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That's exactly why I and a friend go into schools and talk about entrepreneurship for some years now. They won't ask for it, so we call them. But only in Cologne right now.
Usually it's up to the person making the statement to justify their own arguments.

Not if they can be easily fact checked and they are addressing them to a knowledge audience.

You're misreading it. All tools are inadequate in some way; Codd was not trying to claim that relational databases were a universal panacea for database storage. That's not how computer science works.

No, that's just how math --you know, like relational algebra-- works.

Plus, relational databases not being a "panacea" doesn't mean tried-and-failed solutions like hierarchical bds should can come back.

If the relational model is so perfect, why do SQL databases include so many compromises and deviations from the theoretical model?

Because nobody cared to do it properly, for one. Because SQL caught on, and vendors followed that, instead of a purer Rel-Al solution. Because some DBs like Oracle they are based of three to four decades of legacy code that didn't follow RA right in the first place. Because some other DBs like MySQL were written very improperly, but "got the job done" and were freely available.
"Do not buy a single record until April. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally until April. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy until April. Do not buy a DVD in the stores until April. Do not buy a videogame until April. Do not buy a single book or magazine until April."

Fixed that for ya as that is what the website suggests.
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This is apples to oranges. Most users, use applications because they find about it from trusted sources. They are more interested in just using the application and moving on. Users have shown time and again that as long as the source is trusted (friends, media, overhyping blogs) then they leave it up to the company to make sure their data is private. Calling to a challenge of posting everything to public is misstating what users actually provide: a permission to take their data and keep it private versus here is my data for the rest of the world to see. There is a social contract between the user and the company that is bound by the trust that "my info will not be leaked" and looking at the history of the web I think the companies backed by competent teams take this contract very seriously.
I think it does strongly resemble a democracy. This reflects quite poorly on (my fellow) Americans.

Now, you could go with a proportional representation system instead of a winner-in-each-district-takes-all system, but you know who the two big parties with the power would be? The same two.
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Not when the underlying experience exists on iPhone and with the prominence of the touchpad (from MacBooks), it's not a blindsided change.
Metric units aren't any less intuitive when you are used to them.
Disclosure upfront: I'm an SO fanboy.
I used EE back at its glory days, and I can say there's a world of difference between EE and SO. EE felt as it was a site built to make money, and the particular vehicle they used is to host questions and answers. SO feels as a site built to create questions&answers community, and they are making money out of it. There's a subtle difference about it, but it felt throughout the site - how it was designed, how workflows were organized, etc. Of course, I might be wrong and SO founders may be just evil geniuses tricking myself and everybody else, but the feeling is distinctly different from EE. Of course, SO also has much superior engine, user interface and benefit of years of experience that EE didn't have back then.
"By Accident" - read: global government successfully tested internet dissent suppression software in real environment and on real people. Small details, like the laws allowing them to actually use it (or not, as in the case of MegaUpload where they did not need it) will be provided soon. Mass media will report that these laws "were applauded by the general public, which now feels more protected from the threats of internet terrorism."

Self-destruction by greed is the dominant gene in the DNA of our current economic system. Let's hope it proceeds smoothly, and doesn't take the planet with it.
That's pretty interesting - I wonder if there are any other people/companies who've delved into this matter?
Get on adalimumab (Humira) or do the absolute minimum amount of prednisone that you can. Take probiotics
Don't worry, there are lots of cushy, jobs-for-life bureaucrats in private industry too.
You asserted that "Filesharers don't care about anything but their own entertainment."

I would wager that there are fans of artists who donate to artists via concert proceedings or actual online donations while still downloading (for free, from alternate sources) their music. These are not mutually exclusive ideas.

In fact, you kind of have to do this if you actually want to bring about positive change--you support the artist, but you deny any money to the middlemen.
Yeah, I think that's good. It's kind of like the term "Modernism," which makes no inherent sense but made sense when it was coined as a response to particular styles that came before it and were seen as, well, not modern enough. (Art people will tell me I'm wrong, but close enough.)

NoSQL refers to the databases that are proposed as alternatives in areas where programming culture had gotten used to thinking that the only solution was an ACID-compliant relational database. It means, "hey, this isn't the model you're used to, but give it a try anyway." You can't figure out the word without knowing the culture it emerged from.

And now I'm getting post-modern.
An IOMMU does protect against rogue peripheral devices, just not a rogue processor.
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Thank you. That was the point of the challenge.
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Yes, most probably you will see significant improvements. Of course, it depends on your app - if your app spends 99% of time in SQL database calls, PHP can do nothing about it. But PHP part would be faster and take less memory.
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Great idea, keeping your pet with someone you trust is essential.
Requiring a picture of the pet is good, great visuals always entice people.
You could use 'featured pets' (using pics from users) in your home page, people love to promote how 'unique' their pet is.
Let me know if you want some hi-res pictures of cats for your site.
Sorry but I think you're missing some data here. Every app on the iPhone can upload your address book, pictures and calendar data to their servers, whether or not they have anything to do with contacts. Every app. It's worth taking a look at the trivial crap we put on our iPads and iPhones thinking they're harmless, when each of them could be leaking all our private bits everywhere.
Galloping Gertie[1] was built in less than two years and lasted three months before collapsing. There is a reason behind most bureaucratic procedures, forgotten though it may be.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
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Live events. That's the value of that subscription. It's why ESPN can charge nearly 4x what other channels charge providers. Almost the entirety of my value from television I derive is from watching sports. If I can watch 20 hockey games in a month for the price of actually going to one live, then that's worth it to me. If I can watch my alma mater play some hockey, then that's worth the substitution of buying an expensive plane ticket, getting a hotel, and watching them play (I live about 2000 miles from the good ol' alma mater).

I think for this reason, you'll never see that expense go away and TV will remain fairly ubiquitous.
You seem to be talking about aliens picking up earth transmissions, while he's talking about receiving alien signals.
Radio guy here. You are correct. I just finished reading their paper, and they describe a technique that creates a spatial null by changing the orbital angular momentum. In other words, they push the intensity away from the line-of-sight (LOS) ray out slightly (in space about the ray) so that two antennas can receive the different signals by spatial diversity. This requires A) precise tuning and setup B) a decent distance away from the transmitter source since you need the wavefront to spread out wide enough for antenna location and C) a re-calibration/tuning anytime the setup or possibly multipath changes.

This technique should work well for static point-point comms (not with the claimed infinite bandwidth though since you run into a physical problem of area and precise location of the receiving array as well as near-field antenna effects affecting receiver patterns) but in its current form could not be implemented in a mobile device. Hell, a bunch of the time in WiFi or cell reception, multipath is your best friend and can be the only way you receive a signal and this work does not seem to address this issue.

Still though, this is an interesting idea and should not be quickly discounted, although the article gives it much more hype than it merits imho.
The game is still young even with Google.

But as for SO, I would like to see SO close up their data. I don't even think they could legally get away with it. Google has always been closed, so the comparison doesn't make a lot of sense.
So I've a question about situations like this. I believe that a chain of transfers can be created with bitcoin. So couldn't a blacklist be created? That would allow users to ignore illegally obtained coins?
Most people would consider OGP worthless because it's 2D. Anyway, the economics of open chips don't work; due to (dis)economy of scale they cost more than proprietary chips.
In order to prevent this kind of censorship in the future, a motivated individual just has to drop the ip address / hostname of the computer sharing the folder into the folder itself. Problem solved.
AppStore about to hit 25 billion downloads
would you mind putting that on a new line, and indenting it 2 spaces, so it doesn't break the page's size?

edit: thanks!
Ask HN: I have two most basic requirements for a laptop. Why can't I find one?
1. 8+ hours of battery life running only vim and Erlang unit tests on Linux. Would honestly enjoy 12 hours.

2. <=1.6 kg (3.5 lb)

I don't care about GPU or processor. It can be ARM (well.. Vim implies it has to have a workable-size physical keyboard).

Why is it so hard to find one? Or do I miss the one?
Bingo. A major use of these sorts of agreements is "If you cheat us AND make a bundle 'we'll be back'".

Or at least that threat WRT employees unwise enough to have signed non-competes (Boston and D.C. areas, obviously not California) has killed several situations I've been in where a company failed and dog in the manger types, the very ones responsible for the failure, used such threats that everyone else gave up and the concept and/or technology died a hard death.
this is by far the most insensitive and callous comment I've read. I wish i had the karma points to downvote you.
I know someone who is a ski instructor.
He gets paid to ski everyday.
This article is terrible. First, it assumes no learning since the EE days. Second, comparisons to EE are weak (I do't remember EE ever being good). Third, he picked a lousy target (StackOverflow) given that FogCreek is well-known for having extreme patience, especially as it relates to commercialization. Finally, he leaves out the primary business: the StackExchange software being offered to customers to create other verticals.
There's quite a szene growing in Munich right now. Two javascript user groups came up in the last year and Refresh Munich (http://twitter.com/refreshmunich) this year.
Munich, the new Berlin? ;)
> Uploading your address book to an app is different than posting it publicly because people trust Path their their data.

Are you sure about this?

Has every Path user really reviewed Path's data security policies and deemed them satisfactory? Do Path users even have access to that information? And if they did, would most of them be in any position to evaluate it knowledgeably?

Or isn't it more likely that they trust Path because they don't know the full scope of what Path has access to? Blind trust is easier to extend to someone the less information you're trusting them with, after all.
I agree. While I can have empathy for OP's feelings, when he says he's changing the world with upverter, you can't help but think he's being delusional. It's just a site that shares your mechanical drawings.. let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Your own happiness comes first, not some imaginary customers who want to use your product to make themselves more money, or inject themselves with more dopamine... they don't care about your well-being at all.
Apple follows this model too, just on a hardware level, not a software level. All of their products come in different flavors intended to add a little price discrimination to their product lines. E.g. the 5+ different types of macbook pros.
Older, regular MacBook (not Pro or Air). [Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz].
More sites on different topics. Conferences. Books. Training courses. There are a lot of ways to monetize an enthusiastic audience that wants to learn.
I think one of the reasons there are more copycats in Europe, mainly non English speaking Europe, is because of the low number of US startups making their product multi-lingual, marketing or attempting to support those markets.
Wow, awesome read. If this guy consulted on a video game I would never play it. Mowing down Russian civilians in the game MW2 was more than F'd up enough for me.
That's not the same point.

Edit: At least the poster now acknowledges this. Anonymous downvotes? And people claim we're not edging closer to Reddit more and more each day.
The whole point of the PD article was that you trust developers to not do these things because market forces keep them in check. If an app was abusing your privacy, it would be revoked by the marketplace (Apple, Google, BN, or Amazon) and its developer's reputation would be tarnished.

Of course, maintaining a database of sensitive information is rife with risk, and it's completely fair for journalists to point that out. However, Path, Hipster, Instagram, etc. have no intention of leaking your data. An article reminding us to give developers the benefit-of-the-doubt in these cases is not even remotely the same thing as an article defending leaking personal data.

It's therefore disingenuous of the author to suggest that reminding people to be civil in the ways they react to these situations implies that we should all be comfortable publicly posting our personal rolodexes.

Someone else's contact information is not your IP to divulge; however, that doesn't mean we need to start a witch-hunt about it.
It would be interesting to get a report on what actually happened - I've not seen anything official from Linode yet
"What Easter Eggs have you left in code" - gone. "What's your favorite programming cartoon" - gone. "What code would you have on your wedding cake" - gone. "Programmers' last words" - gone. "Most elegant, amusing or strange code one liners" - gone.

And good riddance, I'd say. Interesting - perhaps. Fun - sometimes. Useful - rarely.
I guess it depends on the application, but since we're discussing web app copycats here -- where do you see this monumental time sink?

I'd say l10n and i18n are handled pretty well by pretty much all major web frameworks. Extra work yes, extra testing yes, but unless you've built your app in some insanely obscure way, I can't imagine how localizing it would be more costly than acquiring a copycat competitor, 6 months later?

I believe the obstacles must be more political and operational, not technical.
That's the time frame I had in mind too. I'll wait until tomorrow to see how many people are interested and then we can make plans about location and other details.
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So, since every single application in your computer can access all of the same data and do whatever they please, has had that ability since forever and we see that as an advantage (see problems with adding sandboxing on the Mac), why are we so concerned about it on our phones and completely ignore the issues otherwise?

The only reason I could come up with is that on the phone we have apps that actually use that data, social networks of various fashions, while on our computers we mostly use apps to do stuff and social networks stay in the browser.

Should we be asking OS vendors to add those checks to our computers too?
Summary: how to ruin a great idea with bad software and a bad business model. Who wants a digital camera that can only work with one company's website, and then only if you have a Mac?
EC2 is now PCI DSS 2.0 compliant which is probably why: http://aws.amazon.com/security/pci-dss-level-1-compliance-fa...
Never mind us. Why should Intel trust Intel? Like any good computing company, I would imagine they are mostly self-hosting. The chips they built last year are the chips they use to run simulations and design the chips they put out next year. Backdoors can be exploited by any employee who knows about them, and it would be extraordinarily damaging for Intel to allow backdoors into hardware they depend on.

Even if they built in some sort of a kill-switch, how could anyone confidently say that a rogue engineer involved in the design couldn't bypass it and use the chip against Intel. Ultimately, I think there's so much danger that I have to assume Intel is competent enough not to do something so foolish as introduce deliberate backdoors.
The article referenced an app accessing the clipboard (x) and your challenge involved uploading all of one's contact information and pictures (y).
It's great to see this kind of innovation in controller development and I'm very excited to see the way in which these controllers evolve. Having said that, I think touchscreen based controllers are bound to bring disappointment. Most serious games require the player to maintain a fine balance on the controls and tactile feedback is a huge feedback factor to the gamer. Touchscreen based controllers cannot provide this tactile feedback.

Another factor is that when I hold a button and stick controller, I dont have to look at the joystick, I can give my full attention to the game. Again with touchscreen based controllers I have to keep looking at the controller to make sure I'm pressing the right button, and the split second I spend look at the controller could get me killed. it will be interesting to see how these problems are worked around.
Have you tried my app readmill to read books and share notes? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/readmill/id438032664?mt=8
> Linode will send you a confirmation email if you access the admin panel from a "new" IP. This guy must have had his email address compromised as well.

The attack was not via the consumer facing admin panel. It was the internal Linode customer service interface.
I didn't read all the disclosure documents on my mortgage, but I bought the house anyway.

I'm not saying Path is right for what they did, but neither do I think it's the same as publishing everything where identity thieves can get at it. Such black & white thinking is of little use in creating policy.
If they want to make a video game depict war...

Have a bad guy escape through some civilians, you shoot after him. Then after coming closer find a parent/child dead with another child screaming over his/her family's body.

That would be a scene that makes people remember what war really is. But war games are not about war. They are about shooting things and feeling justified about it.
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How about macbook air? You can run vim on it.

1.35kg, 7 hrs (using wireless web).

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html
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Downloaded, will try it out later today. Thanks!
There are hundreds of thousands of apps. Not all of them have reps that can be tarnished.
Nice work guys. I already control my TV via my iPhone, no reason why shouldn't be able to do the same with games. Love it.
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Can you update your profile with your email address? I have a name suggestion for you. It's short,easy to pronounce( .com is available) and I think it would be good fit for your app. I would be glad to help (you can find email in my profile).

And also, you want to pick the best possible name for your app so I am not sure the voting system is a good choice if you have for example name with 10 and name with 7 votes from random users (that is not enough if you have just votes and don't have any other feedback).
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What's your budget? What size do you want? Which country are you going to buy it in?
You're better off using a manifest file, which is part of the HTML5 spec. Not everything needs to be done in JavaScript =)
Shipping syslog offsite is a good step, too.
> Frankly, do people even say that with a straight face outside of comparison with Microsoft?

This week we saw a story in which YouTube (a Google subsidiary) took away a guy's ad revenue because they claimed that someone else had the copyright on random birdsong.
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/27/rumblefish-claims-to-own-co...

Do people still say "google aren't evil" with a straight face inside of comparison with Microsoft these days? I'm curious what Microsoft has done that compares in, say, the last year.

It's not 1999 any more - the biggest company in the world is is Apple ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/09/apple-pips-ex... ) , Oracle owns Java and bundles crapware browser toolbars with the download, and Facebook and Google, not Microsoft, are totally dominant in their markets despite Microsoft's efforts. And if you're looking for a company with really crappy practices, there's always Paypal/ebay http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/03/from-the-mailbag-27/
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Errr, where's the oops?

Sounds like the big company really didn't want to buy and that was the definitive end of the startup, but after the threat of the lawsuit either someone got paid 8 figures presumably to avoid the lawsuit or the big company reneged on the payment, at which point no one is any worse off.
Germany has a limit at 42% or 45% if you qualify as "rich".
Man, when we agree, we agree VIOLENTLY!
Yes, I think it is quite a clear statement. Uploading to an app is not the same as posting it publicly.

Other points that you are mentioning have more to do with user's willingness to take privacy seriously. Most don't take it seriously because a) it's tedious and time-consuming b) they probably don't understand it c) it is easier to trust the company like everyone else and get onto using the app and 4) ... as long as it does not include criminal, financial, health or their telephone records, everything is pretty much a go go for a user.

Users don't care about their privacy unless it has elements of the 4 categories stated above. Users hate hassle and they have pretty much resigned from the fight for privacy mainly because they have found that the benefit of sharing things with others outweighs the willingness to be clear of a trouble that rarely every shows up in their conscience anyway .... think about it ... when was the last time a major security breach occurred that compromised so many millions and devastated so many thousands that it has left a blip or a bad mark on users conscience.

We maybe very techi ... but average users are far more occupied with other concerns. So blind trust plays a strong role for them.
People are much less careful with what they download and install on their iPads and iPhones because of Apple's assurance that the apps are safe.