skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps that would work, but taking that idea one step further: I doubt that there's anything you could do to them legally, because the evidence of a similar writing style most likely wouldn't hold up in court. IANAL but I think the least you need to prosecute someone for their actions on the internet is an IP and a statement from the ISP that the IP was assigned to this users account at that very moment.

And then again I am unsure if simply visiting and contributing to such a forum could get you in any trouble, legally.
I was recently looking at the alternatives available, and thought that Drizzle [http://www.drizzle.org/] looks really great.
More importantly I think than some of the other responses, as I said, Light Table is “picking up that baton and running with it to present even more interesting possibilities”. Taking strong inspiration from some features in Smalltalk IDEs is different from building a Smalltalk-style IDE for Clojure. I see inspiration here, but not straight copying per se.
If you have a great idea, and the value you bring to the table in executing it is "sales", start by selling it to a developer. I'm not sure what we're arguing about here.
They're not looking at your credit score, just a lot of the other information around it.
I'm not sure you have a basis to make the assumption that the forum leads to more predation. What if it works the opposite? We know that violent movies lead to lower violent crime rates, because the criminals who would be out committing violent crimes are instead enjoying going and seeing this movie. The same could be true of people who might otherwise act on their intentions for predation, but are instead satisfied by just living vicariously through others on the forums.

I agree with you that I'd like nothing better than to round all these predators up, but it's only through rational thought and discussion that we can figure out the best way to do that.
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As an example, Tim Ferris has this right above the comment submission box (getting to users right when they're about to take an action):

Comment Rules: Remember what Fonzie was like? Cool. That’s
how we’re gonna be — cool. Critical is fine, but if you’re
rude, we’ll delete your stuff. Please do not put your URL in
the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or
initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off
like spam. Have fun and thanks for adding to the
conversation! (Thanks to Brian Oberkirch for the inspiration).

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/Ipex Guidelines are nice, but most people won't see them. It might work better to get to them right when they're taking the action.
I don't have a github account, but since I noticed the creator reads the comments here I'll report some quick bugs I found:

1. Closing parentheses do not work in table mode, the key combination for ")" on my Swedish keyboard produces a "(" instead. (this has already been reported on github)

2. When I was asked to type in "(+ 4 5)" in the scratch during the tutorial, pressing the spacebar without any modifier keys did not register as a keypress. I had to press shift+spacebar to separate the numbers and complete the task.

3. The window displaying all shortcuts (accessed from the bottom right corner) cannot be closed. I had to restart Light Table for it to disappear so that I could continue coding.
For anyone who's interested, a "Money back or five free years of your own virtual server" offer has been posted by Jason Hoffman: http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=33682

It doesn't come close to honoring the "as long as we exist" that we bought in for, but it's a lot better than the starting position, and Jason is talking a little about why we're being cut.

(From what I can see, it looks like cutting the lifers may have been a requirement of some of the recent VC investors. That's me reading between the lines a bit, though.)
Well, that seems like apples and oranges to me. Space exploration may (or may not) end up being important to human race's survival super-long-term, but breaking Facebook's monopoly, replacing it with services that offer clear, honest privacy settings, would help a lot of people now. There's no reason we can't have both SpaceX and a Diaspora-like project — important in different ways to different groups of people.
Sure, the bubble was mostly in private valuations and not public ones (though I know at least two friends of mine that bought Facebook stock at $40+), but it was still a bubble. Social was highly overvalued.
What a stupid post. Man, are you dumb.

Just kidding. Yeah, I see what you are saying, but I guess my view is that the nature of a community is that you can't fully control it. I see some people here coming up with different ideas about how to protect HN and make it a more friendly place, but the reality is that there is no full proof way to maintain the culture of an open community. The interesting thing is that while it is very easy for a community with a positive culture to start to slowly degrade to negative over time, it is extremely difficult to bring a negative culture back to positive. Does that mean HN is doomed? Not necessarily, but I guess I don't expect things to all of a sudden change for the better overnight.
The problem with invite-only is that you get an exceptionally inbred set of ideas and it becomes little more than a self-congratulatory circle jerk.

I wouldn't mind a small membership fee which would confer voting rights.
Oh, you could catch them much more directly than that. There are technical means through which you can very easily track them down, if they make certain mistakes in their setup. On a non-technical side, it's often quite easy to social engineer people into giving you just enough information to track them (a kind of social equivalent to privilege escalation).

As part of another gig I worked on ways to track people, or more commonly to work out if two distinct users were actually the same human, and I'm almost salivating at the thought of all the potential ways authorities could bring some of these people to justice.
1. yeah, I didn't think about international keyboards. I'll have to come up with something there.

2. just pushed a fix for that

3. Click anywhere outside the box and it'll close. I'll make that more explicit :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eewou/iama_retired_cat...

Search for "dog" on that page. The guy seems to think that dogs are generally not great security.
Snarky reply: You've sequences every single one of those cells and confirm that the DNA all matches?

Non-snarky reply: There is a huge difference between phenotype stability and genotype stability. Take 100 cells from your body and you'll find hundreds if not thousands of genetic differences between them (single mutations).
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If you have lots of data, Linode probably isn't a good fit. I'd look into Amazon S3 (which I suppose you could use with Linode hosting in front of it, but I'd probably just use AWS if I were relying heavily on S3).
sorry to reply to my own post, You may want to try another number as well, 415-932-2100 from [1]. It is from 2008, but maybe someones there with some authority.

also, it was filed last year [2], but another corporate address is listed as

JOSEPH SAUNDERS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
595 MARKET STREET
SAN FRANCISCO,CA 94105

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/0001193125080...

[2]http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1...
The 11kclub post (mod deleted, it seems)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323459

BTW it seems OP has multiple accounts sw1205, sw007 and mdoyle at least. So it's a bit tricky to get the context of what is this about.

It seems the sour end of the 11kclub thread was about a witch hunt by some HN users finding out the submission had conflict of interests. (Myself, I don't see it and I don't care)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325159
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I don't use Plan 9 much because it lacks a modern web browser, though I miss it dearly. I get some comfort on Linux and Mac OS X by using Russ Cox's excellent port of the Plan 9 tools to Unix[1]. To me, the most important Plan 9 tool is of course, the editor, Rob Pike's acme[2].

[1] http://swtch.com/plan9port/

[2] http://acme.cat-v.org/
Ah, I'm kind of used to conflating them. Still, the average restaurant worker, at least around here, is very young, and by definition, unless you're going to an upscale restaurant, likely not getting much money.

I'm not sure where you're from, but in the united states, employers can pay an hourly rate of $2-ish to people who are expected to collect tips. The stereotypical fast food kid actually has a better hourly rate.
You need to read the contract/terms of service to determine what you are granting them with regards to your data. You might find that they want to keep an option open that you can't accept. You might also find that you are okay with what they propse. This is one of those times when you actually need to read the fine print.
They really should, similar to Google's "Takeout" feature that lets you download all the data they have of yours. I downloaded my Google Voice data alone and it was nearly 70 megabytes of call information and text messages.
If you would ever consider putting a quote in the guidelines, I heartily recommend and humbly submit Teddy Roosevelt's Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds
could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who
comes short again and again, because there is no effort
without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive
to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold
and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic
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I don't know, I looked at your past submission for makeusdate, and it appears that you got tons of useful feedback and encouragement. Very little of the posts I saw there were negative at all. Some were blunt, but still encouraging and admonishing you not to give up.
Also, NoPiece pointed out in this discussion that the FCPA probably applies only to goverment officials: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397414

(Is this what you were referencing in saying 'go down and then back up'? not sure what you were getting at there, sorry...)
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TL;DR: one of your favorite twitter clients doesn't see most of this being a problem for a couple years --- and even then, they imagine there will possible routes for them to take when that time comes. Granted, they may be misunderstanding their relationship with twitter, but they really do sound optimistic.

It doesn't acknowledge the worry of newcomer developers to the twitter ecosystem, but I feel that we've been doing a good enough job of speaking to the doom and gloom here on HN. (Edit: See lukifer's comment. Excellent example of one of the difficulties that new apps will face)
as i said before: i would love that somebody comes up with a better study and proves my mini sample wrong, sadly i know none.

i did a similar research of fb enabled signeups vs. non fb signups (on desktop web apps) - outcome: if you enable signups via fb, you get more signed up users.

i think the pro/con fb comments/signups discussion should be based on data (data that is easy to get on our own webproperties) and not on opinions.
The hardware mod that made the most difference for me, typing-wise, was rearranging the tops of the keys. I'm not sure this is doable on modern laptop keyboards, but on desktop keyboards it's trivial, and I never realized just how much I looked at the keyboard until it would hurt, and the habit died quickly.
You remark shows that you didn't even bother to read the entire article.

They're not a credit card company, but a provider of employee benefits (hence they don't even touch the money). They just happen to use small rectangular plastic cards as a medium for carrying balance information.
Rob Pike and the other folks who developed Plan 9 worked at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. Nothing developed in a Bell Lab has ever been 'free' directly. Rather folks who have seen the research and been inspired by it have made changes to their free stuff which you use every day. There are influences from Plan 9 in Linux (the /proc file system for example which was influenced by the SunOS /proc filesystem which was influenced by Plan 9) but that is as far as it goes.
How many are Feds, on the site you mention? Something you did not take into consideration.
Understand the type of organization NASA is. First, accountability is everything. It's not that there are big internal political struggles (there are), but more importantly accountability is required for high safety. We aren't talking about a 10 person startup where a bad commit to production takes down a site for a few hours. We're talking about people's lives, careers, and the safety of millions of people that could be negatively affected by a crash or explosion.

When he talks about it being their fault, it's not that those engineers are being singled out for punishment and derision. They had to find out where the problem existed that led to the loss of Columbia, and after extremely thorough testing they believed it existed with the foam team. It's simply a matter of finding where a problem is and doing everything you can to fix it.

So it's not a personal, vindictive "your fault", its an impersonal "the problem is here, lets fix it".
First thing that came to mind was Stross' "Memory Diamond" - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_...
I'd love to see a blog post along the lines of this thread.

One question I have is that each partnership in my experience has a different mode of operation. For some, it's a lot like a marriage. For others it's a "I can work with him. I could never stand him in a social setting."

Then there are the well-known partnerships of the past: Jobs and Woz, Larry and Sergey, ...
Well, it seems like fair tactics given the original letter's insulting non-apology: "We regret that our staff’s request that you stop filming in our restaurant offended you."
Its neither, feedback supplied to the "Show HN" type posts would generally be positive, or at least constructive and polite. Even if there was no feedback to offer, people would still leave a congratulatory comment about launching.

4-5 years ago it felt like the only people who understood what you went through to launch were people on this site, everyone else including family and fellow co-workers at big corp were negative about the idea of leaving a "safe job" to pursue a dream.

But now with everyone having an idea about the next big app, and blockbuster movies coming out about the geeky kid who did follow his dream, everyone else is starting to "get" us, they can relate. So the feedback you get from outside of HN has become positive, and so the feedback from HN has become more of a "reality check".

I don't see why it just can't be polite but constructive though.
Your LinkedIn link is broken.
I'm quite surprised that its only now that the links to Argentina and Britians current wranglings with South American countries are being talked about.

Remember they are all friends. The UK has the Falklands which Argentina (mates of Ecuador) are very keen to take ownership, especially with the discovery of every conspiracy theorists favourite motivator.... OIL

Yes boys and girls, perhaps this whole thing is less to do with Assange and wiki-leaks and more to do with a bit of dick waving over old wounds and money. That's a better theory for whats going on now
Hmm.

I very very rarely use my phone during dinner, but it's always on the table.

This isn't because I want to use it, it's because it's relatively uncomfortable to keep it in my pocket.
...just shows that Tor is really anonymous and safe.

It shows that the groups who go after and prosecute these people don't have the resources or motivation to get to all of them.

When you have a very significant target of the US (near the wanted level of Bin Landen) or China talking freely on Tor without getting caught, then perhaps you can rule it as being seriously anonymous.

I don't know about other countries, but in the US I generally only hear about people getting prosecuted for CP and similar crimes when they are caught in the act or when somehow the computer files get accidentally discovered or reported by some 3rd party.
Free as in beer if you've paid for the glass.
> I'm not sure what damage it could have done, but it is their own private property, so they have that right.

TFA draws a distinction between cameras and assisted vision systems. It's like asking people to remove hearing aids because no sound recording is allowed. That "right" is going to become unenforceable as technologies like this and google glass become more common.
I agree. One of Smalltalk's (the system) greatest assets is that it integrates fantastically with a GUI/mouse input. However, I also find that one of its biggest problems.

I've pretty much stopped using the mouse for input -- due to RSI -- and I don't care much for trackballs etc. I think the next five years might vindicate Smalltalk a bit as I expect touch interfaces to keep rising -- both touch in the sense of touching with your finger(s) as well as proper "pen" input (which is much better for drawing anyway).

However, for typing -- I still prefer vim -- and at least someone is toying with that idea in Pharo:

http://forum.world.st/ANN-Vim-Shortcuts-for-Nautilus-Proof-o...
What should be the goals of creating an open discussion around an API spec?
I like how you went from comparing passable skills in programming, to being international level experts in other areas.

I know plenty of people that are both programmers and in orchestras, that race cars, and fly planes, paint beautifully, can do UX, and many other things. These people aren't geniuses. They just don't give up immediately when trying to learn something that is difficult.
/proc in Linux is nothing like /proc in Plan 9 though. Not only that the exported files are completely different conceptually and in their internal format, but on Linux I can't bind /proc from another box and do remote debugging with tools that know nothing about where the process runs.

Also Linux union mounts are clunky and not as useful as they are in Plan 9 because you can't have private namespaces if you are not root.
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You've obviously never tried to surf porn in tumblr. It's much easier for accounts with infinite scrolling on vs those that use pagination. :)
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> An .onion server, AFAIK, might have the IP of the end point your traffic ended up going through to reach the .onion server, but not of the point of origin.

Correct. All any tor node gets with any traffic is the immediate node that it came from, and the immediate node that it is going to - only one hop in each direction.

If you get a packet from node C, to give to node E, that packet will be encrypted so that only E can decrypt it. They then "unwrap it" (like pass the parcel, or an onion) to reveal its next destination, F - and this unwrapped one is encrypted so that only F can read it.

(note: precise technical details almost certainly incorrect, but the principle is accurate)
Theoretically an electric circuit can operate with zero heat output using perfect conductors.
* It's not enough to be better to displace something ubiquitous (as unix like systems are today). You likely have to be orders of magnitude "better".

* Do not be hostile to your potential users. (The community that formed around Plan 9 as it went open source were quite hostile, there's no need for public beatings just because someone suggests to port X11 to Plan 9 even if it's a bad idea).
Not to deter you from the social standards approach, but I thought the concept of measuring comments was clever.

The problem I see is - How do you know if a comment is negative or not? Surely, you can tell, but problematically that might be tough.

Maybe swap out the "post comment" button for 2 "commit" buttons 1 that says "Positive" the other that says "negative". (This could be done a myriad of ways, but you get the point)

You could then measure a users tenancy to post useful positive/negative comments based on the average votes that type of comment receives.

posters that consistently have low average scores for their comments could lose posting rights, for a period.
Are you talking about plea bargains, that American system for bullying people into forgoing their right to be tried on the evidence?
well the dna we used never touched the inside of a cell; plain dried dna is very stable, evidenced by the ability to sequence 10's of thousands of years old samples stored in decaying flesh (albeit with some errors).
Dear sw007
LinkedIn is killing it from a share price perspective, but they still have a P/E of about nine hundred and unless they monetize like CRAZY they're going to stay at that P/E or lose value.

In addition, they've proven that the 'business social network' has value, and thus they're starting to see competition where they didn't before.
Wasn't OP's 11kclub.com post dead'ed by mods?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323459
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For me the mouse is never quicker. I think that over time your brain kind of memorizes the number of lines (rows) and characters (columns) available in your screen and it certainly gets to a point where you don't really think about the science behind motions and you end up just using motions defined through past experiences. I amaze myself (and my coworkers) when I apply a seemingly random number to a motion and I end up exactly where I wanted to be. Last time a coworker asked me if I'm a math freak and I did the calculations in my head when doing a complex motion in a second, and even though I answer that I am (jokingly), I know that it's actually just a combination of muscle memory and past memories.

In any case, even though I don't agree with the school that says that to learn vi/vim you should forgo arrow keys and non vim (cmd + s to save, command + left arrow to go the left of the line, etc) key combinations, I think that a major point of inflection while learning the editor is choosing a trick/combination/command that you want to learn because it will increase your productivity and keep forcing it, even if it means not using the arrow keys or other combinations you're not used to, until it becomes second nature. And then do the next one and so on.
I thought io9 did a better job with the coverage; i put a copy of our papers for a limited time on my dropbox:

paper
http://db.tt/ZDoDJZeD
supplement
http://db.tt/elIqsy72