skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You highly doubt a revolutionary figure said a radical thing because it would have been considered impolite/revolutionary/radical?

Newton was in a world of his own; he, along with a few select others (Lock, Descartes and others), are in large part responsible for the Enlightenment. The very Enlightenment this statement characterizes so well. Even if he didn't say it (I cannot find the source, but I have read this quote a number of times in various papers), it is very much the kind of statement he would make.
While I do appreciate your statement in the larger literary context (great artists and prophets deemed insane), and I don't think RMS is justified in everything he does...

I reject your allusion to his insanity. Neurotic behavior is not the same as out-of-control psychotic.
Does Google Care about RSS?
This is an arms race. I just see this getting worse and worse until it gets better.

As these battles get larger, companies will dump more and more resources into their legal arsenal.

The ever larger legal departments at these corporations will then need something to do. Budgets to spend. Targets to meet. Goals to hit.
Actually, if you look at the original version of that page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archimedean_proper...), it doesn't mention the word "axiom" at all. Someone edited the page at some point to introduce this concept! It seems to have been done in a somewhat anonymous fashion, lending credence to Natsu's theory that there's a conspiracy involved here.
That is simply depressing. I went to Vim for this alone, and, well now I'm addicted to Vim.
For my personal use, this release falls a little flat because these days being cross-platform is a pretty important editor feature to me. It's great that Find in Files doesn't freeze the entire program anymore, but I need something that works no matter if I'm on my Mac laptop, my Windows desktop or my remote Linux server. I'm currently a Sublime Text 2 user by day, but I'm on the cusp of switching to Emacs full-time.

That said, TextMate was the first scriptable text editor I ever truly enjoyed using, and I'm really pleased to see that TM2 is finally about to be released to a wider audience after such a long development cycle. Congratulations to Allan for finally having something that he can share with the world, and I don't regret what I paid for the license, even if I no longer use it.
Google begins to roll out Google+ features for Blogger
There's an easy way around that, though: speak, act, live and think in a manner that's patently inoffensive to anybody.

* I guess I'm being too subtle with my sarcasm, huh. Well, I'll be Larry Literal from now on.
It acts as a keylogger on some android phones, when Carrier IQ is put into a "debug state". The researcher apparently triggered that by accident without knowing. It's not the default log level. Carrier IQ is likely benign and this whole issue seems to be bad tech journalism and sensationalism.
I really hope that's not the final icon.
I love this idea and fully support it, but a possibly unintended side effect would be reporting of this event taking a turn towards: "Holy crap, we all rely a lot on Wikipedia! Who are these people who run this global resource, anyway? Can we trust them? Should this sort of information source be regulated for the sake of the public good? Should it even be possible for these unaccountable people to pull such an important site from the internet without any oversight?! We need more laws!"
It will definitely keep people away, just not for the reasons the bean counters expected.

1. People like having their own desks.

2. With enough space to actually work on.

3. Where they can hear themselves think.

I feel like it's time to carpet-bomb management and B-schools with PeopleWare again.

A few years ago I did a 3-week internship in the consulting arm of a Big 4 accounting firm. They had hot-desking in their office -- you were supposed to book it on the day. In practice certain folk had "ins" with the space and planning staff and so certain desks were never "available".

The practical upshot was that you had to wander around the vast office for 20 minutes trying to find the desk you booked from home that morning. And meetings were a pain. "Where are you? Red battleship 27 omega-B? I'm in pink rubber ducky 14 sigma-epsilon-J".
I don't know how Allan figured this release would remain out of the public eye. Yes if you want to alpha release it to a very select group of people but don't send your release notes and download links to a public mailing list. Word will definitely leak out.
I downvoted you because I believe your comment reflects a much more problematic anti-pattern that colors this debate: some companies have 100% distributed teams who deliver work and are happy with their jobs. Some companies have 100% on-site teams who deliver work and are happy with their jobs. Clearly, both of these systems work. Dismissing the entire practice of distributed teams as "an anti-pattern" is leaving a huge body of discussion on the table. It's obvious that this works in some situations and not others. You're assuming facts not in evidence: "When everyone is just a name attached to an email or a voice on a noisy phone line..." The article specifically says that there are high-quality screens installed all over the place to address exactly this concern. Please, let's stop repeating the same scripts and talk about what's really going on!
> Out of all the startup skills I've studied, this one -- effectively inferring intent from reams of numbers -- is probably the most difficult.

"There are only two types of people in this world; those who can
extrapolate from incomplete information."

It's a humorous way to get the same point across. It's particularly fun
to say in person during a discussion, then just stop speaking and wait
for the point to hit home.

The more interesting question is why human beings get a warm, fuzzy
feeling when they extrapolate from incomplete information (or
extrapolate from incorrect information, or extrapolate incorrectly from
correct information)?

I haven't bothered to count them all, but there are plenty of myths
about some deity dragging something bright or burning across the sky to
explain the rising and setting of the sun.
Carrier IQ is in iOS 5. It is, however, disabled by default. It is also buried in the second or third level down in Preferences, so its very unlikely a user will enable it by accident -- and will probably only do so upon the instruction of an Apple Store Support Rep.
Ask HN: High Quality Proxies
Does anybody know of a company providing high quality web proxies with any/all of the following features:

Option to choose from a variety of countries.

Possible to get new/almost unused proxies with little history.
Great advice. The R stuff is definitely an ideal route since I already have some stats and data analysis experience. At this point it's just a matter of getting a bit more familiar with the industry and figuring how to find these types of jobs.
We actually already have a law against the bad parts: the Bill of Rights and specifically the First Amendment.
It's nice to know that some people, even when they have a lot of clout, still choose to play nice. Classy. :-)

(Purely in my personal and unweighty (as it should be) opinion.)
Agree with all these points, especially the adverse selection bias. Would you pay to apply for a job? Of course not.

Between incubators such as YC and others, hustling for intros, and Angel List, there's no reason ever to pay to pitch investors.

The ones charging $1,000-$8,000 are just robbing Peter to pay Paul. The more people they invite to pitch, the more money they make, a portion of which they will "invest" in the "winner."

These people are leeches leaches and need to be called out as such.
Yup... just switched our office from our old FTP server to dropbox, now I have 10 users asking me why it's not working.
According to status.dropbox.com it's just the software client, not the web interface.
Not to mention the paints have translucent and reflective qualities, all of which are lost on a 2d print or monitor.
A Very Rare Video of Steve Jobs Telling the History of Apple
Agreed ... but Henry VIII's "riddance" of the Catholic church is not regarded (by everyone) as a good choice.
I was a TA for several years as a grad student, and was the sole instructor for an introductory programming class. I constantly asked my class questions - I did not want them to be silent. If your just march on through material without getting feedback from the class, you have no idea if anything is sticking.
Google might fail in the long run for the simple reason that new, valuable information being added to the internet isn't necessarily going to be available on the web, in indexable fashion. Google won the web, and they're strangling it to death in the same way Microsoft strangled the PC industry.

Meanwhile the rest of the computing industry is heading in a direction opposite to what Google can make huge sums of money in and dominate in the way they currently do. Instead of static web pages with low information-to-noise ratio and plastered with ads the internet is moving toward a data-consumption model through highly targeted mobile and mobile web applications. The search engine bully will no longer have a place at the table.
LightSquared calls leaked GPS test report a "distortion of truth"
Apply your standard of proof for action to your own behavior here. Do you have definitive proof that opportunities are equal? No, I'm sure. Well, then you should stop trying to influence people's opinions and behaviors until you do.

Of course, that's ridiculous. But for the same reason that your suggestion is. You're applying an impossibly high standard to an approach you disagree with, while giving the status quo a pass.

That you don't see a problem isn't proof that there's no problem. That you don't know how to change something is not proof that change is impossible. That you don't want to fix something isn't a reason to tell other people not to try.
I don't see any evidence that he's being paid to whitelist ads on various websites. It could simply be that the site operators are agreeing to meet certain criteria for 'non-annoying' ads, and will be de-listed if they breach that agreement.
Do you like what you actually do at your job? If yes - this is ideal job.

If no - that's what people going after when joining start-ups.
If you're not managing a team tomorrow, then you don't need certifications or courses. Far more can be learned by doing and experiencing.
Video: Honda's new Asimo robot is possibly most advanced ever
The link to emberjs.com seems to be broken. Just FYI :)
Yea, this just seems like rearranging the tokens to achieve the same result. Though, the same sort of thing could be said about path.py, which I absolutely love using.
Don't go into business with people you don't trust.

In my experience, it never goes well.
Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications in Clouds #papers #analysis
Abstract: Cloud computing confers strong economic advantages, but many clients are reluctant to implicitly trust a third-party cloud provider. To address these security concerns, data may be transmitted and stored in encrypted form. Major challenges exist concerning the aspects of the generation, distribution, and usage of encryption keys in cloud systems, such as the safe location of keys, and serving the recent trend of users that tend to connect to contemporary cloud applications using resource-constrained mobile devices in extremely large numbers simultaneously; these characteristics lead to difficulties in achieving efficient and highly scalable key management.
Newton was a strange mix of the modern and the ancient. Remember that he devoted most of his working life to compiling a chronology of the old Testament and to summarising various alchemical works. See Westfall's biography Never at Rest.
Toronto, ON, Canada. Full-time.

SiteScout is hiring a System Administrator (Linux)

More details: http://www.sitescout.com/about/system-administrator-linux/
> Women have complete freedom in the modern workplace

Let's stop right there. That's just not true.

http://www.mspb.gov/netsearch/viewdocs.aspx?docnumber=606214...
Some terminology that you didn't need to know in 2005:

"device pixel": what the screen reports is a pixel. Usually it's a square containing red, green, and blue, but not if you use a PenTile display.

"CSS pixel" is what widths and clientX are measured in. Interestingly, the CSS spec has always defined a CSS pixel relative to the angle you'd get if you read it, but browsers always treated them as device pixels until they implemented full page zoom. (aka logical pixel in IE8)

"screen pixel" (system pixel in IE8) is the unit in which window.screenX is measured. It's what CSS pixel would be at 100% zoom. Mozilla is trying to end the insanity by removing this different measure.

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/a_pixel_is_n...
At one point status.dropbox.com said both the client and the website were down.
This will never make it past the wikilawyers running the US version. They live to find reasons to shoot down anything anybody proposes, even if they acknowledge that thing is ultimately right and beneficial. WP:IGNORE and WP:BURO essentially do not exist for many editors. (In many cases, this ready-fire-aim mindset is actually beneficial, because a lot of people have a lot of bad ideas that should be summarily rejected. But it gets in your way whether or not you're not an idiot.)
Depends what your definition of < is. Some definitions leave unspecified what the relationship between two values not in {0, 1, 2, ...} is.
If anything, the request seems more ironic that actual...

As if there was a chance in hell it wouldn't get republished...
If you are thinking you can deduct 80% of you rent you really need to find an accountant.

You should make an estimated payment before the end of they year. It will cut down on your penalties. Find an accountant quickly.
I was wondering similarly: Dev work on ST2 seems to have stopped altogether. Which is a pity, because it really was shaping up to be a winner. But there are still plenty of features missing.

Now i'm using chocolatapp, which seems to be moving along briskly and now has a better feature set.
I have mixed feelings about this idea. SOPA is awful, but political neutrality is an important principle.

Perhaps formal neutrality could be maintained by simply offering an awareness banner: replace the fundraising insert with informational links to both pro- and anti-SOPA websites. The readers will be able to figure out the right position, for their own interests. (Perhaps, even, any pro-SOPA site would be toppled by the natural clickthrough traffic.)

Even if a protest displaces the fundraising banners for a day or more, the added attention to Wikipedia might boost the overall fundraiser.
This is a horrible idea. Once Wikipedia starts advocating political positions, it will raise doubts as to the neutrality of Wikipedia content.
> Yes, I wanted to respond to your post and the subthread that you started with 'he is selling ads'. I think that gives your position away.

Well, the fact that he plans to financially benefit from displaying advertisements (or allowing them to be displayed) is key to understanding the alignment of his incentives: money for ads, insofar as his userbase will put up with it.

> Mobile apps w/ ads: Angry Birds on Android?

Haven't played it; I'd assumed it was a paid game. It's 99 cents on iOS. Unclear why it's free on Android.
It may help by simply getting the bug-generating developers to do something else for a while.
But do you know what the worst part is?

He is right and he was right on basically every count of batshit crazy IP/privacy "conspiracy" he ever conceived. And as crazy and repugnant as we find him. He probably is right about what is coming but we don't see it yet.
Raster images are largely useless for professional design purposes. Moreover, the images that are trivial to sketch on a paper with a pencil and turn into PNGs by snapping and cleaning up a photo. This is trivial. It's like trying to sell "#include" statements to a C programmer. So the first thing to change to make this set more appealing to a wider designer audience is to convert them to vectors.
I'm planning on writing off 80% of the rent for my home office

be careful with this, a room cannot be consider even if 1% of it is used for dual purposes. For example if you have an office but you use it as a child nursery too. 80% of your dwelling is going to raise a red flag.

Second, if you are going to be freelancing you need to file for an S-Corp it helps you to opt out of some taxes. It will lower your effective tax rate because it get's rid of some of the FICA tax and because it allows you to take some of the earned income and transfer it over to capital gains.

You also really need to go to a good CPA, they cost around $300 to $600 and they will save you far more than that. The first year I went to a CPA they saved me 10k from the best I could do on my own. Not getting a CPA while freelancing is throwing money away. It is the quickest thing you can do to improve your bottom line.
It wouldn't surprise me if that, in and of itself, was an identifier.

I find myself thinking of coin-flip experiments, where it's trivial to discern who ran some sort of legitimately random test, and who just made up Heads and Tails, because humans are terrible at approximating randomness.
It's a solved problem. No need to reinvent the wheel in node.js. My company has also recently dropped our custom blog (C#) and are going with WordPress (PHP).
Moving to git from svn
I am contemplating on switching to git from svn at our workplace. we have about 5 devs onshore and 10 off-shore.
my main concern is that most folks are used to the rich UI of svn, where git is primarily a CL based tool.
I can manage the on-shore devs but not sure how to get off-shore going.
I am thinking of doing piece-meal type by moving one utility project to git and have folks warm up to it.
or should I do a boot-camp and move everyone to git?
Mobile Morning Coffee (12/12/11)
No, privacy is just under assault by a company that makes money on destroying privacy, and selling your demographic data to marketers. I suspect that this greed-oriented intrusion is a temporary condition.
Since SOPA could be used to take all of Wikipedia down because some single user posted something in violation of copyright, I think it's appropriate for Wikipedia to advocate this. If it were any issue that didn't fly directly in the face of Wikipedia's ability to run I would agree with you.
While I doubt it, it could have been intentional to reignite interest/discussion.
Seems like github is doing it right by following the motto of "investing in humans [...] to build the best company".
The fundamental difference is between "let's start a business and make great things that provide value to our customers" and "let's start a business, dive into the hype cycle around some newfangled thing, and hope to cash out before we burn out," no?

If you're doing the first, you can work reasonable schedules (hard, yes, but not insane), and create value, and build your business. This is, in my view, what Github (where the author works) does.

If you're doing the latter, then you have to kill yourself because you need to cash in before everyone realizes what you're doing is either 1) actually worthless, or 2) not the coolest thing on the block anymore, and moves on to the next fad.
It's a shame really that we don't have access to the same data for self-discovery. Imagine if everyone had their own data and people could communicate with algorithms. Greenpeace could have a little thing that you run on your data to get tips for improving your shopping habits, etc. Unions could have a way to help you avoid bad products. Or your phone could learn when you need a nudge one way or the other to improve your health.
As I said, 80% of just the office, not the apartment. I heard this was safer than writing off the entirety of the home office.
Yes, exactly what every corrupt regime likes, people who don't need to be pushed around, but instead get out of the way of their own accord.

People like that invite tyranny upon themselves.
I'm happy enough in academia. If I left it, it would only be for assured big bucks with job security. So, yeah, I don't think the startup life is really for me.
Erm. Algorithms aren't necessarily deterministic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm

Primality testing is a very good example of a useful algorithm that gives an answer that is probably correct.
I wonder if it would also make a difference if Google arranged to censor all of the supporting members of the House and Senate. It shouldn't take long for at least their aides to get the message in a particularly realistic way. For my .02 worth, I'd leave the 'switch' on for good, but I'm old and vindictive :)
You want to move from git to svn or svn to git?
Uh oh -- The downvoting has started. Feel free to do that but please explain where I'm missing the mark. Thanks.

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I'm really not sure why entrepreneurs who I'd suspect believe in free markets need to be coddled and "protected" from pay-to-pitch programs which at the end of the day are just another business - some good and some bad.

Just because you're a struggling entrepreneur doesn't mean other people shouldn't charge you or you're entitled to anything. At the end of the day, it is the entrepreneurs' choice. If you don't have the money or if the program doesn't seem legit, don't pay. And find another way to reach investors. If spending $50 or $100 gets you a credible chance at $500k of seed funding and helps accelerate your path to getting that money or getting feedback, that seems fair.

Some pay to pitch programs may add value. And some may not. If an entrepreneur learns that the hard way, so be it. Nobody ever said being an entrepreneur would be easy.
Women may be under-represented in startups, or tech. But so are a lot of my male friends. Who aren't techies. I would say the majority of my personal friends are outside of tech.

A lot of PEOPLE aren't willing to go through the extremes of becoming, and staying great at tech. Tech perpetually outdates itself.

They might instead choose to contribute just as meaningfully to the world in other ways. And dare I say actually do it instead of being in it for their own enjoyment.

Startups aren't for everyone. Women maybe (sometimes) for family or other considerations. Men, maybe (sometimes) for family or other considerations.

This isn't about gender to me. Or having children.

It's about risk tolerance, the price you pay to take the risk perpetually, and what what you miss out on.

All that matters in entrepreneurship is if we can learn to make a go of it... and what price we're willing to go to find out if we're an entrepreneur. That's it.

All the other entreporn out there is bs. Being a qualified entrepreneur means you were able to make money (profit) from a validated product or service, in any way. Until then you might be someone attempting entrepreneurship, but staying an entrepreneur is another thing altogether.

If you keep doing the same thing without improving results, that's up to you. I'm not sure if it's worth connecting it to what is, or isn't between your legs and what that might mean. What's in our head, heart and gut is far more important.
I got tired of waiting and moved to Sublime Text 2 for this reason alone. Three columns at once is glorious.
A bot that would repeatedly issue notices against the same material would not be one I would be legally confident in, if I were in Universal's shoes. After all, if the material comes back after the first take-down, it means that someone has made a legally binding declaration that the original claim was mistaken. If it did end up in front of a judge, I can't see a blind repetition having helped Universal's case.
I think the actual "worst part" is that the guy who was right is a guy which most people find repulsive.