skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that this was published in January 2008, and likely written before that. Rightly or wrongly, economic globalization's image didn't end that year untarnished.

The world's a really complex system, even limited to just the human-systems part of it, and the <50 miles from satellite orbits down to deep-sea drilling that concerns said humans. So in forecasting and speculating on the future, we can't help but project our own fears and hopes - in this case, Thiel is a capitalist/investor who makes a long case for going long on the world economy, with some Biblical quotes and economic history to make it interesting, if not quite convincing. Too many false dichotomies are given - I think it's a good bet the future will not run like a decision tree.

In particular, Thiel wrestles with the fairly old internal contradictions of capitalism that many other thinkers have, some much more in depth. To use one more Biblical reference, the Rapture for globalization is a totally "flat" world of complete freedom for labor and capital (and technology, but presumably not land). Global capitalism runs, shuffles, or stumbles towards that end, with much of its participants heedless of the journey, never mind its destination.

For example, since capitalism's purpose is to accumulate capital for its own sake, it cannot help but be global (early on, slave trade/colonialism), and it cannot help but work against itself in the long run (We'll up profit margins by outsourcing! But wait, then those outsourcers will get richer, and compete to squeeze our own profit margins. Yah, but then they'll outsource too! But wait, the planet is finite...). While it is a very resilient economic system, what might follow it as its contradictions come fully into play is far from clear.

As an aside, here's someone else who's view on the current globalization situation is, I've found, comprehensive and coherent:

http://www.iwallerstein.com/
" As a society, what is our solution to this so-called problem? We add another layer of victimization on these innocent women who are already victimized!"

'Fun' fact, one out of every 50 times a prostitute in Chicago has sex she's doing it with a cop for no money so he doesn't arrest her.
I'm missing something important. How does this relate to Stanford?
I could see Microsoft sponsoring anti-Google astroturfing, but it seems strange that they'd sponsor something specifically calling for a "do not track" list for the web. Is Microsoft actually in favor of that? It's not impossible, but I would've guessed that it would be something they'd be opposed to, given that it'd also put restrictions on them.
I've been deeming Haskell an amazing language ever since I've been a TA for a college course using it. For almost all students, this was barely their second CS course. Imagine my amazement when I started seeing them draw fractals for one assignment, solving a classical AI problem (n queens) for another, and parsing HTML for a problem set! Along many other interesting tasks (they had about 20 problem sets and assignments in total). I walked away from that experience with a very healthy respect for Haskell's power, especially when approached with a fresh mind.
Well I've been a bit short and simplistic, but the fact is that whatever properties you give to God among the generally admitted ones, or even if you limit God to a simple demiurge, you need hints, evidences, or in the absence of material evidence some logical argument.

However there is no hint of the existence of any form of God; nor is there any logical necessity for his existence.
When something has no evidence to exist and no logical reason to exist, of course you may always fancy that it does, but this is empty of meaning or use. Therefore I pretend that "agnosticism" is a lack of decision. Either you want to believe, and do so, or you don't and then you're atheist and there's no need to beat around the bush.

Then of course I'll admit that I'd rather be confrontational than gently neutral, because there is so much to despise, hate about organised religion, that it even poisons good rationalists minds :)
The real metric is whether or not firearm-related crimes are significantly reduced in countries where there are prohibitions on firearms.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-cri...

Contrast US with UK and Ireland.

Actually, I think US cultural exports are a large factor in the increase of gun crime in the UK and Ireland, a certain glorification of the weapon that gang members feel they need to live up to.
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Between those two comments, you seem to be the sort of person who would also claim the iPhone will never sell because people want to use their phones to make calls.

Not that I'm saying you're wrong about Flattr / that business model. I just hope you are, because it's a very consumer-centric business model, and I'd love it to succeed.
I am not saying that and the study is not saying that. Hijacking a statement through abandonment of context is a poor way to make a point amongst intelligent people.
> You're one of those really smart guys as well.

If I were that smart I'd be a lot wealthier than I am so don't bet on that :)
Tinted red? They don't use blue/red glasses anymore for 3D movies
>>losing to the Allies was almost certainly very different than losing to the Axis would have been.

Well... there is e.g. Ukraine and the holocaust. Then there are the Japanese camps, etc.

But was it really worse in e.g. France or Norway compared to Soviet rule? Consider the low survivability of the national elites sent to Siberia. Check e.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estoni...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Brothers
I don't know if it can even really be said to be conceptually based on Harmony. They're certainly both drawing tools using Canvas, but that's like saying Photoshop is based on MS Paint because they're both drawing tools on Windows.

Harmony is all about the procedural generation of images by interaction with previously drawn points. dA muro doesn't really permit that at all... which is a shame, as that's a technique with really interesting applications
I should say, Unix in this context means any Unix-like system that Factor runs on (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X)
Keep in mind that your privacy is only as secure as that of your correspondents. I kind of gave up on the idea of keeping email private when I realized that most of the people I write are non-techy and use GMail, Facebook etc. naively.
First Impressions of Sitting a Web App on CouchDB
A lot of places where prostitution is legal, pimping is not, e.g., Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. There's less of a trafficking problem in those places, since it can and does get prosecuted (though there still are problems, since here sadly is demand for underage prostitutes etc.)

In the Netherlands, pimping is legal though, which may contribute specifically to the problems they are seeing. I'm not the only one who thinks so:

http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/curren...

I don't think the ban ever happened though.
I can't stand small scrolling areas within pages. This one is better than most because the content actually scrolls when I slide with two fingers on a Mac, but it's still more difficult to read.
Scattered notes and links, trying to soak up as much of the design philosophy as possible. I'll pick up with examples once I'm not such a scrub.
Stranger things have happened with the harmony source: http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/696

As for the WACOM integration, the docs here seem reasonably explanatory: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm - thanks for the offer however :)

Just had a play with Colorillo, looks great!
I think he is preparing for the written portion of the SAT.
But there are no insights in the article, just things like:

>Why is Cosmos (the batch-based log processing system) CPU bound instead of I/O bound? Does that make sense?

That's ruminating, not answering. And the link goes to the blog post, not the PDF.
> Only about a quarter of brother prostitutes either have a degree or are enrolled in college

Yeah, and that's about the same proportion as the general population who have a college degree.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/log?openagent&...

(I don't know how long that link will work. It's "6227.0 - Education and Work, Australia, May 2008"), page 4
"more than one in five (22%) had a highest level of attainment of Bachelor Degree or above"
Web services should be both federated and extensible
Mint prominently provides privacy and security information, and background on how they secure the system. You should similarly provide something on the front page, providing some of the details you've mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Microsoft have long advocated for internet IDs and a "do not track" policy would establish that.

A "do not track" list on the internet doesn't make sense, the reason ad networks use cookies is because people don't have an identifiable ID online, so they are proposing government mandated internet IDs which is exactly the opposite of what you want if privacy is what you're after.
DeviantArt has been awesome for a long time.

If anyone can pull off selling brushes as digital goods its them.
My mother-in-law always takes notes in stenography. Yes, she's that old (she learnt it at school during WWII). It's really fast as hell.
You obviously don't know much about Python... and very little about programming.
I'm unclear on how to save images with this. I'd think that anyone with a DA account would receive (and/or be able to buy) some file storage space and save their work to it for recall later, or on another machine. Instead, all I see is an Image->Export option. Am I missing something obvious, or is DA?
I'm not so concerned about the issue that I am willing to agitate on a tech forum, but when I see this I feel bodily distress.

I am not so pleased to see an argument for the banality of evil on what is normally a bastion of liberal hipster moral righteousness either.
That's a no.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/deviantart.com+sheezyart.co...
Go as a visitor for 6 months and maybe you'll find a wife? :P j/k

Have you already found a job? If you manage to get an offer and the company really sees you as an asset, they may be willing to hire as a consultant on paper and not as the engineer/developer that you are. (probably best if you personally know the execs/founders)

This essentially enables you to qualify for the TN status without a degree. But you must demonstrate domain expertise and enough experience in the field to sway the border officer.

Business Consultants and (Systems Analysts) are the two NAFTA approved jobs for which you don't need a degree. There may be others, and the conditions may be stricter than normal, so I recommend consulting a lawyer about this.

Hope someone with first hand experience chimes in for a better answer, Goodluck!
> You always have the option as a merchant of sex slaves to one-up what the "morally upright prostitutes" allow, safe in the knowledge that they will cover for you because an investigation into what you are doing harms their business interests

Out of curiosity, why would they cover for you? Isnt it in their best interests to not allow sub-legal tactics to ruin their income?
Glad to see price increases for SxSW Interactive 2011
I don't think it's the only problem with globalization, but having recently paid out-of-pocket for an expensive, patented prescription drug, I think it's one of the biggest, and much of the hollow pro-globalization, pro-free trade rhetoric I hear from government and big business never addresses it.

I am curious about why others downvoted my original post; do people here really think this sort of protectionist price discrimination is OK?
Artemy Lebedev on Google Font Directory:

"This is, unfortunately, total f--kup.

Alas, besides Apple, all consortiums and big companies totally lack font culture. Microsoft is getting on a bit better - the fonts they ship are good by themselves, - but all the same they f--k up ratserizing and typography in the system.

To make sure of this, it takes only to open the same page on Mac, PC and some Linux. The question will stand no longer.

Google traditionally had failed at design. Founders’ standard of ideas doesn’t exceed American office aesthetics. Hence various holiday pictures, hence shadow under the logo, hence given fonts. All of them are done by the standard of free font collections and present samples of extremely low quality. Namely student’s amateur crap.

Fonts are so horrible, that I just want to sit down, cover my face with my hands and cry helplessly. As it will circulate million-strong, people will think that you can do it like this. These fonts will be used.

(Cries)"

translation by me, original: Business Lynch, 24 May 2010 (http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/business-lynch/2010/05/24...)

Artemy Lebedev is a founder and art director of the most prominent design studio in Russia, known for their attention to typesetting.

Art.Lebedev Studio have on their site a running daily feature called Business Lynch, where since September 2006 they do review and critique of one specimen of design, submitted by the site's readers. Reviews are done in informal manner and widely range in style.
I don't think the rude dismissal is warranted.

I think the point retube was trying to reference is that studies have shown that people vastly overestimate the magnitude and duration of changes in happiness due to a windfall or catastrophe (the most recent source I have for this is Dan Ariely's Upside of Irrationality). While there is a shift of overall life satisfaction, major changes are much less impactful to your long-term happiness than you would predict (presumably due to growing familiarity, adaptation, and the general "the grass is greener" bias we all have).

At any rate, I, specifically, would be happier without reading personally-attacking rebuttals on HN. Is that really needed to make your point?
I'm not going to make a moral justification of the war, nor am I going to argue it was cost-effective, or that the ends justified the means, or that the purposes are even unquestionably good. But the invasion of Iraq served a number of purposes:

--Al-Qaeda was born out of discontent with the Saudi government. People are more willing to adopt violence when they don't have access to democracy. Converting a brutal dictatorship into a democracy represents a partial solution to that problem, and provides a positive example to the rest of the region. For this purpose, Iraq was merely the most convenient target--the US didn't trade with them, no alliances would have to be broken, the country lacked an effective military, and despite token outrage, none of Iraq's neighbors were going to miss Saddam after he was removed from power.

--Continued long-term enforcement of the economic sanctions against Iraq was unsustainable--it forced the country into severe economic hardship, and required an ongoing US military presence. The hardship only helped to fill the ranks of religious militants. On the other hand, immediately lifting sanctions would have only enriched Saddam's regime, representing a long-term threat to peace and stability in the region, given the fact that Saddam had attacked three of his neighbors already. The long term ramifications of Saddam and, eventually, his sons continuing to rule Iraq also represented a potential humanitarian disaster.

--Making an example out of Iraq served to intimidate other rogue states. Shortly after the invasion. Libya abandoned their WMD programs, renounced their sponsorship of terrorism during the 1980's, paid compensation to the families of the victims of their terror attacks, and moved to normalize relations with the West.

--It was uncertain whether or not Iraq still had WMD. It turns out they didn't, but Saddam's regime was exactly the kind of regime that could be expected to misuse them if they still had them. This would have been even more of a concern had the sanctions been lifted.
A few random thoughts on building communities
I use Xpra, but it's a little buggy. E.g., buttons don't always appear in the right position within a dialog. Sometimes it hangs up and I have to restart it. Some fairly complex apps don't like to run under it (I think I had this problem with IntelliJ IDEA, which also isn't entirely happy under VNC/twm). Also, running XEmacs under Xpra is a bit slow for some reason.

I use VNC day in and day out, and Xpra has not replaced VNC for me, though I originally thought it might. The rootless model is cool.
Eugenijus
kona is going to replace k3.2? LMFAO. Everyone has moved on from then dude, like 2003. Was that not obvious? Lol.
> Which I think most people who can read docs can work out.

I'd rather say: This is what people can work out without reading the doc. :-)

However, to be fair: The article links to various other articles which contain the "real" introduction, i.e. how to use node.js after it is installed.
His comments over time indicate to me that Google is already doing some very creepy things, possible under court order with a gag order as well. Maybe he's trying to warn us. If not, then it's even more creepy.
Hi Chris, for your interest, Foxytunes was acquired by Yahoo and allows the control of media players while showing metadata all from within the browser.
So this was back in 2008, but I read this from Bruce Schneider:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/10/data_mining_fo...

<quote>But the authors conclude the type of data mining that government bureaucrats would like to do--perhaps inspired by watching too many episodes of the Fox series 24--can't work. "If it were possible to automatically find the digital tracks of terrorists and automatically monitor only the communications of terrorists, public policy choices in this domain would be much simpler. But it is not possible to do so."</quote>

So did something change in the last two years? I mean Palantir is making a crap ton for presumably something similar.

Was this ever a problem, or was it overcome?
Note that on modern Debian systems, aptitude is preferable to apt-get because it has better dependency resolution etc:

aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade

You can also run aptitude without any arguments which starts a nice text UI:

aptitude
TN'er working in US here (also without degree but in a different category)

You need a degree to work as an engineer category for the TN unless you have a Post Secondary Diploma or a Post Secondary Certificate + 3 years experience.

From my understanding if you qualify for this section you can be employed, you don't need to be a consultant (which is actually more trick to then get).

See http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/en/view.aspx?x=343&mtpiID... for the categories and requirements (which despite not being a .gov domain is the official site for this, as linked to by state.gov)

You need to get a lawyer, or preferably, the company you want to work for does - applying for a visa is tricky and if you really mess up (say the wrong thing, etc) they can stamp your passport with a "do not enter USA ever again" stamp.
I took a graduate seminar in World-System Theory with one of Wallerstein's peers, Giovanni Arrighi, about a year before he passed away. We read a broad selection of WST literature, from Arrighi, Wallerstein, Braudel, Abu-Lughod, A.G. Frank, Wolf, Harvey, and so on. It is fascinating stuff if you ever get the chance to read it. The history alone makes it worth spending the time, regardless of what you think of the post-Leninist gloss placed atop it.

That said, I don't find Wallerstein's work to be particularly convincing. A good deal of his theoretical position is predicated upon Braudel's Annales school historical work and Andre Gunder Frank's dependency theory (a kind of warmed over Leninism applied to Latin America). As it turns out, dependency theory is more or less wrong on the facts — it was a plausible sounding theory, but didn't have much of an empirical basis.

Wallerstein's work is an expansion of Braudel's work on the Mediterranean-as-an-economic/geographical-system and on A.G. Frank's dependency theory. Wallerstein posits that the entire global economy grew out of the European/Mediterranean system, and that there's a dependent relationship between the core states (First World industrialized countries) and periphery states (Third World raw materials suppliers). This is basically an updating of Lenin's essay "Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism", buttressed with a great deal of historical narrative.

If you read Wallerstein's short introduction to WST, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, you'll get an idea of what a theoretical spaghetti his thought is when pressed to put it down simply and briefly on the page. And the last third of the book is devoted to a kind of 1960s-counter-culture burnt-out-hippie wishful-thinking about the potential of anti-globalization movements.

If you're really interested in Marxist International Political Economy, I would skip Wallerstein and try Giovanni Arrighi and David Harvey instead. For the more historical stuff, Braudel, Abu-Lughod, and Frank are awesome.
1)
Are you sure you want to leave Canada? There are a TON of awesome startups with a lot of opportunity in Canada. Maybe you just need to relocate to a hub such as Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto? Also, did you know that the Eastern provinces have some crazy tax and startup capital advantages for starting your own tech / net related business?

2)
Your best bet would be to gain employment by a company that has offices in both the U.S. and Canada. Then, with the help of your company, you could obtain a transfer visa:

http://www.consular.canada.usembassy.gov/usa_visa.asp#transf...

Many companies with offices in both Canada and the U.S. aren't in the "startup" category. You could either accept working for a larger company or find a (somewhat more difficult) U.S. startup that is willing to start a Canadian branch for you. Opening a U.S. company in a province such as Alberta has a number of advantages beyond just employing someone as talented as you are.

3)
Some certs qualify you for a "specialized" degree. Since you didn't go the education route, going the cert route might not be a bad idea if you make a wrong turn anyway. Obtaining a high level cert (even quickly) may be an easy way in.

http://www.consular.canada.usembassy.gov/nafta.asp

Specifically:
"Computer Systems Analyst
Baccalaureate or Licenciatura degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post Secondary Certificate and three years' experience."

Note the Post Secondary Certificate in there.

4)
Contract.

You can "contract" for a U.S. based company, work there for months at a time if required and not put a full-time strain on the startup. Reliable, competent off-site employees and "virtual offices" are the new black in startup life.
In theory, no. In reality, the iPhone is a vastly better deal (unlike this, it actually works).

Having just bought one of these cards to run this setup exactly, I'm currently repacking it and returning it post haste.

Service is utterly useless, and that's putting it politely. Obscenely slow and reliably unreliable connectivity explain why Virgin can offer 'unlimited' data for such a low price.
"They then publish an article praising Google and denouncing SEO... clearly part of the bargain?"

John, just to debunk your question, I had no idea that this article was coming out. To the best of my knowledge, no one at Inc. asked Google for a comment for the story either; certainly I didn't hear about it if they did ask for a comment, and normally I would.
Should have clarified that I am looking for Java developers, Ext/Javascript developers and also a web application performance/load tester, so 3 separate descriptions.
Like.fm is how Apple Ping should work
I've never played Starcraft, maybe just because I didn't grow up in America. Can anyone explain why it's so popular among entrepreneurs?