skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. And there are even ways to tell where someone has visited -- so you might try this only against people who have visited that site/blog. Or the author of the blog's accounts elsewhere.

It's not much worse than the other ways people pick low-security passwords, but it doesn't justify its length, or meet its goal of: "Passwords should be secure. One way to acheive this is by making them very long."
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That was one of the original problems, but it doesn't apply to all implementations. Look at Dolphin Smalltalk for example. At its time, it is easily the best windows development tool, having very nice integration with native controls and ActiveX support. I would go as far as saying using it for only exploring and poking at ActiveX controls alone is well worth the license fees. And look where it went. Quite sad really.

Oh, and the free (Community) version is still available for download at http://www.object-arts.com/.

Oh wait a minute. I just accessed the web site to make sure it's correct. And it looks like it's alive again. Woohoo!!
It comes with the territory of daring to act on your ideas.

If you can learn to be happy that you have an interesting enough life to experience such incredible highs and lows, and to know that they are transient, nothing will stop you from chasing your ideas.
That's a bizarre statement, and certainly not grounded in facts, yet you seem to believe it is factual. Plenty of long-term happily married men and women have had non-relationships sex. Your worldview is blinding you in a seriously astounding way.
that will break on urls with @'s in them like some flickr urls
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That's a good point. Blackboard is probably not going to change their decision from public opinion. I think where we differ is that I still think that public outrage is justified, if only to set an example for other companies (to whom public opinion is more valuable).

By the way, I hate to see you being downmodded just for having a contrary opinion, so I've upvoted your comments where I hadn't already. Hopefully some others who value discussion over groupthink will do the same.
I didn't know that, thanks; I would have thought it was more C-like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Dynamic_typing

And it seems that Objective-C performance is much closer to C than to python. http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-dev/2000-May...

That's... a pretty cool combination.
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Hardware. It's a hardware and interface problem. Books are pretty battle-hardened for the kitchen. They do not require batteries or a power source. They do not give up the ghost if you drop them into cake batter, and most importantly they carry on their pages a permanent record of previous adventures written in pencil and flecks of flour dough.
Where does Journalist Programmer fit in that list?
Didn't Knuth implement TeX in order to typeset his papers to his satisfaction? If so, I think the coder level fits...
A decentralized, uncontrollable, no-holds barred, sketchy-as-hell salesforce.
Yeah, I hate codinghorror stories. How may karma points do you need to down-vote now, 100? I'm at 86 and once I get there, I plan on voting down most CH stories.
Unlike some of the other companies, it does not have profitability as an exclusive motivation. Even at break-even, it generates significant float for Bershire to invest.

Can you explain?
A patch to remove a registration check is arguably a tool for copyright infringement no matter what the license says (the author is still the copyright holder after all). But I'm certainly not a lawyer.
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This is interesting and useful. I sent it on to a number of people who live in 'blissful' ignorance - it will help. I really think we should have remedial internet schools or the like to make it more simple for people to be aware of the different parts of the online world.
Somewhat. Different animals, part of the same ecosystem.

If people are using your site, that implies you are providing value for them. Which implies you should, somehow, down the line, be able to find a way to make money - even if it isn't immediately apparent how.

This logic isn't entirely flawed, despite the fact that it's as unfashionable now as it was fashionable 3 years ago.

A few fundamental flaws to look out for.

I. Being one source of a cheap abundant resource.
Very few people will pay for a chat client, no matter how much value it provides them. There are too many freely available competitors.

II. Transaction costs.
This mostly refers to the time, hassle, and risk that come along with making online payments, that ultimately come out of the amount you can charge. If the value you are providing is very small, but among a billion people, these transaction costs can prevent you from monetizing.

Any other things to look out for before going for a monetize-later strategy?
Reminds me of the million dollar homepage... Just in man form
Edit: I initially misidentified the project-specialized clause as the key new clause; my text below has been expanded and corrected. I thank almost and artost for their corrections below.

This project's eccentric worries don't justify the license proliferation.

The new elastic "do what I mean" clause -- "Any redistribution, in whole or in part, must retain full licensing functionality, without any attempt to change, obscure or in other ways circumvent its intent" -- just adds a new cognitive barrier to the easy participation and mixing with other projects that's usually the whole point of open source.

I also wonder if the new restriction is legally meaningful in any realistic situation. There was no right to arbitrarily relicense BSD code to circumvent its conditions before the addition.

Given that the essential conditions of the BSD license are attribution and non-endorsement, how does this new clause add anything but confusion?

Even in the absence of the updated wording, any marketing falsely implying a endorsement from the main project would be actionable under other principles. Even with the updated wording, is there cause of action against someone who, in their promotional materials, makes a factual statement about the origin of the code?

If so strictly enforced, the BSD license itself is almost self-contradictory: you must include a "Copyright (c) 2009, Alexander Stigsen, e-texteditor.com" in distributions and documentation... but you must not use his name or product name to "promote" your derived product. Can you achieve both of those when the distribution and documentation are themselves the primary "promotional" materials of a free work? Adding the new 'anticircumvention' wording only makes this worse; I wonder if a lawyer was even consulted in the redrafting.

And, it's not like the name "e-texteditor" or the names of the current or future contributors are marketing gold, anyway.
You seem to be trying to make a big distinction between actors and green threads that I don't see.

The MxN mapping stuff is a nice start but there a long way from there to the Erlang or Azul VM.
What? Do people still register to read new sites? Thought this idea had died already.
Pity this wasn't around four years ago when it could actually compete as a game console. It will be hard for them to attract developers on a platform lacking copy protection and a solid distribution model. They'd probably be better off playing up the device's DVR and video-on-demand capabilities.

The Pandora Linux hand-held will probably do much better in the long run.
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1000? i have 825 and can't downvote.
I didn't know about it, and unfortunately won't be able to make it.

Are there future NYC meetups planned?
There is no method of voting down stories. You can flag spam to get the article killed but that is it.
> Why does Gates get to be on that list and not the Woz?

surely he meant them as examples and not a comprehensive list.
Well, be careful of the grass-is-always-greener phenomenon.

Here in the USA cops aren't as addicted to cameras. Instead, they're addicted to tasers. I have never been tased, but I'm told that the experience makes you long for the relative bliss of being continuously photographed. Especially if the tasing induces heart failure, in which case the comprehensive photo coverage would come in very handy for your family's lawsuit.
Remember that jobs are a lagging indicator.
That's not the new clause, that's from the BSD license.

The new clause is the last one in the list, the one about not removing the license enforcement code.
This reminds me of a quote from Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky: "The worst tyrannies are those where a government requires its own logic on every embedded node."
Um, er, we've already been doing this for years and years:
http://www.pulsarco.com/
An insurance money makes its money from the premiums people pay and spends money on claims. Once a claim is made, there is a period of time before the company must pay it.

Even at break-even, an insurance company must keep a large amount of cash on hand to pay future claims. This is called float. Even though the company does not 'own' the money, it is free to invest it while it holds it. Buffet has used Geico and other insurers primarily as vehicles to invest their float.
I'm just glad that Sun passed on buying Apple, back when it could have.
For those of you (like me) who had a WTF reaction and knew that that somewhere in your life you had a passing acquaintance with Lorentz symmetry, this is a pretty readable discussion of Lorentz violation: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19076.

IANAP, but here goes. Lorentz symmetry states that the laws of physics are the same for all observers in non-accelerating frames of reference. It is an axiom of special relativity. Finding that it can be/has been broken brings on all kinds of new physics and ways to test them.

If you understand this, feel free to jump in with a real explanation. :-)
Yes, but copying a banknote is akin to "copying" my signature onto a check. It's a form of forgery, not of information propagation.
Your embarrassed by people who don't want their houses cased on the internet? I would be more embarrassed by the rate of burglary, but that's just me...

Also, I'm curious about the posited "uses" of photographing residences. Besides casing.
The domain name ensures both upvotes and low quality.
None are currently planned. But join the google group to find out about future plans (and to offer your input).

http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc?hl=en
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The "case" is the shipping container. Again, economies of scale.
Several prominent Scheme implementations have package / namespace systems. They couldn't agree on one system when R5RS was written, so it was left open for experimentation.

(Whether or not it would be better to have a standard, central packaging system is another matter entirely.)

Emacs Lisp doesn't, though, and it's (IMHO) a major failing of the language.
I have a friend who agreed to being tased as a taser demonstration at some convention. What a dumb thing to do!
Already done, I'm immigrating to Canada from the UK. The people are generally really nice, although the government is bat-shit crazy, but seems relatively benign through incompetence and lack of adequate leadership.
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I don't know about you, but I've used Google Street View in residential areas a lot, and never once for "casing".

I've used it to look up someone's address I'm going to visit and then get a view of that portion of the street so I could recognize it more easily.

I've used it when helping a friend shop for new houses, to look at some of the places that published open houses and help narrow down which ones to actually take the time to go visit.

I've used it when chatting with distance friends online to show them places familiar to me.

... ... ...
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Ask yourself this question: what fraction of businesses that want to be ad-supported actually turn enough of a profit to be worthwhile? If the percentage is high enough for you to consider it a reasonable risk then go for it.

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I can't imagine starting a business unless I knew exactly who would buy the product, why they would do so, and I had a fairly good idea of how much they would pay for it.
That means I start by figuring out what people need and then examining if I can provide it. But I'm not a millionaire yet.

If you just throw something against the wall to see what sticks, something will. The question is will it be enough to be a worthwhile use of your time?
Tcl is an amazing language. Very underrated. It's "EIAS" (everything is a string) philosophy, and the duality of strings and lists is very very powerful. It's got one of the best-documented and precisely written standard libraries I've ever seen (and the "extended standard library" tcllib is of similar quality).

E.g., if some script returns "350 seconds to execute command <more stuff here>" you can hold your nose and just treat the string as a list and extract the 0th element :) ('lindex $return 0').

It's speed leaves much to be desired. My ideal stack would in a large project would be:

1. Tcl shell on top
2. ... talking to either Python or C/C++ below
No, you brought that (green threads implication) into the discussion. My whole point is that you're making an implication based on that distinction and that's just not true.

Both Erlang and the JVM have to map lots of actors to a number of hardware cores. Lightweight threads of various sorts on top of a smaller number of hardware processes/threads is the same for both. Both Erlang and the JVM use an MxN model. You're last sentence seems to imply that you believe something different.

They make some different tradeoffs because of their goals (coordination vs. general purpose) that has some real implication as to solving particular problems more or less easily. I.e., if you're doing coordination dominated systems then Erlang is easy and the underlying performance loss due to other implementation issues is mitigated. On the other hand, if you have lots of data and computation, then Java's solution will blow Erlang away. The real world is about understanding, choosing, and managing the real tradeoffs -- not pushing some theoretical ideal.
Funny, how the more powerful and elegant a language is, the easier it is to implement.
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Logging in with OpenID on StackOverflow is fairly easy for me since I've always got my gmail account opened up in another tab. I just click the little Google provider button and I'm logged in, no typing involved.
You're right.

Looking closer, it also ignores URLs with a fragment after a #. Looking closer still, adding these (@ and #) to the regex would open a whole new can of worms, since the parsing statements below would attempt to convert these to URLs as well. As it stand now, it would probably mess up URLs with those characters in them, since they would be parsed as usernames or hashtags.

Hence the dangers of grabbing stuff off the Internet, as I did! If I have time to fix this later I'll post an update.
Looking forward to it..
You have no idea. But, welcome to Canada, anyway. Where are you planning on living?
You're right; <strike>but they've even reworded that clause.</strike> I'm correcting my grandparent comment to reflect reality, with a note that it's been changed.
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I have never been tased, but I'm told that the experience makes you long for the relative bliss of being continuously photographed.

And I have been told that being hit with pepper spray makes you long for the (much) shorter incapacitation of the taser.
Ask HN: What would normal people do with Twitter search?
I am not a Twitter hater. I enjoy using it ( @webwright) and think it has a bright future.

I see lots and lots of people talking about how amazing realtime search is. Clearly, it's a boon to PR folks, marketeers, etc. And it's interesting from a real-time citizen-news angle. I see how it's cool at conferences/events. And it's fabulous for tracking celebrities.

But can someone run through some use cases showing how normal people would use it every day?
Depends on the kind of startup you're starting. If it's Facebook or Twitter, yes. If it's PollEverywhere, no.
Did you call them? We tried to get in last time after we got kicked out of Republic and they were completely full. This was at 9ish on a Saturday.
Ask HN: Monetizing eyeballs
Are there good examples -- besides Google -- of serious monetization of users/eyeballs late in the game?

Beyond acquisitions, of course.
What do you mean, "espousing a social-contract model" ? The authority to create a copyright law is explicity granted in the US Constitution for the precise purpose of a greater social good, "to promote the useful Arts and Sciences". So there is a contract there - congress is allowed to make copyright laws, but the rest of society gets promotion of the useful arts and sciences.

It's not an accidental addition; in Europe, copyrights and patents and other monopolies were handed out by Kings to reward friends, often with disregard to who the inventors and authors were. Our system gives the copyrights and patents to the authors and inventors, and it has to be for a limited time, and if the system does not promote the useful arts and sciences but instead a form of welfare or subsidy of certain interests, then you have to find authority to do it under some other part of law; it may in fact be unconstitutional.

Also, I find your remark about "doesn't mean that only the end-users get to dictate the terms of the contract" silly. Of course you realize like any literate person that a contract is a "meeting of the minds", that neither party gets to dictate the terms, but both parties have veto power and can not sign on.

I am on both sides of the contract, as a person who writes copyrighted computer code, and a person like the rest of the US who is restricted in copying other people's copyrighted work. I don't see the contract as a good one, and I'm willing to scrap the whole thing if it cannot be modified.

There is little evidence that the current state of copyright is helping the economy, the "Useful Arts and Sciences", or society as a whole. Not only is there ample reason to exclude the non-commercial distribution from it, I would sign on for eliminating the whole of copyright and patent law, the entire Title 17 and 35 (I think) of the US Code. Allowing the free copying of anything in a non-commercial way is nice little experiment we could run for a couple of years, and if starving silicon valley workers aren't forced to resort to canibalism, we ought to can the rest of the system too.

I'm not alone in pointing out the system is not function to incease the economy; numerous smart people over the years have said the same thing. Fredrich Hayek, whose work is generally considered staunchly right-wing and pro-capitalism and etc, said as much in "The Road to Serfdom" in the 1940s.
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In what way have they reworded the clause? As far as I can see it is exactly the same as in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
True. With scheme, you'd only need to implement the core forms to get started: (LAMBDA, SET!, IF, DEFINE & QUOTE)
he took Alan Kay with him.

Sarcasm strikes again! Kay is a living legend, since he's still alive. He's working at his own institute: http://www.vpri.org/html/people/founders.htm

[EDIT: Grammar]
Let a thousand heavily customised Twitter clients flourish...
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I'd swing by, but other obligations beckon
Not just "once", but "a year ago today Paul Graham told me...".
Someone is going to put this onto a keychain with a GPS chip and become a rich man.
I have had a lurid history with E:

Basically this was the only program I could find which was similar in workflow to TextMate and provided in-program FTP/SVN support (with a few hacks).

However, the program was so poorly designed and so buggy that it made working extremely tedious and dysfunctional. It made me start thinking about how somebody could release a program so ridiculously buggy and what were the underlying reasons. While the programmer is the first obvious target, I realized that the Windows framework was probably to blame. It's not the framework itself, but the way it makes you code. It was hard for me to justify continuing to use such a flawed system, as it scared me to think that potentially all these ill effects may be rubbing off on me. As a result, I switched to Mac the next day.

Therefore, E texteditor made me lose enough faith in Windows and Windows programs, which I had been using since 3.1 (even using 1.0 at one point in 1995), that I switched my entire operating system. I haven't looked back since. It may have been coming anyways, but it was a good decision.
One of the things I hope to avoid in this life is having to decide between being tased and being pepper-sprayed. That's a poser. One definitely wants to look around for Door Number Three.
True, and this definitely is not a "scientific first" -- theorem provers have it beat ...
I've heard of that. Apparently, on level 7, you're forced to re-read all of the blog posts on codinghorror every day, without cease.
As much as I hate to admit it, my first programming job included a lot of Tcl, and I think learning it taught me how to program correctly, or at least in a highly maintainable fashion - this was in Perl's heyday.
Interesting observation - I didn't even notice!
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You're right too. I mistakenly referred to a non-parameterized generic version of a "BSD style" license to make that statement, as here:

http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license

My initial writing was also confusing the 'simplified BSD license' used by FreeBSD (without the "no-endorsement" clause) with the full classic BSD.

And this is another reason to hate license proliferation. Remembering all the "BSD, except X" variations is an error-prone pain. Let's be coding and sharing, not lawyering.
Yes. Never do this.

The list of things that can happen to you starts with the absolutely certain ("excruciating pain") and meanders through the not-improbable ("nightmarish flashbacks" and "debilitating injury caused by your sudden collapse and involuntary writhing") on the way to the rare-but-possible ("instant death").

None of these things are fun.
Don't worry, I'm sure the internet-savvy, power-to-the-people, save-us-after-years-of-Bush-darkness President Obama would veto the bill.
Only if I needed instant notification would I follow something in Twitter instead of a RSS reader (a steady news feed probably fits twitter better). It's actually much easier to miss a particular post on Twitter as the stream quickly flows by.
Absolutely. Also, I question the assumption that a significant percentages of searches for "cavemen" would convert.

I would ballpark that conversions on "cavemen" versus "auto insurance quotes" would be much less, probably 2-3 orders of magnitude or more.

But the basic idea that Geico is wasting some money on search is probably right. However, it could also be that they are not spending ENOUGH. It's hard to tell without being on the inside.
Either that's wonderful sarcasm or I live in a miserable world.
It is enforceable. I agree that it's hard or impossible for rights holders to effectively defend their IP in the current environment, but it wouldn't be all that hard for governments to make torrenting too much like hard work for the average individual. Of course, this rightly entails questions about whether defending the IP is worth it, but that's a different issue.