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No, what's really disappointing is FUD directed at debugging tools. These sorts of "presentations" and "research" are pointless. Anyone who does IOS development knows about these tools, they're not secret. Apple has Tech Notes and documentation in Xcode on them going back years. Let's please try to focus our ire where it's needed.

And to whoever said that Google is "very open" about their malicious app problems, well, gosh, where to start...

Google's Android is the cause of the malicious app problem. By not allowing users to have fine-grained access control on the various entitlements in Android, Google is forcing users to adopt an all-or-nothing approach to every app they download. Don't like that this app wants access to your Contacts? Fine, then don't install it. The root problem here is not allowing the user to determine, after-the-fact, what privileges an app should have. Apple gets this right, Google fails miserably.

Of course there's also no one Android. You know that, right? There's a bunch of different Androids from a bunch of different carriers all of which run different hacked-up versions littered with a bunch of crap code from carriers that almost no one wants. Code which I imagine is also littered with security bugs because it's written by carriers who barely give a damn if this junk even works and wouldn't know "secure" if it hit them in the head.

And on top of all that, depending on your phone and depending on your carrier, that brand new phone you just bought might even be running an Android that's years out of date and full of known vulnerabilities. There's no comparison when it comes to timely IOS security updates and Android. The Android ecosystem is a complete fail on the security front at the moment. Period.

Google can play dumb if they want. Plausible deniability is oftentimes quite useful after all...
I seem to recall more than a few Lisp interpreters in BASIC.

I'm almost certain that BYTE or Dr. Dobbs had one. I'm also pretty sure that one of the TRS-80 rags had one. I can't seem to find them now, however.

Sadly, I'm like everybody else nowadays. If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
That's good point, but if that's the effect, the cause isn't inefficient firms, it's the regulation that forbids "regular people" from investing in startups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

Realistically, though, some of your 401k fund is likely invested in startups, it's just highly diversified because it's very high risk, and you don't want to gamble with your pension pot.
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I tried for an hour to get PulseAudio to work with Bluetooth and A2DP and use my phone as a sound source. Decided I wasn't going to waste time on this. Gave up and ended up buying an external A2DP box off Amazon and plugged it into my Line In port.
The virus can take up to 21 days to become symptomatic. More worrisome is that it's been found in fluids up to 60 days post infection. If the flu can spread widely, so can this -- the main limits thus far have been that it doesn't spread via the air, and that it's been geographically isolated. You can't call this outbreak geographically isolated anymore.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
> I wish that browsers and applications would keep firing spawning and firing requests at a rate beyond human perception, until one succeeds.

I do not think you would enjoy the network conditions that come with that behavior. The point about killing old sockets early when switching wifi makes a lot of sense, however.
> Is it to become the youtube of images?

Yes.
And what exactly do you think you mean by "I think we're reaching the limits of the English language with that one."? The semantic "limit" of the 3rd person plural pronoun is that there is an explicit or implicit, antecedent substantive referent. Your nonsense compounds itself.
I'm reminded of the cartoon where a man is feeding money into a vending machine labeled "Gullibility Test $1.00"
which thinkpad are you using which locks to intel cards?

I know that's a pretty common occurrence of thinkpads, but I hadn't heard one that was strictly manufacture specific. Most thinkpads i've encountered are "Use Intel 5400AGN OR Broadcom'blahblahblah',not 'Use Intel Only', and all of those thinkpads i've experienced that with have had BIOS reflash available to work around that particular problem.

p.s. this message isn't intended for snark, it's intended to allow me to skip whichever thinkpad it is that's locked down. My bets are on one of the thin cant-take-the-battery-out ultrabook 'ThinkPads', but we'll see!
Google makes a lot of money from open source.

If you take away licensing restrictions, then those business models that depend on licensing revenue are naturally going to suffer. But that's almost a mathematical truth and fairly obvious.

But there are lots of other businesses out there that make heavy use of open source software to make a lot of money selling something other than licenses. And those businesses often recognize an interest in contributing to the software upon which they depend.
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It is not a requirement, but companies within batches, and within Ycombinator in general have a unique insight into the demands and pain-points of their fellow companies. This is why each batch usually has a handful of companies working on products specifically designed for other companies (e.g., MailGun, SendHub, Heroku, Mixpanel etc). Some of the companies pivot toward building tools if/when they discover their original idea isn't getting traction.
There was an article on that very subject - in short very unlikely, but if it did Paris would be the location.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/25/324941229/could-t...
> The API is actually Open Source, Apache 2.0 to be precise, that's how AppScale could get started implementing the App Engine model. So why do you think it's a vendor lock-in?

Its not trivial to create your own GAE-like implementation of the API with supporting infrastructure, so prior to AppScale, you had no options if you went down the rabbit hole too far. Now there are two options, but I wouldn't say just open sourcing the API solves all the issues... its the stupendous capacity/availability etc behind the API that people want to leverage in the case of Google.

I personally can't see many other vendors stepping up to write their own implementations of the API, with the supporting infrastructure... its not like the "proprietary" API is good/beneficial, or makes life significantly easier - at least, I didn't find that. I'd certainly prefer the tradeoff of maintaining my own VM/s versus the experiences I had with GAE.
It is actually the "terms and conditions" (which people are far less likely to read than the instructions (which they are also likely to skip)) that say that.

I hope (but don't suspect) that they ran this by a lawyer for potential liability analysis should their test malware do something particularly bad.
Scoring systems are useful, but adding some random chance to the idea would make the system more humane and useful. Say, rank the applicants by quantiles, take some random distribution of applicants from people above some minimum level. Otherwise, you'll get exactly the situation described.
Many of the "elites" generated by the present system are worse than useless.
The Athenians actually used to select some of their officials by random chance. That worked out OK.
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will there be something like https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview?
"An entire economy where you gave a little [software] to get a lot [of software] ... it’s time to admit that this idea didn’t work out"

If this article was published in 1998, and we revisited it in 2008, we would have concluded that the author was proven wrong by a landslide.

The idea that someone still thinks this in 2014, and is confident enough in his opinion to publish it, is ridiculous.
It should be clear by now that this is a fallacy, many open source projects have attempted to sell support but there's just not that much demand. A good product does not need to offer much support, and consulting doesn't scale. iText is a good example of an open source library that has tried pretty much every open strategy and reverted to closed-source.

By definition you're not going to make money through open source selling licenses, but you're also not going to make any real money selling something else, unless you keep some aspect of it closed, like Google do with their search indexes.

The open source software which most companies publish has nothing to do with how they make money, it's usually some implementation detail of their infrastructure that represents an incremental improvement on some similar open software which came before it.
I don't quite grasp the Y Combinator analogy, but in the syndicate situation, each company would be expected to at least try to procure services from the sister, but not required, and each company would be free to sell its services to the wider world.

I know of at least one (non-software) corporation that spun off its IT shop, and that shop ended up doing rather well as an IT consultancy in it's own right.

Also, if you can reasonably spin off a division in this way, it isn't part of your competitive advantage, and it then has the benefit of allowing you to focus more on that.
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What do you think about a CMS+Theme designer that compiles to Microsoft Word?

I write 100's of pages of business documents per year in Microsoft Word for my business.

My pain point is threefold:

A) Managing versions

B) Formatting to company guidelines

C) Keeping content separate from formatting

D) Managing comments

I have an idea for a document authoring tool that combines my favorite non-coder sites' functionality to solve these problems.

A) Use the Squarespace Content Manager to organize sections of a document, with ability to input text, table, and image blocks.

B) Use the Svbtle dashboard to organize documents and their contents (think file manager with TOC tree nested beneath each)

C) Use the commenting system from Medium for comments

D) Theme picker to format content from A)(ideas?)

Use all of that to export to a Word Document that has my formatted, designy content where I can make final adjustments to the document. Has it been done? What are pitfalls? Why do we use Word to write content and format documents when it is bad at both?
It's important to note that the author in question is one of the largest forces pushing Bayesian Statistics forward. I'm not arguing your points but just pointing out that it's arguably against his self interests to put something like this out. Again, just adding the appropriate shading for those not in the know.
Also Parse, Apptimize, Taplytics, ZeroCater, Disqus, Optimizely, Authy, HireArt, ZenPayroll, etc.

For a startup doing B2SmallB, getting into YCombinator gives you ready access to a large network of customers. It's not just about access to investors, sometimes you can get very direct customer feedback by selling to your batchmates.
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Ha good catch! Honestly slashes or dashes would be fine with me though :)
well played fanboy. well played.
Yes, they still do dual licensing, though I suppose the additional licensing under the LGPL by Nokia changed the business a bit.

In any case, I wonder whether the original success of Qt would still be possible in today's business and open source community environment.
Wow. They really knocked it out of the park.

829 million DAU - I almost feel shitty for having deactivated my account.
A number of companies are successfully charging for use of their open-source software as a hosted service. For example, getsentry.com and travis-ci.org.
Well, that was/is normal in the Delphi ecosystem. You pay for a library and get the source. Also, you get the source for the VLC with Delphi too.

And the vendors that later move to other platforms carry the idea, for example remobjects.com & devexpress.com.

This make sense. Having the source not mean I want to change it.

P.D: But the source is not licensed as open source. So this is the other model
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You think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

Looks like it was businessinsider doing the conjecturing so that's not too surprising.
Right. We'll just leave the other thread as is, since this one has been flagged by users.
In Britain it was relatively easy as there was only one phone company, plus the one in Hull. Britain already had variable length area codes and numbers, so it wasn't as disruptive. (I was very amused to find one place where the area code was longer than the number!)

The US & Canada had far more companies, plus NANPA 3/7 format being hard coded everywhere - forms, computer programs etc. Trying to implement changes to phone number length will make y2k efforts look trivial.

Heck when places started requiring the dialling of area codes because "local" areas especially big cities had more than one, was disruptive enough. That started happening in the mid-nineties.

Given the choice between huge disruption, or termination fees being the same and the costs of connecting between the phone company and the person making/receiving the calls being their business, the latter isn't an unreasonable choice. When I call you, why should it be relevant to me if you are connected to your choice of carrier by a piece of copper, fibre, radio waves or whatever else?
Having read the various slides on why libressl is deemed necessary, it makes quite a bit of sense. A large chunk of OpenSSL's API has no business existing in the first place, let alone in a public scope, because said chunk consists mostly of redundant and half-baked implementations of things that exist in the operating system and/or external libraries.

OpenSSL took a rather strange approach of "hey, $some_obscure_operating_system doesn't provide $some_critical_system_function, so let's implement it ourselves and activate it for every single platform that OpenSSL is used on regardless of whether or not there's an existing equivalent". In many cases, these sorts of shenanigans are the source of various bugs or - just as horribly - the reason why so many bugs had been undetectable via stricter memory access requirements and debugging techniques (the latter being what's referred to when the phrase "exploit mitigation countermeasure" is used in the context of OpenSSL).

Ted could probably be a bit more helpful by providing a link to the "fucking stupid[ity]" that is OpenSSL's bass-ackwards API, but most of this is already explained in prior announcements about libressl's improvements/development and such, so it's understandable why he didn't feel the need to provide links for context.
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Does this look similar to what you have ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVFIcF9lyk8

If it is - Ocular migraines are well known (though not the cause or a treatment). It often is a matter of using the right term or finding someone who knows them. I've had RLS for years and never managed to describe it (until I randomly read an article with a resonant description).
"live by the sword"

You keep saying that as if their hubris gives others a free pass on how they represent or respond to open bsd. To me, jumping on them just looks hollow and petty.
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NetworkManager doesn't relay any error information to the interface at all, but it's log files are quite detailed.

At least on systemd based distributions (tested on arch), running

journalctl -fu NetworkManager

will show you the live logs of NetworkManager interleaved with the logs of it's subprocesses; this has lots of juicy information that i've found quite usefull for debugging.
I doubt the first program does anything malicious, and you have to crack that one to get to the next one. Hopefully they designed the challenge so that you really have to know what you're doing before you get to anything bad.
Similarly, there is a memorial in Hong Kong Park with statues of the doctors who died during the SARS epidemic.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fighting_SARS_Memori...
SendWithUs.com is exactly what you're looking for
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"The following system was developed and first deployed at the end of 2011."
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Yet another blog that I want to subscribe to via email, but can't (easily). This kind of thoughtful analysis is missing from today's obsession with listicles.
We can only pray that your crypto is good. Recall the problems that bigger sites had.
What routers are you using?
VCs are still funding open source companies. eg Docker. So that avenue is still open (whether it makes money is a different question).
Thanks for the context... did you have agreements with your client where you billed them by the day or week? If so, did you still have to "itemize" your day and provide some record of what you did? Did you ever work for multiple clients over the course of a single day?

Sorry for the barrage of questions, just trying to better understand the use case and think of potential solutions.
You know, I'm increasingly becoming very disenchanted with Godwin's law.

I think that Nazis are a great study and we should compare as many things as possible to them, as a cautionary tale.

I understand that "Nazi!" gets thrown around heedlessly, but I'm suspicious of any retorical device whose job is to tell you when to stop thinking.
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I'm fairly happy with the Beddit, but it sucks compared to the Zeo (Actimetry like WakeMate, Beddit, and now Sense is really inferior to EEG based monitoring). Sadly, Zeo went out of business, and the electrodes are consumable, so I'm stuck trying to find used ones, or find a way to make a compatible headband (anyone have advice?)

I was hoping the Melon would actually ship, but it looks non-wearable at night.

Beddit is kind of a pain because launching the app on my phone is a pain; it requires manually pairing each time.

I'd really like a network-connected, adaptive-scheduling clock next to my bed, with EEG input. Something which could wake me up early if traffic to work is bad, or let me sleep late if my flight is delayed. Ideally with a home version which does NOT use my cellphone, and a travel version which is compatible and uses my phone.

I'd be fine paying $500 for this. There is probably a market in the tens of thousands.
Have you looked into wi-fi triangulation?

Here is one example:

https://www.navizon.com/product-navizon-indoor-triangulation...

If you went ultrasonic, this part can provide "0 to 765cm (0 to 25.1ft) with 1cm resolution" at 10 Hz

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9495
These numbers are seriously mind boggling a DAU count of 829 million is close to 1/8th of the worlds population. Even more impressive when you consider the fact that only about 3 billion even have internet access.

~1/3 of the people on the planet with internet access are logging into Facebook every. single. day.
Every social media employee? I would guess most have separate personal accounts and accounts used to manage their company's pages.
The dogecoin lookup seems to be broken, 0 DOGE for all my dogecoin wallets
There's another problem with gov. organizations. They're typically monopolies, so a bad boss acts as a bottleneck for the whole country, while a bad boss in a company can only ruin that company... a good reason to legislate against monopolies actually.

The sum of companies for a country might be seen as a terribly wasteful redundancy, but mitigates the risk of bad management.

Efficiency? I think quality of life is a more interesting measure.
The box is effectively one giant cache. If you lose a drive you can get the movie back from the main distribution network.

The article also mentions the box stores multiple copies of done things for increased throughput on popular titles.
> "Instead we get access points trying to layer hacks upon hacks to try to force clients into making the right decisions."

point-in-fact, this is how 802.11 works.

> And separate ESSIDs for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.

I'm not sure if the author thinks this is a good idea, or a bad one.
Remember how the open source software movement was supposed to be like Woodstock, with everybody sharing and everything free?

No?

I'll go back and finish the article, but it's starting to look like the something you'd see in a tweet from @nytonit "Building a business around a product you give away is hard and The Times is ON IT."
zero scientific evidence for any of the compounds as nootropics, if I'm wrong, please post reputable double blind studies showing significant positive results
We're getting there. mifki's working on getting multilevel rendering for basic tilesets (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138754.105) and then that will be exploring 3d. Stonesense itself is headed in that direction, see the most recent forum page: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106497.1035
It's inferior to the Zeo, but is not out of business, unlike Zeo. :(
I originally flagged this as spam; it did not seem immediately relevant. Now I see it DOES contain a task related to the Ebola outbreak... but I still don't understand what it is.

Can you explain what this is, and how it helps?
Thank you. I will check that out.
A buddy and I made a similar tool that let you test palettes on a few mock website layouts: http://palettecomp.com/ Hope someone finds it useful!
Focus on something useful for your next 30 minutes
The problem is that for-pay software that gives you some freedoms manages to piss off everybody. It's not "open source". It's not "free software". It can be characterized as trying to astroturf your way into free goodwill. And you have minimal real protection against someone cloning your software.

I am currently trying to build a product on this model, because I think it is pragmatic. Not sure how it will work out.
I do not see the negative connotations that you do with the word "geek". I describe myself as a geek or geeky.

That aside, the article is a good one and I have read it several times before and feel that it gets much right.