skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I give you an irrevocable right to use my summer home and then I sell it to someone else, I must disclose to the new buyer the fact you have the right I gave you. The rights granted by the GPLv2 are similarly irrevocable - when Oracle acquired Sun and MySQL, our ability to continue forking and redistributing the GPL-licensed code was never in question.

Quite relevant, BTW, is that Oracle continued to distribute MySQL's code under the GPL, and so Oracle also granted use of every patent that covers the code they acquired. Since the grant extends to derived versions (or it wouldn't be possible to license them similarly), it also covers forks released under GPL.

GPL is, perhaps, Stallman's most brilliant hack.
Please read my answer again, and you will find differences between Microsoft's and Apple's approach to security that answer your question.
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1st: Congrats on shipping :)

2nd: Works as advertised! Merging git commits from my machine and editing online (Mercury editor, right?) works fine, see both changes live instantly.
Process is really streamlined.

But it's kinda slow, partly I figured that's because you're on HN. But the major advantage of it being statically 'deployed' is that it would be fast. Isn't it deployed on something like S3/Cloudfront?
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This is an astroturf campaign by EA.

Discussion of its debunking here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/s2anx/make_sure_ever...
Then again, some kinds of games cannot really be played alone. Multiplayer shooters for instance.
One good reason not to is that a 100/1 PE ratio is very high if your assuming $1b profit and a $100b cap. In comparison Google has a P/E of 20, and Microsoft 11.

Those reasons you have given are basically a gamble on the assumptions that:

- Facebook can earn a lot more money (5x - 20x more)

- Facebook hasn't done it yet because they haven't figured it out

- They will figure it out within 3 years (your exit window)

It does seem like an overly simplified argument. I don't think monetising Facebook to the levels you think possible in a 3 year window is as easy as people think, and it might not actually be possible.

You're also ignoring the possibility that this gamble isn't already priced into the stock.
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I know it's hard to keep up with peculiarities of every language. But thetaboard sounds like "tit board" in portuguese. Probably not a big problem, but probably doesn't help much either.
Thanks, I keep doing that with GCD and calling the "First Responder" First Listener. I am glad they ported it to iOS. It really helps to be able to use the same programming structure on both platforms.

I still think one of the agent oriented programming variants might not be a bad way to build parallel programs.
Why the browser? In my experience, editing text in a browser is pretty horrible. It doesn't matter for banging out HN comments or emails, but for code, I don't think I could put up with it. It's bad enough having to use the text editors in Eclipse and IntelliJ; regressing all the way to browser text boxes would be a tragedy.

Is it for the sake of having persistent server sessions that don't go away when you close your client? That could easily be done, and has been done, without resorting to using a web browser. I admit that Emacs with Slime is not a paragon of simplicity and reliability, but I suspect it would be easier to recreate the convenience and polish of a web UI in an independent client (possibly based on a hacked version of Chrome or Firefox, if you really, really like your browser) than it would be to turn a text box into a decent code editor.
Also strongly recommended: read the SENS Foundation 2011 annual and research reports, which outline for the layperson (while giving details for the scientist) exactly what biotechnologies the Foundation and its allies are working on, where present progress stands, and how mature versions of these technologies can be used to reverse aging.

http://sens.org/files/pdf/SENS_Foundation_Annual_Report_2011...

"We are delighted that SENS Foundation was able to make expenditures of $1,518,000 in 2011. This was an increase of over $400,000 from 2010, overwhelmingly in support of direct research and conference projects. ... We greatly appreciate the support of the many individuals who contributed to our mission. We would like to thank Peter Thiel, Jason Hope, the Methuselah Foundation, and all of our contributors and volunteers for their on-going generosity. We expect a significant increase in both revenues and expenses for 2012, as we begin to see distributions from a de Grey family trust, under a grant from SENSF-UK. This support will be in addition to the contributions we receive from other sources."

http://sens.org/files/pdf/2011_Research_Report.pdf

"The elasticity of the artery wall, the flexibility of the lens of the eye, and the high tensile strength of the ligaments are examples of tissues that rely on maintaining their proper structure. But chemical reactions with other molecules in the extracellular space occasionally result in a chemical bond (a so-called crosslink) between two nearby proteins that were previously free-moving, impairing their ability to slide across or along each other and thereby impairing function. It is the goal of this project to identify chemicals that can react with these crosslinks and break them without reacting with anything that we don't want to break.

"In 2011, we established a Center of Excellence for GlycoSENS and other rejuvenation research at Cambridge University and hired postdoctoral student Rhian Grainger to design and perform experiments to develop reagents that can detect proteins bearing glucosepane crosslinks, facilitating further studies on its structure, abundance, and cleavage by small molecules. We also established a collaboration with researchers at Yale University, who will lend their expertise in generating advanced glycation end-products and lead efforts in developing agents which may be able to cleave glucosepane."
I have one question: Does a "save" in the online wysiwyg editor trigger a commit+push in the Git repo upstream ?
How are you going to address the problem of a bunch of men signing up for your app but almost no women?
RIM cutting sideloaded support for PlayBook to avoid Android piracy 'cesspool'
Exactly. What is an interviewer expecting when (s)he asks this question? Does (s)he wants us to be dead honest and tell me I'm not good for the job, or is it to create psychological stress and see how the candidate handles it ... or is (s)he throwing in a cliche to easily spot a candidate with mugged up answers?

I spent last month appearing for a number of intern interviews ... nobody asked me this question. But if asked, the response on top of my head would be "I still don't use my text editor like a true hacker. There are so many more that if I gave you the list, there won't be a reason to proceed with this interview anymore."

A bit OT:
I particularly struggled with questions when I was asked to rate myself on a language. Though I regularly use 3/4 languages, I see folks on "Show HN:" posts who use those languages like BOSS. Among my immediate (real life)peers, I probably know a few tricks/languages more than some of them. Next time I'm planning to ask the interviewer to give me a base, as this rating should definitely be a relative one.
One interesting sidenote in this story is the fact that Mac OSX now has enough market share that it no longer enjoys security-by-obscurity from targeted malware, let alone herd immunity.
Not quite. If this were a discussion about A/B testing, we'd be ridiculing anybody who said "I made $8.60 more with my new design."
No, because the value added by labourers to an iPhone is less than 100%. Much of the rest of the value added are from other countries.

But you do provoke a point - Would Chinese workers be making the iPhone if the yuan rose by 100%? There's a good chance they might not be. Yet, if the rise of the yuan was not a result of intervention by governments, it would mean that the yuan rose because there is high demand for China's exports - As long as China's exports remain in high demand there will be further growth in its exports industry, making sure there will be enough work for China's workers.
from my 10 minute experience with the product: yes.
Technically I like it at lot, I'm looking to build a similar thing but I'm still in the conceptual phase.

I think you should define better your target market to be able to seduce them better, maybe move the 'Try it out' to the top of the screen and talk about some use cases of your target market. I'm just trying to help, I'm sure you know better of your business than me.
It seems to me that you're referring to a) other data outside of the scope of this example and b) the fact that Whisper uses average data for rollups. This is a valid issue and one of the reasons for the new Ceres format.

The metrics I demonstrate in the article do not rollup. If they did I'd completely lose the data. That's why I keep them at 1-sec resolution for their lifetime (generally 1 year). In hindsight it seems your original comment was a general critique of one aspect of Graphite and outside the scope of this particular article.
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Oh, and all users are real too (feel free to PAIR with them).
Absolutely false. Specifically it's about a homosexual relationship in Mass Effect 3, which is an obvious lie considering the first two games also had homosexual relationships.

They're just trying to counteract being named the worst company in America by The Consumerist: http://consumerist.com/2012/04/congratulations-ea-you-are-th...
> A few things I listed because they're weird, not outright wrong, and I stand by those.

But a few things are weird to you but not some objective view of weird. Many of your points I didn't comment on are not unique to PHP at all (such as octal numbers)

> For the most part you've defended PHP's behavior as design decisions or offered workarounds.

You could say that unifying PHP error codes and exceptions is a "workaround" but the language provides specific support for it (The ErrorException class) so it's pretty much a standard pattern. The end developer has the choice of development style.

> PHP doesn't need a module system? What?

I have projects with thousands of files -- as someone else said, Namespaces and Autoloaders covers this.
I haven't yet seen an article that I feel really shows how much is riding on these missions. This first interaction between private and public space agencies represents passing the torch to the next chapter of space exploration. If either of these guys drop the torch (i.e. smash into the ISS), it's going to be a serious setback for privatization, and without funding for a public alternative we will probably end up watching China or Russia take the lead as the dominant space-faring country.
I noticed that hamlet.rb is based on slim. Why not use slim directly?
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This isn't something that I can provide statistics for, but it seems to me that most news stories take the heavily American-centric angle on the topic. The New Yorker article provides valuable perspective. Of course I support slow and steady pressure on the American corporations involved, but paternalism should be avoided.
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Slightly off topic... Is there a website to find out about the hackathon happening near my area?
I recently made a university CS club website [http://csclubsjsu.com/] using the Jekyll+Github stack. It wasn't using any platform in particular, just a Jekyll project automatically deployed to our server from a Github project using post-commit hooks.

The entire thing took almost no time at all and I've received a lot of positive feedback about being able to edit most pages 'live'.
The notion of so-called uploading is an interesting one. From a philosophical and practical point of view, I think it's actually pretty simple. If you uploaded my brain into a robot and we both woke up, he'd say he was the real me and I'd say I was the real me. An outside observer could not tell the difference--it would be theoretically impossible to. If you killed one of us, one of use would feel like he died, the other wouldn't. Both of us would feel like we'd lived an entire lifetime before this moment because we'd share the same memories. This is the farthest one can ever dig into this problem. An ego is a side-effect of a functioning mind, it's not something with a unique physical location or material continuity. I think it's highly unsatisfying from our ego's perspective to think of uploading like this, but our ego also wasn't designed to think of itself in these terms any more than it was designed to visualize 4+ physical dimensions.
But actually, then you're back to the deployment model that ruby apps used before switching to dedicated app servers and everybody said "oh, that's sooo complicated."
Cool. Really impressed!
[The Florida Family Association] says there are no gay characters in the
Star Wars films and describes the inclusion of LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) elements as
"propaganda".

How can anyone possibly make the argument that allowing free choice of romantic partner in an RPG is "propaganda"? It seems very strange to me.
Yep! That's a main feature of Spinto. Content editors are brought into the devvy Git workflow.

Thanks for taking a peek!
You couldn't by the NYT as a whole for its market cap. Companies are almost always bought at a premium, as the sellers receive some of the value that is generated by the transaction itself (actually, there is some evidence that the sellers receive all the value generated by the transaction).
When connecting (for the first time) to a mosh server I get the following error message:

/usr/bin/mosh: Did not find mosh server startup message.
<it then disconnects>

Server runs FreeBSD and the client is OS X. Any ideas?
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Breakthroughs in science are a myth - what does happen in reality is that steady research that you and most of the rest of the world weren't paying attention to starts to achieve results.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/07/there-is-no-such-...

"The point I want to make with all of this is that longevity science, work that will lead to biotechnologies capable of human rejuvenation, is no different. It is a process of incremental advances, requiring a large research community for any sort of reliable progress, and in which the nature of forthcoming discoveries are telegraphed by the nature of the work today. If you think that scientific breakthroughs are the way in which the world works, then you might be sitting there expecting significant advances in engineered human longevity to arrive no matter what the state of the present research community. Because some people are working on it, right? And it's just a few scientists and a eureka moment, right? Sadly not. One of the biggest challenges facing us today is that there is no large rejuvenation research community, and if we want to see real progress, that community must come into being - large enough and vigorous enough to match the stem cell research community pace for pace."

The seed of the rejuvenation research community of tomorrow is the SENS Foundation and its allies, advisors, and supporters in the life science community. Much of their work today is not just in producing research progress, but laying the groundwork for the next twenty years of work: the people who build the applied technologies of mitochondrial repair, biomedical remediation of amyloid and AGEs, rejuvenation of the lysosome, and so forth, are in college today. That is why programs like the SENS Foundation Academic Initiative are so important:

http://sens.org/academic-initiative

Check out their student research projects:

http://sens.org/academic-initiative/research-projects
Sure, but the fewer alternatives you have available to you the less control you have over your market rate. Ideally you'd like to be eminently qualified and command a bigco salary at a strong small firm.
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You didn't answer my question. You've offered a vague opinion about appearances.

If you had answered my question you would be able to pick out at least one thing that Microsoft had done that Apple had not.

You said: Microsoft did their job years ago, now Apple has to follow.

This is simply not supported by the facts.
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Just so you know, it's still in your cache or something.
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Are you sure you're not talking about Chrome OS?

Also, what's your proposal for establishing the trustworthiness of code?
Hey, I think you've got a great idea here! Is there an existing tool for this? It should first roughly assess your programming level and interests and then pair you up with another programmer. You should be able to add location-based constraints, too, in case you want to meet with them.
1st: THANKS :-)

The editor is Mercury with a bunch of bugfixes and additions. That is probably the thing I need to focus on most through this beta period. Polishing Mercury or building something else. I'm involved with the project and have talked to Jeremy a bunch.

The static sites feel slow? They are not on cloudfront right now, that was a bit too much premature optimization. They are on Varnish.
whatever a company does wrong is always the leadership's fault
In US Costco's, where i mostly buy non-apple they mostly stock HP, Toshiba and Dell laptops. 6G RAM, duo core I5 is typically $600-700.

Cloudwise EC2 is trending down, Heroku starts free with reasonable limits, and VPS with 500M memory at Linode is $20/mon.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/03/05/new-low...
Right, because no other language is hackable.

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
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Owen, this is clearly a situation in which your insight is more valuable than most other people's. Care to elaborate on the Digg parallels?
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That kind of "we didn't know" will only get you so far in this day and age where 1 second on google will get you a wikipedia page on dr web saying they've been around since 1992.

The world is bigger than firms who are big in america and that kind of american centric thinking also won't go down well on the web.
While I haven't been following it lately, not long ago the NYT was reported to be worth approximately the market value of its real estate holdings (that is, the paper itself was essentially worth nothing).

That may be shocking, but it's happening everywhere -- Newsweek was supposedly sold for $1.00 and the assumption of its debt. I certainly wouldn't be putting any money into print-based media.
Not true until very late in life - post-80s or post-90s - at which point it looks like genetics has a larger impact on survival. See:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/10/historical-inheri...

But whether or not your reach early old age and what shape you are in when you get there is largely determined by lifestyle rather than genes for the vast majority of people. Basically don't get fat, and keep exercising, and that's the 80/20:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/08/can-you-optimize-...
okay thanks! I will take a look and see what I can to do change some of that. What color would you think would be best to go with?
I think "they have" is a bit overstated, unless you just mean they've shown improvement in the last few years. Things like functional ASLR and more use of seatbelt in Lion are definitely headed in the right direction; however, there seem to major gaps in testing and validating security--even basic stuff like continuous fuzzing and automated security testing. Also, their response and turnaround time is generally worse than Microsoft's (close to a year has not been uncommon). I can understand Microsoft's slowness due to their massive compatibility matrix and enterprise customer base--but Apple doesn't have that excuse. Apple has also been historically ignored as a mass malware target, so maybe a 500k node botnet is a helpful wakeup call.

And just to be clear, I'll admit that I'm not a disinterested party here. The Chrome security team carries the bulk of the WebKit security workload (fuzzing, auditing, fixing, etc.). That consumes a tremendous amount of my team's time, and prevents us from focusing more on Chrome. So, I'd definitely appreciate it if Apple were significantly more proactive about security.
No, but the more kids who have exposure to an easy-to-get-started language will result in more kids that are actually really into it getting that early start they need.
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Why wouldn't? is there a better alternative to freeze a filesystem and take a AWS snapshot from it?
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Makes good sense to me. 2 degrees closer to the equator than the Kennedy Space Center, and as the article points out, it's closer to their headquarters, there's the option of being able to abort to Florida, and they don't have to contend with other launch schedules.
I'm interested in what you used for live-editing, and whether you think the OP's product would solve any pain for you.
A glass of water can be worth more than the New York Times if Zuckerberg is lost in the desert and you happen to have water. It can be worth even more if Larry Page is dying of thirst at the same time and starts a bidding war.
The problem, I experience, is not that action items are missing. The point is that you must write the name of the responsible person next to each action item. Maybe even her email, so people can nag her. If possible, set deadlines.

However, the problem seems to be an inherently social one. I cannot imagine any etherpad plugin or something to help with this.
"new" is more minimal than "createNew" so I think it would be technically more minimal to use "new". Just sayin'.
I love the idea. Suggestion: filling out the personal profile section should be a requirement. Also, a couple of leading questions, OKCupid style, wouldn't be a bad way to get people to describe themselves a little better. Something like:
"I'm probably going to take pictures of..."
There is still much to do on the marketing site, you bet! Email me if you want to talk more about the idea and market: matt@spintoapp.com Talking is always a plus.
It is almost definitely a joke - she has been mercilessly ripped on UK tv for exactly that article, so I would surmise that the choice of placeholder was because of that.

[edit] Specifically on Channel 4's "10 O'Clock Live" - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/4od

I don't know if that link will work for people outside the UK though.
Also, I get the feeling the few women who appear signed up are not real. True/false?
Google profits off ads in apps and app sales. If anything it increases their ad market which is good for them.
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Yeah, obviously Jekyll+Github is part of the inspiration here. I love GitHub. I think they are one of the most creative and fantastic companies I have ever seen. GitHub just isn't very layperson friendly though, and I don't see them going there.
Clang and GCC both have limited support for C11 currently, which can be enabled by compiling with -std=c11.
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Is it ever okay to use a domain hack?
In some ways I wonder if Facebook is viewing these acquisitions more as money spent in a defensive "moat" a la Google.
I don't understand what the difference is between having java default-installed and installing java on demand. Both methods run a jar when it shows up, right?
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