skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you could have a system where users vouch for other users who make good submissions, and then have submissions ranked with something along the lines of PageRank, with "vouching for" taking the place of "linking to".

The advantage of identifying good users over identifying bad ones is that recognition of goodness can propagate: if you believe A to be a good user and A believes B to be a good user, that is some indication to you that B is a good user. Replace "good" with "bad" and this no longer holds.
Anyone using this for "real world" development? How does this compare with something you were previously using?
I'm pretty sure it has been mentioned before that yes, you'll be able to use emacs keybindings. The editing surface is based on CodeMirror http://codemirror.net/, which is very customizable.
While combataircraft's tone isn't the nicest, he's voicing exactly what he's unhappy about, giving the Filepicker.io guys the information they need to improve in the future.

Could it have been put in a friendlier tone? Sure, but I'd argue that his feedback is actually constructive.
I do not even know what you mean? Is this a reference to that one academic who said you needed X bits to identify someone? They already knew who he was. The tor use was circumstantial evidence that strengthened the case...at best.

Do you think the TOR information was neccessary for an identification? Surely you do not think it was sufficient?
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Steve,

I'd hate to see you leave the community after such a thoughtful post.

I think some of the best ideas here support your plan and that this is a call to action. We as a community need to support positive comments and refrain from name calling. Acting like an adult isn't about growing a thicker skin, but embracing the lessons we learn as children.

There is a balance between condescension and constructive criticism. Lets strive for the latter.
Yes, I recoiled when he said the line quoted above.

But I think this direct wording was a rhetorical device to set the hook for the pivot in the story, when it turned out the problem with the foam wasn't inclusions during installation at all.
Yes, I'm most interested in the 'ask' section as opposed to the mainstream news articles that feature on the main page.
I just did for the first time.
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While your drawing comment leads me to suspect you probably already have one, it's worth pointing out that Wacom pen tablets are an excellent alternative to mice, especially for people who have difficulty using the latter (arthritis in my case), and in particular when using "mouse-heavy" IDEs, as they're particularly good for text selection. I haven't personally used a mouse on a regular basis in well over a decade.

More recently, I've also found the combination of large Intuos tablet "stage right" and an Apple Magic Trackpad "stage left" for gestures and other things where precision is unnecessary to be a nice way to spread the load across both hands, though I'm not sure how well it'd work, if at all, under Windows or Linux (natively — it works great with VMware Fusion). And while it'd be a nonstarter for people who do lots of numeric input, I've also found smaller keyboards without numeric keypads can make a significant difference in ergonomics, though this is probably somewhat specific to elbow problems like my own.
So, if someone's going to steal your stuff, you'll only get it back if you're rich?

Or is the lesson we should learn is "If you're going to do anything questionable at home on your 'net connection, make sure your wifi is open."?
So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
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I just realized that this is my fault. I'm not new to the internet by any means, but I'm (relatively new) to the geek world. Now that the jokes on xkcd and imgur actually make sense, and I can laugh at n00bs and answer a few questions on Freenode, I feel like I can identify with the hackers. In fact, I just watch the movie Hackers yesterday and it was awesome. I would have had very different sentiments a year ago, or I would have tried to fake what I feel now.

In any case, this sense of elitism I now feel entitled to, has carried over to Hacker News and I feel justified in snarking.

To the OP: Thank you for posting this. In addition to attempting to being a good human being offline, I will double my efforts to being a good human being online so that you may once again love this community.
The paper is exciting, in the calm measured way that scientists are. I look forward to seeing huge data storage on DNA in the future.

I'm gently concerned about what'll happen to information if it's not available to the future people. Is anyone taking the most important documents of our civilisation and encoding them onto clay tablets, or some such?
I think it would be great if they licensed their technology to a company that can leverage it. Fingers crossed that Apple does something with this.

This doesn't mean that they're becoming an evil patent troll.
You're right. We were assholes. We still are.
But seriously, ditch the real time sharing stuff. I don't know why so many todo lists focus on that.

Because it gives bleeding-edgers something to cultivate nodejs/etc. presence on their resumes.
For some time when I lived with my family houses in my block where getting robbed. The first time mine got hit I ran after the kid (probably not even 18) with a knife. Houses all around where getting entered and things where stolen... not mine ever again. Then one day there was a shooting involving a neighbor and he got one of the thieves. Years later the neighborhood could not be any safer.

My conclusion? The best security system is a bunch of crazy ass homeowners thieves are afraid of. I guess there's a correlation somewhere with fake security systems.
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Getting customer data into your system is harder than it looks. Flash uploaders are pretty crappy, but you need them for IE users and direct to S3. Flash is broken for mobile, of course, as is the whole 'upload from computer' concept. Box, DropBox, Google Drive, flickr, and everything else is extremely popular, so if you start implementing all those yourself it adds significant development time and code to maintain. Filepicker has been a huge win for us at PlanGrid.
Now that's a surprise! Didn't see that coming.
> The community that formed around Plan 9 as it went open source were quite hostile

I remember at FOSDEM a few years back, there was this Spanish dude and some of his friends, who were frothing-at-the-mouth fans of Plan 9, and, as they became progressively more inebriated in the place where a bunch of us were staying, he kept ranting louder and louder (and more by himself) about the perceived injustices and deficiencies of a world where Linux was more popular than something so beautiful, so elegant, as Plan 9.

It was ... a bit disturbing to watch. That kind of passion should be reserved for relationships with other people.

I think part of the problem with its diffusion was that it only became free software a decade after Linux, with no clear niche to attack (see: Crossing the Chasm) and make its own.
I think I'll go for a higher-end market, so I'm launching ihad5000dollars.com tomorrow.
The issue isn't about angry people controlling others, or about the balance of who regards who as "more important", a point that I think you've mistakenly identified as the crux of the issue. It's about manners and social courtesy.

If the people you dine with are "getting angry" and trying to "control" your actions, the likely reason is that you're being offensively rude, and are missing the social signals of people's frustration and displeasure.

There's a time and place for everything, and much like farts and taking a piss, using your phone should only follow an "Excuse me" as you leave the dinner table.

Ever turn your phone off for the duration of a movie, concert, or show? You only use your phone in the lobby, or at the more casual bookends of an event. This isn't rocket science.

Folks who dine with someone who is constantly dropping the conversation of a shared meal to look down at their phone will indeed "deal with it". They'll simply think of you as overwhelmed and rude, and will hesitate to invite you again.
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Software copyrights would cover whatever they may have invented just fine, there's no need for an overbroad patent system to shut down the entire idea of application streaming for the next 20 years.
If you're on Mountain Lion, Gatekeeper won't open the launcher, complaining it isn't signed.

The best way around this without touching your security settings is to right-click the launcher and selecting "Open".
And even that would not be actual murder.

I remember when I was rather fresh on the internet, ran into Stileproject of all things (don't google that if you don't know it, it can be summed up as porn and gore, plus "funny mutilation" and midgets), and ended up seeing a video of someone having their throat cut, while someone had a boot on their head - it was very real, in Russia by the sounds of it. Then there was a beheading, and of course stonings from them middle east. I was shocked, but I could also not not look, if that makes any sense.

That was 12 years ago, and I still feel helpless and angry thinking of it, I still remember more of these videos than I care to. The idea of someone watching such videos, and actually laughing, chills me to the bone. But I'm under no delusion that that was not the primary reason for their circulation.

Sometimes humanity sucks.. and I'm torn between my right to learn about the banal cruelty that actually exists in the world, and not wanting such things to be glorified.
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Oh, fantastic. Thanks.
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AnyList co-founder here. We find that the ability to share a list is very popular with spouses, families, significant others, and roommates. When we thought about creating a great grocery shopping list, we took inspiration from the classic sheet of paper stuck to the family refrigerator with a magnet, where everyone writes down what needs to be purchased.
Just FYI, for xhr to S3 you can set up a proxy which fakes the CORS headers. You might have already been aware of that.

Filepicker looks neat. I wish it had been around when we were building our service.
So really, rather than providing useful anonymity to political dissidents, it's just providing anonymity to pedophiles?
Great article! I loved the transparency. Will you be writing a follow-up post describing your launch process?
> Yes, I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but here I am saying it (take me, Police) - out of curiosity, I went to Hard Candy section of The Hidden Wiki. (Yes, it is exactly what you would think it is.)

That was a ridiculously reckless thing for you to do. You've opened yourself up to a variety of legal sanctions.

Knowingly, deliberately, breaking the law is a bafflingly dumb thing to do, especially when the consequences to your life would be so severe.
Perhaps it's very basic- in the Time Moneyland article on 8/8 (http://moneyland.time.com/2012/08/08/how-not-to-sabotage-you...), it's suggested that the very tendency that you care enough to ask is why they didn't hire you.
I really enjoy that, that is a great quote. It is the last thing I read before posting this comment and I instantly started looking for a more diplomatic way to tell you that I think it's a bit poetic and would likely be skipped by people who don't have the time to decipher the metaphors. Then again, it seems to have worked.
Absolutely. It's been a viable alternative for some time now.
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You are pedantically correct sir, but there is a larger context. So in that larger context I was working on this plan when working for a company that had a data center near the Columbia River and 'industry leading' PUE numbers.

Generally when the wind was blowing (and it blows a lot along the Columbia River Gorge) there is no need for additional cooling. When there is no air movement and the outside temperature is high, the demand for cooling increases requiring a more 'active' engagement (sorry but I can't be more specific than that).

So realistically I was looking to time shift the excess cooling capacity that was available during windy times to the times when there was little wind and excess heat. Compressing air has some advantages in that the amount of energy you can get out vs the amount you put in is comparatively efficient to battery power, and using / exploiting the cooling effect of the expanding air, and the kinetic energy of its expansion to generate electricity, was actually more efficient than other methods. Maintenance burdens were also lower and municipal permitting was made easier by the lack of 'dangerous' chemicals or catalysts.

These advantages are perhaps uniquely suited to data centers. Of course I didn't get to actually build it because MDI wouldn't participate. That was too bad but certainly well within their rights.
Good Stuff! From the demo, it looks more like a 'deck' to me. Is there going to be a handle for each user where other users can visit to look at? (That means always public?) How are the sharing relationships defined?
Good points. Looks like windows might have the upper hand for your field. Its kinda funny the thing you mention with the package updates, yum(or apt-get) install is actually one of my favorite features on a linux box :)
Have you read the PageRank paper? It's mostly intuitive so it's not painful to read:

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf

Note expecially section 6, "Personalized PageRank", where they replace the random jump with a jump back to some basis pages. Your own up votes/downvotes probably make a pretty good set of reference points, so a PageRank-like algorithm could be heavily weighted according to your own judgement.

To be totally clear, I'm not suggesting everyone get personalized results, but rather that HN is the same for everyone, one view "personalized" according to your judgment (and obviously that propagates through to include the judgement of the people you respect, and they respect, etc).

Yes this is a handwave, and Google has gone lightyears beyond this early paper. But intuitively it may help you think about the problem. It's really going to be some iterative algorithm that flows through all the upvotes and downvotes to determine the authority of each vote, perhaps in a similar way to how the authority of each link on the web can be calculated.
What can the feds do, other than take note of the information the predators exchange? How protective do you think pedophiles are of their real identity, or clues that might lead to it?

Something you did not take into consideration.

As if the most gut-wrenching bits were written by feds, which you surely did not mean to imply, how does it matter if even 80% were feds?
No, it's about uncertainty.

You have a stated problem "the foam that came off didn't come off because of the reasons we thought it did." Now you have no other ideas besides what you've already considered and tested for 26 months. What do you do? Possibly spend another 2 years investigating and find nothing? Or conclude that the risk is small enough to fly while being vigilant about the problem and looking for more data to lead you in the right direction?

Sometimes the only way to get more data to solve the problem is to do the very thing that causes it, while hoping that you've mitigated its effects well enough that the system is still safe.
> What goods are there to exchange

There are "new" images.

There are children.
Well there goes the one draw I had to the Ouya.
I like the concept of filepicker.io: a standardized widget for providing files that handles local files, remote URLs, and services people use. However, every time I read the phrase "by inserting a few lines into their source code", I think 'yeah, and one of those is a script tag pointing at a third-party server'. And sure enough, looking at the documentation, I see exactly that.

I really wish web services would start providing instructions for self-hosting all scripts.
It's hard.

Despite all the "if it's not safe, say so" posters (e.g., http://www.dpvintageposters.com/cgi-local/detail.cgi?d=9203), the anonymous tip lines, and everything else, it's hard to stand up and say that something is not safe enough, or that this cause has not been fully nailed down. Because it's usually a qualitative thing, and careers and programs are at stake.

I was at a large auditorium at JSC (Houston) once. It's where the big pre-launch briefings are held. They had installed phone handsets all over the periphery and aisles of the room so that anyone could easily stop a briefing to ask a question. (I've never seen a capability quite like that in an auditorium.)

The room had (IIRC) around 200 seats. It's hard to be the guy who stands up and stops the briefing to ask the key question. Even though a lot of infrastructure has been created to make it possible.
<markers indicating an IP address that's advertising CP availability.>

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what does that mean? There are 200 servers with that stuff in your city? If you know their IP can't you get a warrant and shut them down? I find it strange that the police know about so many people doing this stuff but don't do anything about it but maybe that's not what you mean? It seems pretty cut and dry if someone is advertising illegal stuff.
I wrote a blog post with more detail, and lots of intuitive examples. see http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/
Nicely argued, but you are responding to a straw man position (that government has no role in regulating cosmetic services) nor did you read the article (which points out that licenses are cheaper in neighboring states, but not Utah.)
Well, I believe the intention there was HTML5 games (which Quake Live is not, cool as it is).

But yeah, there are things like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope which show 2D games working very well in HTML5.
What would happen? The customer would know beforehand what is true, anyway.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport was estimated to be opened in October 2011, then 2012, and currently 2013. Costs were estimated with 630 million. The current estimate is 1.2 billion.

Not giving an estimate isn't the entire solution, either.

The problem with an airport is that every time a deadline arrives, all you can do is notice that you don't have an airport, yet. You must estimate again (and you're wrong again).

With software you can say: "We're going to give you a shippable version every week. You can cancel the project at any time and you keep what you've paid for so far. We can screw up completely and you still have last week's shippable product."

Personally, I'd love that pay-as-you-go approach for the rest of the world.
> It's a common scenario for me and my wife to share a list and update it real-time as we traverse the store.

Playing devil's advocate here but can you effectively be wandering the grocery store looking for item X at the same time as your wife is looking for item Y while she remembers that you should get Z instead of X and update the list in a manner which you'd be notified?

I can't imagine that's common enough to warrant a real time todo list app but the scenario I'm familiar with is different from yours so I might be wrong.

You have to ask, is SMS good enough?

> What we don't do is any recipe management.

Valid point.
Just saying: need to use VPN to have it.

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There have been some great answers from others in this thread already. Here's my take on things:

1. As others pointed out, Plan 9 was not initially free. If you go back and look at the very oldest messages from the 9fans mailing list (http://9fans.net/archive/, starts in 1993) you'll see lots of messages from people just trying to figure out how to get a license. At the same time, you could get Linux for free or very cheap.

2. Plan 9 is unfamiliar for new users. Face it: most people define "intuitive", "powerful", and "useful" as "that thing I'm already used to". Programming in Plan 9 is pretty similar to programming Unix, and the shell feels much the same, but you still need to learn new concepts and people don't like that.

3. Plan 9 is not Unix. People have, from the beginning, wanted to reshape Plan 9 in the image of the Unix/Linux environments they are familiar with, even when it doesn't make sense. They want Emacs or Vim, without having even tried Acme or sam. They want bash, ssh, X11, Firefox, and GNOME. Some of this software, like ssh, X11, and even Vim, have been ported or re-implemented because they're useful for interoperability with Unix or simply because somebody wanted it bad enough to do the port (Vim).

Those aren't the only reasons, but they're pretty substantial.

As for what the next kernel/OS should do, I'd say it's not enough to just exist and be good. You have to be used widely and have enough developers become familiar with it. If, for instance, some engineer at Facebook comes up with a nifty kernel and convinces them to start using it on all their servers, that kernel will probably be successful outside because there's suddenly a massive deployment of it.

Alternately, if you can get into a market that's less entrenched than the desktop, you may have a chance. We saw this to some extent with netbooks (some of the earliest ones shipped with Linux by default), we've definitely seen it with smartphones, and I have a feeling that we may see it in tablets. The problem with the desktop frequently comes down to: "Why can't it run Firefox and open my Word documents?"
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> I'm not sure why they don't start on that end first.

Me neither.

> Does it show you recipes based on something you scan though? That wasn't clear...

My guess is no else that'd be highlighted. But start there, not at the "list".
Is there any articles about workflow/philosophy of sam ? I recall stumbling upon few videos, too introductory to be interesting compared to the emacs/vim-fu we're used too nowadays.
Thanks for the explanation.

That's worse than I expected, you saved me the effort of trying it out.
I did for the first time today.
Indeed, projection onto the principal subspace is a kind of regularization, which makes for better generalization.

This kind of makes sense intuitively. These slides go into more detail (the whole course is great), where it says "Projection regularizes!"

http://www.mit.edu/~9.520/spring09/Classes/class07_spectral....
But with a clear cut system like the one mentioned above, why shouldn't new members get to downvote as well? The system would clearly convey its intended usage, and in the process bring new members up to speed faster. If you still want to impose a restriction, it definitely shouldn't be karma based.
I find it a bit counter-intuitive. [Assume maximum evil] You're going to allow someone to downvote others based on how quickly and effectively he can troll the hivemind to give him 500-1000 or heck even 5000 karma?
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This was one hell of an inspirational post. What I took from it was: we are all human and no matter how smart you are, how many of you are or how much money you have to throw at a problem it's sometimes a mere simple solution or problem that was overlooked. Kind of reminds me of web development.
Nothing revolutionary, it was fun learning Go and scratching an itch.