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I'd still like to see more competition than Google vs. Bing...

But Google's brand-power is really a strong asset at this point. At this point, I almost like Bing more for wearing away at Google's mind-share than Google's market share. (Of course, one comes with the other.) Maybe Bing's existence will open the door for some new start-up to make a dent.
Care to give any examples? Also why all this GPL hate on HN?
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Email and messaging services are just as essential today to the network infrastructure as are operating systems to desktop computing environments. There also exists a nice boundary between the service providers and users.
Ubuntu has noticeably reduced fragmentation of the "user-visible" Linux (client-side). Fragmentation of the server side Linux (Red Hat, SUSE etc) is less important.

Ubuntu has also somewhat lowered the startup costs and the learning curve. Of course, only so much can be done in this department.
Well Qt for one.
Yes it makes it easier for users to forget the password. Passwords should be strong enough that brute force attacks aren't easy but some websites try to enforce ridiculously hard password which eventually result in the user forgetting his password. Kinda defeats the purpose.
More feasible than flybys? Certainly. Good enough for now? It will be, when my friends stop getting blown up.
I voted it down because it was so ming-bogglingly stupid that I yelled and spun around in my chair! I briefly considered unsubscribing from your blog before I calmed down.

The note in COPYING is just to allay FUD, it's not actually necessary and certainly isn't a GPL exception.

For starters, nearly all programs (by volume) making syscalls don't use any specific to Linux -- there's no way it's derivative if it runs fine on another kernel. Furthermore, responding to syscalls is what Linux is FOR in 'normal use' -- not even the FSF is jackass enough to claim that bash scripts are derivative works, even if they are riddled with bash-isms.
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I totally agree with what Zed says there. And he rocks.
Towards the less "cloudy" end of the service spectrum, such a practice becomes professionally embarassing, a breach of contract and ultimately criminal. At the other end, you have things like Google App Engine which, as far as I can tell, are free to do whatever they like with your data and offer no service level or security guarantees.

If criminal law doesn't put you at ease, run your own servers, as I originally suggested.
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Everyone has their own motivations for writing open source software. Some of them just feel that if you are using help from others (using GPLed software), you need to pay back in kind (under certain conditions).

In the end, GPL does not care much about the developer's right. It cares more about the rights of the end users. (That's why it mostly kicks in upon distribution). On the other hand, BSD does not care about its developers, nor its users. Otherwise Theo De Raadt wouldn't be writing caustic emails on how Sun bundled his software without giving him a cent in return...............

And in a way I agree with Zed. Instead of bad mouthing GPL, people will do better to let the market deal with it - if enough coders do not want to use GPL, surely it will die a natural death.
This viewpoint is very analogous to the Big Co. obsession with quarterly numbers. How many companies have screwed themselves by failing to look past next month's bottom line? Having a highly strategic location like Afghanistan controlled by a terrorist-run government bent on the destruction of the West seems like a bad idea long-term.

If we hadn't invaded Afghanistan, perhaps we'd have more money and fewer dead now. But I'd bet anything we'd be far worse off down the line.
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He's not doing anything others haven't done before. It's what TrollTech did with QT for example, and how ghostscript was distributed. Use the GPL-ed version for open source software; pay money for a proprietary license for proprietary software.

Lamson looks very useful. As was Mongrel.
Water shortages, and yet people still think paper bags are better than plastic ones.

Paper is worse for the environment in every way. It uses far more water, land, and energy. And it's not reusable and barely recyclable.
Someone has to say it: Zed shaw is a cock. He doesn't get the recognition he thinks he deserves _partly_ because of his rotten public image, which he carefully crafted himself: crass, erratic, unprofessional, needy and infantile. The last damn thing a startup would want to do is to say "Here's Zed Shaw - we use his software, isn't that great?".

I say "partly", because the other half of the equation is that he doesn't deserve the reputation he thinks he deserves. He is high-profile due to controversy, but plenty of other people have done more for the Open Source community with less kudos.
But the network infrastructure is all 'cloud' and shit, increasingly wrapped up with the software being provided as a service, and that boundary between service providers and users makes the GPL pretty useless. The service providers never redistribute the software!

I only see two groups of people trying to make money distributing the software itself: spammers, and sellers of shit to pile on top of Exchange.
I would like to get pandora through my car stereo, as well as other Internet music services. The set up/radio should look no different then what is in cars now. Just let me hit a dial and it takes me to my pandora, last.fm and etc music services and to my account.

You can connect and iPhone to your car stereo and enjoy Pandora now, but that is not as intuitive and safe as how car stereos have been for decades.
Ask HN: Where to find local groups with common interests?
Trying to release my inner-nerd by means of learning a new programming language and trying new miscellaneous hacks/tinkerings. Unfortunately, I have a hard time learning without a group setting. Where can I meet local hacker-groups or anything of the sort?

Eg: Meetup.com
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I just realized: Zed made a (pretty good) point a while back about how he'll be happy to have all the Spammers using Lamson, if only to make Spam less mediocre.

Good luck getting the Russian Business Network to abide by the GPL!
It's true that you can charge for GPL software. It's just not a particularly good strategy. Because invariably, that software will wind up easily accessible on the Internet for free, maybe even with a higher page rank than your own page.

That's why companies typically dual license or charge for support with GPL software.
This reminds me of the book "The Game" By Strauss. Setting aside the obvious objectionable intentions (getting laid) of the pick up artists in that book, alot of what those guys do is about turning social stituations into hacking projects. That may sound creepy, but for a lot of people, learning how to socialise successfully is an important thing. Check it out.
It's an insult to assume people would rather work for your personal gain than their own.
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They're not actually saying a warrant was served - that is an important detail that no one seems to be mentioning. All they're doing is not saying that a warrant wasn't served, and the two aren't the same thing.

There are a variety of circumstances under which the warrant canary would not be published. A warrant being served might be one (it might not), but there are certainly others: policy change being the most obvious.

I don't think there is a good legal precedent in general for maintaining that someone's failure to speak (under whatever circumstances) violates a provision for secrecy. I think that would be a hard argument to make, given that, at most, the failure to publish would lead some people to suspect that some kind of warrant had been served for something, somewhere, sometime in the past week or so, that rsync might have. Vague, at best.
Just never use BTQ -- 'raises the question' is perfect for your use, and 'is a circular argument' or 'assumes what it purports to prove' both work for the rare times when you actually need to say that.
He's not being held to a different standard. Microsoft doesn't get credit for every memo or power point presentation! Why should Zed get credit for every web site? It doesn't make sense. He wrote a cog.
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I include things like programming languages and libraries as infrastructure too.
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Where can I get infected? I'd rather have it now, while it's still not very virulent, and pick up immunity that'll hopefully protect me when it mutates and starts killing people...
So it will be difficult to detect visually, but isn't this rather trivial to find algorithmically? Not that I know much about cryptoanalysis, but it seems to me that this is a very weak form of steganography.
For an example, see the hilarity of when Sveasoft tried to sell subscription access to GPL linux router firmwares -- it actually worked for a little while when they were the only game in town, but quickly disintegrated. Eventually they just started ripping off OpenWRT and died.
Have you guys considered oEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/) support? It would be perfect for things like Posterous (it's also what we use in 280 Slides)

There's a handy 3rd party oEmbed provider for popular services that don't natively support it: http://oohembed.com/
Ask HN: Is this a viable idea - white label MOBILE social network
Given that white label social networks like kickapps have had great success, what you think of doing a white label mobile social network as a product idea? Every telco seems to want one of their own and I am sure a lot of niche mobile sns are going to mushroom. Quick research turned up only Wadja.

Background: I am a hands on tech guy with a small but kick ass dev team. Doing consulting work for other valley start ups + couple of small in house projects. Looking for one idea to focus all our efforts on. BTW if you have an alternative idea and willing to pull your weight get in touch. I am open to bring in my team + seed money for right idea.
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This is a very crowded space. The involved players market themselves towards carriers rather than the end user so it's unlikely simple searching will turn them up.

For example airG (http://corp.airg.com/) has deployed white label social networks on most North American carriers. They don't come up for "white label mobile social network" :)
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Yes, record labels hate the fact that they're tethered to Clear Channel in so many ways (not only do they own most of the major radio stations, mind you, they also own most of the large concert venues and billboards). I've been sort of flabbergasted that they haven't been more behind internet radio and the like - it's a way for them to get out from under the thumb of Clear Channel.
"If I have to change it every XX days, I tend to pick very easy to remember passwords, and just change a digit at the end of it every time. As a result of this password "enhancement" system, I think I personally have much weaker passwords."

Assuming that "XX days" === 'less than 100 days', I totally agree.

We use a six month password cycle at work, and I think that's reasonable as it only takes me a few days to remember a password that I use tens of times a day. If it's a password that I use less frequently or a change is mandated more frequently, then I would do the same as Bruce and use something more obvious or only make small changes to the password each time.
One activity where 'one thing at a time' doesn't work: research/invention. Edison was the classic multi-project guy: many research projects, most of them at any one time stuck waiting for him to find some way to progress them.

Serious researchers are forced to work like that. Some of them manage to apply it to the rest of their lives too. Don't ask me how, though :-(
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You clearly haven't thought through the argument you're trying to make:

If the Soviet Union hadn't invaded Afghanistan, they might have survived another decade+!

If the Victorian British Empire hadn't invaded Afghanistan... not sure

If the Arabs hadn't invaded Afghanistan, it might still be Zoroastrian!

If the Persians hadn't invaded Afghanistan, it might still be Bhuddist!

If Alexander the Great hadn't invaded Afghanistan, he might have lived to twice his age, and done who knows what!
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Really the main point was curiosity - Joshua suggested the idea, and I wanted to see if it had legs. I thought it would be a good way to control the rate of growth, fight spam, and limit the number of drive-by users while offsetting some hosting costs. To my surprise, it turned out to be a way to raise Y Combinator levels of funding, with the big bonus of not having to deal with Paul Graham.
I wish I had had the foresight to write down my expectations before starting the experiment.
I'd say the the single most important thing that you've mentioned there is 'logcheck'. If you can remove all of the login spam (by moving ssh to a non-default port for example), then watching your logs becomes a reasonable task and will alert you to any specifically targeted attacks.
Other people said it, but you said it better: "his rotten public image, which he carefully crafted himself: crass, erratic, unprofessional, needy and infantile."

But yeah, there are a lot of people who are little-known but who have written a lot of the software we use every day, and even successfully built communities around it. Ian Lance Taylor, Rob Savoye, tom lane, Lou Montulli (!), Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Raymond Hettinger, Margo Seltzer, D. Richard Hipp, Ben Tilly, a cast of thousands.
People are holding "'flu parties" for this very reason. The medical profession advises most strongly against it.

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I think that HN is read by a lot of people who want to start a company and make a lot of money. There aren't that many business models (which I know of) to build software, give it away for free and make a lot of money. If that is your goal, then I think some people perceive GPL as a road block rather than a help. (I mean, if you want to build proprietary software, then it would be a lot easier if everything was licensed under a BSD license.)
Stop offending me pal. The case that you can't accept some simple facts of foreign policy doesn't mean you can flame here.

You're the troll.

Stop shouting pal. Just because you're shouting your ignorance doesn't become more accurate. I even cited a source where you can look it up what you decided to ignore.
I couldn't see where you mention how you are looking for work. The various websites have never worked for me. Too much competition from low living cost places.

In my experience if potential clients know that you are working at a day job, then they will try to beat you down. So better not to tell them that.

The best rates come from person-to-person contact that comes from networking. The more you understand the clients' area the business the more you can charge. Charging by the project also works well, especially when you translate that into a value proposition that is appealing to your prospective client.
I was going to tell this exact story, including PHPBB and a Brazilian script kiddie taking down a ton of sites. I wasn't the one who installed the BB though. I just lost a bunch of data. Was it the LFNetwork server? :)
You are doing mobile SEO the wrong way. The industry best practice is to use one page with different stylesheets. Not a separate page, site or subdomain like Digg does.

You might want to check out a list of mobile SEO resources I compiled last week for a start:

http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/07/33-mobile-seo-mobile-...

[Edit:] Also "blocking search engine crawlers from seeing the mobile view" will result in your mobile pages removed completely, from the mobile index as well.
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Thanks for the explanation. Agreed that BSD is the license of choice for people building proprietary software. Except for 2 points:
- In my lurkings on HN (for a few months now), I have seen that most folks here are pretty fair. Surely then they realize that choosing a license is the prerogative of the author. This is nothing to hate or get angry about.......just respect the writer of the code. There should be plenty of similar projects with more acceptable licenses if someone digs around. And if more people start using them, they will, in time be more popular than their GPL counterparts. After all, what is an open source project without a community?
- Writing webapps (as a lot of projects on HN seem to do) does not require one to open source one's backend application.
I am considering using TT in production and I am curious why you are stressing on backup and corruption. Are you giving out these tips like generally good practices or are you referring it especially for TT because of its inherent properties?
I'd like to hear more about why the GPL would be a roadblock.

If you're writing code and see the GPL as a roadblock, then you can use a different license.

If you want to use code that is under the license and see the license as a roadblock, no one is forcing you to use that code. It's either compelling enough code that you'll deal with the licensing, or it's not compelling enough and you'll have to roll your own. It's basically just a non-monetary price point then, isn't it?

Am I missing something or is there some kind of assumption that people are entitled to other peoples work if they GPL it?

(Not saying that you make the assumption personally, but that you might be assuming that is what is stopping others)

I'm all thinking aloud / genuinely interested in what the issues are here.
Looks useful. If I invest time in it with my existing collection of snippets, what confidence can I have that it won't get zapped?

Anyone can edit is tough. There are situations where people think they know what you mean and go in and mess with things but miss the subtlety of a situation. Or where it comes down to matters of taste. With no commenting area, there isn't a mechanism for people to discuss this.

There should be a search mechanism that allows you - in a single command - to indicate the language your searching for and keywords. Better still if you can get to it via hotkey and if it sits at the top of every page. It should be possible to see and search just your own code submissions, and to make private submissions. I've got a page of stuff I keep handy which is where I track dumb cisco tricks and the like, and I'd love to have a place where I could move these. They're not always the sort of thing you want public.

There was an inline vi-in-javascript editor - would be fun if users could set this up as their editor of choicein their profile.
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Wait, so you want someone with Python, Django, .NET, sysadmin, and Cocoa experience? That's a heck of a lot of hats, even for a startup.
Every time I think I understand software licenses, I immediately think I don't. The posts I've seen today have only served to confuse me more. Is there a simple, understandable, maybe even FUN, required reading page on this subject? I'm looking for "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old" but also "don't waste my time". Suggestions?
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You need to round the intermediate values down like they seem to be doing.
The 'Affero GPL' -- which is intended to close the software-as-a-service 'hole' -- as thus it is used by noone, and promoted only by the nuttiest faction of the FSF.

As barely realistic as complying with / enforcing the GPL's terms are (especially in v3), it's nothing compared to the fantasy-land that is the AGPL. The GPL at least has copyright law to piggyback off of / fall back to -- The AGPL is just a shitty EULA!
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I got burned about 10 years ago by 'samba' not doing what I thought I'd told it to. I used the 'bind interfaces only' configuration directive, which I thought would prevent it from opening any ports on my Internet interface. I was wrong.

Unfortunately I also had no idea about the concept of security patches and, to this day, I still have no idea how I should have gone about getting security updates for Slackware (I switched to Debian and never looked back). The result was some script kiddie got root and started to use my box to start scanning for more vulnerable samba installations to break.

My response was to unplug all of the network cables and have a poke around to see what he'd been up to. I took a full backup of the box and then re-installed it from scratch as I couldn't trust it.

I learned that you should always look at what ports you have open (`netstat -lpn` is my favourite command for this) and that there are some times when a firewall might be of use (I'm not a fan of firewalls on anything other than gateway boxes).
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the main problem with linux is that it doesn't limit the users choices enough. It's fine to keep all the choices available, but put them behind the scenes. When someone boots up a linux distro for the first time they should see a browser, a word processor, email, a media player, and an IM client...some basic games too. ubuntu netbook remix is the best example of this that i've seen. Once you get this down, polish polish polish. The average user doing average tasks should never see anything but a slick GUI. If you sit any non computer savvy person down in front of it and they see anything else you have failed and you need to do more tweaking.

this is why apple can charge a huge premium on their products. people sit down and it goes.
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Yes QT does have this kindof bait-and-switch licensing. Some would call it a business model similar to a lot of startups :)
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