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I'm not taking any risks. I'm in the process of moving my email back to self-hosted email from Google Apps. IMO the biggest problem with Google is they have too many products. They seem to behave like "well, our search engine works so our other products must too!".

Rather than producing a few world-class products, Google produces hundreds of mediocre products that only seem world-class because they have the shiny Google logo on them.

Honestly, Google is probably doing the right thing cleaning up all these products, but they'll just introduce new ones. Meanwhile, my confidence and attitude towards Google erodes every day.
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For anyone curious, the NWA lyrics:

> "Now, getting back to the PG, that's program, and it's easy"

Means "Parental Guidance".

> Unlike most songs on the album and by N.W.A, the song is almost devoid of profanity and violent content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Yourself_(N.W.A_song)
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The NZ government basically responded to the spying claims with "Whoops..you caught us. Guess now we'll have to make the spying legal..."
You shouldn't blame the Government for enforcing its laws.

I would like for competition to be more open than it is, but I pay my taxes and would like others to do so too.
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What gives you the impression that Hollywood is behind it? The BoingBoing article completely misrepresents what is in the paper, so I would not be surprised if they got that part wrong, too. Have you read it? It proposes protecting American companies from foreign entities stealing our technology and using it to develop products.

Here are the members of The Commission of the Theft of American Intellectual Property, the commission that authored the paper:

Dennis C. Blair (co-chair), former Director of National Intelligence and Commander in Chief
of the U.S. Pacific Command
•	Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. (co-chair), former Ambassador to China, Governor of the state of Utah,
and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

•	Craig R. Barrett, former Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation

•	Slade Gorton, former U.S. Senator from the state of Washington, Washington Attorney General,
and member of the 9-11 Commission

•	William J. Lynn III, CEO of DRS Technologies and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

•	Deborah Wince-Smith, President and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness

•	Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington and former Deputy Under Secretary
of State

Which of those is from the MPAA?
I love to write software, but unfortunately, I don't think that will solve the problem at hand, which is the MPAA's DRM lobby. They have millions and millions of dollars' worth of support behind them.

What's a few hundred hackers to a huge industry? If we want to really make a difference, we need all the support we can get. Perhaps even start an organization to lobby against the MPAA/RIAA similar to what sinak has done, but with far greater support.

How many times will this happen? People must wake up.
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I'm glad somebody brought up Red Hat. I can't believe Canonical is mentioned in a similar context as Mozilla and Red Hat is forgotten. If we were talking about Google or Amazon, however...
FTA:
" ... an ordinary person can perceive a million different hues of colors."

and

"... the hues familiar to trichromats fracture further into more subtle shades of differences that have not been given names since most of us are trichromats who cannot see these shades and name them."

Wait, we have a million named colors? Or a significant fraction of a million? I'm assuming they aren't referring to naming conventions like #ff6600.
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At this point, does it even matter? This lobby still has the backing of the entertainment industry, and it doesn't matter if it's stolen IP, trying to create an exemption for installing rootkits on remote machines is the entertainment industry's dream.
Audits.
I think there's something of an ulterior motive behind these stories.

They present Chinese ingenuity in a charmingly harmless way - uneducated but plucky tinkerers, building some madcap machine out of scrap. In doing so, they subtly misrepresent Chinese industry by omission. China is rapidly transitioning away from low-skill, low-margin manufacturing to high-skill, high-margin R&D. The old jokes about Chinese R&D being a photocopier are wearing increasingly thin, as firms like Huawei become global players.

The article opens with the line "One visible sign of China's recent economic growth is the rise in prominence of inventors and entrepreneurs.", as if the photos that follow are in any way representative of invention in China. The real story is that Chinese R&D investment now amounts to over $160bn/yr and is set to surpass that of the US within the decade.

I'm reminded of the aphorism "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." It seems we're still laughing at the 700m Chinese citizens who are uneducated peasants, rather than preparing to fight the 700m who are urbanised and increasingly well-educated.
In quebec's case, especially Montreal, renters have all the power. It is fairly trivial to rent a place and never pay rent, and have laws essentially guarantee it take a not insubstantial amount of time to get you removed. So no, in this case, the government ones so much for its citizens that I'm actually surprised thy are siding against airbnb here. Considering everything else they can get away with.
Just out of curiosity, is there an open source twitter-like protocol?
The vast majority of them could be built in the US with no involvement from the government (excluding busy-body local government called by your neighbors). Actually, I'm not sure any of them couldn't be built in the US. China doesn't have a monopoly on questionably safe experimental craft. Now selling them, that's another matter.

I know a couple people who have built and flown questionably safe ultralights without a knock from homeland security and many, many people who have built gigantic contraptions/vehicles for Burning Man that are just as crazy as anything presented here.
Disruption is great. Disruption means doing something else is doing, but much better.

AirBNB -- in this context -- isn't being disruptive to the hotel industry. They're doing the same thing, but _worse_. Where legal hotels have consumer protections (like definitely not having lead paint and definitely sufficient fire escapes), AirBNB... doesn't. Where hotels (and B&Bs, etc.) follow zoning rules to make sure they're good neighbors, AirBNB... doesn't.

Now, these rules don't work all the time. They probably can be improved. But don't act like they're merely regulatory capture. That's an aspect, but consumer protections are real. AirBNB isn't doing the same thing better, but doing a different thing worse.
The copyright cartel these days is indistinguishable from the pirates they lobby against. In fact, I think I trust the pirates more lately.
Well, DMCA was back in 1998.
The flow of human events isn't bound to individuals. Names merely get played up in the remembering, and the events downplayed. E.g., America was going to revolt regardless of whether T.J., et al had ever been born. Really amazing that a war is misremembered as activism....pass the K-Y.
Sure maybe 20 years ago it might of been alright, but you can tell APN is going down the drain as no one is buying newspapers anymore, hence they post utter garbage articles that gain peoples attention for 2 seconds in hope that someone will actually buy it.

A good example is a friend of mine got mentioned on a headline of sharing naked pictures of some celebrity in a Facebook group. They mentioned all the companies he worked/associated as well to make it more juicy.

The article was complete BS as it was actually someone else and the picture itself wasn't even that bad (no naked bits). He basically got sacked from all his employers since they mentioned them.

He got his lawyer to send down a takedown notice, and they removed the article off their website and had to post a following article in the paper saying that the article was a load of BS.
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lol do people still read that?
I'm not sure we need be this terrified. Gear-heads made similar claims about freedom as cars became more complicated and less user-serviceable. But you know what? While cars have their issues, and are indeed now more difficult to service, they have continued to get better- a lot better. The last totally user-serviceable cars were made in the 60's and early 70's. Many of the improvements come from improvements to manufacturing, but the sophisticated electronic control systems are integral.

Now, the internet is of course not an automobile. But my point is, batshit insane legislation aside, perhaps maintaining the maximum amount of freedom is not as valuable as we think? I'd hate to be stuck with late 60's cars.
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As much as I appreciate Stallman, videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ show him as eccentric for reasons that go well beyond sticking to principle.
I don't even care what the true intent of the lobby group is. Once in effect, the laws will hit little Timmys, perhaps with a little help of outspoken lawyers painting Timmy as evil as a Chinese spy.

The "three strikes" was intended for violent criminals, not little Timmy who smokes a joint with his friends. Guess how that turned out.
They tried it, and it seems to go pretty well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_root_kit
I agree with all the points made in this, and it reflects my experiences with building an angularJS app. However, I left with a very positive view of angular, technologies should have a learning curve (rather than a learning wall) and angular is my favorite SPA framework for this reason.
Which YC companies have exited at or have valuations of at least $40m?
Cry me a river. There are much more comprehensive reviews on Airbnb than you'll get for most hotels.

This is regulatory capture under the guise of consumer protection; nothing more.
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Competitive disruption with substantial negative externalities considered harmful.

Yours is a convenient, feel-good, but ultimately incorrect and intellectually insufficient narrative. As is any narrative where one side is the altruistic freedom fighter and the other side might as well have vampire fangs on. The world isn't this simple.

This isn't directed strictly at you - it's a general attitude in the Silicon Valley echo-chamber that I find grating. Have we issued so many press releases extolling our own virtues that we now completely believe it ourselves? Are we so enamored with ourselves that we can't imagine any other reason for people not liking what we do except pure greed and unmitigated corruption?

Hell, I like AirBnb. I use it. But let's not pretend that there are no problems with it, and that there are no legitimate reasons to object to it.
>> But start infecting people's computers, and a portion of them are going to fight back. <<

I already fought back. I don't watch movies, nor TV. No cable, no Netflix, no movie theaters, no nothing. Fsck 'em.

You want to do the same? Stop watching their lowest common denominator tripe and read a book or make something up for yourself. When they have no money they'll go away. And what will we have lost? Wasted hours sitting in front of their junk.
I kind of hope this happens, just to increase the demand for real security. In the short term it would make things worse, but in the long run we'd end up with market pressure to give individuals control over their own resources (both protection from corporate control and from incompetent implementation).
Your analogy is completely flawed. Automakers aren't putting root exploits in vehicles that allow override by the government when it detects you're going to an "unauthorized" music dealer.

And are late 60's cars really that bad? There weren't any of the fallback mechanisms we take for granted, such as airbags, so people drove better. Styling is questionable, but many cars on the road look and drive like bloated, lifeless wagons. The cars were actually fun to drive...

Maybe I'm being romantic about 60's vehicles, but if you care to argue, please do so.
I agree, whole purpose of those learning is to improve thinking ability and problem solving skills, but it also intention of learner, which makes difference.
Rootkits are a thing. They're neither good nor bad. That value is supplied subjectively within different contexts, no?

Would I want the RIAA/MPAA to install rootkits in media files that are distributed to customers? Absolutely not.

Would I want the ability to install rootkits in engineering schematics and documentation that are never intended to be distributed outside of my organization and are only activated in cases where data theft has occurred? Absolutely.
If you're not going to trust that Google will keep a service around for 2+ years, why would you try some random startup to be around in 2 years time?
Indeed. I'm old enough to remember when everybody in the US laughed at Japanese cars and the idiots who were foolish enough to buy them.
The dinosaurs running the entertainment industry wouldn't know innovation if it smacked them in the face.
Yes, that photo of Mr. Jifa should appear in the dictionary under "Karma." Fishing with dynamite is a pretty lame-ass thing to do.
The proposals that allow select private companies to deploy destructive software which would land other people in jail very quickly is that crazy. Notion that it is somehow OK to kidnap my property because somebody thinks I owe them some money is that crazy. We have courts and due process for that. We can see how they are abused by copyright trolls (see Prenda Law case, for example, but there are many more). I can't even describe how much more abuse will be invited if cyber-criminal tactics would be made legal for them. It is that crazy and more, and no amount of moral panic about supposed foreign spies who steal all our R&D can justify any of it.
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Why fight when you can co-opt them?

Rather than thinking the chinese as just competition, we should also think of them as a world asset.
> And your answer is Stallman?

Stallman is absolutely part of the answer.

Sure, not everybody can be RMS and live the way he does. He's still correct about the importance of values he's staked out and made a lifelong effort to demonstrate and respect. And to the GP's point, when you have content producers arguing they need legalized malware to police every machine, it makes it all the more obvious how much we need voices insisting on user freedom.

> More of those outliers that get lampooned in every media outlet for railing against the status quo?

While I agree it's good for activists to consider how their messaging might be received by various audiences, the fact that media outlets -- and even everyday citizens or presumably otherwise intelligent commentators on HN -- tend to collapse people to caricatures may not be an indictment of activists.

> Otherwise get back on the bench with the rest of us, because all your whining about mass media and celebrity culture is just that.

You've managed to work up a good froth of whine yourself there for somebody complaining about whining -- apparently summoned up to promote the ethic of more quiet frustration.

Even if effective political action can't let its end be posts on a website, it starts with people talking to each other. Maybe even here.
You can learn a lot of graph theory in your early undergraduate years. Only the most difficult problems are really graduate/post-graduate fodder.
When arbitrary limits like "18+ years old to get paid to report bugs" come up, I look first to the legal system for blame. Consider that these bug bounties are going to be filed with the IRS and all that: these bug bounties are regulated, and with labor involved, it'll be more highly regulated for minors. I'm guessing there's some extra legal hassle to pay minors for their bug reports that paypal doesn't currently consider worth dealing with.
I wonder if the role was anything but token - I would imagine the political pressures of dealing with such a multi-headed beast as Yahoo would be enough to dull any overarching creative expression.

Prime example of where politics stymies design/UX: 8 years after acquisition, Flickr still requires its users sign in via a Yahoo pop-up.
Flatdoc seems useful and clean. I'm in the process of cleaning up & packaging Sinatra/Sphinx/email app for a semi-technical set of users and this seems a bit clearer and easier for them to navigate. Nothing replaces actually reading the whole README, but if you're not used to it I think it can be a bit intimidating for some people. I especially like the zero server side aspect, I'm trying to keep the dependencies for my app as minimal as possible for me.
Hopefully it is something bigger, i cant believe a simple website update deserve a special talk in RubyKaigi
You may not need power from the failed battery, but the thermal runaway scenario sounds rather terrifying. Sort of like a nuclear power plant in meltdown. Having read that Aviation Week article, my inclination would be to use nickel-cadmium and just deal with the extra weight, which is only a factor of two. But my job is not to design airplanes.
Maybe Parsey was part of the problem and Mayer is pushing him out.
Why exactly do you want to fight them?
I would also want the ability to shoot anybody I dislike at will, but make it so no one else would have this ability. But fortunately for our civilization, it is not rules by what I like. That's why if you suspect somebody stole a car from you, you can not just make it blow up - you have to call the police. If you suspect somebody stole a software from you, should you be allowed to blow up their computer? In the same vein, definitely not. In the light of abundant copyright abuse we are witnessing now, I am astonished to see anybody even considers this idea to be sane.
Sure, I agree entirely. However, is that what's being advocated here, by parties concerned by such a thing? If so, the headline is incredibly misleading.
If I ever find a rootkit on my system stemming from a company that thinks they can do stuff like this, and it is legal, it is to a demonstration that the law is not worthy of any respect any more, and that it is time for war. And given the resource discrepancy, the only way of fighting back against companies like this would be to cause vastly disproportionate amounts of damage. I'm sure getting rootkits into their networks wouldn't be all that hard.
Good. Keep it coming. For those who are interested further, here are the release notes to see "What’s new in Django 1.6" http://j.mp/13XRnoD
It's also to protect the integrity of the neighborhoods and the well-being of those who live around them.

I own a home, pay residential taxes and expect to have homeowners or tenants living next door. When my neighbor is running an unregulated flophouse, usually without paying sales, lodging and other taxes my property and I suffers.

People who operate hotels have to comply with all sorts of burdensome regulation. Some of that regulation is guided by local zoning (max size, parking demand), others by safety (fireproofing measures, security), others by revenue needs (ie. lodging tax).
After dilution it will be more like 3%.
No, this paper is a mimicry of an actual paper, it is analogous to fool's gold.
That would be my guess as well. Seems like a great time to be at Yahoo, hard to imagine anybody in a prominent role leaving by choice right now.
Not really, it's about a company choosing to ignore the law. Craigslist did the same thing for years with respect to advertising for "erotic services".

If the company's strategy for this issue is to declare that "users must be aware of local regulation" while providing thousands of listings in heavily regulated cities like New York City, they're probably going to hit some speedbumps.
I'm not claiming to be an expert but:

Ubuntu is built on top of Debian with some different parts and added stuff.

Ubuntu is more bleeding edge than Debian (unless you use Debian Sid).

Ubuntu is supposely more user friendly and gear toward desktop. Debian is supposely gear toward server but I've used Debian as a desktop before and server. I mean all the magical stuff Ubuntu have you can install on to Debian.
We actually have an explicit concept of Golden Retrievers and their origins as an Animal Breed within the subset of the knowledge graph that we expose with a permissive license: http://www.freebase.com/m/01t032

The data is available for querying as well as licensed such that you can take it and build your own commercial database with it (requiring only attribution).
I probably wasn't clear enough, but I wasn't trying to compare cars to rootkits. I agree this rootkit thing is ridiculous. Rather, I was thinking about the general idea that ordinary Joes ought to be as worried about freedom as we are being.

Late 60's cars are not horrific or anything like that. But be realistic- the performance, longevity, emissions, driveability, and weight of engines have all come a very very long way, and in my personal experience a multitude of other characteristics have made leaps and bounds as well, such as suspension- though that is mostly just more sophisticated now, rather than more electronic.

I love old sports cars, and I love their soul. But if we are talking engineering, ground yourself- take a gander at this article: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/soccer-moms-reveng...
This is the most exciting and interesting thing in the release:

Persistent database connections

Django now supports reusing the same database connection for several requests. This avoids the overhead of re-establishing a connection at the beginning of each request. For backwards compatibility, this feature is disabled by default. See Persistent connections for details.
If the production server is running as a VM to begin with, how hard is it to take a snapshot of the whole VM and replicate that? (It does sort of break down if you have a database that's continuously updated and you want to try to have a continuously updated copy of the database, though.)
Did you read the paper or just the BoingBoing article? The part about the rootkit and active network defense referenced by the BoingBoing article come from chapter 13 of the paper, which deal with targeted cyber espionage attacks. If Timmy is the target of that section, then Timmy has bigger issues to deal with.
That's a valid concern. I'm not asking to go with a totally unheard-of outfit, but we can take a call depending on the particular use case. For instance, as a note-taking app I've stuck with Evernote for 2+ years now, and I don't see a reason to switch to Google Keep. I love the single-sign-on and all the auto-integration goodies that come as a part of Google suite, but that is not what you are always looking for.
That is interesting. The reason it hasn't changed is convertible notes. Now most of the fundraising immediately after Demo Day is on notes. Since a note doesn't establish a valuation, we add zero to the total valuation for those companies. So the number you get by dividing the total valuation by 511 ends up being pretty conservative; it's equivalent to assuming all the companies that have raised money on notes will go out of business.

The average valuation of the 268 of those 511 companies that have valuations (by being acquired, raising an equity round, or going out of business, in which case it's zero) is $43 million.
The headline is incredibly misleading. Please read chapter 13 of the paper.