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I was looking for the change-log for 'HyperVM' and found this thread on their own user forum, where some users are requesting a change-log!

http://forum.lxlabs.com/index.php?t=msg&th=3605
First of don't strawman me. Don't write stuff I didn't write.

Second of all the attack on Post Modernism is what is wrong the entire thing. How can you attack Post Modernism for pointing out some obvious flaws in the way we approach frames of reference.

That's like blaming the compiler for giving you errors just because you would like what ever you write to be possible.
I agree, it reads like he talks. Could it be a transcript?
I have no idea what you're talking about. Is your comment postmodernist itself?
"As for the "deconstruction" that is carried out (also mentioned in the debate), I can't comment, because most of it seems to me gibberish. But if this is just another sign of my incapacity to recognize profundities, the course to follow is clear: just restate the results to me in plain words that I can understand, and show why they are different from, or better than, what others had been doing long before and and have continued to do since without three-syllable words, incoherent sentences, inflated rhetoric that (to me, at least) is largely meaningless, etc. That will cure my deficiencies --- of course, if they are curable; maybe they aren't, a possibility to which I'll return. "

This is the level of the writing. He don't understand deconstruction so he don't like it. That is what is wrong with most critique of postmodernism.

Further more it's not just french philosophers. Thomas Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyrabend are not exactly french.

All he do is showing how ignorant he is on what he speaks. But that do expalain the level of his other writing.
Tried three tests: my own name, "Clojure tutorials" (something I've been looking for recently), and ""ORG directives in assembly code" (something I had trouble finding recently). Scores - Google 1, Yahoo 1, Bing 1. Not a very large sample space, to be sure, but still it was very hard to tell the difference, and by the stats, a lot of other people have had similar reactions (with a slight lead for Google).

Maybe this means we should just stick with the company we like the best? Google it is then ;)
This essay proves that you can find data to support pretty much any conclusion, as long as you choose your data selectively.
Don't focus too much on the S/N analogy. Remember, a legal barrier is equivalent to a claim of 100% accuracy, so even 90% (which wasn't my number, anyway) is terrible. What he and I apparently agree on is that the accuracy is less than 100%.
>Because its political platform is all about preserving the right to personal integrity

This might be a lost-in-translation thing, but I don't know what you mean by this. Integrity means something like honesty and strength of character, which, obviously, the RIAA et al have no control over. Could you clarify? Do you just mean privacy?

And okay, I believe you that the party's platform involves privacy rights more than anything else. And that is good, and even important, but I still think it's hyperbolic to call their election "the greatest thing to happen in european politics in a long time" simply because they support web privacy. I get the impression a lot of people conflate privacy intrustion with Big Brother, which doesn't seem sound.
My big question is: how do you make the PDF? I have my resume in LaTeX right now - and it works well enough (although, it is getting a bit long in the tooth).

Ideally, I would like to store my resume in some sort of presentation agnostic 'schema' which I could then compile into HTML, plain-text, and PDF with one click. Does anyone know of any tool that does something like this?

I'm almost thinking of XML/XSLT except for the fact that XSLT is the devil's language (and I don't know a good way to use it to generate a pretty PDF).
I've been using the WebMynd plugin since they posted here a while ago. Been searching for normal stuff + django development. Yet too see a better top 3 result from Bing. The ranking is a lot worse, might be that they need a bit of time for tuning. To me it seems to be something wrong with tokenization / word distance weighting.
It sounds like you should find some folks that are already doing angel investment and talk to them. I think there are mixed views on the "clubs", but you'll want to find somebody that can take you through the steps and potentially co-invest with you.

You could probably shoot a mail to YC and note interest in upcoming angel events, angels in your area, about demo day and whatnot.

Also, http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html
That's laudable, but it looks like the college still has state-approved accreditation, so what I said still applies.
Cool, that nearly the same as my app http://www.beepmystuff.com except I use amazon and a USB web camera.
> For what?

Are you saying the language in the quote above isn't loaded down with symbolic and metaphorical imagery? Or, more specifically, that it isn't drawing metaphorical parallels, rather than literal ones, between physical concepts and cultural ones?

> Please, humor us. What might that "something worthwhile" be?

Please, spare me your sarcasm and scare quotes.

Should I interpret your scepticism as a belief that there is nothing at all worthwhile to say about gender and culture in science?
bing is faster. my firefox search box has been set to bing for a week, and I am not inclined to switch back.

(disclosure: I work for Mozilla, which competes with both Google and Microsoft in browsers, but not in search)
I think you need to understand the context of Chomsky's remarks. He is responding to people who criticize him because he doesn't work within a "theoretical" framework, and his activism isn't properly informed by postmodern understanding.

I have heard people criticize universal grammar as being, essentially, a Colonialist theory, which attempts to assimilate languages into a Eurocentric framework. That is the sort of BS he is replying to. Chomsky is not saying, "postmodernists are stupid and should stop doing philosophy," rather, he is saying, "you want me to do things in a certain way, so explain why."
The exact thought I had. Having just released a widget this weekend I had thought about how to give it a thorough test. I'll just try it out on some different blog platforms was my sad idea. Then, this today. Thank you very much Gabriel!
> How many users would these services have lost?

It's a myth that users who don't like your product in its alpha state won't like it later.

BUT: Make sure you signpost the site: this is beta software. Participate in our trials, help us improve it. That's really important.

Even if early users get annoyed because it's beta, they know you now. These are people squarely in the middle of your target market: they found you before you even released. ==> They want your product.

If you improve the software over the next 6-8 months and release a quality product, you will pop up on those same customers' radar screen, they'll want to see if you've made any progress.

It's commonly known in advertising that the quality of an ad affects purchasing decisions less than the frequency of an ad. It takes several exposures to a name, idea or product for someone to feel they know/understand it. Therefore, the more the better.

The poster below is an excellent example of this. He didn't like Pandora when he first tried it - now he's a paying member. With repeated exposure come clients.
He also needs to have a way to mark the worst result out of 3.
Remember CueCat? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

If you still have one of those, you can hack it to output unobfuscated barcodes, which will work with this: http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm
I don't think its flawed. How can you say which results belong to Google or any other search engine?
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I wonder whether they are really that concerned about content, or whether this is a not-so-subtle message to people who might feel tempted to resurrect the 'spirit of 68' amid the economic doldrums.
I searched for Patti Blogovich (intentionally misspelled). All three columns contained what appeared to be relevant results, but after reading the returned articles, only two articles were outstanding (on depth and "objectivity"). One of these was halfway down the column for what turned out to be Google. The other was the top result for Yahoo.

Then I searched for "wriggly wrolly," which I sometimes call my dog. I ended up clicking for Yahoo again, which had all 4 results.

Sure, only two tries, but I was really surprised with how rewarding this experience was. I wish I could use Yahoo but have it look like Google. I'm just so hooked on Google's branding and image, rather than my 90's-based judgments of Yahoo...maybe I can be stronger of that and make the switch...maybe.
Bing’s Reign As #2 Search Engine Lasted One Day
How can you tell if a person is a programmer
Can the Social Web Reshape the Pyramid?
apache fop is a reasonable way to use xml/xslt to make a decently pretty PDF http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
If you are actively looking to invest, contact YC and ask about demo day. I'm sure there will be a lot of YC startups looking for more firepower (in the form of a small angel round) at the end of the summer. Added benefit: YC has already done a lot of the vetting for you.
I voted for them in Germany, but not because I want to pirate music and movies. The bigger issues are censorship (a huge attack is just going on in Germany, giving government the power to block any internet sites they want with no possibility for the victims to do anything about it), software patents (and other patents), privacy rights and so on.

I used to vote green and might do so again, but I have lost faith in "eco power" - I just think some things that are labeled eco these days don't deserve it, and I am not sure if the greens understand it.

Ultimately I figured I am working in the IT industry, and therefore the pirate party is closest to my interests.

My view of democracy has become a lot more cynical, too (not only because of the extreme wasting of tax money in the wake of the recent economic crisis). That reminds me: transparency is another huge, huge point I expect from the pirate party - I think they want to make politics more transparent (employing modern digital means), and that seems to me to be the best way to create a sane society and reduce tax payer exploitation.

I think democracy is just another "war" - it is not about finding a common goal for society, it is about members of society struggling to get the most out of society (that is, exploit society a ka the other members to the max). So why not vote to get "my share".
I'll bite.

I am putting together a product for doing simple administration of multi-server configurations, allowing a quickie conversion from in-house servers to the cloud (ec2 or others).

The emphasis is on configuration and management and not dashboard functionality like rightscale, cloudkick, and the aws panel itself. Because why reinvent the wheel? If you're interested ping me and I'll send you more information. I would also be open to shares-for-housing. thomashartman1 at gmail.
Huh?

Well, if you have control over the power, you could probably launch some pretty effective DoS attacks.
I doubt it's a transcript, since I think he implicitly mentions the writing process in several places. (The references to not giving full arguments.)
Suing over a feature is screaming that your competitor got it right and everyone should look.

It is great advertising for the other company, even if you do win.
If you're an accredited investor that's different. Just come to Demo Day at YC this August. (Send me an email to get an invitation.) Though some of the startups at DDay will go straight to series A rounds, most will raise angel money, and most of those would take investments as small as $20k.
Is the "!important" thing part of a coming arms race? Must admit I have not encountered it before. Can they be combined (!important !important or !veryimportant,...), and in a couple of months all style sheets have to be !supermegamegaimportant?
> Spiegel should really know better than manipulating numbers like this.

I read the magazine since I was about 8 years old (24 years ago). They used to do top-notch invetigative journalism. Over the course of my lifetime I could wittness a big decline in quality.
"I would be interested in any links you might have..."

The Hart & Risley book is the best source for understanding how parenting styles affect language acquisition. If you then want to see what how high-SES and low-SES children diverge even more after age five, check out Equality and Achievement by Riordan. If you're interested in ECE stuff other than language then there are a ton of interesting academic papers, but it really depends what you're looking for.
I'm not sure it really translates - it's a post-socialist phenomenon, and socialism still seems like a swearword your side of the pond.

Take issues like gun control, social welfare, environmentalism... the modern European hard left is, in general, strongly in favour of all of the above. Their platform's libertarian in that it's mostly against government intervention in personal lives, and therefore pro-marriage equality, drug decriminalisation, liberalisation of copyright, etc etc etc. You'll find a lot of anti-globalisation fellow travellers too.

The influences are much more things like anarcho-syndicalism, Christiania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania), that kind of thing.
This application is weird in cases where spell correction comes in to place. Just search for mike tieson, birack obam, pal graham hacker news and you can see the difference between google results & what's shown on the blindsearch application. There's a whole lot of difference.
The TC hype machine's two-step pass is operating at full efficiency:

1) Make a dramatic generalization from obviously-inadequate data.
2) Write a followup when better data proves it wrong.
philwelch, I tried to talk with you here but it seems like you insult me at every turn, and now you're trying to blame me for your invalid, US-centric assumptions.

This seems to be a habit of yours, because even in this post, twice you claim that I'm "undoubtedly" about to respond in a certain way. Perhaps if you read what I write without jumping to conclusions about what must be in my head, this would be more productive.

"our society wasn't meant to be legally egalitarian in the first place. It had slavery."

You appear to continue with your US-centric perspective here. And even with that perspective, so what? The fact that it had slavery sounds like a good reason not to take what was "meant" as gospel.

As for legal egalitarianism being impossible, that's certainly not true. I'm not sure why you believe that.
What you're describing is latex. There exists a myriad of scripts to convert latex to different formats[1], so I'd try to adopt one of these before creating your own XML schema.

[1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Export_To_Other_Formats
Just to put it slightly in perspective: here in the UK the BNP (far right racist party) won a seat too. Getting the seat is just part 1 - next the PP have to cut through the red tape and get the message out to the rest of the EU.

(I must apologise for my countrymen btw, I never thought it would actually happen :()
How about a "neat & simple" sales letter, you know, for those of us who are not pushing resumes? ;-)
> then we made the problem much worse by passing a slew of costly initiatives without being willing to raise the money to fund them fully.

That's simply not true.

CA's spending has increased 20+% more than population and inflation since 2005 or so. Initiatives are not responsible for a significant fraction of that increase (and most of them are self-funding).

Note that the amount of the increase since 2005 is roughly equal to the deficit, so cutting back to then would balance the budget.

I'd argue that none of the new programs and increases since 2005 have been a significant benefit. Those who do think that their new program is essential are invited to find some pre-2005 fat to pay for said program.
Funny no mention of an app store for desktop apps. It seems obvious this would be the next strategic step for iTunes. As it is, OSX is in dire need of a package manager.
Hell yeah! My first debate in speech/debate was against Tyler and Bobby. Of course I won but damn they were pretty good:)

http://zaid.posterous.com/tyler-hansborough-is-talllllllllll...
That's a common misconception, actually the European Union has a lot of power, and member states are obliged to align their national laws to those of the EU.

From the wikipedia article on EU: "The EU has developed a single market through a standardised system of laws which apply in all member states, ensuring the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital. It maintains common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development. A common currency, the euro, has been adopted by sixteen member states constituting the Eurozone. "

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union)

The problem is that for the common man in the various member states EU is seen as a monolithic bureaucracy placed in a country far away. Many don't realise it's power. This is the problem that the members of parlaiment face.
The internet is not killing our culture, it amplifies it. That was beautiful.

Should push come to shove, I could imagine an "improv" that begins: "at 4:00AM, gather around the Bastille" ..

No ad agency or paid minion could muster the force that is "Internet People"; from Improv Everywhere, to Anonymous.

+1 to humanity.
lynx -dump http://www.google.com | figlet
I like the minimum viable product approach:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product
> it is capped at a 2% increase per year and of course is reassessed at 1% of the total property value when the property changes hands.

Actually, the rate can be higher. The rate in Santa Clara county is over 1.5%.

Note that folks who bought more than a couple of years ago will see a property tax increase this year because their assessed value is still lower than their market value. Folks who bought recently are getting a huge cut.

The net result is that property tax revenues are fairly stable.

In the past, huge run-ups in property values did not result in lower rates - the local govts got huge revenue increases. When property values crashed, they raised the rates to maintain steady revenues.
I've been to several of Improv Everywhere's events. They're always amusing. Half of the fun is doing something you know is unusual, and will have a cool effect when you look at the video later. It's an odd feeling to break out of normal behavior like that.
Pity you aren't in Denmark, we need some good angels :-)
> Are you saying the language in the quote above isn't loaded down with symbolic and metaphorical imagery? Or, more specifically, that it isn't drawing metaphorical parallels, rather than literal ones, between physical concepts and cultural ones?

No, I'm asking what her statement is a metaphor for.

A conversation along these lines should look like the following:

Crux: "I wouldn't take that vacation if I were you. A rolling stone gathers no moss."

Jib: "What do rolling stones have to do with anything?"

Crux: "I was speaking metaphorically. What I mean is that as long as you keep going (like the stone,) you'll keep your momentum (won't gather moss.)"

> Should I interpret your scepticism as a belief that there is nothing at all worthwhile to say about gender and culture in science?

No, just that her quote isn't saying anything worthwhile about gender and culture in science. The fact that you can't identify anything it even "might" be saying is evidence for this.

In general, our conversation seems to fit the following pattern:

A: "There are many zorks in this world."

B: "Really? Name one."

A: "Are you saying there's no such thing as a zork? Prove it!"

B: "..."
I think you're generally along the right lines. I can offer a different explanation. Most of my own thesis comes from reading Eisenstein's "Ascent of Humanity", though I've put a little of my spin on it.

The basis of civilization - the good and the bad - comes down to our concepts of money and property. I'm only going to speak of the bad here.

Money earns interest, hence if you have it you are compelled to hold on to it; as well, because it compounds, a quick cash grab may theoretically exceed the return of any sustainable venture.

Property, on the other hand, makes us seek to control our world so that others can't. It started with land, but it's spread to just about everything, including abstract concepts.

Most competitive forces can be attributed to this volatile combination.

But the entrepreneur's motives may differ from competition; instead of grabbing money and holding on to it, or taking other people's land, resourcefulness and efficiency is another goal, and it is usually the one that produces the most successful businesses.

What civilization has done is to use money and property as proxies for efficiency, which for the entrepreneur encourages all negative externalities, and for society as a whole causes a lot of deep rifts and strife.

But I think that, ultimately, technology - by increasingly giving power to all individuals - is going to make the money and property concepts irrelevant. It's already doing so online, albeit with a lot of friction because we have to use side-channels to translate online "currencies" (popularity, utility, reputation) into money.
Well, it's risky to be involved in startup investment. I never recommend anyone put money anywhere unless they know enough about it to predict where it might go (or at least know signs of trouble to look for).

Many companies of people on Hacker News are looking for angel funding. You should reach out to those who seem most promising to you.
Try to beak out of normal behavior often, on your own; you might like it :-)
It's possible (but extremely improbable). By which I mean, if anyone has the capabilities to do that, they're just as likely to extract whatever information they need from your brain, or rewrite your mind to make you want to give it to them.

Or realize that they have better uses for their time.
Oh really? You think that 50% of the legislature would spend less than 60% would and that 60% would spend less than 66%?