skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A perk but also a logistical challenge. In the small number of attempts I've observed so far, a big problem is that if you start with a small community but all of Wikipedia as your starting content, you immediately get overrun by spammers, because your small community can't police editing of 2m+ articles, and you also lack all the anti-vandalism "immune system" bot infrastructure that Wikipedians currently run.

One way to sidestep it would be if your experiment is with a community structure that's much more restrictive than Wikipedia's. If, for example, only approved editors can edit articles, then you avoid most of the spam problem. But it's not clear to me that insufficient barriers to editing are the main problem with Wikipedia.
Criminalizing the possession of child porn photos is a tool to assist in the capture of people who make child porn photos. A person facing prosecution for possession is highly motivated to reduce their own sentence by helping in the arrest and prosecution of the source of their images. If the source didn't make the photos, they certainly possessed them too, so it's possible to walk another link higher in the chain.
I'm not the OP, but it just means that when you get your paycheck, immediately deposit a certain amount into savings. Since your paycheck seems smaller, you'll hopefully spend less.
Yesterday morning, the Free Software Foundation crashed the Windows 8 launch event in New York City. A cheerful GNU and her team handed out DVDs loaded with Trisquel, FSF stickers, and information about our new pledge, which asks Windows users to upgrade not to Windows 8, but to GNU/Linux.
It's quite obvious it went this way: agriculture, then domestication (since you need to provide food to domesticate animals), then milking, then cheese-making. There is no question that it was not a nomadic culture thing.
I think a contributing factor is that Wikipedia is not particularly easy to edit, especially for non-techies.

As a casual editor -- and as a seasoned techie, even -- the markup language used by Wikipedia is daunting. For example, the documentation on available templates (which, incidentally, are completely different for each sub-language wiki; in fact, most non-English wikis lack a full set of templates found in the 'en' wiki) is so bad that I usually have to spend several minutes hunting down information about the "citation needed" template, because I keep forgetting it, or the ways to write a <ref> tag or even links. Every time I want to create a brand new wiki page, I have to copy another page as a starting point because of all the arcane templates, tags and conventions I need to use.

The default editor mode is a mess, with a tiny proportional font used for the edit text field, no autocompletion or syntax highlighting, no "draft mode", no diff-based conflict resolution, etc. I suspect that many experienced editors probably use apps or a collection of GreaseMonkey scripts to fix the editing experience, but to casual users it's pretty unbearable.

Keeping track of edited articles is also a mess, to the point of being useless. There's an Atom feed, but the item contents is just the edit description, no diff. The article history page itself is like something out of Bugzilla, designed by some Perl guy with no notion of UX, with radio buttons as a way to navigate among diffs.

These little annoyances add up to the point where I hesitate before considering whether I should bother to perform an edit and create a page, dreading the technical hurdles.
Calling margarine "butter" is not the same as calling coconut liquid "milk" - it's called "coconut milk".

I guess it's all about the color, see milk glass.
also, http://www.defectivebydesign.org/windows8 , !
The initial example presents the same which-part-is-infringing conundrum as the more convoluted example you presented.

- restricted material is X
- generate Y randomly (using a typical cryptographically secure RNG or PRNG, zero-bias, with an entropy source unlikely to be observed by anyone else)
- Z = X xor Y

There is no way to prove that it wasn't Z generated randomly, with Y = X xor Z.

It's clear that the only way to generate both Y and Z is to have the restricted material, but you don't know which piece is tainted and which isn't. You have to know which piece was generated first to know which one is infringing (the non-infringing one had to be used as input for the infringing one).
Considering the amount of times this turned in the replies to my comment, I probably have made a mistake that made it sound like I am questioning 99designs’ legality. I am not. They are perfectly legal. Designers knowing what they’re getting is what makes them legal—no one is forcing anyone to do anything they do not want to partake in. I should probably edit my comment, but after so many replies, it would break the train of thought so I am leaving it as it is.

What I do is also far enough from the design discussed here to allow me to take this problem as largely an academic one, for disclosure’s sake. I do not work in the market serviced here.

However, I do have a problem with the moral aspect of using spec work—it’s not about free will, that would be a problem of legality, not morality, because our western society decided that free will is an important enough thing to protect that we have laws matching our moralities on that subject. What, then, makes us have laws on minimum wage? There are jobs that can be serviced for lower-minimum wage, there are employers that would gladly offer lower-than-minimum wage, and there surely are people that would take them in a heartbeat. We do have that laws in part because it’s just plain immoral to ask people to work for free or nearly-free even when they know what they’re getting, much to the capitalist’s chagrin, and in part because it would create a race to the bottom on all parts of the society. Designers being offered spec work is just a way smaller-scale version of this. That said, the issue of minimum wage is an open ended question which I am utterly unqualified to comment further on.
> Pasta? it's so carby, I've got to have milk to get some protein to level out the glucose release.

How does that work? You get twice as much sugar (lactose) than protein from milk.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=milk
">This is insane. Nobody in their right mind would do this over what 99designs offers"

I think your hyperbole knob needs adjusting. There are thousands of right minded and happy clients doing exactly what I suggested.
Having worked with both crowdsourcing websites and professional designers on a one-on-one basis, I am by far more satisfied with crowdsourcing sites on the whole, for simply delivering what I ask for at an appreciable rate. I don't just like the guaranteed levels of service or the straightforward payment terms many crowdsourcing sites offer, I like the idea of crowdsourcing, for the same reason I like open source.

Just as open source developers want to maximize the number of eyeballs on their codebase, I want to maximize the number of eyeballs on my creative project. So do you, you professional designer, or would you actually prefer to start a creative project without the benefit of having 1,000 different artistic directions to draw inspiration from?

I strongly believe a good idea can come from anyone, anywhere. In light of this, it makes no sense to trust that you, Mr. Designer Extraordinare, of 10s of 1,000s of other Designer Extraordinares on Earth, have the ability to supremely encapsulate my project in PSD format from the great subconscious better than everyone else. In all likelihood, you don't - because that is the nature of human creativity. This is why I want 1,000 different designs to look at early on.

Honestly some of you designers make it seem like crowdsourcing contests are compelling designers everywhere to become robot slaves. First of all, who's to say you can't run a crowdsourcing contest and then hire out the rest of job; or hire first and then run a crowdsourcing contest? These are merely tools at your disposal in a free market.

And in regards to the supposed waste of resources, my assumption is most designers who participate in an early stage crowdsourcing contest sit down for a few hours tops and submit a thoughtful initial concept to get noticed. You see this pattern repeating itself over and over when you run enough contests with ample promised payment. 80% of the entries are a joke, submitted by people who couldn't be bothered to read your design brief, or who couldn't understand English well enough to do so; 15% have potential and maybe 5% really hit it out of the park.

I offer premium rates when I run a crowdsourcing contest, and I wait for competent designers who understand my creative brief well enough to at least pretend to meet it to submit something half decent, and then I work with those designers for the next few days to hone the design. What is so wrong about that?
He's writing in JavaScript and using html for the UI - this is orders of magnitude faster.

In what sense is that true?
You don't need milk, you're just used to it.

It only takes a couple of weeks without it for you to no longer crave it. Go long enough, and the taste of milk will actually put you off.
As an academic I generally agree. I have mostly good experiences editing Wikipedia, with a handful of bad ones. By and large it's much more reasonable than some of the things I've run into in academia. My main wish on Wikipedia is that I got more feedback of any kind. Often I will write an article and never hear from anyone about it. Maybe I pick too obscure topics, but it'd be nice to hear some constructive feedback more often.
I don't think that HN particularly hates MS, it's just that few people here live inside the MS ecosystem. Google Drive is relevant to those who live in Google's cloud, Dropbox is relevant to all the Mac users I know. That's why these two will be mentioned a lot more often.
I recoil at the thought of that—how can you stand it? Is there something behind it that would make you want to prolong it even further?
On the other hand, we do have peanut butter, cocoa butter, apple butter...
Milk Allergy can be dangerous. It depends of the level of sensitiveness. For example a baby can be vaccinated by Glaxo's Infanrix that not say explicitly that contains milk protein and he/she will have rush in the skin, fever, cry all the day and make blood stools. And this is just a small symptom. In the worst case it can have an anaphylactic reaction.

So... it can be really serious.
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So far work has just come to me. I got some iOS contracts from comments I've posted here and now that I'm also doing Android I've had friends approach me for Android ports of iOS apps they're already doing for clients. Just about everybody wants iOS and Android now so somebody that can do both is in demand.

All this kind of happened passively over the last year or so though. I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to bootstrap this more quickly.
Dribbble does not change the value proposition I outlined. What rational business owner will choose picking a designer from Dribbble and hoping they'll produce a desirable logo instead of picking a logo from 99designs? To me, 99designs seems like a vastly superior option.
But to prove that you need to show that there exists a neotenous trait that improves sexual selection.

Then you need to prove that the lactate gene is in linkage disequilibrium with that gene (thus capable of being "coming along for the ride".

Given the impact of a genetic mutation that improves metabolism, which has its own evolutionary benefits (improved ability to access energy) there seems little reason to invoke this third trait.
Hey, looks like a nice extension.

Just one thing - if I load up a page, and then try to click an accordion dropdown thing, it doesn't copy down ratings (or load up now ones). Apart from that, nice work!

See screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/W5GdC.png
I'm not claiming your logo is objectively detrimental to your business, just as I wouldn't claim that off-shored software is objectively detrimental to an offshoring client. I've certainly used software developed by a small team in India that did exactly what it needed to.

I don't know what your logo looks like. It might be a great piece of design that connects with your customers and represents your business well. All I'm saying is that a proper design process helps ensure that happens; it's no different from software in that regard.
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I agree with you as it currently stands, though I think there's been a shift on that. There used to be an attempt to enforce an independent notability guidelines, that Wikipedia would only cover subjects that were "encyclopedic". I believe that even predates the verifiability/referencing push. But where I agree is that I believe the latter has mostly obsoleted the former: nowadays, if you have good references for your article, it's ipso facto notable.

I wrote a bit about that evolution elsewhere, on the off chance it's interesting: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability...
Arguably, psychodynamic therapy is a form of your described Intronet. It's the practice of reflecting on things already present (memories, repeated thoughts, patterns of behavior, even dreams at times) and hypothesizing insightful connections. It doesn't emphasize the acquisition of new knowledge from outside sources.

Many have discarded psychodynamic and other long form therapies for practical reasons (expense, indefinite time commitment), but perhaps regular time slots for forming connections by exploring inwards — rather than from new information from the world — is the key to achieving balance.

Mindfulness, meditation, and so on are also included in this. Psychodynamic therapy happens to offer a verbal approach.
Why did you convert to skim? I don't have any viable sources, but I thought skim was not only tasteless, but not any more healthy than other milk. At least one study has shown skim increases cardiovascular plaque.

I don't really like to stand on the stump of "nutritional science," but I always find food choices interesting.
I was hoping it would show the IMDB rating on the Google movie listings page. I always end up having to search for the title -> click IMDB link -> view rating while picking a movie to watch in cinema.
Well, having made beer and wine before, it's not really compatible with previous lifestyles as well. The way we do things in the modern world is not at all similar to the way historic societies worked. In the earliest days, beer was an accident that turned out well. We wouldn't recognize what they called beer. I'm not a historian, but it's possible that what they called cheese was at odds with our modern definition.

First you make something. They you make it good. These days we call it "minimum viable product (MVP)".
To make matters worse, I want to keep Google and Facebook inside Google Chrome, and use Safari for my normal life. But every time I clicked a document in Google Drive, it opened Safari and conveniently logged me into Google.
I posted this article because I thought it showed a remarkable lack of understanding of startups. It was frustrating and I'm surprised VentureBeat published it.

First of all, the authors issues with edTech startups might apply to any startup vertical: not doing enough customer research (ie. not "knowing your user"); solving a niche problem; working with slow-moving large institutions... etc. I'm convinced that every entrepreneur makes these mistakes at least once (no matter how many sage advisors counsel them otherwise).

Second of all, the author presumes that winners can be picked through pre-product research. Learning is intensely complex. The notion that building a product around existing assessment data is intriguing insofar as it informs a v1 product. ...but beyond that, shooting in the dark, learning from users/learners, and evolving the product is the generally accepted path in organic startups (and empirical research for that matter) -- and education is no different.

Third, the author is highly critical towards startups, using the word "suck." He doesn't seem to realize that this critical tone with which he now brushes of edTech startups out of hand is the embodiment of the intransigence that plagues academia.

It's almost as if the article was written unwittingly as a parody...
I'm pretty sure as skyhook_mockups described it's just a normal folder. GDrive is going to offer a lot once more applications start offering their services services based on what you store in GDrive which is what I see as the differentiating factor for things stored in GDrive. I imagine Dropbox will mimic it in time, but they're behind at the moment.
Access to milk is a great thing, because you get the calories and many nutrients needed to sustain life, and all you need is a cow, goat or sheep (which is mobile) and pasture.

Compare that to cereal crops like wheat or maize or vegetable crops, which require long uninterrupted growing seasons and irrigation.

Why is this important? When a troop of rampaging soldiers cuts through your village and pillages everything in sight, you grab your cows and family and boogey out of there. Essentially, you have a mobile food supply.

In the event of a drought, you have options as well. With wheat or vegetables, no rain == no food. With a dairy animal, you go kill the guy who controls the next pasture and let Old Bessie the cow feast on the grass. (The other key development was the introduction of potatoes, which remain buried under the ground safe from the rampaging army above -- my Irish ancestors subsisted on potatoes hidden from the English taxman and a cow that lived in the house.)

In Europe and the Near East, these things were really important, because there was always pillaging armies marching across the continent. Today, it's unlikely that some Mongol horde is going to loot my supermarket, so I drink milk and eat cheese because they are really tasty.
Why another web-based editor? What's wrong with a native editor?
This only addresses a minor part of your (legitimate) complaints, but fwiw, it's okay to add references without using the appropriate templates. You can just write the reference, in plain text in whatever format you want, between the <ref></ref> tags. Someone else can fix up the formatting later if they want. The only really important thing is to mention where the information came from in some kind of readable way, with something like: <ref>A. Author. Article title. In Proceedings of Conference 2012, pp. 11-12</ref>
By acceptable, I don't mean outstanding. Just something I wouldn't be ashamed to put on a business card or website. You typically award one winner, but you do have the option to select multiple winners and pay them each the full amount.

These aren't necessarily top-notch designs, and the designers know how 99designs work. I've entered coding contests myself knowing I might not win. I don't know every designer's motivation, but it can be just for fun or experience. Obviously, there are designers that are willing to participate.
> Since the argument here is over how the law should work

I think we've talked past each other here. I agree with you about how the law works. As much as I might want it to work differently, it currently does not. However, read the second to last paragraph of the essay: "I think it's time for computer people to take Colour more seriously - if only so that we can better explain to the lawyers why they must give up their dream of enforcing Colour inside Friend Computer, where Colour does not and cannot exist." That one sentence nicely sums up both viewpoints: the law wants bits to have color, and technology does not support properties of bits beyond the bits themselves. You've argued the former, which I agree with. I've argued the latter, and you seem to think that in doing so I've disagreed with the former.

> whereas I think it was just about trying to get the computer scientist to understand color.

I'd argue that the same article would also help lawyers understand why technology cannot represent the color of bits.

In any case, I think the sentence I quoted above makes both viewpoints very clear. And while I recognize that the law sees bits as having color, I intend to continue working to make sure technology does not attempt to care.
It's difficult to make generalizations about "Europe" because each country has its own set of labor laws. From what I hear, Britain has a pretty heavy tax situation. This leads to multi-national companies setting up "dutch sandwiches" and other ridiculous tax schemes. They end up paying very little; small and medium-sized businesses pay the full amount. I'm not surprised that various business interests felt that tax reform should be high up on the government's agenda. I don't see how it in any way invalidates the need for other reforms.

I also don't see why making people ridiculously hard to fire is "favoring employees." Maybe it just disadvantages employees who are actually good at their jobs, but didn't manage to get in the door before the incompetent or unsuitable ones? I've been fired before. It's part of life, like breaking up with a significant other. Relationships that have gone bad shouldn't be forced to fester.

For an extreme example of "pro-employee" (but not really) regulations gone bad, check out Spain. More than half of young people under 25 cannot get a job, because of the gold-plated employment contracts their elders negotiated years ago. The unemployment rate for the country as a whole is at least 25% now. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/europe-youth-unempl....

Spain has a two-tier labor market where temporary employees are treated very poorly, and usually fired before various "magic dates" kick in when they would automatically get benefits. In the meantime, full-time employees are virtually unsackable and coddled. The older generation, like vampires, are living off the young.

Entrepreneurs in France are also having problems: http://www.economist.com/node/21564609
Here's the difference: as a developer I don't feel the least bit threatened by the existence of spec work. I know that it's not a substitute for what I do.

Designers claim to know this too, but then they get really defensive.

So which is it? Do pro designers really provide value that can't be had through a spec-work site? If yes, then they have nothing to worry about.

The anti-spec-work argument is based on a false dichotomy: the alternative for most of those designers on 99designs is not a pro designer job. It's not getting paid to do any kind of design at all. Work gets done on spec because it's a very low friction way to operate, and if you increase the friction enough these little transactions never happen at all.
Raising cattle isn't presupposed on agriculture. It is possible to manage herds of cattle over a wide grazing area without having to tend to feed stock.
Faster for them to code with compared to C I would imagine.
How did you fire up Conan?