skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because party leader being voted out by local voters would be a huge fail for the whole party. Which means any challenger would have to work against his own party, not with it. Chance of winning a challenge to an entrenched opponent while your own party is working against you is very low, and how you can actually be a candidate from Democrats if the Democrat party does not support you? If you're really that independent, you should be running with the other party then. Being in the party implies some cooperation with the party structures.

Of course, in politics many weird things are possible, and people can win election of a party seat despite the party not supporting them. But doing it in Democratic stronghold against one of the leaders of the party... Highly unlikely.
Mattrick's track record of the last 4 months vs. his 31 years of success in the game industry.
Now draw a Venn diagram of the people who read the license vs. the people who contact this developer for support
Correlation isn't causation, but there are methods you can use to get at the question of whether there is a causal link somewhere, and these methods involve looking at some correlations.
Not only that, it will cause us the lead in innovation and technology services. It affects all apps that depend on those cloud services and they are getting yelled at by their customers for not providing better alternatives.
>Submitting links that are subscriber-only kind of sucks. Yes, one can do the [insert trick here] but one shouldn't have to.
As would be virtually any replacement.
Well, they could have sniffed around their email, they might have let them in for all you can be sure. They do have those "let me find your connections" tools, and some people _do_ use them. I mean, their email's would have a record as would yours, correct?
The price starts at $300 per person per platform per year, and that applies to you right now should you decide to build anything that involves more than a few kilobytes of code.

Nobody's going to pick up Xamarin for fun, for experimentation, for learning, for scratching a creative itch. You can't download it for your kids or recommend it to your students. They have no product for use outside of companies and that guarantees it will be and die a niche riding on companies not wanting to retrain their .NET developers for iOS and Android.

Earlier this month I got to choose between Xamarin and everything else, I have years of C# experience and I like their IDE for general c#-on-mac stuff.

I chose Haxe instead.
And in the convergence space is where the trolls live.
Why haven't they called?

If planets are abundant, that puts the kibosh on the "rare Earth" theory, as shaky as that was to begin with. The other explanations are less optimistic: Maybe they all nuke themselves or turn to grey goo before they can muster the technology and energy to build a starship. Or they are roasted by random blasts of radiation before they become space-faring.

It's either something universal about civilizations, or something is wrong with the Drake equation or the underlying cosmology.
New Generic TLDs in 2013 and 2014
Awesome idea.
The link currently at the top of HN says "A Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey found that 10% of 207 officials at non-U.S. companies have canceled contracts with U.S. service providers following the revelation of the NSA spy program last month"

So, in a sense, they already have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
Agreed. How involved is he going to be outside of finding clients? Who's going to be the one going to meetings, drafting up invoices, working the phones, and constantly relaying updates? If he's just going to appear once a month to drop a project on your desk, of if he's going to scrap garbage clients off elance while dumping them on you and expecting half the profits, I'd be running.
Yes well she is also a politician and chooses what portions of the Constitution to uphold based on what will keep her in office [1]. This was the part of the constitution she decided to uphold two days ago.

[1] http://www.examiner.com/article/nancy-pelosi-congress-must-u...
I liked the egghead videos, but I don't think they really taught me the deeper conceptual Angular.
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If the US can't keep secrets, it won't be able to find anyone to take those missions.

Some of the bullets we've dodged in the past will not be dodged in the future under that condition.

Snowden meant well, but he ended up being Kim Philby II. The US is going to destroy him indirectly so that others are deterred.
Don't hold your breath. SF is one of the liberal strongholds. Reps probably won't even bother to go there - unless of course they see a real chance (see Scott Brown) but they wouldn't.

Which means Pelosi is free to do anything she wants, as her own party would never restrain her (especially at the time she promotes the agenda of the President from her own party) and Reps have no real political power to oust her. Be thankful to the people of California for this gift that keeps on giving.
malloc() hasn't been a subject of interest to academics in many decades. This knowledge pre-dates the web in some cases. Do a web search for the replacement allocator used in Firefox. You'll probably find some good discussion there.

Plus, every OS, C runtime, and usage pattern is different. YMMV massively depending on everything.
I would be very interested to know just how transparent they were about that. At one extreme I can see some vague handwaving saying 'this is a contract position...you get what that means right? so sign here...' At the other you might get a HR person saying 'yes contract jobs can lead to full-time opportunities' even though that might only happen for one person once a year.
Actually, that might be a great way to get a third-party challenger in SF -- so far there have only ever been two openly gay people elected to congress as non-incumbents (i.e. they came out while already in office, but got re-elected), in Florida and Wisconsin. If anywhere is a good place for an openly gay person to run for congress, it's SF. I assume an actual gay or lesbian person would have higher LGBT cred than Pelosi.
"Hard working, innovative technology companies are losing out to foreign companies due to this unaccountable, big government program. It's time to reign in this anticompetitive NSA behavior and let American business compete on a level playing field."

*formatted for a talking head to use on FOX News/MSNBC/CNN
Take a look at http://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/public-cloud.xml
EC2-like instances are supposed to be released at the end of august.
You know, it occurs to me--people like to have "LICENSEs" like these, even though they're not legally binding (and in fact tend to break integration legally-speaking), because they don't like legalese and don't want to try reading through legalese to pick the legalese most representative of their desires.

So, it'd be nice, I think, if we could create a mapping between these sort of "intention-based licenses" and the more legally-strict "implementation-rule-based licenses." Like, to say, "code under the Do I Look Like I Give A Shit License is, in practice, MIT-licensed" or something like that. And then people can pick a license based on intent (instead of reading legalese), and have it map to a license with full legal power.

--or, cut out a step, and just give all the current legally-enforcable licenses nice, human-friendly abstracts, for things like the GitHub LICENSE chooser to display.
So far I've spent several weeks of my spare time forensically decomposing the documentation, nearly line by line. It's been very slow going.

The main thing I've learnt is that Angular is elaborate. Each time I get my head around something, I realise that my previous understanding was utterly wrong.

The docs are sufficiently vague that I spend a lot of time looking for secondary sources or just reading the code directly. Sometimes the code is self-documenting. And sometimes it's neutron-star dense.

But what I'm seeing, I really like. I think that directives are a big part of the magic -- building the HTML you wish existed and then writing your app in that domain-specific HTML.
I think this is definitely one of the more reasonable 'rants' I have seen.

I would be hella pissed if this happened to me too.

Thanks for the heads-up. After this, I wouldn't even go to a TechEd much less speak at one - I know that you need to be invited, and I am not being so presumptuous to assume that I would be, just saying that if I were....after hearing this story and MSFT's non-response, I wouldn't entertain it.
I'm pretty convinced you can find supporters of gay rights in many political circles[1], you don't have to elect this disaster for that.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/cheney-offers-his-s...
He addresses this in his post.
What I'd like to see is a link to their policy supporting transparency for clients.
The Internet wasn't a thing. The link isn't in terms of the specific things they do, it's the attitude. The Stasi were known for wanting to know everything about everyone and using questionable tactics to do so. That is exactly what the NSA seems to be moving toward.
Well, we can't possibly go giving people raises after almost a year of productive work. Next thing they'll be wanting holidays and sick leave. Seriously, what does a low-level employee have to do to get treated as something more than an expendable labor unit?
Neuroscientists plant false memories in the brain
For those of us with 3-D stereographic displays or TVs, anybody know if there's an mpo file of this test?
Haha, fine, then I'm arguing for inverting whatever the current standard seems to be, or perhaps more accurately, reverting it to the original.

Either way, for blog posts, let's dispense with the long-winded intro.
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Even the leftist Guardian is noticing this? Wow.

I just don't know if truth and politics are compatible. We may need a solution outside of politics.
People may not realize it yet, but the recession is over.

Nobody wants to "realize" it. It makes for a better narrative if we're still in the throes of depression. "In this tough economy..."

It's easier to rationalize negative things in your life if you can attribute them to things outside your control, like the economy.
Can we please just be mature about the realities of licensing? It's serious business.

In my experience the the worst licenses to deal with are the ones that lawyers have not had a hand in specifying the language used (With the exception of anything that's been written by someone on retainer at Oracle).

It's not hard to copy a MIT or Apache license file into your repositories and push it.
Why do you think this wouldn't be binding?
He just misinterpreted the previous comments. When developers were saying 20% of their time goes to managing clients and 80% to coding, he thought they were implying stirring up business is easy compared to coding. However, they were simply saying 1 hour of searching for clients generated them about 4 hours of work. This means to have a balanced team, they'd need 4 developers for every 1 person on sales, otherwise, working equal hours, the sales person would be bringing in more work then the group can handle.
> An open letter...
> ...
> Sincerely,
> Steven Barker

Relevant last name.
I'll second this. The IMU (And Rift SDK) is really really good. I can't wait to get my hands on the HD version of Rift.
Please don't elect that disaster either, though...
I too have switched my personal things and most of our company away from the US. I have helped my friends move to non-US chat services and/or use OTR. I will spend my money on secure (from snooping and the operator) encrypted services outside the US instead.

Seeing that we have no rights in the US whatsoever, it is ridiculous to store anything in the United States that could be used in any way at any point in the future.

If the US wants to keep its leading role in the Cloud-business, it will need to curb these programs and protect the companies from forced participation in mass surveillance measures (including on foreigners). Keep in mind that even a single policy-maker that decides not to trust US-based services can cost the US economy millions of dollars.
There's been some rejoicing in my nonprofit nerd circles about a recent acknowledgement by a few important nonprofit rating orgs that overhead is a bad measure of effectiveness: http://www.guidestar.org/rxa/news/news-releases/2013/2013-06...
A Thinking Ape creates mobile games. They were doing low 7-figure monthly revenues in 2011 [1] and I assume more now.

[1] http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/11/16/a-thinking-ape-in...
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They've already raised $44 million, and probably have a near $1 billion valuation.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/17/how-king-com-crushed-...
On this topic, I wrote this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078124
Possibly you understood what it was better than me, especially since you've researched it.

From my point, it was never communism - ahem the simple - produce as much as you can, take as much as you need

There was one difference - central planning - all prices were fixed and you can't find much variety in the store (2-3 types of bread, 2-3 types of feta cheese, etc.)

Another thing was the foreign currency - read about it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecom

As a kid one of the best things were getting bananas/oranges for New Year, or getting some real dollars so you can buy kinder eggs/pezz/tobleron/etc from the Corecom stores (above). Although you might afford the money, there was no easy way to exchange them.

It was a 'meh' moment for me, when democracy came, and my favourite store (selling cake, soda drinks) start also selling kinder eggs - It was impossible for me to think that I can go and buy as much as I want with ... levas (our currency).

And as such they were no longer interesting :)

I had a happy childhood, maybe because I did not know anyone too rich, or too poor, and the choice was limited... okay maybe that was not the case... But looking at all old bulgarian kid movies, one can see kids roaming the streets without any danger (and it was so - It was normal for me to stroll around while I was 5 or 6 years old). This gets old, a a bit reddit-ish, and it's purely my experience and surely for other people it could've been totally different story.
Having a license like this could make your software unusable for companies who need to get their licenses vetted by lawyers because they (and their customers) are afraid of being sued for copyright infringement. Do your users a favor by using one of the standard licenses (like the MIT License) that have better-crafted legal language.

As far as I remember, all of the major free software licenses disclaim any obligation to maintain the software, disclaim that the software is fit for any specific task and state that the user uses it at their own risk.
Being minority leader might actually hurt her in this case - not only does she support bad things, she influences the rest of the party to support bad things. So voting against her is especially worthwhile.
I live in Heidelberg, Germany and I can't even fathom how many people here would be intrigued by watsi. I just found out about it and am blown away by how effective a simple idea can be executed.

You guys should get a grip in europe. Are you planning on making regular bank transactions possible in europe? For traditionally-minded people who'd like to donate.
That's not quite what I meant. I'm saying, start with the conclusion to the argument, then work backwards through the supporting evidence to the argument, and conclude by reviewing how the originally stated conclusion satisfies it.

Can't think of a good example atm, but will try to find one and have it handy in case this topic ever comes up again.
GitHub recently created a little site for this purpose. It's not exactly all encompassing, but it covers the three major licenses: https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license
Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. I run a small, internet-based non-profit (in a totally unrelated sphere, contemporary art) as my job, so these sorts of questions are directly applicable to what I do.

I certainly understand your last paragraph; we have to balance the help we get from volunteers against the amount of time and energy it takes to supervise them. And you know far better than I the extent to which this specific kind of software is easily available or not.

I think the most interesting question here, one with big implications, is the question of how to think about competition in the non-profit sector. Traditionally non-profits compete for resources all the time, money being the obvious example. If my patron philanthropist has $1m to spend this year, every $100k they give to another organization is $100k they aren't giving to me.

Likewise, I understand what you mean about attention. If you believe that you are uniquely suited to grow the whole pie with Watsi, and if you believe that similar charities forming would limit the attention you receive, it seems totally reasonable to think competitively.

My intuition says there are important distinctions to be made here, but I'm not able to suss them out at the moment. I'd love to read more thinking some day about this, especially in the context of internet, start-up-like organizations. How does a motive to serve, put in place of a motive to profit, alter these dynamics?
But potentially with the massive support of the tech community.
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Way to go, Jennifer.

Best wishes for you!
'DannyBee, who is an attorney who IIRC specializes in exactly this subject, has suggested that these funny, funny jokes could plausibly come at the expense of your house, probably many years after you forgot you made the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733477

Long story short, no matter how hilarious and concise your license is, you probably want to disclaim warranty, and in the form everyone else uses.
Even though this didn't pass, it's still bad for Pelosi. If you're minority leader and you don't even manage to get half of your party to vote against an amendment introduced by a republican, despite extensive lobbying, what good are you?

There has to be at least one tech industry person with beaucoup bucks and an interest in politics that can take on Pelosi. Every Democrat insider would oppose a primary challenge, but I can imagine a scenario where someone with a lot of resources could bypass the establishment and speak directly to voters.

Jerry Yang comes to mind. He could perhaps even mobilize the Taiwanese population in SF.
Pebble, Lockitron, and MinoMonsters just to name a few
That'll get them to pay attention, especially considering all the efforts they've made to stimulate the employment market during this session.

Oh wait[1]...

[1] http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/congress-has...
Thanks for the info; good to know that glibc has improved in this regard. I'd correct my comment but it's no longer editable. :/
Question: Can/do they do "fuzzing" on their database applications? Has anyone built a fuzzer for this purpose that tries an assortment of possible vectors as well as random strings? I still do not understand why the injection vectors cannot be preempted to begin with. It seems to me as if the folks securing the database are unable to predict possible ways someone could exploit what their application considers "valid" queries. If so, why?

Also, I don't follow reddit, so I didn't know they say that.
Last voter data I saw has registered Republican's in the low teens as a percentage of registered voters.

The only way I could see a Republican winning SF is if he/she were a fiscal conservative/social libertarian.
I just think its funny that a hacksaw is now the international symbol for hacking.
North pole lake because of global warming
Get a Log Cabin republican to run...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
Some people's disgust with the giant castles of complexity created by licensing is "serious business", too.
I read this, and the WTFPL as backlash against the concept of licensing itself. That is, if you want to hack code and 'put it out there' you may not want to deal with IP issues. I bounce back and forth between feeling that the harsh language is crass and unhelpful versus an appropriate and sane reaction to the legal mess that is IP.
"What are the facts? Monsanto and the other big ag-biotech companies have developed reliable, biologically insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant commodity crops that benefit people, farmers and the environment, and are nutritionally identical to their non-GM counterparts."

Whoa boy, there goes any credibility that article had. To be fair, at least they are upfront about where they're coming from.. This article probably tells us more about SA than MON.
They counter-sued each other and settled out of court. The terms are secret, but Zynga phased out The Ville.

EA and Zynga Settle The Ville -The Sims: Social Lawsuits:
http://gamepolitics.com/2013/02/15/ea-and-zynga-settle-ville...

Breaking: EA and Zynga reach settlement in lawsuit surrounding The Ville:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2013/02/15/breaking-ea-and-...

No, EA, you are not “standing up for the industry” by suing Zynga:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/08/24/no-ea-you-are-no...

The Ville was obviously a graphical and mechanical rip-off of The Sims, with a thick helping of Zynga Sauce slathered on top.

Having worked on the original version of The Sims, and knowing a bunch of former Sims designers and developers who now or recently worked at Zynga, I thought that The Sims Social was itself, modulo the original Sims stuff at its core, an almost literal rip-off of the cliché "social game" mechanics that are the signature of Zynga's game, but that was EA's sweet and fitting revenge for Zynga ripping off theirs and everybody else's games. (But no, EA wasn't "standing up for the game industry", it was just a bully bullying back at another bully.)

So Zynga copied The Sims and added their own "stuff" on top, then they got mad when EA copied Zynga's own stuff back on top of The Sims to make it into a "social game". Tough shit, assholes! Really sucks when somebody does the same thing back to you that you did to them, doesn't it, huh? The judge must have had a big laugh at both their expenses.

I suppose it's a good thing that they settled out of court, so they didn't established any legal precedents that you can't copy generic game elements.

So if all The Sims Social was meant to do was to screw over Zynga the same way Zynga had been screwing over other companies, then it was a spectacular success, and a brilliant piece of performance art, and parroting all those clichéd design decisions was justified! But was that the best direction to take the Sims franchise in as a game...? Well that's a different question! ;)
I live in SF and have met Ms. Pelosi. I am against 90% of her policies. I tweeted this today @NancyPelosi Shame on you for voting to continue to fund the NSA and unwarranted spying on all Americans. The only answer is a constitutional amendment to add term limits for both houses. I'd like to see 2 - 6 year terms for Senators and 4 - 2 year terms for Reps. Our legislators were not meant to have jobs for life. Do your public service and then get back to the real world.
That's beautiful. Now do company-sponsored/pre-tax health insurance coverage!
Out of curiosity, do you have Rapportive installed?
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The American public is losing the battle of words. We need to start calling these policies what they are: fascist

Pelosi and others who support the NSA surveillance dragnet are American fascists.
You make it sound like Web of Trust does not include revocation.
Scaring away those companies might be a plus, especially in this case.