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> If they open source it they can still control things and follow their vision for their own main branch. But they can accept patches that have improvements for things that (i) are needed and (ii) do not necessarily go against their vision.

Open-sourcing it dilutes their brand. It increases the likelihood that they can't fund it anymore because other people start blathering about their forks and distract from the game's actual mindshare.

> However, an expert in parallel programming should be able to improve this a great deal. AFAIK, DF currently runs as a single thread, and many of its processes can be split off

DF's simulation model is deterministic. Most aspects of it depend on prior aspects. It is a great case of Amdahl's law. Ripping that out and changing it would change the core of his game. I can't really see him wanting that if he doesn't understand it and, like Baughn's work on the graphics subsystem, I can't see him spending a lot of time to understand it. (Toady isn't a computer scientist and he isn't really a hacker as is commonly understood here. He learns what he needs to make his game and it pretty much ends there. This may sound critical but I mean it as a compliment.)

> But if he opensourced it perhaps someone else would fix the interface for him.

His supporters are content with the interface. It isn't preventing them from enjoying the game and it's not hindering their ability to fund continued development. You are suggesting that he potentially damage his revenue stream to fix problems that aren't really problems right now.
I think Goldman always stands by Goldman, first and foremost. And so do the lawyers paid by Goldman. Cf. in Fab's case they rested their case literally the minute they had their turn, without calling any witnesses. From day one I was amazed at the guy's naivete of accepting the "gift" from Goldman that he be represented by their lawyers. It's the rule #1: get your own representation folks. Company lawyers don't work for you, they work for the company.
That money funds the Federal government.

Completely different.
My ex-girlfriend was kicked out of her church and disowned by her parents because she admitted to being sexually active. She was a senior in high school. She had to finish the school year living out of her car and relying on friends' charity.

Privacy is a protection against (often irrational) people who are out to hurt you.
Mongo is incredibly productive. In the "lean startup" sense it is an easy database to start with.
That's almost exactly the opposite of reality. They're not delegators. They don't want to be delegators. They want to make a game.
The key is tools, and OpenOCD is one of them, which let you "talk" to these systems. I picked up a Black Magic probe [1] and am building cables for it to talk to one of my ARM boards. That kind of stuff makes the spelunking possible.

[1] http://www.blacksphere.co.nz/main/blackmagic
True, but not all of them are as easily learned as a new language is. This is coming from someone who didn't go to college and has been working in the industry for almost ten years now.
There is a national tax on gasoline.
It's fun enough for enough people, myself included, for him to live off the project. And that's enough for him.
Or you could just insert a random payload into the served content. I imagine that you would only need to add a small amount of variation to completely thwart the type of analysis that codex described.
an idea about Elon Musk announcing a plan to fund 100 women/year to have his children through sperm banks, in 10 generations (1 generation/year), with fully paid support and tutoring for life for the kids, and regularly schedule reunions of generations / the whole group.

It was at attempt to re-introduce cloning style massively parallel reproduction to the human species.

That was what I thought this story would be about.

Seriously though, don't you think Snowden could get a few hundred extremely smart, civil libertarian women to agree to bear his children?
"The idea that you only did paid work for an employer being the reason for why you have no activity on GitHub is a false dichotomy."

Time. Not everyone wants to spend their spare time coding as well as their work time.

"Seriously, you never wrote any helpers, or maybe a library that you wanted to reuse across projects?"

These might be owned by the employer.

"And in regards to IP, any sane employer would agree that open-sourcing pieces of code that aren't central to the business logic is OK"

A minority of employers think like that in my experience.
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This was interesting "without paying any fee or commission to Apple on sales made through them."

It is interesting because I see it as a request to keep Apple from enriching itself but abolishing the fee entirely makes for a really harsh sanction. We'll see what, if anything, the court decides is reasonable.
I mean you're kind of trying to say "Why not X?" The answer is X would probably work fine, but Mongoose got there first, set the standard, has lots and mindshare, and is very well written and tested.

Could most everyone use D instead of Go or Java? Yeah, probably they could. Is one significantly objectively better than the others? Probably not.

I've used Mongoose extensively and it just works. It feels really idiomatic and has a lot of love in the community. I don't have a reason to look anywhere else.
Two things are striking:
- The amounts under debate are small
- The DFAS agency's budget is huge (1.36B)

Why not eliminate the agency altogether? If we divide $1.36B by the number of active military members 1,429,995, that results in $951 / active military personnel.

If we assume payment issues happen to 10% of the military, then that means we can just institute a rule that would give every soldier up to $9,510 in free "payment error insurance."

But I guess having a government body of 12,000 people with the task of giving soldiers a hard time makes more sense to some federal bureaucrat.
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This is the real, full post that edge-runner just links to: http://valleywag.gawker.com/kickstarter-project-canceled-aft...
Also, the original link/site is 503 now, so try my link directly instead.
Great article. But what I came away from it thinking was about how much money is spent by state security institutions to prevent this sort of thing, and yet secrecy breeches at scale are the Walkers, Mannings, and Snowdens using USB sticks and DVD's and copiers.
Your soon to be ex wife, if your data doesn't jibe with hers.
<Some say we need to get behind them ;-)

I've meet them too as long as out keeps the terrorists out they're fine with it.

Open source software would help especially open source networking software.
Does "everyone you know" have recent experience running Mongo in production? Because I have, and from my perspective calling it "a joke" is borderline trolling.

I'm not trying to be hostile, but you've got to understand that Mongo is most certainly not a joke, has lots of support, and is a very appealing option in a number of cases.
LiveScript 1.2.0 released Get to know LiveScript before it's cool. ;)
Outmap: a collaborative geodata platform I couldn't release
Or you could just implement sensible taxes in the first place, e.g. by not exempting ‘services’ from a (then-renamed) ‘sales tax’. It is rather easy to have a loophole-free tax on sales and services, unless you have specific requirements not to charge X, Y and Z because A, B and C – then it quickly can get complicated if people try to squeeze W and V into X and you have to build up regulation books :)
What a garbage post, and website.
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I have to agree. The bit of my head responsible for tasteless comments would have a field day here if I was drunk enough to let it. Is the sort of name that will have some companies paying you late just because they find it funny.

Sorry to the people involved if this analysis seems harsh, I know it sucks to have your company fold.
Comparing Google Trends for WordPress - which has a multi-million blog network as part of the results - against framework names seems to have some pretty significant issues.

PHP was already popular and widely available when WordPress became popular. WordPress benefited from that - it was much easier to install and find hosting versus the then-leader MovableType.
It's pretty sweet, I cloned this project to get started and it was much harder to learn at first since there wasn't an example of the basic CRUDs; They added examples now, so the learn curve is less steep.
In American culture, the death of one person is typically considered unacceptable, and "we will do everything to ensure it never happens again." To date, NASA has flown many more manned missions than its private competitors. Most unmanned missions can have their cargo and vehicle replaced (albeit at great cost), but from the first-world view of "every life is precious," the same cannot be said of manned missions. So there is a fundamental, qualitative difference between the two types of missions and organizations. You can well imagine what will happen each and every time a human life is lost on a private space mission.

Will we ever consider it the cost of doing business? Probably not, except for military missions--and in the context of going to Mars, we might see more of those.
Ok, that is an interesting result. I ran a honey pot BBS for a while (kremvax) which was fun to watch folks try to break into but this is more unsettling. Given the exploitable javascript also talked about at the conference it seems like if you were in a tor node you might still be able to do the equivalent of the DNS hack where private addresses are inverse spoofed.

One of the things about radar guided missiles that interested me early on is that you pretty much have to have your radar on for them to work, and if you had a radar on you could find it and kill it (hence the variety of HAARM missiles). Similarly when people are trying to exploit our search engine it is hard to obfuscate since they have to include what they are trying to find in the search query in order for it to work. And now netwar requiring network traffic which has to return to the source to be useful.
This is amazing, I've always thought of him as sort of the father of science fiction — yet he was also a game designer!
I have read the man page. Note the quote I took from it.
Your profile indicates that you live in NY. That state already charges a sales tax on the pre-written portion of software-services sales. So I'm not sure on what basis you suggest people should move out of MA in protest at such a tax. Are you planning to move out of NY to protest it?
'Anti-theft' BIOS rootkit included in most notebooks sold since 2005
Your sarcasm is tedious. If a SAN cannot support a generic Linux kernel, then it's the fault of the vendor for not allocating enough dev hours to the Linux kernel, and their product should not be chosen for a Linux environment.
The gas tax is a use tax which has been federally acceptable (interstate highway). Income tax required a constitutional amendment.
There are certainly environments where enterprisey vendor testing and certification makes sense; mostly small or heterogeneous environments. But at large scale it's cheaper to do stuff yourself.

Also, CoreOS has more of a read-only stateless philosophy, so I think it'd still be interesting even if it ends up having to duplicate a lot of effort from mainstream distros.
The saying "consider the source" comes to mind. Valleywag has to be the most disreputable "news outlet" in tech, which is truly saying something.

PG banned it for a reason.
Kickstarter is still a relatively new company and as the company matures, I am sure they will come up with better ways of dealing with these things.
PHP suck! 8===D~
I was wondering that, too. Seems like he'd be better served contributing to mod_wsgi if he's got the itch to play again. It's going to be a whole lot of work to catch up again.
I'd say it depends. If they consider Java to be their primary language and they haven't spent enough time coding in it to have ever encountered exceptions, then they haven't spent enough time coding, period (I'm assuming exceptions weren't the only gap in their knowledge, and this was just an example?). If they consider something else to be their primary language, and are otherwise solid on their CS fundamentals, then by all means, cut them some slack.
It's not local economies, it's subjecting their own tax base to their own military industrial complex as they have to ramp up.
Link to the Kickstarter post for the project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/forkingpath/the-doom-tha...
It's interesting how many commenters thought (from the headline) this was Elon Musk, despite the fact that Paypal had 5 founders and Musk has his hands pretty busy right now.

On a related note, has there ever been anything unsuccessful from the Paypal Mafia?
Is The Verge writing this because it's the only way it can establish a presence on HN?
Your implicit comment that the link only points out an iOS vulnerability is correct, but don't you think it's good advice generally?
This is just a bunch of self righteous crap.

blah blah blah "WordPress is awesome..."
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They are all owned by EIG and are in the same data center.
> Part of his complaint, though he didn't state it, is that it's just too damn hard to get the elected officials to ACTUALLY REPRESENT the people who they SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENT. And I think that's a fair criticism of our government, the officials answer more to their corporate sponsors (who largely don't mind tending towards actively support) this kind of thing, rather than to the people.

As politically apathetic as the American population is now, we are a part of the problem. Our reps certainly have their problems, but let's not pretend like we're not at fault either. Our apathy allowed things to get like they did. That doesn't make us all terrible people, it just means we need to do more as citizens to keep our crooked politicians honest.

In the same time it takes to write some of these whiney posts, a letter could have been written or a call made. We can sit and debate whether the letter or the call did anything, or we could all just sack up and do it and potentially benefit from it.
In the state of Vermont where I live our legislature introduced and passed a similar bill several years ago, under nearly identical circumstances. Nestled into another bill, the state house inserted and passed a sweeping tax on "Cloud Services" which affected all software delivered to the end user via the internet.

The real salt in the wound for businesses was that the tax was going to be retroactively applied to the previous four years of revenue. This would have driven a fair share of our fledgling technology sector out of business almost immediately.

Thankfully, our Governor did not agree with the way the tax was passed into law, nor how it was applied. He first delayed and eventually removed the tax all together.

When politicians sneak revenue draining taxes into the business market like this, without public comment or discussion, it makes me truly concerned that they are simply self interested.

Hopefully the Massachusetts state house will pull their heads out of the sand and clear up the confusion with their constituents. Maybe by next election cycle, those affected will let their feelings be known in the polls.
Who the heck just uses mongo as a scaffolding tool? I don't know anyone who does that.
WordPress benefited from the fact that PHP hosting was always cheaper (even free) than hosts that supported Perl or Python (this was a little before Ruby became popular through Rails). You could find oversold hosting plans for as little as $1,99/mo.

As ceejayoz mentioned, PHP was already popular before WP.

Arguably, forum software written in PHP made PHP popular before b2/cafelog (WP's predecessor) appeared.
Some of the coding style from Google carries over.

// TODO(pjscott): provide a concrete example of this.
Huh?

Before we start indulging in fantasies of tech folks begatting like in the Bible and creating a master IT race, could we care about the kids that people already created first?

The kids on the planet already have plenty of potential, we really don't need to keep pumping them out.
You added Chei? I lost many a Naga because of you, until I got the hang of Temporal Distortion :)
It's hard to say, but I just did a write up about what we saw in our data: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2013/08/03/service-interrupted-...

tl;dr: companies have outages, big ones seem to regress to the mean. There are companies that are liked a lot more though.
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Yes. There is a really strong reason why the Germans remember that privacy is important. We should listen to them.
Its being better than Movable Type is the only reason I ever switched to Wordpress.
Maybe you should link to your products page (http://www.insetlabs.com/products/automation) instead of homepage? I need to know more about the app before signing up.
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I'm not sure how else to respond to "let's reinvent a complete Linux distribution because we've written a 20 line auto-updater".

This would have made sense to me a decade ago, but back then I just wouldn't have understood the amount of work involved. You simply cannot produce a fully generalized container OS without producing a fully generalized OS.

That aside, I actually like the central idea of a better approach to managing/updating a large group of host machines. I just don't think it warrants yet another bikeshedded support/security/certifiability nightmare (and lets face it, this is bikeshedding, there's absolutely no value in the core claim of "it's just Linux", but it gives unfettered license to reinvent the same old wheels all over yet again).
I'm with you in principle but not the intensity of the last couple sentences... some script kiddie yeah true statements, but in larger contexts...
NH has water (right?), an electric grid (no idea whether it's reliable, all I know for sure is that they have a nuclear power plant) and based on what I was told, the best snow removal in the country.
I do wonder if there's something specific about LA to SF that enables the low low cost Elon's suggesting. Like the fact that they share a coastline with the Pacific Ocean.

The $6 billion cost seems too good to be true for any transportation system that would require significant land acquisition. California is set to spend some $60 billion on a train between these cities, and most of that cost is for right-of-way.
It depends how much capital the entity you steal from has. In the case of Goldman..well you don't want to fuck with the Gold Man...he's got quite a hammer.
It seems like they should extend that to all industries and not just single out software development. Why not say that any lawyer who just modifies boilerplate legal documents is now subject to a tax? That would seem to be in the same spirit.
Just wanted to add something to this thread, which has not been mentioned yet. Sure, most (if not all) SANs are supported vie generic linux kernel drivers for HBAs, something like a QLogic card, or an exported iSCSI LUN. The issue is that you spent tons of money on the SAN and a truck load of money on hardware and software to hook up to that SAN. So you want to have a vender supported OS to go along with these items. If you have performance issues or stability issues, the first things a vender will ask is, what OS are you running, so they can direct you to the correct support group. The support group will want to debug the issue, so you have to generally run something like RHEL or Windows to get support. This might only be a mega corp issue though, since most startups don't have Oracle/Sybase, fiber channel SANs, etc. To sum this up, in the mega corp world, if you are not running a vender supported OS, you likely cannot get support for your device.
Amazon wasn't harmed one iota yet now they get freebies from the DOJ. In fact the only people "harmed" by this are the very people who get nothing. Mind you this is the same DOJ that sees nothing wrong with the NSA, FBI and their ilk recording our emails, browser history, phone calls and whatever else they feel like collecting. But sure, Amazon isn't making a profit lets give them some.
Was Barnaby Jack killed after discovering how to murder anyone with a pacemaker?
I remember Dejan Kalijevik from them nokia s/w. Is he talking of the same Dejan?
It'll depend on the location, plenty of it is rural. But plenty of it is built up and e.g. Manchester has a water works: http://www.manchesternh.gov/Departments/WaterWorks.aspx

(What do you expect from a town incorporated in 1751 with 110K residents?)
Why do they single out software in this regard? Or are there similar laws on the books for things like legal documents? i.e. if I have a lawyer draw up a lease and its a boilerplate with the correct blanks filed in, is there a tax on that? If not, why not since it seems extremely similar?
"It's not really in use" could have been said of the Espionage Act until recently.

We live in times where previously irrelevant measures become increasingly relevant whenever the word "terrorism" is invoked.
I haven't claimed that Amazon did anything illegal or that Apple didn't. The claim I'm making is that the remedy for Apple's transgression needn't be a gift to Amazon. And while the DoJ could decide to look into Amazon's own actions for various reasons, does anyone seriously think a proper penalty might include the DoJ enabling a "Buy at Barnes & Noble" button on Amazon.com?
Correction: Django isn't "hoping" to deprecate mod_python in the future, we already did it.

You linked to documentation for Django 1.2; the current release, 1.5, does not include mod_python support in the framework. WSGI is now the only deployment option supported in Django itself.
Thank you for posting this. There a lot of misconceptions about the disorder, and more people need to be re-educated so the stigma is removed.
If someone forked Dwarf Fortress and changed the key bindings to a sane default, I would switch to Midget Mountain or Little People Palace or whatever in a heart beat.
1,700 Russian websites go dark in protest to 'Russian SOPA'
It's funny that you can monopolize a market as long as you lose money doing it. I wonder what would happen if Amazon then raised ebook prices to 19.99.
> His supporters are content with the interface.

I haven't sent him any money yet, so I'm not sure if I count as a supporter - but I am damned not content with the interface. If it weren't for Dwarf Therapist, the game would be nigh unplayable.
Since when do we let facts get in the way of snark?
There might be reason for people to care about the general fact of "did they have sex?"--but this can be inferred/derived from other sources, e.g. purchasing habits.

How people are having sex, on the other hand, is pretty irrelevant to everyone except those people, isn't it?
A good example is phonegap: http://npm.im/cordova
Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer
diff in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&diff=566904988&oldid=566903734

screenshot of both diff and above-linked user page as of now: http://i.imgur.com/I6HlpPX.png
while I agree with that, I can't help but feel if you're getting public money, your product should be public, and oh so many of them are not. Sometimes the upshot of donating to a kicstarter project, is that the public can later buy it. yay?
The novelization for the first Star Trek movie talks about such a dam.
Adding a tax on the 'services' portion is exactly what this bill does. Mass has also had sales tax on the 'canned software' itself for years.
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