skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm embarrassed to say that I replied before I really thought this one through. Of course they wouldn't let computers that deal with passports/customs access the web, NK or otherwise.
Anyone know a good lawyer looking to make a name for him/herself in the UK? This would be a great opportunity :)
Maybe we should all watch this before getting excited about Google's Takeover of Digg
Who knows to what extent it is true, but there have to be some elements of truth mixed in there. And it never hurts to be aware of future possibilities.
I found the phrasing of the first page a little misleading - "...is a hive of self-expression; this employee, for example, is working out of a garden shed." suggests that this specific employee decided that he wanted to work in a garden shed, and it represents his self-expression, and the picture is framed to make it look that way like it's the only one to enhance that impression. When in fact there are other pictures out there showing that there are many of these. E.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/veerles-blog/461586084/

Not that they aren't cool, but the text is misleading.
Why not? The writing is pretty good and I always get a chuckle out of them. It's worth my ten minutes a day.
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The money the government took to fund stuff would have been used in another way. But maybe they are better investors than the market; how would we know?
I think this is conventional wisdom coming from a biased source and about 10 years out of date (at least). The premium paid to college graduates has been shrinking - I know that in Canada, there are huge shortages of "skilled trades" - meaning plumbers, electricians, welders, etc, and I know that friends of mine who have gone into those fields have done very well economically.
When I was a kid, with the one exception of LOGO, there wasn't even the idea of "programming languages for kids". There was BASIC of course, but if you wanted to get into Turbo Pascal or C, no-one would say "but that's for grown-ups".

It's like Father Christmas says in LWW - these are tools, not toys.
And where do those subsidies come from in the first place?
Seriously, is this interesting? I mean, the top-like programs maybe useful (although I'm a browser man, and I think that keep pinging the sites each 30 sec. isn't polite at all.), but how these two simple programs were made... Come on! The net if full of articles about how much more interesting pieces of code were made or why they were made this way! I think mainly of kernels and HA systems, but not these.
Then the answer is for them to get more acquainted to how things work in the real world. Things are closed, things are proprietary. That's business.

Apple hold all the cards because... erm they made the iPhone. It's theirs.
My take:

If you are starting a business which will make a profit from the outset, in which you have complete control:

- After a while you may want to do something else other than run the business.

+ A good way of doing this is to sell the business to a public company.

- It may take some time to do this depending on the market and size of the business. During which you may not want to be there.

+ Since the business is making money you don't need to rush the sale.

That all sounds pretty good to me.

Beyond the mentioned freedom and security, a lot of people start business so that they can be more in control of their own lives.

If you start a business with the intention of keeping full control, then you're going to be responsible for the continued control of it.
That was the perfect stereotype of left-wing fear-mongering bullshit (complete with the BBC accent). I'm mostly a lefty myself, but wow. "so-called page rank"???

I'll admit to not watching past the minute mark. I decided I should go look at google's stock price for a dose of reality.

And the digg-bait-like headline completes the picture.
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A few open source developers isn't going to make much difference.

It's causing problems for open source developers who like to be able to do what they want, but for end users I don't see any problems. Apart from the quality control - why are there so many useless mindless apps like "flashlight"?

Personally I'll mainly still continue to use webapps rather than the apps.
background apps might also eat up CPU power. There are other considerations.
Also if you have background apps, you need some task manager to be able to manage them and shut them down etc.
Yahooligans
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They have a plan. :)

I posted this when they launched Lively:

> in this view it also makes sense for them to take over Wikipedia and Flickr

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=244629

Now they've got their own product that fills the Wikipedia gap and is also more suited to their purposes.
The big difference I see is that you can have several competing knols on the same or overlapping subjects.

Big consequences
- you don't need to spend a lot of time and effort enforcing NPOV through consensus
- people can express their own POV
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Whereas the guys who peer review scientific papers are just playing games? Get some perspective. While it may be important to some it's hardly important work in the big scheme of things.
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Oh, you missed the best part of the troll. Go back and watch the whole thing (only 3-1/2 minutes, despite the title) and enjoy the part about Google capturing your genetic data as well....
I read this on hacker news over breakfast. As I was leaving I considered picking "The Open Society" again from my bookshelf to read on the train as I had been working through it but put it down about a month ago for lighter reading. When I got to the train station there were police everywhere making people walk through metal detectors to get on the train.
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Sure, but nifty deep math is good enough for me.
But is there correlation to creativity, productivity, and creative environments like this. I can (and have) see people getting very distracted with all the funtertainment around.

Without wanting to be a joykill, it really only works where you have highly driven and motivated people/team(s) who use it to fuel them.
Microsoft Rumbles, Rearms For Online War It Can’t Win Without Yahoo
Yet another attempt by Google!!!
Knol.... hmmmm... Maybe Google should try acquiring wikipedia instead.. ;) !!!
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Yes, it's the MapReduce of C#. Easy to use, powerful, and extendable - the same syntax can be used no matter if the data is in-memory data structure, XML or SQL. Libraries exist to parallelize and distribute LINQ queries.
Downvote me, but can you explain me why you find this article interesting? (And my comment offending...)
History of T
Comfort Shoes Can  be bought online?
We men like to shop quickly and we normally do not like spending a lot of time in selecting things; the faster it is the better, whether it is clothes, sunglasses, watches or other personal items. However, when it comes to shoes, we are not the same; we spend more time in selecting our shoes than any other personal article. I am sure that it applies to you as well. One of the reasons for this I think is that we wear our shoes the entire day and we want to make sure the comfort
When companies (labels) collude with governments and other major corporates to intimidate their own potential customers with hundreds of thousands of nasty letters, you have to ask yourself is this the best way forward for these companies, or are they completely fucking insane.

Alienate the youth and your market and the cult like backlash will evolve into a movement that works against you to bring you down even quicker.

This will also simply push people to streaming services like Seeqpod et el.
It's very possible to bring cameras to North Korea. See this brilliant documentary filmed guerrilla style in North Korea. http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1438428757

http://www.koryogroup.com/tours/grouptours.htm if you want to go yourself...
Multitasking is a pernicious evil of our times! Also the cost of context switching (especially for developers) can be hours per day.
Seems like an idea worth pursuing. I write silly mini-games when I'm bored--this would be perfect for that. Publicity stunt: I like that!
Personally, I think socialthing is much more interesting because it's not an aggregator but a portal. The user adds services and that's it. If supported, all of your social sites can be monitored from one place without the need to dig for friends etc. Add a comment in socialthing and it also appears on the source. FF on the other hand simply tries to steal value by taking conversations away from the original source (barring twitter).
Peer review is important, but that's not the same as textual criticism. (Hint: it's an academic field, not just the act of criticizing a text.)
Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms
Shuttleworth has vetoed every attempt to allow non-brown themes as the Ubuntu default.
I'm going to have to do some playing with this Maro - you could be right about clicking meaning you go to another page. I'm not sure.

I changed the layout yesterday to a smaller map. it definately cleans things up, that's for sure.

I have no idea why my logo is pixelated, but thanks for pointing that out. Web-searches aren't getting me anywhere in resolving that yet. In photoshop I'm doing the 'save for web' at 72 dpi, so I thought that was supposed to take care of that. Any ideas?
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paperless office. anyone ?
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Glancing down the list of descriptions, I wondered how many here thing what was described was actually fringe?
I don't think the section on automatic foldering is convincing. It, once again, comes to the conclusion that it doesn't work/Naive Bayes isn't accurate enough, yet POPFile shows very high accuracy for a wide variety of users (this is from real usage data).

It's odd that his thesis mentions POPFile and then doesn't go on to actually test it. He also uses the Enron data set for many of his tests which has very little header data in it.
"If you Google 'mash' and my version comes up before mbleigh's, guess what? Mine is the official version."

Cool. If I can Google-bomb a project name I can seize authority,

"We have all these tools for deciding what's good content on the web, why not apply them to code?"

Because page rank is a shitty way to determine good content?

BTW, you don't need to patch gems to search additional locations for gems.
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Yeah, a better title would have been "beyond RSS."
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What the Macintosh does get right
I think there might be a bug there, somewhere. I ran it here, and got 4.
Then you should remove all the words from the quote, leaving nothing more to take away.

(Yes, I consider the quote superficially appealing but essentially content-free.)
In case you're wondering how on Earth this is possibly news, it's because Google just hosted a training session for journalists at their DC offices yesterday. Showed them Google sites and tools that could help them in their jobs, answered a few questions. Many were surprised to hear that Googlebombing no longer worked.

(I know this because my gf attended.)
Sure.

http://www.google.com/search?q=santorum
Is it going to be built on open standards though? I think that's an important differentiator.
Real Have Your Say rants, or genius random comment generator?
Seems like there is definitely a market for "exchange for the rest of us" done right... I wonder what the minimum feature set for an Exchange-compatible email/calendar sync server might be.
If anyone was actually curious how these scripts worked the .py files were right there... Open in an editor instead of running through Python. Not exactly a secret.
Madness? This is SOA
I was an RU math TA. Most of us are not as smart as Eric.
the comment thread in Bray's blog is a perfect replica of:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743
Ruby asynchronous job processing as devved by twitter
The workspaces are dark because a lot of the work is very color sensitive. A good number of people can't have any ambient light around to do their jobs correctly.
Has anyone here used this? What is it like compared to backgroundrb?
Eliminate? I doubt that. Definitely reduce, and especially with fuel prices as high as they've been. But in the end, traveling is often required; there's no substitute for an in-person meeting and handshake when a decent-sized deal's at stake.
Jeff Atwood wrote about programming fonts some time ago: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html

Don't miss the comments!
Apple keyboards, 
provoked/inspired by Bray's keyboard post:<p>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/22/On-Keyboards<p>Here's some more background reading to remind you that therre are dozens of KB mfr's otu there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743
http://amarsagoo.blogspot.com/2008/05/science-of-keyboard-design.html
Is there any way to substantiate your claim?
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There are people who don't want to use Facebook.
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Apple's secrecy obsession about to backfire: Time to ditch the iPhone NDA
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LOL, looks like crap. Bitstream Vera Mono FTW!
Facebook is the LAST person I want handling all of my logins. I like that with OpenID I can use my own domain, or any of a host of providers and not have to worry about Facebook knowing every site I use, and how I use it.
Oh yeah, thought the same. Here's a piece of my DNA google! ;-)
>Things are closed, things are proprietary. That's business.

Agreed (whether you like it or not, i personally don't care for it).

>erm they made the iPhone. It's theirs.

Disagree. I purchased the phone, it's no longer theirs, it's mine.
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Anyone know whether it's been proven that the formula will generate an infinite number of primes? Or might it start looping back on itself eventually?
There are way more people who don't know what openID is.
I felt Tivo made it mainstream when I overheard a kid in the suburbs ask their daddy why they couldn't pause the movie.

I usually keep a tab open to summize (my city as search term), and I've been noticing a lot more 'normal' people talking about life as opposed to technology. Also, notice that most of them have less than 100 followers (as opposed to the pied piper Scobelizer-types 5k+ followers and Scobelizer-wannabees 1k+ followers). It would be interesting to see the distribution of followers on Twitter. My hunch is that as Twitter goes more mainstream there will be more normal people (with 20-30 followers).
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Maybe they don't have to, you could just as well write "log in with your Yahoo account" or something like that.
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You must be using Ruby... ;)
I wonder if they could've (should've) somehow integrated OpenID into Facebook Connect.
LOL.

I guess that one got grandfathered in.
is it just me or do these guys' post seem to reek of quite a bit of arrogance?

Great that they're 'making something people want' but their posts are generally condescending -- stop the incessant chatter and show off this amazing product you've built for 'normal' people that is going to change the world and be uber-profitable.
Lots of people saw the potential. But considering the players involved at the time and their general lack of vision, it would have taken many more years to establish open interconnection standards if it was purely a private effort. The end result would have probably been similar, but the whole effort would have been much slower and less efficient.
Have we really gotten to the point where something that surfaced just two months ago as a rumor can actually be called vaporware?

I can see why the author of the article would be a little let down compared to last year's platform launch, but this is still a pretty solid release. heck, is it even necessarily a good thing for the site to drastically remake itself every year?

If nothing else, anyways, a tightening of the excesses of some applications goes a long way towards convincing me to go back to facebook.
Bait and switch
I used to love Bitstream Vera Mono. It's pretty nice.

Although, recently I've switched to Liberation Mono as my monospace weapon of choice.. I'd certainly recommend it.
TU Delft takes flight with three-gram 'dragonfly' complete with camera
After going through Courier New, Profont, Consolas, Monaco etc., my favourite programming font ended up being Panic Sans, which comes with Coda, a Mac IDE that I don't use. For developers whose point size of preference hovers closer to 12 points than 6, it's perfect. Sample: http://purefiction.net/paste/panicsans.png
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Andy Baio (waxy.org), said that Pixar has the right of first refusal when it comes to employee projects. If an employee wants to work on something of their own, they have to go to Pixar management and tell them about it before starting. In case Pixar would be interested. Usually they say 'no' and get full approval to work on their own project (at home).

Contrast this enlightened approach to employee IP agreements and other murky waters at typical companies (even startups).
Is anyone using T currently? Or anything directly T-derived?
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I got the inspiration for this post after talking to some non-tech people about how they find and use new software. You realize that they live in a different world, without all the chatter.

I'm not implying that what we're doing is going to shake the foundations of the planet, because it won't -- simply relaying what I'm thinking about as we work.
I really dislike facebook (the new walled garden) so I'm still all for OpenID which is far more open.
Facebook started to become annoyingly bloated for me when the news feeds appeared. The apps were the nail in the coffin.
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Inconsolata FTW!
It would also be interesting to compare it with Arc.
And they are not important or have no influence on other people.
It might just be you. This post seems pretty clearly to be from someone who get Geoffrey A. Moore's thesis in "Crossing the Chasm" - there are a VAST number of consumers out there that are NOT techie/early adopters and don't understand things in the way that we techie/early adopters do. If you don't plan on how to include that segment, then your startup is in trouble.
as those are actual gang signs (for real gangs), I'd be careful where you use them :) http://tinyurl.com/59njms
Not everyone here is an expert programmer.
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Read also here http://www.caughq.org/exploits/CAU-EX-2008-0002.txt
Its the Steve Jobs way. Very strict with work.

And by the way... minus the darkness and you'll get a really cool work place. Bright light is always good to work in. The photos above show guys working isolatedly.

That way, I like Google's work place. Lots of toys and very vibrant(never been there, but their photos clearly show that).
I have a strange feeling this will catch some wind but end up lost. Great idea, but it's just the status quo for something that's been attempted time and time again.

No sane person is going to run their site and say, "Get a Facebook account if you want to sign up for ours." Would you? They'll have an option: Login/register (or login through Facebook) if they really want to support FC.
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Haha, I had no idea! Thanks for that. :)
"Log in with your yahoo account" - See that's the fatal flaw. What you describe, is called phishing, and is why this sort of thing is destined for failure.
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Ha! Yea, I am pretty sure that some of these will get your ass capped - depending on locale of course (aka someplace other than the Apple store).
Ask HN: Is credit necessary and how/where do you bank?
I'm an incoming college freshman around the Cambridge, MA area and I've never had a credit card (never felt the need for one), but I've been getting a lot of advice from my peers and older friends to build up my credit as soon as I can. I do have a checking account as well as a savings account, thus far, with a small local bank and ING direct.

I'm a strict believer of don't buy crap you can't afford, so I was wondering if you guys/gals had any advice as to whether or not it will be worth it for a person like me to get a credit card and which national/regional banks would be worth banking at for small business/personal uses. Ideally, this bank would be internationally recognized (Swift code is a plus).

I may plan on taking out a loan eventually for some entrepreneurial purposes, but that's pretty much as deep as I'd like go into debt.
I'm currently using Dina, and to date it has been the best programming font I've used.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/
OpenID doesn't work that way. Anyway I don't really care about OpenID, but there is no way I am going to use Facebook.
Give the user multiple ways of accessing information, not just one.

Remember this acronym: LATCH

Location / Alphabetical / Time / Category ("tag"?) / Hierarchy.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=130881&s...

It's a good mnemonic for GUI design - get a GUI up then consider LATCH and add another path or view of the info.