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> I do not have an attorney’s license, or even a law degree,

And therein lies the trouble with the analysis. It is factual, but performed from a perspective of an engineer. An engineer not looking for loopholes and not looking for how to stretch the meaning of the broad wording to attach it to something else entirely.

Attorneys are paid to find the loopholes, and to stretch the meaning of the statutes to fit the desires of their clients. Broad sweeping definitions just make it infinitely easier to stretch the bill's language to make it apply to unrelated areas.

If the bill was honestly and truly meant to be what it purports, then the language would be nice and tight, with no wiggle room to stretch it to fit something else.

For example, here's passage (B)(1)(i) of the bill:

> `(i) use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the rights and property of such protected entity; and

The bill does not define "cybersecurity systems" - leaving this term open to be just about anything. Nor does the bill define "cyber threat information" - leaving this term open to be just about anything. So long as they are "protect[ing] the rights and property" of a protected entity.

So, with this broad language, a deep-level packet inspection system sniffing every ISP's users data streams looking for purported copyright infringement would be perfectly legal, because it would be a "cybersecurity system" protecting against "cyber threats" in order to "protect the rights and property" of a "protected entity". Where "rights" is the copyright and the protected entity is a MPAA/RIAA member, and the "cyber threat" is that of supposed lost profits from supposed copyright infringement.

That's the trouble with broadly worded bills. They allow attorneys to stretch them to fit something they were never intended. Read up on "unintended consequences": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences.
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I still have my Atari 400 (pre-Tramiel) and my 130XE (Tramiel era). We were pretty poor financially as a family when I got them. Without cheap, programmable machines like the Commodores and the Ataris, I doubt I would have been a programmer. I cannot imagine what I would have used these days in the sub $200 market.
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Maybe b/c pando is a total bust and he doesn't need to be a part of it. Even the site design makes it hard to read. I figure if there's something ever good on there I can read it here.
Can someone explain these parts of the ToS to me:

4. User Content.
You give Everyme permission to reproduce and use your
User Content as follows: you grant to Everyme and its
Affiliates a license to reproduce, distribute, display,
perform, and otherwise use your User Content solely in
connection with providing the Site and Services.

(...) Finally, our license is perpetual, meaning that
our license lasts for an indefinite period of time.
In general, however (...)

Who are the Affiliates, and what are the legal implications of a so-called perpetual, indefinite license?

https://github.com/everyme/everyme-legal/blame/master/terms_...
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Yes, I do feel that JavaScript could be a very possible way towards achieving those goals :)
He sounds like's he's described VBA
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Those figures are from 2011 though. I assume they would have gotten diluted from the final round last week.
The article was a linkbait which rehashes tired old arguments.

But I do agree on the XML. It is just too hard for beginners to grok how to process XML in haskell.
You are depreciating their work in a way that is not that of a real gentleman. Maybe you are also working on a startup and would like to make it to where Instagram guys are? Me too, you know.

And for their tech stack what its impressing is that they chose very wisely IMO: if I had to build from scratch any Web or mobile app I wouldn't do differently (Python n PostgreSQL, etc)
Awesome! I've been using Firebase for a while now and this further proves that it has so much potential! Every day I see more and more apps being built on it.
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My teammember's remark when I mentioned this made front page: "Still reindexing."
As long as Firefox's code heritage can be traced back to code released by Netscape under GPL (or Apache), Firefox will be fine.

Regardless the license, aren't they still vulnerable to claims of patent violation?
With all the patent lawsuits flying around among the big tech companies, stockpiling patents seems like a prudent strategy from a corporate risk POV. I have no idea which patents are included in the list, nor do I know what MSFT would do with them. Just generally speaking.
Writing a shell script after some trial+error+googling sounds pretty casual to me.
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Does hexpat work on Windows?

I am asking since it is linking to expat dynamic library..
Seriously; why does anyone care about this attention-seeking assclown?
I've been doing some real-time audio programming lately, which requires the same techniques. You can't take a lock or even malloc in this kind of code, so you're forced to implement things like lock-free ring buffers to communicate with the rest of the world. In my experience this is 10x harder than conventional lock-based parallelism and, unfortunately, I don't see any FP lang coming to the rescue in this domain any time soon.
We discussed this in communication theory during my sophmore year in college. American and Europe are becoming individualistic culture compared to the collectivist culture most of the world lives in. As much as we want to believe people should just get some courage and walk up to someone to have a conversation this is not how people interact. We rely on getting introductions in order to make social connections with new people. The more you live along the worst this become as you become self obsessed, and your social skills to connect with other begin to deteriorate.
I'm sold, it's a mix of Path/Pair and I like the design of the app. However the problem is that I would need to convince my friends to use the App as well. I hope this takes off, I really do the Everyme team did a great job and I wish them the best!
Remembering Jack Tramiel, the anti-Steve Jobs.
This was discussed at length here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451145
No, it's just what they choose to write about. They get tips every day that go ignored, and then there is another post about how much they hate their employer. If they wanted to report on real news they could.
What's offered here that MeetingBurner doesn't have?
It seems standard, searching for those phrases return results from a gazillion other sites/products' ToS...
Google can sue Bing to the ground, it's a cold war anyway. They will never go directly against each other. There are just proxy wars.

Maybe they did it for the same reason Google bought Motorola, to prevent a havoc AOL.
It sounds more like you just want the machine to read your mind.

edit: not saying that's a bad thing, IBM says 5 years to go http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/ibm-mind-reading/
SSL, cookies + Javascript are/were Netscape patents.

Better article about it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape...

SSL
http://news.cnet.com/Netscape-patents-crypto-protocol/2100-1...

cookies
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...

Javascript
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/255293/-z_programmin...
Won't work for ncurses programs, but rlwrap ssh should help in most cases.
Oh yeah, the Sagan thing. I was thinking more about the Voyager picture.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but Sagan requested that Voyager turn and take the picture as it exited the solar system, which is the reason we have it. I'd say his 1994 book and the original photo are pretty well intertwined.

His conclusion went a step further than yours: since we're insignificant, we must take care of each other and the planet, because we're all we have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections_by_Sa...

Whereas stopping with just "we're insignificant, so who cares" is apathy, the most destructive force.
Everything? AFAIK, MeetingBurner is for webinars/desktop sharing; this is a videoconferencing app, which MeetingBurner doesn't support.
here in ireland most schools and libraries has an apple ii. but they were expensive fragile things that nobody understood or touched. when the c64 came out our school got 6 linked to one floppy drive. we went nuts over them. but when it came to a my first computer i went with a zx spectrum as most of my friends had one as it was slightly cheaper.

in my class of 24 or so. 3-4 spectrums, 1-2 c64s and 1 amstrad (poor sod, great computer, few users so few software swaps available)
He's being a bit flippant but his point is correct. You don't spend a billion dollars just to get three engineers, no matter how clever they are.
I can't imagine MS losing any goodwill they have gained in the past few years by attacking Firefox. Then we're talking about anti-trust all over again.

Chrome is another story, Motorola wants to ban Windows, XBox and other sales all over EU.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57407991-17/microsoft-ends...
"on a typical $1,000 laptop, Microsoft must pay Motorola $22.50 in royalties for 50 patents related to H.264. In order to get full H.264 functionality, Microsoft must also license 2,300 other patents from 29 different companies. The company pays 2 cents for each $1,000 laptop to use those patents."

They even refused the bond MS was willing to post while the matter in on appeal. Looks like MS bought specially designed nukes to use against a particular and well-armed adversary.
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I was very surprised at the use of OCB and not one of the other more widely-used authenticated encryption modes like EAX or GCM.
I pretty much couldn't seriously get into Dreamweaver or Frontpage because of the stigma attached.. I would never be able to admit that I used them.

But some people definitely use Frontpage and Dreamweaver.. you are saying they just don't work?
Congrats on the launch!

Landing page image scaling doesn't handle tall windows very well:

https://skitch.com/keeran/8t355/everyme
It's not that I'm assuming that they're up to no good, I just don't like registering for a site I barely have any good description and introduction for - especially since Apple probably haven't patched the whole address book thing yet.
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Your complaint is vacuous at best and trolling at worst. You give no indication of what kind of errors you encountered, and it doesn't seem like you really looked into the problems you did have.

There are some very valid criticisms of CoffeeScript, but you've raised none of those nor brought new ones.
it's just a start for version 1, day 1, but point taken - happy to place better pics so email us your screenshots at team at meetings.io and we'll put up the best ones :-)
Upvotes for you, sir!
Won't be either, watch for Moto and every other device manufacturer (save Apple who has a cross licensing agreement) that ships a browser on a phone to have to pay $22.50 to MSFT.
VBA was a very nice step towards the goals I've described!
"We have nothing more to say about the move"

Not publicly, anyway. Which I commend. If it was anything but amicable, there's plenty other people willing to sling mud on that guy for them.
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> In fact the most popular language for parallel and distributed programming is Erlang — a functional language.

Erlang achieves its parallelism not through immutability (though it has that) but through a shared-nothing architecture, like smalltalk. You can implement shared-nothing concurrency imperatively. It circumvents the problem of two threads accessing the same memory location by restricting access to only one thread. Of course, then there's the problem when you do need to share data between threads - Erlang does this with STM (software transactional memory - like a DB).
good idea - on it
I think you're forgetting to divide by the number of pictures you took with the camera/lens combo.
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Memilih dari salah satu dari beberapa efek dengan penyaringan yang cantik untuk menghidupkan kehidupan baru ke dalam foto ke ponsel Anda.
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This is a song that was popular in 1999. It's light-hearted at times, but I wouldn't call it a joke.

Find the original article here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...

There's a lot of good advice, but I can't recommend this enough:

> Stretch.

Programming and using computers is both sedentary and physically taxing. You accumulate stress in muscles. Office culture often ignores the needs of body.

Shrug your shoulders as high as they'll go, then slowly lower them for 15 seconds. Release your neck. Feel your back extend, and the energy move through your arms. Don't let the constrained use of a keyboard dominate these neuromuscular pathways. Take breaks, and find gentle stretches that feel good. Stress in the body can be just as detrimental to thought as a preconceived notion in your mind.
I've never heard that acronym either; I thought it was called SCADA.
Lisp people don't remember the various functions or their arguments, they use SLIME which autocompletes and allows for looking up in the hyperspec.
The languages are mostly fine (until some next-gen language surprises us all); I think the current problems lie generally within tooling and infrastructure, which in turn come from our mentality and the existing workflow that we're used to.

That said, I enjoyed reading your very insightful post :)
>As long as Firefox's code heritage can be traced back to code released by Netscape under GPL (or Apache), Firefox will be fine.

Does the GPL contain a patent grant and/or indemnification clause? I think only the GPL v3 does which wasn't around then.
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F# 3.0?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh156509(v=vs.110).a...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236081

Think of it as security through irregularity instead of security through obscurity. You are not making your box secure by changing the ssh port, but you are decreasing the number of automated attempts that will hit your ssh port, which could, in theory, reduce your security risk.
No kidding. Too bad they don't have good documentation on server installation (just client)
Like anything else, things worth doing well take time to learn.

There are great tutorials out there to teach you the very basics of programming in a few hours. There are also great tutorials out there that teach you to play a basic song on the guitar in a few hours.

After that, its up to you. If it were easy, everyone would do it. I've been programming for close two two decades, and I still feel like I'm scratching the surface of programming. As various iterations of the saying go: The more I learn about programming, the more amazed I am that computers even boot up and function.
Awesome! I'm getting straight onto Google Play to download the...

...oh.
This doesn't seem to surprising to me. A lot of these systems had ad-hoc build systems such that probably nobody can build from source-code (and that's for the shops that were actually using some form of source-control).
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Very timely post as thousands of entrepreneurs silently envy Instagram's huge acquisition.
In C++11 "type const &name" can be simply replaced with "type name", no performance penalty involved.
I thought that was the real story here.
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Some licenses explicitly state that contributors license relevant software patents that they control. Whether GPL 2.1 includes a patent grant is unclear, but the Mozilla Public License certainly does.
Agreed. Also a pretty topical rebuttal to the other flood of articles claiming they were bought purely for the users - widely reported as being valued at $37 each, a number arrived at by assuming there's absolutely nothing else of value in the transaction.

Given the "prices" Google are rumored to be paying to acquire great engineering staff, a team of three engineers who've got a proven track record of building and supporting 100million users on their own - surely they'd be worth some not-down-in-the-noise-floor percentage of even the seemingly insane valuation here?

And a founding team who've "created" $1billion in value in ~550 days? Even if you only credit them with last weeks $500mil rumors - surely that founding team would be worth several tens of million dollars even if you didn't get the company they founded?
I live in Michigan. It was bizarre. Pushing 80-85 even before the official start of spring. At a time of year 20 degrees and a foot of snow just elicits shrugs and mumbled cursing. For you SV hackers, imagine how freaky it would be to be greeted with a foot of snow on the ground some August morning.

Now that everything bloomed 6-8 weeks early, I worry a bit for our farmers who might get clobbered with a fairly typical May cold snap.
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Footnote: I don't really take issue with this being an iPhone exclusive for now. Getting to market is the most important thing, and I commend the team for making sure they got the app and the experience right in one environment, rather than trying to attack them all at once.
setting the room to "private" mode will stop people from just droppin in
Complexity comes from languages that arise in isolation. Basically, the fewer people speak a language, the less chance its natural complexity will degrade. Invasions and other interlinguistic contact create simplifications, most visibly pidgins and creoles. Check out Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by Ian McWhorter, which shows how English underwent this very process. What we speak today is a hilarious pidgin of Old English and Norman French, which are themselves mashups.

I wonder what will win: practically no new natural languages are being created, so simplification is running amok, but invasions are now rare, and we use computers almost exclusively in our own native tongues. Maybe we end up suffering global economic collapse and reverting to the natural language wars.
okay, when would you need to purchase a 0day vulnerability from someone else to exploit thousands of other systems as part of legitimate system engineering?
Back in the sands of time when Netscape begat Mozilla Foundation and released their source, they did so under the MPL, a license specifically written to grant patent rights where required to operate the software. I'm not sure how to interpret that, but I suspect Firefox would fare better in any war than Chrome or Safari.
My first computer was a C64 also. It cost A$699, plus $99 for the tape drive. In 1982 money. My father's salary was about $40,000 per year then. Can't think of money better spent.
Thanks for the clarifications. And the work :-)
DCA is an unfortunate example of the pattern where people look for a radical cure covered up by conspiracy when infact it is little more than a mildly interesting drug with little evidence supporting its use.

So far as the conspiracy theory goes, to quote the same Wikipedia article:

The use of this compound as an anti-cancer agent has been patented.
> Edit: and only on safari, chrome works fine.

Chrome uses its own, internal version of Flash and not the "system" Flash.
It's a red herring to bring up the static vs dynamic typing issue, because both can readily support interactive autocompletion & documentation.

Even something as Spartan as the Javascript REPL in Chrome will do autocompletion of method names, despite being in a completely dynamically typed environment.
Yep it's easy not to have any lag when there are no actual connections to other users.

All that is running locally in your browser.
Well I hope he has real faith in the company and the product, rather than it being a case of "OK, guys you've had a couple of months to play around with this idea, now let me acquire you for pocket change, and get your devs working on Path, the _real_ winner."
This is actually not really about whether it makes sense, but about timelines. We expect some of this to eventually make it to upstream MySQL, but likely in a version newer than we need it in (5.6 instead of 5.5) and not for something like a year.
He should just put a 'all commercial rights reserved' tag on it - no need to cop an attitude.
Ugh, RTFM. I skimmed the no signups, no downloads, and basic meeting details, and it all felt strangely familiar.

I like that you noted it's a videoconferencing app. Meetings.io is a good name, but it doesn't really imply video conferencing to me. That's a pretty nit-picky (and subjective) concern though, and I'll likely give it a try.
I am willing to bet the $50M raised is all the cash the founders pocketed, FB gave stocks to investors and the team.
it is completely p2p - takes very little server work to keep up the conference.
There are stories around of Google spending 5mil or more to acquire (or in some cases, keep) great engineers.

I wonder what the real "market value" for a proven team of 3 great engineers who were the technical base that allowed a company to grow from nothing to $1billion in under 2 years?

It wouldn't surprise me to find those three guys as a team offered 20 or more million if the right company thought they were on the market.

Lars Rasmussen made out like a bandit when he went to FB a few years back, and that was after the "failure" (at least relative to Instagram) of Wave, and before the current "bubble" as well.
I've attended rationality sessions organized by the people behind the Center for Modern Rationality, and they do teach about how to find hidden assumptions, and judging quality of information.
I can't think of anything more casual than a shell script. Once you grok the syntax of the shell's control structures it becomes pretty easy to rig up just about any behavior one can imagine. I suppose some might consider the command line excluded from the category of casual by default but most of those people would be surprised at how insanely simple the command line actually is.
And F# is not the only statically typed language with a (built-in or out of the box) REPL: ML, Haskell, OCaml, and Scala all have REPLs.

Some of these predate Java and C#, but I don't know what it is about those languages and the cultures around them that has ignored the value of a REPL. I guess part of it is just inertia at this point, but it's definitely one of the biggest things I miss when working in Java on Android.
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$1 billion for something literally no one uses.

Web bubble 2.0 can't burst soon enough.
You should consider a Reddit AMA