skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very interesting, i ran into urlparse's shortcomings while prototyping a web crawler just last week! i created something similar to identify domain, subdomain, directories, pages, and fqdn. note that if you run sockets.getfqdn against most cloud servers then you get some weird string with ip numbers e.g. 182.43.210.102.static.cloud-server.com

let's merge some code!
"another will be enacted pretty soon with pretty much the same problems."

And people's enthusiasm to fight the bill will shrink next time around too. It's just like how people donate to a cause a few times around, but eventually get tired of it.
Of course I agree with you, it is possible in theory.

I was being cynical about the full picture -- you need to trust the client hardware and its software are completely malware-free. Which... is kinda hard to verify.
I attempted something similar, but got caught up trying to make it span all URIs and attempting to create an RFC-compliant implementation:

https://github.com/bsandrow/urilib
Verizon already provides cable TV service.
"• Wikipedia could move to another jurisdiction"

Small comfort to any of the American contributors and users.
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Zach completely missed the point. She never advocated that women avoid startups. She simply said that women are smart and capable enough of figuring out what they want to do by themselves. If they want to do a startup, then fine. If they don't then that is also fine. Quit patronizing them is largely her point.
As is seen on the Jimbo Wales user talk page, the WikiMedia Foundation already hires paid political lobbyists...
Most people in the globe try something entrepreneurial at some point in their lives. In many cases, that's because they don't live in a society with lots of economic mobility and they're just trying to survive selling trinkets on the street or finding a way to provide some kind of service to their neighbors for money. It may even be in the gray market or a completely informal economy.

I know that's not the typical HN / tech view of a startup, but the fact is that most of the people on the planet can't always depend on a monolithic employer to give them a paycheck in exchange for their time.
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Fixed. Thanks for catching.
My impression is that the biggest difference is automated two-way bindings between views and models. Under Backbone, you have to do that binding manually. With Ember, this means that you don't have to always be explicitly triggering events to cause view re-rendering or invoking persistence callbacks from your views to trigger model saves.

The "computed properties" is also nice; it looks to enable the decorator pattern on models pretty trivially in the context of the two-way bindings, which generally does a lot for producing clean code.

My gut is that this is "Backbone biased towards a specific flavor of application design". Backbone is awesome, but by its own admission, is more of collective toolset than a full-blown framework. Ember looks like it's sort of a midpoint between Backbone's spartan foundation and Sproutcore's kitchen-sink framework. I'm excited to try it out.
This sounds great but I think it is worth considering two things:

1) I'm not aware of any persecution or prosecution of any private citizen for modifying their own device. For instance I've never heard of Apple seeking legal action against an iPhone owner who jailbroke their phone. Or heck, even against any of the groups who publish jailbreaks.

2) This would not force any manufacturer or carrier to provide support or assistance in modifying device software.

As a point of legal clarification I think it sounds great but I think there would be little practical impact.
I don't see you as entirely off base either.

The thing is, our economy is based on two fundamental assumptions:

1) Labor and capital are separate. Capital hires labor.
2) Labor works outside the home, capital can control things.

The second problem arises pretty clearly (and intractably) from the sort of worker protection laws that Belloc describes in "The Servile State." I.e., by treating employees as the responsibility of the employer, you have serious issues regarding workers comp and so forth when an employee is working outside of an environment that the employer controls.

The example Belloc gives is this:

A farmer hires two men to dig a well. The first is being lowered into the hole by the second and he lets the rope slip and the first worker is injured. If all three were independent agents, the first worker's lawsuit would be against the second worker, but instead it is the employer who is responsible. So this leads to an employer legally compelled to control the workplace. Things like telecommuting are challenging this but only seem to work in certain narrow domains.

So a lot of kinds of work cannot be done in the home for this sort of reason. This means that family life cannot be integrated with work life and therefore must be separate.

To me the answer is to recognize that a labor/capital divide in context with fundamental differences in the nature of motherhood and fatherhood, leads to economic discrimination against women. If we recognize that, then we can challenge that divide and build a more just economy based on smaller units where work life and family life are not so separate.

So these are all pieces of a very complex cultural phenomenon.
>I think most of us come from a sort of middle class, well behaved background that prevents us from conceptualizing what it means to be corrupted by power.

from the background i come from it isn't always "corrupted by power", worst/bloodiest outcomes were result of "to have enough power to change the world [or a chunk of it] to the best [as the one having the power sees it]". The unchecked/unlimited power is the main core of the issue, not the specific intentions/people it is being used for/by.
pretty cool! 20 bucks says that someone makes an ipad app of this.
Similar project: http://etchjs.com - An inline content editor

*disclosure: I released this project
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You're assuming the breakage will be something obvious and clearly visible. No doubt many of them will be.

However, I would foresee plenty of breakages in obscure or not immediately apparent places which may not be noticed for some time. For example they may be minor (yet still very annoying for users stumbling on them) or apparent in only certain circumstances.
This argument is ridiculous.

I don't doubt your claims about the amount of the work the two courses at MIT require. However, you're forgetting that for some of those 140 hours you're being lectured by the top professors in the area. You're unlikely to have a question that they can't answer. Other parts of those 140 hours are spent talking with some of the smartest students on the planet. Some more of those 140 hours are spent solving problems carefully designed to maximize understanding. If you can't figure something out, you have fellow students, TAs and professors to harass. Somebody studying alone at home doesn't have this environment.

And then you need to take into account the fact that if you're undergrad at MIT you're already smarter than 95% or so of the population. Basically, the takeaway here is that your 70/140 hour number applies to something like 0.1% of the population under the assumption that they're studying CLRS at home.

You need to see this in context. This is advice for CS undergrads looking for jobs. This advice is being given out on reddit. Anybody who needs this advice (and CS undergrads from MIT certainly don't) will not be able to work through CLRS in a week.
Uh, hello, don't take sites down, just use the ad revenue to support the political opponents of the officials who support SOPA.
Of course, this would be a much more heavy-handed approach than what is proposed here for Wikipedia. Turning off a site is a clear message, it's very direct and not manipulative beyond declaring your support either way.

Changing the algorithm is more insidious, unless or even if you had a disclaimer on top saying you modified the result to fit your agenda. I think this is comparable to modifying the Wikipedia SOPA article to be non-neutral, which is a terrible idea of course.

In the same vein, I don't think blanking Wikipedia can violate NPOV (in its Wikipedia sense), since this policy refers to editorial content: the articles themselves need to be neutral. The concept of NPOV is simply not applicable to the Wikipedia enterprise as a whole.
edtech isn't so different from more classic startups, they just have several years of delay.

We saw the exact same phenomenon with a lot of software and web services. Startups thought blocking data export would put a barrier to entry against competition. Minds evolved and we see more and more openess in the product strategies of technology companies. I'm sure it will be the same with education technology.
It shouldn't. The optimization is just responsive design for the admin area. Twenty Eleven[1], the default theme, has a responsive design as well. I don't see either of those things taking away from a business like Onswipe. Until more responsive design themes get into the WP repository, that is.

1. http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/
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a. I disagree, but this is speculation on my part. For instance, I think an issue can gain sufficient public attention without television coverage. In addition, I think a Wikipedia blackout would in fact garner a not-inconsiderable amount of mainstream coverage.

b. The cost-benefit is highly skewed towards immediate action. It is highly likely that some incarnation and/or descendant of SOPA will eventually become law. However, it's critical that SOPA does not. If publicly defeated, future versions will be less ambitious and more rational.
Apparently many of you think that being "open" helped Android to avoid troubles with Carrier IQ. Or that rms ir right because… because he is right, I suppose. Or he will be shown to be right in some distant future. Or he is right, because he cannot be wrong.

Guys, did you even stop to think what is he right about? Or if you did stop to think about it, did you also think how do you know that he is right? And if you do indeed observe something seemingly proving that he is right, did you consider other options why that particular phenomenon would take place?

On the other hand, seeing this "two legs is bad, four legs is good" mentality in action is absolutely amazing experience.
For tech people, we've had the most questions regarding our API (password resets, one-time pads, custom encryption) and also the ability to have custom installs that are separate from the multi-tenant instance (e.g. we now have a paid plan for agencies that does this).

For non-tech people, we've got a lot of feedback along the lines of whistle-blowing, "if only Anthony Weiner had known about this", etc.

Edit: and yes, just to be clear, we do not look at the secrets that we keep. We encrypt all secrets before they're stored. If you include a passphrase, we use that as part of the encryption key and we since don't store that passphrase we have no way to decrypt the secret. It's technically possible for us to decrypt passphrase-lee secrets but we'd have to go out of our way to do it.
All of them with multi-million dollar exits!
I can actually understand this. If you're running an awards ceremony, then the payback from the winner of the competition is relatively low - hopefully they go on to great things, and you helped them along, and establish your reputation that way. But the costs of having 10x as many entrants is pretty high - each of those entries has to be evaluated, hopefully by multiple people. Each entrant is another contact to be managed, another bit of IP to keep track of. The most important role of the fee is to reduce the number of entrants without reducing the number of genuinely awesome entrants. That's why Sundance's entry fee is so low - it makes it a reasonably expensive whim, but if you're honestly got a shot, it's obviously worth doing. It still sucks, but it's for sensible reasons, and not just for the actual revenue stream.

[Edited to add: But if anyone is charging more than a nominal fee, run away!]
My problem with literary criticism is that it's essentially a disingenuous pseudoscience. Critics make authoritative pronouncements on human nature, culture, society, etc., when they're not actually qualified social scientists. They constantly misappropriate theories from other disciplines, yet they make no effort to support their claims with research or empirical evidence.

Literary criticism as a whole seems to suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding of epistemology (for which I'm sure we can thank postmodernism). It's the perfect platform for anti-intellectuals to espouse their unsubstantiated social and political theories while enjoying immunity from any rigorous scrutiny.
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Google's home page looks horrible (menu on the left hand side of the screen) and is unusable for me. No obvious way to turn it off. Is this happening to others?
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What it's doing is computing row = x * * 37 mod 0x13AC59F3ECAC3127065A9 with seven different values of x. The "row" bit i encodes either a 0 (for space) or 1 (for hash), for i in range(0, 79). I think that part of the output you understand.

The question is how to get the values of "x" and how to get the modulo value. You just need to compute row * * (1/37) mod 0x13AC59F3ECAC3127065A9 . I can't for the life of me recall how to do it, but you can see the result at Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x+**+37+mod+14864685590... .

How then do you get the 0x13AC59F3ECAC3127065A9? It needs to be relatively prime to the values, and larger than any of the output values. Beyond that, I don't know why that specific (composite, with two factors) number was chosen. Nor do I know why 37 was chosen.
Software developers can really learn a lot from the wordpress video style of showing new updates and enhancements. Great work!
Sounds like: "Don't think of a pink elephant."
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If they haven't done it, I'm sure there's a good reason since I'm sure it's at least crossed their minds. Such a move would show what Google et al. are capable of, and that might scare more than just SOPA supporters.
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You're wrong. I've worked from home for five years as a full-time contractor/consultant. When working with clients who treat me with respect and pay me a fair rate, I feel extremely motivated. I regularly accept assignments from them I would not accept from any new client. I don't hesitate to pull an all-nighter for them if necessary. And I feel very much a part of a team. I feel like a know some of my oldest remote clients better than certain people I've work with face-to-face for multiple years. They do things like send me a nice floral arrangement when a family member dies, and send me nice bonus checks, even though I'm just a contractor. In return, I help them whenever I can and don't hesitate to put in extra hours when they're needed.

But those companies who treat me like a commodity, and who try to bargain me down at every opportunity -- those companies I avoid whenever possible.
In many ways, we are paying customers of Google as well. We are exchanging very valuable data for Google's services.
I'm pretty sure you're correct. I've worked with a number of 501(c)(3), and most of them have worked on political issues and bills. They cannot endorse a candidate though.
My knee jerk reaction:

This sounds like a situation where astrology or tarot cards would come in handy if you believe in that sort of thing. Which is to say that it sounds to me like you are operating so in the dark that "logic"/study/questions on HN probably can't do much for you.

Either go with your gut or don't. If you do, realize that it is tantamount to signing a contract in blood without reading it first. That can be an effective means to get things done and there have been times I've made those sorts of deals with "life", but just be very sure you are willing and able to pay the price before you do something like that. So I'm not saying there is never a place for it. I personally prefer to only sign unread contracts in blood when I am damn sure that what it gets me is worth the hell I am very likely about to be dragged through kicking and screaming every step of the way.

Best of luck.
Apart from the icons in the left pane, which will obviously be changed, it looks fine to me.
The "he did it too" defense?
And? As I said -- when you pay for cable TV, you're paying for the TV feed. Netflix is VOD carried over IP. The power company doesn't try to sell you energy-guzzling AC units.
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Less than 1% of people are suited to founding a startup.
Thanks for bringing this up -- it frustrates me when people correlate making things more female friendly with supporting children, flexible work hours, etc. Guess what? Men have kids too! And, there's a lot of women who don't have or don't want children (like the author of the piece). This topic gets a lot of attention, but I think there are many other issues.
Sorry, but "neglect" is a pretty obnoxious accusation you're leveling against Alan. He's dutifully maintained Textmate 1.5.x over those years and has released many many updates. That these releases have not also served to entertain you is simply not a legitimate complaint, let alone an excuse to suspend "common courtesy".
that would probably work also. Honestly I have just never heard of them. Path has a really nice simple interface and I know we are all looking a the same thing. You never know what twitter client someone is using or if they will be seeing your photos.
Ya, that's a great question. We've thought a lot about backups. We delete secrets immediately after they're viewed which presents an interesting problem with regards to keeping backups.

We're probably going to take a route similar to Wikipedia, where we don't intend to be the primary repository of information. During the beta, we'll keep backups for a limited time (the past few hours) but that's it. In other words, we'd rather lose an hour of two of data than expose secrets to 3rd parties. We'll consider other options when we fully launch.

Note: this only applies to secrets data. Customer and related data is backed up as you'd expect.
That's why it's important to single out individual senators supporting the bill. Then the response is no longer a slap on the wrist to Congress.
How do you verify that the key is not being sent over the network by malicious software?
A much simpler way would be to simply close the office. Cheaper too.

Accidentally creating a poor working environment out of ignorance is one thing, but deliberately doing so borders on madness.
I notice that they don't say that they don't provide Carrier IQ data to third parties, just that they don't sell it.
I think the key difference between your situation at your company and women in tech is that your situation is not systematic. There are a lot of other male, white role models doing startups, and they are very visible.
Yes, it's sad that the rare people we know that we actually WANT to work with, usually won't do it due to the risks involved.
I've been hearing that story about the FBI remotely activating cellphone microphones for several years now, but do you have a credible source for it?
And sadly, in 2011, speakerphones and audio conferencing still sucks massively.

I do some work at a large university where they have abundant bandwidth and the latest "telepresence" hardware, and as often as not you are still dealing with laggy audio/images, freezes, dropouts, echos, individual participants having technical issues or ignorant of how to use the systems, etc. It just doesn't work smoothly enough to be a pleasant experience, and often times is such a distraction as to render the entire exercise a waste of time.
I'm 27, with a wife and three kids. I've been working full-time on my own startup for the past 9 months. Without salary.

See, there are plenty of us who can kick ass and raise a family at the same time. Not to mention plan and budget responsibly. In fact, you might really want to hire people who are good at that sort of thing, rather than the Red Bull-chugging, couch-sleeping, college codemonkey stereotype. But I suppose stereotyping is what got us here in the first place, and that's not fair to Red Bull aficionados.

I guess I'd just rather you let me and other prospective employees assess the risks for ourselves. That means frank discussion about clear, accurate information. But don't curtail things because of personal bias.
> A profile is being generated about you, slowly but surely.

In days of old, I would have agreed, but things like Facebook make me question the whole "sinister" aspect of the central database.

Have you noticed how, if the government is the one collecting data, then it's evil? But, give a person the opportunity to share all kinds of private information about themselves on the Internet, they'll do it very quickly and willingly?

Or, we used to worry about those secret chips being implanted in us that could be used to track our location. Well, I don't know about you, but I sure love my location-aware apps that constantly broadcast my location. Cause, of course everyone should where I am all the time! </sarcasm>

If it's the government collecting data, then it's surveillance and evil. But if it's just egocentric self-promotion, it's all good.

We live in a world of our own creation. There is no conspiracy but the one we empower others to create.

And yes, I'm going heavy on the hyperbole here as well, but I'm really sort of sick of people whining and complaining about this stuff all the time. But at the same time, they don't want to pay the very real costs associated with privacy, freedom and security.
Sure there is, upvote something else you think is more interesting!
This would be absolutely great! EFF should coordinate some black-out-the-web day.

I hope that Twitter and Google have still enough spark to stand up for causes like that. This would finally provide an opportunity to use geo IP targeting for a meaningful purpose and directing people to take local action.

Pick it, Freeze it, Personalize it!
I realize this is a bit pedantic, but the event is not exclusive, and it is open to all. They welcome men to the event as well, they just advertise it to encourage more women to come.
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Hey, this isn't a competition. We're just talking about an interesting historical question.

Maybe one point deserves clarification.

When you Google an authentic quote by a very famous person, a precise textual citation is usually locatable through one of the top results (or something it links to). Therefore, when you Google a quote by a very famous person and nothing but quotespam sites come up, the quote is probably bogus.

I've never seen an authentic quote that fails this test. If anyone can find one -- that is, find a quote by a very famous person, the first page of Google results for which is all quotespam, but which nevertheless is an authentic quote as proven by a real textual reference -- I would like to see it.
It was called "Hotdesking" 10+ years ago and it was a failure then, too. Architect Rem Koolhaas ran his office with it, and people hated it.
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Meanwhile the sublime text 2 guy knocks out sweet new features every couple of weeks like it ain't no thing.

Just sayin'
Ditto. I update my blog via email.