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My God, this is entirely, entirely, wrong. When you speed, you're JUST as culpable of killing someone whether you actually kill them or not. This is an old ethics issue: you can imagine two scenarios, both of which you do exactly the same actions: speeding down a road. The difference is that in one of them, a pedestrian doesn't see you bearing down on him, and you kill him. The pedestrian may or may not be there, but in one scenario, you're a monster, and in the other, you're just a speeder - even though your actions are identical in each case!

The right answer is that you're a monster in BOTH scenarios, and you should never fucking speed.

This is paid PR for Southwest Airlines, right?

I think that's because there are no data for that region - the FAQ mentions that the data is crowdsourced from folks with certain receivers. Although, I can't imagine it'd be hard to simulate the paths based on data from both coasts.

Absolutely not. After 2500 years, Western philosophy has yet to achieve broad consensus on anything at all. Philosophers don't have a clue what consciousness is - they can barely even describe it without using utterly ambiguous words like "qualia" or "sense datum". The only way we'll ever be able to know anything about consciousness besides what's going on inside our own heads is for us to directly experience what's going on inside someone else's (or some animal's).

Not until the Singularity, basically. I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.

And now we've got a Macbook Air!

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/kqALB

I don't really see why this is special. It's just a websocket connection that happens to show every request made to the server. Your browser is not a server, no matter which way you cut it.

Can't seem to get the demo project and query to return anything...

Fixed. I don't see any flicker on my Chrome OS X, odd.

Sweet hack. Would be cool if there was a way to make it secure as well...

No! Keep 'em guessing! I literally chuckled when I saw "Orbvt"

I would love have all my node packages available to me...in the meantime, HTTP requests from the server would be much appreciated

Check out their "investor", too!

http://mudmtn.com/

You can go to www.hackerleague.org and check out the upcoming events.

Mm, no, just from investors to startups. Startups don't invest in investors :)

This reminds me of an analysis I once did: https://github.com/astanway/Crunchbase-Network-Analysis

The data from Crunchbase is very, very dirty, but I managed to clean it up a lot. Feel free to fork if you want pre-built NetworkX graphs.

Awesome. Beat me to it. I treat my writing the same way: like fruit on tree, adding to it slowly until it ripens.

How can I get an invite?

I'm actually looking forward to the new APIs that will come out of this project - standardized web APIs that will allow Javascript to interact with everything on a device as if it were native code.

What's the problem? I enjoyed "like a hitchhiker's thumb that lost its way". And that opening paragraph was badass.

I agree, and I don't even read Techcrunch. For me, what really hits home is all the advice you can get about entrepreneurship, and startups, and winning, and whatnot - and you're starting to get it from kids who literally have no idea what they're talking about, who have never actually started a company, and who are doing nothing more than spouting some kind of Jobsian rhetoric mixed with a dash of old Paul Graham essays.

But everyone wants to be influential, and everyone wants to be read, and the best way to get read is to write what people want to hear, and your writing doesn't need to be especially introspective or well-revised in order to give people their five-minute content fix.

It's not the semantic interpretation of text that they're banning, but the scraping of text, which deals with copying what they'd prefer to sell you. Still an abhorrence, but let's get our facts straight.

Consider the Lobster - essays by DFW

Startup Nation - discourse on startups in Israel

Tempo - narrative strategy by Venkatesh Rao - REALLY good read, distilled and full of gold

Every month? What are you planning for January?

I agree, but it's very tough to innovate and solve problems that you don't even know exist. That kind of information would be very valuable. Maybe that's the first step.

Via the inimitable dN0t: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_AAqi0RZM

also New York companies :)

Shirky's cognitive surplus comes to mind. In the context of #OWS, a lot of the youth are complaining that they don't have jobs. But then I remember that my generation wasn't raised to find a job - we were raised to "do what we loved". And after a while in the real world, we found that there weren't very many opportunities to actually do what we loved, and we're a bit upset about it.*

The step FORWARD is to try to create an environment where ANYONE can create ANY kind of wealth they want. Companies like Etsy and Skillshare (both NYC babies!) are propelling us to this world. It's a world where we have projects instead of jobs. A place where you don't ask a man what he DOES for a living; instead, you ask him what he's WORKING on.

Sounds nice, huh? And the wrong answer, obviously, is to "solve" it by making things more inefficient. Then we'll just stay in a world where jobs, you know, suck.

*the royal we, of course. I'm a programmer, and I have a job, and I love it. yeeee :)

The signup button gives it away...

alright, emergency hacking done! you can now add your username to be scraped :)

I developed it at PennApps a couple weeks ago. I'll be adding GitHub authentication soon, so you can add all your logs to the site. Was kind of hoping it didn't make HN until then :)

I agree. It probably invokes an element of awareness, that primal "oh, shit, I need to start working or else." It's probably that fear which provides certain types of endorphins and brain activity you wouldn't otherwise get.