The Art of Problem Solving is an online self-teaching maths website with a really strong focus on curriculum quality. So if the kid likes maths, you can let them learn more of it!

Here's one discussion of 9 year olds using the sites successfully.

I run an instance of Sandstorm, which is software you can install on a Linux server that lets you run other apps. Some features:

* One-click installs of any of 47 apps, like WeKan (similar to Trello) and Davros (similar to Dropbox) and Etherpad (which you probably already know about) and Piwik (similar to Google Analytics).

* Total self-hostability, with auto-configured free HTTPS certificates and dynamic DNS if you want.

* Security sandboxing of the apps against each other and away from the Internet, so malicious apps can't leak your data back to the app's author.

* A way to "share" an instance of any app, like on Google Docs.

* Total open source-ness.

Admittedly, I'm one of its authors too. So feel free to take this with a grain of salt. But I do use it every single day.

Also if your friends don't want to self-host, but want to use the same apps as you, the Sandstorm.io company runs a hosting service.

Hi anonymous person,

Getting more eyeballs on your code is a marketing problem. So:

* Give us here a link to your code, and

* Make it easy to run your code.

* Then, you can try to reach people who care about that problem domain and tell them to use your code.

To make it easy to run the app, I suggest you create a package for Sandstorm, which is an open source project that makes web apps easy & secure to run. I work on the project, so feel free to decide I'm biased! But do take a look at https://apps.sandstorm.io/ and see how easy it is.

You can reach me (for packaging help) at community@sandstorm.io and find our packaging tutorial here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/l...

Best of luck!

The GPL handles this by requesting the "preferred form for modification." Consider reading the GPL sometime; it's a really well-written document that considers a lot of these issues.

YouTube has a standard DMCA complaints procedure. I recommend that Yoon Mi-rae and the label follow that process, partly because it actually works which is great in this case, and partly to give Sony a taste of their own medicine.

Here is the link: https://support.google.com/you...

(Note that I have a bunch of experience with the take-down process, including participating in an EFF lawsuit ~10 years ago; see https://www.eff.org/document/d... .)

The Slashdot summary is confusing, as is the eweek.com headline. Reading the article, it is clear that it is about the code that powers the official Python interpreter, AKA CPython, AKA /usr/bin/python. When I clicked the link, I thought Coverity had surveyed the entire world of open source Python code and discovered that Python programmers as a whole publish higher quality code than people who e.g. program in Ruby. That's not what the article's about.

It'd be great if the headline in Slashdot were to be fixed to say, "Python interpreter has fewer code defects compared to other open source C programs, says Coverity."

> 165 million years ago

Can't tell if typo or actually meta-trolling about science.

The laptop was mis-priced due to a bug in Dell's system, one of the engineers on the project tells me. It's now $1449 , as you can see at http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd .

Can the title here please be fixed?

It exists. It's called CC+ .

More information: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus

It's not actively promoted by CC, but if you read that page you'll see exactly how it works.

-- a former software engineer at Creative Commons.

This was actually a preimage attack -- that is, I intentionally created a collision for 0x70096AD1.

No birthday paradox required. I looped through the entire key space. It takes, as written in the article, less than a few hours on a regular netbook.

The website in question should enable SSL so that sysadmins in the middle can't monkey around with blocking sites based on their content.