skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has absolutely nothing to do with rms and his visions.
Which are wrong.
I come to HN mostly for info about new tech used to develop software, which includes Ember.js. I wish there were more stories like this and fewer stories about social networks, consumer electronics, famous individuals, gender and race issues, pop-sci, pop-econ, etc.
One problem is that it's much bigger, so the main contributors no longer know each other. When I started editing Wikipedia in 2003, I'd look at the "Recent Changes" page and at least recognize the name of everyone who made more than a few contributions, and I definitely knew everyone who was active in meta-activities (mailing list, Village Pump, etc.). The Italian Wikipedia is roughly like that, with a few dozen major contributors, and in some ways they're actually more tightly knit than even 2003-era English Wikipedia, because the vast majority live in Italy within a few hours' train ride of each other.

The English one, though, has grown so huge that it's more unwieldy now. I no longer recognize even some very prolific contributors, because there's no feasible way to keep tabs on All Edits To Any Article. It's unclear how to go about building community and decentralized decision making in really large communities. Even just this one discussion page is unwieldy: it's been edited about 600 times since Jimmy Wales floated the idea.

There is also, unlike the Italian Wikipedia, a more international base of contributors, and a vocal subset are really touchy about the English-language Wikipedia being seen as the "American" Wikipedia, so vociferously object to it doing anything in response to USA-specific politics.
I have a vague memory of using a telnet URL in a browser to play a text-only MUD back in the 90's. Was exotic compared to the default way of doing it in a terminal shell session.
That's the kind of crap we have in Chicago. http://fundingfeedingfrenzy.com/present-your-company/

$330 early bird special... :(

That and "entrepreneur networking" events that are full of service companies or software shops trying to drum up business. Lame.
I find it interesting that many of the commenters would rather see legislation passed that could harm Wikipedia than see the site "politicized" in any way.

I definitely understand the sentiment, but I think there's a big difference between simply taking a political stance for the sake of it and fighting to make sure your non-profit organization is legally allowed to survive and continue operations as it has.
Hard work as a means to success is hardly a post-romantic invention. Newton was very much a student of Aristotle, the teachings of whom we can see very much aligned with the statement in question.

In that light, would you also doubt these verified Newtonian quotes that suggest similar thinking?
"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."
That's how it usually is, unfortunately. People don't like being told where dangerous things will lead them.
and that makes terminal emulator the same thing as shell?
Can you explain what this is besides setting contenteditable to true on an HTML element container? I see some other dotted lines around certain sections when you focus on them but I'm not sure how this is really powerful past just setting contenteditable.
It requires Firefox (I don't want to go back to FF), but I would consider starting it just for your site.

It requires signing up. I'm out. I have more than enough accounts already. If you want me to have a look at something, make it easily accessible. Sorry. :)
Agreed. My observation about Sublime2 was a positive one. Taking a break from releasing a new dev build every day is not neglect.
It's not democracy if there's only an upvote.
Anyone else think this article is a plug for his app?
I think this would be considerably more effective.
Thanks for taking a look anyway! If you'd like to email team@workingsoftware.com.au I'll configure a demo for you with a dummy email that doesn't require you to create an account.
Wouldn't that run counter to Google's point about how hard / difficult it is to censor specific sites?
It's not about being coddled, it's about exploiting entrepreneurs who are either desperate, or new to the game. We don't want to encourage that type of behavior in our community.

"entrepreneur learns that the hard way, so be it."

That attitude is like saying children should learn to look both way before crossing the street the hard way...by getting hit by a bus!
"A few pages of equations" is pretty damn good for the software the universe runs on. Imagine saying "iirc, Portal's physics engine is a few pages of code. Not concise at all".

(In fairness, we can be fairly sure that the Standard Model isn't the whole deal; it doesn't do gravity properly, for instance. And you need more than just the bare equations to explain what's going on -- though I think a lot of that is just impedance matching for the benefit of our not-very-mathematics-tolerant brains. But, still. "A few pages" isn't so bad.)
Surely worth auto-banning Fox news submissions? There are any number of links to Asimo footage and technical detail better suited to HN.
Google owns YouTube and Google+, both of which are sites for user-created content. And besides, the Internet is user-created content, indexed by Google. SOPA would require them to police their index just as much as the more direct user-content sites.
Press and mindshare thunder!
anonymous data does not exist
This is already available in Emacs. The Markdown mode is not configured by default to display proportional fonts for headings, however configuring it is easy.
WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"
Not sure that is true, though. How many people are even aware of the option of doing a startup? My impression is that the thought rarely ever occurs to most people, and it is not being encouraged at school or anywhere either. That goes for men and women alike.
It's the mix that doesn't work particularly well.

Especially a mix in which certain team members are perpetually "outside" the main group. The remote participants simply don't have access to the same side-channel discussions office residents do. Location, bandwidth, and multi-channel communications (sight, sound, and even touch) matter.

The places I've seen this work well (very rare) involve people who travel frequently between locations (expensive and personally disruptive), and in which work and participation are forced onto the same channels remote workers use (chat/IRC/voice).

And sadly, in 2011, speakerphones and audio conferencing still sucks massively.

If you've got a very strong, very cohesive, very long-lived team, with a history of strong direct interpersonal relations, you may be able to get away from this.

Another factor I suspect has a strong bearing on this is a team in which members are chosen by merit (or at least on a broad-based acclaim, not by a single hire/fire entity), and who cannot be easily shed. Scientific communities, some forms of government collaboration, and much of the Free Software community operates on this basis.

Knowing your job is NOT at stake for any given mistake, error, or political misstep you make does a great deal for such activities to engender stronger and better participation.

In my experience.
"""Why wouldn't node be suited for a "CRUD app"? """

Because all the design decisions for node.js weren't about making CRUD apps.
> They can't just use a bot to DMCA stuff, they have to have a lawyer sign off on it.

This is incorrect. Anyone operating with the consent of the rightsholder can send a DMCA take-down request. You do not have to be a lawyer.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...
I've been lucky enough to attend a few of these parties. I have been to a few other lan parties as well, and while there is something to be said for bringing your own computer, having all the computers with all the games preinstalled definitely makes it a more frictionless experience. From "let's play something" to playing it is typically about five minutes (except GTA, but that's probably because it's old enough to still offer IPX networking as an option).
Shpoonkle By Any Other Name
You have the be kidding me... their name is the Funding Feeding Frenzy. What a joke.
Archimedes Labs Launches As An Incubator For Mobile Startups
I see standing up for free speech is a philosophical stance, whereas remaining silent is a political stance.

Philosophy > Politics IMO.
Performance reviews aren't the same thing as feedback. Feedback and communication are essential; performance reviews are regimented checks that often completely fail to provide the needed feedback, because no one wants to appear to be doing a bad job when it comes time to talk salary.

For feedback to be effective is has to be mutual, constant, and constructive. Performance reviews are often none of these things.
Anyone who pays to pitch their startup doesn't deserve to be funded.
Unknown.

However, the FBI can send a remote message to ANY phone to turn on its microphone and essentially use it as a wiretap. That's been built into every phone in the USA for something like 10 years now. It's why you have to surrender a cell phone in secure locations and military bases.

That's old news. Said wiretaps have actually been used against organized crime in America in the past and is likely used with more success now.

Oh, and you do know that everything you SEND through a cellular network -- texts, pics, urls visited are logged, right?

The only way to have a private network is to own the network. And know your netsec.
I encourage the people I care about (who are often women), to be confidently independent when it comes to work.

To me that includes a spectrum of behaviors:

- assertively asking for raises at their current job
- aggressively negotiating for the best job
- consulting and setting their own fee
- ...and a startup would be an extreme end, for the right people

More generally, if you want someone to be successful, then you want to coax them down the path towards assertiveness and independence in their career, losing their fear of success, power, money, responsibility.

(I guess after startup, might come "incubator". But after that? Curious how pg will play it).
Sure, but they can also add a new API for raw socket operations.
Yeah, I remember that. :) These days you can totally go to a LAN party running Linux. I went to one running FreeBSD, even. And my machines actually ran only Linux up until this past weekend. WINE is pretty good... Starcraft 2 works, Steam works, most Source-engine and Unreal-engine games work, etc. But there were just enough bugs that I eventually gave in.
If any of this is "crystal clear", then you need to revisit your username choice.

Well observed, but no. What makes me skeptical about many things is having a clear opinion/view about other things. For me that's the true essence of skepticism.

I'm not sure what to make of your "average black person is less intelligent" point. Are you seriously arguing that a debatable genetic difference was the principle reason antebellum blacks were picking cotton?

I didn't make any such point. And no, I'm not arguing that. But the phrasing of your question does prove my point about how afraid people is about some debates. That is particularly ironic because they seem to be so certain about it, why should they be afraid to debate it?

You can, and most people could discuss it, but it's an extremely weak point.

I don't think you really mean it, sorry.

(E.g., individual != average, and in-population range is very large, so you'd expect to see the appropriate percentage of black landowners, successful business owners, etc.). Hmm.

Yep, I really don't think you mean it. Starting by the 'individual != average' is a common symptom of such taboos. By doing so you try to nullify any consideration about a group of people, but you go on and do just that to prove your point whenever necessary.
For the record, I share the same opinion as you about the topic.

I might be wrong here, of course, but I'm getting the feeling that you are assuming I'm 'white' and that that is strongly affecting your reasoning. You might stop to re-think for a little while. Just saying.
Facebook and Google (or YouTube) might be the only other internet powerhouses with enough traction to successfully pull something like this off. I hope they take a stand. It is an awful bill with awful consequences.
-- My thoughts as posted in the other thread: --

SOPA is awful, but political neutrality is an important principle.

When a law threatens the existence of your organization as we know it, what else are you supposed to do? Would you rather have:

a) a completely politically neutral organization that has silently been neutered such that it cannot fulfill its mission

b) a mostly politically neutral organization that only expresses political views when the issue directly impacts their ability to fulfill their mission

The readers will be able to figure out the right position, for their own interests.

I don't think the problem here is whether people would be able to make up their mind if they had all the facts. The problem is that this issue has not received enough media attention and as a result very few people are even aware of it, let alone aware of its repercussions.

National media outlets certainly have a reason to avoid coverage of this issue since most of their parent companies support this legislation.
> rbanffy: The GPL forbids redistribution.

I can't fathom how you managed to misinterpret my post so badly, but, for your benefit, "The GPL prohibits distribution under Apple's freedom-limiting terms".

Satisfied?
How is anyone being exploited? You have a choice to pitch or not. It's not blackmail. It may be foolish to pitch at these events, but as far as I know, nobody is being forced into pitching or being told "you can't research this event and our track record before signing up."
Dr. House?
How does SOPA effect gmail? If somebody sends me a link to copyrighted material, and I view it on gmail.com, is google infringing?
Write to be understood. Speak to be heard. Read to grow.
Thanks HN: we just launched the One-Time Secret beta based on your feedback
We got a lot of feedback last month on our post about the alpha launch of onetimesecret.com ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3207489 ). We were blown away by the amount of interest so we spent more time working on it and talking to more people. We just upgraded the site to beta which includes new features and a lot of improvements.

It would be awesome to get more feedback but more importantly I wanted to mention that we've included a free plan for HNers. (You might notice that we're A/B testing another free plan -- the key difference is that this one will be free forever.)

So thank you and let me know what we can do better!
Suppose they just blocked access entirely to all publicly known IP blocks used by congress members and buildings?

That wouldn't be the same sort of technical challenge as SOPA would pose, but would drive home the point pretty well.
Some roles are not 'neutered' by their commitment to various standards of neutrality, but strengthened by it.

Many journalistic organizations forbid their reporters from making political donations, or holding shares in companies on which they report. This is considered a good thing.

Public defenders take on clients without regard to the heinousness of their alleged crimes or the attorney's personal opinions of the defendant. This is also considered a good thing.

I don't think SOPA even in its worst form would actually 'neuter' Wikipedia. In particular, if the US government ever did censor Wikipedia with force of law, that would generate even more sympathy and uproar than a merely simulated blackout. And that might be the necessary test case to get the SOPA law struck down (by the courts) or repealed (by a later Congress).

That is, I don't think you can be sure that dropping one principle (political neutrality) in a dramatic gesture now will be better for the stated goal (defeating legalized censorship) than just diligently continuing to be a principled, NPOV source of reliable information.

Certain activists-by-temperament always want to politicize everything – "you're with us or against us, solidarity, unity, this issue is so important everyone must take sides!"

But society can often be more robust against injustice and oppression when some key institutions zealously cherish their duties of neutrality, and stay above the dirty business of politics, without applying any self-interest calculations.
It would be neat if we could do this without requiring me to provide my public transit bona fides. I live in Central Austin, where the public transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure is about as good as it gets in Austin. And I would argue that it's pretty meager compared to many major cities – such as San Francisco, which is what we were talking about.

And since we're also talking about working for software companies, I would also like to posit – and I could certainly be wrong about this – that the majority of local software companies are not located centrally, where they are readily accessible via bus, rail, or bike. And once you're out of Central Austin, you're in a city that's built to car scale, not human scale.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335217
That problem has actually already been solved for at least 5 years. There are multiple solutions that do all the necessary calculations, among them:

- PC Solution by Matrox http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_...

- Hardware Solution by RGB Spectrum http://www.rgb.com/products/EdgeBlendUnit/
This fits the startup way of thinking but not the real way of thinking. If you can't draw a line between your work and personal life you'll burn out a lot sooner.
Wait, you're just figuring out now that anything that travels through a cell phone network could be monitored?
> I find it interesting that many of the commenters would rather see legislation passed that could harm Wikipedia than see the site "politicized" in any way.

That's a false choice. Many of the commenters would rather take the small chance that a Wikipedia protest could have been the deciding factor preventing SOPA than see the site politicized.

FWIW, I agree with them, and certainly one factor which weighs into my decision is that in my opinion the chance that Wikipedia would be the deciding factor is, say, less than 1%.
Inequality can be defined in Peano arithmetic in a total way. Maybe you're talking about defining some relation on the model? But what justifies calling such a relation an inequality?
Also trying to solve this problem in a new minimalist open source CMS that just hit 1.0:

http://www.elefantcms.com/

I'm also tired of fixing Wordpress malware issues for friends and clients that host themselves...
Clickable link: https://onetimesecret.com/

(The previous post for our alpha: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3207489)
Google and their shameful blogspot service
"I find it interesting that many of the commenters would rather see legislation passed that could harm Wikipedia than see the site "politicized" in any way."

Evolution in action, eh?
To be honest, I really can't see Google doing that.

In a much more likely situation, they would put some kind of banner on Google.com expressing their distaste for SOPA. The same for other big companies like Facebook. I thought what Tumblr did was cool, they managed to get many people calling their local reps.

Also, I think we're concentrating too much on the big companies (not that it's really a bad thing). The little ones matter, too. Marshaling them would be somewhat easier due to their lack of hierarchical politics to make every decision.

Although you do have the problem of the multitude of people who just access the internet via Facebook's walled garden. They also have no idea what SOPA is/means.

So, if we can get the giants of the internet to do something - that's fantastic, but we need to get the smaller blogs/websites on board too.
Wrong. What you are describing is a Civil Law system, where written code has priority over all else. The US has a common law legal system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
have you considered Heroku or any of the other PaaS companies?
It is possible that Google will someday have to filter all emails for "blacklisted links". I'll try to find a source.
Yep, I agree entirely. I have a few irons in the fire that merge my knowledge of academic research/biology with software development.

As you mentioned though, academic research is a traditionally difficult place to make much money. The problem is three-fold:

-Many academics are Luddites, that excel file works great damnit

-Academics have extremely small budgets since it is all grant money, and grants are getting ever more difficult to get

-Academics are used to free software, be it open source or something another academic has created. Or in-house expertise. For example have an engineering grad student doing work on our 2-photon microscope, including custom software.

With that said, not many people write software for academics since there isn't much money. If you made something indispensable I imagine you could very easily corner the market.

Regardless, I have no doubt that I need to get out of academic biology. It isn't a sane career choice, where you bank your success on improbable luck, randomness of biological systems and stupidly long hours. Plus the pay sucks until you are 40. :)
It's like a scam...no one is forcing you to be a victim of a scam, you just don't know better.
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It has definitely improved from char-by-char undo. It's at least doing word by word and seems to grab bigger chunks in some instances
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The first quote is proverbial, and Newton certainly said it, but the phrase dates from the 12th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...) and is not part of Enlightenment tradition. Quite the opposite, in fact: it comes from the medieval tradition of abasing yourself before the ancients. So no, it doesn't resemble the disputed quote at all.

The second is not familiar to me, but it is 17th century language and does sound like something Newton would say. But it's irrelevant here. He's talking about nature, not himself.

The third is much closer to the disputed quote. But I don't believe Newton said this either. You know who said things like that? Horatio Alger. So let's see a textual source in Newton's works before accepting it as evidence.

Here's a helpful trick. When you Google a quote and the first page consists entirely of junk like this:

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=h...

... that's a sign that the quote is bogus.
Looks like you're right about the i/b/u/s options. Definitely needs a few more (link for one), but looks like a cool start at least. I like that it's client-side and works with a simple Backbone.sync back end.