skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the wealthy started from nothing and ascribing their wealth to the "hard work" of building from nothing is romantic, but ultimately it's a fantasy. No doubt much individual hard work goes into building a fortune, but the fortune itself owes much more to the labor of thousands, if not millions, of workers, right down to the janitor who sweeps the floor, than it does to the individual who had the next big idea. Labor certainly has more to do with wealth than capital itself.

Inequality is embedded in capitalism. When the invisible hand moves capital from one place to another, it does not only give, it takes away. For someone like Bill Gates to give as he does, he has to have taken away (you might prefer "created") in the first place.

It may be muck-stirring, but I am less interested in saving the world than I am in understanding the ideological assumptions implicit in, for instance, Gates's actions, and the systems that allow those actions to take place. To leave the muck unstirred, to forget it exists, is to live in a world that does nothing but support conventional wisdom, excludes alternatives, and limits debate. The useful question is not, "is this True or not," but rather, "what would it mean if it were true."

Finally, if Zizek is a conspiracy theorist, was Hegel, was Marx?
People seem to forget that the internet isn't just "the web". It's simply not realistic for certain applications to be built on the web (I mean the Wave protocol, not Google's Wave client)

And of course this is coming from a top executive at one of Google's main competitors. They don't have a history of saying nice things about Google, Apple, etc.
Yes, I see the underlying platform of Wave as basically distributed version/concurrency control. I don't believe that one must use any of the Wave client stuff to interoperate. Furthermore, isn't this just a matter of degree vs. kind? One could make the argument that the standard for an email message is overly restrictive or that IM protocols limit innovation.

I tried Groove back in the day, and it was actually one of the first "prior art" things I thought of when watching the Wave demo video. And, IIRC, Groove's backend was some sort of XML database....
I've worked in the residential construction space several decades as a surveyor, draftsman and software developer. I tried with some friends to approach the whole workflow from customer contracts through plans, estimates and purchasing to finish product. It ended up being too large of a scope for a few people part time on it. I think picking a small piece of that workflow and improving it is a smart choice.
Kind of ironic that scribd isn't working right for this PDF in particular, I must say.
Reading Best Selling Business Books is overrated
How to unleash your brain's inner genius
I think his point is it's "anti-web" but who cares? The internet is not just about the web. Saying something is "anti-web" is not necessarily an argument against it by itself.
Fair enough. I should talk to you whenever I think about putting ads back on StatSheet :-)
>"small, well-written programs that do one job well"
Like a browser thats an integral part of the OS and can't be removed.
So email is anti-web? Skype is anti-web? I don't quite see why anti-web is a bad thing anyway. Why does it really matter?
This isn't my idea, it's my colleague's, but he managed to get it through my thick skull this morning: it's all about the robots.

Wave robots can do anything, including publishing from a wave to somewhere else, filtering and parsing, importing content, linking, whatever. They're bidirectional pipelines! And that means they're a fantastic tool for automating things, and what's more, they're easy to explain to people less technical than us mob.

Imagine this: "here, i'll copy in the room booking robot", which goes away and reads the wave to book you a room, just as you might copy a secretary into an email conversation if you were lucky enough to have administrative support...

Two of the web services I've got most from recently have been Highrise and Tripit, in both cases because I can just forward them stuff and what I wanted to happen happens. Google Wave makes building that kind of app much, much easier.

That gets my attention, anyway.
Its an interesting discourse. I'm not against people designing alternative solutions when they find the defacto standard is lacking (jQuery UI). The benefit of having a standard "batteries included" solution can't be denied either, look at the ease of adoption of Python or Rails. I think the biggest concern isn't that jQuery Tools offers a different library, its that it goes about doing it in non-jQuery ways.

I think that if jQuery Tools works for you fine, but ultimately this functionality should be subsumed within jQuery UI so that there is a single repository for UI elements.

jQuery UI has done a lot of work in standardizing and componentizing their library, this functionality should be integrated with the UI canon. Then when I want to have functionality only offered by jQuery UI and functionality only offered by jQuery Tools I can use them in harmony, and that includes the nice extras like themerolling.
It's not an LCD or a CRT. It's a quad-DLP display with LED backlighting manufactured by Ostendo Technologies (http://www.ostendotech.com/).
It is all in your head, my friend :). Bing is actually pretty good.
I think they tried that in some districts by tying the amount of the bonus to the performance of the children in the class. The teachers were the one administering the tests so some of them gamed the system a bit and cheated on the grading of the test.
Hands On New Iphone: it is a tomato
>> "simple to implement"

I haven't looked into wave in much detail, but being based on XMPP is by no means simple. XMPP is the most over engineered over complex verbose ridiculous protocol ever invented. There were several people saying Jabber would kill IRC years ago.

I'm reserving judgement on wave personally, I'm skeptical it'll be able to make a dent. Technically awesome, but I'm not convinced yet it solves real problems users have.
The correct term in Hixie English is virii. You need to learn your Hixie English (even the HTML5 standard is written in it).
I can't say that this is the site that I've been looking for, but you might be on to something.

However, you have a bit of a catch-22 with respect to the sign-up vs. experience this without signing up.

I didn't sign-up, and therefore, you can't show me anything.
You also don't describe anything on your home page, so I don't know if sign-up means I'll need to download a plug-in, no plugin, do I need to tell you how it works.

A good way to demo it for people is to maybe show how many people near them visited your site? They don't need to see the person details. Maybe a 'here is what's popular near you' list, or something like that. Just to get a bit of interest going and show that you have some data.

I think a big thing you've done wrong on your site is the 'these people both read ...'. I don't care what they read if I don't read it. Therefore, if you can show me how it relates to me, that is likely a better avenue I think.
It probably is, but Google is at least on par, and that's why I feel "icky".
How about a mobile client with a limited browsing capability for AutoCAD? That way, the customer is never giving away the direct access to the file, and can even restrict users to see only parts of the design.
HN Meetup Orlando?
I was wondering if any Orlando folk might be interested in a meetup? Maybe Wall Street or one of the coffee / tea shops around town?
Did you ask them if they were looking for funding?
As far as I know most auto form-fillers fill the form based on values in the ID and Name attributes. I.E. The field named 'email' gets an email address.

In my experience if your honeypot field has a nonsensical name or is named something like 'do_not_fill_field' then problems are unlikely to be encountered.
And the big selling point for this browser is missing on Linux:

- You don't get the each tab in its own process.
I want to elaborate on your last sentence. With private charities I have much more direct influence on how my income is used. If a charity I am donating to no longer serves purposes with which I agree I am free to stop donating. Try to stop paying the government for programs which you don't support or strongly object to.
That is precisely what my preliminary research has led me to conclude. There are thousands of artists fresh out of school that lack the proper skills to sell their product. What makes this situation unique, however, is that today these artists don't know a world without the internet. Just as they instinctively turn to Google for their research, they also use the search engine to find a source of income.

Like I stated before, Yuffizi is, above all else, an experiment. Based on the opinions of various art consultants and curators, I have formed the hypothesis that the industry is ripe for a web solution that can closely mimic a real-world gallery.
I like the idea.

Maybe you could:

- Display the website that is the referrer

- Use ip -> geo database to do quick matches with no signup

-- i.e. just say: "4 news.ycombinator.com readers visited today"

I am creating an account now, but maybe my suggestions could give you a more compelling frontpage.
I'd love for Google to have some serious competition... just not from Microsoft. I feel like Microsoft has had their turn.

I just want some unknown startup to come out of nowhere and take a bite out of Google.
Oh just you wait, the blue will come. And even better on Linux they plan on painting for own windows borders (they don't like your window manager) so it looks like Vista in the name of branding.
I think part of the way forward on this is to realise that you don't actually have that control, even today.

We touched on this in our Be2Camp North presentation: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1509410 (it's about 20 minutes long - there are a bunch of other presentations in the same stream, after ours).

When you send a file to someone, anyone, you are trusting that person with your file. They can send it on to anyone else they want. They can burn it to a CD. They can print it out and leave it lying around. They can show it to someone at the wrong time. Etc. When people need to send a file to someone, they will - no matter what barriers you put in their way. If you put barriers, they will always go around them some way, either by burning a CD, sending an email, or printing it out.

The more disorganised your modes of communications, the more likely that is to happen by mistake rather than intentionally. And the more disorganised and ad-hoc your communications the least visibility you have over all this.

To your colleagues, I would say, perhaps bluntly, that the control they feel they have is an illusion. There is no control, once you send a file to someone else - there is only trust. The nearest thing to control you might have is visibility - to be able to at least see who downloaded what when. And that, you can get through the Woobius audit log.

Does this help?
As someone who cannot access any private email accounts at work, I cannot view or review your site. Perhaps it should be more open.
Good suggestion!
I've been meaning to try out AppEngine for a while now but haven't had the chance. It would also be nice to keep any load away from my servers...
"Display the website that is the referrer"

It's already doing that for some selected sites. It should've said Hacker News for you.
Well, let's see here.

I'd say that the largest concrete problem to me is our thoroughly anti-education culture.

And the largest meta-problem is that we have yet to discover a good way to measure the success of various approaches (and no shared philosophy, however small its kernel, as to what would even constitute success).

Otherwise, a laundry list:

- A problem: Inflexible bureaucratic structure/procedure permeating everything.

- A meta-problem: Debates about education always become proxies for ideological warfare. (C.f. your original reply, or the creationism push, or the "Culture Wars".)

- A problem: Parental non-involvement.

- A problem: Pushy, over-involved parents.

And on and on it would go, if I weren't supposed to be working right now. No wonder education here mostly sucks.
Just seconding this: Show people something, not a picture of 2 people and a link to someone's blog, challenging me to sign up.
For the people who don't want to make an account, you can start exploring from here: http://alpha.sitesincommon.com/metros/24702816

For now, getting you to sign up is kind of the idea. We need data.
How to succeed or fail on a frontier
Inequality is embedded in capitalism. When the invisible hand moves capital from one place to another, it does not only give, it takes away. For someone like Bill Gates to give as he does, he has to have taken away (you might prefer "created") in the first place.

That is where your misunderstanding lies. The world is not a finite-sum game. Wealth created is not wealth taken away. Someone like Bill Gates accumulated a lot of wealth because he created a lot of wealth - not because he took it from someone else. The difference between "taking away" and "creating" is like the difference between murder and sex.
That is certainly a valid way of doing it and is the methodology that I have used in several search-engine projects in the past (like this: http://intrasitesearchsupport.com/)

However in this case I am offloading the work of building the site-map to the WDG Validation service as I didn't want to have to obtain new servers to provide a free service. This means that I don't get the site-map until the WDG results come back...
I'm cool with both.
I wanna start my own thing in a couple of years. I am doing a bunch of Javascript/HTML/CSS at work.
If you're planning a startup, DO THIS. Regardless of where you store your list (I use google docs), it is a great idea. You can drive a lot of users to your startup via a blog, but keeping a consistent publishing schedule is tough. I've stopped blogging consistently for the past 8 months while I've been working on my product. BUT, I now have a 26 page list full of blog ideas (I'll write a few sentences about each so I can remember the good points I have to make).

Now when I go to launch, I don't have to worry twice a week about what I'm going to blog about, I've got hundreds of ideas that I can just pull out my google doc :)
Hmm. Right you are. Now why would NEC call it an LCD? That is false advertising as far as I am concerned. Of course, since this display uses Osram LEDs for the backlight, rather than expensive short-lived Halogen bulbs, I doubt that most consumers will care.
Why doesn't Adobe release Adobe Bridge for free?
Developers to follow on Twitter
I actually found this to be a useful resource. I've added several from this list, and it has a nice variety of specialites.
Hey, if you think Objective C is fun, go for Objective C. If you're not enjoying learning a new language and adding it to your skillset, you're doing it wrong. Do you want do pursue jobs in a language you don't enjoy coding?

Scala / Ruby are viewed as "fun" languages as well. You might as well try everything... you might find a groove quickly in one of them.
Of course you can install Ubuntu, but it sounds very strange that your laptop is THAT poor at running Vista.

I ran Vista for about 8 months before upgrading to Windows 7, and though Vista definately did some ridiculously stupid things, I never had issues with 'performance' (I'm running 64 bit version for mysql).

You didn't say who the laptop vendor was. How long have you had the laptop. If it is that poor, I'd return it and get another one.

I've been running Windows 7 for a few weeks now, and it has been a really good experience. A few bugs (window flickering, and strangely HDMI doesn't support sound), but I have no problem recommending it. And for the time being it is free.
Not all teachers' unions are created equal. Nor do they evolve equally. Your claims reminded me of Wikipedia's fantastic list of logical fallacies. Please refer to:

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_generalization
Down for me - 404 not found
Erm, yes you do. The assignment of tabs to processes is the same as on Windows.
trickjarrett,

I live in Orlando but unfortunately I am in New Orleans all month. However, I would like to keep in touch. Please reach out to me via email.
Bing overtakes yahoo in the search market, already #2
You've never seen SOAP and WS-*, then, I guess?
Offtopic, But I would like to know your views about monetizing a site oriented towards tech crowd. Many such sites find monetizing difficult because apparently the more tech savy you are the less you click on ads.
You can also have a account at http://uservoice.com/ so that you customers can interact more with you.
The Space Quest games were always wonderful for me- In particular, I loved the multitudes of ways you could die in the most horrific possible way.. I'd often try things I knew would kill Roger just to see what the writers dreamed up as a Death.

Space Quest 1 in particular was special to me, since my father and I played through it together- It was a great learning experience and a fun way to interact with a story together.

In the early 2001-era, I actually started up a project to create a new Space Quest game.. (Sq7.org). We got Josh Mandel, one of the original SQ authors to write us a script, and dozens of animators around the net to donate time.

It went pretty well, but fell apart over a disagreement with Vivendi- They offered to let us release it, but only if we turned over the Copyright.. We had promised Josh and others we wouldn't ever do that, so we were a bit stuck. That lead to disappointment all around, which was acerbated by the now dated look of the project, due to the long dev time of a Fan game.
I'd still love to release a SQ game some day, though- It's such a wonderful premise- The not-so-heroic everyman who bumbles and bungles his way to saving the world.

As an aside, we had also tried pitching Vivendi to do commercial remakes of the Space Quest games, on the (Then band new) Nintendo DS. We had a nice discussion with them about it, and worked our arses off on the proposals, but ultimately, they didn't think it was worth it.

To my mind, TellTale games is really carrying forward the spirit of Sierra adventure games. The new Wallace and Gromit is wonderful, not to mention Sam & Max, etc.

I'm excited by their engines, their storytelling, and their sense of fun, and can't WAIT to see what they do for the Monkey Island continuation.
Exactly. You have just stated the main reason why this article is wrong.
Sure! Your email is not visible in your profile.
Please leave hacker news, this is not your place.
Am I missing something? What's wrong with:

$ ls *5*

??

The find command is more powerful (descending into subdirs, etc.), but the original example in the link only specified the current directory.
Swarm Robotics: Beware The Swarm (videos)
>> There were several people saying Jabber would kill IRC years ago

Who?

I doubt anybody knowledgeable would claim that Jabber would kill IRC, since the two protocols serve largely different purposes. Jabber has killed off most of the smaller closed IM networks, and even the large ones are smaller than they once were.

As for the claimed difficulty of implementing XMPP, I'd like to see some more references on that. I'm writing an XMPP library now, and it doesn't seem particularly difficult. With only an hour or two of work, it can connect securely to 3rd-party servers and act as a useful bot. With a bit more work, I'm sure it could be a production-quality library.

Furthermore, the proliferation of implementations for various languages and platforms suggests that the barrier to entry for an XMPP library is rather low.
Some one made a custom RSS for that. Try searchyc.com to see if you can find it.
I know this is going to make me sound like a fanboy, but I find the article title amusing. The idea that Apple is "racing" to keep ahead of rivals and feeling the heat is a bit silly. Only recently, a full two years after the original iPhone, are we seeing devices that anyone could really consider competitive with it. Anyone familiar with Apple's culture knows that they have not all been sitting on the beach drinking their Corona's this whole time. If the past is any guide, they've been ruthlessly executing their R&D and product development strategies.
Lotus Notes was a very imaginative product. I used it for a while at a couple of clients while I was consulting. One application was to build a moderately sophisticated document tracking workflow process. The other was to build various small databases for status reports and project status applications.

It was exceedingly simple to build simple network-based applications that would pretty much instantly replicate to wherever you wanted it. The applications were not very pretty, and all had a similar look and feel. It was extremely imaginative. I remember Bill Gates even back then, while taking a jibe at Ozzie for putting an OS in the product, said that he was one of the smartest programmers out there.

The web kind of changed everyone's way of thinking about that sort of stuff, and Notes kind of faded.

I am not quite sure what being anti-web means. If web means nice GUI brower stuff, then maybe, but if you think of web as being protocols with clients and servers, then I wouldn't agree.
The very first thing I did when I landed on your site was click the big blue link. That took me to Gizmodo. You've already lost me as a user, because Gizmodo is interesting, so I'm not inclined to hit the back button.
Maybe what you should do instead is have it link to a page inside your site about Gizmodo. Maybe have it provide a map showing the number of people who read Gizmodo by country/state/zip or something like that.

Also, I realize that you're still trying to get some data into your database, but I would really appreciate being able to put in my zipcode to get an idea of what I can do with the site after signing up.
Oh, same shit again. They wants ia32 libs on x86_64 systems. Same with Android SDK, Earth and so on. Is it so difficult to rebuild the sources?!
Doesn't seem to work for me with pages protected with .htpasswd. The page is blank, no prompt to enter a password. Anybody else having that problem?
I really think the school voucher program where parents can decide where to send their kids will be the best. Heck, you could get on a professor and a assistant to open a one room school house and teach 15 kids. The parents make sure they like the curriculum and that's that. Imagine rapid innovation that could take place if we removed the regulations/certifications and allowed parents to choose.
The society as a whole can benefit from this kind of philanthropy long after it happens. For instance I directly benefited as a kid from a Carnegie library[1]. Meanwhile Andrew Carnegie is considered a robber baron[2] worse than Gates in most respects. Yet, I'm still grateful for the library. Gates is already wealthy, so at this point I'd rather see him use it for philanthropy rather than create another Rockefeller family trust.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)

EDIT: Added links.
"If they start making products people don’t want, and start losing users, then Apple’s strategy will run into problems."

s/Apple's strategy/any company anywhere/
My favorite quote:

"Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly. But working for a large company is like being waterboarded."
> Can I install Ubuntu on my made for Vista Laptop?

That's what I did. There was some trouble with drivers, but nothing too bad.