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The cult of "deletionism" insists that hard drive space is so precious at wikipedia it can't possibly be used for entries that Joe-Little-Kid-Wikipedia-Bigshot hasn't heard of.

Always funny (and sad) when they get it this wrong. Jason Scott speaks of it better than anyone else:

http://archive.org/details/20060408-jscott-wikipedia
You can get the kindle version now. John Cook may have gotten an advance copy of the book.
What does this have to do with hackers? Good question, since I understand that hacking just pertains to programming. I must of been thinking of "solving hard problems" was for some other term.
My short was at 700. I'm up ~15% where they had a P/E of ~17.

I'm not too worried. Apple was worth ~$700 billion and based on future growth prospects, market saturation, commodity competition and the squeeze currently being put on by the entire world's electronic manufacturing community backing Android on both the high/low ends and in terms of sheer volume (millions of activations per day) - I feel rather secure.

Apple is being Netscape'd.

No company can survive a full world supply squeeze with path dependent adoption. Even with their cash horde (which they are paying out because they literally can't use it) they can't directly confront hundreds of billions in global investment in electronics manufacturing through South East Asia chasing Apple's profits. If they do try - they'll be Solyndra'ed.

Screens are now commodity (see lagging iPad).

However, I've been thinking of closing up my short this week so who knows - I might buy. Investors who win are investors who think and always have the ability to change their minds, reverse direction and go all in if the fundamentals change.

I don't really care either way.
Whenever I read Matasano I think Monsanto instead. They both start with M and end with O, and the inner consonants are similar.

And Monsanto does not have a great reputation...
i should be more clear - github has the potential to be a real threat to wikipedia in the long run. a group of hive minded individuals developing code together with powerful tools, tools more powerful than web text boxes. with a stretch of the imagination. github could start projects not only related to software projects but projects such as a repository for all human knowledge.

is this a form of censorship or am i tilting at windmills?
The best way to pitch something is to start executing on your idea so you know exactly what it is you're trying to do.

Much like how you cannot really know something until you can explain it to someone else, you cannot pitch an idea until you understand its execution.
What kind of performance do you get out of it? My understanding was that it's still slow compared to, eg, ext4, but it might not be very visible to normal users.
The trouble with GTA seemed to be in the Securom DRM. With GTA5 on the way and knowing the business Securom operates in, I wouldn't be surprised if a patch never came.

However, all of the other games I've tried have worked with Windows 8 on my laptop. It does make me wonder about the future of companies like Securom in a Windows 8 world.
Then you need to look around more. Samsung have been beating Apple is shipments for the last few quarters. The SGIII really bought it home for Samsung.

Together Samsung and Apple currently have over half of all shipments, and Apple ship about half of what Samsung ship. So your estimate is quite correct.
You can hardly blame links for that. There was no widespread hypertext format before HTML for conventional renderings to appear in. Most of the rest of Markdown has analogues in earlier plain text formats and is fairly visually suggestive.

Common Lisp managed to unite several divergent implementations of Lisp (MacLisp, InterLisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, etc.) under a single common specification. This was possible because the Common Lisp standard was not created by some third-party out of dissatisfaction with the other guy's stuff but by significant representatives from all the big camps. The desire was for better interoperability, not imposing ideals on the competition.

I think this effort, if Gruber supports it, is likely to succeed simply by incorporating most of the community. In fact, it could be even easier, because one of the principle motivators for the divergent implementations of Markdown is simply to create concrete specs around a concrete grammar. This doesn't mean there won't be divergences (Scheme, Clojure, OpenLisp, etc.) it just means that those divergences will be principled ("we reject the size", "we desire modern FP techniques") rather than accidental ("we used this regex instead of that to tokenize emphasized text").
thank you i see now.
That is not how most people are going to interpret that image. It comes across as completely clueless, since Rand is both a notoriously terrible writer and someone who would absolutely abhor the idea of collaborative writing, not to mention the idea of giving someone money.
Interesting concept and I like the design. My only suggestion is to consider drawing in users a little more before prompting them to give personal info via the Google sign in. Maybe this could be accomplished by connecting some kind of interactive demo of an experiment to the "Try it now" button. In any case, I was interested in the site when I clicked "Try it now;" I just wasn't quite hooked enough to give up my info at that point.
Thank you, my bad, I misread
This is fantastic news, good to see this means these guys will stick around for quite a while to come. It's quite a remarkable service, I'm not aware of any embedded (unobtrusive) video chat alternatives aside from rolling your own Red5 servers and managing the load.
I think that's misleading. The folks who go around deleting articles are not the ones who have to worry about things like server capacity. They do it because they think it keeps the standard of quality higher.

The article's not in Google's cache anymore, but as far as I can tell from the snippet, it apparently consisted only of the sentence: "Tom Preston-Werner is the creator of Gravatar and co-founder/CEO of GitHub." That's more information than I knew from reading the headline of this post, but it's a far cry from an encyclopedia article. I don't see what's lost by deleting it until someone's willing to put in the effort to write something substantial.
But they did it, and guess what- 4 decades later no one gives a damn about the money spent because adjusted to inflation and comparative to other pointless spending(wars) its the cost of chicken feed.

The whole point is stunt or other wise they achieved something through brute force. The point is we aren't even attempting a brute force solution.
For prominent and mostly-seen-as-neutral English-language sources, they seem to only selectively block specific articles, or temporarily block them entirely only around sensitive events or anniversaries where they're worried about what might be published. The English Wikipedia is generally treated like that: you can't read its articles on the Cultural Revolution or Tiananmen Square, but you can read articles that don't trigger a sensitive-topic block. My dad spent some time in China on work and was also able to watch the BBC News most of the time, except that a handful of stories were abruptly cut out, and the entire channel was occasionally unavailable around sensitive dates.
This is exactly what I've wanted for a very long time for games. This is fantastic!!!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4518588

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4520714
appreciated - this deletionism mentality, i feel is slightly incorrect. would it not be better to have an attitude of accuracy? whereby ensuring the content is accurate. if the wikipedia servers cannot handle the strain of amassing the knowledge of the world then should we feel comfortable with their role as custodian of this knowledge?
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The article was not deleted because Wikipedians think GitHub isn't notable, much less that because they're somehow trying to suppress knowledge of it. They deleted it because (as far as I can tell) it contained no information about Tom Preston-Werner beyond the fact that he created GitHub and Gravatar, and that single fact is already mentioned on both companies' pages. I don't see any conspiracy here, especially given the existence of this: https://github.com/wikimedia
>>But it was flawed. Deeply, deeply flawed.

I will take bad solution over no solutions on an given day.
And I hear you can support the capitalist system by buying shirts with Che Guevara's face on them. Or perhaps referencing equal parts Ayn Rand, Hemmingway, Poe and Cervantes might be more of an attempt to bring to mind famous authors rather than objectivism?
Then they can't write it off as a marketing expense.

It is an extremely tacky move to assign a value to something you're giving away for free.
Though I think you may be jumping the gun on how "most people" are going to interpret 1/4th of an image, it's important to note that the full PenFM project is also built to accomodate single-author works that may or may not be the best quality writing.
It's anecdotal at best.
Not only it can't be generalized, at different ages the outcome may be a lot different.
Kids need a certain level of maturity to understand properly conflicts and learn conflict resolution otherwise they simply feel them as a crack in their world.
There are not fast and hard rules here, every kid/situation may be quite different...
The Mixergy interview with PG (Feb 2010)[1] mentions Jessica working on a second edition of Founders at Work.

PG: "You know, that is her deepest wish. If she is watching this, she’ll be laughing so much at this point because that’s what she would like the most too to be able to spend more time on the new version of Founders at Work. There’s a new, she’s working on a new edition, with a bunch of new interviews."

Any updates on this?

[1]: http://mixergy.com/y-combinator-paul-graham/
A lot of good advice here that almost never applies to or works for those entering the work force out of school with no work experience. That's exponentially worse, especially outside of tech.
Markdown is really a important part of my life now, YES, it will be super cool that the world can have one single spec for it.
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fair enough, appreciate your input.
> To this day iCloud + Core Data support is buggy, poor, and more or less
> undocumented (the go-to guide for using it is a thread on the forums dozens
> of pages long full of angry devs and overwhelmed Apple engineers).

I'm impressed that this is still the situation a year after iCloud's release. When iCloud was originally announced, we were faced with the decision to adopt it or continue with our own server-based syncing solution.

I'm glad we stayed with our own approach, as iCloud + Core Data has never reached the level of stability for me to be comfortable deploying it. By now it's a moot point though, since we now have an Android version to sync against, which eliminates iCloud as a solution entirely.
Sure. But it's like using a picture of a circle, a triangle, a square, and a swastika to suggest "geometric shapes".
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I agree with all of this.

I'd also like to note that some parts of Markdown from the user perspective are non-intuitive and clumsy.

Such as links and images (inline).

Markdown works so well because it is intuitive and appeals to those who once saw old word processors. They don't have to worry about syntax, and can just enter their text into a textarea (free from JavaScript WYSIWYG interference and the inherent troubles of running that on old and new mobile phones, their playstation, web browsers, etc)... and it just works.

Yet some parts of markdown are simply not intuitive. Links and images are two places where I see in usability testing that the end user will constantly refer to help documentation to figure out how to do it.

Beyond getting the code consistent, maintainable, and testable I'd love to see the language itself solve some of the papercuts that trouble the lay end user.

Realising that what I was planning to do for my project (discussion forums, tumblr for forums) was to create an alternative to markdown that would resolve some of these user issues as well as parser issues, I had already decided that I would not call it markdown and that I would educate my users in something new that hopefully solves their and my needs and would remain very stable due to a well-thought out and documented design in the first place. If what you're proposing is in this vein then consider my hat thrown in, what help I can give I will... take me to your git repository.
No, it's like using a picture of a circle, a triangle, a square and a swastika to suggest "famous shapes." And of course, Godwin's law and all that on you.
I use it for my own startup - bhashamitra.com Tomcat, Java Servlets, MySQL - yup pretty boring 90s thing - but works really well for me.
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Middle East and Russia are in Asia as far as I was told in elementary school. Looking at a world map now some 18 years later, I can see that it's accurate :). Especially for Middle East.

But I can see your point, my take is that it's predominantly happens in Asia. There are some spots of it in Europe as well. Mostly the eastern european enclaves. But they will fall eventually (or be consumed by Russia)
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To make a really robust DRM system, perhaps. But DRM really just needs to put enough of a speedbump in front of the average user to make it less of a hassle to pay. iTunes Movies and the Kindle Store are both good examples of this.
Indian leaders are known to hide their illegitimate wealth and other assets behind nominees or shell companies.

Recently, anti-corruption crusaders and media have unearthed some massive hidden fortunes.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/india/...
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Quick question: Which build is released as consumer version now? There's already been a release preview, I wonder if they are the same.
What is your problem with the link syntax? I think it's one of the best bits.
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My brother actually conceived a somewhat similar idea several years ago, but I figured it wouldn't be worth the effort to code and I'm not sure I even knew what technology would be necessary.

If I understand correctly, the idea here is to replace writing workshops. Instead of writing a draft, bringing it in and waiting while your peers read it and mark it up, it's all realtime. I suppose the thinking here is that if you make the whole thing fun and social people will do more of it, or perhaps by making it interactive it will be faster and you won't go as far with a bad concept, or something.

It's a cool idea, but it still strikes me as too expensive to build for what you're getting. And I think you get better writing out of putting in time and thought. But the amateur market is probably a lot bigger than the professional market, so maybe it doesn't matter.
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Thank you for pinpointing the fundamental difference between these two companies for someone who's not followed the space super carefully.
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I think you are conflating the jailbreaking/rooting exemption and the carrier unlocking exemption. The exemption for jailbreaking phones will apply for the next three years (until it comes up for renewal again), while the exemption for unofficially carrier unlocking phones will only apply to phones purchased before January 2013.
That may be true today but in a business that moves this fast you have skate ahead of the puck. And the quality of the engineering I'm seeing on Google's side in the last few releases of Android impresses me a lot more than anything I've seen come from Apple since iOS4.

My hunch is the sheer volume of Android sales and Google's engineering edge is going to turn the tide but external factors could trump all.
Absolute truth. The more obscure the piece of software in the Apple kingdom, the worse it is. Their OS X server product alone is so unbelievably ratty it single-handedly defeats the notion that Apple doesn't ship garbage.

Apple's best code is in the space between Cupertino and new money. Everything else tends to lie fallow.
From my experience, sitting on the couch and ordering something is a whole lot easier than actually going out and getting it. And it comes right to the door. In a day or two. Subscribe and save was even better when the kids were little. Diapers and wipes. Delivered automatically.

I don't find that amazon's prices are that amazingly good. Sometimes they're better, sometimes they're not. I've found small things for half the price in local shops sometimes. Newegg will beat them for anything electronic, but their shipping is really erratic. And since I'm in WA, there's no tax savings.

Maybe I'm a special case. I don't live in a big city, but you can see one from the beach. It's 45 minutes to Walmart, 2x that to Target, Trader Joe's, the Apple Store and other pillars of civilization. Hell, it's 10 minutes to the nearest store (plus whatever time it takes to get the kids into shoes and strapped into the car).

Amazon wins on predictable convenience. They're the biggest store in the world, and they're right here. And whatever I want will be here in 2 days, shipped free. (yeah, we have prime. it's like crack)
rst is definitely better than markdown.
Honestly I also prefer textile to markdown.
And I sorta believe wikicreole is better than markdown.

I cannot understand for what reason MD has become popular, it has an annoying and confusing syntax for half of the things, supports many less things than others and is not stricly better in any way I can think of.
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Why do you feel like normal people, who have been trained for decades--not just on computers but on typewriters as well--that hitting enter means "go to the next line", would have an easier time if that assumption was violated? You even see the formatting in front of you: you are now on the next line, and yet when rendered this information is somehow ignored and the text is pasted together. E-mail clients, which have been doing crazy things to our text for years, don't even do this: the closest they come is format=flowed, and that's a special set of rules designed to be generated by clients, not typed by mere mortals.
I implemented Buddylist at AOL and worked with Jay. He was just down the hall for a long time. Way too young!
Lockitron is highly hackable, based on the video. A guy made bananas create tones based on pushing on them, and that set of tones opened the lock. You'd buy lockitron at that point as a way to interface with your lock in a more reliable way than whatever you could throw together.

Secondly, what do you need cell service for when communicating with a device via bluetooth? Or NFC? Or WiFi? No one's being excluded here except the unimaginative.
My guess is GOOG at ~$200B is close to the lowest it will get. There are a lot of potential big revenue streams that are currently in development.
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Wow. Great advices. I especially like the resilience part. Those rejection stories really hit home, as I have gone through similar experience recently. When reading them, the line "when life deals you a lemon, make lemonade" kept flashing through my mind.
One question might be to what extent the political structure even makes the difference. China's neighbor India has quite different political structures, for example, but shares many of the problems with corruption (perhaps to an even larger extent).
Are you enjoying being forced (by the threat of currency collapse) to give your money to a deadbeat country that has spent the past two decades in lavish and irresponsible spending, while you were working hard to better yourselves?

And yet you think its wrong for individuals to feel that they should keep what they spent their lives building, rather than have it taken at gunpoint and given to someone who chose to waste their lives?
Why do investors prefer Amazon to Apple?
Why are people still interested in Markdown - what problem is it solving and for whom?

It's 2012 and we have HTML 5 compliant WYSIWYG text editors. We no longer have to write plain text littered with special codes, for the purpose of running through a parser, to produce HTML which looks nice on a web page. Maybe it made sense a decade ago when web forms had terrible editors, but not anymore. I think Joe Internet writing blog posts and forum replies would agree with me.

For developers, a README file in plain text looks great everywhere, and avoids any Github vs Bitbucket vs Assembla display issues. If you need to write structured documentation for a system, there's probably already a designated markup language you're supposed to use, so Markdown doesn't help there.
What do you mean exactly by "too expensive to build"? I taught myself how to code a year ago, and I managed to build a pretty complete platform in a month.

To put this in some other perspective as well, I started a similar startup Neovella two years ago, before I knew how to code. It was entirely the collaborative writing side of things--no reader feedback or anything. The community grew pretty well, and we published 4 anthologies of short stories from it. The experience was awesome and unexpectedly amusing. My engineering team (1 man with a full-time job, working for free) couldn't keep up with bug fixes and features requests, and so it kind of withered away and died... but Neovella still receives users to this day who hope to find something other than a ghost town so they can continue to write in a community. I sent out an email to my former users telling them about PenFM, and the feedback overwhelmed me. People loved the product and were entirely supportive, and replied as such, even if they didn't have the means to donate anything. That's more of why I'm doing it. Also because I'm finally able to code it up all on my own, and not let down my user-base anymore.
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Okay. Why ".FM" domain?
Yes, in fact, this article is like every other Rand bashing article I've seen-- they aren't honest about what Rand actually said.

It's politically motivated, and written by someone who has no integrity..... he doesn't care if he's lying. People getting outraged at his lies is, as far as he's concerned, good publicity.

The sad thing is, every month you see a Rand bashing article posted to hacker news and every month you see a lot of people posting in the comments attacking Rand for things she didn't say.

They believe what they're told to think about Rand and they internalize it so that it becomes fact.

So, they actually believe she thought charity was evil, for instance.

This is the kind of anti-intellectualism that is consuming american political discourse.

They want to prevent others from reading the book, so they lie about it.
Because in 2012 there are still lots of plain textareas, like the one I'm writing this reply in.
For one, google docs has a free-form dynamic that doesn't really prevent people from cannibalizing each other's work.

Not sure what you mean by "prevent people from cannibalizing each other's work", given you can very easily share docs and disable edit features at the user and group level but still allow people to read changes as they happen
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Unheard of. Ever seen a western politician (or their family) go bankrupt while in office? This runs counter to odds, statistics, etc. The only difference is the methods and the scale.