skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you even following the discussion? Are 'African Americans' such a touchy subject that your capacity to comprehend what is being said is failing you when someone mentions them as being 'a social and economic underclass'? That is not a judgment or moral statement about them: it is simply a factual statement about their predicament. It is about what is the state of affairs in the world.

Let me spell this exchange out for you:

- Several comments applaud the US for allowing immigrants to succeed.

- I point out that it's not the US, it's the OP. He could have succeeded in all of western civilization, as immigrants do.

- Gaius thinks only the US, UK and Canada are 'countries with long traditions of immigrants both assimilating and contributing to their culture'. He especially thinks Turks in Germany and Moroccans in France are 'an economic and social underclass'.

- I point out that this has to do with historical factors: there are many Moroccans in France, because it was a French colony for a long time. You could practically consider those Maroccans French. I point out that for those reasons, they are more comparable to African Americans, who also happen to be 'an economic and social underclass' (if that term applies to Moroccans in France, it applies to African Americans in the US. I'm going along with the discussion here, not arguing about a term I may not like). On the other hand, Algerians are well integrated in French society, as are Turks in Germany.

- Someone completely misses the point, because he mentions something that gaius himself had already covered as not being a good argument. (Perhaps it was only a joke?)

- I rehash the original point

Now if you would please care to explain what is stupid about that?
May I ask, how much work went into it? (compared to what you'd imagine it'd have taken you to do from scratch, using jQuery or something?) Because it's the slickest web-app I've seen in…well, ever!
Cool that you list tweet links from major news sources!

When a user clicks on CNN, BBC or others could you not on the left most side bring up the article they clicked so they dont go to another site? Would be a UI thing, but I would never leave the page and I could click and read all the news stories about X, while staying within your site.
Actually, I AM building a time tracking app :)
It seems like Apple is doing itself quite a disservice only serving AT&T (or whatever partner they've chosen in your country). RIM is able to sell to a lot more potential buyers than Apple is and Apple is losing out on customers who chose a RIM device based on carrier availability.

I'm sure AT&T and others are doing a lot to make the exclusivity worthwhile, but at some point wouldn't selling 2-3x more phones make better sense? If Apple were smart (and I'm not saying they aren't), I'd think they would want to make sure that the iPhone/iPod touch became the platform for mobile computing. They're already getting there as evidenced by the huge number of App Store applications, but they seem to be treading dangerously as other companies won't play by Apple's one-carrier handicap.

Apple doesn't want to end up where it did on the desktop - an also-ran whose "our way is the only way" saw their marketshare crumble. Granted, in this case, I'd say that Apple would be a major player also-ran, but there's no reason why they can't be #1 and build an almost Microsoft-like lead here if they sold more openly.
Interesting... I was thinking an embedded viewer for photos would be good, but articles could work too. I could make that an option, so people could jump out to a new window if they prefer. Thanks!
http://www64.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple%2C+rim%2C+googl...

Alpha is fun, didn't know that Apple and Google were so similar.
If you want Flex/JS interoperability: haXe.
> On the plus side, robots stop our friends and family from getting killed

Hardly, robots vs robots just hurts financially, robots killing civilians hurts moral too. Big incentive to go all out.
It seems like what you're really saying is, "There are a whole bunch of options out there for blogs, but WordPress is the best for almost everyone." I would agree with that statement, and I suspect that's why it's been so successful.
Or stuff to do:

http://stufftodo.dedasys.com

Very different approach, my code is free/open source.
OH yeah, his Starbucks example doesn't really make sense - I was thinking of the architecturally designed home and the $1000 restaurant meal. It's a bit weird how he starts with two compelling luxury data points, then overgeneralizing to... a $6.02 purchase.
You can do most of this stuff at compile time and not mess with the JVM. Just add auto boxing to the next version of Java and nothing need change.

As to the 16 byte char just do what most languages do when they get a basic feature down and add a Byte32 or whatever.

PS: I tend to think of Java as a slightly more friendly version of C rather than a high level language. It's fairly easy in Java to open a socket and decode a bit stream, where most high level lanugaes make that far more difficult.
How to reboot a startup
We software developers will have to actually start paying attention to code bloat and performance. We won't be able to count on beefier hardware to run our next round of sloppy hacks!
Man, I love what Cappuccino can do. It looks really slick. However, on a top-end Mac Pro with 6gb of RAM in Safari 4 beta and Firefox 3.5 beta, its sloooooow. Everything is just really jerky and non-responsive while trying to navigate around.

All that aside, its a really great interface. Soon as you enable some additional functionality (like search) and speed up the interface, this will be something I want to come to.
Very cool. If you number them (the drawings), they could become collector's items.
Yea, I am definitely working to speed up the interface responsiveness.

There's a standalone app OS X that you can keep open for hours, so it won't bog down your main browser:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg
You must be getting hammered by traffic; I just gave ya 30 seconds to load.. I'll try again later.
+1 for re-reading crytonomicon every year
uuuh...guys? I think Bing might be better than Google....what do I do?
To Estimate or Not To Estimate, That is the Question
Does estimating add real value, or is it a waste of time?
This is fantastic! I could see myself paying for the ability to set up feeds to share with other people during an event.

It's also nice to see Cappuccino being used for something outside of 280 North. :)
Ask HN: Thoughts on Kurzweil and Singularity
I don't have enough karma to create a poll, but with the upcoming movie releases of "Transcendent Man" and "The Singularity is Near" along with recent write-ups in WSJ, Time, etc. I think the mass population is starting to get doses of Kurzweil's vision of Singularity. I am currently reading 1999's "Age of Spiritual Machines" and was wondering what you guys think of his vision.. I for one believe his claims are plausible though a bit over optimistic even with exponential growth. Do you think we will see the next evolution of mankind as he describes it? Do you think hes gone off his rocker in old age? Im interested in your thoughts!
Gimp?
The initial load might take a minute, but once it loads, 99% of the traffic is served from Amazon S3 via JSONP, so that part should hopefully scale well. If you're on OS X, there's a standalone browser app you can download (has the code embedded, so no loading time). I'm still working on a Mozilla Prism or custom WebKit standalone browser for Windows.

I welcome the traffic rush, though, because I want to figure out how to scale it!
While I agree that this would encourage people to go along rather than apply their own standards, I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
Well, quite a bit, I guess... but not THAT much. I'm a full time freelance developer and I made this in my spare time over the past 3-4 months. I had the idea a year ago, but you know how that goes!
I don't see where to add it. What section of links is it under? (And nice work getting it online so fast.)
LOL. I live in Northern Virginia and that craziness does not surprise me one bit!

One night on the way home from grabbing one drink I accidentally turned into a govt complex that was probably CIA or something. I figured I'd tell the guys at the gate I made the wrong turn and they'd let me leave. Low and behold I was held within the gates for 3 hours, subjected to a series of alcohol tests conducted by several feds who rolled up in unmarked black suburbans repeatedly asking me what I was doing there. At the end of all the huffing and puffing I passed every single test and was warned I got off easy as I was clearly intoxicated and next time things wouldn't go so smoothly. This was after I agreed to a voluntary search of my vehicle with hopes of just getting the hell out of there.
"Saying what you want" is not a right that supersedes other laws. No one can put up billboards (or even possess) child pornography because it is a heinous crime. Similarly, there are other limitations on free speech like shouting "Bomb" in a crowded theater.

It is actually legal (though obviously immoral) for a human being to say bigoted things about any religion. NBC cannot run a special saying the same thing because there are (quite likely, IANAL) laws against broadcasting hate speech on T.V. and the market itself also acts as a censor in NBC's case.

Saying "free speech should be a Universal right of individuals" is not equivalent to saying "NBC should be able to broadcast a special propagating hate speech". You are claiming it is.

So Janet Jackson can say fuck on CBS and she can't be punished for it but CBS can. I am pretty sure there is no law preventing a random person from spouting hate speech on TV (eg those people who shouted gays are the children of satan and other insults at military funerals) although there are quite likely laws requiring TV stations to take all measures to avoid giving such guys a platform.
gregking, I recommend reading the essays at http://yudkowsky.net/singularity before having this discussion.
Beautiful, beautiful interface. Worked perfectly smoothly on my MacBook 2.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Am very jealous. Makes the interface of my AJAXified web app - www.gambolio.com - look a tad amateurish. Mine was done using jQuery, btw.
If you already have WebMynd installed at the latest level (0.8.1), restart your browser, do a search on Google then activate the Bing results by looking in the 'Knowledge' section in the Sites menu.
Surely that's what happens with upvotes?
I keep seeing indications that TV networks are looking to get their content to viewers without going through the cable system. Hulu, ESPN360, the streaming links on networks own sites, and now this ustream/CBS partnership (probably other examples I'm not thinking of). I think we would all be better off if cable and phone companies are transformed into simple bandwidth providers, with all content delivered over the Internet. The only thing preventing this are U.S. cable lobbyists, whose sole purpose seems to be keeping bandwidth levels as far below that available in other countries as possible, and thinking up ways to make it harder for people to get the content they want.
Ilegal Downloads costs treasury 12 Billion Bad news for UK economy. 
To the general public, this can be seen just as any other old, media-hyped news, but do you realise how much of an issue this is? This effectively means that the treasury are having to cover the costs of illegal content, where a 700MB film can be downloaded in just a couple of minutes, with only a 50mb/s connection.
Why Socialists Don't Build Good Cars
How does one go about choosing a graduate school for computer science?
The first version was called SEQUEL.
> Saying "free speech should be a Universal right of individuals" is not equivalent to saying "NBC should be able to broadcast a special propagating hate speech". You are claiming it is.

Quoting myself:

"I agree that free speech is a human right, for some definition of free speech.

I don't agree that 'no censorship' is a human right."

I think we are just arguing semantics at this point.
The thing is, offroaders like power like the rest of the gearheads, so engine choice is very important. Picking the BMW Diesel will pretty much mean that any mods the people do will cost them an arm and a leg. + I'm sure it's costing you a ton of money to use that particular engine.

Offroaders aren't the hippie type to care about environment or mileage, hell most of them are running catless, so the whole clean diesel seems to be targeting the wrong demographic.

And yes you should know how to take care of your vehicle, but thats the point, using the BMW engine pretty much means the thing will be an electronic nightmare, if these things are to be taken offroad, a person should be able to take it apart and put it together on a side of a road with nothing more than a socket wrench.

I wasn't really arguing for electric cars, I just meant that Tesla as a new company targeted the sports car market to test the idea, because the sports car market is the only market where people are willing to pay a premium, even for an untested product. Offroaders do too, but the segment is infinitely smaller.

It seems to me that the car is not built for the demographic you are targeting.

a) Design: lower the chassis, and the car is pretty much the ideal design of what a hybrid coupe would look like. An offroader should look mean. It shouldn't look out of place covered in mud.

b) Engine: Expensive to modify, expensive to maintain, requires a space shuttle manual to work on.

c) Price point I know it says 50K, but we all know that its going to be higher once production begins. I just don't see that there'd be such a high demand for a 50K+ dedicated offroader. Not unless the thing completely trounces its competition.

Take a look at Bowler Wildcat/Nemesis cars, thats pretty much what you are going to be competing with in your price range. And those things have actual racing pedigree with tons of wins under their belt.

Anyways back to the sports car market. Yes its a saturated market, but its so much bigger than the offroad market. There is plenty of space as long as you build something people will want. And you have the whole build by people like you thing going for you, which would have helped.

To me, if I were in your shoes I'd scrap the whole offroader idea and build a sports car. Lower the thing. Throw an engine in the rear. Paint the plastic. Its a much easier segment to compete in, compared to the offroader market.
As per the debate in the article about "is it ethnography?", I prefer the term "ethnographically-inspired fieldwork".
Mind, it might be an annoying, ugly, overlong, or otherwise undesirable word.

I have a vendetta against "utilize", myself.
Have you used haXe in a production environment or enough to see if it works as it promises, truth verses wishes, and warts? Does it deliver on the promise to seamlessly compile to different target languages? It looks promising.

Thanks.
I've never understood how anyone got sequel from S-Q-L.

They didn't. They got SQL from SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). After the name was changed from SEQUEL to SQL people just kept saying "sequel" since it's easier to say than "s-q-l".
Microsoft announces "Project Natal" motion controller for Xbox 360
> The 0.9 release is the result of a lot of work, but I want people to break it and criticize it to death.

I've slagged on Zed once or twice, but the above sentence is pure gold.

I'll definitely give Zed this: he's willing to take it as he dishes it out.

Thick skin is a necessary trait for anyone who wants to change the world.

Kudos to Zed.
Another ridiculous anecdotal extrapolation from 37signals.

When I'm hiring, I only look to the cover letter to determine whether the candidate is personally interested in the job, not whether they're qualified for it.

Might I suggest a new title: "If you want to work at 37signals, forget the resume, kill on the cover letter."
I'm happy with it - my site comes in at #8 on it, instead of #10 on Google for my target keywords "etf screener". Besides that though it does exceed my expectations.
Great Stuff, although when I fire up this app all I get is a blank white screen. Didn't get any useful information on the console. I assume this is just a wrapper around a WebView? I'm running the latest Safari 4 beta and the web version works fine.
This is not impressive... it's just a bunch of iframes. How about stripping the styles of the results, and displaying some kind of visual diff.
Here are the issues with your points

1) Perhaps it was only a joke

If you want to be taken seriously this doesn't work when addressing an often times sensitive topic .. Communication 101.

2) You stated ... I point out that this has to do with historical factors: there are many Moroccans in France, because it was a French colony for a long time. You could practically consider those Maroccans French.

A Moroccan would never consider themselves french. (if your interested in references no problem) Thats calling an Assyrian and Iraqi or white or jewish..

3) You quoted.. African Americans are as much 'an economic and social underclass' in the US as Moroccans are in France.

This is where you quoted Gaius then added the note above.. Don't hide behind a quote from someone else then add your own statement and then attempt to pass it off as the original statement.

4) You stated.. It is about what is the state of affairs in the world

How does this beginning comment and the subsequent comments thereafter address the question of the original author? I see a point possibly that he can make it regardless of his socio-economic status and that others has.. just say it.. keep it simple your going into dangerous territory otherwise... you message gets vague.. and losses its point and got clouded with your own statement which was pass off as a quote by Gaius..
What the People Say vs. What Gov't Employees Say
the phrase "necessary but not sufficient" comes to mind. there are exceptions, of course.
I think maybe you missed my point....I was questioning the statement:
"African Americans are as much 'an economic and social underclass' in the US as Moroccans are in France."

I think we can accept this as a general truth, correct? My question was related to why this is, as in, is this position deserved (as in, not earning a better position, in the aggregate), or is it due to being underrewarded for performing the same work as other classes.

I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of studies on this specific angle. As noted, I am fully aware that my current best guess on this is racist, that is not my question....my question is, is it correct (despite being racist). I know all "broad minded" people such as yourself "know" everyone is equal, but others, such as myself, prefer some study into it. All I have to go on from my perspective in life is what I see/encounter, and people's opinions (often based on only a theory).
Ask HN:  Other Applications Using Cappuccino?
280 Slides is a hell of a demo, but trying to check out other apps using this tech. Figured here is the best place to ask.
One I've already seen, but wanted to add to the list so others don't repeat is: Almost.At
I like Bing. It does a much better job for image search and presentation than Google.

The thing that will make Bing competitive with Google, however, will be the front page. Google has adhered to a simple front page with religious zealotry. Bing, on the other hand, seems to embrace making the front search page more useful. It remains to be seen if MS will clutter it up, but if Google starts adding widgets and tools to the front page, you will know they are paying attention.
Not to deliberately derail the thread or anything, but if you in any way associate using google search with promoting open-source, you are doing something wrong. Google search is (too) as proprietary as it gets.

As for bing, I gave it a shot. After switching to the US version it was a whole new product. My biggest complaint so far is the lack of intelligent porn-searches :P
Really does sound like a fun place to work. Just be careful you don't write '37 signals' anywhere with a space! Taking self importance to a whole new level.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1088-how-not-to-apply-for...
A personable one? Hopefully not a lasting one...

Its tacky to decide that someone is overpaid by your perception of how they spend their money. You make fun of a $10 roll of toilet paper, but they might have paid twice what their house was worth or gave most of their money to charity. Maybe the toilet paper was supposed to be funny, and you just didn't get the joke. Its better to justify salary by productivity to the company than by personal preferences.
Actually, you are incorrect. Chinese, on average, are massively disproportionately (as compared to other immigrants) economically successful wherever they migrate to.

Maybe you meant to say there is always an ironic comment made on every website?? lol
>Do you think we will see the next evolution of mankind as he describes it?

I have no idea and I don't believe anybody who says that they know. The future is unpredictable; there are no crystal balls or formulas that can tell you what is going to happen. We can always take guesses and make predictions and perhaps some will be close, but I wouldnt count on it.

Who in 1920 foresaw the internet?
Who in 1990 saw a second depression in 2008/9?
Who in 1950 predicted the bankruptcy of GM?

Generally though, progress keeps progressing. Man keeps thinking up cool new things and it seems, so far, to be happening at an ever increasing rate.

I think the future will continue be as unpredictable as it always is, and I do think it will continue to be awesome.
People are going to pile on to DHH for again suggesting that his experience represents the whole universe of job hunt circumstances, but if you can hold just two thoughts in your head at a time, there's a kernel of valuable information in here.

No matter where you are, the actual words in your actual resume aren't going to get you hired (although the roles they describe might, and bad words can clearly get you un-hired). He's right about that.

More importantly, 9 out of 10 smart people I've interviewed are positively meek in their resumes and during interviews. They don't stand out at all. What's worse, they make no effort outside of the "official channel", dutifully submitting resumes into the HTML form, talking to the HR person, waiting for us to call back.

DHH is right. If you're just going to play by the HR rules, the cover letter is your one chance to position yourself ahead of the 9 other candidates with similar resumes. It's not the only thing to do, but there's literally no downside to putting an effort in.
Yes, one of the few major problems I have with Google is that it just changes your query sometimes when you really want what you typed, and the slight change (adding an "s", most often, for me) swamps the results you're looking for in a sea of unrelated stuff. Even using quotes doesn't help here, though it should. I'll try to remember to use Bing for those kinds of queries when I run into one again.
Turks born in Germany weren't even legal citizens until 2000.
"Well integrated" is not accurate. Algerians aren't well integrated into French society, either. Your points are stupid because they are off topic and aren't correct. You're just making shit up.
Ok, I get it. That's pretty much what I've been doing, but at least this thread clued me in to the fact that one can sometimes find pdfs on Citeseer.

Thanks.
Restarting FF did it. By the way, this really shows how bing is often better than google.
I have never once seen a real hiring manager look at these, most good candidates aren't going to be writing ones specific to your company. I'm sure its nice to be 37S.
Whats the appropriate attire for an interview at a tech startup? Somewhere in between a suit and jeans/tee?