skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be the ideal outcome but if meatspace strikes are any indication, affected people often resent or openly turn against the strikers, not those that force them to strike. It won't be hard to spin it as "Internet paralyzed after Wikipedia's attempt for political blackmail" or somesuch.
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Does anyone remember Konqueror has a webbrowser/file browser methodology of handling protocols such as SFTP through IOSlaves called FISH?

I know Konqueror shares a codebase with Chromium through the KHTML renderer and maybe more, but maybe Google's Chrome is dipping into the well of ideas that comes from the KDE project but using a different implementation, of course.
Defense is not "activism", but rather "reactivism".

And nothing about "neutrality" suggests that you should not act in defense.
This attitude also exists in other industries[1], and while it is shifty, it's relatively common to the degree where it's not even given a second thought or whimper. This to me is quite unfortunate, especially considering where I am in my life and my economic standing and I can't help but think of all the other people in my position. Really though, the best you can do is hope that there's good people out there that are willing to GIVE you a few minutes of their time, and not charge for it--and then when you're in that position you remember where you came from.

[1]Sundance Film festival charges $75 to submit a feature length film for consideration. I've come across many film festivals, writing contests, art shows and the like that charge you to "pitch your work". People are always trying to pick on the starving artist eh? (Callback to PG's Hackers and Painters).
Hear, hear. If there was any issue on which Wikipedia should break it's neutrality, it would be this one. With SOPA, they might be blocked anyway, so it would be a good introduction to the new Internet.
Well, it'll have to be for a long time for it to be REALLY inconvenient. Google's cache will still allow you to access some of its content, what may be enough for some people.

But yes, hope they go for it and stop SOPA.
I don't think the mainstream news media cares about Wikipedia. Plus, the site's process and product are a direct challenge to the legacy news oligarchy.
Well said. Things really need to break out of the browser to see big gains in performance. Smart users will eventually see this. But that won't stop developers from trying to move everything inside of it. It's probably easier to build a browser user base than an OS user base.
Yes, I am not currently supporting open existing projects. I will, but, not yet. Sorry. That is because I am using a project file (a .pdb) with some configuration in it. I do not love the idea, I may change that, but, later.

The error you are getting later, it is a message from bottle. Do you see any log on the console where you launch it?

You may see something like:

=======================================================
Django IDE Launched on http://localhost:8080/django-ide
=======================================================

and below, some debug information.

Anyway, this is a really early beta version, so it is very buggy!! And I need to test it in other environments. I only use Firefox, and I test it a little on linux and the rest on windows. That's why I really need some help!!
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I am starting to understand why Apple has provisioning of devices -- and now Macs -- for pre-release software.
Query parameters as a dictionary was an ease of use tradeoff over the rarely utilized flexibility of repeated query parameters.

https://github.com/gruns/furl/blob/master/furl.py#L142

Werkzeug's MultiDict looks like a good combination for the best of both worlds, ease of use and flexibility. Thanks for the reference.
How exactly is he using the pow function? It's a number to the 37th and then mod 0x13AC59F3ECAC3127065A9, how did he select the numbers and why is he doing that operations?
Yeah, neutrality is only possible if Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia Foundation, hosts itself in a nation which isn't going to be controlled by legislation that will affect it.

Even if it did, the domain seizures by the US means that Wikipedia is always going to be vulnerable for as long as the US owns the root DNS zone.

You can only be neutral until you're the one getting beat on.
Should be re-titled to 'U.S. Startup Guide to Independent Contractors' since about half of it is very U.S.-centric.
On the other hand, the buffer system scales up to much larger amounts of buffers really easily, which I find very useful.

Also, on KDE at least, Emacs has both a very nice GUI and fullscreen support.

Finally, I am now using a 13" laptop, and using the keyboard is still more efficient despite the really nice touchpad my new computer has.
If Wikipedia won't protest, a outside group (like Anonymous) could do the job for them with a week-long DoS. They could just peg the Wikipedia servers or use bots to continuously auto-wipe/censor random articles.
Greg Egan has written a couple of less-jokey stories that deal with a related idea (that is more plausible).

The first story is "Luminous" from 1995, but I don't have a link to a free copy.

The second is "Dark Integers" which you can find here: http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0805/DarkINtegers.shtml
agreed because everyone has a hard upper limit on how much time they'll get to spend. a limit called death.

(in the default case, assuming no early death, ceteris paribus, etc.)
Imagine if all The Greats did this: Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, hell even 4chan.

80% of Internet traffic (just pulling that number out of thin air) blacked out? People will notice. People will care.

Wikipedia has the right idea and needs to kick this off. Then others need to follow suit.
We're also aiming to solve this with Webpop (http://www.webpop.com).

we dont do inline editing, but on-site editing where you navigate to the page you want to update and click edit, we then highlight all dynamic content on the page and bring up the relevant form when clicked.

In our first prototypes we were playing around with inline editing, but ended up concluding that it causes more problems than it solves when you're dealing with a real website with dynamic content.

One example: you have a news section, and on the homepage the last 3 stories are pulled in, but with the body text truncated to 100 characters since more would break the design. Inline editing here will be problematic. There are plenty of other cases (just think text-overflow: ellipsis;) and there's also the contextual problem of how to communicate to the end user that he is editing structured content that might be reused in different places on the site, with an interface that pretends to be completely WYSIWYG.

We think our way of on-site editing is the best compromise between making updates easy and making the conceptual model clear.
People (still) want to discuss complex issues that effect their career and everyday life. Get over it.
You should add Tramp to your list--I don't think textmate has anything like it and it's extremely useful. You can open a remote file or shell as easily as opening the same locally; my coworkers don't even notice that I'm editing files remotely!
(Though here's a link to a synopsis of Luminous): http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumbe...
What a terrible idea; I can't think of a faster way to kill the public credibility of this open encyclopedia project.
That's alarmist hyperbole. Even if the worst form of SOPA passes...

• it's unlikely that it would be used against Wikipedia for fear of backlash – smaller sites have much more to fear

• the law could be struck down by the courts on 1st amendment grounds, or modified/repealed before any application to Wikipedia

• Wikipedia could move to another jurisdiction

• etc., etc., etc.

SOPA is bad, and should be voted down, and failing that should be struck down by the courts. There's lots of equally bad legislation in the USA and elsewhere, every year. The principle of neutrality lets Wikipedia keep doing its main job, year-in and year-out, without constant 'interrupts' generated by the ephemera of silly politics.
Imma gonna do one called UmberHulk.js
I'm on my phone, and the mobile site only has the pictures. I have no idea what this is supposed to be about.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), none of them can vote.
Boot-camp then single project.
This would undoubtedly be a bad idea. There is a reason it doesn't already exist.
I actually used this other other day to transmit a root password for a server. Not sure how often this happens but contrary to my own belief there appears to be a market for this sort of thing.
Copyright does not protect "unique intellectual effort"; or at least that is not what it's for primarily. It protects the particular presentation of a creative work.

IMO copyright should not be granted on 'mechanical' reproductions no matter how much sweat is produced on how many brows.

Would Cambridge Uni really not digitise it's manuscript collection if they could not directly commercialise it?

Maybe a new 'right' is required?
Sure--nothing seizes the moral high ground in a censorship fight like censoring a whole bunch of democratically elected officials.
Here is what I recommend:

Facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia should take down their sites and replace them with a message about SOPA all on the same day. But it shouldn't end there. They should also personally attack each of the original progenators in the Senate/House of the bill. Their political careers need to end that day.

It's not enough to simply stop this bill. If they do, another will be enacted pretty soon with pretty much the same problems. Politicians need to understand that if they take on the internet and choose record labels over their own constituents they cannot expect support from their own political base.
It won't have a tally, as this is just a straw poll and not any sort of official !vote on the matter. Jimbo's floating the idea on his talkpage to guage the community's reaction to it and get some ideas for what he should say to lawmakers when he meets them.

If it seems like the motion has legs, then either Jimbo or someone else will create an actual RfC where the community will hash out a plan to enact it.
I really don't mind that sort of phrase when it's pointing out that the cutting-edge features that they are demonstrating, while they are on the standards track, currently work best in a particular browser.

On an actual production web page? Sure, that's awful. Blocking people on other browsers from viewing (like Apple did with their HTML5 showcase)? Yeah, that's bad. Demonstrating a technique that still requires vendor prefixes, and not applying all of the vendor prefixes that work? Well, that's just lazy.

But informing people that the effects you are demonstrating work best in a particular browser because the other browsers don't happen to implement those features yet, or aren't fully compatible yet, isn't bad. It's just preventing confusion for people who come there and don't see the given effect.

In order for web standards to progress, we need experimentation. We need early implementations, that test out the space, and we need designers who try out these implementations and see what you can do with them. And yeah, when that happens, they will be experimenting with features that aren't supported everywhere, and will create examples that only work on one or two browsers.

Complain when you see this in production. Complain when you see people recommending user agent sniffing. But for early stage experimentation? It's not a problem.
Cool idea. After SOPA passes or fails (hopefully the latter), the site could totally pivot into a dating website for techies.
Plenty of people nothing to do with startups work from home, whether because they are self-employed, or aren't willing to relocate, or their company doesn't have a physical location.

Some people may have trouble with it and find themselves working too hard, others may find it hard to focus and are instead too lazy. Neither of these, however, are a requirement of working from home, plenty of people manage it fine.
I looked for the "sign that the quote is bogus" but missed it. Maybe results that have 5 million hits are bogus? Maybe results that have relevant links are bogus? I can enter all sorts of valid quotes from both current and historic figures into Google, and obtain very similar results. ("Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You", "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be", "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.") I fail to see how that adds anything to the discussion. Neither do I see how the fact that Newton restated, rather than originated, a particular idea, helps your argument.

Also, please inform me as to how this statement relates to Lord Byron. Nothing I've read of Byron would favor him as the statement's originator over Newton. I can't help but think of this scene from Good Will Hunting when I read your replies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s&t=1m56s
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Couldn't agree more, another fantastic quote: "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
- Dante Alighieri

edit: It appears I landed on a gold mine of applicable quotes while looking for the above one, (and corporations are people too, right?)....

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
- Albert Einstein
Well if the phenomena was not instantaneous and would have some sort of "flash" preceding the shock wave, for a couple of minutes. It could be visible. And anything on that scale would be extremely bright and beautiful.

Its just an alternative to black wall you will never see or feel.

But honestly I have no idea which one is more likely.
Anyone that liked that story should pick up a copy of Mathenauts - an anthology of Mathematics themed short stories put together by Rudy Rucker. Many of the stories have a similar feel to that one. You can find it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Mathenauts-Mathematical-Wonder-Rudy-Ru...
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It's a chicken and egg thing. Only established artists could afford that, and you need marketing to get established.
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>These reports will be sent to the appropriate LEO to summon and indefinitely detain you. You will be sent to a secret prison.

it may be not the worst what could happen to one. Reading about Kennedy/Oswald/Ruby, i've been wondering how much of a precisely targetted influence one is needed to be made behaving in a specific way. How much of our actions are really "ours"?
That is cynical to the point of being shortsighted. Even assuming the "news oligarchy" really operates as something resembling a unified entity, and regardless of said unified entity's feelings vis a vis Wikipedia - an outage would make headlines.

I am not saying all editorial coverage would be uniformly supportive, but it would certainly be newsworthy.
How is the author taking his time to release a new version neglect?

People that were not happy with the wait migrated to other editors.

He owns us nothing.
I suspect that, among the informed, the main determiner of people's stance on this issue is their belief whether Wikipedia would be able to continue to exist in a world with SOPA. I strongly suspect it would not. It is a specific goal of the new law to remove the safe harbor provision of the DMCA, which would allow the removal of infringing content as a defense; under SOPA, it appears to be within the realm of possibility for Wikipedia to be removed from the DNS in response to any copyright violation, even if it is later removed. I don't see how Wikipedia can survive in such an environment.
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It truly boggles the mind that this tablet saw little interest at $500, $400, or even $300 (I finally got it when it was on sale for $300 at Staples), but bring it down to $100 and it sells out at iPhone/iPad speed.

Having an open-source webOS is great and all, but this shows just how mistaken Leo Apothecker was when he unceremoniously dropped webOS.
The usual solution to that is automation. While it is obviously nontrivial to automate creating all the data of a normal human life, it's hardly impossible.
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Hello,
I have looked at RhoConnect and ,given my background in enterprise software,feel that I can build a better,more usable sync server. I would like to know if there are any license issues involved in such a venture.

My server code is going to be completely new and my sync server will be able to work with exisiting Rhomobile applications.

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We totally thought the usecases were going to be pretty limited but as it's turned out we've been getting a lot of great feedback from outside of the tech community too.

Drew Carey of all people retweeted it:

https://twitter.com/DrewFromTV/status/142730130689761280
how does the "ipad optimization" affect onswipe and similar companies?
As a 501(c)3, the Wikimedia Foundation is legally required to stay out of politics, and has limits on how it can lobby Congress on specific pieces of legislation. This is why, for example, the Sierra Club is not a 501(c)3.

Changing Wikipedia, and tying it to a specific bill like SOPA, would likely tread very closely to that line, or over it. That really WOULD threaten the future of Wikipedia as it would face legal sanctions, or be forced to give up its 501(c)3 status, meaning that donations would no longer be tax-deductible.
If SOPA passed, and then either some copyright-holder or prosecutor tried to use it against Wikipedia – then opposing that action would be a 'defense'. This is specific preemptive WP:ADVOCACY.

And as bad as SOPA is, there are many worse laws proposed or existing around the world. Should every Wikipedia in countries that already have far worse free-speech laws be constantly blinking out in intermittent protest, once this threshold for 'stop-the-service' activism is set?
No. Women have trouble getting through the tenure track in sciences because the institutional structures weed them out, not taking into account family life desires. Simply saying "fathers should be equal parents" glosses over that entirely.

It would be far better to ensure that taking a year or two off would allow smooth resumption of the tenure track. That's the fix.
A blackout is not meant to attract the attention of the powers that be. A blackout is meant to attract the attention of the users. Wikipedia's users will say no such thing.
At least as of the Lion developer previews, Macs are not in any way provisioned.
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I think it works if you have a very strong leader who has a good idea where the product should go. I do a lot of consulting where I don't see people but am always amazed how many issues can be resolved when the whole team sits in a room together.
Aha, okay. Misunderstanding on my part, then!
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So how many cell phones do you know that a powered off with a hard switch. You know, flip the switch like you do on your living room light. Or how many people do you know that take their battery out when the power their phone off. Well there is your answer.
There are lots of cool things to do at non-startup jobs. Also, I'm sure there is just as much grunt work that sucks to do at a startup as there is at any other job.

IMHO, the only reason to do a startup is for ownership. Working for one without ownership just sounds like a recipe to be overworked and underpaid.
Are you in the event planning business or something? Isn't the idea for investors to make their money via return on the investment they make in startups?

That said, charging enough to cover the cost of pizza and what-not, that seems reasonable. But any outfits that are charging more than a nominal fee are highly questionable to me.
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I’m glad to see that, after so many years, WordPress will no longer create a URL like

yourblog.com/i-said-“here’s-johnny!”

whenever you enter a title that includes quotes
the code blocks on the front are kinda painful to read, they need some padding/margin and/or border to differentiate them between the paragraphs, the rest is nice though!
That is quite an unfair summary of the discussion you're referring to.
It's a bit scary how quickly our brains stop thinking when these topics come up..

If you have infinite knowledge/power over someone, locking them in jail is about the least profitable or fun thing you can do.

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.
Waitaminute. Paying to pitch?? I thought ideas were a dime a dozen!
Neutrality is important, but it simply isn't possible on this issue. It is a direct attack on Wikipedia. By opposing sopa, they aren't taking a stand, they are merely defending themselves.
Eh, I would say (sadly) that the mainstream news media practically depends on Wikipedia to fill in background info for half of their stories. Gaffes by TV reporters have occasionally been traced back to Wikipedia vandalism. Sometimes Wikipedians then cite the misguided journalist(s) when adding the falsehood into the article [1], a circular phenomenon of "fact-creation" that has been lampooned by xkcd [2].

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/10/2211220/false-fact-o...

[2] http://xkcd.com/978/
Also, I can't help but think that SOPA would be dead in ~1 hour if Google pulled the plug on Youtube.
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Yup, we owe him nothing as well.
A similar protest was adopted in Australia against the Internet filter, look up "australia filter blackout".

Sadly, it failed as ISPs are now censoring 'voluntarily' by forcing it onto their customers [0][1], and the government is funding them. Amazingly, many Australians don't know that Australia's internet is censored now.

[0] http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/telstra-op...

[1] http://delimiter.com.au/2011/12/11/isps-wont-talk-about-inte...
It sounds like you would really have enjoyed SICP[1]. I remember feeling exactly what you're describing when I finished the Logo interpreter project. Logo, which (despite its dearth of parentheses) is a type of Lisp, is a surprisingly simple language which is not that far removed from lambda calculus.

[1]: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

If you have time on your hands in the near future, you should definitely give SICP a go--it really is a brilliant book.
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Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly the enforcement reality in the United States -- the law at this level is used selectively as an intimidation weapon rather than being applied uniformly.

Examples abound: which "leakers" are prosecuted? The ones "leaking" secret government data which the government wants you to know (i.e. how Iran is supposedly in dealings with Somalia), or the ones leaking government data which it doesn't want you to know (i.e. Bradley Manning)?

When the law is so broad that everyone's a criminal, and enforcement is capricious and politically motivated, we are at a low point in the tradition of a just society governed by the rule of law.