skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more. For the past year or so I've been building sites for clients using Concrete5 (an open source php CMS), and it has this concept at its core -- you edit the site on the actual pages themselves, which much more closely matches the mental model of non-technical users. Furthermore, it provides a lot of flexibility for the developer to customize the editing interface -- you edit content as smaller "blocks" on a page instead of one monolithic WYSIWYG editor for the entire page. In this way, you can have a small little custom interface specifically tailored to that one spot on the page.
It's a really elegant system that is unfortunately not as well documented as it could be (I'm hoping to do something about this in the near future though), and since it's a relative newcomer to the php CMS world (open-sourced in 2007 or 2008?), it doesn't have as much name recognition as Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal.
But as you point out, inline is the future, and C5 is way more mature than any other similar CMS I've seen, so I think it's an ideal solution for many CMS needs.
The Damnedest Artist??
I can understand why your sensitive about this considering your wife has chosen her path, but I don't think the author was directing it at her or other women saying they made the wrong decision.

He was making a simple point that the startup world can be uninviting towards women and instead it should be more inviting towards everyone, women included.

One point he discusses is clarifying the misconception that all startups look the same. That's a worthwhile point not just for women, but for a lot of men too.

I honestly can't see what is so upsetting or controversial about his statements.

By the way, I actually disagree with the author, I don't think startups are or should be for everyone. I am just making the point that his statements are not an attack on anyone's decision and his arguments seem pretty reasonable (even though I don't agree 100%).
Adopting a silent stance is still a political stance of abstaining.

Frankly, Wikipedia organisation has every right to protest if it means long-term problems with SOPA compared to maintaining the reputation of being neutral.

Surely, a Wikipedia editor can point out projected costs and article effects with the SOPA compared to losing some article experts/editors from having a less neutral reputation. Much less emotion through the evidence route.
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I understand why Wikipedia wants to editorially remain unbiased. That said, they have a huge ad on top to raise money to stay in business. I don't this action any different than brining to attention laws that could harm Wikipedia.

This is a simple darwinian situation. Entities that can defend themselves survive and those that can't vanish in time.
I gave up and went with Sublime when I bought a new machine a couple of months ago. I won't be switching to TM2
It is obvious once you start using something like this (and especially when you see how happy non-technical users are about how much more in control they feel with their website because they actually understand what they're doing). I've had a lot of success over the past year or so using Concrete5 (an open source PHP CMS), which works in this way.
This is an interesting idea, insofar as it falls generally in line with one of the potential effects of SOPA enforcement.

But perhaps more interestingly: because people would still have a job to do, they'd use Bing or something else, which would hopefully demonstrate to Washington just how circumventable the legislation is.
At the moment - just by doing a find 'support'/'oppose'; there are 161 'support's and 62 'opposes'
I think that's a great idea. The vast majority of people do nothing until it hits them personally, that's why there's so much apathy. Cut Wikipedia for a week, something used by so many people, and then normal people will start caring. Show Americans what it can look like to be behind a firewall by having many popular sites blank out for a week, and by the end of the week the whole country will be in an uproar.

There's nothing more powerful to make people move and contact their representatives than blocking them from their farmville, celebrity news, homework help (wikipedia) and so on.
Switzerland has the luxury of remaining neutral because when they are not shy about their willingness to act in their own defense.

If Wikipedia is too cowardly to defend itself, I fear it will not be around long enough for it's "principles" to matter in the long run.
> Google-free? Show me an Android phone on the market that's Google-free.

Nook & Kindle Fire are examples of Google-Free android devices, though you specified 'Phones' so I guess that excludes them.
I can't find a tally on the page, but a quick Perl tally suggests "support" is getting ~75% of the votes.
Looking good. The flyout vs accordion wars seems never-ending.

I won't complain, but still prefer the accordion style, it's more visible, memorable, requires less dexterity from novice users, and adapts better to input methods other than a mouse.
Woo! The best kind of license!
As far as I know, classified information is in the public domain, but simply isn't released. Its basically equivalent to a trade secret.
This could be Wikipedia's most effective "personal appeal" they've ever run, just for the above reason.

"A true blackout would be hellish: I don't know that there's a day that goes by that I don't read something on Wikipedia (which is the point, of course)."

I think a blackout would highlight just how many people rely on Wikipedia and might bring to light that they wouldn't mind donating a few dollars a year to keep it around.
> Why not have number systems where infinitesimals are allowed?

There are. A few of them, in fact. Look up the hyperreals.
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well this is just terrific
All of these reasons could apply to iTunes and Amazon's music store?

So why are they posting profits?
It sounds like you have an activist/politicking mentality. That's fine, but it's not for everyone or every institution. One of Wikipedia's pillars, "written from a neutral point-of-view" (NPOV), considers neutrality (including about political controversies) an important principle.

Political neutrality is also considered a good thing for judges, various public officials, and many journalists. If you have a diversity of strong political opinions in your family or workplace, keeping the shared spaces/events/organizations politically neutral is also usually a good idea.
so you didn't want to waste your time reading past the first sentence, yet you dedicated 10x more time to creating a new account and writing up all this stuff?
I agree. Wikipedia may wish to be silent on politics, but the feeling is not mutual.
Everyone can tell it's not really him: the pedo site has proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling.
It appears that they don't actually need that much resolution. You could only really appreciate the image from above, and then you're too far away to see the finest details.
How to make a rich movie search interface with instant trailers
This is moot for another reason.
Your eyes take in the full spectrum of color and produce 3 scalar values for red, green, and blue.
One can take a work of art, illuminate it with pure white light (containing all colors, not just red, green, and blue), determine these RGB values that your eyes will experience, and store them in an image file. You can takes this file and reproduce the work on a computer monitor, on a printer, etc. It will look the same as the work of art under white light.
As soon as you illuminate the work of art with different light, all bets are off. The RGB values do not contain enough information to determine what the work of art would look like under arbitrary spectrum.
For extreme examples consider the following effects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescence

Conclusion: illuminating a reproduction under different light, or processing a reproduction (an image file) in a computer, will not necessarily give you an accurate representation of what the original would look like. We need more information to know if what they saw in that light room is actually what the original would look like under that light. The same goes for the examples on the page.
Downvoters, read the f'g article and then listen up: The main interest of the article was not the rise in the level of the bedrock of Greenland but evidence from bedrock for an increase in temperature in Greenland with that increase to reinforce claims of 'global warming' and to illustrate, via bedrock, the 'severe' consequences of 'global warming'.

The interest of the article was temperature, not bedrock. 'Get it' now? I know this understanding takes some reading comprehension at maybe the college freshman level, but even a middle school student can strain and 'get it'.

So, what I said is an entirely appropriate response to the article and, really, also to the study: It's better to measure temperature with a thermometer. And since that simple statement is true, it illustrates just how silly the article, and the study, were.

Look, the GW crowd is all 'hot' on temperature but to measure it they want to use wildly indirect means such as swimming polar bears, ice on Mount Kilimanjaro, absence of ice at some point on the shore of Alaska, parts of the Antarctic ice shelf falling into the sea, glaciers in Patagonia, chunks of ice falling from glaciers into the sea, hurricanes and cyclones, any unusual weather conditions, and now bedrock levels in Greenland.

What is in common with the interest in all such phenomena is the connection with temperature. So, they want to get at temperature.

But they don't want to measure temperature directly and report it in degrees F or C. Instead they want to hint, imply, suggest, with highly indirect means that there is GW. But be not fooled: They are working to be able to talk about temperature, GW, CC, and soon enough AGW.

If they have some good data on temperature, then they should report it. So far about the best such long term data is in the US National Academy of Sciences study at

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html

If you object to my posts, then be responsible enough to say WHY.

This downvoting my posts without responding is getting to be a HN scandal.

PG, you need to correct this mess.
The wall of text is a pretty daunting landing page IMO. Why don't you try something a bit more inviting (e.g. spreedly.com)?
Nope. We are talking about the same India. I don't know if you have actually read the Constitution of India but the right to expression in India comes with riders. From the Constitution of India Part III Section 19.

This is the foot-note about the Right of Expression:
"Nothing in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect
the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State
from making any law, in so far as such law imposes
reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right
conferred by the said sub-clause in the interests of 4[the
sovereignty and integrity of India,] the security of the
State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order,
decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court,
defamation or incitement to an offence.]"
I am shocked! SHOCKED!

...well not THAT shocked.
Funny though, how many people got hooked on Textmate and moved on to Emacs or Vim in the last few years.

I certainly did. After tasting Emacs or Vim, there is no going back.

I wonder whether we would have stayed if Textmate had been updated earlier. I also wonder whether this new spring in text editors might be in part a reaction to Textmates hibernation. Maybe if it had been updated earlier, there would be no Sublime Text, no Kod, no Chocolat and no Vico?
Indefinite Military Detention Of U.S. Citizens Is A Win For Terrorists
Whatcha writing there? That doesn't look like any JavaScript I've ever seen... enums?
This could have some adverse effects in SERPs. Google? Matt Cutts? What could Wikipedia, or other sites looking to contribute to this cause with a unavailable site, do to not hurt their position in search? 503 Status-Code? Worthwhile to include a Retry-After header?
If the law passes, Wikipedia will die. It's as simple as that. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.
Whilst this is positive, first we have to see that it is just a 'strategy', not an enforceable policy (i think the title of this article as 'EU mandates' is slightly misleading). Secondly, as a 'strategy', it is missing any pointed reference to the difficult issues - for instance QANGOs, which often hold much information that has been government funded, however can be resistant to releasing their data - sometimes for good reasons...

The idea is, of course, a good one - lets hope it filters down into real positive action soon....
Author of Create here. The demo uses a minimal configuration of the Hallo editor. You can also enable block-level formatting, and there is a quite nice image and link plugin coming soon from the nice people at Liip.

Aside from Hallo, Create also supports Aloha Editor (http://aloha-editor.org/)
IBM to buy DemandTec for $440 million
Emotive resonance, mental imagery, branding.
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Netflix, JFrog, and CloudBees are excited to host a Devops in the Cloud Meetup this Thursday. Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi, JFrog CTO Frederic Simon, and Carl Quinn and Jeremy Edberg from Netflix will share their Devops in the Cloud wisdom.
The title of this article, "Programming With Nothing", piques my interest.

I don't have a strong CS background, so this might be a silly question... But obviously, on a computer, "code" is really data, a series of bytes that instructs the processor what to do. In a literal sense, this sort of lamba calculus implementation isn't far removed from bog standard procedural programming. What's the actual philosophical background here-- what is a function, really? What makes it special?
<- Emacs user (for years) who is looking to switch back to TM at least for some things. Can't live anymore without a modern non-fidgety GUI or basic necessities like Lion fullscreen support.

Programming on a laptop dramatically changes the cost/benefit of keyboard-heavy interfaces, IMHO. E.g. it's almost as quick for me to flick the cursor to switch tabs as it is to type a chorded keyboard shortcut to switch buffers, especially factoring in the ability to look and think about what buffer I want before initiating any movement.
A shopper’s companion, still going strong
How does this compare to other JS MVC libraries like Backbone.js?
Still not loading for me :(
or living outside the USA?
The biggest hurdle to overseas outsourcing: Reference
Carrier IQ is very much like wire tapping. Wire tapping requires a warrant[1]. What about warrant for Carrier IQ?

That was my point.

[1] Not sure, but I think it did at one point or still does. Maybe some bill or act made that void, not sure.
Very true, untog. I just feel like Spotify should try and make that uphill climb.
Agreed.

If Wikipedia is locked out for a week, it will make mainstream international news in no time flat.

I think it needs to happen.
Good for them. But you should feel free to not copy the article title verbatim though if it's obnoxious with CAPS or whatnot.
No, i don't know any PaaS services. How do they work ? like Amazon ?
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Bleem is three itself. Because three is more than an integer, or any number.
Email is actually a perfectly valid web publishing protocol. We've done quite a lot of systems where clients can publish news items by just mailing them to a certain mailbox.

And http://www.deathmonkey.org/ was completely produced by sending emails from (old, pre-iPhone) smartphones on the road.
Perhaps I'm simply out of the loop, but could someone please explain to me why SOPA is such a huge threat to Wikipedia? As far as I know they do a fairly good job at keeping copyrighted material off, is there something else I'm missing aside from pure speculation?
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It looks to be UnityScript.

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Head_Firs...
Quite so, that's a great point.
Not working for me either, with OpenDNS:

http://i.imgur.com/6mS9a.png
Everything gets torrented. The Humble Bundle got torrented and you could buy it for five cents. Complaining about something ending up on the Pirate Bay is like complaining about used book sales; you can't say you didn't expect it.

Now, if he could prove it cost him any sales, he'd have something novel. If he could prove that fewer people paid because he didn't include DRM I would be shocked. It's mere existence on a torrent network simply says that not everyone is going to do what strangers tell them on the internet.
Ive used these type of encrypted messages before but with little success or the glitches are many. Ive begun using One-Time secret and it works first try with no issues. Glad to see someone doing it right.
There are such laws, but they only apply to political candidates, and only on TV & Radio. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

This definitely doesn't apply to websites, though, so I was half wrong.
It's hosted in Florida. Sure, it could theoretically move -- but that would be even more disruptive than blanking the site for a month.
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Well, I'm off to write a library called Umber.js.
You are describing patents not copyrights. A technique for implementing a sailboat ship rigging system can be patented but not copyrighted.
Yep, that's the one I was thinking about. Thanks, and you're correct!
>Without a way to make money, we will see less music. Why? Because artists will be forced to get day jobs. As it is, there is a small chance you will make a full living as an artist.

So? This is how it has been for centuries. Call it the invisible hand meets the art world. They can get jobs being music teachers. They can record using vintage equipment, like Blake Schwarzenbach did (used 4-track and 8-track recordings while he wrote for GamePro).

>If anything, it will kill the indy scene because the only companies that will be able to even come close to a profit are the the ones with deep pockets

Something tells me you don't understand the definition of "Independent Music".

The fact is, the labels function as a market for pump and dump stocks, where the stock is a band or album. Independent music doesn't (or in my opinion, shouldn't) work that way. It can take 5 years for your album to blow up. (See: Mumford and Sons). You might have a bigger following only after you're dead and buried (See: Elliot Smith and Bright Eyes). You might have every single one of your fans wanting you to quit your main gig for a side project they've done (See: Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service).

Disclaimer: I am a founder of a failed start-up company that would work with artists in a way that was designed to supplant the labels and exploit long-tail effect, etc.

The sad, sad thing is that indie bands are getting picked off quicker and quicker by labels and pumped up for the first-album success. It's actually a huge issue (read up on MGMT) when the artists then try a new direction for a second album and the label is hesitant to financially support an album unless fans move the product in the first two weeks. This becomes at catch-22. How do you enjoy the success of radio play when nobody's paying to play you on the radio? This leads the labels to relegate these bands (by the second or third album) to a "we don't help you" status, forcing the band to break up or just be a small indie band forever on tour.

If anything, major labels playing in the indie scene is akin to making the indie bands "build on a flood plain".

TL;DR: NOPE. Artists make very little money from albums. It is known.
SOPA doesn't really care about that, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA#Bill_targets_more_than_inf...

Wikipedia links to The Pirate Bay. Furthermore, it would be absurd for Wikipedia not to link to The Pirate Bay.
what do you think it filters? Do you really think there are a large number of low-quality companies that would be deterred from pitching by a $50 entrance fee?
I'm torn. On the one hand, I strongly oppose SOPA, and I agree with most of the online protests I see of SOPA and PROTECT-IP.

On the other, Wikipedia prides itself on its neutrality; it is one of Wikipedia's selling points, that they (at least attempt, as much as a collaborative, anonymously edited encyclopedia can) to provide a neutral point of view, keep from giving undue weight to fringe viewpoints, don't allow themselves to be tempted into being non-neutral or appear non-neutral by offering advertising. Making a strong political statement that takes advantage of their popularity would move away from this neutral stance.

On the gripping hand, this is something that would impact Wikipedia directly. Wikipedia would instantly become much more liable for any problematic content posted by users. They would likely have to change their editing policies, add domain blacklists to avoid linking to verboten domains. Many sources of information that Wikipedia editors use and link to may be banned. SOPA is in direct opposition to the open and free dissemination of information that is Wikipedia's mission.

So, I don't really know. I wish there were a good answer here. But there really isn't.
Politics is a subset of philosophy -- the philosophy of governance, and of social and economic organization -- but it can include a lot of things.

Some argue that it's impossible to be apolitical, because almost everything you do is a legal matter somewhere (drinking, eating certain foods, reading certain things), so by doing them, you are implicitly asserting a political position. Wikileaks has always been in favor of free speech, and publishes content that is actually illegal in some places. They have always been political to one extent or another.
Too bad WOW didn't purpose this instead. I'd wager millions of angry, hair-pulling, screaming 13 year-olds are a lot louder than all of America's partially inconvenienced adults.
Take a local checkout of https://github.com/bergie/hallo and try the example there. You'll have a lot more formatting options.

We will have a hack weekend on Create in January in Zurich, and hopefully after that I'll update the demo setup with a lot more features enabled (formatting, images, workflows, etc)
I would normally agree with you about the raster v.s vector when it comes to normal proportional icons or shapes. But when it comes to hand drawn icons if you want to reproduce the hand drawn authenticity and fidelity you usually don't use the vector format. It is like saving photos in vector format.

"This is trivial." - Actually is harder than you think, few mounts of work, drawing and redrawing, sorting, organizing, web site preparation etc.. Drawing just one icon can sometimes take few hours and trust me the drawing is the easiest part.
Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.
Pi is not an integer.
Bankers cost each one of us £8.40 for every £1 they produce
Exactly.

I see so many journalists complaining about blogs. And I ask : if you're so underappreciated, why not start your own blog?

Journalists insist they have the training and wave memberships and credentials around as if they mean anything more than paying dues and agreeing with other people. When any cursory examination of media will find it riddled with errors, not only of the typographical kind, but of the completely-incorrect-facts kind.

It's just like any other industry that starts to get threatened by disruption from new technology - all the new people coming in are 'unworthy' 'wrong' and 'bad for the industry'.

If you ever want to hear a tale of woe, talk to an old-school photographer about digital cameras and the explosion of part-time hobbyists who do a little bit of work on the side with their $500 SLR.

In reality they are all people just trying to make their way in the world using whatever means they can.