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Presumably there are legitimate concerns from the company relating to liability over third party use of the software. There may also be issues over third party commercialisation.

Firstly, what was the licence if any attached to the software when it was first released via Github, if any?

Secondly, if it was one of the frequently used open source licences there would be a general provision in there relating to exclusion of liability. Also depending on the licence commercialisaition may be restricted.

I would say overall you first need to get a handle on what the concerns were and also how appraised legal are of the situation. Once you've done this you can then take steps to identify a suitable licence which would address those concerns. Presumably if budget is limited they don't want to be in a position where they are drafting a licence from scratch. As mentioned you can help in this by taking a suitable licence to them.

In any event, good luck! Feel free to email me of you have any questions although I should point out that the suggestion to go to EFF/FSF is an excellent one.
Is there a possibility for major titles becoming "asm.js ports"? Games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Battlefield series, Starcraft 2, Minecraft, etc.
Yeah, ignorance is bliss, but, while the premise is fundamentally flawed, I'll direct you to Idiocracy about what happens with an uneducated populace.
Only if they want ultra-high performance, for writing games and suchlike.

Otherwise they can stick to javascript.

(And, of course, anything else that compiles to javascript)
Ah, I used to work as at a place that used a load of old PCs for training. Often some would refuse to boot. The solution was a sharp slap on the side of the case. I guess these PCs knew they were naughty.... ;)
The anecdote provided would imply the opposite.
2. It's javascript running in the browser, it can't do anything that you couldn't already do with javascript running in the browser.

3. The same way that companies currently cope with clients. It's not like client-hacking isn't so common-place that you have to design around it anyway.
How do you do that? The only way I can think is discarding any story I'm not interested in, but how do I say, hey Google Now I liked this article?

+1?

Or how do I say: "this was a really bad article"?
2: There's always the option to run the game iframed, served from a subdomain or similar.

3: Cheating has always been possible, in all games. The minified javascript source is still hard to grasp for a game that size.
RSS Feeds saved me from a life of the bl-ews. I've got my hand-picked sites ranging from world news to space news to tech news with a little TIL and Adam Curtis mixed in. It takes me five minutes to see the state of things I am interested in & bookmark any interesting headlines for perusing later when time allows. Many days, there is no later perusing, but I get an idea of what is happening outside my circle of influence.

Now if I could get a continental breakfast one morning without being assaulted by the talking heads squawking on every TV in every hotel lobby saying the same shit every same day.
Will this create an impact on WhatsApp ?
It's twice as hard to convince one cofounder to screw the other out of their equity when they're married to each other.
I have to say I'd prefer if you mentioned the license in the title.
As I understand it, Bitcoin is money, digital money to be exact and it has a payment system, which is the means by which it _may_ become or used as a currency. To say it's a currency at the moment is a bit of a stretch. It's might be an extremely small and niche currency. I think it's important to make this distinction between money and currency.
Actually, it is fair use. It's a derivative work. This is no different than taking a car and doing a video showing everything about it along with a running commentary.

Anyways, what's happening is these guys are getting nailed for using unlicensed music as part of their videos. That's a copyright infringement unless it has been paid for YouTube distribution.
Well that's the downside. But honestly I'm not going to sympathize very much because over 80% of my friends have iPhones and I am already biased to sending messages to them because iMessage and Photostream are such good products.

On another point unrelated to this thread Apple and Google really should work together to develop a single messaging and sharing API hosted from either of their clouds.
The excitement would be if spacetime and quantum mechanics can be shown as emergent from something more fundamental. Locality and unitarity emergent from an underlying principle. Right now, with Feynman diagrams, locality and unitarity are built in. So this new scattering structure formulation doesn't need Hilbert space, spacetime and quantum mechanics.
My experience with Ruby and RoR is fairly limited, and I have no experience with unit testing (very embarrassing). I'm not sure I'd be a good fit for Shopify. :(

That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a personal project and Go fits the role very perfectly. It's also a very "clean" language to work with, and I distinctly get the impression that doing things "the Go way" leaves very little opportunity to do "dirty" things.

The Go language designers did a very nice job at creating something quite robust without making it excessively verbose.
But how much of that stuff is actually needed, and how much is processor sucking prettiness?

I think people justifiably feel a bit peeved that word processors ran acceptably fast on a 286, and run acceptably fast on a modern multi-core many GHz machine, and yet the added functionality isn't that useful for most people.
Minecraft in the browser has been done already, hasn't it? It'd be pretty trivial, as it's been ported to java / c# / objective c already, and has low system requirements.

Given that asm.js games tend to run at something like 15-30% of the speed of native code, I doubt we'll see Battlefield 4 or Starcraft 2 anytime soon.
Additionally, given that the WoW game client is many gigabytes in size, I doubt we'll see that either, even if it could run.

So: Minecraft, yes. The rest? No.
Nope.

THIS is duergar.
http://viagina.blogspot.com/2012/11/i-shouldnt-laugh-but.htm...
When I got into my first IP battle I was blown away by how a couple of people, who actually didn't even have a patent, could just threaten enough to ring up like $40K in bills. Luckily it ended before that, at a cost of only like $10K, but still. Just wow the system is crazy right now.
If anyone actually has to pay out to YogaGlo, they could just follow the example of a certain tech company and pay in nickels...
That's a fucking work of fiction.
I might give that setup a shot. I've been using ZNC + AndChat for awhile, but some of the warts in it are starting to really annoy me; namely it's multiple-server functionality.

I typically dislike having to run things in screen though. It's not that bloody hard to create a daemon in linux.
Early this year I switched to skimming headlines and reading editorials only. In short this was the best decision I've made around media consumption. Between how much time it frees up and my reduced stress I'm so much happier.

This thread gave me pause to think about what I believed then, in the media induced state of stress, and what has come to pass. Of the notable ones:

- twitter would fail and cause the tech bubble to burst. Twitter now sits pretty on $51/share

- the euro zone would collapse and riots would rock the world. I actually skipped out on two trips (a wedding in France and a stag party in Taiwan) because I thought the world was on the brink of disaster. Nothing happened.

I only list two but there are a half dozen others that haven't happened either. The thing that really strikes me though, is that my perspective on others' has changed dramatically. When I see people spinning themselves up into a state because of some media (and quite often it is not reputable media) I feel a combination of anger and derision; somewhat akin to the emotional reflex I experience when a homeless person is drunk.
I'm concerned that services tend to be luxuries and unreliable sources of work. I don't think they'll replace the manufacturing jobs that supported a stable and growing middle class for decades.
You can also mix the two, write typical JS and use a high-performance library from JS for something specific, like physics

http://kripken.github.io/box2d.js/webgl_demo/box2d.html
Joe and Mary created a company, jointly invested $2, issued 2 shares and own 50% of a company each. Each share worth $1.

Bill [Gates :)] comes in and convinced Joe and Mary to sell him 50% of company for $1,000,000.

Joe and Mary issued 2 more shares (4 total shares now) and gave them to Bill in exchange for $1,000,000.

OMG, Joe and Mary just diluted themselves in half to 25% each!

But the difference is of course is that each share now cost $250,000.50, instead of previous $1.
Sounds like Google rebuilding yet another pillar of their business on a foundation of copyright violation.
...or kmymoney?
This is my favorite Schmidt interview of all time thanks to this exchange:

ES: Can we start... I want to talk a little about Thor. Right. The sort of, the whole Navy network and...

JA: Tor or Thor?

ES: Yeah, actually I mean Tor. Uh...

JA: And Odin as well.
LOL that's fine as long as there's actually a _market_ _price_ for the bribe, meaning there are competitive forces keeping it in check, but once someone corners the market it's game over.
...or grisbi?
The issue is that refusing to let customs inspect your electronics is illegal. This is the broken thing. Encrypting is just a half-assed way to try to get past this (I say half-assed, because it doesn't work). I don't especially care that encrypting doesn't "look legal". I care that customs has the right to inspect the digital contents of my devices. That is a completely pointless invasion of my privacy. It doesn't reduce crime. It doesn't protect the country I'm entering. It's just an exercise of power.
IIRC they released two versions simultaneously - one was edited for "maximum impact" and the other was the complete, uncut footage.

I think the former is good in a TL;DR sort of way as long as the full material is made available for scrutiny by the public as well.
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The issue isn't the total amount of money in the real economy -- it's the distribution and accessibility of money within the real economy, as workforce participation falls off due to the lack of jobs. While the financial economy does hoover up vast amounts of money, the people who own the "wealth" in the financial economy (and you're right: they're pretty much arbitrary asset valuations rather than real actual wealth) are also increasingly the only ones with real access to the real economy.

The gains from automation weren't gobbled up by the Fed, "Wall St." (generically), and the US Govt. They were gobbled up (specifically) by the IP holders and financiers who enabled that automation. Those entities not only lack any incentive for their gains to be redistributed to the poor and middle classes -- they don't even have the means to perform such redistribution (shareholders' rights prevent banks and technology firms from acting as charities).

The only solution I see is for a portion of those gains to be channelled into a Universal Basic Income, in which case automation would genuinely enable real wealth gains for everyone. At present, however, it is not.
The parent wasn't asking why they can't buy bitcoins without paypal/CC, they were asking why they would use bitcoins to buy something instead of paypal/CC.
I flashed back to loading up the Mosaic homepage in 1994 at 9600 baud. That world wide web thing will never fly.
Filezilla download goes to Ask.com-signed installer. Use 'show all' page instead
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There have been minecraft like demos that implement about 1% of the functionality of minecraft.
Here's a small TCP/IP stack. (http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200905/embedded-tcp-ip-st...)

And here's a press release about a tiny web server, with a small stack. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1999-08/UoMa-Ucsg-100...

> In terms of technology, the achievement is not only in connecting a small computer on the Web, but also in the size of the network software that is running on the chip, according to Shri. The computer consists of an iPic TCP/IP stack running on 256 bytes of memory, using its own equally tiny operating system. Despite the small size, the TCP/IP stack is fully compliant with the requirements of the relevant standards. It is connected to the Internet through a serial port. Because the machine is a Web-server, it does not need a keyboard or display, but is operated from another computer using a Web connection.
If I recall correctly, at the same time that video was released they also released a sort of "highlights reel". Detractors of wikileaks consider this a grave unforgivable crime of sorts, you are only allowed to editorialize if you are saying something that they like!
Probably zero if Coinbase is operating above board (which I assume it is).
I thought it was said a number of times that this was a fake rumor.
> Second, in many tech companies, PMs outrank engineers

Really? What is one of these companies, for example?
> after they move to Elgin

This has not been confirmed.
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I agree... but I think there are two important caveats.

1) Some news is important, purely for social (not informational) reasons. When you show up to the office, you want to know why everyone's talking about Miley Cyrus! And you need to know who won the Superbowl, even if you have no interest.

2) News does have explanatory power, but mostly in weekly mags like The Economist, New Yorker, etc., and occasionally in analysis pieces by the NYT. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But to my first point -- I would love a service that would "curate" the need-to-know headlines, to send to me every morning/afternoon. Where each headline had a numerical score or increasing importance (say, 1-5), and I could choose to subscribe to all headlines of 5, and all headlines 3-5 in tech, for example. The important thing being that this is not a simple daily digest, but that I'd only receive it when there was something newsworthy -- plenty of days, you'd receive nothing at all.
"it shows them that they have the power to shape the world, rather than just experience it"

That is precisely why I love programming so much, it's that statement right there. You have the tools to shape the world right in front of you, all you need is the drive and vision to do it.
Not in the slightest; the mistake there would lie not in studying the dead past, but rather in taking it personally enough to experience dismay. Taking sides in the past is pointless; one studies the past to take sides in the present.

I also want to pick on the fallacy I find in your equation of largely ignoring journalism and being ignorant of the world. Having in early life studied journalism without reference to history, and then later studied history without reference to journalism, I found the former to leave me bewildered in a morass of facts with no useful means of assembling from them a coherent picture of the world, and the latter to furnish me with the cognitive mechanisms necessary to derive a coherent, if of course not perfectly accurate, model, into which to fit the facts I derive from review of what I am forced to conclude is the rather slapdash and careless journalistic profession.
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If this is in reference to Samsung... Most "Internet Facts" are not facts. Apple didn't get paid in nickels.
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WhatsApp on iOS does that. Every Picture I receive is automatically saved.
Has anyone used Elastic Beanstalk?

It seems like that is always missing from these conversations. Maybe it has a bad price point or something? I'm going to look into it soon... Seems to me that standard EB + RDS + ElastiCache would make a lot more sense than these single server not-proven-scalable setups. I can't run a real production Rails app with this Dokku setup it seems...

And then if I need Solr or something extra I could stick it on the EB instance or spin up a new EC2 for services. Heroku add-on services cost so much that I bet running a micro instance is cheaper than paying the monthly fee for the add-on, plus you could stick a few on 1 box since you're limited only by bandwidth/CPU.
Absolutely. Investors like to be close to their investments for obvious reasons.
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I'll second this.

The world isn't in great state, so watching keeping up on whats going on is by definition somewhat depressing.

Its important for me in my "democracy" to keep up with whats going on a bit so that I can make a somewhat informed decision come election time.
Title is too short. What I mean is that the normal download button uses some installer that is not from Filezilla. I have no idea what it does, but I'm quite sure that I don't want to use a proprietary installer when I am trying to download binaries from open source software.

It seems SourceForge became a hostile place for software.

If you want the official binaries straight from Filezilla's website, go to "additional downloads" and download it there instead. This one matches the checksums that they publish, although the checksums are published via SourceForge as well and could easily be modified.
And this is seen as a positive development?
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He gave examples where he was already in Europe and crossing borders. (eg Germany -> Italy)
Are traditional quality assurance testing methods becoming outdated?
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I opened the page and saw "Would you give your bank credentials to Mark Zuckerberg?" and waiting for something to happen. About 10 seconds later I figured I should try scrolling.
This really resonated with me. All growing up I got variations of this message. "You can't be a computer programmer if you aren't good at math." "Nobody will hire you as a programmer if you can't touch-type." Basically, career advice based on stereotypes, from parents who are proud of the fact they "don't do computers".

Thankfully, I was smart enough not to listen. I just worry that there might be kids out there who do listen and think they're not good enough.
Agreed, mostly. We always maintained a pool of "disposable" kit (laptop, phones, etc) with a minimum of "stuff" loaded (OS, major productivity apps, some publicly available documents, etc). Go ahead and search or seize, no worries. Carrying it avoids the awkward "so you're here to do IT stuff, but you don't have a laptop or phone...hmmmmm".
I stopped reading at Taleb's first example. I've seen very similar stories from both Richard Feynman and John Littlewood. Here's Taleb:

"I was thinking about calling my third cousin Antiochus this morning when the phone rang. Miracle! It was him on the other line; this confirms my developed sixth sense! This is a great omen except that perhaps I should wake up and take into account the number of times when I thought about calling him without his calling me; the times when he called me without my thinking about calling him; and, most significantly, the numerous occurrences of my not thinking about him, and him not trying to call me."

Feynman has several variations on this theme. Here's one:

"I remembered the time I was in my fraternity house at MIT when the idea came into my head completely out of the blue that my grandmother was dead. Right after that there was a telephone call, just like that. It was for Pete Bernays-- my grandmother wasn't dead. So I remembered that, in case somebody told me a story that ended the other way. I figured that such things can sometimes happen by luck--after all, my grandmother was very old--although people might think they happened by some sort of supernatural phenomenon."

And another:

"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing! "

There's an extended quote in the Feynman biography "Genius" (by James Gleick) which is a closer match than both these. I don't have an easy cut-and-paste, alas, but here's a link on Google books (it's the third page link):

http://books.google.ca/books?id=j42RD66g72oC&printsec=frontc...

Taleb basically reads as a reorganized and edited version of this last quote.

Edit: I couldn't resist reading on. Taleb's article is embarassingly bad. Half his "original examples" I'd heard before from statisticians and other scientists, often years before Taleb's books. I will say this: there are a few instances in there where Dobelli should be genuinely embarassed. But Taleb should be at least equally embarassed by presenting, Wolfram-like, well-known truths as his deep original thought.
I haven't read the full conversation, but it shocks me that Eric Schmidt didn't know about bitcoin. Am I completely biased and bitcoin really isn't as big as I think it is, or has Mr. Schmidt been living under a rock?
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Yes, though its not that black & white. The optimal solution in my mind is to cleverly filter what news you consume.

In my home country "news" consists mostly of bad stuff. e.g. I glanced at a local news paper _today_...among the headlines "3 y/o baby gang raped". Being bombarded with that kind of stuff daily can break the strongest soul, so I just don't read local news anymore.

I tend to focus on finance & tech. Even if there is an absolute bloodbath on the stock exchange it'll never rattle me like the baby thing does (and I didn't even read the actual article). The stock exchange is just numbers...maybe I lost some money - so be it. That I can absorb without lasting damage.

I'd love a open platform that can process RSS that I know won't close/change/fail me. Google Reader had some ability in this regard but we all know how that went. Plus I think RSS might no longer be sufficient...cutting edge news is now on twitter. Not sure if 140 chars counts as news though...headlines maybe.
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The first chart on the most contested topics on Wikipedia by language and the chart titled "Mandela’s story, South Africa’s story", truly show the great power of charts as well as their limitations. A book (or many) could be written to delve into the trends displayed by each. The power is that you get this information at a glance. This shortcoming is the same thing.
Is 4 choices not enough? The answer is more competitors and more technologies.
I'm not going to argue about how much Vikram Pandit should be paid, but its worth noting that the 2011 bonus and beyond came after:

1) Pandit was paid a $1 salary for 2009 and 2010
2) Pandit not receiving a bonus for nearly 4 years [1]

It's probably better to look at Pandit's pay across his entire tenure as CEO, vs. objecting to a single lump sum payment.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-12/pandit-compensation...

Also, while Tim Cook is not quite the visionary that Steve Jobs is, Apple's supply chain and ability to exert quality and pricing pressure over suppliers is a huge competitive advantage, and arguably one that keeps their profits so far above other hardware manufacturers.

There are plenty of companies with awesome vision that fail because they can't execute the way Apple can.