skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads as being very butt-hurt that somebody else chooses not to give away their core business. It is cool that you see profit as something obscene, but don't blame others for making a business.

Same goes for sending takedown notices. If you are technically in breach, you are in breach.

If you don't want to do business with Elsevier, that is fine. If you don't want others to do so, that is fine too. This is just being sad.
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I haven't said that the US intel sector is innocent at all.

But the fact that the UK is beginning to introduce opt-out filters is an open declaration of war against the "Internet society", thus the term "infowars".
Any numbers available?
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That's nice, but can you "yum install upstart"?
Interesting to compare that with the rather controversial comment I made some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5797626

In that I said:

I'm probably in a minority here, and I'm speaking
purely for myself, and it's a strictly personal
view, but ...

I hate it.

I'm sure it's technically very clean, elegant, and
"nice", but more and more as I look at the "gorgeous"
and "beautifully designed" sites pointed to from HN,
I just feel like my face is being pushed through mush.

I know that sounds entirely negative, and I'm sorry
about that, but the obsession with blended buttons
and perfect pastels and crafted corners and so on
just makes the whole thing feel wishy washy.

I said something similar here[0]:

There's a mis-match between the terms "well-designed"
and "looks beautiful." I find many sites that look
gorgeous, but I can't find what I want, and can't make
them do what I need. So I leave. They fail the basic
requirement that they meet the needs of me, a potential
customer.

But I'm also finding increasingly that I feel like my
face is being pushed through mush. Everything seems soft,
or rounded, or pastel, or otherwise character-free. This
button is blended, that panel is graduated. It's all free
of any kind of personality.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609634

Probably I'm wrong, but it feels a bit like Mr Fried is saying something similar, although probably better phrased, and with better credentials.
Interesting when having root to your device will be watched closely and deemed illegal in the UK. Expect - child learns how to circumvent the filter and use tor stories soon - we must do something!
This nonsense is peddled in the ghetto and underclass by charlatans and con artists parasitizing off people that haven't had the privilege of a robust educated lineage handed off to them (for a number of reasons). The Alex Jones's of the world have made a really nice living for themselves.
It's quite laughable that you call his story revisionist when yours meets the standard. How do you explain other countries having 40 hour work weeks with no "bitter decades-long" union fights necessary?

By the way, it's also quite laughable that you're citing a blatant biased piece from a union website. Please tell me you're just trolling.
Haha that's excellent. Reminds me of a normalisation rule I wrote as part of a larger system to convert "Joe Bloggs Md." into "Dr. Joe Blogs MD" (where MD is Medical Doctor). TIL that "Md." is a common abbreviation for "Mohammed" in large parts of the world...
There's some good points in the piece, but I can't help but think it's funny how everyone used to love TED... until "everyone" became a really big group and overnight TED became uncool and passé and insight porn. There's a fair bit of posturing and snobbishness going on here, too.
I think if they were serious about supporting science, they'd be giving out medium-sized early researcher grants (maybe £/$10k-100k), but then they'd actually have to think about who to fund and take on the high risk involved in science. This way they get to take credit by osmosis for important developments after the fact.
I think his arguments apply to the mothership, just the same.
Yes that was the point
> As for servers, I wouldn't use Fedora.

That's what RedHat (or CentOS) is for...
(Brennan here)

I've thought about this a lot too, especially since I'm pretty much a stickler about asking permission to jump into a project before checking out a bug or something for a user.

I've made sure to sanitize my dashboard to just show first initial milestones. For instance, when someone invites a client and they first sign in, I get a notification saying "Bob's first client just accepted an invitation", which will have me then go and say "Hey Bob, saw your client joined. Let me know if they need any help in getting setup..."

Based on your comment above, I think it might make sense to just notify me with "Bob closed an estimate", and that's it. Bear in mind, I only get this notification the first time one of these milestones is reached.

Good comment though, and great food for thought.
At the risk of sounding like that guy who said that everything that could be invented, was, I'd add a third point that Bell Labs' heyday was right during a golden era of discovery where there was a ton of low hanging fruit to be had. It was really a perfect storm of science.

I doubt this could be repeated today even if you somehow copy pasted the Bell Labs from 1960 including their staff and culture. I'd love to be wrong about this :-(
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I can't comment below the video, so I do it here: Thank you, Benjamin Bratton.
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Nope. Elsevier's core business is coordinating reviews of papers - for which submitters pay a fee and for which the participating reviewers don't get paid - and then typesetting the articles using a special sauce and hosting it behind a paywall.

A pre-print of an article typeset using LaTeX on the academic's own machine is not under their copyright, and yet they're demanding take-down notices of such pre-prints hosted on 3rd party machines.

They are overreaching, and now they're alienating universities (who pay handsomely for site-wide subscriptions).

I don't give them long, even if they do publish Physica A.
Sigh, my boss is going to wonder why I need a few weeks to develop stuff.
Although I've had terrible service from them in the past I thought I'd try their Infinity 2 FTTC service - we've had it a couple of months and I have to say I am pretty pleased. Download and upload speeds are great and the sports channels are a nice bonus (I have a rugby mad son).

My only real complaint about them is trying to work out how to actually get the £50 Sainsbury voucher they promised when I signed up. Fortunately this seems to be the only part of the process that suffers from the old-style BT Kafkaesque processes....
"Um 12:30 am..." seems like a better example, since 6:00 is still 0600, but one parsing would make 12:30 am into 0030 rather than the intended 1230.
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There are a lot of smart, innovative people at BT. But move above direct line managers and it's... not pretty.

MBO's cause quarterly firedrills/death marches to get "something out" - objective reached! In the resulting bloodbath it's the IC's who get hung out to dry.

Also there are just too many people, with too many kingdoms, trying to do too many things in slightly different ways. There are so many 30 year vets who have their domain, and will sabotage projects that threaten it. There are some good 30 year vets who drive change, but unsurprisingly they don't get very far, and are aware that they are about to leave things in the hands of 20 year people who gleefully look forward to inheriting a job for the next 15+ years... :-/
That's bullshit though. The authors retain copyright over their work, and have always had the right to distribute their papers on their personal websites. It's part of the deal. Now the assholes are changing the deal after the fact, and trying to use threats to get the people producing actual value to play along. If, as an author, I was okay with the rest of their evildoing before this, and accepted the deal as it stood, I no longer have any reason to trust them to honor any other agreement.
There's something in common with what he said imho, but I think he was more concerned with the trend to have less functionalities to reduce clutter than with the choice of colors or rounded corners.
When I named my apps, I just tried to come up with the most descriptive name possible. ("MDB Viewer", "PG Commander"). I really want people who look at search engine result pages and app store listings to immediately recognize what my app is good for.
When you agree to publish with Elsevier, you sign a contract where you agree not to publish the final version of the article on-line. Many (most?) Elsevier journals DO permit you to post the so-called "author's manuscript" if you also include the appropriate disclaimer. (Whether this is permitted is also written in the contract you sign.)

For example: http://zvrba.net/writings/fusion.pdf

In that light, I don't think Elsevier is the worst among bad guys. For example, you're also permitted to upload the unreviewed version to arxiv before submitting it to journal. Some other journals will outright reject the article because of its "prior publication".
This has the same name as a hygienic macro system from Mozilla. I skimmed the headline and thought this link might have something to do with it.
co-worker of mine used to buy a lot of toys and other merchandise (pajamas?!). He fit into that age category.
> yet they're demanding take-down notices of such pre-prints hosted on 3rd party machines.

When you agree to the copyright form, you also agree that you won't systematically distribute preprints or submit them to a systematic distribution service.

In comparison with other publishers, Elsevier is rather generous to allow authors to post a preprint on their personal web-page (whether or not it is served by their university.)
So will they filter all ip address blocks of VPS sellers?
The quality of TEDx however should make TED think twice about licensing their brand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbtl0Q81igc
Yes, that would be great too. I think it's purely marketing and it has nothing to do with promoting science.

Actually, on the same model, they also could give 1000 $3000 prizes, that wouldn't make a very exciting press release, but I would posit it would do much more good, because it's much more likely to target someone that really needed a bit of positive reinforcement, rather than the guy that already received lots of award for an important discovery. And this is especially important in field were prizes are rare.

But now it feel like the equivalent of 7 guy/gals winning the lottery. I highly doubt it will change much in their research (if not negatively if they decide to retire) and they wont be able to invest it in other people's work, except with great difficulty or lack of agency. I fail to see where science is gaining much.
Or Scientific Linux.
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Are you for real or am I just imagining someone who just registered with the name "not an idiot" and yet provides a comment that indicate no capacity for deductive reasoning whatsoever?
I know it is a mainstream movie and everyone has seen it. But try watching Disney's Snow White again, and remember that it was released in 1937. Your statement "defined the animated films" is more applicable to that movie than anything else.
Why is the use of term "butt-hurt" on increase on HN? Does this lend weight in any meaningful way and not leave a bad taste in mouth.
This is always hard even when naming variables, functions, and classes. I always try to be as verbose as possible and sometimes spend like 10 minutes just pondering of a name.
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Isnt there an i18n extension built on lib ICU in python , like Intl extension in PHP ?

http://site.icu-project.org/

I'm sure there are better alternatives than just regexp to validate numbers, emails ,etc ...
> had the right to distribute their papers on their personal websites

Elsevier allows you to post the preprint, but not the final published version (which includes Elsevier's typesetting, logo, etc.)
Thanks for the info Brennan. As you may recall, there was a bit of a stink over 37Signals posting that X picture uploaded was "cat.jpg". This seems similar, so that's certainly something to keep in mind.

As I say, I hate to bring any negativity about what you are doing. You are obviously of great help to people and your post is inspiring.

You were providing value above and beyond by offering more help, which is great. In this day of privacy concerns, that may be a dangerous road. One important reason that I bring this up is that I'm more hesitant these days to sign up for "cloud services" due to the possibility that someone might possibly have the permissions to look through things that I wouldn't want open.

In any case, continue kicking tail. I love reading your posts and I may give your service a test drive in the future.
I think what we can assume is that over the long run and averaging over all public corporations, shareholders are willing and to some degree able enforce their interest in profit maximization. That doesn't mean it's true for every single corporation at every single moment in time. And you're right, it's impossible to know whether any individual action maximizes profits or not.
How valuable is secrecy of an algorithm?
Send me an email (in profile) I would be happy to give you a phone interview, that would be a good start. Maybe even some tips for your resume or cover letter.
Is there a link to the primary source? I see nothing about it on the CloudFlare blog.
TED is the OMNI magazine of the 2010s: light, fluffy, shiny, sexy. Smile and nod; there's nothing of major important entering your mind today, except perhaps groupthink.

It's a social event. Look at all the cool people! I want to be one too!

Nothing wrong with that. Just important to recognize it for what it is. I love watching some of those talks.

And yes, for a lot of folks that confuse tools and research with presentation skills, they're going to walk away with heads full of buzzword technobabble. But guess what? These folks weren't hitting on much to begin with. They've always just wanted to skim the surface and hang out with the smart kids. That's why these things have always been so popular.

EDIT: There is one thing that is very interesting that has developed: the elimination of the middle-man between science and populist bullshit. Used to be scientists were just concerned what what is, not what could be or what we should do about stuff. Not any more. Now scientists, as this author points out, are supposed to be entertainers. Everybody's their own little self-promotion machine. Extra points to figure out if this is good for science or not (it isn't).
It's not validation in this case, it's finding them in a body of text. For validation you generally have it easier because you often only deal with a single datum in a field (and thus string).
There is map-reduce the algorithm, and then there is map-reduce the distributed computing mechanism. Unfortunately they share a name, but Google engineers definitely did invent the map-reduce being referred to here.
The thing I was most impressed by was the fact that the left and right cursor buttons worked straight off the bat :D
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i'm a fan of everything by cdixon -- but check out satoshi and others like bohm: Here's satoshi: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099... and paul bohm: http://paulbohm.com/articles/bitcoins-value-is-decentralizat...
I thought the same thing. http://sweetjs.org/ for this interested in the Mozilla project.
Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago
Even after visiting your website, I have no idea what Office Garden actually is or does. Maybe I'll find out if I enter my e-mail address into your form...

But then again, maybe not, and my email would end up on yet another list I don't want.
There's a huge difference between a tablet and a screen size larger than the iPhone's.
SSH tunnels for the data center. Remote Desktop or TeamViewer for office access.
Google is still barely a decade old. Give them a few more years. Maybe they'll come up with something that will please you guys!
As I mentioned in another post, the map-reduce concept that has been around for quite some time is not the same as the MapReduce process that Google has instrumented. Google has a way to run it super-efficiently on data centers, with distributed disks, processors, networks, etc. That is Google's oft-emulated MapReduce.
Please don’t ever make “backups” like this
'I don't spend any money running my personal blog (it costs me literally $0)' How do you get free lifetime domain and hosting?
Go, Android, and Dart are minor.

The biggest impact is Android, and that's revolutionary how exactly?
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No. Why would you want to? Upstart is inferior to systemd in every way and if Fedora supported both then it would have to test every package that contained a daemon twice.
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The part about Wikipedia was quite amusing.

> We ask: Why didn’t he get a friend to log in and correct the entries? He responds with a startled pause. “Is that right?

> I didn't know you could do that!”

Good luck with that. Those corrections would be reverted faster than you can say Jack Robinson. For the pages dealing with important historical events, it's quite a collection of petty kings they've got over there.
Always remembered stories about kids who grew up with animals did better long term, both emotionally and physically.
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One company that I worked at sold expensive B2B products(real hardware with software). If a prospective client demanded a feature it was added to the sales and product manuals immediately.

However, it so often happened that a sale was made before a feature could be actually added as programmers were swamped.

It was common to add a feature years after it actually appeared in the product manual. Call it vaporware or deception but it was not uncommon. Internally, company hated the practice but every other company was doing it. It also shows how quirky client demands could be if some feature could go missing for 2 years and no one would notice.

I guess you could call it feature-on-demand-programming...
If only that was how Time-travelling Debuggers[1][2] worked!

[1] http://chrononsystems.com/products/chronon-time-travelling-d...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html
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Now that is the kind of article I come to HN for.
Amusingly the interstitial ads are served from the Amazon cloud :)
I can confirm. We'll put something up on our blog later today.
We'll blog about it later.
> If you need bigger screen, chances are you do not want a phone - you want a tablet.

This kind of remarks is really annoying because it suggests that you know better than us (the people who want larger screens) when you really don't. Either that, or you are incredibly blind to the difference between a freaking tablet (7", designed for browsing on WiFi) and a telephone with a decently sized screen (4.7 ~4.8" compared to the 4" of the iPhone - this makes a HUGE difference).
So. Many. Bad. Names.

The whole Travis/Jenkins/Hudson thing baffles me. Yes, they're all butlers. I can never remember which one is which. And since I'm English, butlers represent the worst of the old, deferential world, the world I spend half my life fighting against... and that's precisely why IMHO they're unsuitable names for anything open-source.

"therubyracer". It's something to do with Ruby. It's presumably quite fast. This isn't telling me much.

But then, I've released a fair amount of shockingly badly named stuff myself, so I should stop here. Other than to improve on the quote that begins TFA:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Pretty much most of elsevier works are available on pirate sites, all they are doing is harassing their customers by this stage and further alienating them.
I have seen some truly awful code that has been written in Python. It wouldn't have been possible in Java due to the nature of the language.
"When you agree to the copyright form" => presumably this is different for every publisher.

My only pre-print (hosted on arXiv) was submitted there long before it was accepted for publication in a non-Elsevier journal, who have made no attempt to take it down.

There are also open access journals which explicitly allow you to host your own pre-prints.
I'd REALLY love to see a court decide on whether adding their logo and running it through a script is a transformation substantial enough to warrant copyright as a separate work.
Hi, organizer of one of Europe's largest TEDx events here.

First of all, as others mentioned, TEDx events are independently organized. There are over 3000 of them in the world and obviously quality varies greatly. Getting a TEDx license is pretty trivial and there is no real oversight on quality. Yet, there are some great videos out there.

Second, nobody pretends TED is an academic conference. I see a TED talk as the blurb on the back cover of a book. The speaker's job is to pique your interest in a topic during that 18 minutes. Pique it enough that you'll go on and research the topic in greater detail. Nobody expects to be a master in anything after sitting in a chair for 18 minutes. But if you've never thought about a problem, 18 minutes may push you to do it. And it's true some talks are mostly inspirational, with little informative value - we usually put a couple in the lineup as a breather.

Third, TED is about cross-pollination of ideas. You hear an idea in neuroscience and it inspires you to do something in CS. Happens all the time. You will not act on 99% of the information you learn (be it in news, books, internet, HN) anyways, but it does expand your horizons.

Lastly, TED's biggest value is in developing countries. If you live in NYC or SF, there are dozens of conferences you can attend every week. So the marginal benefit of going to a TED event is little. However, TED as a brand is really well known in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe (like mine), inhabited by few, if any, world class innovators. In those countries, people do find TED really inspirational and often the local TEDx events are one of the very few decent conferences you can attend.
There is still the occasional gem where an actual scientist shares actual new insights (for those outside of his/her field) that are exciting and fascinating, and for a moment you feel like you're watching the old TED, but even that's not what made TED stand out for me at first. When I first watched the talk by Clay Shirky[1] giving really good arguments for why the internet already has changed and will change everything, it wasn't inspiring or just "insight porn", it was educational, and it ended with an open question for us to solve.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_...
I've always found the US high school obsession with sports teams very fascinating. Growing up in Norway, I can say that I don't even know if my school had any sports teams. It is possible - some do - but to the extent they do it's usually something pretty much only those on the teams care about.
2070 Paradigm shift sums up Ted pretty well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0#t=30
Interesting. Wondering about the scope they're talking about. How many views? Local persistence? Communication with a remote API?
So it looks like they are really cherry-picking the most interesting / easy work. The 20% (time) of the 80 / 20 rule.

"We will only take on short, well-scoped projects at the idea & sketch stage. The project size restrictions will also help you focus and scope out a truly minimal product."
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