skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was young I had an astonishingly good memory, and I could keep a remarkable amount of information in my head, so I never really had to write anything down. One wise manager warned me to be careful about relying too much on my strengths, so I did put effort into being more organized and to keep better records. I also worked on being more systematic, creating mini-project plans for everything I do. Now that I'm 47, I'm really glad I put in that effort.

Ummm, what was I saying? Sorry, I forgot. ;-)
People seem really up-in-arms about this. I don't see the harm in having people look through the information and making recommendations. It's what the people do with these recommendations that matter.

One person that disagrees with something (for whatever reason) probably won't be enough to abandon research on it. I'm cool with taking a look at what is there.
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Here's a starting point: Visa was created by Bank of America. Surprise, the card processors aren't big fans of Wikileaks right now.
For a different approach: from a scientific/logical perspective the result has no bearing on the truth of his claim. The only possibility which we can remove from consideration is the claim that "The coin will always land tails."
No way. American Whites vs Chinese Whites is the only fair comparison.
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Daniel, I think this has been a very productive discussion. However,

I believe the only arbitrer of whether something was justifiably held secret or not are my fellow voters

How can this ever happen if we the voters are never given any view into what is being kept secret? We may as well vote on "should we continue black ops project X-123?". No voter can have any opinion on the question by its very nature.

It seems like this is getting us into a Catch-22.
I agree - it's a fantastic thing to be forking the code. The side effect is that with each fork whatever protocol Diaspora have chosen becomes more entrenched and difficult to change.

What I was trying to get at in the article was that app designers need to think about the protocol at some point since questions such as "are we relying on long polling or will the user refresh pages" start to play a question on the UI side too.

Also, if a product is marketed as being distributed, some thought as to how this will work and scale become important.

It's really good that Diaspora are thinking about what the user sees and programming from the user's POV. I spend a lot of time in the XMPP community and there is not enough of this focus. But a good programmer has to balance design with functionality and focus on many areas and some more thought on the protocol side would not go amiss.
I think the problem is a bit higher level then that. This project feels like it lacks the necessary experienced leadership. What they are doing is Not Easy and this is being borne out by their product. Building apps isn't too hard, designing systems is.
I was just checking out force.com and left pretty quickly after discovering they want $50 / user per month. Makes it pretty hard to make money that way.
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The entire NSF budget is $7.424 Billion. That’s about the same as the amount the Federal government spends on farm subsidies for corn alone.
Ref:
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2011/index.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_Sta...
As someone who has been working on this for a very long, my advice is to write the software to be protocol agnostic. Be able to switch out protocols easily, and support multiple protocols concurrently, because we still have no idea which protocol will win out. It may be something that hasn't even been built yet.
>There are plenty more Vitaly Borkers out there waiting

Are there really that many businesses threatening their customers' lives? I've never heard of it before this guy.
Two-pane email browsing was been around for more than a decade. It was used by Outlook and in other email clients as well.
Honestly, I don't know what that means. Was BoA's name in some of the leaks?
I've always liked cabbages' knack for coming up with names:

adept -> inept

barnes&noble -> ignoble

kindle -> unswindle
I doubt that Oscar Wilde said that. It's too post-Lenny Bruce.
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You think Kim Jong-Il was shocked to discover that he wasn't a towering international statesman and decided to attack S Korea because of it?
Linus thinks that it's fine to rewrite history on a private branch: http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/...

> but instead of committing all of your work as you have come to it naturally, you decide to break your work up into several small, "logical" commits. This makes you look good, but it's a lie.

No. Breaking your work up into several small, "logical" commits is exactly the right thing to do.

I find this very useful when doing experimental coding: when I don't really know where I'm going or if my changes will work. I end up with a pile of commits that do break tests and thus bisect etc, before ending up with something that works. Reworking this private branch is exactly the right thing to do.

This is in fact the exact model that open source development has used for years. Try submitting a patch series for inclusion in the kernel which include a bunch of mistakes that you've later corrected (as happens naturally during development) and see what happens. You'll be asked to rework it, since it makes it harder to review.

Take a look at the Linux git tree and find me a single merge commit where the branch being merged contains mistakes and corrections. You won't find one. You will find plenty of regression fixes, but these are there because by this time the commits were public and couldn't be fixed retrospectively using a rebase without rewriting public history (which would obviously cause all sorts of problems).
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He is light-heartedly using 'morals' as a part of his schtick. No-one is expected to take it seriously.

Underneath the style there are some interesting points being made about how certain uses of certain features breaks other features. I'd be interested to hear your rebuttal.
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> Examples?

Big ones: the whole Google suite. Gmail is clearly the most reliable, but strange things still happen in gmail, like chat dropping, task lists locking up, or crashes. I love gmail, use it all the time, has great features. But I'd love a native client for Gmail even more.

Flickr. Great content and community, but the web interface is clearly clunky. Imagine Flickr on a tablet. Swiping, pinching, tapping. If you had the choice, you'd use the app, not the webpage.

Facebook. Insanely popular, insanely buggy. Try spending 30 minutes going through newsfeeds and photo albums without having the javascript go unresponsive.

Just using those 3 examples, you will see great client front-ends created for those in the next few years. Though maybe not Google if they don't get their head out of the sand. Soon Facebook will do a great tablet client, and it will be a KILLER app.

So what type of professional document creation are you doing in Google Docs?
Holy crap. A simple trip to Wikipedia will reveal that there was over 500 million pounds worth of credit card fraud per year at last count; I can only hope the judge was immediately impeached.

edited to correct 3 order of magnitude error (thanks, jacquesm); but at least I was much closer than a judge, and not using that figure for binding decisions ruining many peoples' lives.
depending on hardware capabilities (3D rendering) and "distinct multitouch" hardware support

Hrmm, only 8 phones are 100% compatible. Could anyone explain what distinct multitouch is? Why would a touchscreen support two finger pinch but not a two finger push?
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to lose your Facebook account."
Is it bizarre to refuse bail to someone who has been constantly on the move and clearly knows how to evade detection to a fair degree?

He seems to be a perfect example of a fleeing risk.
Dude, trust me, 2011 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
What does connecting with nature even mean? It would seem that at the peak there'd be relatively little of what I call "nature".

Seems like if you'd like to connect with nature in an extreme way go on a safari or to a rain forest, or even just Yosemite. You may be able to brag, "I survived Yosemite", but it seems a tad more sincere.
The problem with it, is that it puts the fate of research grands in the hands of people who know nothing of the value of the research at hand. It also puts it in the hands of people who don't believe in research. For example, I'm sure climate change research is going to get targeted by climate skeptics as wasteful, evolution and big bang research by creationists, etc.

That said, the two he listed do sound pretty ridiculous. And I'm sure there are more that need cutting. It's the idea of having your grant judged by people who know jack shit about the science involved -- or are even actively hostile to it.
In the case of the Wii, your remote has to be paired with the Wii. You accomplish this by setting the Wii to pairing mode (press the red button inside the Wii) and set the remote to pair (red button under the battery cover of the Wiimode). Other remotes do nothing to a Wii unless paired. So really, the possibility of neighbor-interference with Bluetooth would be much less.
Not a fair comparison at all. Cupertino would easily win.
What is scary is people don't see the big picture, they see $750,000 to develop computer models to analyze the on-field contributions of soccer players, I see $750,000 to research another branch of game theory that could be used to help ease diplomatic tensions in third-world countries (I know it's a stretch, but go with it).

Add to the fact that, as said in other comments, the contribution to NSF is marginal when looking at the entire budget, and I feel downsizing can be found elsewhere and save our scientific research.
I don't see the issue as free press. I don't believe that our press has ever been more free than it is today.

The issue I'm concerned with is that this turns people like Manning into heroes.

Freedom of the press was not created to protect classified documents. They didn't exist at the time. It was created to protect the press' right to contradict and/or point out the flaw in the government system, and the people that manage it.

It's meant to prevent government censorship.

And legal or not, I'm just not comfortable with this level of freedom with national secrets. We'll see how it plays out over the long-term, but I don't think it's a fear of Assange you see, but fear of what these documents will do to strengthen our enemies.
This would be the situation, if the anti-GM crowd was a largely rational one.

You would think that "this GM crop will allow us to feed millions of otherwise starving children" would be a good enough argument for most people.
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Money doesn't motivate file-sharers
Both of these are good ideas, I like them!
No. It was invented by Steve Jobs shortly after he designed the wheel.
That must be why he turned himself in.
Others are responding to your question, but I think the question itself is important, because it points out that there is zero argument in this post; the author is just spouting an opinion. Whether or not you think it is "OK" to want to make money, that's not the way to express your opinion to reasonable people.
I think allowing the public to decide what scientific research to fund or not is a horrible idea.
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1. Is the idea good enough to build a small business around?

2. I don't have a recurring billing system integrated. I live in India and I do not have access to services like recurly or chargify. Assuming the tool gets some traction, I might want to to build in a recurring billing system. For now though, I am planning on requesting money using PayPal if required. I plan to charge $8 monthly for a basic plan (2 private projects) and $14/monthly for a plus plan (5 private projects). I've pulled these rates out of thin air for now. Are they reasonable?

I have learned most of my product building skills reading you guys here at HN. The community is awesome and I've constantly felt that I had to try and share as well. I am offering a 3 month plus plan as a token of appreciation for all you good folks out there for making my year memorable. Link: https://whoisworkingonwhat.com/signup?promotion_code=yc As always, please keep the the comments coming in.
I guarantee you research leading to the web as we know it would have been squashed under this project.
I'm just pointing out that they seem to have copied UISplitView exactly, including how it adopts to smaller screens and landscape vs. portrait orientation. Split screens have been around for a while, but this implementation is very specific.
That's million, not billion.

And It's worse than that actually, that's the portion that is detected.
At least choose a better example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Hall_(climber). Beck Weathers wasn't suffering from altitude sickness and made it back to camp IV on his own.

I didn't say it was futile to attempt a rescue, I said it was comparatively more futile to attempt a rescue. You have to make an assessment - is it likely that we can save this person and is it worth the risk?

Then there is the psychological aspect. In the Trango rescue, Minamiura was in radio contact with the rescue team. It's a lot harder to leave someone when you can communicate with them.

In the case of David Sharp it's not entirely clear he was beyond help, at least at the point when he was first found. I don't think that Ingall's made the correct decision but I also have to accept that it is difficult for me to really know or understand what happened. What I do know is that many climbers suffering from HACE can die very quickly - often much quicker than they can safely descend. In those cases, they truly are "as good as dead" though I don't believe there is any way judge whether an individual is at that point or not.

And next time try not to cherry pick a single word from my post.
The irony runs deep.
Well he did turn himself in right after being asked.
which brings us to... offline caching. Maps will keep on file the locations that you go to (and search) most often, and it'll be able to reroute while offline in Navigation

So does that mean data is only cached offline if you're in the area? What happens if the area you want mapped has no cell coverage, is there no caching of that location?
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I pretty much agree.

Java is under a two-pronged attack. LLVM is quickly becoming the preferred target platform. The harder Oracle is to work with the harder it will be for new languages to target the JVM.

Also Java's niche is getting squeezed from both ends. Python, Ruby, and Javascript can do more of what Java does with less hassle. Languages like Go and Rust are bridging the divide from C/C++ to Java also. Both languages have a nice mix of good performance, predictable performance, high-level semantics, and concurrency.
Surprised Visa and Mastercard didn't do something more evil... like raise their APR to 19.99%
I'm getting tired of all this "imagine what you could do" hype.

Can you really build a well designed, polished app that people want with these tools? Well, so do it, release the app, make a lot of money and show us how you did it and why it's better than building a native app. As of now I never saw all this promises fulfilled, especially on the iPhone.

Otherwise it's just pure speculation.

EDIT: spelling and punctuation.
Only when it comes to suicide, better preparation means a higher chance of dying.
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If Republican presidents behave as they have in the past, science funding is likely to increase.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trtot08p.pdf

http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres08p.pdf

Don't know about the house and senate.
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They are widely believed to be the target of the next major WL dump.
> but fear of what these documents will do to strengthen our enemies.

I don't subscribe to your fear, or to your suggestion that we have a common enemy.
Agreed. I'll hand it to Jason Fried though: it's good to see someone try to relate the concepts in Mythical Man Month to non-programmers.

I recommended MMM to a friend when problems at his workplace sounded like things that came up in software design or project management. But when I reviewed the book, I found that a lot of the big-picture concepts required if not understanding, then at least familiarity with programming and/or older computer systems. It's still a good book, but I ended up feeling like he wouldn't get what I got out of it.
Building apps is hard. Designing systems is hard. I wouldn't play down the difficulty of doing any of these things well at any large scale.
So you apply to the government for a job and in your job application, you put your address, social security number, telephone number, your personal references, etc. Then the government does a background check on you including your credit history, transcripts of interviews with your friends and family, copies of sealed court records, and copies of medical records obtained to qualify for employer insurance.

One country wants to buy airplanes from another country. It has offered $1 million for the airplanes, but the seller wants $2 million. The country writes an email saying it is willing to pay $2 million, but wants to negotiate. If a newspaper published the email the seller would demand $2 million costing the country an additional $1 million.

Suppose the military had a remote missile launch capability that allowed generals to telephone in and launch a missile. A newspaper gets hold of the phone number and launch codes allowing anyone to launch the missiles.

Under your reasoning, it is right to publish these.
100% FUD. There is not a single iota of evidence to support that.
Actually there was another story somewhere on HN (i think) about a guy who did the same thing, only with data recovery. He would hijack a drive or a computer's components and tell the customers they needed to pay more money before he'd return them, often threatening them and telling them to go on yelp if they were angry
"The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home"

Does that mean sex with a second woman while "she" as in "the first woman" was asleep, or while "she" as in "the second woman" was asleep and apparently unaware of what was going on?

Also curious to the sort of evidence to prove these accusations; video/audio recording?
As a person who cannot fathom there being no bananas, as I am in fact eating one right now completely coincidentally, I am in somewhat of a conundrum as to whether I would support GM bananas over no bananas. I think it would depend on other factors, such as whether the 'ownership' of the GM banana were open. I try to purchase free trade/organic produce and if the GM banana were a closed item this would probably lead me to start enjoying guavas, or something else.
This is exactly the kind of discussion that needs to be taking place in this industry, which has lagged far behind most in terms of adopting modern IT solutions. Of course, the post is talking about the (very) long term, but these ideas have to start brewing somewhere. No doubt that in the distant future, all of this technology will be widespread and more importantly, cheap. And yes, it would be cool!
Agreed, the Fortune title should have been "Why rivals Google and Apple like HTML5".
You know you can disable data transfer for roaming right?
Everyday I breath in tons of chemicals like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, etc. My height and, so I assume, lung capacity hasn't increased much over the last few years so I'd estimate that I've been taking in a constant amount of chemicals with each breath over this period.
Judge denies WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bail ~ A News Fuse
WikiLeaks has said that their next leak is from a major US bank, and they'll be releasing it early next year.

There's some guessing that it's BofA, because a year ago he said:

"At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives"
Surely the goal is to provide common lower levels of a "social" protocol stack and allow as many and different user interface applications to layer on that common core?

That's one of the goals, but it's not the only goal. I think what you're bringing up is what makes social networking somewhat new terrain for open source. So far, open source has been able to dominate the server space because of superior tech implementations for an insanely low price point.

For social applications, that doesn't matter as much when you're trying to draw users. You need a usable UI, you need to learn all the lessons that the proprietary systems have learned over the years. It's not good enough to just have a better technology, you have to present it as well or better than the competition.

I think it's a new trajectory, because there's less incentive for walled gardens to open up than there was for Netscape to use http. So I think this is a necessary trail for open source to blaze through.

So in a lot of ways, there's very much a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma: Usable protocol stack that others can build on, or sizable enough user base that developers want to build on it. And the closest I've seen to open source dealing with these questions was actually, the gnu/linux desktop projects.
I actually made an account so I could post as myself. Although someone has already made my point, I need to reiterate it -- crowdsourcing scientific review is an awful idea. Journals and funding agencies use peer review specifically because a review needs knowledge of the subject area and of the context of the research. Few scientists will review a wasteful proposal in kind terms. The research dollar is so limited that the ridiculous and the out-of-context tends to get flagged as such.

The problem with research (including much of my own work) is that it is difficult to explain quickly and in simple terms. Science tends to make crappy sound bites, but an unpoliticized research establishment is almost certainly good policy.
> And yet, these "fake" apps are the most popular apps in the world

I would dispute that, in every case where there is exists a native app with equal functionality, the app is used every time. Customers prefer the native apps. Yes, we all know the dev costs are high right now, but that will change just like it did for web development.

Also significant, there is finally again opportunities for developers to be paid for their work by real customers. The quality of native apps plus the AppStore model is resulting in end customers seeing value in software again.

The only reason so many web apps are popular now is because it's the only choice available to consumers. Tech companies have been distracted the last 10 years chasing the perpetual myth of write-once run-everywhere, this time instead of Java or Flash or XML (for data), it is HTML5+javscript. I guess we haven't learned yet.

There is a return to client coding happening, and it's going to produce a new renaissance in really great software.
Guardian coverage with the actual charges: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/assange-bail-req...