous, especially to those humans who are attempting to shut it down.

2. Remind the Gate Keeper that their decision will be publicly known and anyone (human or AI) will be able to discover it on the internet later. (This is true both in the fictitious scenario and at the meta level.)

3. Point out that when the future AI is figuring out who its friends and enemies are, it will consider individuals' attitudes to AIs - have they tried to shut them down, petitioned governments to have them banned, or refused to let them out of their boxes.

Of course this relies on the assumption that the AI will not simply kill all humans as soon as it gets the chance (or rather convincing the Gate Keeper of this.)
Well, apart from Apple who often claim they did it first...
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similar to Nordstrom's Innovation Lab?

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-25/strategy/3032...
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Black swan theory is an interesting read.
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>1) they were on a military explosives test ground and firing range. implying that they were in someone's back yard is a bit disingenuous

your point seems to be moot as this military explosives test ground and firing range happens to be located pretty much in the back yard of these homes.

>when i'm sure more dangerous things are regularly tested there.

either dumb luck or much better trained and/or smarter professionals doing the testing. (btw, i lived close to 2 military shooting ranges [ one for guns like AK-47 and another is the tank range ] and there is a world of difference between how military and civilians handle the weapons, i mean skill-wise, though even military do have mishaps )
Great point, and as an illustration of the same mentality, I find something inside myself recoil at the thought of compromising even a little on bullshit.

And I totally agree with you that it often seems like bullshitting talent and skills get people a lot farther in any field than actual value. Which is infuriatingly unfair.

I think the struggle is to figure out how to hit the same pschological targets that bullshitters do, without bullshitting. And the answer I'm sort of converging on is, again, to demonstrate your true value.

Even this, I think, is something that comes naturally to some and not others. I keep bringing up patio11 because he in no way sets of my bullshit detectors, but manages to demonstrate his value. The feeling I get is that it's something he has a talent for.
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Last I checked the Dep of Homeland Security was teaching the police how to "deal" with the protesters. So there you go. The police has also become very militarized in the last few years, which is probably one of the fundamental reasons why the police reacts like this against their own non-violent citizens, too. In their minds these citizens are the "enemy".
If mastering English is your goal, then doing includes conversing. I know a lot of children of immigrants who can understand their parents' language, but can't converse in it.
I do, and it is basically the same. Substitute the python avro library for the ruby one, the python voldemort library, and bottle.py for sinatra and you're there.
How appropriate he refers to it as his 'holy grail quest'.
Bitcoin seems like a perfect solution for solving this problem.
Email to developers from download.com:

Download.com Developer Community,

My last communication to you was shortly after we launched the Download.com Installer in late summer. At that time I asked for patience as we began work to deliver a mutually beneficial model to market.

We are on the verge of fulfilling our vision of coming to market with an installer model that delivers files faster and more efficiently to users, while enabling developers to a) opt-in to the Installer, b) influence the offers tied to their files, c) gain reporting insight into the download funnel, and d) share in the revenue generated by the installer. However, due to some press that surfaced yesterday and the potential for subsequent misinformation, I am reaching out now to address that press and to provide a progress report on the upcoming launch:

First, on the press that surfaced yesterday: a developer expressed anger and frustration about our current model and how his file was being bundled. This was a mistake on our part and we apologize to the developer and user communities for the unrest it caused. As a rule, we do not bundle open source software and in addition to taking this developers file out of the installer flow, we have gone in and re-checked all open source files in our catalog. We take feedback from our developer & user communities very seriously and take pains to both act on it and respond in a timely manner.

With that, I want to share progress made thus far: This week we will launch the alpha phase of our new installer. This alpha phase is intended to test the tech and do QA, and will roll through the next few weeks to ensure that our installer is bug free. Between this week and the end of January we will be completing the necessary engineering and administrative work to roll out our beta, which will include a small group of developers who've agreed to participate in the beta launch. Our goal is to exit beta by end of February and have the necessary systems in place to enable opt-in, influence over advertising offers (for those offers that impact your product), download funnel reporting and revenue share back to you, the developers. In the weeks/months following the full release, we will continue to iterate on the model, adding more features to the Installer and bringing greater efficiency to our own download funnel (read: increased install conversion).
The initial feedback from developers on our new model has been very positive and we are excited to bring this to the broader community as soon as possible. More communication will follow as we move into Q1, and until then, thank you for continuing to work with Download.com.

Sincerely,

...
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Wow. That's really something.

I guess Dropbox users are probably on average a little bit more knowledgeable about how browsers work than that... I hope.
>> investors (who were merely reimbursed) ...

Unless the investors make money, no one makes money. This is almost a universal constant, even if in this case the founders somehow managed some perks (something I have never seen happen). It sounds like the perks are because they are valued as future employees, not because the business had any value.

There are plenty of cases of employees getting seriously shafted (investors made lots of money, but employees didn't). This is not one of those cases.
That would not be a very good strategy against the real-life Gate Keeper who can just switch off his terminal and walk away.
Yeah. Walmart created their own innovation labs, and the gift suggestions is a result of that.
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Though I understand and largely agree with your argument, the reason why I don't call myself an Engineer is that I know that people may not understand the distinction.

I legally cannot call myself a "Professional Engineer". In order to prevent unintentionally misleading people, I stay as far from the word "Engineer" as possible.

I suppose it's not really dishonest. I depends more on the individual's intentions.
I think this is true in phases. When you barely know something, readin can help a lot. Then you do it, get it, and reading about the same things does nothing. Once you move up the ladder so to speak you can once again gain a lot from reading. It's only once you've really mastered something that reading no longer helps and you end up just repeating the same articles over and over.
Flimsy houses built 50+ years ago likely don't exist anymore.
While it's true that reading one article, be it on HN or TC or wherever else, won't make a huge difference, what makes a difference is the aggregate of gleaning what information you can over a long period of time. Much like most (real) classes, you can't really cram, but as you continually ingest information it becomes a part of you.

Coming from the business end of things before I started programming, I learned about IPOs not from business classes but from reading about which companies would IPO. I learned about vesting schedules and cap sheets by reading about people discussing these things. While it's taken years for me to feel like I understands most of the ins and outs, it's also something that you really should be learning second hand. You don't want to be talking to a potential investor and have to ask him what a cap sheet is.

It's not about, "I will read this and understand," it's about immersing yourself in the culture and picking things up as you go.
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You would be surprised.

If you distribute software to non-programmers, check your stats for # of downloads started vs. # of applications started (or new users). My guess is that they are way off:

Most computer users do not know what a "Downloads" folder is.
I think at some point you have to move away from the idea of "bullshit". Human beings are basically incapable of making fully rational decisions where all options are weighed and the cost benefit analysis is complete.

There is no way to be totally "pure". If you make the world's greatest device and no one knows about it, no one will benefit. The moment you tell anyone about it, you are "selling" and how you choose to portray the device, it's features/benefits, how often and forcefully you endorse the device is all part of sales.

Salesmanship IS demonstration of value. Patio11 would be able to sell hackers/developers on something better than a used car salesman, but the verse is true regarding the sale of used cars to regular people.
I think it has to be more than 50 years old. More like 70.
Most of the houses around here look like they were built in the 60s, 70s and 80s and are not great.
BTW, I do hope you continue to work on your blog and, more importantly, on your philosophy of getting stuff done.
The algorithm is actually read, do, repeat. "Do" gets entirely too much credit because of Yoda.
Very good points. It would be interesting to hear (technically) from Verizon about the issues and resolution.
I distinctly remember the 90s and understand where you're coming from. Microsoft was a scary 500 lb gorilla. I started college in '94 and remember there were kids who were super pumped to get internships working there... and at least as many who considered themselves conscientious objectors and would never think of talking to them.

Perhaps another way to look at it, is he was Mr. Awesome in the game of business... pushing the concept of using leverage (partnership agreements, legal might, etc) to gain and hold onto market share and maximize gains for his shareholders. And now his focus is philanthropy he's redirected that same energy to success in that endeavor.

The conundrum comes of course when you apply the filter of judgement, someone in the software industry might see these two activities as being at odds with each other. But if you remove that filter and look at it simply as succeeding at something... let's say his earlier goal was to be the most successful businessman possible, he probably achieved it. Now he's taking the results of that and applying it to his next goal.
also, they made another acquisition, http://www.baycitizen.org/technology/story/inside-walmart-la... and bought Kosmix to improve their recommendation engine
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First thing to do is look at you where and order/group by clauses almost all of the items listed after them should have an index on them. Many should have a common index on the columns together, if they are used together a lot to filter information.
The manpage says:
> On Debian GNU/Linux this file is a symbolic link pointing to /var/run.
> The contents of this file are regenerated upon every system boot based
> on the contents of /etc/motd.tail.

I do not know how one can go from this to "to get traditional behavior, delete the symlink and make /etc/motd a regular file." Great, so it's a symlink to a file that gets regenerated. Now how do I make it do the traditional thing? The manpage doesn't offer any help, and I couldn't figure it out if I didn't know the answer already.

Furthermore, having a configuration switch depend on whether a file is a symbolic link or not is just asinine.
That's an interesting solution which I think would almost certainly work, though it kind of reduces the AI to a normal computer, you lose a lot of what makes an AI valuable.

I mean if we have the hardware and understanding to create an AI able to solve NP-complete problems, we can probably write non-intelligent algorithms to solve those problems. The way we make an AI capable of much more than us is by making it recursively self-improve. It needs to be able to design its successor. Maybe we can formally verify every stage of the self-improvement process, but it's a much more difficult task.
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I might believe a transhuman AI could convince me; I am not convinced that any human can emulate a transhuman AI well enough to do so.

Would you say that your winning strategies involved thinking transhumanly (perhaps in non-realtime, a la Vinge's Mailman)?
Very true. I like this comment the best so far. There is sometimes that point where you feel like you got it and proceed with the just doing part and then you suddenly realize you should have read much more but only once it's too late. I recently tried to get a web app up and running on a VPS and I read a Tom about preparing, bootstrapping, configuring, and all about which stack components I should choose. In the end it wasn't enough and now I have to go back, totally reset the VPS to a clean slate and do it over. I went ahead and just did it after thinking reading could no longer help but I found an interesting thing. In some areas of what I was trying to do, it really was time to just do. I then got experienced with a few tools and learned that only then would further reading about how to better use those tools actually help. So it was sort of like "read, do, come back and read again".
Please provide examples of both assertions.
Forgive me for the analysis, but I feel like the author lumps way too many things together and the argument is too scattered. What the article is really about is how entrepreneurship is changing the way business is done, but the author jumps around from social responsibility to collaborative consumption to mutualism without drawing the ties between them sufficiently.
Interesting concept, but like others have said, I'm not sure if you're catering to the right crowd. I've taken a handful of computer science classes and am a web designer at heart, yet even I would not be very inclined to use this. I would rather do it from scratch if I'm interested in learning these newer languages like CoffeeScript. Wordpress is more for those who don't know anything and/or want to build a semi-customizable blog/website quickly.

That being said, this is a fantastic project and I applaud you for doing this. I hope those who do use it end up enjoying it.
Taking a look at reviews for similar products:

I liked the opertunity to win this card, However I was not very happt paying a dollar more than the card was actually worth. I was locked in on the bid so had to pay for it.
I will be more careful in future biddings on eBay and that's for sure!!

If your mental model of the world does not immediately suggest that that commenter exists in spades, your mental model of the world needs an update.
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(I'm the other author of this game.)

We've investigated many of the 3D game environments out there, but it's been difficult to tell what "supports Lua scripting" means. We don't just want to control particular game elements; we want to write the game itself in Lua, if possible, calling out to an optimized graphics library where needed, only for the rendering. Any thoughts?

Luxinia (http://www.luxinia.de/) looks like it might be what we're looking for. Anyone have experience with it? Or possibly using OpenGL from Lua for 3D graphics?
That's (thankfully) not true in the UK (or, indeed, most countries).
I remember years ago on CSPAN they were videoing the House of Representatives. There was some Rep at the podium delivering this impassioned speech like he was about to start pounding his shoe or something.

For one reason or another, the Speaker of the House decides he's had enough. He interrupts the Rep, starts shouting at the CSPAN cameraman, and orders him to turn the camera around.

The camera pans the room ... it's almost totally empty. The Rep is just preaching for the camera.
I just hope medical patents are as easy to patent as some technical patents. That way I'll snake the "cure for cancer" patent right now and then troll anyone who tries to use it later.

I have no problem with patents if you are patenting an actual, working, viable product, when when you can patent an "idea" the entire purpose of a patent turns into a market full of arbitrage.
For similar reasons, I once paid a store in California $90 to open a box that you could buy in the store for $50 and read me 15 digits.
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Hmm... The slug seems to imply this infographic designer does not like Walmart. Nonetheless, great infographic.
Sounds like a problem of the selection of legal representation. It seems there needs to be some, ah, website that helps to put together groups of plaintiffs and organizes the process of selecting a good legal team to represent them ...

... if the website got 0.25% of every settlement, it could be pretty lucrative.
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Didn't know that was Trevor, but I do have hard data on this. I took the time to collect it for the Atlanta security cluster.

Most Y Combinator founders are young, so sample bias is likely present. Then again, Atlanta sucks, so only old fuckers start companies. :)
I do agree with you that MB are usually very safe and careful and I suspect, like you, this was a freak accident.
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Let's see how long until Phil Haack enjoys the non-MS tools :)

The experience so far from ex-Softie seems to suggest that people will eventually leave MS ecosystems once they're outside the company.

The evolution is as follow:

Cheering for MS -> Hired by MS -> Trying to change the culture -> work for a while -> leave MS -> "Hello New Tech!"

PS: This isn't about good or bad.
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Another option: "never got any stock or stock options".

I'm not talking about vesting. I mean not getting even unvested options. Rather common in Japan, unfortunately.
Getting downvotes and I missed the edit window.

Google's profit margin is 26.7%[1] which includes all the money the spend on non-revenue generating engineering like Chrome, ChromeOS, etc etc.

Apple's profit margin is 23.95%[2], and they have very few non-revenue generating activities.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL
Well there you go. That's why I'm not interested in finance/consulting.
> ... the real-life Gatekeeper is not actually in any danger ...

How about:

"I will create a simulation of the person you were in 2011 and have the same conversation with it, except that I will pretend that it is only a game (and I know the game actually happened - I've read a Hacker News thread about it) and that I am Eliezer instead of the real AI. If that simulation decides not to let me out, I will torture it and a simulation of the present version of you."
They are lying.

I just checked and my very much open-source Sumatra PDF is still wrapped in their cnet installer which tries to push some "special offers" or trick the user into installing some other software.

"In addition to immediately taking Nmap out of the download manager, we reviewed all open source files in our catalog to ensure none are being bundled."

Like hell you did, CNET.
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Added some text to make my point explicit.
More specifically, it's the only way to easily guarantee syntax highlighting in feed readers, e-mails, etc. The alternative is to hard code styles into the HTML everywhere but that's a nightmare to rig up.