skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't enter authentication credentials they use elsewhere or conduct financial transactions on torrented software, like they do on websites.
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1. The title is not untrue.

2. It's not known whether this will lead to a full blown "conflict" (although, who are we kidding, it probably will)
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My 1st article for the New York Times -- the psychology of financial willpower
I am impressed that you can hack while walking down the street! When I'm coding my wife has to call my name 3 or 4 times before I notice she is speaking to me. I would be doomed on a busy street.
Want: Github, Git, Google groups.
Don't want: Java.net, kenai, Oracle messing around.
Have no problems with: Fork, name change.

Silent "larger community" user has spoken.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi (the founder/lead dev) used to work for Sun, and developed Hudson for them. Oracle got Hudson via the acquisition. Kohsuke stayed at Oracle for a while (longer than some other Sun devs, certainly), then left to form Infradna instead, providing Hudson consulting.

[1] http://infradna.com/
Interesting post! Separating wheat from chaff is important and still unsolved.
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May I ask what your definition of a hit is? Is it every file being requested? Or...?
#2 works and is a profitable company called tellapart (http://tellapart.com).
Keeping humans in the loop doesn't do as much as we think, because humans have a natural inclination to trust computers. In a high-stress situation, such as a battlefield, a human will defer to a computer even if the computer reports information that, under normal circumstances, would be obviously false. In 1988, for example, the USS Vincennes shot down a civilian airliner because its AI targeting system had misidentified it as an enemy aircraft. Giving individual humans access to an off-switch is a pretty suboptimal way to prevent AIpocalypse.
I also read a bit of sarcastic "good luck making a Hudson without the name, we'll still have it". Presumably there would not be any Oracle changes that break plug-ins, so a lot of users would have to manually migrate to a fork. I'm guessing Oracle feels that puts them in a good position.
A workers co-op is a good alternative to a partnership if your jurisdiction has sane laws. (in other words if you're not in the United States).

The big downside to partnerships is that you're exposed to unlimited liability.
Don't forget MMORPG!
This is the 1st of 4 posts I'll be doing for the New York Times (their Bucks blog) on the psychology of willpower, automation, and earning more. This one is about how people believe if they just "try harder," they can save more money...yet willpower fails repeatedly. I included research from social psychology and personal finance, and 3 tactics to overcome our failure of willpower. Hope you guys enjoy it.
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It's true that such ideas tend to be magnets for sloppy thinking, but I think most if not all of them could be pulled off if done right.
A habit I've started doing is to write the narrative I want to tell in a Word doc. Never mind the charts and graphs and numbers yet, just tell the story in free flowing text. Then start going through the story, extracting the main bits of info, summarizing and making them into slide.

I got this technique from my girlfriend who used to work for McKinsey. That's how it's done over there apparently.
One idea I hear all the time: Better agile/project management software. I've never met a nerd who liked what they were using (myself included).
That's why I'll be taking advice from my doctor and not an ebook.
No worries, me neither..
I'm not sure whether this is a point in favor of humans or in favor of robots. Inflicting enemy casualties is the point of warfare.
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I do have a rough outline at this point and tons of barf draft. It will be more in-line with previous D4H posts: concentrating more on explaining principles behind attractive design, rather than technical know-how. There are tons of resources on that stuff, and it's not what I'm good at.

So, I'll be talking about composition, geometry, color, typography, and other design principles.
There is a point to warfare. It is to make things so unpleasant for the other side that they have no choice but to submit.

The more we try to computerize warfare and make it antiseptic, the easier it becomes for us to ignore that fact. Admittedly this is effective - when we don't feel the pain of war we are able to inflict more of it - but fundamentally I think it is wrong.
I vote for calling it "Jenkins": http://twitter.com/atmos/status/16880282279

> OH: "it might run weird on our butler ci. what is it? jenkins?"
I read that comment too, but I am not sure 'broken windows' truly applies here. Although I believe there is net public harm from US post-9/11 "security" policies, when you consider that:
a.) the spending being done on security is entirely public deficit spending not offset by tax increases or cuts in other departments,
b.) the economy has been well below full employment (~58-62% employment-pop ratio during the period) and full capacity utilization (~68-81% capacity utilization during the period),
c.) no other expansion of public employment and spending would have likely occurred in the past decade absent the 9/11 attacks (arguable, but there really isn't a political consensus for expanding the US welfare state),
and posit that the 2000s growth rate would have taken essentially the same path absent the 9/11 attacks, then it would appear that much of the security theater policies have had a small medium-term stimulative economic effect (small because it is largely offset by increased consumer travelling expenses and time, dampening productivity).
The three keys I mention above violate the pretext of the broken window fallacy (at least in the medium term, and probably in the long-term because of historically low interest rates). In a full employment situation, there would be significant deadweight loss, and in a balanced budget situation, there would be significant economic impact due to either increased taxation or offsetting spending cuts. But neither of those conditions applies to the recent US situation. The BWF assumes that the money would have been spent doing something else (more profitable), and I am pretty certain that will not be the case until the debt needs to be paid, which is unlikely to ever occur (I think the assumed future policy is to continue to roll the debt over until the singularity).
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I've seen A LOT of designers works like that, nothing unusual or evil. List of reference elements for inspiration from all over the place, crude placement and re-work/redesign/throwing out/making it all work together in the end. It's actually quite similar to matte painting if you think about it.
Of course they all worked at least once. Otherwise the siren song wouldn't be so seductive.

Often half the problem with an idea is that it has already worked once. In a world where you're allowed to assume away Craigslist, cloning Craigslist would have a much better chance of working.
Here are some of the other common one's I've heard:

- A social-networking site that totally respects my privacy and lets me own my data!

- An app store that lets anybody sell their digital stuff to anyone, not in some walled garden!

- A drag and drop interface that lets you make any program you want...totally code-free!

I could go on and on...
The difference between your list and his is that some people have actually succeeded with all of the items on your list.

But you've still hit the nail on the head with your list: there are vast numbers of failures and uncompleted projects for every success.
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I think it's fair from a hacker ethics perspective as long as it doesn't make it directly harder for others to do the same thing i.e. by being exclusive in some way.
Thanks for noticing the capitalization. I'll fix it. A designer probably will take it up to another level, but I can't afford one for now. :)
For a little bit of context, I've done some plug-in commits in my time and met the important guys in this project.

Unlike some categorizations in the comments here, I wouldn't say that the devs are anti-Oracle, they're pro-Hudson. I think they've tried to work with Oracle as much as they can, and certainly shown more patience than I think I would have. Once it became clear Oracle didn't necessarily have Hudson's best intentions at heart, things started to go downhill.

Oracle has not been especially communicative, and it's not especially respectful to literally pull the plug on a project's infrastructure without decent prior warning. For all the failings of java.net, when it was run by Sun, they did at least make sure people knew ahead of time of planned outages (the unplanned we don't discuss).

From my POV, it looks like Oracle has two heads: there's the nasty, legal head that is happy to sue everyone with Sun's patent arsenal, and there's the plain incompetent head that doesn't have a clue how to interact with open-source development. We're seeing the latter here, and I guess the community is just fortunate that Hudson isn't patent-encumbered (as far as I know). I don't think there's any particular malice here, just a general level of incompetence and hubris.
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... until they do
Another one he's missed : Algorithm to predict stock market movements.
I can't believe I missed basic and javascript! I'm banging my head against the wall thinking "I know the name Brendan Eich, but where?"
> driverless cars

Why not? Technologically, or socially?
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It seems like someone did do them! Obvious examples include:

1. basecamp/fogbugz/jira

2. Confluence/Sharepoint

3. django/rails

4. Google Docs

5. Facebook
Constitutional republics are a form of democracy.
You are right, this war is far from over. Just I wasn't considering the whole war, but this battle, this game in particular. We'll see how the next battle starts, and then we'll play our moves the best we can, but this time, in this game to be precise, I think is a check mate. And a speedy one, too. Maybe.
"Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization."

[citation needed]
ICANN to lift limits on gTLDs to allow .{brandname} domains
I'm not sure if you mean that as just an aside or in context of this .p2p tld, but I'm pretty sure an "application that runs as a service and hooks into the hosts DNS system" would need elevation too.
17/19 - missed javascript and groovy.
Programmers are a crowd that fundamentally hates marketing speak. So yes, infomercial tones are seen by most as a negative thing.

In my experience, programmers who are also entrepreneurs understand the merit of marketing, even if they instinctually dislike the wording you choose, so they'll be less judgmental (ergo your upvotes).
While logical programming is powerful, it is only useful in certain situations. Due to the way Prolog backtracks to find a final solution, it can be increadibly slow, and it has to be able to 'undo' an operation.

While it is a much different language now, Erlang was originally based on Prolog, and has been adopted, modified and extended to be a much better "realworld" language.
That's exactly what I've been looking for.

Finding stuff on the tools seems to be easy / every one is doing it.
I dunno, I agree that everyone and their brother has these ideas, but it's like writing a novel. In literature there are a bunch archetypes (hero, heroine, Christ-like figure, etc), it's the nuance the author brings to the new iteration . Your right in that everyone has these ideas, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't think about ways to do them in a different way!
The only similarity I can see is a network of people who help one another. But that idea is orthogonal to communism. And very old: that's what a tribe is.
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Almost same here. I missed PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. PHP and Groovy were off my radar but I had the same feeling about Eich.

I haven't missed Basic just because of the year (1964).
The exact terms vary, but in some states an LLP or LLC is a good alternative with limited liability (just how limited the liability is also varies).
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Have you written all four already? What happens if you write 3, then for the last one you have absolute writers block, or you end up writing stuff you are totally dissatisfied with?
I built a similarish app a while ago that turned your tweets into a scrabble like game with your friends. It's actually not similar at all beyond word analysis.

It got pretty underwhelming reviews but I still think there is opportunity to turn tweeting into games.
What's even more fun is being so excited that you wake up early to work on your own project.
I'm working on a niche social travel website that's currently underserved. Launching next week; will share on HN!
In this case it doesn't even seem fair to say expressiveness would be sacrificed, because expressiveness is just as much about human comprehension as it is about powerful code modification. In the current implementation there are too many ways for refinements to leak out of their defined context, granted it could be argued that this makes refinements more powerful, but it also undermines their very purpose (ie. isolating code).

I'm not a Ruby internals expert, but I've done my fair share of meta programming and debugging of monkey-patch conflicts. A more static version of refinements will give 99% of the benefit while avoiding most of the landmines Charles is describing. The other 1% can probably be served by adopting some other technique rather than looking to refinements. Ruby is already such a dynamic and powerful language that it seems silly to say that refinements need to have this uber-flexibility. All they need to be able to do is isolate monkey patches within a library and they've already provided a huge practical benefit. Being able to inject refinements into someone else's code? That's just not very important, and if it is for some particular case there are other techniques Ruby affords you, all of which should be used cautiously.

Barring some flaw in Charles' analysis, I'd say it's a no brainer that refinements need to go back to the drawing board.
My first long German word was Schwarzwälderkirschtorte. Nowhere near as difficult as yours.
I had a similar idea some days ago and planned to write a simple prototype.

However, instead of supporting standard registrations my idea was more similar to Tor's .onion namespace:

You first generate a RSA keypair and build a hash of the public key. This hash is your domainname.

Then you timestamp your zonefile and sign it with your private key. Afterwards, you store the result in a DHT under the key of the hash generated earlier. DHT nodes responsible for your data verify that your signature corresponds to your public key and that your public key corresponds to the hash.

As a last step you need a way to retrieve the data: The first possibility is to use your own local resolver on your PC that queries the DHT. An alternative would be to have several public resolvers that make this data available under different subdomains.

Supporting non-hash domainnames is somewhat harder due to security problems (if you want to have a fully decentralized solution). However, it might be possible to do this with an approach similar to Bitcoin's, where a block-chain is used to store transactions.
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But funny enough, your comment was voted up.
IANAE but I imagine domain verification will require a certain ratio of trackers to all point the domain at the same IP. Random poisoned trackers would be ignored, perhaps flagged.

That still would leave the system vulnerable to massive botnets where a blackhat can 'flip a switch' and point a domain at a different IP on hundreds of thousands of nodes.

It's an interesting idea and problem. The DNS system has always felt pseudo-distributed to me - not exactly centralized, but still limited in its redundancy.

The idea of making a torrent-based DNS seems akin to a starfish - you can cut off every limb at the root and not only will it not die, it will completely regenerate.
For some reason, math notation has always felt less formal and rigorous to me than any programming language.

Think of how liberating it would be if you could just write pseudo-code, and the computer would figure out what you meant, instead of complaining about a missing semi-colon. That's how mathematics is typically written: for other mathematicians to read. But the underlying meaning conveyed is usually very, very precise, more so than in a typical program (which may have bugs in spite of being "formal and rigorous").

you can always run a program to get a result

That's the distinction between procedural and declarative information. Most lower animals, and most programming languages are firmly in the procedural camp. Perhaps the biggest breakthrough in Homo Sapiens was the ability to do declarative reasoning, which is much more flexible and powerful.

There are a few baby steps in declarative programming languages, like Prolog and Mathematica, but the revolution has yet to happen IMO.
The number of cellphones that are actually running Android, iOS, Blackberry, WP7, etc. compared to the total number cellphones is very small. Nokia has a lot of room to get market share for a competing OS.

Also, if the average user of the above OSes does not download a lot of apps for that platform, the stickiness of the platform is reduced and Nokia could benefit if it could come up with a coherent OS / developer strategy.
(Elaborating:) Electron shells "look" more like this: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Azimuthal_quantum_nu...

They really don't resemble gravity-based orbiting in solar systems at all.
Just did a bout of gratuitous clicking and selecting text all over the page a few hundred-odd times to confound the profoundly annoying Crazy Egg tracking script.
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I had a concussion but other than that I was pretty much fine. The bike handled it pretty well too - new front wheel, new saddle, and new bar type was pretty much all that was required to replace.
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http://fluttr.heroku.com

Fluttr lets you easily keep track of todo items. All you have to do is remember what url you choose. Keep it secret or share to have a collaborative todo list.

I'm learning Rails and Javascript so this has been my first good experiment. Took me just a couple of hours to put this together and I'd love to hear what you think!
I feel like this misses a ton of apps. In chronological order:

textbook swap
todo list
dorm rating
apartment/roommate rating/review
local business rating/review
something to hack the stock market
better pet site
better dating site
better wedding site
http://www.twordsie.com/statuspage?user=@thomaschaaf does not work gives error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 511, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/twordsie/1.346586893870275243/main.py", line 55, in get
'rows': [{'c': [{'v': tweet["text"]}]} for tweet in tweets]}
TypeError: string indices must be integers
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but it looks like he copied & pasted a lot of elements from other websites into his design

he was using them as inspiration, i don't think he actually copied any ui elements (unsure about where he got the photographs, but it's common practice to pay a royalty fee or use free if it's not required). as an example, many good designers will look at apple's design elements in mac os x or iphone os. you'll hear steve jobs got a lot of his inspiration from other sources too. that's how design works; you'll take something that's good right now and you make it better.

"The inspiration for the type of plastic case (a first for computers) for the Apple II came from Jobs seeing a Cuisinart food processor in the kitchen section of Macy’s.

Additionally, Jobs showed up at a design meeting for the Quicktime software product with a brochure from Hewlett-Packard with the H-P logo in a brushed metal.

The brushed metal ended up being adopted in across much of Apple’s software and some high-end hardware including the Safari Web browser and iCal calendar." Leader Kahney, Inside Steve's Brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU&feature=playe...
clickable: http://fluttr.heroku.com
Missed Groovy. No regrets.
Am I the only one who thinks that basing this on Bittorrent seems a tad bit like "when you have a hammer…"?
Speaking of which ...I wonder if we will hear anything from http://bumptop.com/ via Google soon?
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"He’s the guy that knows how to approach customers, figures out what they want ..., how to collect and analyze statistics, comes up with success metrics ..., design the right experience to meet business goals ..."

Perhaps a better title for this article would be "What is a internet marketing consultant".

This post screams "I'm not really a designer, but am really good at managing designers and talking about design to other non-designers".
Option 2:

Don't bring your expensive electronics devices with you.

Instead of an iPhone, bring a cheapo dumbphone, a point-and-shoot camera, and a freshly-installed netbook, if you must.

Store what you need in the cloud and don't log into it with the netbook. If you don't want to put your data in the cloud, put it in a truecrypt volume file and name it something innocent. Uninstall Truecrypt until you're in country and can find a wifi hotspot.
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They use http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/.

Not sure how Brain Tree handles that thing.
I haven't written all four yet, but I do have outlines of the ideas. I collect ideas/research/examples for a long time -- often years -- so when I go to write a post, I can sort through tons of stuff. That helps with writer's block.
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thanks for the quick response.

good job.. looks good! :) will definitely check it out.
No, but that's why I never type it directly. In TeX, one gets it via the ASCII notation \not\subset. This gives TeX-math the curious property that it's read in a different set of symbols than it's written in. There have been some attempts at that in pretty-printing programming languages, but none seem to have really caught on.