skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boing Boing featured MOGiS, a german organisation of abuse victims opposing the blocking scheme: "Child-abuse survivors oppose EU censorwall" http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/25/child-abuse-survivor.ht...

Also there is some more detail in following article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/192295/ec_to_propose_mandator...
I actually haven't been able to find it anywhere respectable except the princeton site. Got an example?
I really like this idea Jason! & you can't really beat that price point (especially compared to the INCREDULOUSLY expensive ideapaint)

But, this reminds me of the $28 DIY 4' x 8' whiteboard?

http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2007/06/16/how-to-dirt...

Anyone ever tried making their own?
That's one definite advantage Canvas has over Flash, everything you do in Flash is restricted to the framerate the SWF is running at, so all interaction has a little extra lag before the UI updates.

This is also why some movies seem to hog an undue amount of resources, to ensure it feels as responsive as possible people use excessively high framerates when they're not needed.

There is a mechanism for forcing render updates between the usual frame timer but in my experience most people don't seem to understand it, so it's rarely used.
On Proving Stuff, Part 1
You pay good money for a car. You pay good money for restaurant food.

A better analogy would be going to a food shelter, getting a free meal, then complaining that they didn't put enough salt on it, when the salt is right there on the table in front of you.
WeAreAvailable: Looking for a (decent) job
I'm from Europe, currently work for a LAMP shop and i'm looking for a decent job/looking to go freelance doing remote work again.

I can do web web apps (PHP/Python[Django]/some measurable Java/Javascript[prefer DOJO]), handle myself on Linux servers and can scale up knowledge.

My links:

josemoreira@irc.freenode.net
http://pt.linkedin.com/in/josemoreira
http://djangopeople.net/josemoreira
http://beta.icodedhere.com
http://www.crunchbase.com/user/josemoreira
http://github.com/matrixownsyou
I am, for the most part satisfied with my Nexus One's screen. I know it's not perfect, but it's better than the G1 that I replaced.

However, the one thing about this screen that I hate is the extended color gamut, primarily because there is no color management in these devices. High-gamut capabilities are great. However, since existing content assumes roughly an sRGB gamut, and this phone is closer to Adobe98, the result is blown-out greens and reds, in this case almost fluorescent. I am guessing that if Google were to have implemented some sort of gamut compensation, it would have further reduced the number of available shades, leading to more stippling and banding.
Child-abuse survivors oppose EU censorwall (Boing Boing)
The EU Council seeks to create a "Great Firewall of Europe" instituted to block sites that depict the abuse of children.
But the EU-wide network censorship scheme is likely to invite authorities to shoehorn ever-greater slices of the net into the "illegal" category.
One of the most nuanced and important voices against blocking is the german organisation MOGiS e.V. wo are "abuse survivors against internet censorship".
>The rats fed HFCS for 24 hours per day, which should be expected to be fatter, were not. They weighed less (470 grams) than the rats fed sucrose for 12 hours per day. So these results are inconsistent.

I don't see why you would expect those to be fatter; the data point is completely separate. Common sense doesn't apply in biology - any number of factors could cause the results to reverse on a 24 hour feeding schedule.

Humans don't follow a 24 hour feeding schedule, as it happens.
> There comes a point, when you see many smart people doing something that you think is a mistake ...

This is when you ask : How much are they being paid ?
How hard/expensive would it be to get a simple pattern printed on this, say, small faint dots forming a 1" grid? I currently use a pair of metal whiteboards with pre-printed grids (glued to a folding table) for my D&D setup. I'd be really interested in using this as a replacement, but I'd rather not have to draw in the grid by hand.

Even better: if I supplied a black and white, vector-graphic image, could I get it faintly printed on one of these sheets?
... but worth it. The cheap stuff stinks. Trust me.
Great stuff!

As a bit tounge-in-cheek comment: Will Stackoverflow clones become the new Twitter clients and the new new Hello World, demonstrating the capabilities of technologies?
Fat Startup Watch
How Effective Brands Are Built
Look through the forks of fuzzyfinder_textmate on github - Jamis has stopped maintaining it to work with the latest FuzzyFinder, but other people are still working on their forks to keep it up to date.
I immediately noticed the lack of polish. Shapado faces a very long tail of interface improvements before it can begin to approach SO in quality.
I would disagree. His primary intention is to talk shit on MySQL.
Good question.

We don't know why, all we know it that is takes public naming and shaming to get them to do anything about serious security related bugs (and this is no just for Apple but for most companies).
Works over SSH: not so much.
How about this then: MS does create some nice technologies (yes - .NET's design is quite nice compared to Java). Why not simply use them even if MS spreads some patent FUD. Not everyone believes in those claims and not everyone lives in US.
Hackers For Charity needs help with training materials
Reading the comments here, I was expecting worse. It's funny that this reminds of a very typical corporate memo.
It was a story people were prepared to believe; the "HFCS bad" meme started taking hold years ago. It's a lot more comfortable for people with a sweet tooth to swallow this than to say "all sugar bad" and actually change their behavior.
If you read the entire thing (not just this select comment) you will find that they just re-engineered their site from Dupral to Django meaning they would have had this in place within days if not hours of discovering the bottle neck.

http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/bhvhz/the_onion_uses...
Ask HN: Do you have any interest in this?
Alright, so I have this tiny web application I use for myself. The main page is just blank with a button in its middle.

When I click the button, a text message is sent to my phone. I use this to find it around the house, because I misplace it frequently.

It's meets a very personal niche, but I wondered if anyone else had a use for it. What do you say?
Line2 iPhone VoIP App a Game Changer?
The overall position of Icazas over the years makes me even less willing to trust Mono. When someone says "I can't imagine any problems at all with Microsoft", I look for nearest exit.

C# is interesting technology but I refuse to use it.
WebKit browsers do not necessarily share vulnerabilities. Chrome utilizes a unique tabs-and-plugins-as-processes model that makes exploitation and security in Chrome a whole different ball game.

WebKit is a library for rendering the web. There is more to a modern browser than that. One of Chrome's major features is its independent process model, and it does a lot to mitigate attacks. All of the browsers will have to switch to something like it eventually.
PyMOTW turns 3
So someone smart does something you don't understand, and you decide it must be a psychological problem?
Right, but HN has its own slight barriers to entry as well. And everyone here is pretty militant about the community in a quality > quantity way. Barrier to entry is essential for community and I guess the thought is that builds better discussions.
Are you saying that we should be doing the same thing as the people we think are "smart" without knowing why they are doing these things?

Is that what a smart person does? Or are you asking us to accept that we're the dumb masses?
I don't think that there's that much of a difference - The site starts out the same colour as the header, in fact, and fades gradually. The majority of the piece, however, is on quite bright orange.

http://omploader.org/vM3h3OA/Sample.PNG (HN topbar, start of site, middle of site, bottom of orange section of site.)
It's important to point out that a paleo diet is not a raw diet, in view of some of the other comments your question has received. Cooking goes far back in the hominin ancestral line, well before the speciation of modern humans (Homo sapiens).

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wrangham/wrangham_index.html

"There are two really fascinating things about human evolution that we have yet to really fully come to grips with. One is the evolution of cooking. Whenever cooking happened, it must have had absolutely monstrous effects on us, because cooking enormously increases the quality of the food we eat, and it enormously increases the range of food items that we can eat. We all know that food quality and food abundance are key variables in understanding animal ecology. But the amazing thing is that although at the moment there is no conventional wisdom that says when cooking evolved, social anthropology and all sorts of conventional wisdom say that humans are the animals that cook. We distinguish ourselves from the rest of the world because they eat raw stuff and we eat cooked stuff. The best anthropology can do at the moment is to say that maybe sometime around 250 or 300 thousand years ago cooking really got going, because there's archeological evidence of earth ovens.

"This is fine, but long before earth ovens came along we must have learned to cook. And you would think that cooking would be associated with things like evidence in your body of the food being easier to digest, such as smaller teeth, or maybe a reduction in the size of the rib cage as the size of the stomach gets smaller, or maybe the jaw getting smaller. And there's only one time in human evolution that all that happens; that is, 1.9 million years ago with the evolution of the genus Homo. It's there we must look for evidence that cooking was adopted."

All of our ancestors in paleolithic times cooked. Human beings are adapted to eat cooked food.
You can create your own CA in 5 minutes with a linux box and a copy of the OpenSSL binary. The hard part is getting your signing certificate accepted into client programs, web browser manufacturers and operating system vendors are picky about who gets in and who doesn't.

If you're willing to handle all of the key management yourself and you are only accepting certificates that you know you control... and you know for a fact that nobody snooped your private key from the signing station... and you never stored the signing key on any persistent storage in the clear... and you implicitly trust all connecting clients to not be spoofing authentication to users, and, and...
Then you can say truthfully that you think you can trust certificates signed by that key maybe.
Git Community Book
Especially in this situation I think, when you are somewhat motivated to click the link by title. I'd hope hacker news readers at least have the patience to scroll down if they don't get instant content gratification.
Hmm. Nonetheless, I feel like you could do this somehow. I'm not a github user, so I don't know just how wide these things get, but perhaps you could do series of canvases placed side-by-side, at least on the browsers which require the workaround?
I also wrote a plugin to bring Jamis' fuzzyfinder to emacs: http://ruby-on-the-interrails.blogspot.com/2008/10/introduci...
I began with a bank account that I kept for depositing checks locally. And a credit card I rarely use. From there I slowly built up trust and added more accounts. All of that being said, it's safe to say I'm adventurous and a risk taker.
After working at a number of companies, I realized that the thing that would really suit my talents is to be part of the top management of a reasonably large company. To start my own company were I had a top position by default was way easier and more satisfying than working my way up the ladder in an existing one. I now lead a small startup (bootstrapped, highly profitable) and I'm having the time of my life. The key thing is not money, freedom or some such - but simply the feeling of using my brain in a very efficient way, every day.
Hmm, I find calling the phone more useful. When I receive a text it only plays the alert sound for a second.
Why Does Financial Reform Punish Startup Companies And Angel Investors?
How misinformed are Tea Party protesters about tax policy: a simulation
Aggression, Gender and Accidents
Out of curiosity, what other StackOverflow clones are there out there and how does Shapado compare to them? Is this the most mature out of them all or simply notable because it is built using Rails?
I'm sure the first of many clones, copied down to the badge styles. Good work? Since you're charging money for some aspect of it, it seems you should do a better job of making it your own (I do like the watch feature).
Scaling for mass is not a particularly useful measure. Their metabolisms are much higher..
It's one thing to recognize that MS may have made a few genuine contributions to free software. It's QUITE another to build the entire free software desktop and server stack on a technology that MS sees as the core of its business, as Miguel has been advocating for years.

The fact that he's disappointed that MS hasn't allowed the free implementations of .NET to compete on an even footing just shows how naive he is.
Branching

At the beginning you're are not even conscious that you can, but once you've discovered the power it gives you, you will branch twice a day just because you can (and more if you need).

The two stage commit approach of git is interesting but not fundamental IMHO. "stash" is really cool.

The kind of features git gives me makes me use it even when I code alone.
I have a very simple rule: anything I read in the MSM (or similar "science" publications) about a study that agrees with the current politically correct opinion I automatically discount. Especially if it's medicine related (weak science and fraud are particularly common in this area).

If it's important enough to me, I'll dig down and actually read the paper ... but I generally don't bother, because most of the time I'll find junk science (or nearly so) like in this case. I'd rather spend my time with the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the upside down parts of the Worm Runner's Digest/Journal of Biological Psychology.
Health care reform anger takes a nasty, violent turn
The Canadian Banking Fallacy
Upvoted for giving insight into your process. I criticized that post for being over the top. A friend uses a similar technique where he overstates almost everything and it is effective. People listen to his opinions. The danger is in overstating too far or too often as it can turn into a boy who cried wolf kind of thing.

With that being said, I've thought a lot about my comment yesterday and have come to the conclusion that I need to work on finding the core spirit of posts and address that rather than the particulars. It's easy to pick apart blog posts because like you said, it isn't a dissertation and you can't address every edge case.
papachito - that is a sweet feature!
IPhone App to Sidestep AT&T
Google Fiber: Who has the lead?
Open Accreditation - Next steps
What is it then? If Miguel is so prescient why is he now disappointed at the course MS has taken with .NET over the last 10 years, particularly when so many supposedly less intelligent people predicted this at the very beginning of the Mono project?
Where in Los Angeles are you?
I said he wasn't stupid, I didn't say he was smart. I do think he is smart in the technical domain. I am not so sure about elsewhere. And "psychological problem" isn't what I said either, I just implied the explanation perhaps lay in his inability to get to Microsoft and then desiring their approval. Tons of people have long lost dreams that they romanticize. For example a lot of programmers, despite the horrific stories that come out of the games industry, still regret not going in that direction. You can see how someone who built up MS in their youth and didn't get there might also have such a longing and ignore the bad stories that come out. I hope I have clarified the not stupid/smart and the psychological explanation/problem differences between the wording of my post and yours for you.
I want to add value to the world in the most efficient way possible. For me, that's owning my own company and making customers and/or users happy. I've worked overpaying jobs for large and mid sized companies and it was stifling. Before that I made decent money playing poker and it was unrewarding - I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything. In the end; I agree it's freedom and the drive to create.
EDIT: Grammar.
The say on page 2: "...our previous publications show limited (12 h) access to sucrose precipitates binge-eating behavior (Avena et al., 2006)."
While both are stringent and designed to protect consumers, I'm not sure there are many other parallels between the processes of Apple and Nintendo. As a developer who's gone through the process of submitting games many times to Nintendo, these are why it's a far better process than Apple have.

(Note these all apply to Sony/Microsoft too).

1) You can send Nintendo a proposed game design before starting any work and they will approve/deny it. Depending on how much detail you provide, you may only get a conditional approval, but you can submit more information or revisit later in development. If your game never stands a chance of being published, you'll have wasted nothing more than the time to create the documents.

2) If Nintendo have a problem with your game, they will tell you exactly what the issue is. There's no ambiguous reference to some clause. They will say ABC is in violation of XYZ.

3) If your game fails you can get a real live person on the phone or via email to discuss the issue and what would be an acceptable change.

4) Nintendo not only test that your game is compliant, they will test it for functionality and quality too. This is completely the opposite to Apple who will happily allow buggy pieces of crap on the store that meet their guidelines.

5) Nintendo provide comprehensive access to documents and newsgroups that contain examples of common problems and suggestions, from the staff who test the games, in how to avoid them.

There are more I can think of, but these are the big differences. Frankly trying to suggest that Apple's process is in some way better than Nintendo's is just a crock.
There's still bunch of countries which run their affairs like that and over 20 years ago there were lots of them.

I live now in a post-communist country. I was only 15 during a transition, still I remember lots from before, like martial law, parents telling me a true version of history contrary to what grand school offered, and quite absurd information that I probably will be able to visit only a few of other countries in my life -- good it changed! I discovered later how some of my family members were really harassed for some quite minor anti-gov activities.

No wonder that Sergey Brin remembers it very clearly and refers to it.
Theora More of a Patent Threat than H264? Wait, What?
In accordance with what you wrote, I think one of the most insightful rules has to be the new rule from author Michael Pollen that says something close to, "Only occasionally eat foods that have more than 5 ingredients on the label."
Please show me where de Icaza has said that phrase. It's certainly not in this article, and yet you reference it as if you're quoting him.
Not saying that Digg aren't clowns but the traffic balance makes a huge difference. It's not implausible that Digg has an enormously bigger fraction of writes to reads than SO does which changes the scaling dynamics considerably.

Edit: To expand I'd imagine SO serves a lot of static "how do I" google hits for logged-out users which is about as easy to serve as it gets. Digg puts a higher emphasis on the logged in experience and commenting which reduces the ability to cache.
I agree with everything you're saying, however I think the same risks are readily found in many startups as well.
The guy was asking for a GUI.
You could make an argument for using that for, say, deciding on which products should be featured on a page that's promoting products to consumers.

But for actual product "scores" that people see that's a very bad idea. A book shouldn't have a 4/5 if everyone rated it a 5/5 just because it came out 50 years ago.
> Notable examples include (just stuff I already knew about - I'm sure there's lots more in areas I'm not interested in):

Has Microsoft given up on patents related to these technologies?

Because if they didn't, any free software built on them is under threat of patent litigation any time Microsoft feels like it.

There is no other reason for Microsoft to invest in basic research than to build up a patent portfolio that can be used offensively against companies and projects that threaten its market position.
everybody like to control things. You'd like to make Apple run their store differently, wouldn't you? Perhaps if you had the power to do so you'd like to force them to? Perhaps you'd like to control how they do things? Just to make sure it's done fairly, of course.

but seriously, I think your exposure to evil has been pretty limited. What's the worst Apple will do to someone who violates its rules? Remove their app and refuse to deal with them again? pfft! In the scale of things we humans do to each other, that's almost angelic treatment
http://www.sublimetext.com has a feature almost exactly like this (missing the modified timestamp -- not sure how useful that would be anyway).
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What a flight attendant taught me about business
> Given he's not a stupid person

Your explanations assume good intentions. I wouldn't go as far.
I'm not sure what options you leave him. When he is disappointed, he's wrong. If he wasn't disappointed, it would be even worse. Why not accept what's happening and hope for a change in the future?

If MS starts executing their patent rights, apparently the whole Linux is illegal in US (they said so!). Operating systems are also the core of MS business. According to what you say, we're also naïve to use Linux. Is that right?
I just want to say thanks! I poked through your code when putting together one of my own projects. So, thanks!
No mention of ctags. I use that more than anything to navigate around files in emacs: M-. SomeIdentifier takes you straight to the definition. I hardly care which file its in.
fuzzy search is quite lame in IDEs in my experience, maybe there are plugins I haven't heard of but the defaults are really put to shame by TM's Cmd+T
On the contrary, the freedom is something very new and fragile in our civilization, and always people had to fight it quite hard. It's our ignorance that we take freedom for granted in western societies, and staying in this comfort zone may unfortunately lead us to loosing it.
"No one in the market should be under the misimpression that other codecs such as Theora are patent-free," Horn claims, "Virtually all codecs are based on patented technology, and many of the essential patents may be the same as those that are essential to AVC/H.264.

Translation: There's enough vague patents floating around out there that read "Its like TV but on the inter-computer-web-thingee" that no coding technology can ever be considered demonstrably free from infringement.

So just pick a codec and know that if you make money, the trolls are going to be at your door, no matter what the pretext. If its not your video codec, it'll be your "one click shopping cart" or something else equally inane.
The readability bookmarklet is quite handy http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Facebook To Release A "Like" Button For the Whole Darn Internet