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In the most non-tinfoil-hat way I can say it, when people like Cerf try to agnositcize the medium like I think he is doing here, it makes you wonder what type of future he is already envisioning. In his view, does the net get over-regulated to the point of creating fragmented darknets and pocket-nets in which this information is dispersed in the coming future, which is the reason that he is trying to downplay the medium in which we consume this info? In regard to him just "waxing poetic" I think that stuff (cryptically?) written like this shows a lot more about what the future-thought by the author is, rather than stuff that is just some fluff/patterned response to regulation he doesn't agree with. I could also totally be off here ;)
This is from 1984. He's talking about Unipress Emacs.
I remember ATMs were turned off overnight to stop these kind of crimes in big cities of Brazil. Don't know if it's still relevant.
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This post is pretty vague. Having heard of Couch a few times over the years but not used it, it would been more helpful if he said something like: "I started a company and forked the open source CouchDB project that I founded. The company and new commercial product is CouchBase and it will be better for these reasons..." And I would be curious about some examples of where the open governance limited the CouchDB project as he's implying.

Those seem to be orthogonal things -- he could have just created a non-Apache open source project rather than making it commercial.

He is beating around the bush so much and using such vague wording that I wonder if he is hiding something, or just ashamed that he's cashing in on his creation. There's no shame in making money and no shame in making a commercial fork of your own project. But the CouchBase website looks awfully "enterprisey" now and I think there is some shame in that...
Valid point, not all ORMs are created equal.

Django's allows complex queries to be constructed via their Q objects that can traverse relationships without trouble.

In comparison, the in-house one I am currently provides almost no abstraction on top of sql.

Striking the right balance between the two is obviously not trivial and can be a matter of preference.
This idea is incredibly seductive to me, but the trouble I've always had is made completely lucid in your description of "conjugates" that are "only partially left inverse." The issue is that so many operations that it would be nice to be able to use as a conjugation aren't actually reversible.

At best, you have situations where the flawed reversal is acceptable - the Ruby File::open("file"){} example, or the J example for computing magnitude. close(open("file")) isn't exactly as if nothing had happened.

sqrt(a2) ?= a // only if a >= 0

But, consider parsing and templating: Could you template back exactly the input that you parsed to get an internal representation? Only if every character of input is unambiguous and significant - in other words, almost never.
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So, I don't have a right to a trial, which requires the work of a prosecutor, a defense attorney, a judge, and a jury? What about the right to vote, which requires someone to count the votes?
There are some awesome snippets in there that really helps put in perspective how nice we have it today to build/distribute/use software.

"Page fault, and the computer makes a phone call. Direct broadcast or audio disk - that's the technology to do that. It's half a gigabyte - and you get 100 kilobyte data rate or a megabyte or something. I don't remember. You can then carry around with you all the software you need. You can get random data through some communications link. It is very like Dick Tracy."
I love Boxer! It's beautifully designed, and it's handled everything I've thrown at it so far with aplomb. Some of my favorites to revisit: Monuments of Mars, Scorched Earth, Commander Keen, Dark Forces.
On the other hand, the Ruby equivalent is

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setup_context
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ensure
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end

I guess you could build a special class, but why?
But google does that all the time with adsense.
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Yes, they restricted the selection. They also encouraged each number to be unique.
This is great. It would be nice if there was a "project description" field however in addition to the names: [http://code.nasa.gov/projects/].

The projects are fairly esoteric and span a broad range of fields:

* Conflict Prevention Bands

* General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) version 2011A

* Goddard Satellite Data Simulation Unit
Your doing the right thing. LEarning to code. But I would try to get two or three projects and at least 1 paid project under your belt before you quit.

Once you dont have money coming in on a regular basis you have to deal with all the psychology that goes with it. Its hard - really hard.

Also cut back to 40 hours a week in your day job ... I mean you dont care right? Use that time to start doing coding work. But get to paid work first and get bunch of clients.

If you cant then I would say at the very least go stay with your parents or anyone who would have you. $7K is really not enough.

I stuck it out 1 year extra when I hated my position. And I'm very very happy I did that.
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I don't think Google should censor their search results to get on the good side of a politician. Google's mission is to organize information, not to satisfy lawmakers.
I always clash with people on this topic, mostly because to me "Human Rights" is mostly limited to "Natural Rights".
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...and this is why developers should never be in charge of usability/design.

simplification enhances usability. the vast majority of smartphone and tablet users are happy that all that complicated IT/nerd stuff went away on their devices.

the complications you would introduce by user switching are big. you need to add UI elements to tell the user at all times in which mode they are, you need new dialogs to switch, etc etc. the android status bar already looks like a badly maintained win xp install with all that crap in it.

built by developers for developers. brrr.
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There are no rights that give you a right to someone else's property.

Freedom of the press means you can own one. It does not mean your printing press can be taken from you and redistributed to some one else that can't afford to buy a press.
I heard about this before. According to Snopes it's false although it may have been implemented in A few places.

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_SafetyPIN_software
> Today, if I were granted a right to have a horse, I’m not sure where I would put it.

Just because you have a right doesn't mean you have to "cash in" on it. According to the Constitution, I have a right to "liberty" [1]. If I didn't want liberty, the right should still exist for those who want it. Just because I don't want it doesn't mean nobody else wants it. Over-protecting is a better policy than under-protecting.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_o...
Worsening indeed, both with depth of understanding of schema definition and of query mechanics - very often I see developers run with the first query returns their desired results, with little regard for performance or understanding how the results are actually being generated.
Bank machines have this.

Diebold ATMs could be configured to send a "distress signal" when their safe was opened and the last number of the combination lock was off by 1. The option was off by default, because it required additional hardware hook-up (for the signaling), but it was there.
The core issue isn't just how one free Google service interacts with another free Google service, but how when combined they undermine the copyright & revenue potential for a content creator by displacing that person's work with Google's copy of that person's work.

If you are not in business (and don't care if your favorite non-Google sites eventually disappear) then it is no big deal.

For everyone else it has the potential to be a big deal.

If publishers do not complain about it now then it will get worse. How bad does it have to get before the complaints are valid to you?
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Right. Your rights on the internet should follow from your human and civil rights. If you have access to the internet, your right to free speech, your right to assemble, your right to etc... should not be impeded, because it's a medium. Blocking access to something shouldn't be viewed as a violation of your right to the internet, it should be a violation of freedom of speech.
No wonder, Boxer is built on top of DOSBox, the industry standard FOSS DOS emulator.
People have trouble remembering one PIN, memorizing two would be too much for many.
The slightly longer answer is that we are working on some features for a more print-ready PDF. Right now our PDFs are optimized for on-screen reading. Sone small changes such as gutters and page numbers that alternate sides will make a nicer looking print book.

So, right now, who or what handles kerning, tracking, and such to ensure that you don't get distracting "rivers" of white space, odd page/paragraph breaks, and the like when printed?
The issue is what kind of reputation does the incubator general partners have. Can they pull in the top VC's consistently each and every year? Can they anticipate the sectors and industries venture capital wants to go to?

If all you did in 2000 was internet startups and the bubble burst, of course incubators for internet startups would be wiped out along with the companies. If there was a "housing" centered incubator in the early twenty first century, it would have done well until the bubble burst as well.

It has nothing to do with early stage startup support services (since YC isn't really an incubator), but with everyone in the space putting all their eggs in one basket with internet technologies.
"it's fine (not necessarily bad) to come full circle in general, not that it will work out in this particular case."

exactly. I was not saying this step is specifically a bad (or good!) one. I didn't want the thread to devolve into a "which is better Erlang or C++?" flame war. I am sure the devs on the project have good reasons for the change. I just thought it was interesting that the project came full circle.
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Another bit that leapt out for me is his discussion of displays. He's talking about flatscreen color displays, about 15-20 years before they really become commonplace.

My favorite is the end, where he talks about how belief and momentum influence the investment into different technologies. Makes you wonder what technologies have been "coming soon" for the last decade, but are just waiting for someone to come in and spend the required amount to pull them off.
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completely possible on android.

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Boxer + GOG.com = retro heaven. It's just a shame you need a windows pc to get the GOG installer to extract the setup installers
Except that the destruction is far easier to prove than the counterfeitness of the item.

This is just the "kill them all and let God sort them out" mentality applied to property.
I get extremely frustrated when writers try to decide whether something is a human right or not. The whole concept vexes me:

1. Statements like this: the author comes up with a criterion for what a human right should be, and gives examples of things she thinks are human rights, but doesn't notice that they violate the criterion.

"The best way to characterize human rights is to identify the outcomes that we are trying to ensure. These include critical freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of access to information..."

These are fundamentally NOT rights that can be identified by their outcomes. This point is almost trivial. The freedom of speech is not "an end in itself" any more than the Internet is. Free speech is "an enabler of rights, not a right itself" which is his criterion for not-a-human-right. We want free speech so we can influence civil rights, protect our freedom or <insert whatever right we think we have> not just so for the sake of spouting things into the public or private sphere.

2. Rights conflict, so asking whether something is, or is not, a right becomes irrelevant. Let's say we've decided I have a right to not be murdered. Great. That might conflict with your right to, say, freedom. Obviously that's restricted so that you don't do things. Or maybe everyone has a right to their property, but also an equal chance at getting to water, and I own the only watering hole. The question is what we do when they conflict (i.e. we say that my right to not be killed trumps your right to do whatever you want, or access to water trumps the right to property).

3. They never seem to make a broader point about how to make the world a better place, other than "now that you know the Internet isn't a human right, you can, er, um, work to make it better?" Blah.
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This feels like bad news for CouchDB users, since they will need to re-write code and re-learn a new system if they choose to migrate to Couchbase Server.

It's better to promote Couchbase server for it's own merits rather than promoting it as the future of CouchDB.
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No worries - I was looking for an editor for Linux, and didn't come across anything. This is great for editing README.md files for GitHub!
Thanks, Jon. That's exactly what I meant.
Perhaps I should rather have linked directly to the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/nxdzz/im_not_as_...

Anyway, I want to emphasize that while his response was specifically to some guy in MIT feeling down, his words are applicable for any of us.
10.7 was released last year, not 40 years ago :-)

My older Mac Mini would not do it. I didn't know that this was added in 10.7.
Siri is already the "Driving Mode" feature on the iPhone.

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I hope they release a lot of cool libraries that we can repurpose. Physics engines?
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Hey, we only said you could cast a vote. We never said we'd count it.
As long as Ektar and Portra keep rolling onto store shelves I'll be happy.
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I got really excited for a moment, as I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately it turns out to be an old April fools joke.
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This is a step forward. Earlier NASA open-source had to be released only on open channel:

http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/cosmic/

This is not workable because it wasn't possible for non-NASA developers to contribute back.

This one-way system resulted in other software being released piecemeal, outside the above process, e.g.

http://oodt.apache.org/

Doing even this took a lot of work.
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Why would a bureau see this as an opportunity? What could they gain?
I began this piece raring to disagree, but I find it hard to fault his logic. A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today, and a right to the use of landline phones will likely become so in the next decade.

We don't want to regulate specific rights as reactions to the particular issues of the day, we want to distill those issues to their essence so that we can meaningfully protect freedoms that are fundamental to meaningful human existence.

However, as others have noted here, this article leaves a couple of important points unaddressed.

Firstly, how can we be sure that the internet isn't fundamental? I can imagine arguing (in an earlier time) that legal counsel shouldn't be a human right, because we'll have something better than the legal system at some point. Yet thousands of years of human development have led only to a more complex legal system with the same fundamental ideas. Maybe the internet isn't horse-riding, maybe it's the invention of law. How do we know?

Secondly, if internet access isn't fundamental, then what is its more essential formulation? Being banned from the internet today makes you deaf, dumb and blind; much like being banned from electricity would cripple you. The difference is, nobody's trying to make three strikes laws for the power grid. We need to protect something. So what is it? The idea of free access to information? Ability to form and join networks? It's clearly not anything that's currently protected.

Unfortunately, there is more than just an academic interest at stake here. It's well and good to say "ha ha, you see, I have a new and interesting perspective", but this is a situation where there are actual losses being made in terms of real people's access to the internet. Unless Vint Cerf is trying to say that's not important, perhaps it's a little counterproductive to make an article that shoots down a core idea for internet freedom without providing anything else of substance to fill its place.
"And then the source code got scrunched and I didn't have a complete listing."

"If that scrunch had not happened, vi would have multiple windows, and I might have put in some programmability - but I don't know."

"I actually used [be] to edit itself and scrunched the source code - sort of old home day, because we used to do that all the time."

What does Bill mean by the word "scrunch" here? Is this some jargon lost to the ages?
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I don't think it's a human right in France. The UN decided it is a human right, and many countries signed it, but Sarkozy refused to do it as far as I know. So HADOPI can carry on for now, at least until Sarkozy loses the election.
Forgetting the bit about human rights for a second, in his conclusion Cerf goes for this odd statement that:

"In this context, engineers have not only a tremendous obligation to empower users, but also an obligation to ensure the safety of users online." Ummmm, yesssss

"Technologists should work toward this end." And, as far as I know, they are.

This entire column just seems like wasted space and time, arguing frantically against... what, precisely? Engineers who don't think about "harms like viruses and worms that silently invade their computers"? There's a lot of alarmist language, and very little substance.
I tried to do this couple years ago for Linux, asked around, and was told this was not possible for Linux.
Apparently I was misinformed. I'm happy to be wrong about it. Can you point me to instructions for doing it for Ubuntu?

I have Windows XP, and have had 2000, NT, 98, 95, etc., and none of them could do it.

I'm glad to see that finally this "40 year old technology" is getting onto desktops in the last year or so.
I think you play it down too far. Sure its contrived, but consider that most folks would not alert on a PC printing something, so consider the bad guy scenario of drive by sidejack, look for the network printer, download the bogus document to print and print it. Can all be done in the least trusted part of the system. Bad guy now has a foot hold on your network and you don't have any assets deployed against them yet.

I think it merits some scariness in the headline.
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I believe it's a response to the UN Report which he cites. Here's a Wired article about it: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/internet-a-human-ri...
What is the alternative for him? Another major, or just not going to a university?

You can use payscale websites to judge what kind of pay a programmer that has gone to a college gets in relation to one that has not and compare to the costs of going to college.

In regards to hectic schedules and hardcore math... it's not THAT bad, and the harder it is the stronger he'll be coming out.

At the end of the day its about how will he differentiate himself to other programmers. When he's looking for a job without a college degree but with a few projects under his belt compared to a fresh college grad with a 4.0, it might be a coin toss on who they pick. What if the college grad also did some work on the side, or internships? It may tip the scales out of your brother's favor.
I'm thinking more of a Life Aquatic look.
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The most prominent I know of are quant.ly and forlue.com

There was also nickb's New Mogul, but that's dead. There was also another education HN clone by the person behind BrainRacer, but that's also dead.
Would you agree that electricity would probably always be necessary?

If so, then what about the Internet? It's still early days for the Internet, but I think it's already becoming as important as electricity for many people.

I'm not convinced that the Internet is just like the landlines, but we might need a more abstract description of the Internet, just in case say a new "Internet" of mesh networks builds momentum and starts replacing this Internet. But even then, it would be pretty close to what we have today.

I don't see the Internet as just one thing that gets used for a couple of decades and then discarded, but more like something that will continually evolve. I see the Internet closer to the abstractness of "communication" than to the physicality of the "landline", which also implies only certain technologies.
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The controversy over his remarks and savage neologism are what I remember about him and I was a bit of a political junkie at that time. Outside of Pennsylvania I doubt many remember much more about him.