skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Panthers did a LOT more than be violent. They opened soup kitchens, and housed the homeless. They were a terrific organization for helping people int heir communities. The violence and such was, actually, a product of the FBI. Just as they do today, the FBI embedded rabbel rousers in Panther events, and used them to touch off violence and whip up the crowd. The FBI actually encouraged the behavior they were there to prevent. They do the EXACT same thing in Occupy protests, today. The fact that you believe the Panthers were nothing more than a violent group shows that the FBI won this battle.

Here, read up on the Panthers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

From the Wikipedia:
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover called the party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country,"[13] and he supervised an extensive program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment and many other tactics designed to undermine Panther leadership, incriminate party members and drain the organization of resources and manpower. Through these tactics, Hoover hoped to diminish the Party's threat to the general power structure of the U.S., or even maintain its influence as a strong undercurrent.[14] Angela Davis, Ward Churchill, and others have alleged that federal, state and local law enforcement officials went to great lengths to discredit and destroy the organization, including assassination.[15][16][17] Black Panther Party membership reached a peak of 10,000 by early 1969, then suffered a series of contractions due to legal troubles, incarcerations, internal splits, expulsions and defections. Popular support for the Party declined further after reports appeared detailing the group's involvement in illegal activities such as drug dealing and extortion schemes directed against Oakland merchants.[18] By 1972 most Panther activity centered on the national headquarters and a school in Oakland, where the party continued to influence local politics. Party contractions continued throughout the 1970s; by 1980 the Black Panther Party comprised just 27 members.[19]
Perhaps the freedom to self defence? The Black Panther party didn't magically appear out of a vacuum, to boldly proclaim equal rights and freedom from police brutality, where no oppression existed.
jaw drops

I didn't know cmd+click. I can't think of a good use case in my world, but I'm pleased as punch that it exists, and that I've learned something new about OSX today.
Well let's see: Nokia instead choose to go into the WP market which back then was lingering at around 4% market share, and managed to get 70% of all WP sales which still is at merely 6% market share (while competing with samsung, htc, lg, etc.). Congrats, well done!

Imagine if instead they went for android, and took that 70% market share in the Android space? It was possible for them to do in the WP space, why should it not have been possible in the Android space?

As I see it, they wasted their engineering abilities to gain a big chunk of an unimportant market, rather than shooting for the big fish, because their idiotic CEO puts Microsoft's interests before Nokia's.
Ha, this is awesome.
Um. What question is it that you think you're answering?
I agree. Thanks for your comments!
The author here makes a good point until he asks his final question. In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King I don't believe copyright would have had any influence on the likelihood of delivering it. The purpose of the speech was selfless and so despite the copyright issue being disappointing it doesn't seem like he would have said "well, since future students won't be able to read the full text of my speech why deliver it?" Though he understood the significance of the march and probably knew his speech was important is there any evidence to suggest he knew how iconic it would become? And even if he did, was he going to forego addressing his audience, the people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial, to make a statement on copyright? It's doubtful. His speech was for the audience there. The fact that it could be reprinted and studied by future generations is just a bonus. The idea that King would be less likely to deliver his speech because of copyright is not realistic.

That said, this also isn't a convincing argument for the abolition of copyright either. I don't know if that was the point though. What this does show is how a copyright can serve the opposite of its intended purpose and hurt society. But for every case like the King speech there are plenty more that are examples of its benefit.

It's disappointing that we do not have free and open access to the I Have a Dream speech but its not a good argument against copyright. Copyright is still an issue that boils down to its use and has to be considered on a case by case basis. I don't think it ever has been all good or all bad and overlooking the vast sea of nuance there doesn't help proponents or opponents of it.
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No, you don't understand printing. Thermal is strictly monochrome, it doesn't do shades of grey. The dot-matrix elements have only just enough resolution for text and are incapable of rendering legible halftone type.
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater? Augment the average teachers with good software!
I hope somebody from the Firefox OS team reads this: most of their apps have "mystery buttons" where the only way to figure out what they do is to press them. It took me 3 tries to find out which button to use to write a new tweet on their tweeter app.

On a related note a while ago we were discussing this new generation of kids will probably never come across a floppy disk, yet it's almost a UI convention to use the floppy icon for the Save function.

EDIT: Grammar
Not to rain on anybody's parade here, but for first-time vim users I recommend not using any plugins and only selectively adding them one at a time after the basics (buffers, navigation, some ex mode, etc) are at least somewhat familiar.

Getting started with plugins enabled makes it hard to understand where vim stops and plugins begin and make switching to a different (someone else's) vim setup confusing at best.

It also tends to feed the 'make it work like the last editor I used' syndrome, which is completely counter-productive.

Otherwise, nice work and good job open-sourcing it!
Are there any articles out there detailing this? I've never heard this part of either story.
NO the primary reason is, you have no privacy. Its a ticking time bomb - nothing you do or say can every be private, which means forgotten except by your intimates.

I liken constant surveillance to a bomb planted in your body. If you have nothing to hide, then no problem right?
Schools have successfully used copyrighted books all the time in literature classes without problems. You can't run it off yourself on the mimeograph machine but just go buy 30 copies and leave them in the classroom.
Agreed, I thought the same way. To quote the Beatles:

We all want to change the world / But when you talk about destruction /Don't you know that you can count me out

But when you want money / For people with minds that hate / All I can tell is brother you have to wait
I think this is a really interesting idea; however, I don't think it's a very good method to build it as 'Github for Writers' since coding and writing are two very different processes. For instance, writers often create their work on their own instead of with multiple contributions. Contributors is more of a code project attribute, for anyone who knows how to program well can add/modify code while not anyone who knows write well can add/modify to a story.

It is true that writers need editors but editors are certainly not writers. If there was a system where all of the contributors acted more like 'editors' rather than writers than I personally think it would be an awesome version control program.
Sure, though the key redeeming point of the product would be that it's compatible with the (notably open-source) encfs.
This reminds me of the "I will not do your tech interview." post. [1]

There's a good chance if you're applying you're either a. unemployed, looking for a job, or b. you really want to work at stripe.

If you're passionate about what you do, you're going to enjoy designing anyways, so what better way to make you stand out than doing something that benefits the company you're applying for -- working on something you'd actually be working on.

Anyone can copy designs from dribbble to make themselves look like an amazing designer.

It's not like they're going to take your design, implement it and never reply to your email.

1. https://medium.com/lessons-learned/80ba19c55883
I do not doubt that there may be correlation between people who have performed poorly in YC and "very strong accents", it does not mean causation.

pg is an investor. From the point of view of angel investing, causation is not important. Correlation is enough. If some trait historically shows the company will be half as likely to succeed, why should an investor put money in that company, causation be damned?
Because everybody has at some point tried to run rake on a new project and found some version incompatibility along the depth of the abyss^Wstack.
My 9th grade English class had to memorize it.
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I saw more than her attractiveness (and I don't think she is, which is clearly all you gathered from what I wrote) when I looked at her. I just saw someone with nothing special going for her. Vote me down into oblivion, I just don't see why people still fall for this BS.

If this person did for me what that drummer did for you, then I wouldn't have said what I said. More importantly, if I perceived that this person was generally perceived to be like the drummer you mentioned above, then I would have said something else. What I perceived was something closer to the lead singer you mentioned, but minus the good looks (though I'm sure this woman is attractive to some group): kinda blah.
I both read and heard the speech entirely in high school back in the 80s. We spent something like 2-3 days on it and MLK's life during that period.

Is the author (and submitter, who's the same person) working off a false premise?
Sure! Check out crypton.io. SpiderOak is going to be shifting towards this method. Although we already use client-side cryptography, it's in fat clients written in Python. We're going to reimplement the client using Crypton, which uses SJCL.
It is the reason. The King family controls the rights to the speech and will sue people deemed to have violated those rights.

See: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/19989079.MAN.pdf
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Hello there HN,

I am looking for open source developers with projects that they are not touching anymore or simply active projects on Github and who have been contacted to provide support for it, or add more features but did not have the 'time'.

I am putting something online to achieve that in an automated fashion in the coming days/week, to help all of us make a living on the side out of open source, say SpringSource or RedHat but in a totally democratic and automated fashion.

I am looking for beta testers.
Anyone monitoring you will have seen your initial DNS query.
"Sentence-based" diffs would work well for prose, but the problem is recognizing sentences, given the other uses for full stops. If you use hard line breaks at, and only at, sentence ends, you could use line-based diffs to do this (but this may run into editing convenience issues.)
That's a great quote. I would hope that such a choice would not "scandalize" today's modern reader, as I don't think that nationalism is as strong today as it was in 1938. At least, not in the US. I hope.

Which is basically Charlie's point, although he went ahead & worked it up into a theory ... a theory I don't think this foundation can quite support, per my post below.
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What is the advantage of running this over a vagrant image?
> And as for the "MLK-Hitler poster" argument, that would be fair use

Selling MLK-Hitler posters would not count as fair use. That was the point I was making.
Personal computing, WIMP interface, WYSIWYG fonts, object oriented operating systems, multitouch interface, digital music distribution.

Jobs invented none of them, but they represent a few things that would either not exist or be radically different (i.e., far worse) today without his contributions.
> Changes are tracked by line which is equivalent to a paragraph in a book.

When using Markdown, I usually split paragraphs over multiple lines (usually between sentences) which makes diffs much easier to read, while still rendering as a single paragraph.
3. If you consider base OS packages to be hacky... That's most packages deal with potentially overwriting hand-edited configs. 'deliver foo.conf.new; [ ! -e foo.conf ] && mv foo.conf.new foo.conf'

But you have a good point! Dupe files are hard to manage. Some package managers refuse to deal with it, others have complicated heuristics. The best solution would be to just deliver the files and let a configuration management tool sort out what needs to be done based on rulesets. This can still be accomplished with packages as a deploy tool, and a configuration management tool to do post-install work, instead of the %post section.

4. You already deal with chroot environments using lxc/docker/etc. They're just slightly more fancy. But even with docker's union fs you still have to install your deps if they don't match the host OS's. Unless, of course, you package all the deps custom so they can be installed along with the OS ones. Nothing is going to handle that for you, there is no magic pill. Both solutions suck.

Most configuration management eventually becomes a clusterfuck as it grows and gets more dynamic and complex. In this sense, delivering a static config to a host in a package is simpler and more dependable. I can't tell you how much more annoying it is to have to test and re-deploy CM changes to a thousand hosts, all with different configurations, only to find out 15 of them all have individual unique failures and having to go to each one to debug it. On the other hand, you could break out those configs into specific changes and manage them in VCS. Or even pre-generate all the configs from a central host, verify they are as expected, and package and deliver them. I have done both and both have their own special (read: retarded) problems.

For reference, the sites that I worked at that delivered configuration via package management spanned several thousand hosts on different platforms, owned by different business units and with vastly different application requirements. But you have to adjust how you manage it all to deal with the specific issues. edit Much of it involves doing more manual configuration on the backend so you can 'just ship' a working config on the frontend. Sounds backwards but (along with a configuration management tool!) it works out.
The author here makes a good point until he asks his final question. In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King I don't believe copyright would have had any influence on the likelihood of delivering it.

King enforced the copyright and sold records of his speeches. He knew exactly what he was doing.

I don't know where the writer on the article got the idea that MLK would have agreed with the writer's current legal opinions.
Who owns the submitted design, the designer or Stripe?
> In fact, if there are ways to visually simplify git and make it more intuitive for non-programmers, those techniques could wind up making git even better for programmers too.

That's the goal. I want git to handle everything behind the scenes, and everything that the user touches just 'makes sense' - ie its not all that different from what they're already doing. A 'save' button makes a git commit, editing somebody else's content automatically creates a new branch, 'submitting' that content on the new branch creates a pull request .. etc.
We have HN whitelisted from the paywall, so if you click through from the link on this page you shouldn't see the paywall as long as you don't have any extensions that hide your referrer.

If that's not the case, would you mind dropping me an email with your browser/version? tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
As another commenter already pointed out, a common pattern is for people to try such a configuration, and end up starting again from scratch because, frankly, it doesn't work for them.

Emphasis on "for them".

I'm not saying you shouldn't share your setup. I wouldn't have learned vim (or screen back in the day, or pine, or many others) if I didn't crib from the dotfiles of those before me.

But at some point, your setup becomes so customized to you that you're the only one it works for. And that's why vim and emacs, ancient editors, still exist -- they're stable and can be modernized and tailored to the user over time.

This writeup (not mine) I completely agree with: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/
Really useful post. Wish I had read this 4 years ago!
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Yes but VIM runs on everything, why make it Mac OS X specific when it's simplistic to make it "just use these vim files and it'll work on every computer"
> the level of vitriol and anger [...] that the entire _concept_ of trying to create a meal replacement product is morally wrong

You're right there. Some people really do have a strong emotional response against the idea, which makes them put forward nitpicking arguments against it.

Will the initial implementations of Soylent be perfect? Probably not. But there is no reason why it's impossible to make an all-in-one food that is tasty, nutritious, convenient and cheap, so I'm sure that if enough effort is put into doing so, eventually it will happen.

When it happens, it's unlikely that I will solely eat Soylent; I like cooking and I like varienty. But I wouldn't be surprised if I come to use it for 30% of my calorific intake.
Beijing has an active tech startup scene. There are a number of startups, both expat and local. I know of startups doing games, social media, kids books, 3D printing, and advertising. There are a number of meetups, and regular BarCamp Beijing meetings.

From what I hear, starting a company takes about 6 months of pain, but once that's over and you are capitalized with 100k RMB, you get a pretty guaranteed Z visa, so once you get started, it goes fairly smoothly.

However, my personal feeling is that there are two kinds of opportunity in China. The first is the expat market, also companies wanting to expand to China. This is large enough to be comfortable (at least in Beijing). The second is the larger Chinese market, which is where everyone starts seeing money trees. My opinion is that the "opportunity" in the Chinese market only exists for those who are functionally fluent in Chinese, have a solid grasp of the culture, why people do the things they do, what motivates them. This would mostly be local Chinese, or American-born Chinese (or equivalent) with parents from China or Taiwan. A white expat has a nice market in other expats, but Chinese values and habits and their expression is very different from what white expats' default thinking is.

And then, of course, there's the issue that if you upset any apple carts with "disruptive" startups, the owners of the apple carts might exercise some of their guanxi, which means you'd better have some stronger guanxi. You can imagine how good the guanxi-fu of foreigners is.
Agreed, this is going to anger the design community
Right, and your rhetorical leap was in applying the concept of a yes-man to Obama himself. The quote:

The problem is that Sunstein has gone on record (and written a book) supporting governmental overreach. You're hiring yes-men to do your "independent review".

An issue at hand is whether the group will merely be researching means by which the ends can be maintained, that they are yes-men for the activities, the same way Obama appears to be. It's reasonable to question whether they have the same master, that they aren't truly independent.
Use Escrow.com. And this is a recently released project with many improvements coming soon.
Could you explain us why you read the article if you already knew you wouldn't care ?
Pretty neat approach to adding an additional layer of security... I didn't finish reading the paper but did look at this component example:

E = (function() {
var F = function(x) {
var secret = 42, key = 0xC0C0ACAFE;
return x===key ? secret :0
};
return function G_F(x) { return F(x>>>0) }
})();

The neat thing about this is that at runtime you can't get to the secret. I initially thought you might be able to toString the function but that won't work because it will only show you the algorithm used e.g.

function G_F(x) { return F(x>>>0) }

Still, I was thinking if you could devise a plan to remotely fetch the source then you could, I believe defeat all of this extra security... unless of course the server can secure things such that the key is unique to each request...
This might be naive, but don't authors use Latex to write? So, in a sense why can't they use github as it is to collaborate on writing?

(I guess it goes without saying, I do not have any experience or knowledge about the writing process authors follow)
Also interesting that I've had two downvotes for this. You know, you're not meant to downvote something you don't like. I'm assuming that is the reason, as there are no comments with valid arguments against my comment (and even the invalid replies didn't have enough karma to downvote). I can only assume there are some anonymous gun-nuts on HN. If I've said something incorrect, feel free to comment.
You do have the ability to verify your domain. Perhaps in the near future, you won't be able to list domains that aren't verified.
Don't know about text messages, but emails are the logical equivalent of sending postcards. If you except privacy when you don't even hide your words in an envelope you're going to be disappointed.
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Using vi instead of vim for a while is also beneficial. It keeps one from learning bad behavior like typing 'i' and then hitting the arrow and necessitates learning about marks before being spoiled by the visual modes
If you are doing upper level college math as a 7th grader, you probably don't have a peer group in your school. If you are 5+ grades ahead in math, it is unlikely you are a socially typical kid. This is why CTY, math camps, magnet schools, and such are useful. Gifted kids need a age appropriate peer group that doesn't exist in typical schools.
I seem to be getting an error: Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,204.232.175.90' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
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I definitely agree. Vim was much more confusing for me while still a beginner, partly because I started with first the spf-13 distro and then haskim, a haskell-focused distro. I didn't really start grasping how things worked until building up my own distro. The funny thing is that most distros I've seen still include many of the same plugins, making the end product only unique in the details. Those details however, are blockers once you're set in your ways...
Apparently the Churchill estate is also very aggressive about royalties for speeches and written works by Winston Churchill: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130118/16193821734/church...
First you should use an incognito window to keep your own searches from tinting the results.

"jew " autocompletes to "jew jokes", the results of which include a couple of racist jokes sites, one of which has the words "Nazi Lauck" in the title.

And yes, the OP title is quite silly.