skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An apt, but tragically late, entry into an important discussion.

I mean, downhillbattle.org closed up shop years ago.

Gibson (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html) recognized it at that time too.
Try the very first sentence on for size: "This sounds like libertarianism to me, not socialism (small S or not.)"
I've been revising my attitudes towards TV lately. There's good content on the TV, while content on iPad is not necessarily getting any better - mostly addictive games that bide the player to come back again and again. BBC produces a lot of accessible programs about engineering, history.
A movie theater could be paid to leak to a rogue theater in a different market, assuming the studio couldn't tell which theater leaked the movie. (Hey! This is a scenario where DRM might actually work!)
Are you sure it's John Mallery that's the current owner now? He's not that hard to get a hold of.
Oh boy--macros!

Just say no to crack, kids, or you'll end up like the Linux kernel.
I disagree. When I hold my hand straight out to my screen(s), it is an additional 20 to 30 cm I would have to lean forward to actually touch one. I don't particularly want to start looking down at my screen. I suppose there could be an optimal angle of compromise - but, I have other reservations about using touch screens exclusively.

1. Keeping any one finger extended while keeping the rest off the screen is none to pleasant for me, whereas mice are pretty comfy to rest the hand on.

2. Being a female with somewhat longer nails, I find using touch pads and touch screens to be a nightmare in terms of accuracy. I know exactly where my mouse is and what it's going to activate when I click - I can't say the same for my finger nail getting in the way or the larger area of finger-pad that touches as a result of avoiding nail contact. I suppose this could be remedied with a stylus of some sort, but I'm also sad when my hand is in the way of viewing stuff around what I'm trying to manipulate. I've got some pretty slender hands, but this still leads to awkward wrist action trying to keep a finger on the screen and look at everything around it simultaneously.

3. The distance I cover with my mouse on the desk in order to move my pointer across three monitors is a fraction of the actual distance travelled by my pointer, so instead of sweeping my arm dramatically across a meter or so, I've flicked my wrist a few cm to achieve the same effect. But, when I move my mouse very slowly, I can still achieve pixel accuracy.

4. Unless screens develop the ability to change their texture and structure, there is just no screen substitute for the little grooves between the keys, home row extrusions, and physical feedback of my keyboard. I can rest my hands on the keyboard without worry because it takes a certain amount of pressure to activate the keys, and I know for certain when I have pushed a key, even if there is no immediate visual feedback. I can always look down to my keyboard and it reveals a good deal of it's functionality to me. It also never takes up any precious screen real estate and I don't have to do anything elaborate to bring it up.

5. Goodness, can you imagine how dirty my screens would get, so fast! Yuck. Finger prints and smudges everywhere.
But this is just my opinion and may be subject to change if better technologies come around. Presently I'm in no hurry to abandon my mouse & keyboard.

-edit for formatting.
I think you're the one missing the point. This is a parody of the very notion of intellectual property, which equates the "value" of a consensually-distributed stream of bits to the "value" of physical property that happens to contain the same stream of bits.
Question for you: What do you think is the percentage of browsers with cookies disabled out in the wild today?
> Now, some may consider this limiting of freedoms beneficial and desirable, but it's limiting anyway.

You have an odd definition of "freedom"; who is more free: the un-unionized warehouse worker who is hired by the week by a shell temp agency, or the unionized warehouse worker who can negotiate a sane contract, decent wage, and sue in cases of abuse.
Hot corners and edge gestures are quite non-obvious. So is double-clicking to open a file, but not surprisingly, people learned it. Everything we know about computers is learned. The question is whether the learning curve (or "cliff") is worth it.
I am taking a month off to do something new. What would you recommend I learn? Hammer, screwdriver, tablesaw or anything else?

The point is: what do you want to achieve? If in doubt, spend the month figuring that out.
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It is their job. They assume the risk, they have a responsibility to their shareholders and their legitimate customers and they have a regulatory responsibility to police fraud as best they can.

If paypal was letting chargebacks run out of control because they refused to police fraud they would have to raise the fee percentage to something like 10%, assuming they could even continue to have any sort of relationship with credit card processors. If that happened their customers would be screaming bloody murder and demanding they do something about fraud to keep things under control.

Not only that, but they would be shut down in just about every country in the world for helping to support terrorism and organized crime by failing at basic do diligence in stopping money laundering et al.
Why It's OK to Let Apps Make You a Better Person
you get to keep your job. that's (usually) better than not having a job.
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Since this is a startup community i'd say two things:

- Set yourself a goal (a small project) and try to code it in whatever suits you best, do a brief comparison and start learning by doing. Tool/language doesn't really matter, everyone will pour water on their own wheel anyway

- Get out, meet friends, excercise, take it easy :)
Avoid Distractions and Remain Focused
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PayPal Exec killed today by commuter train
It really depends on what you'd like to try doing; for example, if you'd like to try web development then being decent in javascript/css/html is important. If there's a field you want to check out, a library/framework aimed at that space might be worth familiarizing yourself with. Or, if you just want to learn something new without any purpose, then might as well try something as far from what you know already know as possible -- I guess in this case Haskell, OCaml, some Lisp, or even F# would be interesting areas.

EDIT: Or step outside the tech field into something unrelated, and see if there are any areas that might benefit from some tool you could create. Though I guess a month might be too little time for this.
Reading the rant from John Rose in the preface to THE UNIX-HATERS Handbook [1] was pretty eye-opening to me. The world that John is complaining about is the world that I've spent many years living in, quite happily too!

How is it that we lost the ability to fix the code to a program that crashed, then continue running the program from where it left off? Why aren't all of our tools self-documenting? Etc, etc.

I've spent quite a bit of time wondering why we've "lost" so much. I think that part of the problem is that technology was developed a rate faster than what most people could keep up with. I remember that early Macs had a game to teach people how to use the mouse! Also, before the internet, it was hard for to transmit software and information about it.

So, the way I view the world of technology now is that we haven't "lost" anything, we're just catching up with the past. And doing a better job of it too!

In many ways, I think that the capabilities of "HTML5" (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) are converging on the capabilities of the X Window system. The main difference that I can see is that "HTML5" requires about 2-4 inches of book to understand while the X Windows System required a couple of feet of book to understand.

I'm not sure if my view of us just needing to catch up with the past is correct, but it's been pretty useful to me. Now, instead of bemoaning things that are lost, I look forward to seeing those things again, in a form that is easier to understand. More "pure" if you will.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can edit any part of my OS or applications, live, while they are running. I'm looking forward to being able to fix a program that has crashed and then have it continue running. I enjoy using interactive debuggers and I'm looking forward to seeing them in more languages. I love using REPLs to learn new languages and for doing quick prototyping.

That's why I'm watching JavaScript with interest. Many people are doing things with JavaScript that we were doing with Lisp Machines before. Some people are able to edit their server-side JavaScript live. Many of us know that our web browser has a built-in JavaScript REPL, some of us use that to fix webpages that other people wrote.

In short. After spending a lot of time reading, talking about, and using Lisp Machines, I feel like I have a deeper understanding of what William Gibson meant when he said "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

Footnote:
1: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weise/preface.html
What kind of a question is this?

"I am starting a company, and my lawyer asks how many shares would you like to start with. He quoted at $100 a share and well, I went searching on Google. Startup lawyer says we should put it in at 10 million or more shares.

Whats your thoughts?"
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I would probably learn nothing because I'm an easily distracted Internet addict. But if I could force myself to do something:

I'd learn more about distributed networks and *nix shell. Mainly because I have project ideas that require knowing both very well.

This is a really context-specific question. I don't think theres any general thing that everyones out to learn. Learning is (at least for me) a really goals oriented endeavor.
http://www.reddit.com/r/algoclass/
Sorry, you're pretty much right. The equation I wrote is correct, but I naively plugged in a bad number: yes, P₀ V₀ = n R T = P₁ V₁, but I used the known number for V₁ (the final air in the container) as V₀. The proper formula is indeed P₁ V₁ ln(P₁ / P₀).

You have my apologies for my confusion.
I totally agree.

I can also see why you're being downvoted here.

And that's why things are not changing.
I think it's a condescending analogy, definitely not the way to talk to your CEO.
Add it to the pile.... Reddit, Loopt, Posterous...
Servers cost a significant amount of money. If your friends aren't willing to pay $5 a month, then they don't care enough about Minecraft and probably wouldn't be much of an asset for the server. If its not worth that much to them then you should find some friends who like Minecraft or switch to a free hobby.

I think this is great. One person or small group should not have to put in all of the time and effort to pay for a server. Spreading it around to everyone is right way to go, and will weed out people who shouldn't be on in the first place.
lol! funny, but you drive home the point. I guess I am confused because I have many ideas (for example, iphone apps that keeps popping in my head, or a web educational app etc). Hindsight, I did the post in a hurry.
The term Intellectual Property is bad and I really wish it could get removed from common usage. Property is not a term that should be applied to something that is infinitely copyable without cost. You steal my my car and I can't use it anymore. You use my idea and I can still act on my idea.

However that does not mean that there should be no protections. If we go back to the US constitution where its patent and copy write law comes from:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

It was felt that innovators would be discouraged taking on a lot of up front cost developing an idea if it could copied before they could recover that cost. If we were to stop thinking in terms of property and start thinking in terms of a limited time exclusive right to attempt to recover upfront cost then I think things become a lot clearer. The value of an idea is a nebulous concept however the cost to develop that idea is not.
Isn't Apple alive today partly because of a patent lawsuit with MS that they were going to loose? A I understand the story, in a twist of things, Jobs convinced Gates to invest over a hundred million in Apple, thereby saving the company.
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Thanks tzaman. Your second point makes me feel good already :)
Sure. Just can the silly paternalism next time.

It's jading, and it really detracts from the rest of your argument.
Greater than what?

And, if you don't want to investigate that "greater purpose" with evidence, logic and rationality, how do you propose for "spirituality" to tackle the problem?
Of course. But the acquirer usually has no incentive to line the pockets of the investors, so they'd rather lower the price by spending the M&A nut on the team instead.

It's usually among the first things to go in a negotiation.
Web development is definitely in my interest area (because the closest I came was 15 years back in HTML!). Thanks for the response.
Great solution and great job on making sure they're not getting each others phone numbers!
The backing evidence would be the tweets, wouldn't it? This seems to be on the same level as those YouTube videos where the guys show themselves driving down the highway at 120mph, and eventually get caught because of it.

My opinion of OWS was formed using information from a variety of sources. This case is adding to an already negative perception. Perhaps this one thing wouldn't be enough to form a negative opinion, but the collection of what I've read about OWS has lead to a negative opinion, and this article just continues to enforce it.

Seriously, who thinks a company in the United States isn't going to comply with a subpoena? It's especially silly because a key issue of the protests is excessive wealth, and Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, is worth over $650 million.
In regards to your post, when it is part of a derisive comment and the aspect of 'foreignness' is used in an attempt to belittle the point you are arguing against, despite not being particularly relevant.

As in; 'X is not really an issue, because in example Y it was mainly happening to foreigners', is very rarely a good argument for the vast majority of values of X and Y.
Kay is greatly exaggerating those figures, and tends to blame problems with the modern software stack on the hardware.

Dan Ingalls gave a talk in 2005 about the history of Smalltalk implementations in which he mentioned the Xerox NoteTaker. The NoteTaker was a PC powered by the 8086, and according to Ingalls executed Smalltalk VM bytecode at twice the speed of the Alto. Here is the link to the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACoq7r6KVI#t=42m50s and here is my analysis with more details on the specs and economics of the NoteTaker: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2012/01/personal-computer-youv...
I started writing CSS just like that. It makes reading properties easy but takes a lot of vertical space (and unlike you, I hate to scroll). So I write properties on one line, which makes reading selectors easy (example: http://jgthms.com/wings.css).

I compensate by ordering my properties alphabetically so I can scan horizontally to find any property (background and border come first, margin and padding are near the middle, text-transform and width are near the end...).
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> going up against PayPal's legal department

Good luck with that.

Whoever has more money for lawyers, wins.
It's actually not consistent. On MLC flash, individual write operations can vary by a factor of 6.

see: http://cmrr-star.ucsd.edu/starpapers/309-Grupp-1.pdf (PDF)
Dude, I owe you a steak. Holy crap.
Thanks for your reply; I suspected as much. Well, I hope there aren't too many people like myself who will be turned off by the account creation step. However, I'm going to have to sit out this round until a decentralized option is available from you guys. Nice product, all the same!
That is a false equivalence--a rhetorical pause differs from a random pause. Random pauses are certainly preferable to any overt verbal tics.
I couldn't find another way to contact you, so here goes.
There's an extraneous apostrophe in "This bookmark is pending download, until then it's summary will not be available". In fact, that comma should be a semicolon.

Thank you for creating a service I needed.
I quit on my own, instantly, within 3 minutes of practice by simply TALKING SLOWER. It's like I gave my brain enough time to send words to my mouth and I stopped saying "um" and pausing immediately. It felt miraculous. lol.
This is fantastic! I've got so many damn bookmarks that I don't know what to do with them. Have you got any plans for importing bookmarks from pinboard/delicious?
Thank you. I've already started reading it.
In the early paragraphs, it shows:

∀ n ∈ N n2 + n + 41

It goes on to tell what ∀ means, and what N means, but excludes ∈.

This tells me there is a level of maths prerequisites required. For those of us who had liberal arts backgrounds with very little math who are programmers by sweat and knack, where can one go to get enough training to be ready to read something like this? I'd love to get through it and finally feel I'm on equal footing with some of my CS-trained peers (and actually be able to leverage the concepts at work) but seeing this early in the book leads me to believe I need some prerequisites first.

Thanks for your advice.
You're right, it's a weak connection right now. I could be wrong, but I'm seeing JavaScript getting pushed "down" the stack. People are doing things like implementing the DOM in pure JavaScript. I'm also very interested in seeing what people are doing with Emscripten, ClojureScript, swank-js, and the like.

Yes, we don't have a Lisp or Smalltalk like environment for JavaScript. Not yet. Given how widely supported JavaScript is though, I could see us getting there organically? Not sure.
>you're not stealing a thing when you copy it, but you are stealing the utility that it confers [...] that you would otherwise have had to pay for. You're taking value and not compensating for it, aka theft.

I think our metaphors of property and theft are stretched to the breaking limit with digital content. When social rules first appeared, it was clearly wrong if Fred Flintstone made himself an awesome hat and Barney Rubble took it away; but not so clear if Barney just copied the exact design and made his own. Copyright and patents only appeared in the 18th century. They extended the notion of property into a sphere where it hadn't applied in the previous millenia. They also relied on the fact that, at the time, books and technical drawings couldn't be reproduced by the average person.

Now here we are in a new millenium, with intellectual content trivially easy to duplicate, and we try to stretch some already strained notions much further. I think we need a paradigm change in this matter (and there are some interesting attempts going on out there). The RIAA's version of morality is not handed down from Heaven, you know: its rectitude is at least as questionable as its practicality.
By the way I did have algebra 1 and 2, geometry, business calculus, and statistics, but it's been a looooooooooong time and at this point it's as if I didn't.
Help yourself to a dollar:

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My HS English teacher was even more harsh (but effective) - every time someone said um, ah, like, or any other tic/pause word, she'd immediately cut them off. 'STOP.' 'TRY AGAIN.' 'NO.' etc. She was relentless, forced students to stop, calm down, gather their thoughts, and say it directly. Most students were cured in a few days, and the really bad ones a few weeks at most.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from reading the blog post it seems like you did not start off with the actual Bootstrap site.

Here's the link if you haven't seen it: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html

The site itself is a demo of how a Bootstrap site should look. There is also a comprehensive list and explanation of all the nifty Javascript's they support by default.

There's a link to download all of the files from Github from that site as well.
Windows 2000 was a great OS, kind of feel like you're trying to make the data fit your premise... in fact I'd say it was the last good Microsoft OS (of course, that could just be nostalgia talking).
It's still another data point that gets in people's heads IMO (it's in mine FWIW).

A good analogy might be the crappy customer service provided by AT&T, Comcast and [insert most utility cos] over the past 20 years. Most consumers now expect poor service and I'd wager that has, to some degree, had an influence on purchasing decisions.
To paraphrase James Taylor being a musician is a blue collar job, but at least blue collar jobs pay minimum wage. If the attitude conveyed in this site keeps up independent content creators are just going to say it's not worth it and all you'll be left with is the manufactured pablum the music industry serves up.
This is why I used the term “selling.” There’s always an “exchange of consideration” with software that is not placed in the public domain.
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To some people, Linux will only be a success if it becomes the most popular OS in use. I would contend that, since it is free software that exists to provide freedom to its developers and users, it is already a success (as are the three main BSDs).
Software-only companies are saturating the market
yes. Thank you for bringing this to life.
"all desktop browsers ignore this spec and treat each pixel as a pixel"

That's not ignoring the spec, though, it's following it. Where the device pixel is close to the reference pixel (as it is, on desktop browsers), the px measurement is supposed to represent one device pixel. See the CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#length-units
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It would have lost a lot of the "you don't want to mix these things" vibe. Some people have used a sink to shower.
Very fair points and it is worth reminding people that most startups fail (usually with a whimper that no-one hears). I wish the team well and thank them. I might never have started a blog if not for Posterous.

However, teams and products that do manage to make a name for themselves potentially end up leaving more unhappy people in their wake when they're 'acquihired'. It's not quite 'fail fast' from the point of view of the users who've been around for a while. (NB I'm not suggesting that the Posterous team could/should have done anything differently.)

Edit: FWIW each acquihire-type story nudges me slightly more to consider open-source alternatives, even if they involve some pain to set up/manage. Purely to feel a little more insulated from scenarios like this.
What you're saying about the VM is a software problem, not a hardware one. You're right about the VT-x extensions, and read barriers for GC is exactly what Azul is trying to do with their kernel patches, but there was no reason why the GC couldn't have been moved into kernel space before virtualization extensions came along.

Same thing with stack machines vs registers (why would you ever want a stack machine for CPS-compiled code?), tagged arithmetic (SPARC has tagged arithmetic instructions, but it turns out pipelining makes "manual" tag-checking just as fast), etc.

If anything, a pipelined, superscalar RISC CPU benefits Lisp more than it does C.