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This looks really interesting. What do you think the license of the articles should be?

I don't think we can assume it's within 1 hour of being reported. The press release also says: > In addition to referrals, internet companies should implement proactive measures, i…

I think there's a big difference between "everyone else is awful", "there's statistically enough awful individuals" and "every driver is trying to kill me". Only the last one of th…

I wonder if part of the problem might be a natural tendency to generalise bad behaviour of a small number onto the whole group? For example, I might see several instances of indivi…

Sounds a lot like the "on the fly parsing" (§3.1) in Alagiannis' NoDB (See https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/nodb-ca... for details).

I think you're absolutely correct! In each round, I reckon the optimal strategy for the "cut" will likely be the same as partisan cuts are now; densely pack the opposition's suppor…

Do you think it might work to tell Facebook that in a year's time they'll be broken up into (for example) 5 separate companies, and their users will be assigned at random to one of…

I'm glad you found them useful! The code which made all the metro extracts was embedded as a Chef recipe, although I'm sure you could just extract the bits which do stuff from the …

Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, also had an awesome (if I say so myself - I used to work there, but not on that team) vector tile renderer for browser and mobile. Chec…

Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, released all of its software open-source, including WebGL mobile and browser SDKs, map tile rendering, search and routing. Take a look …

One method for making a copy or crawl very difficult to tamper with is to publish a hash somewhere difficult to forge (e.g: in a national newspaper or opentimestamps). That won't p…

> for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work. For me I have my church community and also meetup groups with other developers in a similar field. I think you are exa…

This is why I subscribe to an independent review and consumer advice service / magazine. Money, even in small amounts, seems to distort reviews. Before I trust a review I want to k…

> Like many new technologies, it can be used for both good and bad. Harnessing nuclear reactions can be used to generate massive amounts of electricity, or to level cities. What's …

> If you asked users to mark stories they considered fake, some would mark info wars and some would mark huff post. It's possible that's the right answer, and that there should be …

Wow! That's really impressive. Seems like a _lot_ of work and ingenuity went into this. It's great that large, corporate projects like Chrome OS are attracting the sustained attent…

> Under capitalism wealth and power always concentrates Not always. The share of wealth owned by the top 10% in the USA fell between 1932 and 1952, and again between 1962 and 1985 …

> If there is no way to be productive there (aka jobs) they can and should move. A possible problem might be that a failing area is likely to be undesirable and therefore have low …

I absolutely agree that Wallaroo Labs wrote the code, and they get to decide what license is on it. It is, as you say, their business. > And don't forget that programmers need to e…

I think that one of the great benefits to open source platforms such as PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Kafka and others is that their open license guarantees no vendor lock-in. This means use…

I wasn't suggesting that anyone define or prove a "market rate" for intangibles. I agree that would be a waste of time. The reason I mentioned it was as a contrast to IP licenses, …

I thought that a necessary part of the "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" was that a company in a tax haven can license IP to its subsidiary at an arbitrary price. Therefore, tha…

> My hope is that technologists also get involved in the political process — in government, in think-tanks, universities, and so on. How does one do this? What might Bruce Schneier…

From the data on the Wikipedia page for the Boeing 747, it looks like the empty weight is around half the maximum take-off weight. Passenger and cargo aircraft seem to usually turn…

An example from the linked blog post: > It strikes me that anti-microkernel sentiment most vocally originates as a sort of tribal affiliation mechanism by Linux users to ward off i…