skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always like Howard Zinn and I'm pretty far away from him politically speaking. I'm about as libertarian as they come but I always admired his consistent anti-war tone.

I always get annoyed when people don't like the opposition party's wars but love their party's wars. Zinn was always one of my favorite people on the left because he didn't like any war in American history or see it as a "good war".

I wish him well and think we're all a bit worse off for his absence.
You can't say that complexity itself is the problem, because the whole of programming is encoding complex processes so as to simplify them from a human perspective. Without complexity, it's not testing that would go away, it's programming. You've basically said something like "the problem with space shuttles is that they have to aim their thrust precisely in order to achieve lift"—that's not the problem with space shuttles, that's the idea of space shuttles.
Great point. imagine if the appstore had less stringent guidelines. There'd be a lot more iboobs, but also a lot more innovation.
Wired editor rips off sensational title.
Having been down that path, I would recommend an app like an old copy of QuickBooks, an online app like Freshbooks, or an open source equivalent. (eBay?) It makes it easy to be organized and establishing a good system early on gives you time to think about important things.
Wow, I'm surprised Apple didn't just buy Delicious Library outright, like they bought SoundJam MP for iTunes, or Cover Flow for Cover Flow, or plenty of other small developers for features.
Yeah good luck with SeedStart Summer Program.....

why don't you ask them who the winners were last year? there weren't' any. Owen and his buddies are just culling NYC for possible good ideas to poach, huge waste of me and my teams time.

from the site, "We will give up to 10 teams a small amount of funding, space, and mentorship in exchange for a small piece of equity in whatever they build."

be sure to realize that "up to 10" is a fancy way of saying "zero" or "none"
My vote would go for something like "accommodations". I think it's a little more mainstream.
Freedom to Smoke Anywhere
Today as people are becoming increasingly conscious about the negative effects of secondary smoking, public establishments are becoming stricter regarding smoking in public. However, for someone that has got used to smoking, abstaining from smoking just because they are in a public place can bring terrible distress. Today, you can see many more “No Smoking!” signs than it used to be in the past.
Seeing as you've apparently not bothered to learn anything about how the existing iPhone OS works, you might be surprised at the results you'd see from such an application.
A purer form of democracy is in fact what many more contemporary American (or Western) socialists such as social libertarians have advocated. Again, I can't think of any instances where Zinn proposes a "solution" other then enlightenment (eg' understand that we, the readers and writers of books have mostly been the jailers'[1]) so I wouldn't charecterise him as part of any of those movements. I think that you would classify his work as a part of the Marxist family of intellectual endeavour for other reasons.

Since the most obvious effects of Communist thought were the political-economic systems inspired by it, we tend to think of Communism as being purely focused on these. But, an approach to historical analysis is as much a part of Marxist thought as economic analysis.

Howard Zinn was a historian.

[1] Quoted roughly & ineloquently from memory.
I don't see what possible motivation Apple would have to make the web experience as close to native as possible.

It makes it easier to sell the hardware.
If it has decent auto-correction software, small bumps shouldn't futz with the picture. Much.

(The main method I could see for this is making the viewable area of video smaller than the sensor; an accelerometer or clever image analysis could determine if the picture is shaking, and autocorrect it)
Google's Privacy Principles
I think you have misunderstood something. Comet is a general way of pushing back events as they happen and there are different ways of implementing comet, two of these ways are using long poll and using WebSockets...

Why you should care about comet? Because it is the future of web applications. Look at Google Wave, Facebook Chat or Google Documents - - they use comet to create realtime web applications. I predict that most web-applications will use this technology as most sites today use Ajax in some form.

Also note the point of entry into building a scaleable comet application is getting much lower with such tools like node.js, erlycomet and JBoss Netty.
I'm fairly certain Zinn was an anarchist. He was certainly heavily influenced by anarchist philosophy.
This quote was a generalization, but aimed at ordinary users. As mentioned in this article describing Microsoft's efforts in China (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/...), after years of failed attempts, MS was able to turn its image around from hostile to gentle software giant and convince the government to "go genuine." In order secure those buyers, MS drastically cut prices, but given the enormous number of Chinese government users, it's probably still netting a decent fortune.

As for those ordinary users who often trawl underground software/movie markets, they are the ones who will probably never be tempted to "go genuine." They aren't under pressure from the MS/PRC back-scrubbing to do so. It's likely that most people don't need to find a Windows CD if they've already purchased a computer with it pre-installed, but anything else is open game. The vast majority of these ordinary users are purely driven by cost, and if they're buying the cheapest pirated CDs (hey, even pirates have to compete), that money isn't making it's way back to Microsoft.

As an aside, the biggest reason why I would never buy from these markets in China is that some of the software is infected with trojans. "You get what you pay for," right? ;)
Relax, buddy. It's a joke.
Let us not forget that one of the originals behind Delicious Library now works (or did work) at Apple - http://www.mikematas.com/
I image DougBTX's comment meant buying a cheap and clean laptop (the "notebook" was meant to emphasize how cheap), so he has necessary functionality while on the road but doesn't accidentally expose himself to troubles because of who-knows-what on his main laptop. It wasn't about splitting hairs.
I think the idea is that they can't seize what you didn't bring with you.
IPad Doubts: The Third Pillar Might Not Stand
For me I usually feel tired and crappy when I start going to the gym after a long break. I find that it is only after I exercise for a few weeks in a row that I start feeling good after a workout.

So my humble advice is to stick with your exercise routine for a while and see how that goes. good luck!

Edit: Corrected typo
For a second, I thought "wow! another HN reader in Nagoya!" then I realized it was you. ;)

I think one of the problems JangoSteve had with his implementation is that people really don't like to see forms already filled in on their website (we've gotten a lot of complaints about it at our work as well)

I really like the solution that was shown in the related article. All of his Geolocations have a regular text section that says something along the lines of:

"Ship something from _San Jose, CA_. (Not in San Jose? Click Here)"

Which would then (I assume) replace text with a fill-in form using JS.

That would keep the "Why is there information in my form!" support mails down, while at the same time providing the GEOfunctionality and an easy way to correct mistaken information (Porn sites always think I'm in Kasugai, which is about 50km from where I live grin)

And be sure to save their inputted area in a cookie, so they don't have to re-correct your geocache every time they see your site!
Apple has finally made a netbook - and they did it on their terms. Bravo!
I was quite curious what modern languages the author was referring to, wondering if I had missed some magical language boat that left without me.
You Have To Buy It Twice Before It’s Cheap
I'm hearing quite a bit of speculation that Samsung is the fab for the A4. If so, they are still getting a slice of the action.
It's a great quote. I think it even applies to political systems.

I just remembered where I originally found that quote: I read it in Manage It!, published by The Pragmatic Programmers, citing The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg.

It must have been something I heard years ago and it's been sitting in my head so long I thought it was mine.

It happens. That effect even has a name. It's called Cryptomnesia. :-)
It obviously may not be possible for your specific business but if it is I'd encourage you to try and arrange things so you don't have to invoice people at all.

For http://comfypage.com we have a small set of additional services we can provide. We used to invoice people but these days for most stuff people fill out a form and pay online then we get an email that says "person X wants Y done" No invoicing required and we get paid up front so there's no chasing payments involved.

We're probably losing a percentage of customers who don't like this process but the amount of time we spend on admin tasks is basically zero.
So, it looks like you can get fairly close to unique identification (at least so far), by paying attention to system fonts. I actually find it a bit hard to believe that I'm the only one out of 59,132 with this set of system fonts.
Split what hairs? I read his comment to mean he'd bring a netbook that he can afford to lose -- "disposable", if U.S. Customs decides to seize it. Further, that being a separate computer that contains no data of importance to him. Merely something that provides an interface to the Internet, once past the border, for convenience and for the security of starting with a machine in a known safe state (well, assuming Customs doesn't install anything on it) as opposed to borrowing someone else's machine or using a public one.

My one caveat would be to suggest comparing prices at home and in the U.S., and if it's significantly cheaper in the U.S. and you have enough time to shop without stress or sacrifice, consider buying the machine in the U.S. -- unless it would be too much hassle to bring it back (import taxes or whatever). (Years ago, a friend's boss went back to Germany with an entire Minolta or whatever SLR setup (body, lenses, tripod, etc) that would have cost him something like twice as much at home. He found some way to get it past German customs -- he may have just taken the chance that he would not be challenged.)

I've seen similar comments before. And it mirrors the approach I would take if/when I travel abroad and the equipment is not my employer's. Any data I need I'll leave strongly encrypted on a data store I can access over the Net. Bonuses: Theft will only risk the price of the machine, and if I feel uncertain about its health upon my return (or during the trip), I can simply wipe it and reinstall.
Real-time scheduler for embedded systems
"American Socialists such as social libertarians"

What? I see that as a contradiction in terms.
Your language settings probably have something to do with the quoted uniqueness of your HTTP_ACCEPT.
Does my browser send all of that stuff on every HTTP request? It seems wasteful.
Nikon D3000 | Nikon D3000 Digital Camera Review
Corrupted climatology
Lower quality screen? Hmm, I thought sure there were netbooks out there with .. oh, yeah, the dell mini-10 has a true 720p option.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to get the large screen and a 3G card together. Or the higher powered CPU and an OTA tv tuner. In fact, it's pretty impossible to build a decent dell mini-10 system, so forget I even mentioned it. Or don't, and remember not to spend ten minutes futzing with their customization workflow...
The iPad Big Picture
Absolutely, the best thing that Howard Zinn ever did was tear to shreds the lie that "History is written by the winners". As I recall, he never meant "A People's History of the United States" to be a canonical text but, merely one to read alongside the "standard message" in dialectical* conflict.

*"Dialectical" in Marxist critical theory, not necessarily in political motivation.
I think the best way is to have a specification coming from the customer indicating their needs and expectation. Any feature that's not mentioned in the document cannot be considered a "bug".

Based from this specification, testers/QA can not write their test cases.
I, myself, am not a Socialist I tend to vote 3rd party because I believe Nader's basic idea that there is no difference between the two dominant parties - they just serve different corporate interests. But I am in no way a committed Marxist/ Socialist anything. But I feel deeply that so few discussions get it right - in ether the pro or the con.

It is easy to confuse the political realities of Socialism for the underlying ethos. Marx's Socialism at its core sought to put political control in the hands of those who produce society. The ethic defining the movement was to take the advances of the French Revolution (which was essentially a Middle Class revolution) and extend those liberties for all.

It is in that sense that Zinn is a Socialist writer. It is not accurate to characterize him as writing to "help the little guy". I tis accurate that this is a perversion of not only Stalin and Mao (Stalin more than Lenin as Lenin was more about aligning state power with a political party) but also Hitler, Huey Long, David Duke, etc. Demagogery is neither left nor right.

The important work of someone like Howard Zinn is not that he simplified history or wrote for the 'little guy' but that he wrote with awareness of Machiavelli's dictum: "History is written by the victors"

I think - if one is interested in what Zinn was writing towards and can look at things like socialism with a dispassionate eye - it is worth reading Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Dense and epigrammatic - like reading Nietzsche or Kierkegaard.

It is easy - and in terms of praxis correct - to lambaste Socialism as a failed attempt which turned into horrific perversion. But there is something vital there still. I would argue that there is much still to be learned from reading Marx and as a thinker he leads back to thinkers like Hegel, Kant, Vico, etc and engaged some of the brilliant minds of the 20th century - like Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, etc

To borrow from one of Adorno's lectures on Hegel in which he attacked Benedetto Croce for the presumption of an early 20th century essay entitled "What is living and what is dead in Hegel". The issue here is not Zinn's relevance to our world but our relevance in terms of the basic Enlightenment tradition.

One thing that is very hard to argue if you are coming from the standpoint of " liberal (in the classical sense) philosophy of individual liberty" (which I agree is the place to start - that is where Marx and Zinn both start in their very different attempts), one thing that is hard to argue is that we are dealing with the Kantian transendental subjectivity that classical liberal philosophy was based on.

We are different. The 20th century changed what it means to be human.

To sum up - I think Howard Zinn was a wonderful figure. I have enormous respect for him. He is not one of my favorite writers or thinkers but I do enjoy listening to his readings. For me he is an example of an ethical person who saw clearly and attempted to educate others. I have similar respect for Ralph Nader, Richard Stallman, Philip and Daniel Berrigan even when I entirely disagree with a point or a position. RIP Professor Zinn.
Incredibly boring to me. I went to a game once and had to buy several plates of nachos and wander around to try to save my sanity.
Actually, you don't. You can sign up for 3G on the device. You can buy and manage content from the iTunes or App stores right from the device - just like the iPhone.
Tight short's... arial ping pong... but at least you didn't say collingwood.

That said i'm always up for a kick in the park :D
"On February 1, 2007, the DigitalGlobe satellite did a scan of the area, generating thousands of images. The images were posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk in order to distribute the work of searching through them, in hopes of spotting his boat."

I remember taking part in that. Unfortunately, there were a lot of clouds that day, so it was hard to see anything in the photos.
Polyglot binary that runs both on Windows (sort of) and Linux
Here's an idea: someone can come along and build something half has good as the iPhone ecosystem. Who's stopping them?
Anyone else sees a pattern? [jpg]
I wonder if there will be a way to turn off the animation. When looking at the promo video there was way too much movement for the simplest of things like selecting a book, turning a page, etc. For me, it would get old very fast.
"Doing what you do... hell hire 25 testers for every component; just don't kill anyone.

I think I miss this one but how did you know he needed 25 testers for every component?
Now that I think about it, I recall that the boss asked my friend, on one of the friend's trips, to bring a laser printer back. This was before they were as small and light as they've gotten. It gave me a good laugh when he told me this. But somehow he got it packed and home.
I want to see educational, multitouch, applications. Like, learning how to trace letters, simple math games, etc.
i'd like to see one IRL - but i dont see the iPad being especially easy to use with regards to its size.

on an iPhone you can easily type with your thumbs, grip it firmly and you can use all sorts of multi-touch gestures.

i cant see that happening with a 10 inch tablet.

you would need to hold it / balance it on one hand and then awkwardly control it with your other hand. Doesnt seem ergonomic.

maybe one of the accesories they should release is an iArm, so we can hold it with two arms and confidently use gestures and such with your iArm
Every time I re-visit the page it says I'm unique. That's not much of a fingerprint.
It's almost as if Apple did something today.
It opens up a new market for the JooJoo tablet as a web-enabled sushi platter.
Macmillian is McGraw-Hill, and they're on that slide along with the others.
Unlimited 4G internet (small USB dongle for a tablet like this) costs $30/mo for 6 months then $45/mo through CLEAR or Comcast if it's available in your city
Cappuccino and Objective-J nicely abstract all of these away: http://cappuccino.org
Affordable Car Insurance Quotes For Teenagers
While car insurance quotes for teenagers are offered by several insurance companies, people who are looking for the car insurance quotes at modest prices and discounts, one easy way to obtain these is by getting hold of a license.
Why I Hate the Maps on Google Maps
Mine is unique too. Only 7 other people at the time of my test had the same plugin profile, and nobody had the same exact fonts (only thing I've knowingly added are MS fonts and ProggyCleanTTSZ).
Um, the FSF is precisely challenging you to change your lifestyle so as not to support companies whose ethics are troublesome.
This is really frustrating. I'm more-or-less idealogically aligned with the FSF, but feel like they've been doing more harm than good for a bit, especially as far as how these ideals are perceived goes.

I think they need a nice healthy dose of pragmatism, but I can't think of an effective way for them to get it.

This problem is common to groups of people aligned with more fringe or extreme ideals, and it's really annoying to deal with.
Note that this feature is (for now, at least) designed to add weight to content _created_ by your social circle. It does not, as I first thought, modify your search results based on friends' preferences.

From Google's FAQ:
"Google Social Search is a feature designed to help you discover relevant publicly-accessible content from your social circle, a set of online friends and contacts. The idea is that content from your friends and social contacts is often more relevant to you than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from your best friend can be even better."

More info here:
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
I've been using them for running twice a week and playing basketball on outdoor courts at least 2-3 times a week for the last 6 months. So far, they havent even begun to show any sign of wear.
Thanks, I fixed that up most of that after you posted earlier, the join button I'm in the process of relocating.
Monkeys, Candy and Cognitive Dissonance
He left in july 2009 I believe. Cant pull up dead link to the blog post, cache wont work, but here is the link to the google search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mike+matas+leaves+a...
Me. Of course, without JavaScript, it didn't pick much of anything up.
DPL-EVD3100 ADVANCED HANDHELD EXPLOSIVES VAPOR TRACE DETECTOR
I can't speak for everyone else, but I can say that I personally would definitely be interested in reading your blog.
I think that's the right distinction to make.

Often times, in discussions such as these, people will associate Marxist-type critiques with an immediate conjunction to Communism (almost in knee-jerk fashion), because of the historical reasons you mention.

I think that's unfortunate because as a critical model, there are valuable insights to be gained from Marxist thought, even if you reject (as I do) the idea of Communism.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/08/02/
A First Look at the iPad SDK and the iPad Sample Code
Problema al cargar la página
What happens when the only way I can read a book I want to read or listen to an album I want to hear is through Apple's channel?

It's the combination of a closed delivery system and their increasing dominance of digital content that's worrisome.
Awesome, but I'm wondering if this guy is violating the NDA that comes with membership of the dev program with this. I've certainly avoided spreading info I've seen in the iPad SDK due to this..
The bragging could also be an attempt to separate the continued success of Apple and the employment of Steve Jobs.
Until you need to get an OS update, put your existing content/apps on it, transfer your contacts, exchange documents, backup, etc. Just like an iPhone.
I think it's a non corrupt court system that most helps the little guy. Few countries laws are nearly as corrupt as it's institutions.

PS: As an ideology I suspect the roots of Socialism is the idea that no single individual adds as much to his individual well being as his society. In the case of modern industrial society this is clearly true (from an economic prospective), if somewhat misguided because some individuals contribute far more to society than others.
Assuming this had at some point become the...

The issue here is that in a world where this is the computing model, its not realistic for every new software idea to start with "let me ship my own surrounding system including hardware". If this sort of model were ever to win, it would be hard to go back, users don't necessarily understand the argument of "openness".

General computing cannot be replaced by...

This argument is just "closed systems are not bad because there are also open systems". My point is simply that if closed systems win, then they are bad. So unless you are implying that its impossible for there only ever to be closed systems (which I wouldn't be so sure of), then we agree.
So it's OK to make jokes which aren't even tenuously based in fact?