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However, as an american I can agree with the sentiment of a foreign citizen that we are the only ones who can effect change in our own government, centrally not him... unless he encourages us to be less complacent by restricting what we can do in his country.

I welcome this myself because I have a hard time raising interest in doing anything even amongst my friends. I can't even get people to follow a few easy steps to secure their email, much less march on the NSA.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"all men" is not ambiguous. It didn't say all Americans.
I think Rayiner is a consequentialist (as I am) - judging by quality of outcomes. This doesn't work for everything (since we lack foresight), so I'm a reluctant deontologist, in general; but lacking an obvious or enforceable ontology, consequentialism all the way, baby.
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Totally agree. Samsung makes great hardware, but consistently fails at putting decent firmware/software on it. I've had numerous Samsung smartphones and all have performed so much better with pure Android vs. the Samsung "improved" Android.

Their TVs seem to be getting better at least. Some previous Samsung TV's I've owned have been atrocious in the UI department.
I know you're just trolling, but I'll comment anyway, because it's important to set the record straight.

The vast majority of founders are not spoiled rich kids playing with daddy's money. The vast majority of founders take a massive risk when they go all in on a startup. Before getting funding, most bootstrap for years, neglecting family, friends, vacation, working 14 hour days, all for a business idea they believe in. The equity a founder gets is small compensation for giving up years of his life. Even after raising money, a founder will continue to live on subsistence wages, giving up the opportunity cost of a cushy 6 figure job. In pretty much every venture backed startup, the founders are some of the lowest paid employees at the company. Most of the funded startup founders I know make less than $50K, which is a big improvement from the minimum wage salary they paid themselves in the first two years of the startup.

When your startup falls, there's not some kind of cushy EIR gig waiting for you at the friendly VC. Unless you're a tech celebrity, you're lucky to get an entry level PM job at a Google or Facebook. Source: Dozens of founders I know who raised money and failed.

Your portrayal of all founders and investors as some kind of scheming robber barons is insulting and incredibly demeaning to every single entrepreneur on this forum.

Guess what: founders are regular programmers, just like you. And they deserve every last bit of equity they get.
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The 'monster' of our government is probably not a partisan issue in this particular case, but the growth in government size and power, and the erosion of individual civil liberties have always been done via large steps done by, predominately, liberals (most notably FDR, in my opinion).

That isn't to say that the Republicans aren't culpable, but in implementing the tools used to carve out more power for the government (abuse of the commerce clause, general welfare clause, contracts clause, etc.), you can almost exclusively look to the liberals for blame.

I should also point out that while I'll pile equal amounts of blame (but for different reasons) to both liberals and conservatives, I lay the blame at the feet of the citizenry pretty squarely, for not knowing what they're voting for, not bothering to check on who they're voting in, and for routinely voting in the better looking candidate, or believing rhetoric without comparing to voting records, and for continually violating Tytler's dilemma, which suggests that a democracy can only last so long as the citizenry doesn't realize it can vote itself favors from the public largesse.
Sounds like our representation system is entirely broken, I'm not sure how fixing the media would change that.
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If you ever think of doing this STOP, watch this video http://vimeo.com/22053820 and then reconsider.

Better yet, watch that video now, hire a lawyer like every other freelancer on the planet and avoid such a mess entirely!
Do you worry about spam? e.g. people using your service to upload typo-squatted songs, or stolen music. It seems like it would be difficult to police 10 bad actors with the revenue from 5000.

It seems iTunes already has this problem. See "Time of your Life" by Greedy. LOL.
The absolute value of the startup when the founders and investors get involved (literally, founding the startup and investing in it) is often 1-2 orders of magnitude less than the value of the startup when the first employee is hired. So an employee may get 1/100th the equity of a founder, but still get more on an absolute basis.
If you make the magic string an HMAC of the user's name and some secret, then they should be non-transferrable.
10x insert performance improvement seems very small considering this simple benchmark someone did:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15151554/comparing-mongod...

MongoDB: 0m0.618s
RethinkDB: 2m2.502s

Although as stated in that post, this is likely because of the different fsync() policies between the two databases.
I love my little Boxee v1 box. I may be a developer and I may love technology, but I utterly despise anything remotely related to hi-fi, and I want my stuff as plug-and-play as possible. My supposed "SmartTV" from Samsung sucked (aside from the iPlayer integration, which worked really well) -- but the boxee v1 worked a treat. Plug. Scan. Play.

The QWERTY remote was icing on the cake, to be honest.

Glad to see Samsung taking over; maybe now Netflix will work in the UK on it.
This feels to me more like a critique of fork() and the unixy process-oriented parallelism model than a critique of Python. Of course, the author mentions this as a caveat, but it makes me wonder if the blame is being laid where it should be (and also whether in some scenarios like this, you should really just build applications the way applications are normally built for a platform, no matter how much you dislike it)
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Didn't realize it was brought down. Which means I hadn't checked in quite a while. Which kind of makes sense as to why it was brought down (and it's not hard to imagine why), but did you ever write up a post-mortem or such?

"usethesource site:jgc.org" on Google just gave me the original post.
That one was for machine-printed addresses. I had the luck to hire the lead on that project in 1997 or 1998. The interview consisted of "teach me how that works."

Edit: Ah, after we worked together it looks as if he went back to pick up the hand-written addresses as well: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2985
I understand, I just wanted to point out it was transparent to the user.
Woah, that's low.
I fully agree. In the short term, I'd urge particular attention to the US-EU Free Trade Agreement talks that are underway at present. I'm strongly in favor of an FTA, but I think there's a lot to be learned from how the disparity between the US and EU laws on privacy are handled therein.

Over the long term, I really do think a constitutional amendment is necessary, which is a 10-year project at minimum.
It is downright stupid. The author is an idiot for doing this. And I don't call people idiots lightly. Presumably PG will block this site from accessing HN shortly.
I think this protest would get more international attention if it didn't focus on the amendments. In my country most people can't cite a single thing from our supreme law so we can't really relate to the obsession with the constitution.
You think low-level employees can stop a change like that? I talked to a Googler who used Reader; he's very upset about it, obviously, but said they internally communicated the reasons they were shutting down the service and they made sense.
> their people wouldn't be enslaved anymore as doing so would just be a waste of money and time.

Doesn't look like a big win to me. Native Americans were not very popular as slaves, so they were simply killed instead...
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MI5 had a nickname of "Box" or "Box500" because postal mail was sent to "PO Box 500".

The letter would be put in an envelope. That envelope would be addressed with a department (but not a name). That envelope would then be put in another envelope. The outside envelope would be sent to Box 500.

It is kind of weird that in the 21st century we're re-learning ancient tradecraft from retired spies.
>9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

So, under this definition, the GPL isn't an open-source license.
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Scope matters.

It’s quite different to assume that people can look at the outside of any particular letter, than it is to assume that people are building a database of all your mail, and doing social network analysis on it.

The results of the 2 actions are radically different, with radically different amounts of information gleaned.
Thanks for the optimization tip, but it was just to explain the idea :)
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Can we get independent verification of this? I've looked at all of my usual primary sources and I can't find third party confirmation.
Not entirely sure what you're implying here. Are you saying that a lot of people on HN are bad programmers or something? I'm certainly not a new programmer if that's what you mean, and I know a thing or two about rapid development of high quality code (having done it for about 30 years).
ya, life could get pretty rough if you had to enter your HN username too
I'd say an "implied license" would be contingent on payment. eg, if you verbally agree to let them use the code and quote them a fee, failure to pay the fee should definitely disqualify from that "implied license".

Same way as if I pick up a copy of windows from a shop without paying or figure out a way to download a valid windows license without paying - I don't have the license as I never actually paid for it, regardless of any agreements Microsoft might have written in the box about the license.
The whole HN password thing is sketchy, but I'm not super tied to my account so I went ahead and tried to register. It's telling me that my HN account doesn't exist, though. What's up with that??
This EIR thing† is one of the weirder beliefs he has about the startup market. I know hundreds of people involved with startups and many tens of founders, and I have never even heard of someone in my social network getting an EIR position.

The reality of EIR positions seems to be that they're places that VC firms park executives that they're almost willing to fund "on spec". That is: people who have already made them a shitload of money. I cannot find a way to give a shit about some VC firm paying a 50 year old former CEO to wait around for the next social cat picture startup to helm.

† He didn't say it here, but use the search box below to look for the phase "EIR sinecure"
Given that he was a former Apple employee and a Stanford graduate, I would hazard a guess that it was more likely that he left Apple and went to Yves Saint Laurent to gain insight into the fashion industry to return the knowledge back to Silicon Valley and Apple. As opposed to everyone claiming he's a fashion executive coming into the tech industry.
Reading this, as I prepare my list for tomorrow's product management meeting, having to decide our product's next ~6 months development priorities. Around 100 feature requests and our team's ideas we have to order, of which may be up to 5 major ones and/or 20-30 small ones can be actually developed. An easy task? Definitely not.

So it's a good question, when is it time to say yes?

It definitely depends on the product's stage and having reached or not reached a good product/market fit. There's also the question, have you already discovered a local maxima or is it a global one? And there's a mix of product owner's gut feeling and long-term vision vs proved market feedback.
I can't find anything either though at 88, it isn't too hard to believe.
Everytime I read things like this, I'm wondering why the US still has no strong Pirate Party.
(Yes, I know, Winner-takes-it-all-2-party-system..)

Are you guys not getting fed up at some point? Land of the free, please be it again.
In the U.S. at least, it may not even be blackmail. The precise boundaries of blackmail are a bit murky, but usually it's not blackmail if the debt is legitimate and the threatened retaliation is just to announce that the debt wasn't paid. That is probably true even if the announcement is intended to hinder the debtor's future business. Example: if a company writes you a letter demanding payment of an overdue bill, and threatens to put a black mark on your credit-report if you don't pay by $date, that isn't blackmail.

That said, it is probably better to avoid being near murky lines.
The vast majority of founders are not spoiled rich kids playing with daddy's money. The vast majority of founders take a massive risk when they go all in on a startup.

"The vast majority of founders" never take VC and aren't even working in a space that VCs will fund. I'm not talking about lifestyle businesses, which actually involve a lot of risk and sweat, I agree with you.

When your startup falls, there's not some kind of cushy EIR gig waiting for you at the friendly VC.

If you're VC-funded, there is. If you never get funding in the first place, then what you say is correct, there's no guarantee of anything.

By the way, the fact that it's unfair I don't believe to be worth complaint. My problem is that we've ended up supporting a game that actually increases and perpetuates inequality by making pre-selected rich kids look like they earned it.

In fact, the real respect goes to the risk-taking, unfundable, silent majority founders you described.
I don't understand how it's apples an oranges.
So your telling me right now the choice between Windows, OSX and Linux and the choice for security is somehow ambiguous? Both Microsoft and Apple have been directly passing data to the NSA. Where are the data leaks from Linux or other open source software. Open source software is a lot harder to control, not only do you have people with principles in play, your gonna have a tough time gaining control over decentralized systems.

Just remember if someone(like the NSA or any other skilled hacker) wants to get on to your computer they will, with enough time anything can be broken. So whats the solution let's pick Windows and never look back.
A good obfuscator can prevent that by breaking up the string literals and either scrambling or encoding them.
Nah, in the real world things pump monthly. I would never have serious expectations of a company to pay earlier than the 30th day of the month of the submitted bill.

Most likely I'd presume that I'd submit the bill on the Xth and the money would be sent back somewhere between the 1st and 5th of the next month. That's very standard for smaller businesses[1]. In other words, you might wind up with 6 weeks between invoicing and payment. You might find that they pay on the 15th instead of the 1st. Big whoop.

4-6 months is outrageous and amazingly uncommon.

[1] My father's a general contractor in construction; he's dealt with a ton of businesses of a variety of kinds and this is the SOP.
Don't. The Plex/LG relationship seems to have fallen apart completely, they're barely even updating MediaLink anymore.
There is an expectation of objectivity in journalism. I think being an activist makes it more difficult for readers to trust your objectivity. I'm not taking anything away from contributions from activists, they are often on the front lines, but that doesn't mean they are journalists.
> but america is a democratic country.

Yes and no. Democracy only works when there is real transparency. And that's the problem with US media:

They're in the pockets of Big Money.

Result: Brainwashing wins over Democracy.
Without knowing more about the source, it's hard to say for sure, but would an explicit test for a failure to connect to memcached have uncovered this? That is, if there is common code to connect to memcached, and a test to purposely generate a timeout, it seems like it would have jumped out as taking far too long.

If there's no common code to connect, and every user of it has its own implementation, there might be more bugs like this lurking. Every user of memcache in this particular code base would need to have its own "what if memcached is slow or down?" type test. It seems such a test did not already exist.

Following the events in this post, is there now a test to explicitly make sure the delays are reasonable, or was the extra multiplication just removed?
Perhaps.

I don't want to open that particular can of worms up inside this current can of worms, though. I was just using it as an example of how irrational "expelling all Americans from Europe" seemed to me.
This is a bit misleading -- the performance difference between 1.6.1 and 1.7 ranges from 2x to >1000x depending on the circumstances (size of documents, durability, whether the client waits on network reply, etc.) This also doesn't account for 10-100x performance improvements on the batch insert algorithm made prior to 1.7.

I suspect that RethinkDB 1.7 would be comparable to Mongo on insert performance workload described in this stack overflow thread.
Hopefully PG has alright blocked this site from accessing HN.
Ask HN: Does anybody which stack the front-end twiiter use?
I heard about Twitter is using Scala but doesn't exactly what is its technology stack for serving front-end website. I mean what is the main code base for twitter.com.
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To clarify, this is not streamed from the actual location.

It's an RT live feed that's being pushed out as a BitTorrent live stream from a safe home, probably nowhere near Egypt.
This is pretty saddening, to say the least.

You'd think that it, if their account of Darkleech being first detected in February (?) 2011, has been trapped by a honeypot somewhere by someone.

But no, 2 and a half year later still no one seems to know the point of entry :(
I use Django and Tastypie. If you don't need Django's routing, templating, views, etc. then don't use them! Code that is never run doesn't cost you anything.

Tastypie lets you build APIs quickly, and the Django admin lets you browse your data without having to write any code at all. For the kinds of apps I build, things can't get easier than this. YMMV, of course.
The question here is how many of the potential customers you've already reached? How do you define the target group? How do you limit it, especially in very early stages?

At first, startup has 0 customers. Apple has a bit more. Both define customers differently.
Yes, and for most private mail that's perfectly fine as long as there is adequate postage. People who are required to furnish an accurate return address include senders of prepaid mail (you know, where it's printed on the envelope with a number), distributers of periodicals, senders of priority and registered mail, and a few other similar examples.
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Good catch! Updated it to say "former" :)
I have had the chance to play with Sails and I really like it. Just a warning, this is a great tool for simple web apps. I wouldn't take the Sails path if you are going to do something a little more tailored, (like Nodejs + PostgreSQL w/ Sequelize + Redis for sessions + memcached + MongoDB for analytics + passport w/ Oauth2 + etc.. ), I would leave that to express + express-routes. I would definitely chose Sails for demo'ing a product idea or personal projects I want to get up and over with as quickly as possible, and Sails is REALLY quick.

I can't wait to see how Sails evolves, they are some damn good dev's.
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I would agree (if I understand the metaphor within a metaphor, that is) that documentation and best practices are probably the biggest weakness in the Chef community. Once you add in tools like berkshelf or librarian-chef where the tool creators recommend totally different workflows from those recommended by Opscode, not to mention the wide variety of testing stories... it's a mess. I've heard from someone at Opscode that fixing that mess is one of their priorities, but until then, it's definitely a problem.

Where we really need to be is a place where configuration management is just another part of application repositories (there's a parallel here to db migrations), so that web applications are completely self-contained. That includes versioning, unit testing, etc. I haven't yet seen any of the configuration management tools come forward with a solid unified best practice solution for treating applications this way, but there are a lot of people working in that direction, which makes me very hopeful for the near future.
I was funded in 1999, at 2013 A-round levels. No EIR position awaited the failure of that company. Again: I don't even know anyone who's ever been offered an EIR position, and I know a fair number of people, many of whom have been funded, some of them by huge name VCs.

So, why don't we do it this way: why don't you name a couple people who've been recipients of "EIR sinecures"?
Actual blog/source wrt the vulnerability: http://bluebox.com/corporate-blog/bluebox-uncovers-android-m...
In your short essay above you left out the perverse incentive that equity presents if the company becomes worth something: getting fired before the IPO or other cashing out event. To rag on your favorite target (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)...):

"In June 2002, [Brian] Reid became Director of Operations at Google. He was fired in February 2004, nine days before the company's IPO was announced, allegedly costing him 119,000 stock options with a strike price of $0.30, which would have been worth approximately $10 million at the $85 IPO price."

Still being litigated....
Craig is almost entirely not involved in the day-to-day running of the company, he spends most of his time on those social causes.
Isn't it possible to email/call people you know and spontaneously show up at your town hall or library or something?
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True but that is one way to take over the world, get in front of the biggest webserver out there, then slowly take over.
Do people not read the links they upmod?

This source doesn't state that he's died. This just seems to be completely unsubstantiated at this point, especially as there's no mention of this anywhere else.
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See it here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5979766
It was not deliberately misleading - it's simply the top result when doing a google search on rethinkdb and mongo performance. It's a shame that decent, general case database benchmarks are so hard to find.
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This is a fantastic way to spread BTC over a social layer! Great idea