skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A distributed message bus seems to be the most promising model. It'll be better than 'twitter but open' through the variety of messages being passed (see the sidebar of the UI mockup below). I believe the messages being spoken will come from activitystrea.ms, but the bus itself has yet to be determined.

There is some interesting work along these lines from the founder of StatusNet going on in https://github.com/evanp/activitypump

A UI mockup of a client that would read from the 'pump' is here: http://statusnetdev.net/inbox.html
I really appreciate what StatusNet is doing, but I've found that it's just not useful enough to... use. It's Twitter but more free and with far fewer users. That's rather different from Diaspora and Tent.io's visions.

FYI: Today, Tent.is -- the first implementation of Tent.io, a protocol for fully decentralized social networking -- went from 0 users to 2000. In a day.

...And since it's free, I bet it'll grow MUCH faster than App.net which, after TONS of media coverage and endorsements from the likes of not just Scobleizer, but The Washington Post and even fucking CNN(!), got just ~12,000 people to sign up by the deadline.

Specific sites aside, I'm glad that people are actively creating alternatives to the centralized, corporatized, developer-unfriendly services that currently dominate the landscape.
I recall that red was the color most likely to get attention, and thus recommended for calls to action. Any reason not to use red ?
How does this differ from status.net (which powers identi.ca)?
I see a problem with OStatus that, it seems, is also seen by others - it may not be user-friendly. When a deployment that uses OStatus shuts down/fails, that's it - the users are gone. And that seems like a dealbreaker.

I've shared my thoughts on distributed social networks here http://web.bozho.net/?p=235
The OP's (parody) comment is not about using dishwashers, but rather about dishwashing without using any detergent despite knowing that detergent is to dishwashing as SSL Certs is to https ...

and FTR, I did not grow up knowing how to use dishwashers but was quite aware of the basic relationship between the act of dishwashing and detergents. Extrapolating that fundamental relationship to a dishwasher is to say the least -- elementary.
> Android powered 68% of the phones that shipped that quarter. Apple’s iOS platform ran on 17%. Those two numbers add up to 85%, so setting your goal to become the “number three platform” means you’re targeting 15% of the market.

That's... not true. Trying to be #3 doesn't mean you say "OK, we won't get any customers from the first two, so all we have left are that 15%" it just means you don't think you can take enough of their customers to overtake them.

And to people saying it's bad for company moral... it really isn't. Very few companies can be #1 or #2 in their industry, and for everyone to think otherwise is more often than not just delusional.
Both <embed> and <bgsound> (the latter not standard, but certainly "proposed") have been around for a long time.
This is one which had escaped me for years:

private static bool GreaterThanOne(int @int)
{
return @int > 1;
}

However, it would seem to me to fall into the "never, ever use this" category.
RIM is already #3 in US from a platform standpoint. All they need to do is stay there. Also, the BYOD trend may be strong, but RIM made some interesting enterprise features for BB10 that the others don't have. Unless the others quickly replicate those, I could see RIM have a shot in enterprise at least, again.
I'm rooting for either one of BlackberryOS, FirefoxOS, Jolla or Tizen to be the #3 mobile ecosystem.
Integration Testing FTP Connections in .Net
A while back I had two friends, one an architecture student, one a civil engineering student. They had some interesting banter:

Architecture student: if civil engineers had their way, all buildings would be square concrete blocks

Civil engineering student: if architects had their way, all buildings would be beautiful, and collapse in the slightest breeze
Even if tent.is now has 2000 users (including myself) over 24 hours, it does not mean that it will reach 12,000 people. With this kind of projects, people tend to subscribe, play with it a few minutes and then forget about it.

Adoption for a user is tied with friends' adoption. Most users won't see any interest in switching from Twitter/Facebook to a decentralized network, because they don't understand the importance of privacy and controlling your own data.
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It's not a counterexample as such, but it seems obviously absurd (and violating relativity) that B's FTL message to A arbitrarily goes a lot slower than A's FTL message to B, given that the situation is completely symmetrical (you can even have them both send their messages at tA=100,tB=100, which is simultaneous from the point of view of an observer C who stayed behind on the asteroid where the two spaceships initially met up).

The point I was trying to make was that your example description makes sense if the FTL drive is somehow fixed to A's reference frame, i.e. A's reference frame is some kind of absolute reference frame and therefore the situation is not symmetrical between A and B. But that introduces its own problems.
The same problem exists with email, but it seems to have done fairly well despite that.
OStatus is the protocol behind status.net and identi.ca.
RIM should probably cut the crap and laser-focus on whatever the hell it is they're good at, instead of trying to battle apple, google, and microsoft. This video just makes the blackberry seem pathetic, and who would want to develop for a pathetic platform?
Looking at the ridiculously high number of security bulletins at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/ would seem to indicate PhpMyAdmin is itself a backdoor.

PLEASE don't expose this app to the entire Internet if you use it... "Order Deny,Allow / Allow from m.y.i.p / Deny from all" is your friend.
For the dismissive minds, the State of Flux online exhibition ( http://climate.nasa.gov/sof/ ) can have a great impact.
World Addresses API
Metered low-end looks similar to what AWS does, doesn't it ? Spot prices are metered, but if you want to get a flat fee per month, no worries, you can get the reserved instances. Which also have a better bang per buck.
That plugin's a good start. It's only been downloaded 708 times, though, possibly because it's not being actively developed or promoted, and perhaps also because it has a long list of dependencies that would make setup too hard for most.

I think it could also be a branding issue. If I was building a distributed OStatus-based social network on the back of private WordPress installations, I would:

1. Market it under a different name than "OStatus". WordPress users need not know that their blog is automatically syndicated via RSS, and users of this new social service need not know that it's powered by OStatus. It is easier to market ideas than it is to market technologies and protocols.

2. Present users with an interface they're familiar with from other social networks, without stealing intellectual property.

3. Create a pretty marketing page that sold the project on its merits as a free social network that nobody owns. Give it a mascot or a bold logo.

4. Encourage the thousands of WordPress-related blogs to write about it, with a goal to drive WordPress developer adoption that might trickle down to other WordPress users too.
>I can't stand all the chrome and bevels and transparent bobbles on Macs for instance.

As someone started with a 286 EGA graphics PC from the eighties, boy are we spoiled...
I've been having a server "always on" at home since the early 2000s (in the 90s I would've run a BBS if not for the fact that Norway have never had free local telephone service -- and we only had the one phone line).

If I used that availability to host a web page and/or receive email via smtp -- such services would certainly be handled handily by a solid-state disk and an arm cpu -- maybe a rasperry pi? Or just a cheap, rooted, android phone plugged into the charger. Then I'd have redundant networking (4g and wireless to my adsl2-line -- shouldn't be too hard to whip up something that would work, perhaps using the android scripting framework [1]).

Currently I use it to have access to some of my (personal) files, schedule/check on downloads and updates, and haven't quite been able to whip my providers broadband router into shape (the box tends to go flaky every 7-10 days of uptime, probably due to buggy wireless) -- so it's nothing I consider "service grade" right now.

But distributed twitter done right, with several layers of caching (see the Fielding thesis on REST [2]) -- shouldn't really need much in terms of traffic to host my tweets/updates.

I still think an smtp/mailinglist/uunet/usenet design would work/scale better though.

But then how would we track users, spam them with ads and monetize something that takes so little infrastructure to run in a decentralized manner that there is no real need to monetize it? /rant

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
[2] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
Great Coffee App Review
Mobile creators – a small team iOS developers from, of all places, Kazakhstan, have just released a new app about coffee. They audaciously called it “Great Coffee App”. Let’s see if this app lives up to it’s name.
That's an interesting perspective, but I don't think windowsphone (any incarnation of it) has enough going for it to make number 3.
> Very few companies can be #1 or #2 in their industry

Most industries aren't in winner-take-all markets with huge network effects.
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Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget
StackExchange?
It reminds me of the recent Varnish Paywall article:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/12/using-varnish-for-...
He says he believes that a Republican administration would be "considerably more open on regulatory issues, and the markets would be more competitive under a Romney administration."
http://rssident.com/feeds/?t=job&e=remote+|+telecommute
Mark Pilgrim had an insightful take on the development of the IMG tag in his book Dive Into HTML5:

http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html
Some of these are quite strong and contrasty and very repetitive in a small scale and thus slightly migraine inducing.

With the horizontal repetition they also mess with the angle of your eyes / distance perception (as there are multiple transpositions where they correlate perfectly).

I like subtle, very random and smooth patterns a lot.
Why not number one?
Strap a smartphone and kinect to a satellite and launch it to space
I'm interested enough in the idea to pick up the (partially-completed) book, but I wonder if this isn't far too complex of a solution for 95% of cases. By the time that your system is in the 5% of cases, you're looking at a massive rearchitecting effort.

Of course, to be fair, you're probably already looking at a rearchitecting effort at this point!

However, looking at the architecture diagram, much of the complexity could be hidden behind the scenes with a devoted toolset built on top of Postgres, rather than trying to cobble together Kafka, Thrift, Hadoop, and Storm.
Sometimes, one big tool beats a lot of small tools.

For that matter, I wonder if a series of Postgres-XC (or Storm) servers couldn't do the same thing without learning a series of complex tools.

Step 1: Everything goes through a stored procedure. Deletes, updates, and creates are code generated through a DSL. Migrations would be a pain under this system, but mitigated by the fact that the complexity is being handled by the tool.

This stored procedure then writes to the database of record and then sends a series of updates to, essentially a system of real-time materialized views that serve the same purpose as the standard NoSQL schema.

The lambda architecture purposes would still be fulfilled with lower data-side complexity. After I read through Big Data I'll revisit this with a more nuanced view, but I wonder if hadoop and nosql really give you anything.
RIM need to go open and utilise the crowd if they have any chance of keeping up with Google and Apple.
He hardly 'slammed it'. He actually agrees with Microsoft's decision to release it.
A common example of trying too hard to save lives is the unintended consequences. Example: making airplanes more safe -> flights cost more -> more people opt to drive -> more people are killed in car accidents than saved by safer airplanes

Whether that fits here or not I'm not sure.
IndieWebCamp.com is another movement towards open and federated social networking.
I remember reading about a largeish legacy French government system migrating to Postgres a couple of years ago, so maybe they've decided Postgres fits the bill for most scenarios they need a DB for.

According to these slides [1] that system did about a billion SQL statements a day at the time, so pretty good going.

[1] http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/1/1c/PGDayEU2010_CNAF_Post...
I keep expecting Dell or HP to buy RIM and merge with Yahoo and Opera.
Well done to Samsung for getting the update out quickly (although obviously better not to ship with the vulnerability).

Is this something the carriers get to block or is it direct over the Internet to everyone? One of my big concerns about Android is about the ability to get security fixes. The slow major updates are very public but if security fixes are better distributed much quicker that isn't so much of a worry.

In the absence of reassurance my advice to friends and family if asked would be to avoid Android (except the Nexus models which I think can always be updated).
It's interesting to note that the people designing that chip at apple used to work at PA Semi, and before that, a lot of them worked at AMD. Circa 2006 AMD decided that all it's future chips are going to be laid out automatically, and got rid off their expert chip designers who were responsible for the manual layout on the K8 (original Opteron) chips.

As Apple A6 is one of the very few modern chips designed by hand, it's pretty much the latest argument by some of the best chip designers in the industry against automatic routing & layout. It will be interesting to see how it will fare against the machine-designed Cortex A15.
very well then, what are we waiting for - let's have a fully distributed social network :)
> They probably didn't think they could actually kill someone.

In Brazil that would be true in the case of a regular car accident, it would be regarded as having no intent to kill.

If you are drunk however, brazilian law understands that you had intention to kill, because you know well enough that drinking will impair your driving and most likely kill someone.

However, an officer's statement is not enough to prove that you are drunk, you have to agree to take the test, and if you don't, than you can just throw money at the case up to the point where the final ruling is so late to the fact that the penalty has expired.
A successful business has very little to do with intelligence
As long as the user can disable it, it's not a problem. Android does the exact same thing.
Typical cnet article "INTEL CEO SLAMS WINDOWS 8", and I quote directly from the article:

"... Otellini also said releasing Windows 8 before it's completely ready is the correct decision to help Microsoft and the PC makers compete against Apple during the key holiday season. He added that Microsoft can make changes after Windows 8 ships, the report said."
Why I’m (Still) Against SASS & LESS
I should further clarify - my documented approach is for re-arranging layouts for small viewports in responsive web design so flexbox only kicks in for narrow widths.

The approach the author demonstrates is for using flexbox in general.
TBL wanted to use the anchor tag for it:
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht...

"I had imagined that figues would be reprented as
<a name=fig1 href="fghjkdfghj" REL="EMBED, PRESENT">Figure </a>"

That would have really changed how things evolved. Probably then anything that was specifying an external resource would have all been anchors.
Their video works, while the OP doesn't. Thanks for the link!
No, they don't pay very much. The problem is, the revenue isn't very much either (and they're unprofitable). I don't think they're doing a MegaUpload and making millions off other people's content, but compared to CD sales, artists are being undercompensated. My entire post was my thoughts on how to improve that.
Yes, and it also lacks something more important - the original versions of the papers that were rejected!

While I certainly have my quibbles with my peer reviewers from time to time, in every case that I've had a paper reviewed, whether reject or accept the final paper that ended up making publication was a far, far better version than the original. For all we know, the original versions of those papers were poorly-motivated, typo-filled messes, potentially even with grievous errors that were later corrected.

That's certainly been true of some papers that I've provided negative reviews for and have later seen in another form as wonderfully polished gem.
I would also compare this to Poker. FYI not a poker player. when I watch it on TV they do bring the highlights but the key pieces I think are the announcers. They bring you into the game. Constructing the drama. Yes there is alot of drama in chess!
That's the actual reason someone posted it here, right?
Hehe - I'm sure there's a middle ground somewhere!
We've landed on the moon!
Down for me...

http://downorme.com/goodbre.ws
Email spam is responsive for 85%-95% of all emails. That's almost all. Yet, nobody would seriously suggest to ban email.
Poor French civil servants. Being forced to use LibreOffice is a demotivating and frustrating experience. F.ex. Writer is like MS Word 1997, but shabbier. If you're paying an employee more than minimum wage, don't kill their productivity and motivation by feeding them sub-par tools.
A List Apart: Articles: The Web Aesthetic
FYI, there also seems to be a drupal plugin: http://drupal.org/sandbox/sanduhrs/1132580 - but it seems to be experimental at the moment. Also, I did not try it out myself - yet.
Awesome tool. I hope you'll just add WYSIWYG CSS editor and easy&fast integration with Firebase. That would be a toolset of my dreams :)
Guys I'd like to share another bootstrapped Italian startup in the microblogging panorama: www.meemi.com

Full Disclosure: I know the creator, not by person but on the Net
Securing SIP in the enterprise – new architecture
To clarify: The idea isn't that you'll remember a picture, but rather that you might recognize a child you already know.
Do you mind elaborating a bit on your solution that doesn't rely on Java?

We have a similar case though with printers.
This looks interesting.

We built ScoopSpot[1] to make microblog better, one of the core proposition was to allow the application developers work with the statuses more openly. However, it didn't caught attention of the people. One interesting aspect of ScoopSpot was to allow user follow a tag or topic.

The possibility of application built on what users' interests are limitless (at least that's what I think). I will look into the protocol of OStatus to see how can we make our API's open.
[1]https://www.scoopspot.com
Well "slams" isn't exactly accurate however he is right in saying Windows 8 is still a pretty big work in progress for Microsoft however they had to release this year. It is a stable OS however it is a little schizophrenic to use with the awkward way that Metro (Modern UI) has been crowbarred into it.

In my opinion Windows 8 is more of a technology/strategy preview and not a "real" Windows release. I have been running the RTM since it hit MSDN and it is fine to use as a primary OS however it isn't all that nice to use as your primary OS. There are so many rough edges and inconsistency’s it is quite frustrating to use at times. However this is Microsoft trying to work out how Windows will work on tablet/touch based devices so it is to be expected.

Other than developers wanting to get used to some of the new development options available with WinRT and people who want Windows on a tablet and not iOS or Android I don't see any real reasons to upgrade from Windows 7. Especially as Windows 7 is a nicer experience for desktop/laptop users IMHO.
It would be great to be able to authorize a login for another machine. I could request a login on any machine and have an email/sms sent to my smartphone and click the link there (alternatively, scan a QR code), and get authorized on the machine initiating the login.

Email/SMS would be an obvious security hole for people who just click "OK" without reading, though. I guess a QR code would be secure anyway.
INSERT DELAYED does not work for InnoDB tables and is now deprecated since MySQL 5.6. I am not a MySQL user though so I have no idea if there are any alternatives to INSERT DELAYED.

The reason for the deprecation seems to be the many gotchas with it combined with the doubtful performance gains. It seems to have been an ugly hack.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/insert-delayed.html
It depends on a lot of variables. Best to A/B test which color works best with this specific design/audiance.
Plus, they only need 8% of the market to be #3, not the whole 15%.
Right. Instead the example that refutes the idea that public announcements aren't necessary for finding kids who were kidnapped by family members because the authorities would have looked there anyways by providing a anecdote where a public service announcement could have helped find a kid who was kidnapped by family members and not found (for a long time).
I am actually pretty impressed with it on my 2006 computer. It's quicker then 7 and looks better. I am also surprised how well the mouse works on "metro" apps without a touch screen. The bottom line is that MS made changes to the traditional desktop, kernel and file system that make Windows 8 worth the upgrade.
Game over, apple maps.
So you're saying that I shouldn't compile my Java code with GCJ and execute it? Hardly anyone is doing that.
Make A Statement With Type
DNS failure, getting it here in the US
Here comes the FUD.
Red is associated with "error" state.
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I would guess almost every DBA and sysamdin in the world is foolish. I doubt almost nobody has read the entire documentation for PostgreSQL, Oracle or MySQL.

Still they manage to get those databases up an running without any data loss with just some generic knowledge about OS:es and hardware and reading choice parts of the documentation. Strange, huh?
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No, I've confirmed that a random sample of HTC & Huawei phones around my office are also vulnerable. Nothing specific to TouchWiz. The thing that MIGHT be specific to Samsung is the actual remote wipe code, but relying on that is simply security-by-obscurity. I'd bet ALL phones have got some USSD code you'd rather not be instantly triggerable by a web page.
House prices are high because the people who spend resources corrupting and deceiving planning committees and urban regulatory bodies are, as one might guess, people who own a lot of real estate.

Combine regulatory corruption and price inelasticity and you get expensive real estate.
Those ratings are up to the app submitter. Apple can reject the app if they feel the ratings aren't appropriate, but it's entirely possible that some of the mature rating levels were selected by the submitters.

What I don't get is why Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook are allowed to be rated ages 4+.
You can dial it blind on a bricked phone?
As a musician, THIS can not be said enough!

Autoplaying music on any page, even a bands is a bad idea.
>"It was quite a silly story..."

Man, I sure hope so.