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Net Neutrality about making ISPs and governments treat all communications over the net equally. This creates a democratic platform, a free market of bits.

This situation is a company refusing to provide content to certain customers. Fox (through Hulu) is not providing content to specific IP ranges that they provide freely elsewhere. It is discrimination by Fox, but it is a separate issue from Net Neutrality. This could still happen if Net Neutrality legislation was in place.
20% of federal expenditures are for defense. The oft-sited 50% is discretionary budget, which doesn't include things such as social security, welfare, etc.
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Using Facebook UIDs (Facebook's response to the recent press.)
The telecom nerd in me just EXPLODED.

It's great that they've finally put all of these online; no more inter-library loans or having to troll eBay to look up an article.

My favorite: the September 1964 special issue detailing the 1ESS electronic switch.

http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1964/BSTJ.1964.4305....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1ESS
Damn, there goes my shot at asking you for the code so we can run it internally at my job :(
Specifically, "The Conversation" is frequently (though not always) a great source of news for startups and entrepreneurs.
That would be hard to reconstruct, because we don't keep track of people's karma at the point when we accept them, but we usually have 1 or 2 startups per batch with founders whose usernames I recognize as being top contributors. 6 of the 100 users on the leaderboard are YC founders.
Games programming is hard. Creating web sites is easy. Nobody wants to work hard any more. They'd rather create "art".
I always thought that if corporate raiders were allowed to descend upon Japan, the companies could be kicked into action.

There just seems to be a lot of bloat, not only from conglomerates with tons of subsidiaries but also from their ballooning cash hordes and debt free balance sheets. It makes the corporate loan demand very very low in Japan which creates issues for their banks when it comes to acquiring good borrowers for loan income.

We had this happen in the 70s when raiders went after old school economy companies (think Asher Edelman). They really helped weed out the inefficient enterprises.
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" Shannon, C.E.

http://bstj.bell-labs.com/BSTJ/images/Vol27/bstj27-3-379.pdf
I have seen comments in HN similar to what you have experienced, comments from frequent posters as well.

The unpleasant thing is that people expect to be hand-fed their daily dose of intellectual stimulant, and got upset if the dosage is off. I've seen comments like, "Your submission/post/blog are lame. It's very annoying it wastes my time." WTF?! The guy spent lots of time writing a blog and asked for feedback. If it's not up to your level, just move on, no point in bashing the guy on wasting your time just because you don't find it stimulating.

What is more disheartening is the upvotes for those kinds of comments. It's really a turn-off.
Is there a way to "complete" a project? Am I missing something?
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Really great job for a weekend project - visual design is very slick. Look forward to seeing it a bit more feature-complete. Would love to use something like this with my team.
I carry most of LinkedIn's source code on my laptop wherever it goes. I'd say that's reams of confidential information, but I'm not planning on selling it.

This is getting off topic, but I think you have to devote a lot more energy to physical security than "network" security. People carry so much information around now.
Ask HN: Is it ok to submit your own stuff to HN?
I can't quite work out if it's ok to submit your own stuff to HN or not. I have been submitting my own stuff, but I'm just wondering if this is frowned upon?

For example I was about to post this:

http://justinvincent.com/page/743/dont-confuse-self-worth-with-entrepreneurial-success

But then I wondered is that what got my other jv2222 account banned from the system?

And if it's not ok to submit your own stuff, would it be ok for say... Derek Sivers to submit his own stuff?

All thoughts and advice welcome!
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Great to hear that you like it. We certainly have plans to add some features to it, especially better integration with more external services (bug trackers, etc.)
I have to agree this is a telecom geek's dream. My father worked on a bunch of this stuff in the late 70s and 80s. I just sent him the link to geek out on.

This is a great source to build on top of the assorted 2600 articles from over the years.
I hate the, uh, hate on the internet sometimes.

I posted a self post on Reddit about my startup, and the first comment was "Go F*ck yourself". The second comment, QED.

I ended up deleting the post. Not cool. :(
Cool, thanks for posting, will definitely keep tabs. Good luck with it. Will post mine when i've got a working site.
Currently no, in the future we'll probably add the "completed" state, or something similar...
Hey. We are onto this right now. Just having some issues with using a Google API service and request limits. Team Skype call is underway :)
That's official strategy to save traffic, I read somewhere once.
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Yes, I am. Was inside till a few days ago, but now outside, but with an established office in china.
I wonder why they have not been successful.Had this brand taken off, the mass Internet may have started 5~10 years earlier.
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Yeah, that problem is a real pain. As I mentioned in my post it's the bit I'm not happy with. I wonder how the readability tool does it; that seems to do a very good job.

It seems that OTS uses a word frequency strategy, so the algorithm is similar or identical to the one I demoed. Interesting.
I think the UX is terribly unintuitive - i hadnt realised that after clicking on a widget to add, you have to click where you want to add it to. A much more efficient and intuitive UX would be to drag and drop, showing a half-transparent version of what would appear in the destination of the drop.

Any half decent GUI driven development is going to have to need WYSIWYG, and currently in your app nothing is.

Sorry if this sounds harsh and critical - i have hope for this app, but it needs to improve before it can compete with the likes of yahoo pipes or blogger's template builder.
I'm eagerly awaiting Patrick McKenzie to chime in...
Their JS is out there if you grab it from the Bookmarklet. As in, it is not minified.

I have gone through it carefully, and it is clever.

OTS is definitely word freq based.
You have very good points (I think you meant unprofessional instead of non-professional).

Amazing. There are downvotes on your comment. This just shows what kind of community this is.
A T-Mobile spokesperson was not immediately able to provide details on the incident, including when and where it happened and what application, developer and vendors were involved.

That sure adds to the credibility. I totally believe that this happened now!
A blog response to this news:

http://www.theagitator.com/2010/10/12/whats-wrong-with-this-...
Empowering traditional education buy slicing off a few of the hundreds of millions of hours lost to waste a year is easier. Plus, you won't get the unions trying to kill you.
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I thought this was common knowledge.
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Most young children don't fully understand WHY they need a good education. Many students that do well in school in the early years, did so because their parents forced them to study.

If a child doesn't have that parental pressure and support to excel, maybe money can be a decent albeit imperfect substitute.
You were smart enough to get it, eh? :P
I'm sure it's more people who troll forums and cause trouble in general than people who applied to YC. There are always malcontents and people engaging in immature behavior in any group, especially public groups where one can be anonymous.
It's trivial to find out your own, sure, but Facebook handed out ids for every friend of the game users.

Facebook is so Microsoft.
I'm using an algorithm very similar to what they do with a few clever additions of my own. I started out with something almost identical, but they had a few twists that made it even better, which I then in turn improved on (and HTML5-ified :)).
Reddit is pretty much lost at this point. At one time, it was a community of college age people with above average intellects. These days, if someone posts something like "Did everyone stop caring about the oil spill?", the top comment will be something like "I never cared lol". Offensive racist comments end up with a positive vote balance.

You just have to pick your communities. It takes a bit of evaluation to see just who is on the other end of a forum.
Seems like a natural progression; after all Reddit's transformation into a combination of Digg and 4chan is nearly complete.
I have seen time and time again friends trying to innovate in the music space getting screwed over due to the monopoly powers granted via copyright. When there are 4 record labels that are able to act in tandem and that together hold the rights to 90% of the music released on labels in the US, they are bound to hold people back.

Artists don't have to sign away their rights to labels, but unfortunately that has not changed at the pace that many had hoped it would. The real innovation needed here is a way for artists to be able to go it alone and break away from the control of the labels.
This one from 1978 is the UNIX issue:

http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1978/BSTJ.1978.5706-...

I chose to read parts of it for a class a few years ago and found it surprisingly modern-sounding.

The epigraph on the foreword: "Intelligence...is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Bergson"

From the preface: "Because computer science is still in an early stage of development, no well-formulated theoretical sructure exists around which problems can be defined and results organized. 'Elegance' is of prime importance, but is not easily defined or described. Reliability and maintainability are important, but they also are neither precisely defined nor easily measured."

On the inside back cover: "This issue of the Bell System Technical Journal was composed, including all tabular and displayed material and final page makeup, using the document preparation software described on pages 2115-2135. It was phototypeset using the troff program, which was written by the late Joseph F. Ossanna, Jr."

The list of contributors includes one woman, Helen D. Rovegno, but Google doesn't say anything about her.

My grandfather was a technical editor for the BSTJ and other Bell Labs publications for most of his life, but unfortunately he never really talked about it in detail to me.
This is potentially being addressed in an in-development Clojure feature called Pods.
If that is so, then perhaps they aren't honoring the concept of failure.
I think the secret to innovation in this domain is to find ways around the labels. We're happy to fund music startups that don't directly touch label music, e.g. Songkick (which focuses on concerts) and thesixtyone (which focuses on indy music).
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I recently built a project (http://www.coatapp.com - A simple weather forecast application with clothing suggestions) on Linode and couldn't be happier. The disk speeds are very impressive, and super useful for apps that deal with large amounts of data that gets updated frequently (i.e. weather data).

This previously posted benchmark shows some of the difference between Linode and a few other providers (from 2009):
http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
After basic education (up until highschool) why not let kids pick what they want to learn. Forcing people to do anything after puberty is fruitless. You dont see high school football coaches having to force the kids to stay on the team. Why is education any different?
This is something I would pay for (and I am actually thinking to learn Objective-c just to build it myself because as far as I know, there aren't any good ones around): build an OSX Postgresql GUI client.
It's an interesting question, but I think it can be answered by pointing out just how much effort we've put into trying to build tools around other forms of information. Audio Processing, Image Processing, have all come a long way but they're nowhere near as powerful as sed/grep/awk/etc.

I agree with you though, tools like netcat, ssh, and dd are super powerful without implying any kind of formatting Text works with these by virtue of being representable as a stream of bytes.
As some hn reader pointed out -- and I wish I remembered his or her name -- if you aren't paying for it, you are the product.

fb is going to continue to aggressively monetize the information people have given them. I'd wager Zuckerberg thinks he is running a $20+ billion dollar company, and all that money is going to come from using your information to sell you to advertisers.
I would have loved to see the doman as book.ish
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From the FAQ on "What to Submit":

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Link: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Whenever I spend time and write a blog post that I think is interesting, I'll share it with the community. Sometimes, people think it's a good article and sometimes they don't. Votes decide that.

So, if you think it's an article that is interesting, go ahead and submit it :)
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Notability is why we do have a page for them, instead of a page for each of them.
Jeff Foxworthy could sue.
that's true but a lot of the time you don't care about the location as much as about being around other people.
There is also no shortage of experienced engineering talent.

Yes, but no. Japan has many, many, many talented engineers. Comparatively few of them work in web applications. Of those, most work on corporate IT apps serving the needs of Japan's multi-nationals.

To the extent that there is a coherent body of practice involved in the design, creation, operation, and evolution ofmodern web applications outside of the enterprise, that body is largely understudied here. Everything from modern web frameworks to metrics to split testing to making stuff pretty (many Japanese sites are stuck in early 2000 web design, partially a function of supporting obsolete mobile clients and partially of underuse of modern technologies) is underdone here.

My views are partially colored due to living in Japan's answer to Kansas. It may be better in the trendy Tokyo startup scene.
It's much simpler than this. Buy him/her a case of beer. That's all you have to do. Works wonders. People bend over backwards for you after you buy them a case of beer. It doesn't even have to be good beer; you could get some shitty $40/case beer and they will love you. Soma.
Interesting. I wonder if that is Modernizer.js doing that without us realising it. What browser/OS are you using? I'll see if I can replicate it. On Chrome/OS X I never get asked.
I only buy atoms that I need to eat, wear, or clean things with. Japan has plenty of good options for these. It's getting particular bits that I want that drives me bonkers.
Interesting! I really like reading about the practical application of learning something (if you make money from this, that would be awesome!), rather than just someone learning it to learn it.
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Wow, a few months back my co-workers and I actually came up with the same idea. Pretty cool. We never figured out a good solution to actually redeeming your beer though. Getting local bars onboard just seems a bit too difficult.
Really want to see where you can take it!
To quickly help others who may be curious but don't want to copy/paste the link:

Dylan Ginsburg has pulled in just under $21,000 USD profit between 8/19-10/13, 2010.
Yeah I figured as much, I just wanted to tell you what I thought it was missing, not complain about the lack of features.

Anyways it seems as if you guys want to only focus on the overview of the project management side and not on the task management side or collaboration side, which in my book is OK because most products make a mess of those things when done in tandem.

If you want to focus on only that for now my advice is to implement milestones first (you said you wanted to focus on scheduling and this is the cornerstone of scheduling IMO) and change the timeline to have less thick bars and emphasize milestones instead of project beginnings and endings (though this should be shown also off course), and figure out which direction you plan to take... collaboration angle, the task based angle, the "I only need a Gantt chart" oldschool project management angle, etc.

Overall I feel you guys have gotten the design idea quite nicely of what the needs in simple project management are, you just need to decide which type of project manager you're going to market to.
Link is to the fourth page of the article, rather than the first. I'd gently suggest fixing that, or avoiding it in the future.
The article is about honoring failed entrepreneurs in the sense of valuing people who start companies and fail (by correctly realizing that the success of a start-up is almost completely uncorrelated with the technical skill of it's employees and only weakly correlated with their future start-up success rate). It doesn't have anything to do with government subsidies.
Our designer @karrisaarinen gave a lecture about web app design just last week and his slides of that talk are up at http://www.slideshare.net/karrisaarinen/just-design-it-an-ap...
Where else do we look? Cheers
Excellent insights, thanks! These points will definitely be discussed in the future.
> Look at Google. They started as a California corporation and later reincorporated in Delaware.

Why did Google later reincorporate in Delaware?

Also, thanks for posting in this thread.
Why don't you open source your algorithm and more folks can work on it with you. I've been futzing with Readability JS converted to PHP (but could port to Ruby, Python) and it would be great to collab and share test files, etc.
Nicely done. I tried it on one of my blog post and the results are spot on. http://tldr.it/summaries/247
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Someone is probably going to have to make a site for HN refugees to become the new good HN. As things become more popular and better-known, their userbase tends more toward the average just by the nature of popularity. In most cases involving online communities this is a bad thing.
I think rather than trying to bribe children to go to school because they hate it they should instead concentrate on making school actually interesting.

Personally i feel that most school systems are factories that teach kids to be test takers, not question authority, not think for themselves and do it the way they're told because thats the way its always been done.

How about we provide some intrinsic motivation instead, make school interesting. Basic reading, writing and arithmetic should be compulsory but let kids choose whatever they want to learn after that.

I also dont think we really need teachers in specific subjects, generalist teachers that work with kids to support them could help a child create his own curriculum, the internet makes this a very real possibility these days.
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Just a note to anyone visiting the site. We are currently having issues with the mass demand of visits and going over our Google API request limit.

Currently in a team Skype call trying to resolve the issue. You can still see all the workplaces available via the "Workplaces" link. Search and creating workplaces are the pages that are affected.

Thanks to everyone for checking us out. We will keep @desksnearme updated with the progress.

Cheers.
DSpace is not about backups indeed. Its about problems like this one -

An acquaintance of mine has a true blue 5.25 inch "floppy" disk with text data of his research that he can't recover - 'cos the disk's format is inaccessible, the text is not in ASCII (probably EBCDIC), drives that read it aren't available now, the OS that knows the file system (CP/M I think) isn't available, the cpu that the OS ran on isn't available now .

I'll grant that you can recover it, but only with great difficulty - sort of a Rosetta problem.
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There's only one way that's been shared with me:

Talk to everyone you know about what you're doing and go to every event where mentors will be. Eventually you'll meet the right one, one that takes an interest in your idea and gets excited by it. If you hit it off they'll invite you to continue the conversation in a more private setting (not a conference/event but maybe their office/lunch). You'll get together informally and casually and should do so without any pretense. If things work out you'll find the relationship develop to the point where you might even wake up realizing that you have a mentor.

Yes, it does sound a lot like picking up singles at a bar. Yes, adult relationships are like that. Go see "I love you, Man" and realize it's really not that different.
Yeah, I think YC applicants or founders is statically insignificant, but I think your total user base is just as insignificant as this since it doesn't tell us much about what stories are showing up on the front-page and who is saying what about it. Instead, considering you're still only interested in comments, what if you filtered your user base for anyone that has posted a comment in the last 30 days then extrapolated the proportion of comments posted given a threshold of karma or "days alive" on HN against everyone else in your user base.

I think it's more revealing this way if you are interested in how increased traffic and site participation is effecting this 6% you mentioned above or that "days alive" value; IOW, how is increased traffic and new user participation effecting the rate at which this sample is posting comments?

In the end, I don't think increased traffic is effecting the discussion to the extent that it really matters; I think what really keeps everyone else in check is the frequency at which older members are posting comments.
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