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> everyone here knows what was going on at MegaUpload and anyone trying to deny is either twisting their minds into a preztel with the mental gymnastics they'd have to do to convince them otherwise or they're just outright lying. I said it.

The question remains however, how big a part of "what was going on at MegaUpload" involved copyright infringing data. The article implies that the old MegaUpload was indeed using data deduplication. The Feds confiscated 25 petabytes of data. It just doesn't add up if you consider all Blu-Ray releases in the movie industry to date (which at 10GB a piece would make up the vast majority of infringing data). The only conclusion (that makes any sense to me) is that the vast majority of those confiscated 25 petabytes (about 95% if I remember my previous back-of-the-envelope calculations correctly) must have been legit user-generated or individually produced data, such as the 4GB photos that are mentioned elsewhere in this thread, or who knows what it could be, raw video data, the only reliable way to share huge amounts of sensor readings from whatever instruments for scientific research maybe. I have no idea, but given they used deduplication, Hollywood just didn't produce that many films. 25 petabytes are huge.

Don't get me wrong, it still means they were infringing on an enormous scale, just that it wasn't quite entirely fair to just take and hold the whole 25 petabytes, they don't do that when Google infringes either.
None of what you describe is what I would categorize as "spiritual".
As someone who had to work in ArcGIS using their C++ COM, their java, .NET and their python implementations for several years can I strongly urge you not to do this?

Why? Well, things that worked in one language, wouldn't in others. Bugs where we had to work around one way, had to be worked around another. The fact that the API had "get_Foo", "GetFoo" and "getFoo" methods all in different classes should really give you an idea. The library was awesome way back when it was cutting edge but from using it, I'd wager that it was developed by different teams, staffed with different resources, all made to work under different deadlines.
I apologize if it wasn't clear: He could offer a percentage of profits to his employees/contract coders that work on making this in addition to their salaries/contract pay.

He could not offer financial returns to the kickstarter backers. That would definitely violate the terms of service (though I don't see a way it would be otherwise illegal, assuming no fraud or deliberate money laundering was involved.)
>Edit: Or did you mean to say that dumping it in the skin might be better ('a good thing') compared to spreading throughout the body?

Your interpretation is correct. I'm with you: all else equal, I'd prefer to be exposed to no extra ionizing radiation. I was just pointing out that many of the health arguments seem like motivated cognition to me, and showing how one can be reversed.

>Unless someone works with radiation, I cannot imagine how anyone's skin is constantly bombarded by these types of particles.

I meant that our skin is constantly bombarded by ionizing radiation, not necessarily that it's constantly bombarded by alpha and beta particles. I'm not sure how much alpha or beta dose the average person gets. While the particles themselves don't travel far, they can be formed in many ways. As klodolph has said, radioactive decay is one source. Alpha and beta emitters show up in some surprising places: smoke detectors, anti-static coatings, and emergency lighting systems.
Not yet integrated upstream, but you can see block drag-and-drop in action with Create in http://demo.contentcontrol-berlin.de/
i see no reason to upgrade at all.
Structuring Client-side JavaScript code
I'm excited to see if he responds
A natural(and good lookin) place to share tips is to write a Coderwall protip:

http://coderwall.com/n/android
I don't quite see how that is relevant to a non-US government entity like GitHub.
I assume "1000 breeding pairs" means at least 2000 people. Elsewhere the article mentions an estimate of "3000 to 10000" survivors.

Either way, if true, it's an fascinating picture. Most of us will have more people within a few miles radius than once lived over all the Earth.

I wonder what sort of traits might have been passed on had the predicted disaster not occurred.
Funny story. But I am somewhat surprised that there is actually somebody out there who is reading these free PR distributors.
"Bad ideas are cheap. Good ideas are extremely rare and executing them is incredibly hard."

And the only way to tell them apart is to execute them.
Salesforce turned a profit in 2010 and 2011 (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=CRM+Income+Statement&ann...).

They were profitable as early as 2005 (http://www.salesforce.com/company/investor/quarterly-results...).

I don't know what income statements you were looking at (just because they lost money in 2012 does not make them an unprofitable company).
Haha thanks, we are too :)
Windows RT: Skype Surprise
Yep, they'll still have outlook and office. Doesn't seem like anything new they do really sticks. Their web services division has been a real stinker for quite a while now.
I believe that's an error in perception that has lead us to religion and other "I'm always right" worldviews.

Actually, no, it is not better.
Please, leave the wireless spectrum to the mobile devices and use the effectively unlimited spectrum that you get with wires for non-mobile devices. Spectrum is a scarce resource that really does need government oversight!
The difference is that tax shelters usually aren't used to deprive your staff of salary, they're used to deprive the government of tax revenue. This is both.
Yes, that is the traditional view of jurisdiction, and the one that legacy territorial institutions prefer.

But it could someday soon seem very quaint and wrongheaded.

The Catholic Church used to claim universal jurisdiction, and some religions still see their laws as perpetually applying to all born to their faith. To the contrary of such claims, richer communities have moved to primarily territorial, largely secular, slightly voluntary (through the ability to choose your residence) sovereign jurisdictional authorities.

This evolution could continue to reach primarily membership/networked, mostly-voluntary, often-overlapping and situationally-contingent sovereign jurisdictional authorities. These might fall back to territorial governance only when the issues involved (property lines, effluents, etc) are themselves territorial.

Educating yourself via the network could be seen as something in a totally non-territorial realm, and thus of no proper interest to territorial authorities. That would leave networked-sovereignty citizens as free to ignore the dictates of overreaching territorial authorities as many today feel free to ignore the Pope or Sharia Law.
* Looks great, I think everyone is in agreeance on that. I had some questions about the actual data being shown and whether the emphasis should be on other datapoints and aggregations...

So the aggregate conference W-L standings are overall records, right? As the season goes on, most games are played within conferences...so...what's the relevancy of displaying conference by these W-L numbers? If there were no early non-conference games, then the W-L ratio would basically be 50-50 for every conference. I think you should remove that statistic as it's not terribly useful.

* Also, the filters provide a few confusing options. If I select "Winning games", the view stays the same except that everyone (and every conference) has a winning record...I understand programmatically why that is, but I don't think the layperson will.
Thermal cameras can help spot indoor pot growers, which is the likely purpose of such a drone. Growers may insulate their walls, but probably have not done so with their ceilings.

Of course people with terrariums and other heat sources may be victims in the cross fire of the War on Drugs.

Incidentally, afaik, current US law says aircraft must fly five hundred feet above any man made structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights
Easier said than done. We've had DDOS issues in the past as well, and getting it resolved - even by throwing money at the problem - is nontrivial.

What amounts to throwing a massive amount of hardware at the problem (i.e., boxes that can handle 10-100+gbps of traffic, filter out the attacks, and pass only legit stuff down to your servers) is expensive[1], and casuses all sorts of unexpected behavior: API clients mysteriously break, good traffic gets mistakenly dropped, latency is added to the whole process, etc. It gets even weirder on SSL-protected sites. And it's all dependent on attackers not getting the IP of your actual servers which they could then just attack directly.

[1] For sites with even not a whole lot of traffic, you're talking a one-year contract easily in the range of an engineer's salary. I wouldn't be surprised if the cost to protect sites with as much traffic as Github exceeded $1m/year. Even if you have plenty of cash in the bank, that's one hell of a pill to swallow.
Never thought of it this way.
External GPU's over thunderbolt has been a dream of mine for a long time. It would make the MBA the ultimate computer.

There have been proof of concepts, I think by Acer, but I don't know of any product roadmap by anybody. Apple wouldn't need to partner with NVIDIA for this, it would be an enclosure not unlike one for external hard drives where you could install any off the shelf graphics card. :)
I've found that even sitting at the kids' table you can make sure people in the rest of the business know that you're not just a code monkey. I try to ask questions, make suggestions, make sure people know me and that I contribute more than just lines of code to the business. Even though I have little desire to move up to the adult table I think it's good for your long-term career to be known as more well-rounded. Plus if the list of layoffs comes around I don't want to be just a name and title to the people above me.
The chart is about revenue because, as I stated, they are clearly not pursuing profit. I suggest viewing a 10-year graph of their share price to see what investors think of this strategy.
it was sourceforge
Oh, I'm sure. He most likely wrote that the night before the first launch attempt. :)
This is exactly how record deals work as well, I can tell you first hand. The added kick in the nuts which isn't even mentioned is that if the project starts to come close to the level of profit where the artists would get payment - all the studio/label has to do is spend more money on additional, marked-up promotion and the project goes deeper into "debt."

Why would they bother paying the artists, when instead they can invest that same money on a 2nd round of advertising? From their perspective it doesn't make sense to ever pay the artist. The only time they do is if the artist gets really pissed off, has some clout and the studio/label wants to keep them happy. If all three of those things happen then maybe they'll get some crumbs.

The moral of the story is, unless you have the kind of clout to make your own deal, make sure you get a satisfactory amount of money from your advance (up-front payment).
Am I the only one who assumed the Baumgartner's remarks were rehearsed or otherwise prearranged?
tl;dr:

I created a 3d Model in 7.5 hrs and posted on Picasa. ~1 day later 500+ news articles, 90K web results. Did it for the lulz. btw, no one bothered to contact me to verify anything.
Good luck. Definitely a creative attempt to land a client :)
Interesting post

For myself personally I feel the positive of making progress, or implementing that new feature, by far over-weighs all the little bits of negativity and frustration of a bug or error. Even if that implementation isnt 100% correct, its still satisfying to see something happening which takes you another step towards the goal. Sure it can be pretty destroying to get stuck on that one main problem for a long time, unable to find a solution and with a million errors being thrown, but then when that problem is solved the positive feeling can be even larger anyway, depending of course.

I find it unrealistic to expect it to be any other way, youre an imperfect human trying to design something so complex, within an environment that has zero tolerances for mistakes. Hell, if you even accidently capitalize a single letter somewhere in thousands of lines of code, the whole things going to fall in a heap.

So I cant say I overly relate to the main attitude of the article, as much as I understand what its saying.
What about handball?
great marketing!
"And you should believe me because I have definitely not made my career by convincing people to stop using desktop software."
Ah, further evidence brilliant minds congregate in the same place.

I also live in New Jersey, I am a registered Republican, and I will be voting for Gary Johnson as well.

I am really curious about the percentage of people who will do the same.
Devil's avocado here: let's say you pay $100/mo for a gym membership and they shut down three days in a row because somebody called in a threat. How upset would you be at the gym?

A malicious attack by a third party is different from, say, the gym allowing black mold to grow in the locker room. I'd quit a gym if they had black mold. That's mismanagement. I wouldn't quit a gym if malicious third party intervention inconvenienced me.

Besides, GitHub is obviously more concerned about this than you or I could ever be. And having money doesn't make infrastructure magically appear.

I pay GitHub too. My company relies on it. I, too, was slightly inconvenienced this week. I was also slightly inconvenienced when I had to make a u-turn because the Battery Tunnel southbound on-ramp was closed. So what?

In summary: shenanigans! Good day sir!
They also have Xbox.
One thing to consider is the negative value of executing on a bad idea. This increases the abstract value of good ideas because the bad ideas actively sap execution potential.
I don't think parent deserves to be modded down. The article did take a pretty long time to get to the point.

Why all this talk about Python and Ruby? Rust is not really competing with those languages-- it is quite specifically designed as a C++ replacement. They should be comparing themselves against C++, Golang, or D.

The Golang solution would just be a function which returns the next element or nil if there are no more elements. That function might be part of an interface, if you wanted to generalize it across several types. To me, this is a lot simpler than the other stuff that was discussed.

To go back to Rust specifically, rather than having magic semicolons, why not make the "break" statement take a value, which becomes the return value of the block? Despite all the tl;dr there was not much discussion of design alternatives.
Autotools: A practitioner's guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
Off-topic: how do they get typography so right?! If I just throw those fonts on my site they will look crappy, but their articles are always great looking.
Maybe it's obvious, but I think the observation resembles an NP-complete problem: it's easy to verify that it is true, but finding it is difficult.
To be honest I think enough people , including a lot of the press seem to want to fail badly enough that it will almost be irrelevant how good it is.

They will definitely sell a bunch of devices with it on but it will never be cool.
I'm completely comfortable with people who are concerned about the radiation we are getting from "Back Scatter X-Rays" - but I'm just wondering where they heck they were when trying to protect us from the radiation we get while flying?

If those brief, minimal x-ray scans we get during TSA searches is worth considering, then I wish someone would do something about shielding us while we're flying, and getting a great deal more radiation...
The TSA at LAX really tries to talk me out of opting out. Maybe that's why.

I've been given the intimidation routine ("You know this means I'm going to touch your private areas," and "Do I need to call a supervisor?") and the downplay routine ("it'll only take 3 seconds and it's completely safe"). It's always in that order. It's always the same; send the bully then send the supervisor. It take 5 minutes to go through that. I've taken to simply standing in silence with my arms outstretched and legs apart.

Everywhere else is easier.
Except that it doesn't work for avoiding taxes. If you charge ten million in internal advertising to an account, you're advertising division is still making a profit.

There are lots of other tricks for avoiding taxes, but what is described is purely for screwing the artists.
>We're all biased and thus totally unqualified to judge bias.

I have to disagree. I'm pretty sure if I wanted to put in the time I could show that NPR reports, say, 90% of the national stories that hurt Romney but only 60% of national stories that hurt Obama.

Sure, stories about Joe Walsh and Todd Akin should be there. But so should stories about Benghazi and gunwalker.
Back in 2009 when it happened to bitbucket, this was afaik due to hosting a particular project (hurting bitbucket was a side effect of hurting this particular project, some communities seems to be happy to resolve issues with DDoS attacks...).
It's kind of amazing that no one contacted the original image uploader, and that he didn't have to do any promotion of any kind.
Totally. One bad decision snowballs another and someone tries to channel their inner Steve Jobs, when, no one is Steve Jobs.

It's one of the things I really like about lean. It forces me to shut up and forget my own opinion or beliefs. It forces me to pursue a craft and get the measurements before moving forward instead of falling risk to hallucinating my own grandeur accidentally. I like it because it helps keep me grounded, pragmatic, and focused.
I'm going to disagree with you on that the best companies tend not to pivot. I think there are lots of companies that pivot in such a seamless way that externally it all looks very planned. I also probably consider more things a pivot then you do, pivoting doesn't have to mean simply pivoting from an idea. It could mean pivoting from a plan of attack on an idea, dropping products that don't work, trying another kink in the armor, etc.

These "best" companies tend to be data driven and experiment a lot, we don't always see what is going on. Lots of people outside the kitchen will be able to say, everything they make here is good. You don't know the chef told the staff to make that plate over a dozen times until he was happy. Look at how many iterations of Apple's products were done before Jobs was happy. From the outside it just looks like genius, all the while he was pivoting and refining the ideas and products constantly.

You also discount the time the people spend working on stuff/ideas before the entity is official formed, people rarely take this into account. Much of this tends to happen before people look to raise money, so I could see where this might be a perspective someone on the "other side of the table" would have.

There are lots of "overnight" successes that took 10-15 years to reach that escape velocity that makes them great. They might have great focus during this time, but you can be damn sure they had to change it up a little to make it happen. Harmonix killed it with Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but they had a very long road to get there. Full of pivots.

I think the very best companies all have one thing in common though, they are tenacious, focused, and nothing will stand in their way if they decide to try and conquer something. They will pivot away from what is not working, and constantly refine the battleplan until the target is dead. Look at Toyota, Google, Apple, etc. they all are not afraid of change, pivots and redefining their focus.
We built http://planswiftly.com as our RR 12 submission.

After seeing the amazing entries that did win, we are humbled and inspired to try harder next time around. (And next time, we will absolutely hunt down a great designer)
I don't see any reason to believe this will turn out very different from the unity/gnome 3 issue that went on in the linux sphere. A lot of people predict the end of the OS, a few people end up getting alienated and leave, and almost all of the users silently upgrade and end up liking it.
It's pretty annoying. Anything Apple does is "revolutionary" and "magical". Anything Microsoft does is seen as being bound to fail.

Apple has definitely won the media messaging war.
Not sure if I just jumped into an employee upvoting scheme, but its a nice idea. Good luck!
I and my family opt-out 100% of the time. Part of it is due to the unknown risks (however low the chance may be), part of it is on principle (violation of rights), and part of it is to have everyone else see in full-view that others are opting-out (so others feel comfortable doing so as well).
Haha thanks. We dont (yet) have enough employees to have a scheme, but good idea. It's coming.
I don't know if Zappos' CS infrastructure is the same as Amazon's, but if it is I will just say I feel getting this to integrate would be.... non-trivial.
It's pretty crazy how just a couple thousand LOICs can incapacitate a site as prominent as GitHub. I wonder how many machines are involved this time.
It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors.

I think a couple of things come into play. It was far from guaranteed that 500 teams would actually sign up. The Rails Rumble didn't take place in 2011 and was fresh back this year. Also, I'd make a guess that having more sponsors reduces their interest in putting up more than they have to. If it were just a few, they'd get more out of it so might put up more goodies. Collectively, though, I think the prizes are pretty good.

(Disclaimer: I'm partly involved with the Rumble but am not involved with sponsorships at all and know no details.)
I was going to say: He should have fired his agent for agreeing to any cut of the net. I thought everyone at this point knew that you always demand points on the gross just because no one every makes net points.
I couldn't agree more. Just a few weeks ago I was having an argument with a coworker over programming paradigms. Every time I would step outside his comfortable knowledge zone, he'd start getting impatient and angry.

Every argument with such people is a downhill battle. I have yet to find out how to open their minds to broader perspectives. It's always back to the allegory of the cave. Even when you have them in a corner with no possible arguments, they'd still ask "why would I need that?".

People need to be curious in order to be open-minded. It's quite hard to stay curious as an adult in this world while it is inborn to children. I get extremely curious about quite a few domains myself at the cost of alienating a quite few people when I talk about them.

I found out these people are almost always very attached to their past work, and tend to do everything else in the same general direction. They are dead afraid if they change their mind, people will think everything they did before is worth nothing and so are they.

They are devoted to their tools and methods rather than their general domain of work. Tools and methods come, evolve and go but the domain they represent always endures time.
If high availability git is so critical then why not run your own git servers instead of or in addition to github?

I find it slightly ironic that the entire point of git is that it is distributed version control but 90% of git use seems to be focused around a product from a single company.
Great feedback - we're listening...
Sounds like a modest twist on the Hedgehog and the Fox, star of a thousand pop-science essays in the last few years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox

Note that (1) I agree and (2) there is nothing silly about the comments or the link.
This is so ill, I love everything about the presentation. I'm partially glad you don't have NFL stats, otherwise my work productivity would plummet.