skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "What are you working on?" and "Are you busy?" are the most pointlessly painful questions when you're just trying to get something done.

So true. I don't believe this solves the problem though. I rarely got asked those questions. But when I did, the person just wanted more and more information: so how long is it going to take, when did you start, at what stage are you, does anyone else need to get involved, is there something to be prepared, etc. This is crazy and tools could not help.

Everyone else knew that, yes, everyone is busy with something and that they can just look at what's "in progress" on the bug tracker... Technology won't always solve personality problems.

Also - Teambox seems to be similar and also provide the facebook/twitter-like status updates.
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Why would Android (3rd party developers) want to be so obviously using Apple's hard work? In the middle of a patent trial? I'd expect all the big markets to not allow the app.
Tripped Media: Content for the Millennials
Tripped Media launched on October 3rd, 2011 with 3 full-time staff members- 22-year old Sumpter, his 23-year old co-founder David Krebs, their 22-year old COO Ryan McManus- and an army of freelancers and volunteers. With the decline in jobs for recent graduates and a need for a magazine truly designed for the millennial generation, Tripped Media wants to shake things up in the editorial industry.

The site is an online blend of journalism and blogging and of newspapers and magazines. It features topics ranging from travel, food & drinks, NYC culture, nightlife, art & design, the new iPhone and top 10 lists to articles about the Human Centipede. Sumpter, the Editor-in-Chief, graduated in May of this past year. He moved to the big city to fulfill his lifelong dream of landing a full-time job in New York, but found it tough to do so. He and his friends took a long, hard look at today’s online media. They looked at Vanity Fair, GQ, The New York Post, and even The New York Times and found themselves dissatisfied. “We read lifestyle articles that weren’t targeting the lifestyle of our generation,” Sumpter says.

Feel free to check them out online and follow them on Facebook and Twitter. Because they are going through site renovations they are asking for feedback.
I disagree with its fundamental premise that the case system is a bad way to prepare students for the practice of law.

But surely the ABA mandated "Socratic Method" is? I'm under the impression that it would only really make sense if law were lawful, which stare decisis aka argument from authority is valid renders ridiculous. Then you've got "hornbooks" (or so I believe they're called) which are a workaround of the fact that the Socratic method doesn't work.

The other common law jurisdictions use the case law method, but they have decent text books, not functional kludges.

On another note, why are J.D.s so long? I've read that the majority of essential legal education happens in the first year, what can in some schools be an M.L.S. (Master of Legal Studies)

Can the apprenticeship part effectively be merged in with the academic part during law school?

B.A. + M.L.S. + 1 or 2 years supervised traineeship = qualified attorney.

That's approximately one of the methods of qualifying as a solicitor/barrister in the UK.
Crowdfunding Becoming Easier At Federal Level
State security laws are still the same but this should open the way for some new innovation in the area.
Love the irony. This book is a (heavily altered) version of Marijn's Eloquent JavaScript ... rewritten for CoffeeScript. As an aside, it's a pretty amazing demonstration of what releasing your work under a Creative Commons license can bring about.

It's a great suggestion. @autotelicum -- have you considered adding a little interactive console to the page?
I've been trying to figure this out too... I think the VPN is the only way to get it working over 3g, as there's no way to override the DNS on the cell connection. Thanks for that idea, VPN hadn't occurred to me! I'm going to give it a shot; I'll report back if successful.

Edit: Success! I'm not running it on EC2 yet, just my home network. Basically I've got dnsmasq on my router redirecting guzzoni.apple.com to my home fileserver with SiriProxy running. The router is also running a PPTP VPN server. I can use the VPN over 3g to make Siri requests and see the output on my local machine. Thanks again for the VPN idea; that's gold. Next step - to the cloud!
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IIRC, there are only a few commissioners who don't come from Canada's media/telco industries. i.e. the commission is mostly populated by insiders from the industries that the CRTC purports to oversee and regulate. Fox, henhouse, etc.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/about/commissioners.htm
Isn't the idea of Lorem Ipsum that it shouldn't be a real English text? That it should fill the space without distracting with real meaning?
FWIW, I pay $90 all in for unlimited North American Long Distance, 6GB of Data, Unlimited calling anytime, and all the "other" features. Basically an unlimited plan (iPhone 4S w/ Fido) - Good plans ARE available, you just have to work to get them.
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Good ideas.

Works like expected: http://fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu.jpg.to

Reddit will have a field day with this.
The session validation data expires after a few hours, and at least one of the other identifiers is subject to being changed by the server. As of now there's no practical way to share your authorization info.
Is there anything you'd like to know about Australian Startups?
Hi,

As I begin interviewing startup founders I the question struck me what would people really like to know about these startups?

Would you like to know more about:

- The features of the startup itself?

- Hearing the founders startup story?

- Think of any others?

Please either email or comment below with things you would like to know about Australian Startups plus any questions you would also like me to ask during interviews.
Cheers

Contact: http://aussiestartups.com/email or william@aussiestartups.com
FYI: sketchup doesn't support linux yet.
Maybe im a bit jaded, but self-important manifesto style stuff like this, complete with Confucius quotes generally turn me off.
Clients natural inclination will be to read the dummy text. Lorem ipsum is unreadable, that's what makes Lorem Ipsum great.
Why home automation sucks and why we still love it
Honestly looks like there are no real good solutions to this yet.
Professors and former bosses were good starts for me.
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> Strange thing is that few know and use it.

It just isn't actively maintained by multiple people and marketed like the other two are. They haven't even bothered to write a description on GitHub that would appear in the news feed of everyone following a GitHub user who watches it. I got an error when I tried to visit the website.

Edit: I added an issue asking about adding a description.
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Thanks for your expanded response. Each of the items you've listed is important and all of your concerns are high on our priority list (I work on jqm full time for Adobe).

My original question was poorly formed. I only meant to imply that transition quality is mostly a function of hardware acceleratio. Scrolling isn't necessarily, though it can play a roll there through hacks like translate3d. Both the 3gs and 4s have hardware accelerated transforms, which is why transitions look so much better on an iPhone. Additionally if we could target just the iPhone it would make our transitions nearly flawless, but getting them to work in as many places as possible makes this difficult.

Headers and footers are a pain point right now without a doubt, but there are specific reasons we don't use scrollviews (mostly due to the fact the returning false on touchstart in Android breaks inputs).

In any case, I'd just like to thank you again for taking the time to respond, and let you know that we are acutely aware of all of these issues.
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Yes, that's a good point: to not be afraid of computers. I think I had a myopic moment where not all parents are technically savvy and apps are a way of engaging kids in having a technical culture from an early age.
I've yet to find a technical book with lots of snippets that I can read on the Kindle - so it may be a losing battle
Have you tried betali.st? they send me sites of new startups every day. They are also European, so you also get global readers to see your site. Good luck!
The problem is not when you sit down with kids to play. The problem is when they want to play but there's no-one to play with.

Apps seem better than TV at that point.
Clearly she was a prude when it came to language, but not when it came to fucking. Ironic.
Kindle3 has landscape, Kindle Touch does not.
Of course. It started with a pdf/lyx version based on the 400Kb eloquent text file, now the tools (elyxer) made it possible to convert to html with some manual fixes. It would be great to add interactivity next. Not sure when next will be though...
That's actually an interesting question. I'm Northern European, and my first thought was that the parent is right - that'd never happen here - our system is just and fair.

On closer inspection however I see a lot of my own bias:

- I'm not American, and so I believe that my system is better than yours.

- I read sites like Reddit daily, which is infested with stories of wronddoing, police violence and what have you. Since a lot of the userbase is from the US and the site generally is US centric I'll be exposed to a lot more US based wrongdoing which will bias my opinion.

- The US has a larger population than Northern Europe, which means that even if the two systems are exactly the same there will be more injustices done in the US.

So which is it? I don't know, but I do know that if I hadn't stopped to think I'd agree with the parent poster.
This is increasingly weird for me. I'm self employed, I work at home, or in an office with three other males who are self employed. I drink, I swear, I know how babies are made and have made one with my wife. I like boobs! I have art with boobs on the walls of my house.

And yet I don't want my wife or any of my colleagues to look over my shoulder and see boobs on my screen. I'm not in any _danger_ if that happens, so it's not strictly _unsafe_ for work. But it's embarrassing and uncomfortable. I would be peeved to inadvertantly click on a link, see boobs (they were decent boobs too, it's not like I hate them), and then be embarrassed in front of people.

I didn't really think I was a prude until this thread. I mean, perhaps in a hundred years we'll laugh about attitudes to boobs the way we laugh about Victorian attitudes to ankles and the like? But today, for almost everyone I know ANKLES ARE FILTH^H^H^H^H boobs are NSFW.
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Thanks for posting, watched every video on it and found it fascinating indeed.

A few new revelation from them: Jobs' businessman side, NeXT's email client is far more advanced and sophisticated/simple than our current email clients, and Spinning Disk Wait Cursor has originated in NeXT.
Practices rejuvenation of human skin, complete rejuvenation of the old man.
The aging theory* states and proves that aging skin, its destroys the structures and weakening vital functions leads internal organs (kidneys, liver, heart, brain, and so on) to fatal illnesses and whole organism to death. This is confirmed by life. This is called the death from old age. The theory shows that recover the skin structures and vital functions will return old organism to young and healthy state. It is our way of rejuvenation. Skin as well as muscles, bones, hairs, nails has own mechanisms of rejuvenations and is able to restore and develop itself, own structures and functions. But it needs the help of specialists. It must be done in the Spa’s through physiotherapy, with massage, creams, baths and other skin renewing procedures. The ancients practiced this way. Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, for example. But they did it by intuition, not on science and not enough. They did not know that human organism does not have programs of aging (the human genome already decoded) and can stay young as long as the man himself wants. There is a method confirmed by medicine and life. All old people do not want to grow old and die from it. They want to be young. This way needs professionals and sponsors.
This is the essence of the idea. Thank you. Mr. Valery Chuprin
*References : 1. “Three layer functional model and energy exchange concept of aging process.” Valery Chuprin & William Mihajlovich , American Aging Association, AGE (Volume 28, Number 1), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2006 2. "The skin: cause or target of aging?" Valery Chuprin & William Mihajlovich, Fourth national Congress of Gerontologists and Geriatrics, Kiev, Ukraine, 2005 3. "General energy mechanisms of organism aging and basic functional model of living creatures." Valery Chuprin & William Mihajlovich, American Aging Association, AGE , 29thAnnual Meeting, Boston, USA , 2000

From this skin state(images)

To this (images)
If worthiness of fruit is determined by the person's decision making, then in order for it to be truly fair, all persons must be offered the exact same opportunities for it to be an accurate benchmark of the person's character or will.

If you are giving some a head start, while handicapping others & your system doesn't account for this, it is no longer a useful benchmark.
Do you have a realistic way to go about this?
Especially in what is more than likely a 50 line project.

I really disagree with the approach of blowing apart a fun project and insisting bloat like a text parsing engine be added to make you happy.

http://keyword.jpg.to/source or http://keyword.jpg.to/s would do just fine IMO.
That's Joanna Hoffman, who was also part of the Macintosh team. The Isaacson bio shares an anecdote about how the Mac team would annually give out an award to the team member who had proven most able to stand up to Jobs, and Hoffman won it the first two years. It was fun to see an example of why.
Interesting, but I confess skepticism. It almost sounds like something for nothing.

I don't want to be a downer, but I would want to see some companies using it before I bit on this one.
Well, how do you get access to the canadian POTS ? You'll need to inter-connect with the telephone network , and likely they won't let skype do that easily.

skype or other voip technologies is an option, but they're often much more incovenient. And I would be surprised if the teloc operators do deep packet inspection to block skype on their network.
Asking "why do we need lawyers" is like asking "why do we need CPAs?" Or "why do we need programmers", for that matter. In modern society its just the product of division labor. Some people specialize in the complex field, then advise other people. They leverage the economics of the fact that their knowledge can serve multiple clients who have similar problem, so the clients don't have to learn the law themselves.

It's not the phrasing that makes the law complex. It's the fact that the law is a mechanism through which we mediate human interaction, and the interactions of modern society are phenomenally complicated. E.g. the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which is still basically "the law" in the area of antitrust, fits in just a few pages: http://www.linfo.org/sherman_txt.html

It's not dense legalese. "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal." That's the gist of the Act. Yet, many lawyers make their living specializing in this law. Why? Because restraint of trade is hard to define precisely (if the Act tried to define it precisely, it would be dense legalese, like the Tax Code). Courts navigate antitrust suits largely be looking at what they've done before (consistency of result is often more important in law than getting the 'right answer', which may very well not exist). Lawyers help their clients navigate through that web of precedent.

It used to be the case, a hundred years ago, that law was unnecessarily complex. You had to plead cases in this highly stylized format, etc. That's all gone now. Courts will go to great lengths to make sense of a complaint written in crayon. What's left is a lot of necessary complexity. Look at the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/#chapter_vii

Again, it's not dense legalese. "A summons must be served with a copy of the complaint. The plaintiff is responsible for having the summons and complaint served within the time allowed by Rule 4(m) and must furnish the necessary copies to the person who makes service." When law students take civil procedure, the greatest source of complexity actually ends up being complexity inherent in our federal system: choice of forum, choice of law, etc. Under what circumstances can a California court exert jurisdiction over an Alabama resident? When does a federal court have to apply state law? Which state's law?
I did research with Daphne (and co-authored a paper with her) in my senior year of undergrad, and she demanded a high standard of work, yes, but she was an excellent supervisor. Everybody knows how brilliant she is, but she also put a lot of effort into teaching my (also undergrad) project partner and I about how to formulate a research problem, how to do research, and how to present research. The primary concern appeared to be our personal growth, not the research machine (though that's not to say that the research wasn't important).

Working with her was one of the highlights of my undergrad education, and her class was great, too.
I thought it was possible, but just saw they don't allow comments on strangers' check-ins. Could use people's twitter/facebook profiles, get sign-ups as a bonus :)
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> That is, a 0.8% difference in percentile ranking increased the specified output by 300-500%. Now what do you think a 10% percentile ranking difference would imply?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

The difference in intellectual capacity between the top 10%, 1% and 0.1% (or 90, 99, 99.9 percentile) isn't necessarily proportional to the "percentile ranking difference".
The question that I always have is, how can we find people who have the knowledge to regulate the telco industry but who have not worked in the telco industry in a large capacity before?
Administrative detention (prison/labor camps) for children in Switzerland count?
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132406305/for-young-swiss-rebe...
I'm using Refinery, and I'm liking it a lot. It's more in the direction of a CMS though.
Heh, I had the same reaction after reading Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Working for an ISP and seeing how easy it is to sniff traffic only makes the paranoia worse, unfortunately.
I'm interested in whether Aussie startups or incubators are at all interested in sponsoring immigrants from elsewhere. I'm planning on moving to Australia with my wife in a few years, and would be interested in exploring jobs at start-ups in addition to larger corporations.
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I recognised his trademark passionate speech (02:43) about using technology to improve education. Laden with superlatives, it's just like every Apple product launch since the iPod.

It's a great pity that education hasn't actually changed a bit in the intervening time. Computers are pretty much just used for teaching computers, as electronic typewriters and libraries, and to cut down on admin. They really are not used as learning aids, as 'simulated learning environments' or anything similar.

There's still a huge way to go in using IT in education. I think the Khan Academy is one step, the opening up of journals is probably another. We're a long way off what Jobs visualised even back in the late eighties.
umm, a fish eats it?
It's not at all irrational to be wary of a system that can ruin your life if you run afoul of it. It's a shame that the situation forces self-censorship, but the situation is a reality in the US, and it's irrational to pretend the risk isn't real.

Here's an article that stuck in my mind when I read it a few years back:
http://www.salon.com/2006/07/18/photos_18/

It discusses (after the writer's personal horror story of being investigated for child porn after taking photos of his kids nude on a camping trip) how the laws intended to keep kids safe are actually causing many unsubstantiated reports, which in turn must be investigated, which in turn has disastrous consequences for many completely innocent parties. It also takes a stab at estimating how many people this actually happens to.

Would you to have all of your co-workers, neighbors, etc. interviewed about you due to child pornography charges? Be forced to take your own children into child protection services to be asked leading questions about good touches and bad touches? That damage isn't fixed when the charges are dropped.

I'm a parent, and perfectly comfortable with breast-feeding, nudity, and all that. My daughter loves running around naked, and that's awesome. But I don't put any photos online that would put me or anyone else at risk, and would never send them to a photo lab, in the US or any other country I've lived in. It's just not worth the risk.
Be aware that those are four separate examples made to showcase features of the language, the simplest of which being just `words`.

split.hs:
main = interact (show . words)

$ echo hello world | runhaskell split.hs
Content is not there to just "fill space". Content is the reason people are coming to a website. Long written content, like blogs, is important to keep in mind when designing for some projects.

For me, I often design WordPress themes, which relates to blogging. Using real content like this is better than just having fake text that isn't even in the language a client will be using.

Ideally I wouldn't use filler text at all, but using at least actual English words prevents me from viewing the content as just something to "fill the space".
I too thought this was the most interesting idea coming out of @ G48 Riga. Granted it is just an idea still but imagine the implications of something like this -- especially in the wake of all the uproar from the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Right now in Canada I am paying high rates for antiquated service. There is still long distance, I have to pay extra for voicemail + caller id, etc.

I agree that government sponsored monopolies probably could not keep up with the pace of innovation. However in industries where natural monopolies occur, I think they are the better solution then private enterprise.

In Canada, it used to be that receiving text messages was free. However, one of the three carriers decided to charge for incoming texts. Sure enough, in less than a year, the other two carriers followed and also charged for incoming texts. I have a strong feeling to say that sort of behavior would not occur if there was a government sponsored monopoly.

The obvious solution is better regulation, but I don't think anyone has found a solution to regulatory capture yet so I'm not banking on anything there.
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Looks great, but less caps.
The goal is a laudable one, but, frankly, it’s playing out at best as quixotic and at worst as a Nader-like vanity project. Either way, it appears unlikely to accomplish much of anything.

This isn't an argument -- it's a putdown, and one that could just as easily be used to describe the cause of digital rights.
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