skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one needs to follow anyone. Even before I read this article, I have been practicing this recently.

E.g. When I am commuting to NYC, if I observe someone wearing a nice shoes/tie/outfit or anything else which catches my fancy, I go and compliment them. Each and every time, it has brought smile to the person's face. Sometimes we often strike up a conversation and walk out from the station together and go on our own way. I am not saying that you should force yourself to compliment but if you notice something nice/interesting, it is definitely a great idea to let the other person know.
Focus on building understanding.

In Coders At Work (http://www.codersatwork.com), Ken Thompson says, "When I was 30, 35 years old, I knew, in a deep sense, every line of code I ever wrote. I’d write a program during the day, and at night I’d sit there and walk through it line by line and find bugs. I’d go back the next day and, sure enough, it would be wrong."

Building things without deep understanding may produce a program, but it won't get you to A. Building understanding gets you to A. This is a deliberate process that takes time and work. You may not get all the way to A, but it will put you on the right path.
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me neither. just install python and ruby from cydia

far easier, no. red to wait for the cloud :)
Don't change what you're doing based on blog posts like this. Better yet, don't ever read blog posts like this.

There is a cancer in the startup community and it's advice like this. Very detailed and specific advice by people with absolutely no track record, no real experience outside of "the community" and with an inflated sense of self.

Blanket statements and declarations from people who aren't even close to qualified to make them are becoming way too common.
Rust can be the future tool for os kernels, AAA game engines, browser engines, and large system software as noted by Sankrant. sankranthaven.wordpress.com/tag/game-programming/ .
Also: wikipedia offers its entire content available as a tarball. Fork and run with it as you wish. While not "federated" it's pretty damn open.
That sounds interesting, but useless. I only want to see the most 'correct' version. It's almost as if saying when you use an app you can also use many of the apps versions, including its beta or alpha, regardless of how incorrect or useless they are with the current version.

I also think that information needs to be organized and many of his ideas make the collection or the organization of information almost impossible.

But nevertheless very interesting.
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It's really a creative idea, not obvious for everyone though
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The problem Wikipedia is having at the moment is that some people have taken over sections of it as their own "turf". And there will always be a holy war between the completionists and the deletionists, etc. With a federated wiki, you get to pick what kind of info you want to see, and who gets to curate it.
Ummm... I think you are missing my point.

<html>
<body>
<?mypitag ... ?>
</body>
</html>

That's an SGML document. It doesn't matter where the PI tag is, or what is in it, it's an SGML document.

<?printstuff

'<html>
<body>
<p>fun stuff here</p>
</body>
</html>'

?>

That's still an SGML document.

<?php

# logic goes here

?>

That's an SGML document.

This is not splitting hairs. The reason is relatively subtle.... When you are doing SGML stuff an extra newline or a space in front of the opening tag really doesn't have any effect but if you do any output in binary form, it's a mess.
I suspect De Gucht may have overestimated his influence here. He has also perhaps forgotten that his term of office is not so long and that the European Parliament could even hold up the appointment of the next Commission if it wanted to make a point about abuse of authority. (It did hold up the first Barroso commission in 2004, forcing a reshuffle of which commissioner was given which portfolio, so this is certainly not an idle threat for the Parliament to make, either.)

[Borrowed from a HN comment I made about a week ago on this issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161254]
Really cool and refreshing landing page.
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Google Drive already allows you to open different types of files with different 'chrome plugins'. It's all done. All you have to do now, is create plugins/apps which handle file types of your interest. Checkout this screenshot where 'AutoCAD WS' has been registered to open autocad drawings: http://i.imgur.com/Ddc6w.jpg .
I looked at rosetta code - they both look pretty similar in clarity. Compare to JavaScript or R, which are much more legible.
TFP: http://wardcunningham.github.com/

in the spirit of slashdot: the fucking project
Kind of an odd article, the writer spends the first part of it trying to come up with compliments, which usually fail.

Instead of manufacturing a compliment, just pay attention and realize what you think looks nice, what you like, or what you think is cool. Instead of holding back and not saying anything, which I think is what a lot of us do, tell them.

If the person has a funny shirt on and it brightens your day, say 'I really like your shirt.'

Instead of trying to compliment somebody, just try to appreciate them, and then relax enough to tell them what you appreciate.

A compliment you manufacture for the sake of giving a compliment will probably come across as stilted and fake.
Should one of the parties also support slavery just so that you have a choice? Eventually an issue reaches a point where the vast majority of the population supports an issue (such as keeping slavery illegal), and when that happens it shouldn't be a surprise that no parties are against it. I hope and think this is what has happened to the issue of same-sex marriage in the UK.
Apple enforces Galaxy Nexus smartphone ban in the US
> New technology comes from small companies, not big ones.

What a ridiculous thing to say, Some new technologies, of necessity, require deep pockets. E.g. pharmaceuticals, pretty much anything to do with semiconductors, aerospace, automotive engineering. Small companies are like teams within a large company, sometimes they get lucky and get bought out. Far more often, they don't.
Try asking.
The hard problems in software are not adding features or coming up with crafty efficient solutions. That is actually quite easy and I am constantly surprised how mediocre to poor developers can consistently come up with workable solutions.

The hard problem in software is writing code others can use. Everyone can write a solution that makes sense to themselves. Few can write one that makes sense to other developers. People who write code professionally will know what I mean. When you get someone else's work and realize it is better than anything you could have come up with. Not because it is extremely complex, but because it is perfectly simple.

I completely agree that people do not think the same. Where you went wrong is in believing an individuals thought process takes precedence over a teams. That is exactly the opposite of what is required and what software development spends a lot of time battling against.
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I wouldn't bet on it: http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites...
The fact that he is catastrophically wrong does not justify flaming him. Just downvote and move on.
All is lost moment: a definition
Thanks for the comments, guys. I've just experimented with AngularJS and have managed to build most of what I need in less than a week.

As a side project, I might attempt to work with the other frameworks as a comparison.
If deletionists had been running the show when Wikipedia got started, it would have failed.
The only thing I've ever seen from this guy is stuff about this guy being seen, written by this guy. He's the most meta guy I've ever seen.
TFC: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
Oh of course. I'm in favour of same-sex marriage, personally, and I like the fact almost every important party supports it.

I'm just using it as an example of something that there is very little real democratic choice on, however.
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So where is the link to the actual project ?
Not biased so much, maybe, but definitely subjective.

I have more faith in Microsoft than I do in any other big tech company. It's easy to forget that any commercial organisation's mission is to make money, which makes it inherently self-serving.

Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and so on all exist to make their shareholders rich. And yet we seem to think that they exist to make cool products, or to offer services we might find useful. Or to support us in any way. Not so.
OK, when can I order my bottle of Higgs bosons? ;-P
Cute, but that's something different again.
"To run The Simplest Federated Wiki, you’ll need your own web server, which Cunningham thinks is an important part of the project."

Sounded great till that point. He's putting his own nerd centric bias into it. If I'm a history guy, not a tech guy, and I want to "fork", asking me to run my own "server" or whatever is a non-starter.
http://wardcunningham.github.com/
Cautionary tales of e-discovery gone awry
You register with Safaricom (The Telco) with your Identification Card Number/Passport Number. You get a 4-digit PIN to use as a password. After this your phone number is your 'account number', in a manner of speaking.

An M-Pesa application comes installed as a SIM application (I don't know the technical details, I access it from the "SIM Toolkit" menu in my phone) on all Safaricom SIMs. The application allows you to Send money, check your balance, and pay bills to registered corporate accounts. You need to know the account PIN to perform any of these actions.

To deposit money in your account, you need to go to an agent (these are numerous all over the place) and pay them. These are registered business who can deposit money in your 'account' (a normal customer cannot deposit money directly into another person's account), and you get a Text message confirming that the transaction was successful, and your account balance has been updated. When you receive money, you receive a text message, and you may withdraw it from any agent. You need photo ID to withdraw money from an agent.

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edited for clarity.
True - I agree. But yeah, many cases we're faced with people who aren't empowered to make decisions and the people at the top sometimes probably don't know about these issues. All of them get squashed by middle management. So, maybe your bringing of attention the problem might get some eyes :)
Sorry, have to disagree...
Not "official" enough for company blogging. Great platform tho, just not for business.

WordPress will do just fine.
Is there a case for a unified SSL front?
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that's 'influence' done right, no?
Thank you very much. That's what I wanted to release for version 0.1. :) Stay tuned!
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Sorry, Igor. I jumped the gun with that post and have managed to develop my app in a few days :)

I thought the documentation is pretty excellent. The tutorial did help with some of the concepts but it could be that my project requirements are different and so I didn't find it entirely helpful :)

That said, I found the cookbook to be helpful although it seems like it's not linked anywhere from the homepage?
I don't think white apple products can be used according to the marketing guideline.
Post-Mortem of a Month Long Game Project
Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist, was the one who first used the term god particle as the title for his book. There are many things to vilify the science media for, but this is not one of them.
You are making little to no sense. Sorry, but I've got to give up on this thread.
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My personal declaration of freedom.
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
-Benjamin Franklin

Today is the Independence of our country. I guess its time for me to declare my own personal independence. But, what am I independent of?

I don't want something that JUST works. I want something that works the way I want it to.

I don't want a civilized internet. I want the internet of my childhood.

Therefore, I am forced to do this. I am running from these huge systems of control.

Therefore this is my pledge

I swear that I will not buy a device with a locked bootloader
I swear that I will attempt to find an open software solution and evaluate its solution
I swear that I will buy open hardware whenever I can
I swear that I will protect the open and free internet.

I will support open source through volunteering and community support
I will support open hardware through volunteering and community support
I will be courteous to people that are starting out.
I will be an outstanding open source citizen
I will migrate to free network services.

Well what does this mean? I'm going to buy an open hardware computer. Why? For the following reasons.

Anyways, do what you will and what is in your best interests. Its only the internet we are talking about. I mean you rather have something cool right?
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Will get this fixed ASAP. Node 0.8 is only ~1 week old ;-)
As I noted above, the media did not come up with the god particle reference.
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Does m-Pesa work securely enough to not need those proposed regulations then? The consumers are protected against fraud for the most part already?
Meta, but come on, "in 20 Mins"? The headline was wrong seconds after it was posted...
I think you made a nice summary of the article and astute observations as to what to take away from it. Thanks.
Who decides which version is the most correct? Read the same Wikipedia article on history in different languages and you'll find out that there's no such thing as the 'correct version'.
Holy smokes, how big is it?
HN commentary here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198825
Fedora also settled on one, info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation
I hear what you're saying about only wanting the most "correct" version, and no doubt that's how most people feel when looking for information, but about some things you have an ability and perhaps an obligation to contribute to deciding what is the most correct version...

This suggests to me that Ward is onto something here, but also that you may have a point about it's limitations in its current form. I hope the hypothes.is project (funded by kickstarter, http://hypothes.is) succeeds, and I wonder if some degree of integration between the two is possible so that reputation and correctness rating across wiki-nodes (or any such federated system) can naturally "bubble up" to top visibility with some citation/indication of the bubbling via the hypothes.is client, regardless of which specific fork of the wiki you happen to be looking at... I'd love to discuss this possibility further with Ward, hypothes.is, or anyone else interested since they'll both be open source projects any of us can try to make this happen in :-)
None of these things are true, I don't know where anyone comes up with this stuff. Sounds like a smear job more than anything. CakePHP2 is PHP 5.2.8+[1]. It's still being maintained and 2.2 was released this week[2]. Lithium is not a real 'fork' from Cake - rather it is a project that two of the Cake devs were working on as a 'next gen CakePHP' but decided to make into a separate project - the two frameworks don't share any code in their 'production' releases. Lithium has a much smaller community and is still poorly documented (as far as I can tell having tried to use it for a project).

[1] http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/2-0-migration-guid...

[2] http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/lorenzo/2012/07/01/cakeph...
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An important event for subjects outside intellectual property context. The next time someone has the bright idea to create a treaty in secret, people can point to ACTA as an cautionary tale. It alone is maybe the most important victory from this.
Which will be interesting, because I imagine Glass will be able to stream video so not only can you record the sexy-party-time but you can also distribute it to every horny nerd who can watch it vaguely innocuously.

It may not be the end of reproduction, but it'll be the end of having a meeting without thinking "Are they paying attention or watching porn?".
> which would mean a 1 in 1.74 million chance that the results occurred by chance rather than being a signal

No!! It's the chance that randomness could produce a result that large. This distinction sounds pedantic, but misunderstanding this is widespread and leads to fallacies committed frequently by very smart people who ought to know better in many fields.
So you want to be an Electrical Engineer working for Google?
Smart money says if there's demand for it people will be able to buy custom instances with it for a variable amount of money.
Ah I guessed right. Regulations are the reason why this is not done well in other countries.

Anyhow, m-pesa is right thing done in right place. Props to Kenya!
GlaxoSmithKline Pays $3 Billion Fine
I have to agree it'd be cool to be able to try the app without the Facebook install
... and then the spammers have a field day: on every page, a list of 10,000 forks, re-titled with names like "Luis Vitton CHEAP$!$" and "U 2 can aFf0rd Rolex!"

Interesting idea when all players are playing by the same rules and with the same intent. Not as appealing when the most active are there simply to generate noise.
Hey, you know, you do make some good points, and that was a good article. You're really astoundingly condescending and irritable, but I'm sure you're a smart person.

At the end of the day, I'll say "my bad" for conflating Flash and ActionScript. They're not the same thing at all. I am a frequent user of Javascript both in the browser and servers, so I look fondly on most ECMAScript variants. The language is distinct from its runtime environment, which is where I find my gripes. I'll also admit that my past use of Flash is both dated and was closer to a "script kiddie" experience than what I do now, and while I doubt I was the worst developer ever, I was probably making bad decisions by both of our standards today.

But therein lies, to me, the real problem with Flash. For the sake of constructive discussion, I will just concede all your points about the stability of the plugin -- since you did make good points about Apple's accusation, let's just grant the plugin is refined, secure, and stable. I think we can agree the easy publishing of the web enables bad developers all the time. They just write their shitty code, run it through bad or no QA, FTP it somewhere and boom, users are downloading and running it. This is bad enough with the HTML/CSS/JS stack. Flash exacerbates the problem by expanding the API handles available for shitty devs to put their shitty hands on. From the "user" point of view, where user is not either of us but someone who only wants technology to work for them, Flash comes with a lot more bad treatment than most things on the web. Dancing hamsters merely offend; bad Javascript can break a page load; but it takes a powerful plugin like Flash to really make your computer grind gears.

And that gets to the crux of my argument -- CSS animations. When you start adding powerful features like that to a web technology, you know it will be abused because the web is full of shitty developers. Style sheets using these features are already crashing people's browsers (and I looked at the source for those animations -- I don't think these guys are even hacks at all). That shouldn't be happening. The world needs a stable stack of web technologies that minimize the damage bad developers can do. And this is just talking about poor code; you know the danger that a sweeping API poses in the hand of a black hat...big nod to ActiveX there. I know, the assertion that we should limit technology to account for the lowest common denominator sounds ridiculous, but do you really know of any way to stop bad developers from getting their code to run on user's devices? They seem to persist no matter what!

Eh, I could go on. But no one is going to see this stuff at this point. I guess we'll see what the future holds, but I think bottom line...Flash had a good 10+ year run. It was a net benefit to the web. But there are things about it we ought not repeat, especially in other mature, dependable technologies, like CSS.
(So... How was it? Did it make you feel good?)
Still on the Front Page after over 24 hours:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193590
just a friendly reminder: more does not equal better :)
8 GB bzip2-compressed, for the English Wikipedia, if you download the dump that contains only the current revisions of article-space pages. Much bigger if you want the one with every historical revision.
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Take two objects. Take two more objects. How many do you have? Four. Could you ever have five? No. Thus, two plus two does equal four, and it does not equal five.

Can you ever prove something to be true, that is not true? No; your proof would simply be incorrect. By definition of "proof" and "truth."

Thus, it can't be proven that two plus two equals five.

I would like to hear your response to this. I don't understand how mathematicians can justify referencing some kind of mathematical formalism and just skipping reality altogether, and then not mentioning that they had done so.

To be clear, I am not contesting Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem; I'm criticizing the writeup posted here, which uses everyday language to blatantly contradict what is obvious in reality.
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Depends on which language you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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But nor do people pay for a lot of the fashionable consumer products such as Pinterest.

If people aren't prepared to pay then they do not have a viable sustainable business. They can keep taking VC investment and hope to sell to Google or whatever but thats a different thing.

I believe that if you solve a real problem that people are having, consumers will be more likely to open their wallets for it.

[Angry Birds is an interesting one. It's obviously a profitable franchise but the pricing model of mobile apps makes is such that they can be sold as a very cheap impulse buy. Micro payments perhaps make the model of building for desire rather than problem solving more viable.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185397

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183314

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183452

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185305

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184651

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184317 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193531
Not a list, but chances are they were from http://www.eppgroup.eu (based on today's press release at http://www.eppgroup.eu/press/showpr.asp?prcontroldoctypeid=1...)

That group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_%28Eu...) is larger than those 39 votes against and 165 abstains, though.

For the curious: http://www.nrc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/acta.jpg shows what the EU parliament looked like today.