skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post is incomplete - you feel black bloc tactics rob anarchism or legitimacy. You also note that black bloc protesters have not executed anyone.

So... what's your point? Those two observations are entirely unrelated, unless you're trying to use one to justify the other and set up a straw man.

Yeah, ok, BART cops suck and kill people without justification (that's arguable, but let's run with that for now). What part of that justifies the rampaging, destructive "protests" we've seen out of BART/MUNI as of late? Hooliganism is okay because cops are assholes?

I miss the days when the word "protester" didn't conjure up images of hoodied and masked people smashing windows and burning cars. If protesting is to remain a legitimate method of civil discourse and disobedience, black bloc people and tactics must be opposed at every level, no matter how heinous the crime they supposedly "protest" against. From a pragmatist's perspective - giving black bloc types any quarter is public opinion suicide.
It's a hard problem because email is good enough for communications (the good is the enemy of the perfect) and any improvement in payment systems would require changes to major backend components of the banking system. The USPS brings legitimacy and business relationships to the table, but they're hamstrung by Congress and by the unions.

The best chance is if someone follows the Hulu model and immediately gets BOA, Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and US Bank to buy in from the get go. Even then it may require a regulatory change, but getting the top handful of American banks to buy in should be enough to build the necessary lobbying support.
The greatness of vendor lock-in
This is the most important lesson my mother ever taught me. I (like her) have that same type of intelligence, the type that makes IQ tests and school exams far easier than they should be, and yet often isn't really that useful in life. I still find myself placing far too much importance in it when judging people, can only imagine how big headed I would be about it if she hadn't constantly reminded me how little IQ really means.

Stephen Fry made a similar, though briefer, point (I think in one of his auto-biographies, though I could be wrong)... Actually instead of quoting from memory I googled, it is indeed from his first auto-biography, and here it is:

"I actually went so tragically far as to send off for and complete a Mensa application test...It was only then I realised the kind of intelligence that wants to get into Mensa and succeeds in getting into Mensa and then runs Mensa and the kind of intelligence that I thought worth possessing were so astronomically distant from each other that the icing fell off the cake with a great squelch.It is occasions like this I thank God for my criminal tendencies, my homosexuality, my jewishness and loathing of the bourgeois, the conventional and respectable that these seem to have inculcated me. I could so easily given the smallest twist to the least gene on the outermost strand of my DNA have turned into... [one of those awful Midas types on politics forums boasting about my Mensa membership and 'high' IQ.]"
I'm not sure it will be useful to most people, for reasons tangentially related to this post: http://jseliger.com/2010/11/12/scrivener-or-devonthink-pro-w... on Scrivener and Joyce.

The main reason I say is because I think a lot of people, based on the amateur writing I've seen, don't need a fancier way of arranging words so much as they need to focus on 1) the quality of their sentences and 2) how one event drives another in their plots. I worry especially regarding point 2) that Scrivener lets people work in parallel when they should be working in serial, with one event driving another organically. Too much amateur writing I see is, for lack of a better term, plotless: meandering around feelings, or random encounters, or designed to show how deep the author is—instead of telling a story.

Scrivener will help with some things, as I've written elsewhere, but I'm not sure it's really enough for the vast majority of what writers and would-be writers are working on.
> Your basic argument is that if X sometimes causes problems, we should be glad to see X gone.

That's not my basic argument. My basic argument is that the very concept of "big" ideas as defined by Gabler is fundamentally flawed because: (1) the "bigness" factor of an idea he uses is a measure of how influential the idea is; (2) ill-informed people (think children, some rural communities etc) are much, much easier to influence than well-informed ones; and finally (3) there were proportionally many more ill-informed people in the past than there are today.

So we might as well be in the golden age of ideas but neither one of them ever becomes "big" because they are all in fierce competition with each other. Or perhaps not -- but the basic point is that the way we measure this "bigness" is flawed.

> American nationalism isn't the same idea as Chinese nationalism or Indian nationalism.

Of course it isn't. America was founded before the wave of nationalism took over Europe. American nationalism is to European nationalism as ham is to hamster -- only the name is similar. Nationalism in most countries in the world was modeled on European nationalism. Examples: Lebanese nationalist Kataeb party was modeled on Spanish and Italian Fascist parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party). Pakistani nationalism stems from utopian visions of Muhammad Iqbal, an idealist poet influenced by Romanticism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal). Ukrainian nationalism holds as holy populist-Romanticist ideas of Taras Shevchenko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko) and owes its ideologic form to Dmytro Dontsov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Dontsov).

One of my biggest realization in the past years has been that nationalism isn't some "natural" tribal tendency but an ideology like any other that only uses ("perverts") the tribal tendencies for its own purpose and which was built and formulated nearly exclusively on a populist form of Romanticism that spread throughout Europe in the middle of 19th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_nationalism).
alt + delete doesn't work?
hopefully this one keeps active looks very good
Don't let that article fool you kids — I met Issac back in the day and while he may have been modest about his IQ it didn't make him shy about using powers of the mind to charm the ladies. He was also an advocate of using your smarts to get ahead...
Yes. Making your data look like the haystack.
Ah, ignore that, I misread the poster above me. I'm on an i7 MBP, not an MBA.
Wells Fargo and Intuit Join Forces to Ruin My Weekend
I bet Jack Dorsey is thinking about it on principle. ;)
DISCERN is old - this researcher has apparently been working on it since 1990.

According to popular mechanics, the article was published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry. This seems to be the issue in question: http://bit.ly/n66BeO
A message to who this may pertain.
Ah: I wish I could leave Word for good. But my family's business does grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (see http://blog.seliger.com if you're curious), which means we routinely have to exchange documents with other people. In that world, Word still rules, especially for complexly formatted documents.
Or even better, use something like Flux[1] to subdue the tones of that glaring white screen just enough to reduce eye strain.

[1]: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Thanks! I guess now I don't understand how he was able to associate roam175-29.student.harvard.edu with Zuckerberg. But probably that is a small deduction game for such a hacker! (No sarcasm, just in case.)
I realize that to an outsider the politics here looks messy, but I think that spirited debate is a good thing and reflects well on this society. I also don't think from a point of view of history that things are all so bad -- contrast today with say the political assassinations of the 1960s or the real fighting during the Civil War and things don't seem that bad. My grandfather's generation lived through a depression and World War -- I'll grant you that things may be bad but so far they aren't that bad. If the only danger to America is the opinion of credit agencies I'll take that over a 9/11 or Katrina.
The reason for subsidizing rural mail delivery can be found in the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 (aka, the Postal Clause).

The Founding Fathers considered postal delivery to be important enough to mandate it in the Constitution.
In the example, the cop testifies that when he first approached the defendant, the defendant admitted to placing his hand on the plaintiff's throat, but only as a joke. The defendant claimed that he never said anything of the sort to the cop. It was the cop's and plaintiff's word against the defendant's word, and the defendant was found guilty. How would it have helped if the defendant had said nothing to the cop? The cop lied about him talking.

To me, the words of a cop and a plaintiff are "reasonably doubtful," but I guess not. Anyway, my point is that in this example, the cop lied about what the defendant said.
yes, but this semantic axe grinding misses point of the initial comment:

LBPD policy: "if x: then y;"

Report: "not x; then y!"
The width takes up 1/4 of my browser width. Even on smaller monitors, I expect it could be close to twice the length without running off the page.
Just made this. New Macbook Air. 1.7ghz. Google Chrome 14.0.835 beta

http://screencast.com/t/IFtRRvLDQ

edit: NEW LINK -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGonSVJSrZI
Having just moved (and thus done my shopping for a new internet connection), I found it pretty galling that I was pretty much expected to either get a $30 land line or a $50 cable-TV package if I wanted to get internet. Technically I didn't need to get the bundle, but they didn't even list prices for an internet-only connection.

I have line-of-sight to our local water tower, though, so I was able to get a wireless internet connection and bypass everyone else. It's not super-high-speed, but I have 2.5 down and 1.5 up, and that's not too bad... and I have the moral satisfaction of not paying anything at all to either the cable companies or the telcos.
Great slides!

A QA note: The text spills offscreen and the CSS doesn't allow me to make it readable in Chrome on a 13" MacBook Air:

http://drktd.com/9JL2
For a person working alone, the question of the format is largely irrelevant - Word support saving in plain text too. The problems exists when we need to interact with open people, and most of us can't tell them "What the fuck".
I don't know that we are all "creative people" -- very few of us are really creative. Mind you that may not always be a bad things for Entrepreneurs: For example Disney had to be creative to be what he was -- but I honestly can't call Bill Gates creative. In fact when Bill Gates would do something creative like Bob or his stab at the tablet he always seems to fail. Yet on the other hand think of all of the creative folks in Hollywood who seem to never get tech. Just be yourself!
Posted earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884268
Discussion's already started on that post.
Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales webapp?
I've been working the past couple of months on a Point of Sales webapp, and it's getting to the point where it's almost good to go, however, I'm beginning to wonder about the actual business potential for it.

I've been looking online for possible competing business or other webapps that do similar things, but so far I've been unable to find anything really up the same alley.

So what do you guys think? Could this be a good lifestyle business if executed correctly? Have you noticed a need for this on your field?

Thanks!
Any chance the author can make a PDF or ePub version? I like to read it on my portable devices.
Have you ever felt the feeling of being alone for almost the rest of your life?
Sometimes I wonder How did I even survive this long without someone's help except the help from above.
It feels like you are being worthless..
Being rejected, being ignored by your family, friends and even the one who is very close to you..
Depends on the company. At most tech companies, the financial department isn't a big deal, at a large accounting firm they rule.
I don't get why the developing world needs to be the first market. They could sell to the camping and boating market first, make millions, and expand worldwide later.
Football betting
Start small, stay small. http://www.startupbook.net/
Ask HN: What's the best way to teach my kid to code?
Hey folks. Apologies if this question has been asked before (if it has, please point me to the answers). I want to get my 5 year old son into coding. He's pretty handy with basic tasks on the computer, and more importantly is inquisitive and creative.

He also has the attention span of a 5 year old, so if he wants to learn anything, it not only needs to asume no prior knowledge of programming, but also needs to quickly and repeatably deliver some escalating level of gratification in order to keep a kid (or for that matter, most adults) interested.

What resources are around geared towards kids learning to code that don't assume too much knowledge, are hands on and interactive, and are actually fun for a 5 year old? If you're a parent who's taught their kids to code, what resources and/or techniques worked for you? What didn't?

(A future programming prodigy is grateful in advance for the benefit of your insight.)
Another reason to go for open source software.
I use homebank and the files work seamlessly across platforms (linux mac windows) and they accept qif, csv etc imports.
GnuCash is actually a pretty decent clone of quicken if you are more used to that.
Definitely a strange choice, as many people have said. Missed the mark by a longshot, but if some media outlets get on this you might have a handful of already angry/frustrated people getting even more angry/frustrated at BART for exactly what was described here.

Although this is yet another example of golfclap-worthy choices made by those tasked with implementing the security of a government or government-affiliated website. Presumably utype_id of 0 has some unique quality, given that there are only two of them and they both have the only ids under ten thousand:

Name: Partner Partner
Email: partner@interactivate.com
Password: partner

Name: dev team
Email: devteam@interactivate.com
Password: admin123

Please excuse the mote of speculation involved in this, as I can't be certain that anything is indeed special about those accounts. But these days, if there is anything at all unique or administrative about those accounts, you can't encounter passwords like that and expect the site to be well-designed or secure in other areas.
I know this is in a different league..but I wrote Foundations of Programming in Word, and then The Little MongoDB Book in Markdown + Textile (in Textmate). Writing in Markdown was a much more liberating experience as it was much quicker and let me focus more on the content rather than the document.

I've always really liked Word, it's a great product, but for 99% of people it just does way too much and is thus way too expensive. Office is worse...gmail is better than outlook, anything is better than powerpoint or access.

My last two jobs have shown me that Excel is really what you need to kill if you want to break the Office stronghold.
Definitely a strange choice

I think it was (as it usually is) more of an opportunity than a choice.
Ironic that the article is light on fact and heavy on anecdote and unsubstantiated claims.

"For one thing, social networking sites are the primary form of communication among young people, and they are supplanting print, which is where ideas have typically gestated. For another, social networking sites engender habits of mind that are inimical to the kind of deliberate discourse that gives rise to ideas. Instead of theories, hypotheses and grand arguments, we get instant 140-character tweets about eating a sandwich or watching a TV show."

This might have the sound of truth, but the article really gives me no reason to believe it's actually true.
A public good is something that is nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. Air quality, for instance. If a good is rivalrous or excludable, it isn't a public good. That's the definition of the term.
Disclaimer: This is an attempt of providing a comic angle to poor customer experience in super markets, inspired by my schizophrenia.
Being high status implies that other people are below you. Otherwise, your status could not be high relative to theirs. It's a relative measure, sure, but being high status implies that there's at least one other person who isn't.

That said, I agree with you about focusing on status.
I beg to differ, you still get experience
On the Australian ANZ Bank page : http://www.anz.com.au

The footer contains the text "ANZ's colour blue is a trade mark of ANZ."

The actual web site contains multiple blues, so I am wondering which exact one they have trademarked?
Mutual Fund Industry Is A Huge Scam That Costs Investors Billions Of Dollars
I'm sure I could, as the sources are just ReStructured Text. I've been meaning to update the index page to have links to non-slide versions of each document as well. If you take the ".s5" out of the URLs they are plain HTML.

Edit: The titles link to normal HTML pages now.
openGLES is fine, i was asking more about hardware acceleration for video.

if you play a full HD video, does it skip frames like crazy? is the CPU on 100%?
at no point in your rant did you make any sense at all, and for all those who read it, we are now that much dumber for doing so lol.
They fixed their reception just in time to lie about why they want to buy T-Mobile to continue screwing US consumers.
Untrue, I used a port of Box2d (not this port, our own version) to build an "HTML5" game for sony, see link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AicnuLQxHoQ

Unfortunately the game was taken down due to the Japan situation. Understandable.

Under Safari i was able to simulate ~80 live physics objects in a high collision environment at full frame render, bound to the DOM at 60fps on reasonable hardware 6 months ago (safari still has the fastest DOM paint time out there now).

Even when using Firefox 3.6 i could manage around 20 dynamic objects.

No CSS3 animation, just math and re-paints.

Javascript Math is not slow (at all), its generally the DOM/Canvas slowing you down.
Thanks, it's odd that didn't work, as I've been working on these on an 11" MBA with chrome. As I mentioned in a reply below, there are also plain HTML versions of the slide sets that might be more suitable for reading.

Edit: Ah, it happens in full-screen. Too much text on that slide then. ;)

Edit 2: Tightened up the wording on that slide a bit. Should fit now.
Not sure I got the "mixing up identities" comment part right but just wanted to point out schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personality disorders.
Asimov is fucking brilliant. So are his sideburns. +9,000
Once you've tried one version of Forth, you've tried one version of Forth. :)

Seriously, last time I used Forth was using a New Micros board that ran IsoMax, a great language for state machines.
My brain has apparently decided to sleep instead, this weekend... oh well. It's still at the top of my list. I'll stick up a Show when I finish.
The problem with this is that we now have totally abstract IQ tests, the invention of which did not break the concept of intelligence as a measurable thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_Progressive_Matrices
When it comes to maintaining most software projects, the number I hope to achieve on every commit is negative. In fact, I take pride if I can add 700 lines but remove 1500 (C++).

This is because writing code is relatively simple, whereas understanding it and ultimately maintaining it is very hard. So aiming to write more code is a very poor objective, you should be aiming to keep a project maintainable so that your costs are low (in terms of time, bug frequency, etc.).

That doesn't mean new features won't require lots of code, but there should be some way to prune old code on the same schedule.
I agree with you on this but for a beginner I think it's a great list to start with. I think a lot of people miss a lot of things on this website and don't have a good launch because of it.
When I bought my computer I didn't think graphics were important. Now I wish I had spent some money on a good graphics card. I might have to buy one so I can develop stuff like this.

For those who are interested, if you have a laptop with an intel based graphics card, you are probably using something called Mesa. After researching for a long time, Mesa is some sort of a graphics driver that works on Linux. Apparently, if you have Mesa 7.10+ and Firefox 6 webgl works, though I haven't figured out how to upgrade Mesa. The default on Ubuntu 10.04 is 7.4 or something like that. Apparently, Mesa is pretty buggy and can crash a lot.

If anyone has more info about this subject, I would appreciate it.
Quickly booting C64 games in Linux
I just wasted 2 minutes of my life. I want it back please.
Nemo PDF Converter 5.0 Updated: Convert PDF to Word and Word/Excel to PDF
Blame for financial mess starts with the corporate lobby
Also, Apple stands to gain even more dominance at the expense of carriers should next-gen wifi (802.22) ever take hold and make GSM data plans obsolete.
so Avatar got it right after all :)
>WriteRoom has a “typewriter-scrolling mode”, so that the line you are typing is always centered in the screen, not forever threatening to drop off the bottom...

That's the one thing I hate most about every modern editor: When I page down, my cursor appears at the bottom of a page I can't even see. What the hell is that?
>However, you have to realize that if you’re getting an Ivy League MBA, you’re probably 10x more susceptible to the previous 9 lies than other MBAs. Don’t let yourself be the next Jeff Skilling, the smart Harvard MBA, who worked at McKinsey and then went to Enron and drove the company off a cliff. He had a golden resume – and where did it get him?

Is this really the kind of reasoning they teach in business school?
Hehe. :)

This is inspired by some of the thought trains I can have, having schizophrenia. My mind sometimes get hectic and chaotic waves of thoughts where in I somehow manage to make sense and meaning of it even though there actually is no meaning in it. Explaining this to people who doesn't have schizophrenia is very hard.
Raphael is great at what it does, which is to provide a graphics framework -- a layer of abstraction in order to easily manipulate SVG to create custom shapes and graphics.

Where D3 differs is in its focus. It's not just a graphics library, but a means of manipulating the DOM to facilitate data visualisation (often via SVG, but data-based manipulation of simple HTML elements is equally feasible).

This reliance on standards such as the W3C DOM and SVG APIs means that, unlike Raphael, there is minimal proprietary markup to learn, and it also brings a lot of flexibility and power: anything you can do with SVG and HTML you can wield with D3.

From the horse's mouth: http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2011-D3-InfoVis.pdf
About Blood Brothers Essay
The Blood brothers is a wonderful play written by Wily Russell in 1980s. It enjoyed great popularity when staged as a musical. The dialogues are very powerful and create an enchanting impression on the viewers.
Maybe the hangman's scaffold.
Works for me in Chrome 13, OSX 10.7