skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because it is a big step towards global authoritarianism. My wife is Hungarian, born in 1966 like myself, and she's deathly afraid of expressing political dissent in public venues like the Internet. That's what we're proposing to make the law now - that fear. Makes it ever so much easier to keep control, you see.
Point taken. We changed it.
That second graph looks as if no scaling choices were made and the person just randomly chose to put spacing in.
does the EFF lobby?

if not, maybe what we need an organization to lobby on our behalf.

maybe a new startup could somehow do this? i don't know how it would get the money to do so...
you guys are doing interesting stuff. i think your interface needs a lot of work. i'm not a designer myself, so apologies for the lack of constructive criticism (as a user, it's prolly wrong anyway). i can say that i just felt overwhelmed and hard to read....i didn't want to read the results...maybe too wide....

anyway, i wanted to point out carrot2, which is a clustering engine with a beautiful and engaging interface. i really like the carrot2 website. gives me good vibes.

i have to be honest, though. when it comes down to it i just use google. like someone else said, when you're searching for error messages....

otherwise, i'm usually searching for something easy that presumably everyone gets, and certainly google gets so why do anything different.

occasionally i have "un-google-able" phrases (!), either because the words i'm searching on are super overloaded and common, or because i have a vague notion of what i'm looking for. in those cases, i try to remember to use carrot2, and possibly duckduck....but yeah.....would be nice to have an extension that identified when i was having search trouble and automatically did a look up in other search engines for me....
One might say the same of air travel - yet a million people around the world are denied the right to fly because somebody in the government typed their name wrong on a form. Does anybody fix that? Find the person who cares. Hint: nobody cares.

This treaty will make the Internet just like today's air travel. Do you think technology will trump that?
If so, then that would be really cool. I'm just saying I don't think the average user will do it on their own.
This is hopefully some huge hoax. But if it isn't it should (and deserves to) create and real worldwide firestorm.

This cannot stand and they can't possibly be stupid enough to try to make it stand!

But beware their "fallback" positions! And the devil is in the details. They may just feel that by putting out such an outrageous proposal they can fall back to a merely disgusting and slimy one.
Yes it was!

TY TY - we really appreciate it. Already made one changed based on your feedback.
It looks nice, and seems to have a great community. It could learn from graphviz and matplotlib though, and have a gallary of examples complete with code snippets. See http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php and http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

The NodeBox gallery is mostly about other projects that use NobeBox. That is nice if you want to learn about linguistics or fractals, but not so great for just learning NodeBox features.

I really love the matplotlib and graphviz galleries. Visualization of the feature, plus working code.

Otherwise, it looks very sweet.

Edit - I'm browsing through the "Examples" directories in the installation. It's pretty cool.
Most extra-curriculars are contrivances, designed either explicitly or implicitly to convey some false sense of campus culture to the public at large, alumni, or even the student body itself. I know little of college athletics, so I'll stay away from that category of activity. What's left are a bunch of campus clubs. Since when has the student government had any real power? It either plans homecoming week or takes political positions on issues over which it has no control (like South African politics). Does being student body president get you anything in life? Yup. Those who have an incentive to legitimize this false system might accept you into law school or some other graduate program which can result in real, tangible outcomes. However, you will likely better yourself more by volunteering for a real campaign for a real elected office instead.

Fifteen years ago, I was my dorm's food service council representative. No, I'm not kidding! Every month, I went to a meeting where representatives of the firm who contracted with the university to provide food for $800/semester tried to pretend to care what a bunch of kids said about their over-cooked burgers. Actually, they seemed to legitimately care, and I learned a lot from the experience. What I learned was how helpless those managers were when it came to changing the behaviors of their minimum-wage staff. Once, a student said that his dorm-mates wanted more kinds of cereal at breakfast time. Immediately, it was promised that the number of cereal bins would be doubled! Then, when another student wanted the grill to actually be staffed during lunchtime (often, employees would take long breaks whenever they felt like it), management said vaguely that they would consider their options. That they would spend hundreds on frivolity but wouldn't attempt to control their employees left a strong impression on me and has influenced how I consider the behaviors of other managers I encounter in life.

Did being on the food service committee help me out in any direct way, like getting a good job? Nope. I would have been better off finding something more real to do where the outcome of my work meant something. Start an on-campus computer repair company, whatever.... I learned more from doing IT work for a small commercial roofing company during a couple summers than I did in any on-campus activities with official, paid advisers.

In a nutshell, the contrivances of college life might provide benefit, but the hours spent are less fruitful than those filled with "real" stuff. YMMV if one wants to impress a law school admissions officer or similar.

Edit: I didn't really address the "for an entrepreneur" part, but I think my comments still apply.
Meet people. Lots and lots of people. And find a
co-founder.
Just as a data point -- it is an inalienable human right, at least as defined by the UN.

Article 27 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights:

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

(Not that this by any means justifies or demands anything like the copyright regime we have now, let alone this ridiculous power-grab extension of it. And people are of course free to waive their rights at any time.)
Lets organize a network strike: Drop all net activity (specially e-commerce) for a day to send a message that we all have a say in this matter.
HashParty a look into the who behind twitter hashtag trends using Ident Engine.
check out my new concept folks, HashParty. Its a twitter hashtag explorer that leverages the Ident Engine to crawl through the web to reveal the who behind tweets in a regards to a hashtag trend. I combined the Ident engine API with twitter and a few other bits to bring this site concept to life fairly quickly.

Originally made to help people assess the who behind tweets for conference related hashtags. HashParty attempts to gather as much social graph info as possible to create the profiles.
seems very similar to sketchflow http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/1eea789b-c69c-4... but for the web
check out my new concept folks, HashParty. Its a twitter hashtag explorer that leverages the Ident Engine to crawl through the web to reveal the who behind tweets in a regards to a hashtag trend. I combined the Ident engine API with twitter and a few other bits to bring this site concept to life fairly quickly.

Originally made to help people assess the who behind tweets for conference related hashtags. HashParty attempts to gather as much social graph info as possible to create the profiles.
I'm dubious that it is Atlassian, since they have about half a dozen other (popular) products besides a bug tracker.

At least I hope its not because I love using their products and I want Joel to do well too...
AT&T should counter with a pie chart of "percent of population with 3G coverage". AT&T's and Verizon's coverage will look identical then.

(I used to have AT&T, and traveled a lot, but was never out of range of their 3G service. Verizon certainly has a good network, but AT&T's is not horribly bad.)
I'm I the only one that thinks this article is the stick part of the Hockey stick?

In other posts (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html) Joel has said that: "Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it." And then makes reference to the hockey stick graph of sales figures for a couple of products

So ten years have passed for FogCreek and seems that now they are focusing on the stick.

I would say this is the next logical step in that strategy.
the EFF seems to think so, that's scary enough for me
There is an important lesson for web devs in that 2nd pie chart.

Browser usage is enormously variable depending on demographics. When you weigh the cost/benefit tradeoffs of cross-browser compatibility for your site it is critical that you understand the actual browser usage for your site, not just the internet at large.

On a mass-appeal website that pulls in a wide cross-section of worldwide internet users IE may be the majority browser, dominating everything else by a 3:1 margin, with IE6 as popular as firefox. For such a site it probably pays off to make sure your site not only works but works well and looks good in IE, even IE6. However, if you have a more tech focused site then things are dramatically different, likely firefox will be the overwhelmingly dominant browser, with IE a distant 2nd, 3rd, or 4th and IE6 usage just a tiny slice. In that scenario the excessive costs of making IE (let alone IE6) compatibility a first tier design priority become completely unjustified and you should probably care about how well your site works in IE6 about as much as you care about it working in Opera (which is probably not much).
I think you missed the part where the takedown happens without the need to prove anything. And it's easy enough to gin up something. Also most activist groups generate a fair amount of media content. Content which is likely to be monitored by the people most likely to be in their sights.

And if someone mildly technically knowledgable gets involved you could really cause trouble. Imagine the havoc that could be wreaked by AT&T disconnecting Verizon. Or shutting down Dreamhost.

Instant disconnection on accusal is a recipe for stupid things.

Hell, someone would probably set up a linkbait news posting to a webpage that they claim is protected ip and have a script issue automatic disconnect requests to everyone who views the target page.
like the gallery at http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Gallery ?
> If you're growing at 50 percent a year, and your competitor is growing at 100 percent a year, it takes only eight years before your competitor is 10 times bigger than you.

Assuming you both start out the same size.
Care to share which text to speech engine you are using?
have you seen modern riot control technology?

Dude, they have 50 years of tech advantage over the pitchfork wielders. We are truly fucked if the military and police do not mutiny
My pong game in 30 lines of nodebox: http://billmill.org/pong.html .

Nodebox rocks; I used it more seriously to create all the EPS files for my article in python magazine about drawing trees. Here's an example; notice how short and to the point the code is, a credit to nodebox's super simple API: http://github.com/llimllib/personal_code/blob/master/python/...
it would never be a blanket ban. there would be an escape valve of bureaucracy that only corporations could utilize
Ask HN: Integrated chat for your web app
I've been looking for a way to integrate gmail/facebook style chat into our web app.

I've checked out www.cometchat.com which looks promising. Does anyone know of any other existing solutions?

Mind you I'm talking about Gmail/Facebook style chat where push is employed.. not the old school polling chat apps that a lot of 'corporate' sites still use.
There's probably a way to teach almost anything using a computer. The problem is in how to present this to the kids.

In school, computers are an afterthought, and aren't really part of the curriculum in any meaningful way (except those couple of classes on Word and Excel, which you do use).

In the best scenario, a teacher will seat the class in the computer lab, then tell them to do research on the web for a report for an hour. Usually though, a visit to the computer lab involves running some buggy "multimedia addon" that ships with the textbook. It is always of awful quality, and, if it runs at all, can be "explored" in about 5 minutes, with the kids wasting the rest of the time hiding a Flash game or YouTube from the teacher. Finally, since "this won't be on the test", most students don't care.

Here's what would work: a resource with voluntary participation. Something for interested students to explore on their own time. Yes, most kids would rather not do something that "feels like more work". I also know I would have enjoyed something like this at that age.

It doesn't even have to be a game in the classic sense. Usually trying to fit educational content in a game just feels fake and contrived, and the result is neither educational nor fun. Kids aren't dumb, and see right through that. In fact, different subjects may require different platforms.

This sounds like a great open-source project. A Wikipedia-style set of learning materials. Someone make this please :)
More specifically, the competing product he's referring to is probably Atlassian's JIRA (bug tracking software).

I for one thought that Joel sounded a bit sour and jealous.
Is it that Fog Creek is losing its "market leadership position"? (was Fog Creek ever a market leader?)
>>the oldest version of Internet Explorer still in wide usage, IE6, but that's comparing apples and oranges.

Which is also the version with the most market share and the most problematic for web development, FF 2.x is only 1.14, I'm pretty sure most people focus only on the latest versions for FF/Safari.
Many sectors of the law have been this way for awhile. It only takes an anonymous accusation for the FBI or DEA to raid your house, destroy it, seize your possessions, and never return them. You may only spend a few nights in jail but you'll never get your stuff back.

People have already been conditioned to accept this stuff as "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
I'm aware. I'm thinking more along the lines of Brazil. Not first world, but it's not like we're talking about Somalia either.
The things that were taken away were not things most people think they need. Most people assume they will never be suspected of a crime, and they are usually right, so why bother getting upset about "rights"?

The internet is different. It's something people use and rely on every day. If encryption is outlawed, there are no more cell-phone networks, online banking, online shopping, credit card transactions, wifi, etc. Most people are not going to be too happy about that.

Censoring the Internet or going after file-sharers is also not going to work. IPv4's "keyspace" of unique addresses is too small; as soon as disconnections become legal, bittorrent clients will start forging the UDP source IPs. (Some ISPs have egress filtering, but does every ISP on the entire planet? If not, then anyone can make it look like you are sharing a file anytime they want.)

To make this treaty take effect in the US as written, the Constitution will have to be rewritten. Politicians are much too lazy for that, so I am not worried.
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I'm looking at that first chart and noticing Chrome creep up on Safari... Anyone know if this got a leg up when Chrome started being offered by the Java updater?
It looks amazing, but it runs sooooo slow on my Ubuntu 9.10 Eeepc 701.
I love it. We generate weather updates, which I'm used to hearing read by automated voices anyway. Now it's like we have our own staff of robots to do the same: http://tweetrad.io/?q=from%3Astormpulse

Awesome.
Even if you don't agree with what he has to say, his writing, especially for Inc. Is really good.

I'm having a hard time seeing the comparison of FogBugz vs. Mystery competitor (consensus says Atlassian?) and Oracle vs. Ingress. Picking a db vendor has a lot more lock-in and switching costs than using a different bug database. Also, there are so many more competitors in this space, with plenty of good free options. Lastly, the barrier to entry is so much lower, I mean, I could write a usable software project management tool in a weekend, it's trivial. It would take at least a week to make a fully functional relational database system.
If you didn't use real plants, science would just conclude it was a previously undiscovered species. That it exists is sufficient to prove it's real (and natural) to science. It's impossible to create something without causing it to exist. Therefore, it's impossible to create something without causing it to appear natural to science.
It's a running joke at my company about how bad the search is in confluence. It's shockingly bad.
Well you'll have to excuse me because I haven't heard that one before.
I generally oppose race-based preferences, but I have recently forced myself to think about them from a different perspective. What if I was the US's benevolent dictator? I would be concerned with large, concentrated populations of very poor black people. To break the cycle of generational poverty, I could institute all sorts of social service programs and provide hand-outs. Or, I could game the incentives people observe so that they would be more likely to take actions that would improve their situation. Observing more people "like you" opt into higher education and get middle class jobs sufficient to buy homes in the suburbs might make you think that you too could achieve a similar outcome. But, if you had no such role models, you might decide that your fate has been pre-determined and make no effort to improve your lot. So, I wonder if the value of affirmative action is not to the individual so much as to the group.

I still oppose racial preferences. As a teenager, I opposed them from a civil rights standpoint -- after all, they're a blatant form of institutionalized discrimination. In college, I had an experience that made me oppose preferences for a more pragmatic reason -- they can be cruel. I had a summer internship at a large company that made a substantial effort to recruit minorities. One guy in my internship class was a student at a small, historically black college in the South. He was a great guy...fun to hang out with, and had superb interpersonal and communication skills. Ostensibly, he was a computer science major but once admitted that his school had not required that he write "a program" in more than two years. This company, with all good intentions, put him in a very technical role for the summer. He failed miserably and accomplished nothing. On one of the last days of the internship program, I heard him literally sobbing to his mentor that he had accomplished nothing during the summer. He was right and smart enough to know it. If he had been white (or, more correctly a "non-disenfranchised" minority), someone would have told him that he could have a great career in marketing, PR, sales, whatever. Writing code wasn't for him, but it's not for most people, and that's quite ok. Had he not been wooed because of the color of his skin, he could have opted into a mutually beneficial internship with a PR firm where he would have learned a lot and gained self confidence. Instead, he got the message that he sucked.
I'm no entrepreneur, but I think you should consider just finding stuff you enjoy and where you'll meet people with common interests. E.g. if you like dancing, join a dance club. It won't help you out in the future, but once you graduate, its likely you won't have a lot of time for a dance club afterwards.

Might sounds a bit cliche, but still, I think that spending all of your college life focusing on your future career is a bit of a waste (thats my opinion anyway).
Ask HN: So I quit my job to focus on my startup...
Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation?

And.

How about good freelance/temp resources to pay bills until I become ramen-profitable or secure funding?

Perhaps the second question becomes irrelevant if pg is listening...
It doesn't matter what they negotiate, treaties do not become US law. See, for example, Medellen v. Texas:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/Mede...

"We conclude that neither Avena nor the President’s Memorandum constitutes directly enforceable federal law that pre-empts state limitations on the filing of successive habeas petitions."

If they want this to become law in the US, they will have to follow the usual process. If they want criminal sanctions without trials, as the treaty proposes, the Constitution will have to be rewritten. (The fact that enforcing these laws will be technically impossible is another annoying issue.)
The design looks really, really, really cool.
I agree with you almost entirely, but I feel there is no dichotomy here. There is room for several strategies to approach this treaty.

There is the need for dissent within in the political sphere for this treaty, and I'm certain that many activists will take this strategy up. There's also room for technological dissent; for citizens to develop strategies and technologies to mitigate the effects if this treaty does go into effect.

We're all in the same boat.
http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/Nemesis2.htm
I think it's perfectly reasonable to believe that the words a person used did not clearly reflect the thoughts in their head. In fact, I'd say it's fairly common. Given that, one could be "technically allowed" to find it x even though the writer insists it's y. It surely didn't sound like a compliment to me when I read it.
I guess it depends where you live, and whether or not you travel. I frankly don't care if they have 3G in new mexico, as it wouldn't concern me, and I'd probably never go there.
I met the founders (saikat and ??) at HeyZap's (post SUS) party. They described it as (Peldi's) Mockups but for the Web. Interesting underserved niche.
You're fucked.

The first principle of negotiation is to always have a better option.
My two kids learned english (we are Mexican and live in Mexico) by playing videogames and watching cartoons. Although their mother and I both speak english, we never spoke to them in english and they never took any kind of english lessons.

They both started playing videogames when they were two years old. I found out that games like Super Mario 64 were more educational than most PC "educational" games. Finding the 100 coins in a Super Mario level turned out to be an excellent way to learn about numbers and counting.

A few months ago they started playing World of Warcraft and since then I've seen a great improvement in my youngest (11 years old) son's skill for written communication.
Point. Actually, Brazil would be a pretty good choice.