skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People forget that local elections are often decided by one or two votes. These elections have a great effect on your life (e.g. property taxes and local spending) or that of your children (e.g. book banning at the local school).
This is more like malware/spyware. The fact that it is persistent on Windows, even after a reboot, seems like the only real vulnerability here. Maybe sidejacking facebook could be counted, but that's old news since firesheep. Although, most Linux and Mac users just don't reboot, so it could be running for quite a while.

Moral of the story: Don't run unknown java apps.
One word: Enterprise.

I currently contract for a company with 50,000 + employees and some pretty specialized software that way too many people need to access. Getting that to change is like turning a convoy of sea liners with no radio communication.

The programmers who actually understand the weird ass domain of that software really wish they were still writing COBOL on a mainframe, the users who know how to use the software are understandably reluctant to have to learn another application when the existing works fine for THEIR needs (and job security). We have succeeded in getting a lot of stuff transferred to Citrix servers, but there are still a few hold outs / problem areas.

So, yeah, sometimes we really need the existing old stuff to still work.
> pretend we live in a democracy?

This is why I don't vote. I am firmly convinced that America is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy that masquerades as a democracy. The interests of the hyper-rich and powerful are served at the expense of the general public. Politicians are simply the people who craft the message (either conservative or liberal) to get enough votes to be put in a position where they can assure that their campaign contributors are served. For me, the recent supreme court decision to allow unlimited corporate expenditures on campaigns was the death of any semblance of democracy in the United States.
At least it is for 10 domains, but that doesn't make it worth moving to them. Give me 10 domains for free and you may have a deal.

I am thinking about switching to Hover. TWiT has been pimping them lately. I don't see that hidden expense that this place has.
Unemployment and Education
A lot of libertarians vote Democrat too. I'd guess the split is roughly even. The only thing uniform amongst libertarians is frustration.
Why that specific set of economists? Wouldn’t a Econ 101 handbook suffice? Anyone can go further if they wish to do that, it’s of no use plunging them in the middle of views which are at least sometimes controversial.
What would you like to have?
That and the Dems at least try to fund the growth. Nothing worse than growing the beast and starving it at the same time.
Why You Should Start a Company in... Raleigh-Durham
You are correct (you do have to check that the symbol is actually bound prior to dereferencing). But they don't (generally) work that way for symbols with a function binding. I think the rationale here is that it's much more common to have BOUNDP symbols than FBOUNDP symbols. So sticking an extra slot for the value in a symbol is worth it, space-wise, whereas an extra slot for the function is not, so function lookups go through some sort of global table.

Note too that Common Lisp forbids you from modifying the function binding of symbols in the COMMON-LISP package for precisely this reason: the compiler can do a better job reasoning about the effects of calls to those functions.
The story will resonate with anyone who is familiar with "The Mythical Man-Month", but what I particularly interesting about this story is the stark contrast between the company's initial success with Crackdown and then how quickly it screwed it all up with APB.
I don't assume anything. I actually did the experiment.
I suppose it depends on your definition of 'destroyed', then. Personally, any kid of mine who I would consider chaining to a bed would be in rehab without a second thought -- on the other hand, smoking seems so innocuous that before you know it they're dying of lung cancer and you can't do anything about it...

They aren't really comparable, if you ask me -- I get your point. All I'm saying is that some people can recreationally use all kinds of drugs (alcohol, meth, crack, whatever) and others can't. Smoking will just straight up kill you. So IMO, in terms of 'damage to society' smoking is way further up there than most illegal drugs.
I agree, but in my mind it doesn't need to be perfect. Just good enough to get the bones to dance a little, and frankly, there isn't a lot you can do in SL that you can't do in javascript / HTML.
Richard Stallman Explains GNU and Free Software (WSIS 2005 in Tunis)
I'd like to meet the guy ;-)
Tell HN: Java @debt annotation to track technical debt
Myself and a colleague have created a Java @Debt annotation to track and measure occurrences of technical debt in code. For example stuff that needs refactoring, tidying up, removing etc.

The annotation allows you to count the number of times you encounter it, and allows you to set a threshold, which if exceeded at compile time fails the build.

You can download and use at from the following url: http://kenai.com/projects/csdutilities/pages/Debt

Feedback of all kinds appreciated!
Yes, /e/stonia would be an... interesting place.
Is he a libertarian? If so, I'd consider voting for him. Otherwise, sorry, but no.
Canvas makes some of the shiny things easier to implement. And shiny animations (that don't impede usability) make the customers want more.
Make sure you are comparing apples to apples, not men's shirts to boy's. Etc.
A couple of things with their video:

1) The keyboard (layout) was not invented for the computer, but for the typewriter;

2) Their whole premise seems to be based on 'gestures that mimic handwriting', well why don't they just have gestures that are like handwritten characters?
I don't know if he'd be a good President. What I do know for sure is that Jessica would make an awesome Chief of Staff. If you've been through YC you understand.
Yeah, I remembered that after writing it, but before posting and put it in the first sentence above. I figured I would still post it since there is others like PG that would probably fit the bill as well.
A lot of it depends on your goals.

Are you wanting to build the next reddit, google or Facebook? You'll probably need VC money to do that.

Are you trying to build a lifestyle business that pays 20-30k the first year and could grow after that, skip the VC money and go after a small niche product like Bingo Card Creator. For this you need to monetize earlier than with a VC funded type of startup.

The business you build will reflect your goals, so work backward from them.

As always, advice is situational, and so it will contradict. The idea is to apply the advice to your situation and don't forget to do a gut check to see if something feels right.
Would you ship it?
These are not the events you are looking for
How Does One Use Design Patterns In Ruby?
I can't see how this would work or be effective. It could possibly work for the smaller, more media oriented Silverlight apps. But those apps are relatively painless to port to HTML5 already. For larger, line of business apps, especially those that frequently talk to a server, I can't even imagine where a tool like this would begin.
Well, as a resident of one of the red states that has our budget under control (ND - surplus), I don't think California's problems are of our doing. Unions in California shouldn't dictate policy to other states (and it looks like the other states are going to foot CA's bill).

If we didn't have the current system, only about 20 cities would be campaigned in for the Presidency. Also, given the bill a NY Rep tried to pass a couple of years ago, we wouldn't be growing any crops in this country (eco bill - massive urban support). The House is where population matters and is the origin of every budget. The House is where the population is considered and the Senate is for state considerations.
How do you get Ubuntu-like subpixel antialiasing in Fedora?
I'm going to play the progress card here.

The web just jumped back a decade to crappy old html. XAML is infinitely superior. You can't even extend HTML server-side without writing code :( It's got loads of odd rules. It still thinks everything is an overflowable document when I want to write an application.

The web just jumped back to a kooky little language that's not grown for decades. Javashit.

Silverlight had support for static, dynamic and even functional languages! C#, VB.Net, IronPython, F#. And it's actually fast and compilable unlike javaslow.

(p.s. I don't actually mind javascript that much, but I do think it's pretty poor compared to C#, Python, Ruby, etc. I do actually detest html though.)

A lot of us don't need cross device compatibility. In fact cross device compatibility is pure laziness in many instances as a iPhone optimized web app should look very different to a laptop/desktop browser optimized app.

I'm not really sure where I stand in all this, but I'm not dancing around with joy about HTML5, which I think is pretty basic and ridiculously behind the times. These are features they should have introduced a decade ago.

I also really wish they'd make some way I could use other programming languages in the browsers.
In fairness, it doesn't look as though politicians can deal with it either.
I would say it has not been slow in the last few distros. I really like the delta downloads (it only downloads the changes and not full programs). It is generally a very nice distro to work with.
The Problem with Working Overtime
And like many other words decimate's current usage and meaning has deviated from its original use.

Are you suggesting people should only and exclusively adhere to original meanings and "trve" origins of words?

Knowing where a word came from can certainly help us understand more but let's face it, languages are very alive and change a lot.
Netbooks just seem like a solution needing a problem to me. My kids have a netbook that I bought them for Christmas last year, but the greatly prefer using a regular sized computer or my iPad.
yum got a lot faster a few Fedoras ago.

Of course, if the speed of updating is so relevant, you should probably be using Fedora anyway, since it's rather bleeding edge.
I could be biased and you could be right. I come from one of the reddest states in the Union. The libertarians here took out a sitting Republican senator this election cycle in the primaries. I haven't seen anything comparable in the Democratic party.
Why The Middlemen Suck
It usually confuses them if you refuse. When they ask, I live in the zip code 90210 and my phone number is 867-5309.
By your own logic, your post is flawed. Those who are more likely to heed it (i.e. those who know what they don't know) are presumably more well-versed on the issues than those who will not heed your advice (i.e. those who don't know what they don't know). Your post will do more harm than good by increasing the relative number of willfully ignorant voters, and by your own logic you should delete it.

P.S. The fact that it is reaching the limited audience of HN only strengthens my case, since HN readership tends to be more informed.

P.P.S. You also missed the possibility that elite voters have a different set of priorities than uninformed voters and would therefore misrepresent the majority of the populace.
Ask HN: in mess, where to start learning web-dev?
Level:

From CS background,Expert in C/C++, efficient with relational DBs, great with Unix/Linux, some familiarity with Python, familiar with web protocols, new to JavaScript, CSS and all fancy stuff!

Target: To be able to develop a website with lovely UI and scalable/optimized back-end.No decisions made about technologies.

Million ton question: where to start?
The argument is not that the uninformed should be disenfranchised or in any way prohibited from voting. They should be allowed to vote.

But, if someone has enough self-knowledge to recognize that they are relatively uninformed, on a single issue or the ballot as a whole, they should abstain from voting on those portions of the ballot. By doing so, they delegate the decision to more-informed people.

The option to vote if they are later agitated or informed remains important -- but it doesn't have to exercised every time to serve its purpose of defending their interests.

People moved to vote at the last minute by a speech about their 'obligation', and deciding based on a few fleeting impressions from the last wave of rhetoric, make the process more random and superficial. They are the people most affected by negative ads, or simpleminded sloganeering.
I understand that your comments are partly in jest

Nope, 100% serious.

It's wrong because voting is an inherent citizenship right; it cannot be made...

I agree completely. In no way do I advocate any sort of qualification. That's a slippery slope the first step of which is incredibly steep.

What I'm advocating is that people self-select. I wish we could each reflect personally, and try to determine whether we really have the knowledge and understanding that's necessary to judge; and then honestly decide whether that the conclusion allows us to impose our thoughts on others.

The government enforces its policies, ultimately, by force and violence. If you're going to threaten someone (by way of the government) with force, you'd better be damned confident that there's a good reason to do so.
Nit: Space Shuttle Challenger was in 1986; Columbia was 2003.
Well netbooks have always been seen as a solution for someone who just wants to surf the web. In a lot of respects a full OS gets in the way of that. If Google deliver with Chrome (less than 4 second boot, focus on browsing and web apps, much cheaper than current netbooks) then it could reinvigorate the market for them.
Here's Why I'm Short Open Table
Wasting Time With Linux
Apple: Please Send Your Applications Compatible with iOS
Apple has just sent an email to all developers to communicate the actual issue of the GM version of iOS and ask every developer to send their applications today optimized for iOS4.2.
Yes, Silverlight will be used for WP7. But I doubt MS has any commitment to keep it for future releases of WP7.
If you know some Python, get Django and start playing with it. Worry about 'scalable' last, and keep 'beautiful' as an ongoing goal that you work on over time.
You know what we should do? Determine officials by lot! That’s an age-old democratic instrument first (and only, I guess) employed by the ancient Athenians [+]. Now that I think of it, randomness actually lives on with the jury duty.

[+] As always with ancient democratic Athens several caveats apply, e.g. you had to be rather rich to be eligible for that.
Why cell phones are so annoying
Thanks.. I am working on a few graphs of the various trends and various email/portfolio screenshots to help users better illustrate the service. I'm still pondering how best to setp the Free option.
The website seems to be down, anybody got a cached copy?
This is a play to compete directly with IBM in the e-commerce space. ATG, along with IBM's e-commerce offering (WebSphere Commerce), have been the top players in this area for some time.

There seems to be a trend towards consolidation for major e-commerce players recently, with IBM purchasing Coremetrics and Sterling, and Adobe purchasing Omniture.
I think Silverlight as a WP7 app framework was the right thing to do. The "R&D" team at my company has done alot of silverlight web apps, and most of them have resulting in very pretty but completely unintuitive messes.
And this is why I'm glad that we don't have to pass a test to vote. I'd fail that question. I blame my third grade social studies teacher. :).

The date is set by an act of Congress from 1845.

http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llsl/005/0700/07590721.tif

I think my other arguments still stand though...
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Hehe, luckily it's not that easy to get the ID-card.

You have to prove you are Estonian citizen (or become one) and the system is secure enough that people can trust their money and sign legal documents with this system.

Actually this is one weak point in the system. If some crook gets hold of your ID-card and your PIN codes, he can sign documents that are legally binding. (For example sell your house for a dollar etc.)
PSA: You can avoid seasonal winter flu just by keeping your vitamin D levels up (which your body makes in response to direct sunlight.)

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The most obvious would be:

Broken electronic voting machines.
Higher than expected turn out resulting in a backlog.
Showing up after work along with a huge group of people doing the same thing.

And I suspect some state level manipulation because my area (Northern VA) does not vote for the same party as the rest of the state. Other polling stations with 1/5th the population have the same number of voting stations.
I think the whole point is that being extreme about it turns it into forcing function to make sure that the dev setup process is extremely fast and easy. As soon as you start relaxing the timeline (to, say, pushing code in the first week) the urgency to keep the process fast disappears.
Where were you guys when Medicare Part D passed?

Libertarians were loudly protesting. To no effect of course, because Republicans were behind their guy and Democrats were primarily complaining that it wasn't expensive enough.

if beating your domestic enemies is more important to you than improving the country, you are hurting the country.

I agree completely. Please mention that to the President if you run into him: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69929420101101
HTML5 compliance is fine and good, but I'm mostly concerned with how often I'll have to fix a broken layout grid etc.

If I hadn't checked myself into Compulsive Domain Buyers Anonymous already, I would grab ie9hacks.com and ie9bugs.com
I'm not sure what you're complaining about. You can still use SL, it's not going away, and it will continue to get new releases. If it meets your need, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't continue to use it. It won't work on every platform, but you say that's not a problem for you either. Go write some XAML. Personally, I find that it really is awesome for Windows Phone development.

As far as HTML / javascript goes, I'm beginning to get the impression that you don't like it. I understand, I actually hated touching javascript until I fell into JQuery. Even with it, I think developing javascript feels half-assed. But that's what the platform uses and modern browsers are generally fast enough. I tend to think of HTML as basically a display protocol though. It's ugly, but it works.

Take heart though, you can write the server side in whatever language you want, and your server-side can write your javascript for you.
It's still slower than apt. Partly this is the use of Python (an extremely unsuitable choice for this), and partly because the repository metadata is less space-efficient (stored as XML and SQLite database dumps). It did get a bit faster around Fedora 10, so it's not painful.

The real problem with yum (and apt) is poor dependency solving. This is an NP-complete problem sufficiently close to 3-SAT that a good SAT-solver can solve this way faster than the stupid Python/C++ heuristics in yum/apt. I wish they'd switch to using something like zypper.
>If you've never taken a class or read a book on economics, please don't vote. ... If you've never taken a class or read a book on political philosophy, please don't vote.

If you're an elitist academic that thinks knowledge about how the world works can only be garnered via institutionalized knowledge, please don't vote.

If you're willing to recommend that lower classes, made up predominantly of marginalized races, opt out of a say in their future, please don't vote.
If it's for work, their terms of service and RBI regulations forbids this. It will work but might not be exactly legal.

https://www.xoom.com/sendmoneynow/xoom-money-transfer-licens...

"Commercial/business remittances and remittances toward the purchase of property, investments or credit to Non-Residents’ accounts (NRE or NRO) and donations/contributions to charitable organizations are not permitted."
I couldn't agree more. This thing is a disaster.

A reasonable cyclocross bike with fenders, lights, a rack, some panniers or a trunk box/bag would be cheaper, more functional, 1/8 the weight and made of inexpensive and easily-sourced components. I don't get it.

My Trek 1200 is my main vehicle. It's a 4 year old entry-level road bike with a few hundred dollars of accessories added to it. I ride it 5,000 miles per year and never have any problems finding a place to put my jacket. It has twenty seven speeds, which might be far too many, but you could easily retrofit it with a Nexus 3 speed, Alfine 7/8 speed or some other high end gearbox like the NuVinci or Rohloff.

Many steel and aluminum bikes these days are also made (at least partly) from recycled materials. I really don't see much of a point.
I'd imagine you would assign each unit some kind of relative value to each other and then factor in a time weighing making earlier builds more desirable even if there unit score is lower.
awesome! flash ball speed is slower by the way... and keeps losing :)
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You did the experiment for one particular problem, with two particular implementations, on particular hardware. That doesn't mean you've discovered a universally valid break-even point.
On my system here at work(Dell Core2Duo Xeon, 8GB win7x64), the "HTML5" side was slightly less glitchy, and the flash sides graphics were more antialiased...
I think this kind of thought also applies to consulting prices, where the "customers" are "clients". Price can be a great filter.
Incidentally, are there any programmes that can scan your python functions and suggest improvements that are in this article? e.g. any programme that'll suggest referencing global names to the local namespace, using map etc.?
Sorry, should be back up.
Funny you should say that since North Dakota is the second biggest leech in this country.

You guys get $2.03 for every dollar you send. (2nd highest in the nation after DC)

California could balance it's budgets too, if it got double what it paid in federal taxes every year.
How would it discriminate against people who might make informed decisions? The only qualification is that you have the understanding required to do so.
Startup Idea: Tell me who to vote for
Justin tells me that AMIs are only currently available on US-East right now, but will be available for all EC2 users later today.

Edit: When they are available, he'll post a message here:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2010-November...
Really cool. On my system the flash is way faster than the HTML5
You Can Play the Game, Or You Can Change the Game
I haven't tried this so I can't give you a review of how well it works, but I'm planning to buy one myself:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/EXP...
Besides a few glitches in the html5 side it looks pretty much the same. I would love to see the FPS count though