skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PostgreSQL is appealing to professionals who have a solid understanding of relational theory, who have much experience creating, using and maintaining large, heavily-used and high-availability databases, and who can quite easily see the many flaws with lesser database systems. These are the kind of people who, knowing that better exists, will indeed speak out loudly against that which is inferior.

You portray it as some sort of a "conflict" between open source projects, but that couldn't be any more distant from the truth. It's all about doing things properly. Some database systems do this, and there are some that don't. We should acknowledge this fact.

It surely is not a waste of time or effort to educate people about the reality of the situation, especially those who may ignorantly be using a certain inferior product without even realizing that there are better alternative out there.
I don't think so, what bypasses this one? (besides sandbox and XSS Auditor trick)
The usual approach is to track acks or callbacks driven via user actions on the server-side. Adding a "guaranteed delivery" QoS will involve queuing, waiting and retrying on non-ack timers - and do so without abusing users' trust in your app.
Sort of.. We begged Dell for Linux/Ubuntu for years, and they finally give it to us.... Right after Ubuntu drove away a huge portion of their users with the Unity/Precise fiasco. Big corporations, always a lap behind.
Rumor: Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
I have to add that Haskell lightweight thread takes about 75 words of memory (even with some small stack). Those are one of most smallest threads in contemporary PLs.
Cartoon Cosmetic Surgery
No one says he's not allowed to be upset, Facebook DID do a mistake here, and it is legitimate to be angry about it. But calling names and posting a public tantrum about it is not the way to get it fixed; Facebook is not "stealing", they just did a mistake they need to correct, and if they don't react there are ways to request a chargeback or report fraud.
I don't have to be extorted by companies that want me to pay extra for bug fixes, or ignored by companies that won't fix bugs at all. If a bug concerns/affects me enough, I can fix it myself, or hire someone to fix it. (yes that's still paying someone to fix the bug, but to me it's different)

And if I do fix a bug myself, I can make a patch available to others so they can benefit as well.

Ultimately, it's about control of my resources.
Thanks. That clarifies it. I got this confused with the seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, wherein you count the number of people who know each other between you and the actor.
Facebook is "about" people as much as Soylent Green is...

But nevertheless, culturally I would expect Facebook to understand human communication and the need for customer service better than Google.
The Lessons of Zombie-Mania
I doubt google-copy-paste is the norm in movie studios. Movie studios must be very conscious of copyright infringement. Certainly for audio tracks and works of art showing up in movies, they make sure they will not be sued if the movie is successful.

For source code, I don't know how far copyright stretches. Does it apply to the textual form at all? For example, if this this code is GPL-ed, and you buy a copy on DVD, would ey be required to give you the source on demand?
Dot compare to industry averges. The control has to be one of your own mailings. Was this your first mailing?

To give you perspective on mail chimps industry average, I never get any less than 60% higher than the average. It's an useless metric.
http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
And for all we know, it could be removed in further post-production now that he posted about it. I'd hate for that to be the case though, because this is pretty sweet!
Wouldn't increased budgets actually lead to much worse stuff since you have more employees and production steps and get afraid of the average joe not getting it. You get further and further from coherent artistic visions and jokes you find funny yourself.
Those games back then were not made for average people, because average people didn't even have PC:s. People who played them also had less other distractions so the games didn't need to be so in-your-face to get attention.
Yup - you're right. I must have misread things initially.
The difference here is that it appears we are meant to believe a character in the movie wrote the code. I may be wrong since it's hard to tell from a promo what is happening, except for LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS.
There must be a name for the logical fallacy of taking analogies way too literally.
Who called anybody a name?
That is not a prediction market since there are no prices.
1. In FLOSS you have more execution freedom. Well it all depends on ownership, size and way project is govern, but developer can always choose to fork or to contribute to other projects. You can't do that in big companies.

2. You can, mostly, work on ideas you think are worth doing. This is really awesome because worth is subjective term and only way to see you were right is to do it (your own way). "Talk is cheap, show me the code".

3. With right license you can take others code to fill parts of your project (either temporary or permanent). Helps in time consumption and agility. Ofc, you can always rewrite whenever and whatever you want. Some people think that reinwentihg the wheel is bad, but it all depends on situation. Sometimes it's even better then using bad code.

4. If you share code, someone will eventually modify it, so you can choose to integrate changes back (if worth merging). Only problem here is situation when people are using non-compatible licenses.

5. More hacker's culture in FLOSS in general.
I don't doubt it...at least not for desktop or web apps, which are the kind that I build most of the time.

Just this past Thursday, we found a new task that our call center would have to perform. I opened Visual Studio, created a new WinForms app and layed out the UI within 20 minutes. I emailed the screenshots to all the principles and got responses back within the hour.
Sierra was just as big if not bigger in graphic adventures. Same with Origin in space shooters.
Techcrunch infographics 2005-2012
Yeah, what's also funny is how the goalposts keep moving. This stuff was initially sold as not harmful to beneficial insects like bees. Now, it's "OK, we know for a fact that this stuff will kill bees. The question is, how many?"
MSFT Gadgeteer - mixing kits and rapid prototyping with a sw library
same here, idk what to do now though!
I have not tried that, but most of the issues I address (if not all) would still be present since a packager/installer can't address them - only changes in the Haskell Platform itself can address these issues.
Liberté, égalité, farterai....ahh nevermind
Why would you expect it? Because there's 800+ million people using it? As I keep saying, they don't actually understand social. They're looking at $ numbers, and that's all.
Obviously all this might be staged to divert our attention from the real shady stuff happening somewhere totally different :-)
Social Jobs Board - Twitter & Foursquare Mashup
Does AGPL have any notion of boundary between AGPL and non-AGPL software components? Something like a lesser/library GPL seems more fair: the 'LAGPL' components people use is open sourced to them, so the I/O network flaw of the [L]GPL is fixed, but the other parts of the product have their own license.

A regular GPL with a constraint on number-of-users seems fine for protecting the openness of a product intended for personal (non-hosting-provider) use, and pinry can license a commercial version for hosting providers.
It's a game development studio-- what's the rush? If the guy has the resources to follow inspiration, I think he's living a pretty good artist's life.
That's awesome! I've been playing around with some machine learning stuff recently, and because of my art background, I've been wanting to tackle similar stuff to this. Did you let your genetic algorithms run on real-life paintings? i.e. Did they get refine after making a physical model, or did you do the refinement and evolution before it got the physical creation phase?
How Machiavelli Saved My Family
But according to his post, he did try other ways first.
'Users' and 'public' are being blurred in this thread.
Thanks for the clarification. I get it now. With respect to the paper, technically, it can't be a single author paper :-p
You don't really need to be author of a "famous" library. Just having a body of high quality code on display (even if not used by a lot of people), sets you apart from the majority of programmers.
That's why usury was traditionally a Jewish profession in the Middle Ages--they were the only ones allowed to do it (and sometimes it was the only thing they were allowed to do).
Renaissance artists didn't do much actual painting. They just sketched what they wanted, mixed colours, and had students do the rest. This is basically the same thing, only with abstract art. If this isn't art, then the renaissance didn't have any artists.
Hum, that makes it even more convoluted :)
If you are the only user, it is technically impossible for you do violate copyright, because you aren't publishing anything to anyone, you are just consuming content provided to you.

If you are permitted to download, you are permitted to move the dowoaded file around for yourself.
> if they want to be taken seriously as a gaming company

I don't think that they necessarily do, though. At least, it doesn't seem to be a high priority.
Wikimedia France just published an article (in English) with more details: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/dcri-threat-a-sysop-to-delete-a-wik...

What's distressing about this is that they found a French Wikipedia sysop who they could identify in real life and "summoned" him to their offices (I presume from the language it was a summons he couldn't refuse). Then forced him to delete it there and then, despite no prior connection to the article, or else be detained.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of them wanting to delete the article, or whether it had super-secret information, there is only really one response to what they did; What. The. Fuck.

The precedent they are setting is something like "if you are involved in a website where someone else does something we consider problematic, you could be in trouble. If we feel like it".
Don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but fraudulent transactions[1] == "theft" in the colloquial/moral sense where I'm from. Malice is not requisite to defraud.

[1] I charge you for services but do not provide them.
Great--another graph that simplifies political discourse into a few vague terms that are, themselves, highly politicized.

Even if something like this were somehow representative of the range of political discourse, I struggle to see what real value it would bring. I agree that we should not allow others to set the rules of a political discussion as a choice between X and not X, but how is limiting ourselves to thinking in terms of just three criteria, instead of just one, much better?
Actually, it looks like he's paying with PayPal. Even better. He can just stop the billing agreement with them and that will stop the charges.
Figuratively speaking. "facebook steals, facebook doesn't care about people, all facebook cares is money" is stretching it a bit for what should essentially have been "facebook makes a mistake involving money and neglects to correct it".
">no formal definition of security properties, no formal threat model, analysis that is limited to a specific attack strategy

Why would they do that?"

So that we can determine whether or not the system is secure before we commit to it. Replacing insecure cryptosystems is usually very expensive.

"the system has not been defeated in any meaningful capacity. That is a strong indicator of security."

As far as the Germans knew, Enigma had not be broken in any "meaningful capacity" either. They knew there were weaknesses but they did not believe anyone would go to the lengths required to exploit those weaknesses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TICOM

Saying "well it has not been broken yet (as far as we know)!" is not a very good argument for security. Even AES has better arguments for security, based on models and heuristics that took many decades of work to develop.

"This is by far one of the biggest achievements in applied computer science in the last 25 years"

More than CAT scans? More than the Internet? Even if we limit ourselves to cryptography, it is clear that that is untrue. What do you think sees more widespread use: Bitcoin, or Kerberos? What do you think had a wider impact on the world: Bitcoin, or HBO encrypting its satellite feeds (for those who are not familiar, that was a major step toward widespread DRM)?

Bitcoin as an application of cryptography or computer science is not even a blip on the radar of achievement.
They will respect requests to not index an image, if their fair use is challenged.
Core, Simple, Launch
For sure, Facebook is negligently charging this man's credit card, and there's nothing wrong with focusing on profits.

But corporations love to talk about acting ethical, changing society for the better, wanting to "help connect people", and other random PR babble. But let's not forget that corporations are here to make $$$, full stop.
Just a public service announcement: trademark holders can't seize the centuries-old common English language for their private use.
The problem with your logic is that it assumes everyone is forthright and honest, even with tremendous amounts of money involved. We know what history and human nature teach us about that assumption.

These pesticides were initially sold as unharmful or minimally toxic to bees. Now that we are using it, we have experts telling us that it will absolutely kill bees. That's a pretty dramatic distinction.

Do you honestly believe that in all of their "thinking and experimenting more than twice", no one ever observed that this stuff killed bees and, on the contrary, everyone actually believed it to be unharmful to them?
Selection, yes. Natural? Do you somehow imply that technology that "wins" mass adoption is "better"? Or that it gains mass adoption based on rational analysis of its "value"? There are quite a few unnatural forces at play, here...
I highly recommend Mikrotik to anyone fed up with traditional consumer wifi routers/APs. I dont know how they compare to other vendor hw eg Asus + OpenWRT, but this little guy has been rock solid and a joy to use: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Consider licensing copies of pinry to hosting companies, so users can get one hosting service with all their apps, instead of maintaining so many services with separate billing, etc.
Andy Warhol had a Factory of people working for him too. Damien Hirst does now as well. It's not uncommon at all for artists to do residencies with big name artists. Have you ever had a gallery show? Let alone a whole museum at your disposal to do something with creatively - it's a ton of work, even for a group of people.

I'm agreeing with you though, this is art. Sometimes, so is my mom's cooking.
A bit unfortunate choice of name? I immediately connected it to moot, the founder of 4chan - and flamewars and trolling were the other connotations. Might just be me though. The concept looks neat!
Sometimes the mind boggles how companies like Google or Apple with its iMessages, who have all the ducks in a row, are so slow to capitalize on these things.

WhatsApp and most clones are pretty terrible, it is used solely because of network effects. But apparently two years is quick enough to reach escape velocity and lock it in. They are likely to get that billion.
That would make for a very nice middle finger to Facebook if they pull this off (allegedly they attempted to acquire WhatsApp before)

But $1 billion? I'm not sure if that evaluation is entirely justified. It has a pretty large user base, granted, but there's practically nothing that warrants people will continue using it in the next 5 years.
Why is the answer not “HTML5 sandbox cannot compensate for non-security-minded developers”? After reading this and the discussion, the only thing which seems certain is that the vk.com developers need to set XFO.
Anybody think WhatsApp will still be here in a year or two?
Despite the name 501(c)(3), exempt Non-Profits are also about making...profits. It is a giant misconception that non-profits can not make profits, but the reality is that many do make profits. The difference with the non-profit is that there are no shareholders (owners)so profits are not distributed to anyone, instead the profits sit in the 501(c)(3) bank account until they are used.

Also, local and municipal governments are not eligible for 501(c)(3) exemption, they may obtain tax exempt status, as you reference, but it is under different section of the IRS Code.
Adam Savage, from Mythbusters, said exactly this in a recent Wired:

"Under the Gun: When Less Time Can Mean Better Problem-Solving"

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/under-the-gun/
Oh, also, that's a comment. That's for discussing the value of the example question. There's no "example answer". Once the site launches then there will be proper Qs and As
Study on Facebook & Racism
It's a correlation that the researchers are making, not causation. It's still disturbing.
Gists are bookmarks with context
It probably isn't just like Instagram wasn't but companies like WhatsApp like to play hard ball and negotiate higher bids because they know they're in demand and Google would rather overpay to gain an advantage then starting from scratch. Google talk isn't used much!
Simply deleting the article doesn't erase it from the internet. If the content is really that important people who want it badly enough can still find it in archives and old database dumps.
Please see my other comments in this thread.
>>American organizations appear to bend over backward to be of service to American intelligence interests around the world, but tend to act arrogantly if approached by local authorities over local matters, to the extend of openly violating the law of the country they're operating in.

Why is it that this makes what the French authorities did OK? Your argument boils down to "He did it so I should be able to do it too?" What kind of screw up logic is that. Seriously, W.T.F. We are not talking about kids here.
Great lesson, thank you for this.
another +1. I'm on a x230 with SSD and everything is flawless.
Use more recent notebook with a bad display. Much less power needed, and you can get one for free or really cheap. Or use that three-year old notebook you've replaced, and turn off the display.
Facebook Home is the big privacy concern this week? Really?
To take the code focus for a second, this would be a great win for Erlang in that it would put a very high-profile Erlang powered app inside Google.
I hope Stack Exchange doesn't rule with an iron fist about on topic questions.

If I ask how to determine the resistor for an LED, I have a feeling they will close it as "Not specific to Arduino, go to the general Electrical Engineering exchange".

One of the hardest parts of learning something new is just trying to get bearings on the type of questions to ask, and getting extremely specific with question categorization does nothing but hurt those trying to learn.
The PS4 That Might Have Been
Second this, graphics-driver is an issue under Mint. Apart from this the E335 is wonderful.
I really thought Skype would snap this one up.
Outside of the US WhatsApp rules with an iron fist. Every non-tech person I know uses it. I hear it dropped in casual conversation at the table next to me in restaurants. It's got a public mindshare greater than Skype. And once all your friends are on it, it's not so easy to switch.
You should try Talk.to - http://talk.to

Disclaimer: I am the lead dev for the android product.
Another related problem is that FB won't let you remove all credit cards from your FB account once you've added one and/or run ads--at least not through the site. I have yet to try contacting them.

I can see this logic if you have recently run ads that must settle, but even after months or years of inactivity, a card must stay on your account.
You mean Microsoft? Skype belongs to them for quite some time now.

Edit: Not sure why the downvote, Skype does belong to Microsoft, and for Skype to go after WhatsApp now would mean Microsoft has to actively pursue it, which given their track record of acquisitions seems a bit unlikely as opposed to Skype independently doing acquisitions.
> Are you saying mental illness makes someone broken, like a cripple? Foucault! Come quick!

Yes, I am saying that the way that we treat people who have mental health issues discourages them even further.

> Aren't enough jobs for what?

I have friends from college who had to move back in with their parents because they literally could not find a job. They applied everywhere, even McDonalds. No work.

> If you had 5 open jobs for every person in the country, the same people would still be homeless.

No, they wouldn't. _Some_ people would be, there's always the travel punk kids. But even your hypothetical is giving me a decision between rational choices. You left off the 'the voices from your paranoid schizophrenia are so loud that all you can do is lie there in a ball' option.
Where does he say this makes it ok?

It makes it easier to understand why they picked this approach. It is possible to try to understand someones motivations without supporting them.
Building Games for the Long Term
I think that whilst there are relevant SEs, the question will be moved the appropriate one if the people are as helpful as stackoverflow (all I have experience of). Which is fine, because it's in the right subject and gets the best possible answer without duplication.

The trouble comes with knowing where to ask. Lucky stackexchange has a searchbox that covers all sites.
I've appeared in one short film (with a cast of no one you've ever heard of), and I have a Bacon Number of 3. I would be surprised to if there are many contemporary people with a number higher than 4. The higher numbers tend to be people who were in older movies.
Idle power consumption, measured at the plug by a watt meter:

Dell Optiplex (1.4GHz Pentium III): 32W ($5.76/month @ $0.25/KWh)

Mac Mini (1.25GHz G4): 17W ($3.06/month @ $0.25/KWh)

Even if a WRT54G uses zero watts, you're still talking about a year before you even recover the $50 cost of one, and in any event ~$50/year is not a very expensive hobby.
This is my sister and cofounder's GDC presentation. It includes a lot of competitive data on Kongregate games to make a point about how long term retention is the really profitable basis for a free to play game.
If google acquires them, they won't be there as WhatsApp anymore. Probably a better integration of gtalk is to be expected 'soon'.
Cognitive biases and the trouble with moral local shopping
I have often wondered why, when you have a MacBook Air or Pro that the Linux user doesn't run OS X as the host and Linux in a virtual machine?

Can anyone explain why this setup isn't more mainstream among those that prefer Linux?
Really, finding a few examples of 7000k hour violin players discredits the 10k hour rules? It's an estimate, not a mission to mars.

Are you also offended by astronomers getting the mass of a star, or geologists measuring the amount of oil in a well wrong? They would be delighted to get the order of magnitude right.
Yep. Got an interview for a software engineer position after someone looked at my Github, when a repo of mine was trending overall. I've got an Art degree, and no formal CS training - but the internet is a powerful and beautiful place.
And here is a link to the automatic translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js...
What recommendations do people here have for an entry level commercial router instead of a high consumer level router?
google would buy http://mightytext.net/ - iMessage for android founders by ex-googlers.
Here's an article about the site with interesting photos... it's in French but use Google Translate to get the gist.

http://j28ro.blogspot.com/2012/09/la-station-hertzienne-mili...