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Dear "forgotusername". David Sanger is a Pulitzer prize winning reporter and Chief White House correspondent for the NY Times where he has been for a spectacular 30 year career. He worked with the US administration to determine what data in that article was safe to publish and what would compromise ongoing ops.
While the book isn't under a permissive license (afaik), I have to wonder if the authors would accept putting it under a Creative Commons license so that we could put it on a Github repo, publicly patch and maintain it?

I agree that the book still does have value, but the current state of its code can be frustrating if someone is just learning.
It wouldn't be in the lease, it's not for the tenant. Landlords will carry liability insurance for their units in case a tenant or their guest is injured, etc and decides to sue the landlord. Those liability policies often have limitations on who they'll cover, how the unit can be used, etc.

I'm guessing the insurance companies find a way to avoid covering you if you let a tenant sublet their apartment hotel-style... if for no other reason than I'd bet policies for hotels are more expensive than residences. (And hotels have to have better fire protection, etc.)
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I remember the gist of the critique being that the K&R book was perfect for the assumptions of its era, but can mislead people who aren't experienced enough to apply its lessons to the modern networked world
Real attackers don't use the same IP. They have access to millions.
Linkbait titles combined with the lack of ability to downvote stories. Even though I think restricting the downvote is a good idea, it contributes to this problem quite a bit.

And don't even get me started on the lack of ability to vote or comment on YC companies job posting spam (the reason for which I also understand)... I've spoken with a handful of these companies that end up listing multiple times, and even they have expressed interest in votes/comments simply to get feedback as to why their listings don't seem to work.
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>It is interesting that you should bring up SpaceX. If SpaceX used the GPL, there is nothing to say that you would ever get to explore that source code. The only time you would be guaranteed the source is if you have a rocket of your own and are using their control system, which is arguably when this becomes more than just a wonderful curiosity and becomes truly important.

I've been trying to figure out a good way to post this. It's simply a problem with the market that the code is intended for.

On one hand, you have applications like Office-style programs and web browsers. Every single computer user in the world uses those types of applications. So for those applications, the code has tremendous value as Open Source. Lots of people can go in and improve on it.

SpaceX's code, on the other hand, is incredibly specific for it's purpose. It's intended to be used with a specific hardware configuration, with users that have been trained to a high level with it's use. It's less valuable to the public, because the only people that can really make good use of the code are SpaceX engineers. Even the orbital guidance code is not that interesting, because variations of it have existed for the last half century, and it's equations and algorithms that just about any serious amateur astronomer should be aware of.
Do you hate C? Or do you hate the way it is overused in Linux?
There is no evidence to distinguish between "running away screaming" and "eventually deciding not to buy".
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You can't compare AirBnB to an apartment rental, especially in NY where two months down is not uncommon. Seems like it's more appropriate to compare it to a hotel room... in which case $110 a night is a steal.
Why does Airbnb allow renters to list their apartments on Airbnb at all?

What is the incentive for Airbnb to check? Even assuming most listers do have the legal right to do so, checking in a way that isn't easily gamed would be time-consuming and expensive. It's pretty obvious why they don't do that; it would put them out of business.

Was this a rhetorical question meant to make the point "Airbnb is bad"?
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Don't know overall, according to Wikipedia here in Edinburgh there are apparently "several hundred" - which seems quite a lot for a city of less than half a million people. Having said that, Edinburgh does get quite a few visitors (~1 million overseas visitors a year).
No, it's not. Do you really not understand how basic retail economics works? Are you expecting someone to buy high and sell low?

As you yourself proved, if people will pay it, that's what the market rate is. Think it's extortionate? Don't pay it and make other arrangements.
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> "You need psychological help."

This is one of those woefully inadequate responses that comes up pretty much every time I talk about this. I've taken the time to research delusions and hallucinations -- how they present, what sort of secondary issues they are correlated with, and so on -- and the explanation simply doesn't fit. Those I know who've had these experiences are otherwise extremely stable and "together", the sort of people others turn to because they've clearly "got it". The only reason to believe there's a psychological issue is these specific stories, only they don't fit the profile -- because they're so consistently and impressively right. Delusions simply aren't that lucky.
We need people like RMS. He marks one side of the Overton Window framing the debate on freedom and software.

(Overton window: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window )

This doesn't mean he's right but what he does is necessary. If he didn't exist we'd need to invent him (or someone like him).

(Oh, and he is indeed a fanatic, but of the pacifist variety -- not the kind who's interested in killing people to enforce his views -- and therefore worth debating with.)
I agree with RMS on many points, but I think you're misguided:

> I've always used the GPL for licensing my open source code

ITYM "free software"

> specifically because it ensures that it stays open and that improvements are given back.

No, it does not. Any software not being redistributed does not have to publish its improvements. And even if it does publish the improvements, they don't have to be made accessible in any useful way (for example, just a source dump, rather than a version control repo). And even if it is made accessible in some useful way, often the projects don't end up contributing back upstream (Hello Ubuntu!)

> On one occasion I've been persuaded to use another license so that $CORP could use the code (http://gmsl.sf.net/) internally and I see that the non-fanatical position helped $CORP but I'm not sure it helped the greater cause of open source

They still can. You're confused about licensing and what GPL does.

HOWEVER, I do resonate with your concerns. I think the world needs to start making programs which are NOT "free" according to RMS, in that if someone uses the program, and he improves it, he has to give back to the general population. How to execute this properly is another question, but I really want to be able to release code which is a public good, rather than something everyone can take, without ever giving back.
Jeff Atwood has made the same claim and it's his rationale for using OpenID on the StackExchange sites. I don't disagree, but most users won't figure out how to use OpenID. FB login is widely known but it's not at all side-effect free.
Well flame is alot more complex than stuxnet, so it only makes sense it would be better at keeping itself hidden, and for longer.
I went ahead and donated to the FSF after reading this article instead of venting here on HN. You lose, ESR. :)

https://my.fsf.org/donate/
Tips for sharing a git repository.
It does a roll over into views of the PCB then the ports etc but they are being slashdotted by news.y... at the moment so it takes a while to change
besides small form factor, I care about power consumption:

[1] consumes 4 watts when operating at idle power and 13.5 watts at maximum load.

[1] http://apc.io/faq/what-is-the-power-consumption-of-apc/
Making an appeal to authority doesn't change anything. Most people seem to fail to grasp that there is an $8bn industry spanning the globe who thrive on secret software vulnerabilities.

Beyond the presence of these, the only surprising fact surrounding either worm is that Stuxnet targeted Siemens PLCs. If it weren't for that, there is nothing to demonstrate either of these worms weren't written by an entity as relatively benign as an acutely talented, bored teenager.

But ignore reality, pepper dramatic terms like Iran, cyber war, espionage, license to kill around liberally and see what effect it has on your freedom to use your computer in coming years. That may be the only tangible result of all this hot air.

You should also be aware that same industry stands to make the most direct gain from any increase in public perception of information security, and any resulting regulation.
Possibly terribly inefficient but a hot cauldron of awesome! Beside the name "Mactronic" I think the customized activation unit that replaces the paper tape is amazing.
> But I see ESR as a epitome of hyperbole, bad mouthing, hating people because of their belief, faith and their way of life.

Then you haven't stumbled upon kuro5hin I take it?
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Really, there are landlords that don't require leases? That seems very strange to me. I guess that's why there's always new Judge Judy cases...
Bleh, you can get todays news if you buy your local paper. Why do you think you have a right to access the popular paper?
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I will offer a counter-example to tptacek's argument:

For 18 months (till April) I lived at 16 Waverly Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. I never signed a lease. The landlord did not care about a thing, so long as I paid the rent on the time. In that building, sub-letting apartments is common. The landlord is an older Hasidic Jewish gentleman, and his attitude toward renters is fairly common among the Jewish landlords who own a large chunk of the southern Williamsburg neighborhood. In all of these buildings, the tendency is toward laissez faire. This cuts both ways: the landlord lets you do anything, but the landlord rarely fixes anything that you need fixed. For a particular type of person (like me) this seems like a reasonable trade-off. And in such circumstances, it is perfectly reasonable for renters to find sub-letters.
A rental without a lease? That sounds like a friend renting our a spare bedroom to another friend. I would propose that without a lease, it ceases to be a rental, because neither side has any obligation to the other.

Even slumlords require signed leases.
I have a chronic neck issue. I've tried a bunch of high end chairs, and had the best luck with a Steelcase Think. It's very possibly too small for me (I'm 6'1"), but everything else I've tried flairs my neck in bad ways.
Did you get there from a reddit livestream for wwdc? If so, it might be that specific link.
Definitely good for a chuckle. It helps a lot that the photos are very well aimed, really makes it feel magical :)
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Yes shipping, please please someone do this because it will be years before I get to start another startup and I don't want to wait to see this in the world

I've also wanted to see a P2P postal service for quite awhile... could be good place to start with the shipping challenges. There are actually a few companies doing this: postmates.com, shipwire.com
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Just a warning to everyone, like the book this course is in development as I write the book. It's covering a lot of the chapters, but I have to go back and clean up some videos and do the final ones. That's why the price is low for now.
Much of what you say resonates with what I have seen from a different vantage point - old school software dev who has dabbled in data mining. Simple models often work and are preferable - easier to explain. More data and simple models generally provides superior results to small amounts of data and complex models.

It seems like "ensemble" methods - combining the results of several different algorithms - is generally a less-than-rigorous exercise that involves throwing a bunch of different approaches at the problem and averaging the results.

It is good to hear that there is "a growing space for practitioners in this space, that aren't necessarily as strong in the theory." But the term "Data Scientist" seems a bit lofty for folks doing this sort of work.
Robbed blind is to much but the point stands pretty clear. The have to lend that money too, they dont site on the cash.
This is why we'll not be seeing this happen. Instead, they'll probably all agree to print Euros and devalue their currency, thus continuing to subsidize Germany's exports.
An analogy is when the young United States federalised "war debts of the ex-colonies, issued new national bonds backed by direct taxes and minted its own currency. Hamilton’s new financial system helped transform the young republic from a basket-case into an economic powerhouse." [1] The argument is that the short-term costs will be outweighed by long-run benefits; similar logic allowed for the Deutsch reunification.

One doesn't hear much about how Texas and New York are transferring wealth to keep Alabama et al floating because everyone is stronger for being part of the United States (and have an American identity superior to their state identities).

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21547253?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2F...
ARM is a core design, there are no processors made by ARM - they only sell the IP. You can have an Apple ARM or a Samsung ARM or in this case a VIA ARM

This entire machine is made by VIA who also make the CPU. VIA are more famous for making low power x86 clones but that's nothing to do with this.
:-) Yet the Nokia is almost better spec'ed. And the iPhone is superior! Says it all really...
memcpy is just fine because it has a size parameter. I think you mean strcpy(), which does cause defects.
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Ubuntu doesn't contribute to upstream? What do you mean?

The limitations you point out on publishing changes are nits imho. It's far better than nothing, and social pressure has been successfully used in many cases to make sure proper SCM logs are sent.
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Hangouts "On Air" is such a fantastic technology, and content creators are just starting to discover it. It truly is the "killer app" for Google+ as well as YouTube, and I honestly can't wait to see how people end up using it.

I personally didn't think much of it until I started running into various people and groups hosting sessions. For instance, just this past Tuesday, the Transit of Venus was occurring, and a group of professional astronomers[1] hooked up multiple camera feeds from powerful telescopes, and discussed all sorts of topics in science, and took questions from viewers.

It started gaining viewers until one of the casters was pulled off for an interview by the Guardian, and then Natalie Villalobos [2], one of the Google+ Community Managers showed up, and just started chatting with the guys about how the Hangout is going, and how popular it is, as well as her personal interests in astronomy, etc [3].

It was informal, informative, and the first example of compelling usage for the "On Air" feature I have witnessed. I can only imagine many more good things come out.

[1]: http://youtu.be/t79iec2b-3M

[2]: https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705/about

[3]: http://youtu.be/t79iec2b-3M?t=2h34m59s
If true, since we now know who wrote Stuxnet, therefore we now know who wrote Flame.
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I dislike seeing someone's name smeared in a vague way. A bit of googling brought up the essay you mentioned regarding homosexuality, pederasty, and pedophilia:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

(Vagueness, begone!)
I think that in theory people prefer to have one device , but in practice people are quite happy to have a house with lots of computers in it, after all space isn't a premium and it's nice to always have something near to hand.

Even amongst non tech people I know , most of them will have something like 1 Desktop PC , 2 Laptops , 1 Tablet , 2 Games consoles and 2 smartphones laying around the house. They could probably condense these substantially but they don't seem to see any need to.

I wouldn't agree that a requiring a headset would be "besides the point", I think being able to instantly grab your phone and stick it to your ear when you get an important call through is an important use case (after all it is a phone) and one that more than justifies the small extra expense of having a cheap CPU etc inside a laptop case.

Regards Local vs Cloud storage, there is no reason that this couldn't be transparent.
For example , if you go somewhere and login to a public terminal it could detect that your phone is close by and offer you the option to transfer the state (if it is more up to date than the cloud copy) from the phone to the terminal via wifi.

Of course docking the phone into a laptop and using the laptop display/input to control the phone could be a possibility , I just don't see it as such a compelling usecase that you would see large sales of dumb laptops.

For example laptop docking stations have been around for a while and allow you to turn your laptop into essentially a desktop PC, negating the need for a desktop PC. However I don't know anybody who actually uses one very often in the real world. It's simply too cheap to just buy an extra PC and use Dropbox + IMAP Email to handle most of the important "state" for you. An ex boss of mine bought one, but replaced it with a separate desktop about a month later for example.

I suppose time will tell, but I would imagine that we will get to the point where just about everything in your home will have a reasonably fast CPU inside it (possibly 1Ghz+ devices even given away as part of a novelty toy in the bottom of a cereal box at some point) and the valuable parts are the Human Interface devices & software/data rather than the computers themselves.
Soon we will be talking about "exit strategies" in the platform sense, not in the buyout sense.
California has limits on what landlords can charge for "application fees". I think it's around $40.
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and, for more of Eric's accomplishments:

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500 friends inclusive of acquaintances, co-workers, relatives, classmates from high school, classmates from university. It makes no sense being all semantic about it; Facebook "friends" are different from what a person would call a friend in reality, hence the new categorization, subscriptions and smart list options given.
Windows 8 Phone has nothing to do with Windows 8 Tablet. You have to build from scratch for each. How in the world is that an 'integrated ecosystem'.

I've been to the developers conferences and tried to build products for their launch devices. There is no grand plan, word on important issues come down the pipeline in real time, are later taken back or only addressed when a developers brings up a serious issue.

At close range, it often appears as if the Windows 8 team has no idea what they are doing, and actually two silo'd communities of Mobile and desktop.
I also seem to recall it took quite a bit of engineering to get OpenID working properly...
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normally salt is some random string unique for each user, but you have to store the salt of each user in database for authentication, if your database is hacked and they got both your hash and salt, it is really no difference between salt and no-salt
Well, the course is just cheap now because it's in-progress. This lets me get it out for immediate feedback, find bugs, and test that it works with students. In the near future the price will change, but the HTML version will most likely still stay up because answering student questions in comments makes the book so much better.
I've been running a business review website for about 4/5 years and I absolutely hate it.

If I had $1 for every time a business owner writes a review for themselves (signing up for an account with their business email address no less), our system removes it and then they email me within minutes complaining that a genuine customer had written them a review, where has it gone...

There are lots of variables our algorithms track to try and make a decision on whether to filter a review or not and of course it will get things wrong but if there wasn't any filtering in place, the amount of spammy reviews would be overwhelming.

I feel somewhat for Yelp, even with all their millions of dollars to throw at the problem as there is no easy solution, ignoring any potential pay for stars type nonsense. That is something I would never do and am very proactive when it comes to protecting small businesses.

Like I said though, after years of seeing people try to pull a fast one, the warmth in my heart fades.
The fundamental problem in your example has nothing to do with hiring. It's that Mary is working on something that she dislikes to the point that having to continue on her project in the medium term will cause her to quit. It's both the company and the employee's joint responsibility to ensure that this isn't the case.
The first company that made something like this which worked 'out of the box' with YouTube, Netflix, BBC, Skype and sold for $50 (ie $100 at Worst Buy) would do very well.

There are a lot of TV shows being watched on iPads because hooking up the big screen TV to a computer is too much effort / inconvenient for 'normal' people.
The problem is that the examples and explanations don't justify the level of castigation. Yes, you should always use strncpy() instead of strcpy() for instance, but that doesn't protect you from all bugs. The example of a safercopy() still relies on the assumption that the pointers given to it are valid, and that assumption is just as impossible prove as the assumption that copy()'s input strings are valid. Safercopy() is still twice as safe as copy() and we ought to use it, but calling copy() "defective" is unfair unless you're willing to call the C language defective in general. And you can make that argument! I certainly like languages like Go that have pointers but no casting ints to pointers or pointer arithmetic, so the only remaining danger is pointers to memory that has been freed.
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I'm curious, how does ESR make a living?
He seems to spend a lot of time running his personal site (which carries no charges or ads) and has written a bunch of Open Source software.
I don't see him doing anything that would put money into his bank account, or is he being sponsored by some company? If so who?
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