skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put up a billboard? No. Purchase access to mass media. There are only so many soap boxes and access is sold for money. You then get the situation where the one who has the most money can purchase all the soap boxes (again, ways to reach a mass audience). Their voice becomes the only one heard. Free speech is that you can say whatever you want (that doesn't change) -- but if you want access to the few seats of mass media to give political voice, if it's not regulated, it simply becomes the microphone of only the rich. Do you see?

Second, when you talk about "reducing government" what you mean is to shift it from the people to the private sector. Government is the people. That's the definition. It needs to be managed. But moving it to the private sector just makes it for-profit instead of non-profit, and opens up a whole new can of worms.

Again, look around. Countries with the highest standards of living are not struggling with this. Their large governments are not a problem, and in fact could be nicely argued to have provided that high standard of living.
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The shutdown of MegaUpload was the result of an FBI investigation that took place over the last two years. The idea that an international legal case with multiple extradition arrangements was motivated mostly by a music service launched a month ago is hard to swallow and distracts from the serious debate around online piracy and the future of copyright.
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They already do this for the camera, though I'm not sure if it's hardware or software.
I would say credentials do indeed matter, although yes they are overshadowed quite a bit by professional networks.

Outside of simply procuring a job, they matter even more. As an example, the company I work at offers professional education services on CUDA and OpenCL (with other HPC architectures in the works). One of the guys who teaches it did his masters in EE at Stanford. I don't think the impact of that can be overstated when selling the service to companies.
This doesn't seem like it would be very good for using with applications that you are familiar with. With context menus
you can remember the ALT + <key> combinations required to navigate to a feature quickly. With this you would have to type the name of the feature and then select it which might involve navigating a fair way down the list.

The only other option would be for all apps to assign keyboard shortcuts to everything

Also for applications that you are not familiar with you will have to guess what a particular feature is called and if it even exists in the first place. They would have to load all the apps up with synonyms and since Open Source developers can't agree on anything I'm not sure how many would even design their app around this.

Not to mention problems with users who have poor english or just poor spelling.

Having said all this, this feature is an excellent idea to supplement existing UI functionality. I've been integrating "feature search" type functions into some of my web apps for a while now and I'm surprised Apple and MS haven't done this more.
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Menus, shortcuts, and command search each have their place.

One of the goals should be reducing the frequency of keyboard <-> mouse switches. If I'm using Paint, it would be annoying to type to search for commands; it would be the only time I had to let go of the mouse. It works the other way, too, and such "keyboard-centric" applications will benefit from a fast and easy command search.

And no matter what, as many commands as possible should have a keyboard shortcut, which should be listed next to the command when you search for it (this doesn't look to be the case). When we already know which command we want, we don't need to search for it.

I understand the need to force a shift to new/better features, but that doesn't mean removing features for existing and continuing use cases.
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I'm not in love with the design, or how big and out of place it feels just appearing in the top left corner, but it's a great start and I hope they keep pushing it forward.

I hope developers of Alfred for OS X look at this and try to apply some of those ideas going forward. App-specific, contextual Alfred would be great.
There's probably little to add here, but since I've been doing a 5am coding period each morning for the last year.

First, I am 42, married with 1 kid, so that may explain some of it. ;)

Some keys:
1) Coffee maker on autobrew, but not immediately upon waking. Give yourself and your stomach time to wake up.

2) Eat and/or drink something easy upon waking. I go for the MixOne protein shakes, or OJ.

3) A clear goal of what to accomplish that morning.

4) Get enough sleep or you will burn out and have to stop for a time period of recovery. I go to sleep or rather, my body & mind collapse, at 9PM. Asleep by 9:30. I am able to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. More than plenty.

5) Don't use anything with a screen (except maybe an e-ink Kindle) before bed. Reading helps me to get right to sleep.

Due to having a kid in preschool, I generally am limited to 1-1.5 hours in the morning. Which is just enough time to do one task and very little else, hence the need to focus on something.
Please change the title. It changes a question (no, it's not a theory) into a fact.
Trading and app-work.
If you use Trello I'd suggests creating a board with some groups on it:

"Itches" - Non-technical things that annoy you/customers about your product.

"Glitches" - Bugs you're working on

"Tweaks" - UI/UX related adjustments

"Strengths" - Know what's good about your app
This will pass. There are no big sites or organisations backing the opposition so there will be no world effecting black out or protest. Boot licking allies of the US gov will implement SOPA like legislation for them.
If it only takes 1 mistake, would having a hot backup or failover be a best practice, so that if something does happen, you can immediately channel traffic to a live site?
//"Instead of hunting through drop-down menus to find application commands, Ubuntu’s Head-Up Display lets users type what they want to do into a search box."//

One of the reason why I loved Launchy[1] so much. That little program drastically reduced the need to use the mouse and launch/find any application with just a few keystrokes.

Even, Ubuntu 11 has similar functionality with Unity. But,it's searching capability is little disappointing, though.

[1] - http://www.launchy.net/
Wow, a lot of pretty serious comments for what I consider to be a completely tongue-in-cheek post that is essentially asking a simple question.

Some of you people need to lighten up.

Besides, my favorite hat is made of copper! ;P
I love the title....implying that it's assumed that it's always wise.
Mr Sherlock said he would “tweet complete clarification shortly”.

Irish Times article with more information:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0124/break...

BTW, I just posted the link to HN, I've no affiliation with the site. Fully support what they're trying to do though.
So without a browsable menu, how do I discover what features a program has? Normally that's done by browsing through the menus.
Yeh it is definitely a growing trend. I am not interested in going off the grid for a year. I love being online all the time. Love it. I just want to kite and code. I have decided to write more about a few things here:

http://kiteandcode.com
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You'll see it after it's been signed by Richard Bruton and it appears in Iris Oifiguil. That's rather the point here.
How do you discover and explore, though?
Re: the API - have you seen http://context.io/? It addresses both of your issues:

- Ability to work against the multiple aggregated providers (indexes any IMAP-enabled mailbox, regardless of provider)

- Scriptable incoming email processing (not necessarily realtime, but close) that could move your mail around and integrate with other services
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The power could be distributed to citizens? And then, yeah, they'd need some kind of organization - an organization made of, by, and for them, for example - to exercise it for them. Now if only such an organization could be created! Perhaps we could hold a convention to define its basic operating principles?
Interesting!

Can anyone point to/recommend other articles or books on the topic of machinery & computers replacing human workers? I'm very interested in this subject
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leptocracy: lepton[] + cracy

is exactly what you want and is an easy allusion to kleptocracy.

[] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_lepton
Why not go the SUPERPAC route to make this viable?
http://www.propublica.org/article/in-the-gusher-of-super-pac...
I've deleted kernel extensions to deal with related issues before. They often get reinstalled after updates though, so it can be quite a hassle.
why does he make "…communicate and organize directly with the public…" sound like such a bad thing?
Well, let me counter with another wikipedia link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatkopie (sorry, no english translation). Basically, the idea was that with the creation of tape machines it's impossible to control private copying and sharing without criminalizing large proportions of the population and thus a better form of payment for the rights holder was required.

So the deal is that we germans pay for each device that can be used to copy copyright-protected media a certain fee. A copy/fax machine costs roughly 10 euros in fees, the DVD writer as well, high-end dvd copiers up to 1000 bucks, the raw media a couple of cents, harddrives, ... - regardless of whether it's used to copy media or only for backups. In turn the private copying and sharing is allowed within reasonable bounds (usually family and good friends, a common limit seems to be around 7 copies that you can give away).
I'm not allowed to crack "effective" DRM schemes or protected media - whatever "effective" in this context means, but CSS has so far not been ruled effective afaik. Otherwise, this is completely legal and does not depend on the method of sharing nor does it depend on where the actual file is located.

Nor does it contradict the Berne Convention which basically treats how copyright is asserted and some minimum protection durations, but not every detail. For example american fair use permissions seem to allow for far more uses than the german "Zitatrecht" which can be actually quite limited (up to protecting single phrase or parts of phrases). (disclaimer: I'm interested in german copyright law, but I'm certainly not a lawyer)

So my example holds: If I store my ripped version of a dvd on a cyberlocker and share it with my brother, that's legal. If I share it with my ex-roommate with which I've been sharing a flat for 8 years an whom I call a good friend, that's just fine. If I share it with you, that's illegal and no one will be able to tell.
If you're interested you can see my traffic graph here:

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2012/01/19/blog-micro-transa...

Its the top graph. I post a lot to reddit, which is where those spikes come from.

So far I haven't managed to post a popular article on HN, although others have posted my articles and they have gotten onto the front page, which is a little annoying. Guess the system rates certain people a lot higher depending on their karma...
The public perception curve for developing Asian countries in America goes something like this:

Ridicule -> Dismissal -> Contempt -> Acceptance -> Reverence

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, China, all fall on different points on that progression, Japan being the most far along of course.

JP is well into 'reverence', SK and Taiwan are firmly at the 'acceptance' phase, China is still somewhere between 'dismissal' and 'contempt'. Expect it to be solidly in 'contempt' by 2015-2020.

Whether or not they can shed the "sure they're smart but not creative" label depends on how amenable their popular culture and cuisine is to American tastes. Patents filed, product innovations, or pure research conducted is not taken into consideration.
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I'd recommend a video (try vimeo for their aesthetics) on your home page. Looks interesting but a video would probably seal the deal for me.
It should also be noted, for those unfamiliar, that this is conveniently available via the ⇧⌘/ (i.e., ⌘?) shortcut http://cl.ly/DaUU
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There are too many in the tech community that are susceptible to such bullshit reductionist viewpoints. You don't gain anything from ignoring the fundamental features of reality. There are two inescapable points:

1) We live in a highly interdependent society of 300m people. Such a society needs to be governed. Indeed, it needs a lot of government, like any amalgamation of people that are forced to interact with each other. The debate about "more versus less government" is only sensible in the margins. Its really more of a question of "good versus bad government."

2) The public needs to advise elected officials. Because of (1), elected officials have a huge range of issues to deal with. It is literally impossible for them to educate themselves about those issues. Lobbyists fill to role of educating officials.

You're not going to be able to run a society that has, e.g., no regulated industries (see 1) or one where representatives of those industries do not weigh in on that regulation (see 2). Forget about such childish ideas.

Stuff like "get rid of lobbying" is as useful in political debate as statements like "get rid of gravity" are in aerospace engineering. Yes, that would make certain things easier, but...
If you're after a specific individual, a far better target than their computer would be their cell phone. Computers are complex and stationary. Cell phones are eminently more susceptible to this type of attack because the government can compel carriers to use technology that is already in place. No malware package required.

Working in telecom was enlightening for me. There's a feature called "executive barge in" that pops up from time to time when shopping for PBX systems. Executive barge in allows a user with the appropriate rights to open an audio channel to any phone connected to the switch, bypassing the alerting phase. That is to say, the phone never rings; the audio channel just opens. Most systems provide some sort of brief alert tone, but this is entirely implementation based. There's nothing implicit about opening a channel that would require a tone.

All digital phone systems have the ability to implement a feature like this. Cell phones are digital phones. With old analog (POTS) phones, when the phone was "on hook", there was a physical change in the connection of the copper pairs. In modern phone systems on-hook/off-hook is just a software state. There is no physical difference. Opening an audio channel is a distinct event, completely separate from the alerting signal [1] in common cell phone protocols.

The bottom line is that if you're really concerned that someone is listening in, you should watch the horrible movie "RED" and imitate John Malkovich's character the best you can.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54495209/UMTS-3G-WCDMA-Call-Flows
Quite often the failover is just a DNS change to a static page saying "Sorry, we're currently unavailable".

The difficulty of having a hot backup is preventing a hacker repeating their attack immediately after you fail over.
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"Those with an objectivist viewpoint won't be able to see this scenario in any other way."

What? The Objectivist viewpoint is exactly opposite to what you say. Intellectual property is property (Hank Rearden's steel formula was his and his alone, John Galt's engine is his and his ideas are his property) and strong intellectual property rights enforcement are natural rights of their holders, just like ownership of tangible property (and the enforcement thereof) is. The rights holders are the artists/producers etc, who entered into a voluntary business transaction with their labels, distributors etc. who in turn united in the RIAA/MPAA to collective defend their rights. All voluntarily, and every actor in these transactions is looking out for their own interests, and are morally well within their rights to do so.

Having strong intellectual property protection laws isn't rent seeking. It's only rent seeking when it preys on the creation of others who haven't voluntarily entered into a business relationship with the actors at hand. Objectivist dogma says that protecting man's rights (including property rights) is one of the few legitimate government functions.

I truly do not understand how you come to the conclusion that under an Objectivist world view, it would be the RIAA/MPAA who are the looters, rather than those who wish to take the intellectual property of others without the creator's consent, and I would be interested in seeing a further developed argument to that effect.
Entirely agree, people always defend Ubuntu's action by saying that they are after a different class of user (e.g the developers mum rather than the developer) and this is why they are changing the UI.

What they fail to realize is that even with the best UI in the world if 6 months down the line joe public clicks the "yes please upgrade me to the new ubuntu" button and then magically his wifi and sound break and his UI is replaced with something totally different that requires re-learning they are going to lose confidence pretty fast.
Irish SOPA a real concern
Since he mentioned self-infecting Lisp functions (which seems to me to be unrelated to his main topic but whatever), I should mention that I put together a Lisp self-infecting "virus" (so to speak) a long time ago. My original version -- which was beautiful and I have conveniently forgotten -- used a quine to deliver the payload. But here's a version I whipped up for HN a few weeks back which gives you the idea.

;; run this on SBCL
(sb-ext:unlock-package :common-lisp)
(let (syms) (do-symbols (s :common-lisp) (if (fboundp s) (push s syms)))
(labels ((worm (sym)
(let ((next (elt syms (random (length syms))))
(old (symbol-function sym)))
(format t "~%Worm attacks ~a, next target is ~a!~%" sym next)
(setf (symbol-function sym)
(lambda (&rest args)
(when next (worm next) (setf next nil)) (apply old args))))))
(worm '+)))
;; now try adding some numbers (and so on)
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I didn't feel any kind of racism in this article. There were some points that may have used a little more explanation, but definitely no issue on racism.
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I have no idea. I'm not involved in the process of rolling this out so I don't have first hand knowledge of what's involved. Rolling out something globally to many millions of people is usually more complex than it seems from the outside :-)
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Is 500 square feet really considered substantial?

My first place in a college town was 900 square feet for a studio and the landlord said many people turned it down because it was too small.

My next place up was a 2 bedroom with over 4x the size.
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Not so long ago, people had secretaries. In fact, my father had a secretary and it wasn't unusual at the time, and he wasn't paid any more than me

Women were not able to avail of all the job opportunities they are now, so their labour was cheap. Now they have better job prospects.
A friend of mine helps employee-owned companies get set up and running. When I first met him, this was my big question-- how do you get a business owner to just hand things over? Apparently a common model is that somebody builds up a business, and, on deciding to retire, sells the company. The current employees can be the purchasers, and they can, of course, compete with other potential purchasers.

This can also happen at larger companies that run into troubles. For example, United Airlines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines): "The aftermath of the Gulf War and increased competition from low-cost carriers led to losses in 1991 and 1992. In 1994, United's pilots, machinists, bag handlers and non-contract employees agreed to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), acquiring 55% of company stock in exchange for 15% to 25% salary concessions, making the carrier the largest employee-owned corporation in the world."

As you might expect, it is not the model that a group of workers agitate to have the company just handed over to them, and it is not the model that the "bastions of capitalism" just turn over shares for nothing.
Ah, the bolshies must be making noise in Great Britain again this week.
T-Mobile blocks urbandictionary.com in the UK. When you want to access that site you need to give your credit card details, but only UK-issued cards work.

http://texy.pl/2011/01/24/internetowi-psuje-cz-2-t-mobile/
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I agree. My point is two fold:

A) That we ought to be aware of the genesis of these conspiracy theories. I believe it's based on the influence of objectivist bias (objectivism being common amongst hackers). By human nature, we perceive the world in a way that agrees with our philosophy. For better or worse, that is called bias.

B) That we ought to be singularly focused on the subjects of fair use and free speech.
This is pretty awesome. The only complaint I have with my Kindle is that it is difficult to flip between pages easily/quickly. Makes skimming hard.
he'll also be on rte radio show drivetime after 1800.
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you can find links for listening online here. http://www.rte.ie/radio/
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I dunno. I run 10.10 at home and 11.10 at work (both relatively new machines). I really, really, really like hitting the super key and getting the dash, typing fire and hitting enter and opening firefox. In addition, you can hit super and a number and it opens the app in that number.

Maybe i just didnt love gnome2 enough. That being said, I really hate the way Unity appears to have broken the readline interface (for emacs shortcuts everywhere). Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't get that working in either 11.04 or .10.
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The linked article seems to mis-understand the new policy. Please read Yonatan's comments on the OP, or refer to the conversation that is happening on Yonatan's own post (https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/YJbz...). I have a lot of respect for Violet Blue, but I'd say that Yonatan is much more of an authority on the new policy than Violet.

You didn't include in your post any context about the rejection - when you changed you name, what you tried to change it to, why you think it meets the need policy, etc.

If you think you have a legitimate false positive, I can assure that Yonatan would be very interested in hearing the details and I would be willing to bet that if you asked a question on his post you would get a response.