skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even the smallest bit of DRM would cause them to [...]
> go without the movie/show/program (I think the most likely)

And this would benefit the producer how? It would only serve to reduce the userbase, and thereby dampening the word-of-mouth spread and the perceived popularity the game, thus harming the sales of the product.

Of course, it those people bought the game instead, it could make up for it. But you said it was the less likely scenario.
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There's good and bad here.

The good: right now, the funding racket for startups (unless they can get clients, and under-35's tend not to have those kinds of relationships yet) is unfair and, due to the illegal comparing-of-notes whereby a VC can turn off interest in supposed competitors, probably extortionate. It sucks. A lot of good businesses are shut out. Here's some writing I did on how to fix that: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle... .

The bad: this means that startups are funded based on their ability to attract attention and raise money (tip-jar model) when they really should be funded according to provision of value. These will probably converge over time, so you get eventual consistency.

On the whole, I think the good outweighs the bad. It's just that you couldn't use a tip-jar model to fund, say, a new GPU-aware C compiler. There's a lot of infrastructural technology that can't easily be funded by "dumb money" of the populace nor by the "I-think-I'm-smart money" of meddlesome VCs and executives.

There are a lot of hard financial problems to solve, but ideas like this are bringing us in the right direction.
Exactly. You've paid for the content but simply changed the way you receive it. Ethically, I think you're on pretty strong grounds.

It's unfortunate that folks like us who would like to be able to do common sense things with content are caught in a war between extremists on both sides. We have the rabid content creators and protectors suing everyone for every infraction and corrupting our legal system in the process - then we have the piracy zealots who feel no compunction with having an artist make zero from creating a great deal of desirable content because "information/data should be free".
That page seems very keen on the twice-featured paragraph attempting to define "Technical intelligence":

Technical intelligence involves the accurate appraisal and expression of the ability to interact with machines in a way that enhances living.

But is that a helpful definition? Or at least is it a helpful first definition? Could we start with something simpler? Something beginning "Technical Intelligence is", rather than "Technical intelligence involves"?

It doesn't even seem like a helpful definition in the context of the company, which deals with MySQL monitoring and analysis. This talk of Technical intelligence makes the product harder to understand, it's just uncomfortably bolted on ("We're delivering Technical Intelligence for MySQL" - so training then? No, it doesn't seem like it...)
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And I get downvoted by people who don't want to admit to an addiction? Rule one of addiction: Denial.
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I'm impressed. Nicely done.

One suggestion would be to add dates.
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Forbrydelsen was a worldwide phenomenon. Surprised you never heard of it. AMC in the US re-did it (badly) as The Killing.
"Some people do "

I guess it depends on the area. Pretty much everyone in my family drives at least 40 miles one way.
As a Picloud fanboy whose side project maps really well to queue processing, I'm rather excited about this.
I think the waiting list won most of the users in that case. They had an awesome display of how many people there are in front of you / behind you which was worth subscribing to.

Oh and also lots and lots of social marketing.
I assume he's concerned about the possibility of some kind of retaliation from North Korea.
Nooo, don't erase the address that took me 5 minutes to type. What you say doesn't make any sense. You should obviously configure the https redirect as a site wide setting and not per page.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6077888/how-do-i-access-t...

> http://localhost:<port>/ works from Safari on the iPhone Simulator.
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That is a point good enough to deserve an attempt to encapsulate it in a memorable saying. "Don't let your ecological web depend too much on indicator species" doesn't work. How about: "Don't depend on canary eggs when you live in a coal mine."
Seems a very odd part of the announcement to question. Why wouldn't they know the real number?
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So if I have no databases that start with "-", I'm not vulnerable? Didn't quite understand what they meant by that.
That would make for terrible UX, and I'd expect most users to just shrug it off as your website being weird, so it wouldn't even help you "catch pages that use the wrong protocol".

Why not just do the redirect that you know is right, but log it (with referer, so you know what needs fixed)?
This is the main vulnerability I presume

> A connection request containing a database name that begins with "-" may be crafted to damage or destroy files within a server's data directory

I just. No words.
Most countries have public service broadcasters. However, the UK has the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, with arguably the highest quality programming. PBS in the US and CBC in Canada have far smaller budgets, which is weird given population size of their respective countries. Perhaps if tax payers would ask to pay more for public broadcasting, we wouldn’t even need commercial stations.

EDIT: I just found out that most of the funding for public broadcasters in the US doesn’t even come from taxes. Canada's CBC receives two-thirds of its funding from taxes.
NK could interpret it as US actions rather than Anonymous.
You think North Korea will bomb the internets?
Thanks to piracy thinks are getting better. now most us series are translated within weeks.
Supernatural had a 3 years(!) delay in germany.

There will allways be people who want everything for free but there REALLY are people like me who want to pay but get rejected because of "licensing issues" aka "wait till it is published in your country even if you hate the voice over and want to watch the original anyway"
No, it's not wrong. The .NET JIT generates specialized code once for each value type that some code is used with, which is pretty much what C++ does, although not at compile time, but at runtime (JIT compile time).
In relation to the criticism about Heroku's early access: "Heroku was given access to updated source code which patched the vulnerability at the same time as other packagers. Because Heroku was especially vulnerable, the PostgreSQL Core Team worked with them both to secure their infrastructure and to use their deployment as a test-bed for the security patches, in order to verify that the security update did not break any application functionality. Heroku has a history both of working closely with community developers, and of testing experimental features in their PostgreSQL service."
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I find it acceptable, since they did away with semi-colons, which always offended me a lot more than braces.
This is nonsense.

> Technical intelligence involves the accurate appraisal and expression of the ability to interact with machines in a way that enhances living.

That is so vague as to be completely useless. A mechanic interacts with machines in a way that enhances living. So does a chef. So does a doctor. So does a computer programmer. Almost every job today involves interacting with machines in a way that enhances living.

This is pseudoscience wrapped up in a serious sounding blanket of nonsense.
Doubt it. I think these were part of the project that weren't even distributed.
"I think it's also fair to say that there is a certain group of people for whom even the smallest bit of DRM would cause them to either go without the movie/show/program"

Really?

Because the pirate 'products' I've seen tend not to come with any DRM. DRM only affects the legit versions.
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Most of the time the people who Anonymous give the stick to deserve it, but this type of petty schoolyard graffiti attack is questionable. Given the DPRK's sensitive ego, especially at this point in their international circus show when everyone's doing their best to diffuse the situation, injecting 'porn and kitten images' into their network is not helping the effort. At the very least, inject some propaganda or meaningful statement rather than self-glorifying "I wuz here" junk.

The DPRK is a horribly repressed, poverty ridden hell-hole where the only way out is death. I have nothing but pity for their every day suffering. A small part of me wants things like this to tip the balance of a short-lived war that ends in an open and free Korea. Why wait another 10 years where nothing's changed except their childish tantrums and nuclear capability?
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Methods' declarations indicate which ones return an error value. E.g.:

func Demo (s string) (string, error){...}

When called, that is guaranteed to return a string and an error value (OR nil).
I really need those TPS reports by the end of the day
Whatever NK's plans are, I think they are very unlikely to be affected by anything like this.
The lag of six or seven seconds before a trade is executed "is not acceptable,"

I don't understand what a DDoS has to do with trade lag. They're DDoSing the website, not the trading engine, right?

6 or 7 seconds is bad enough, but it's a huge understatement. MtGox's trading engine "lag" can grow to absurd numbers, it was like 10 minutes a couple days ago. I honestly can't comprehend how it gets this bad. It should be on the order of micro or milli seconds. It's not like matching up trades is computationally expensive.

Anyone have an explanation?
This is a fairly minor point: but I also like how idiomatic error handling in Go only indents the block that handles the problem.

Because of multiple returns, the normal flow of execution isn't indented. I find that this makes it easier to skim Go code in practice.
I rather use DDD.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

But then again, I am an IDE kind of guy.
In context this is a really strange article. The government bodies listed in this article do give money to startups, and the bar is extremely low. In addition, private investors (angels and angel syndicates) get matching funds "for free" where the public money matches private money. I'm not sure why this isn't exactly what's being described in the article.
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Just from the quote cited by octo_t I would read that you are still vulnerable: A malicious database user could craft a _connection string_ which contains a database name starting with -. There's no hint that the database has to exist on your server for this to work, so I would read it could be a complete bogus request and still damage your files.
I agree on the bubble phase being similar, but disagree on what would happen afterwards. Tulips becoming cheap meant that everyone suddenly had access, but the amount was still more limitted than in case of BTC. Also the time of each transaction was not even close to what happens at mtgox. There are thousands of orders just waiting to be filled the moment the price moves. On the other hand physical goods shipment took weeks/months.

So while both events may have a similar cause/progress... there's a huge difference in how the market itself works.
Technically speaking, an IRA is just a (brokerage|bank) account with a special tax designation. It won't stop you from putting all your money in a penny stock or out of the money options, for example.
+1 for post-workout stretching.
My first thought was "these are US or SK actions". On further thought it doesn't seem likely, but still, everyone can hide behind the Anonymous flag for plausible denyability.
How else can he support the creators of the show?
> you just have to assemble them into a complete solution.

Many (if not most) of the security vulnerabilites of the past years come from perfectly safe components assembled in an unsafe way.

Crypto-engineering is hard.
Google glasses might help fix that by saving everything to your Google account (not that it is a solution, but a different problem)
When I ask my dog, "Do you want to go for a walk?", she stands up, does a looong stretch of her back and rear legs, then shakes her coat.
It's nice looking, but what is it?
Actually, statement "consumers don't want to pay for it" by definition means lack of demand; demand is the # of people that want the product at that price.

A pirated copy demonstrates a wish for the product but does not neccessarily demonstrate a real market with a real demand for it at that price point.

For example, if you look globally, there are huge populations that have the capability to play pirated games but (a) can't consider $20 as affordable; and (b) can't use western payment infrastructures such as credit card payments.

If you look locally, a person who would play World of Goo for free but if offered it at $20 would choose some other entertainment - that's not a potential customer, that's shouldn't be counted in demand.
6, 7 seconds? Few days ago there was a 1 HOUR lag. I am not kidding. All MtGox APIs have lagged a whole frickin' hour behind their trading engine. Now THAT was bad. And I see more than 60 seconds lag nearly every day.

Edit: Seems you updated the post, so now my is obsolete :).

Anyway, their official explanation is that the engine is so slow because when iterating over the whole orderbook, which is huge, they have to check if every offer has enough funds for it to be executed. This is a design flaw and they want to fix it by not letting you to place a order without sufficient funds in the first place.
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Great interview. I always thought of Western politics as being hypocritical, but it makes more sense to think of it as a state of delusion. The easiest way to make tough decisions like "go to war" or "bomb that place" is to believe it's the right thing to do.
You do realise that Sky offers a number of services that allow viewers to skip those adds entirely: fast forwarding in a a few different modes (live buffers or previously recorded shows like any conventional DVR) as well as advertless shows on Anytime?

Barring the odd show that demands real-time viewing (eg sports matches) most people I know deliberately watch their shows 15/20 minutes later from the Sky+ DVR just fast forward adverts.

However even without such features, many people just channel hop or walk out of the room to make a cup of tea / go to the toilet.

Then to top all that off, most people have become desensitised to adverts on TV; we avoid making purchasing decisions based upon then and even learn to block adverts out entirely.

The practical upshot of all this is adverts on TV have now become about as effective a marketing tool as ads on the internet.
Really? Absolutely nothing! Except social engineering would be extremely easy with all that data about a user.
I might be mistaken, but it seems like "technical intelligence" is another way of saying "high tolerance for poor UI," i.e. a person with very low T.I. needs something really well designed, and a person with high T.I. can still be effective despite poor design.
Its convinced if you consider that Go was made to solve most of Google's problems.
Perhaps you are one of those semi-informed people that don't know the definition of "literally" and go around bothering folks with ill-conceived pedantry?

From dictionary.com:

1. in the literal or strict sense: What does the word mean literally? 2. in a literal manner; word for word: to translate literally. 3. actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy: The city was literally destroyed. 4. in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually.

Notice definition #4.
I expect that's not the case, and I'm just missing the point othermaciej is trying to make.
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Except the assumption here is that improvements must necessarily be slower. But that's not necessarily true: collaboration between Chromium and WebKit was already incredibly problematic and was definitely slowing people down (http://infrequently.org/2013/04/probably-wrong/).

So there's a tradeoff--you're splitting people's efforts, and that's bad, but you're also removing pain points that slow down development.
More information about the security release can also be found in the special FAQ:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/faq/2013-04-04/
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The solution is a bit different - "make it easy for people to acquire something legally and they will acquire it legally." means that there will be a lot of people (group A) who will acquire it legally and you'll get a lot of money from that market.

It doesn't say anything about the group B who'll pirate it anyways, no matter what you do with DRM.
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If you love what you do and not what you earn, someone else will make sure to pocket the difference.
It's narcissistic to imagine that you matter at all. This "age of the internet" is about bootstrapping the entity that is larger than ourselves. It needs enormous amounts of data to even have a chance at understanding the world. Please keep blogging about what you just ate. Take lots of pictures. Log everything.
Umm... It was $20 for what was essentially a cell phone game. Once it got lowered to a few bucks and was sold during the steam sales/humble bundles, it did quite well.

As a counter example, what about super meatboy? It did extremely well IIRC.

There are several issues in the entertainment industry and they all result in decreased sales(which is the real issue, right? I mean, should anyone really care about piracy as long as sales are good?)

1. Price point. Video games shouldn't be $60, movies shouldn't be $30, and music shouldn't be >$1 per song. As a consumer, this is just too much for the value I get out of these things. Sorry, that's just the way it is and yes, the internet is a big reason for this b/c there's tons of free stuff on the net that provide as good or better value for the money. This was the problem with WoG btw.

2. Barrier to entry. Simply having to drive to a store to buy a movie is too much effort these days. This is why steam and netflix are doing so well. Make it dead simple for me to get access to the content and sales will increase.

3. DRM. This breaks games. I think twice about buying any game with DRM, because I'm afraid it won't work when I upgrade my pc or the host company shuts down servers. I have NES games that still work from my childhood. It sucks when new games don't get the same level of treatment. If I didn't have principles, I could see myself pirating these games so that I can have a non-broken copy, but I don't pirate.

4. Publishing companies. Lately, these guys seem hell bent on ruining franchises. As an example, I bought battlefield 3. It had origin, the colors were terrible, and it was unclear exactly how much had improved from BF2(there was certainly a lot that was missing), but I still bought it, because I've always been a huge fan of the franchise(desert combat was the greatest mod ever). And.... it is terrible in comparison. I won't be buying battlefield 4. Now, I've been a fan of dice since the first battlefield came out. I watch their dev videos and follow their work. I was ecstatic when they picked up the DC team. These are a great group of guys. But this is not dice's game, it's EA's. They ruined that franchise. Maybe bf4 will sell well, who knows, but it will die just like call of duty has and it's not because of piracy. The same thing applies to movies, tv shows, and popular music these days. The people running the show don't care about the content.

I'm sorry, but piracy doesn't cause lost sales. The above does. The issue is industry wide and the cracks are showing. There's been plenty of indie games that have sold very well recently and have no drm. Piracy isn't the issue, the internet is. People are more informed now and expect better value for their money. Everyone just needs to accept that and move on(and stop scapegoating piracy as the root cause).
1. Have an exciting product idea / market space

2. Have great visual design

3. Social media marketing, targeting influencers in the area
You got caught up on one line in the article and completely missed the entire point.

The article is a lesson in self-empowerment. It contains the truth that what you're doing in your employment can be even more for yourself than your employer if you adopt the necessary atitude.

He didn't say anything about not having other interests or ventures. You put that in there because of your preconceptions.
Plus, if it was large enough to have an effect on perceived time, it would affect the apparent distance as well, thus negating the point of the demo!
I'm really getting tired of 'Anonymous'. They are simply internet thugs under the guise of doing something important. But they don't do anything important, they actually create that fear the causes governments to enact stupid laws to prevent 'hackers'. So the result is an erosion of your freedoms.
I think you have a process patent in there somewhere. Let me know when I need to license it when I get money to buy food.
We can find it. Paying for it is another issue. It's our #1 expense, well above our mortgage.
I'm not an expert so I'll ask here:

Is there an attack vector if you run PostgreSQL locally, no untrusted users are able to create connection strings and do not allow remote access?

It seems to be no but I prefer to be sure ;)
From the FAQ originally shared by edwinvlieg, you are still vulnerable:

The vulnerability allows users to use a command-line switch for a PostgreSQL connection intended for single-user recovery mode while PostgreSQL is running in normal, multiuser mode. This can be used to harm the server.
Not a wrong thing to build initially, but perhaps a wrong thing to advertise a feature based on, unless you have a plan for how to continue to deliver that feature as you scale up.
For what reason should US or SK do such a thing. If they are capable of hacking NK they don't need to deny that.
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The elephant in the room is, of that 80% of piraters, what percentage of them were actual potential customers at the $20 price, and what percentage had no interest in the game at that price. If 0% of the piraters were really customers, then you lost nothing through pirating and sold to the entirety of your actual customer base, which just happens to be only 20% of all the people who have your product. If 100% of the piraters were customers, then you have indeed lost out on most of your potential revenue. Of course neither of us can say what that percentage really is, I think probably very close to 0% and I expect you think much closer to 100%.