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Chomsky is interested in power, not semantics. The question "Who invented email?" has a variety of possible meanings, and if you clarify what you mean, the answer follows from the facts. But people don't care what the question means; they care about the prestige attached to the answer. This is more true of Chomsky than of the average person because of his obsession with power. He knows it is an attention-getting question, and he wants to answer it in favor of a powerless underdog who was robbed of his just deserts by well-connected "insiders," because he wants people to see that story everywhere. Therefore Chomsky runs with a particular interpretation of the question and disingenuously says, "The facts are indisputable," when he knows that the facts are the least issue in the dispute.

Chomsky is as much a rhetorician and an entertainer as anyone on the right, though his intelligence and love of underdogs make him a lot more likable than someone like Rush Limbaugh.
See, the thing is that, when a legal company is caught enslaving children, they get massive political, social, moral and economic pressure to stop. For instance, Nike and its famous sweatshops.

If your business is illegal, however, you're neck deep in shit already, so the marginal benefit for stopping is almost zero. Twenty to fourty years added to a life sentence.
I'm aware of Chomsky's political proclivities, but this is purely a debate over the definition of "email". The nature of the actual systems invented is not in dispute, merely what to call them.
Do you have an RSS feed? A similar service http://www.viainstapaper.com/ does.
I think most of those are up/down arrows.
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This is a very interesting (and plausible) theory about Chomsky's motivations. But again - it's irrelevant to us.

We know who invented which software package and what functionality each one had. The rest is a debate over variable names.
it is legal to say

"BY VIEWING, VISITING, USING, OR INTERACTING WITH WWW.SAYGENT.COM OR WITH ANY BANNER, POP-UP, OR ADVERTISING THAT APPEARS ON IT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THIS TERMS OF USE POLICY AND THE PRIVACY POLICY OF WWW.SAYGENT.COM."

am i forced to search for the tos every time i use a website or they must get my acceptance to the terms before viewing the site?
Yea, and what protects the bitcoin network is not how much effort it took to create them in the past but how much computing power is being used to create them now. As the rate of creation drops the incentive to mine them also drops, eventually the number of miners drops off until it becomes cost effective to rent enough computing power to own the network and give yourself 100x the amount of bit-coins in existence. Cash out and well game over.
I have a six-year-old 15" MacBook Pro, which is now on its third battery. A year or so ago the original 120GB hard drive started making ticking sounds, and I replaced it with a 500GB drive (not SSD - at today's prices I would have gone for a 256GB SSD). It's still a perfectly capable machine - a bit constrained by being limited to 3GB of RAM, but otherwise fine.
But isn't the OP is talking about a step towards that common API you're looking for? Wordpress duplicates a lot of FB functionality, and the Jetpack identity framework provides tools for applying user-controlled permissions to accessing the data exposed by those functions. It isn't hard to imagine that exposure taking the form of an API, or the expansion of that identity framework to Google / Twitter / Open ID authentications.

Doesn't sound like you necessarily disagree all that much.
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HackerNews is great for, well, hackers. But I suspect a large portion of readers here are more interested in business, rather than the technology behind the business. The tech is important, but I think as community we have so much talent, the difficulty is monetizing that talent. So what I'd like to find, is a resource that outlines business stories, successes, failures in a format that nurtures the engagement found on HN.
After some time, no one will remeber and this would have bought them the required buzz.. At the end, any publicity is good publicity.
Just curious, why don't you think it will succeed? The method seems to be working fine for the guy you just replied to. Are you saying that in the long run, a better model might win out?

I guess I could see why you'd think that and I might even agree, but I personally think that knowing what features I'm missing out on better motivates me to buy the premium product. And if the price is appealing and worth it to me, then I'd be happy to pay it.
Popularity relates to total value so ~9million coins * 6$ a coin = 54 million in total value which is minuscule in therms of global finance. But, number of places you can spend it also counts and there is just not many places selling bit-coins. Even though it would seem like an easy way to launder drug money it's still just a toy.
I think you accidentally highlighted a problem our society, at least our media, tries to portray in that "depression is a mental disorder". You only have to see the commercials for anti-depressants to see this.

The world becomes very easy for government when you can lump every unhappy or disgruntled citizen as having a mental disorder, so you can medicate and silence them.

Governments are in the very uneasy position of being who the peasantry get angry at. Feudal lords understood this danger very well. The middle-eastern and north-african dictators have been learning this. How long before our own politicians have to learn this lesson before we get our fair and responsible government back?

It won't take guns to topple our government. It will take people protesting. If you can unite a fraction of a populace, you can topple industries and topple governments simply by orchestrating where your dollars go. Want an end to walmart and their policies? Get 10% of their shoppers to start buying from Target or whomever who treat their workers better, or support local communities better. If it happens country wide, walmart has too much equity sunk into brick and mortar that they can't rapidly restructure. 10% less income from stores across the board mean stores taking losses, means stores breaking even. Lay off staff and you lose more customers. Close stores, and you lose more customers. Even if you close stores, it's going to be 6 months to a year to get the equity back into working capital.

If 10% of the population with held taxes. That's 230 billion dollars in unpaid taxes. Governments will change quickly when you can't do anything to penalize these people. Fine them? They wont pay, and there's way too many to effectively jail, and if you do you lose even more taxes from what they would spend on food and goods.
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All I have to say is: Thank you for co-creating Tornado.

I hope more good things will come out from him.
We complain that there's nothing new, and here someone's electronic messaging system is being claimed to have been new because it was a reinvention. No one can argue with its success.

Perhaps there's a lesson here, that the best innovations are adapting systems that already work to new contexts. Invention from scratch is hard to get right (and hard to adopt).
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the coolest part about templates is you can modify them later on. so when we all get tired of bootstrap or maybe you want to add coffeescript or haml or maybe you always use the syslogger gem...with an app template you can add that into the template itself without having to fork the whole repo.
It's irrelevant to answering the question as we understand it, but it's relevant when we end up talking to people who don't have our perspective. I think most people's first assumption is that email is a simple, unitary concept that must have had a single inventor.
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In this episode of TWiS[1]dhh claims he would never sell 37signals, it's an interesting discussion about this exact topic.

[1] http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/twist-46-with-davi...
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> *Do people actually use bitcoins nowadays, or is it more of a speculative market?

Yes it is used, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
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I have a standing desk cobbled together from non-office supplies. My "lectern" is a Manhasset music stand (http://www.manhasset-specialty.com/index.cfm?pageID=3) adjusted to the perfect height and pitch for my wrists while typing. The wireless mouse used to slip off until I pulled a cotton pillowcase over the black metal, now it grips and is very comfortable.

My monitor is just a 37" 1080p LCD stacked on a table and empty crates to reach head height. I've got an ottoman to sit or lean on when I need a break from standing, and the music stand desk makes it really easy to quickly and firmly adjust the perfect typing attitude.
Coffee is a better comparison than ketchup. Tomatoes grow more widely.
Under which jurisdiction? In my case, certainly not. Given the fact that the TOS claim to be accepted by simply reading the TOS (as it is on the website) no sound legal system could state this to be legal. Which sadly says nothing about the US-system.
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It's entirely believable that no-one can recycle aluminium and glass that are glued together in an economically viable way. Apparently one of the major things that dictates how easy something is to recycle is how easy it is to seperate components that are made of different materials.
Facebook, like most other social media platforms, are tools. You can use tools to benefit or enhance your life or you can use it to destroy or negatively affect your life. Money is a tool, for example.

Other than that though, this was a great article and I'd be interested to start a similar experiment. I do think you if you are more purposeful with social media, you can still be as productive and do cool things like the writer did.
As I understand it, the goal of this feature is to drive miners to begin charging transaction fees to mint blocks rather than rely on the reward built into the protocol. The reward was designed as a carrot, but eventually it'll give way to transaction fees. If you study the protocol, transaction fees are built in; early on, however, they weren't used (i.e. spending BTC was free).

However, there is a more interesting question about transaction processing rates and competitiveness. VISA claims processing rates of 10000 transactions/second. BTC is at around ~700 transactions/second.

If you want to learn more, here are some links:

Transaction Fees and Rates
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1314.msg14748#msg147...

Scaling Goals
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
Among others:

- Ditching the floppy disk drive on the original iMac G3.

- Switching to all USB instead of a mix of serial and parallel ports.

- The one piece case design of the late 2008 Macbook Pro as now mimicked by half of HPs laptop range.

And that's just the easy ones.
Its rather mroe introductory but it's still an interesting and informative read. Defintiely something to print out and read when bored or give to a younger brother or any young person entering high school or college. Wish I had this when I was beggining my college days.
You forgot to mention a very important feature: You can use regular expressions in ranges too, and thus for example use .,/^$/d to kill the rest of the paragraph (or .,/^$/c to change the rest of the paragraph).
reprint of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115942
Don't use this without defining a new cookie secret (which is normally generated randomly when you create a new project):

https://github.com/hugodias/railStrap/blob/master/config/ini...
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There was some great innovation that happened at Wildseed. The inverted design made it easy to type with your thumb. The Smart Skins not only changed the look of the device (they wrapped around and clipped on to the body), but there was an Atmel smart card chip embedded in the plastic that would change your wallpaper, ringtones, etc. once it was clipped on. There were RGB LEDs behind each key on the keypad so you would run "visualizers". These could act like a three bar sound meter for your music, for example. Of course, with all of the innovation, what we didn't anticipate was that smart phones were just around the corner...
Thanks for the history lesson!

This thinking is, of course, unfortunate. Any UI can benefit from ideas borrowed from others. I remember when I was using Irix (Silicon Graphics) heavily many moons ago. It had some really compelling ideas. I can't remember most of them but I think one I liked was that the focus followed the mouse, you didn't have to click on a window to give it focus.

Yeah, only being able to resize a window from one corner is a pain in the ass.

Also, not having a border around a window makes for a fine mess. Overlap a few terminal windows full of text to see the effect.

The irony today is that the the OSX GUI sits on top of Unix. Which, of course, has supported deep and complex directory structures for a long time.

I can see Apple's point in keeping it simple for the typical non-tech user. No issues with that whatsoever. Judging from those I know, they don't ever create deep directory structures on their own and probably don't need anything beyond what Finder offers.

That said, I firmly believe that advanced users, which includes developers, could benefit from a much more advanced Finder. A tree structure is only one aspect of this. For example, in Windows I can very easily tell Explorer to show system files. You can do that in OSX, but it isn't as simple it becomes system-wide not directory-specific and it pollutes the desktop.

Another thing that I find missing is the ability to see your path in a Finder window, you know, one that you can copy and paste into the terminal window or another Finder window. Another useful feature would be "Open Terminal Here". I've implemented this through an add-on I found and it is fantastic. This should be standard. Directory and file sizes without having to use "Get Info". Preview pane. Create <insert application> file here (i.e: text files). And more.

It'd be nice if Apple offered a way to switch Finder to "Advanced" or "Developer" mode and offer a closer-to-the-metal experience.
The article says that this practice is legal. If the sale is made, and then the client uses it to do something illegal, is the hacker / Grugq free of liability?
I'll take a lighter, cooler laptop over a "hackable" one any day, if that's the tradeoff.

You notice things like weight, fan noise, and heat every day, but it's easy to get hung up on the idea that someday you might need to swap hard drives maybe. Maybe I'm just lucky or gentle, but I got nine years of life out of my TiBook and couldn't be happier with the Air that replaced it.
Willing is not the same as having no other choice.
I actually remember coming across flutterbox & seeing it as a "track what your friends are up to" type service.

IIRC it was built in Django & supported about 10-11 services inc. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Digg etc
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It's interesting how this contrasts with the style of The Slow Web movement, which was also recently on the front page of Hacker News.
Greenpeace protesting outside of Apple is front page headlines.

Greenpeace protesting outside of <random PC manufacturer> is page 5 at best.

When you want to make the 6pm news you go after the guys that gives you the most publicity, rather than the guys that are worse offenders.
For the 2%

No, seriously, what's under the pretty GUI is Unix. Developers and advanced users make use of the available Unix features, including deep directory structures.

You can see this consumer focus on tools like Xcode. I recently completed work on an iOS game with about 1600 media files. If you left it up to Xcode it wants to place all 1600 files at the root level of the app code directory. In order to create and maintain a usable tree of folders you have to go out of your way and jump through some hoops.
Those aren't the only companies making Windows-based PCs. I use a Toshiba laptop.
I'm not a fan of the new MacBook, but this article is stupid.

Too much exaggeration, even changing facts.
My OpenWRT box does not have ed either.

In my experience, the closest approximation of an editor which will always be there in the real world is sed, not ed.
That's a good thing. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a pronounceable .COM these days?
Not strictly between origami artists, though; between an origami artist (Lang) and a painter. She painted his crease patterns, well-recognizable, with one or two changes that my eye parses as annoyingly illegal.

If you're not into origami, you may think a crease pattern is just an unintended byproduct -- what you happen to get when you unfold a model. This isn't the case, as the article explains. These things are carefully designed, and are the heart of the engineering process. Models in books or on display sometimes come with diagrams of the pattern. Receiving a model as a gift, one may very well unfold it flat to look at the crease pattern and see how it was done.

So I guess this is sort of like finding a pretty geometric pattern in someone's source code (that they put there!), and painting it.

I think it's too much of a shortcut to just take his crease patterns without attribution. She's an artist; she can learn the art and make her own. It's not as though it's a unique insight on her part that the useful patterns are beautiful in an abstract, geometric way. We (origami enthusiasts) all think they are. The paintings are beautiful and intriguing, but the art that makes them so isn't hers; it's Lang's.

I'm all for remixing and free information, but . . . I think at a minimum, attribution would be polite.
I would argue that Open Source software has offered a lot to your second point. Look at what powers web software now, from the servers, OSs, databases, and languages. It's easier than ever to "plug and play" different pieces of technology together with a little code glue.
And it won't become popular, because it attracts the wrong kind of people - speculative investors and bitcoin miners dreaming of becoming rich. It does not attract real buyers or sellers...
The posted article doesn't have examples of the copied art, but this page does:
http://www.langorigami.com/copyright/sarah_morris_copyright_...

It's not a matter of similarity, or independent creation - The painter Sarah Morris directly copied the original artist's work, removed the lines and colored in the voids.

Since there's no question that copying took place, the case will hinge on whether the copying was "fair use" - that's where the issue of whether the copying was "transformative" comes in.
I would guess yes. The sale of firearms is legal, but if a buyer then goes and kills someone with the gun, the seller of the gun is not liable. Not an exact comparison but for legal comparisons I believe it's apt.
From what I understand, it's used as a scriptable editor in UNIX automation. It may not be used that often, but it's something I think people expect to be there when a particular piece of behaviour is desired. (Not that I've ever used it myself either interactively or scripted).

It also appears to be part of POSIX.

I imagine though that ex would be the more capable alternative, and since vi is also ubiquitous, I guess that makes ex ubiquitous too. So I can see your point.
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I used to work at a place where their mission critical software was running on ancient HP-UX boxes which we feared to turn off because we didn't know if they would turn back on. My job was to port this software to modern Ubuntu VMs. Once I was done, we had a celebration in which we turned off the HP-UX boxes forever... except of course there was a bug in my version, so we soon had to turn them back on while I worked on a fix.

To everybody's surprise, the machines did turn back on, but they couldn't connect to the network because a few configuration files were wrong. To our dismay, after we tried to use Vi to edit the first one, we discovered that the ESC key did not work anymore, and we were stuck in edit mode forever! We had to reboot the machine, which takes about an hour on these old machines.

And then of course I configured the files using Ed and saved the day! Surprisingly, I was the youngest programmer there and I was the only one who knew how to use it.
> I believe the trick of this is to scale it with the amount of gold in the system.

That would make the items too expensive for normal players - only the gold farmers and their customers would be able to afford it. Tricky business.
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Re: thumbkissing.com - thats one of Pair's (YC Company) best features[1]

There are a few other's in this space as well you should contact Pair or one of them in this space, and see if they might want to acquire it :)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/23/pair-is-a-path-for-the-two-...
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It's a pity the article only mentions client-side exploits, it would have been interesting to see what is paid for server-side zero-days, especially linux/LAMP related...
I had an econ professor who would phrase that as, "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
I'm flagging this, although I have mixed feelings about doing it. I think it might be fine as a blog article, but from Wired it just looks too much like pandering.

Sounds too much like "<PROVOCATIVE NERD-BAIT QUESTION X> Commented on by <FAMOUS UNRELATED PERSON WHO IS ALSO PROVOCATIVE>" It's just too easy to kick out dozens of these things.

Since it's the weekend, here's a few samples to show you what I mean (all of this is made up, of course)

"Functional Programming Not Worth Learning Says Al Gore"

"Paul Krugman Discloses His Favorite Unix Editor"

"Bush Reveals His Opinion on Advanced SEO Techniques"

"Lunar Colony Better Than Mars Mission: Michael Moore"

"James Cameron on Why Higgs Boson is Important"

You could do this all day. Lots of fluff and food for chitchat, nothing much useful.
Why use character entities at all when serving documents as UTF-8?
Robert Lang's work is jaw dropping - Here is his TED talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.h...
No RSS feed at the moment. I'm mainly focusing on the web reader (eg. http://www.metareads.com/articles/read/lorem-ipsum-all-the-f... ) and would really love to get some feedback on it.
>One of the most vocal of those critics is Chris Soghoian, a privacy activist with the Open Society Foundations, who has described the firms and individuals who sell software exploits as “the modern-day merchants of death” selling “the bullets of cyberwar.”

Are there any documented cases of malware killing someone? All this cyberwarfare stuff seems a little overblown.
Have to admit that some of the "results" are quite entertaining e.g.
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I think why we disregard old material is because we were bitten by that while we were learning programming in the first place. The web is full of old cruft that no longer applies, and some of it flat out dangerous, so we shun older information in favor of newer information.
Wouldn't it be better to start the anchor price a little lower?

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US Realtors are selling more houses...just not to Americans
More rich Chinese are buying up US property and houses...$9 billion total in just 12 months.