skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't normally press people for alternatives, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If we were to get rid of "institutionalized use of force", what would we replace it with? Can you give me a single example of a large-scale society without effective government that hasn't devolved into a nightmare scenario?
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False dichotomy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
I've had no problem running my hobby on projects on Heroku for free. What about it has been prohibitively expensive for you?
If it does expire, odds are a lot more people will eyeball it. I am talking thousands of people. You think it has no appeal or are you SURE it has no appeal? In most cases I would recommend just contacting the person.
Far from scientific analysis but using Unmask[1] I get a pretty low scare (109/300) comparing the first Michael Clear pre-print I could find against the Bitcoin paper.

[1] http://immunityinc.com/downloads/unmask1.0.tar.gz
The xconomy.com web site is completely broken if you have NoScript enabled; after about 2 seconds it forwards to the FRONT PAGE of the mobile site.

Sigh. Luckily you can hit ESC to stop it from forwarding you, but then if you want to read the second page, be quick on the draw with ESC again or it will send you back to the mobile site again.

Incompetent developers.
Opens up for others to fill this possible void or niche in the industry. I think a tech forward progressive weekly video would be great.
Seconded. This bar is full of Adobe people just about every single day, but particularly on Thursday and Friday around 5pm.
I gave up in the late '80s.

I still use computers, heck, the whole developed world uses computers now. But that's despite the way software/hardware have developed; a side effect of Moore Law making things faster and cheaper.

Unix is the big thing in 2011? Really? Nooo.... well shit!

Funny that the OP mentions Hypercard. When it came out a number of very smart people said, "Hey, that's kind of neat!"

And it was. It was little better than a toy at first, but I saw street people sit down with it and _an hour latter_ they were using it to solve problems, and were delighted. And let me tell you, in 1987 part of that hour was used to explain how to us a mouse, drag selections, double click, etc.
It doesn't matter — asking a question of the reader is still tacky and misleading. "Did a reporter just solve a BitCoin mystery?" either sounds clueless or promises far too much depending on whether you read the question as rhetorical. If you're the reporter, why are you asking me whether this guy "solved a BitCoin mystery"? (The answer is "To create the false expectation that the article will have an answer to the question.")

If the thrust of the piece is that you think Michael Clear is the author of BitCoin, then an accurate headline would be something like, "Joshua Davis just might have unmasked the author of BitCoin." This reflects the thesis much more closely than the original.
ah. If you don't feel comfortable talking about it, that's fine.

I dono I find the subject of the cultural acceptability of cussing to be kind of interesting. I'm considering adding appropriate asterisks to my own writing, more as a humerus affectation than anything else, as I personally can't imagine how the asterisks would make it less offensive, but eh, it's interesting to hear what people think about the subject. I sometimes wonder if I'm being way more offensive than I intend.
Don't get me wrong, it's neat and all, but I'd rather see something closer to iControlpad's physical controls. Only maybe "wings" with physical controls that you clip on, rather than their current full-sized device.

Also, throw in a pocket-sized wifi dongle to attach to any TV/monitor for video? Golden.
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In most jurisdictions (I'm not sure about Germany) Parliamentary Immunity is not immunity from the law. Parliamentary Immunity is immunity from prosecution for things politicians say on the floor of parliament. So a politician can be arrested for breaking the law in most situations.
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HTML 5 is beautiful and portable. Someone deciding to go with HTML5 must be appreciated. However, it doesn't mean that the world of Flash has to be left behind from right now. The support to HTML5 by the modern browsers, is a major concern till now.

Flash hasn't died yet, and wont die for few more years, until the browsers come up with everything HTML5 and everyone starts to use the latest updated browsers.
This may be one of the main reasons why Consumer Reports is such a well respected institution. They are funded by consumers, so they can be honest in their reviews of products without fear of retaliation.
Same here, and I'm pretty sure that's why they had a lotta viewers.
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Theoretically speaking, one could use Dropbox to publish to, well, anything? I'm interested in the possibilities. Nice article.
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Nice and innovative concept. But it works mainly in cases where there are frequent commits with few branches and some considerable number of developers working on the same project.
I'm on my iPhone and so the material is a little hard to read, but from my eye the chart separates all texting into four segments and has just one for formal code testing. The thesis tends to rely on this graph to make its point. It seems to me this is incorrect; rather, code review beats the best single method of testing. In aggregate testing is hard to beat.

Like another poster said, this was just linkbait. Would rather see a more reasoned analysis.
Youngster? Gee, thanks! I remember writing my first program on a Commodore Pet with 4K of RAM

That thing he's talking about with non-sequential placement of bytes on the drum is well before that.
Real identities cause strife, sterile identity needs myth busting.
Insofar worldviews deal well under dark reality, keep thinking how.

New terms positioning self as anywhere, anyone you like, not harming others life?

Real free identity antidote is anonymous-autonomous identity -autonymous - whereas expressive disorder is encouraged not covered, whereas 'enemy identities' are not unimaginably unneeded nor intractable.
TL;DR

His summary is short.

Brevity is useful.
Why? It's not just the implementation of a patented idea that's protected; it's also the use.
I was doing some consulting work at a public library in 1987, and they had several public access Macs. I set up Hypercard on them and started showing people, staff, patrons, kids, winos, how to use it.

In 1987 _lots_ of people had never sat down before a computer in their lives. I could spend an hour with someone and have them doing useful things with Hypercard. It was extremely approachable. And I don't just mean doing word processing or drawing pictures, though they were doing that too. They were creating software that solved real problems from their real life.

I started out by giving out floppy disks for them to save their "stacks", for them from out of my own pocket. We finally had to start selling them at the circulation desk.

The biggest conceptual problems, then as now, were in teaching people how to deal with files in a file system, on multiple volumes/disks, and in making people think in terms of versions of documents (actually applications in this case) and in backing them up.

Data loss from exposing the disks to magnetic fields was also a major problem, at least we seem to have conquered that problem...
The question the article should be asking is whether there actually are any tasks for which anonymous, unqualified, remote labourers based in the US have >15x the market value of anonymous, unqualified remote workers based overseas?
[It would be interesting to hear any ideas MobileWorks have if they're willing to share them at this stage]

The article also skirted the issue of whether the increasing ease of outsourcing work for $5 per man day might actually be a major cause of structural unemployment in the US, even if you take the view that the net benefit outweighs those job losses (I do). Sure, in the longer run companies that have effectively substituted for US-based workers may ultimately reinvest their increased profits into something that creates demand for US labour, and many of the jobs performed by crowdsourcers were never viable full-time employment opportunities in the first place. But if crowdsourcing is to make a dent in unemployment it'll have to start by making up for the jobs it's creatively destroyed...
Website is getting overloaded from look of it. Here is the google cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fIfQpD6...
So a guaranteed 2.5B/year for a few months of exclusivity?
Seems like a pretty big win to me.

> especially since many of the sales they would make from such a deal would not be new, but merely shifted

Possibly, but they could pick up new customers as well (existing sprint customers that want to upgrade to a smartphone, etc).
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Everyone and their dog has an opinion on Apple, and they are floated far and wide on the internet. Yet despite the fact that Apple isn't really even part of TechCrunch's core focus, Siegler has managed to cut through this pundit overload to become one of the most influential voices regarding Apple on the internet. That speaks to skills far beyond a typical internet purveyor of puffery.

None of us here know him any better than Mike Arrington does, and apparently Arrington believes in him completely, or he wouldn't have made the offer. It certainly makes sense for Arrington to add people that he believes he can rely on to his team, though -- all good businesses do that.

Of course, how this (or CrunchFund in general) will pan out is still anyone's guess, though.
It cost money to license

Also the only decent-performance chips doing it were from Adobe, and they weren't cheap. At the time, this would have pretty much cut the low-end printer market to the ground. The high-end printer market, of course, pretty much all did PostScript if you asked them to.
This is even more useful for wines primarily marketed through AOC, vs. the specific vineyard. I have a hard time figuring out who made a specific Chauteuneuf du Pape even when I see the label; my general selection criteria includes "label with cute animal on it", since that's simple.
And that right there is why they are generally a bad idea. You can write a condition to check how to save your data or you can write the code necessary to verify a user's email address. Assuming you have time for one task, which is more valuable?

Taking the example further, would you hand write how to verify that email address? Probably not, someone has obviously done that before and you shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Why would you hand write persisting a record to the database then?

I apologize if this comes off as attacking, but stored procedures are one of the greatest time sinks ever created wasting countless dollars that could have been spent fixing real problems. Like this guys, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3067740
I read his comment as "a corporate controlled police state is inevitable so get used to it". He is clearly an enemy of freedom.
I do however find it supremely ironic that a group who is supposedly protesting about corruption and lies would produce such a blatant piece of propaganda. Especially one so readily falsifiable.

The first comment is pointing out that he doesn't actually know if it's from the organizers. The author concedes that, but it doesn't seem to have stopped him from associating it with them.

Do we now hold groups responsible for images that 50 of their supporters have shared on Facebook?
This is all mildly ironic since the easiest place to remain anonymous is the internet.

Real Name policy my ass. More like seemingly real name policy.

Anonymity is certainly shifting but death? Don't think so.
well, the organizers didn't come out and say it was false, now did they.
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Did you even read some of the book before responding?
Occupying Wall Street, demanding accountability
Huh. A cynical protester, or a cynical person wanting to undermine the credibility of the protesters? Either way, sad that someone put so much effort into a fabrication.

Edit: I guess Hacker News says "no".
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I worked for Scott at Meetup and can promise you that's the opposite of the truth. He's all about empowering people and communities, and disrupting traditional institutions. Read his full post on the page. He was making a prediction, not endorsing it.
Unfortunately, it's usually that one.
It's a valid thought. it's popular enough so you know they've seen it, yet they haven't denied it or stopped spreading the propaganda.
Do we now hold groups responsible for images that 50 of their supporters have shared on Facebook?

This. It's natural that sympathizers will have latched onto the image - but that just means they've been duped with everyone else.
That's what hobbies are for - i.e. exploring other interests can make you more well-rounded, and occasionally give you marketable skills.
Did you ever work with Flex Builder (now called Flash Builder), or used the AS debugger that comes with it ? Are you familiar with MXML / AS3 ? Because compared to the painful experience that HTML/CSS/JS is or used to be I think that this is closer to a 'nice development software' than you.
well, the organizers didn't come out and say it was false, now did they. (for some reason my other post is -1)
Partially agree about the threat. This news generates a lot of marketing that could drive new users to Bitbucket instead of Assembla and Beanstalk. But for existing users (I've been using Assembla for a while for private repos) there is probably a lot less reason to switch over.
Down for everyone. I think RailsCasts is hosted on Linode and HurricaneElectric is having issues currently.
Excellent rant.

In my opinion, the industry as a whole has gotten obsessed with new hotness over properly finishing what was started. I don't know whether that's always been true.
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I live a few blocks away. I just walked past the park where the protesters are camped out. There are (and have been over the past few days) a small group of activists there. A lot of them seem to be playing "reporter" in front of their friends' very expensive video setups. I've seen more cops than protesters over the past week, to be honest. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but this movement just turns me off. I wish it were otherwise, but the impotence of that crowd is depressing. Also, they were packed into the local McDonalds, presumably for the WiFi and corporate cow meat. Ugh.
Well, I can't find the right report now, but yes, if you google thinks like chrome slow multiple tabs, or chrome freezes multiple tabs, you'll find lots of reports that chrome is almost unusable when opening multiple tabs at the same time (like clicking on a series of HN links).

About a month ago, I was researching this, and I found then, (but cannot find now), some threads that said this was a long outstanding problem created by some race condition. Another said it was caused by too much priority given to processing the Chrome spinner in each tab.

I don't know what the case really is.

I do know that Opera does a much better job of opening multiple tabs at the same time as Chrome, so I use Opera when working with feed readers and the like.

All else, I default to Chrome.
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And the code I wrote for IBM mainframes using CICS and VSAM _still_ _runs_ today, as does the code for Unisys mainframes written in TIP, COBOL and DMS. Maybe I'll go back to using that. Hell, it runs more reliably than anything that tried to replace it!8-))

But I really miss toggling instructions and data directly into memory on the PDP-11's control panel. Yeah, the state of the art is terrible indeed.
What do you fine web developers use for collaboration?
"yes, I’m becoming a VC"

he specifically says he that he will BE a VC and not JOINING a VC. I don't get it. Does that mean he will be investing his own money specifically? I never knew mg had that much personal funds to invest in.

For those of you who knows about this specifically, can someone enlighten me?
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This sounds pretty cool. I like the idea of having instant feedback shown to you while you're playing a song.

I've always wanted to pick up the guitar. Maybe this will give me a reason to buy a cheap starter guitar and actually give it a shot.
Impotence? What do you want? Thousands of people to occupy wall street for weeks? Violence? Business like advertising?

It's a real bummer that you can be so demoralized by what people 'seem' to be doing.

I'm glad you can vent on the internet though.
Do you think it is better to have a simple/flexible project management tool? Or are certain processes (like web development) too unique and demanding to fit under this umbrella?
I am also headed down this same road, we should chat.
Was walking by there this weekend, only a couple hundred protesters occupying the area? A lot of tourists taking pictures, checking it out. Also a lot of police standing by.
For the sake of another data point, my own company provides a hosted PBX platform and just recently acquired another hosted PBX platform provider.

We are a hodgepodge of J2EE pre-SIPServlet on JBoss using Rhino for the scripting layer. Also, we acquired a company which essentially wrote their own Asterisk for Tomcat and built the current incarnation of our PBX platform on that. We do SBC with OpenSIPS and there are a number of other random bits and pieces (including Asterisk) which have played a role over the years. I have not seen the other company's codebase, but I am told they are a similar hodgepodge of PHP, Erlang (but not for the telephony bits), and possibly Java.

I would rather enjoy and appreciate any consistency in the platform, but I doubt we'll ever get to do the sort of rewrite that would provide that consistency.
reminds me of the BS chain emails my mum and her friends are constantly forwarding each other.

i would personally put it down to a primitive form of karma whoring.
Flash may well die for its current uses, but I think Flash 11+ will be the best cross-browser solution for GPU-accelerated 3D graphics for a while (unless IE adopts WebGL, which I don't think will happen, but I hope I'm wrong).

Unity, one of the most popular game development tools, will soon release a "publish to Flash" option. (Unity can already publish to Windows, Mac OS X, Unity Web Player, iOS, Android, Wii, and soon PS3 & Xbox.)
You have to understand Adobe's view of Flash. The reason they were pushing so hard for Flash support is that they wanted to be the gateway to multimedia and interactivity on mobile devices. For the longest time, Flash was how you played video on the web, and Flash was how you made rich, interactive websites. When iOS came along it threatened that, and Adobe wanted to protect their stranglehold in order to maximize their profits (e.g. of Adobe's flash content creation tools).

They've now realized that this isn't going to happen; people are abandoning Flash Player in favour of more compatible, more nimble technologies. Adobe's a big company, but they know which way the wind is blowing, and they've responded by shifting with it.

The way things are looking, 'Adobe Flash' (the content authoring tool) is going to move to being an HTML5-and-fall-back-on-Flash-Player tool (or vice-versa). Eventually, Flash Player will die the death it deserves, and 'Flash' will just be the name of the authoring tool (along with Dreamweaver or Coda).

Basically, Adobe wanted to lock up (or at least make a lot of money at) the cross-platform mobile dev environment. They realized they can't do it with Flash Player/swf content, so now they're trying to do it with Phonegap Build and HTML5 content. More power to them.
(How about China? Not sure what English version they use, but wouldn't be surprised it's Brit).

I'm well acquainted with many native speakers of Chinese who have learned English as a second language (and am married to one). There was a time when the British standard was consciously preferred by educational authorities for English instruction in both China and Taiwan. But that time is past. American English spellings are dominant in China and in a larger part of the "expanding circle" of international use of English.

http://www.pyrtvu.cn/xush/home.files/text/8.htm

http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/06_1/price15.htm

http://dooku.miun.se/engelska/englishB/languageprof/Student%...

http://c-faculty.chuo-u.ac.jp/~mikenix1/co/we/Future_of_Engl...

http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403918309.pdf
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That's a sad story, indeed, as are the other ones on this thread.

My Dad was educated in a country school and the older kids were expected to help the younger ones learn. According to him it worked very well. But in your case it seems you were teaching the _older_ kids.

I guess the bad news is "We're fucked." OTOH the good news is that I'll likely have a job until I don't want one anymore!8-))

Anybody seen the film "Idiocracy"?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Sure, I'd be happy to share our perspective.

There are several unskilled tasks where US workers are required and where pay be sizably higher – for example, work dealing with sensitive customer data or security-sensitive content is often restricted to US nationals to comply with privacy and chain-of-custody requirements. Companies know that they're getting additional value from US workers and are willing to pay a higher price.

But for the record, our workers are neither anonymous nor unqualified, which is a central advantage we have over other companies in the crowd space. This means that where we're looking, we're not talking just about unskilled labor – we're talking about all kinds of work.

I wish it were as easy as you suggest to outsource work online for $5 a man-day! The rise of traditional outsourcing has certainly contributed to a loss of employment in the US over the last twenty years, but it's still incredibly difficult to outsource work online (part of the raison d'etre for MobileWorks!) You'd be hard-pressed to find too many instances of jobs that have disappeared due to online crowdsourcing in the last five years compared to the traditional outsourcing economy. Given the scope of outsourcing's effects, crowdsourcing is likely to be one of the few ways we can draw work back into the US.
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A VC invests other people's money. Specifically, a VC is a general partner in the firm and they invest the capital of the limited partners.
This is a _stellar_ idea.

I just wonder if there's a bit of a culture-jam here. It'd tempt you to not open up projects as freely, which seems at odds with the ideals of the GH camp.
I work in Wall Street, and funny thing is I haven't seen a sign of 1 protestor. Maybe I'm in a very small radius, but still, it's very overwhelming. They need someone like Lady Gaga if they want more traction. They should probably consult with one of the guys from Mint.com for marketing ideas
It seems as if they've already released a fairly simple plugin to integrate Bitbucket with JIRA, which is nice. I'd personally like to see deeper integration between Bitbucket and Atlassian products like Crucible, JIRA, Confluence, etc.