skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuh-uh, no, you can't give him this sort of pass. He introduced the concept of "class struggle" and "class warfare" that took over so much of modern labor/monetary/commerce/market vocabulary, and specifically said that the transition to socialism/communism will take proletariat violence. The man has inspired as much harm and destruction as any person in history.

Nope, he advocated the initial overthrow of the government. Following needless violence against civilians was never in his playbook.

And he's not even right

Well... yes. That's why we're not Socialist...

The man's philosophies have led to more misery than just about anyone else in history.

Philosophies which inspire moral outrage are despicable. Marx himself wrote no letter which advocated the truly despicable actions you speak of. For that we should blame the ones truly responsible: Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

I'd implore you to please, please, please stop seeing Marx as a misguided would-be hero.

Your parent did no such thing.

Marx was no friend of humanity, and should be remembered as someone who had bad and violent ideas that led to millions of people oppressed and killed as part of the "proletariat revolution to overthrow the bourgeois".

Every revolutionary's ideas end up causing similar devastation. Democracy certainly has. So has civil rights.

Marx brought this kind of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_rouge

Laughable. The Khmer Rouge followed Das Kapital in name only.

Please, please get educated and stop whimsically giving him a nod.

I would say the same but I am not as disrespectful.
I've been reading about the demise of this framework for over a decade. Glad to see it's still going strong.
Why don't you get in touch with them and see if you can join? No shame in that at all, I'm sure you have a bunch of ideas, code, market opportunities and stuff that could be a big help -- and they'd also head off competition with a "merger".
Have you ever read William Langewiesche's book on nuclear proliferation, _The Atomic Bazaar_? The fact that Europe has a need for workplace security does't mean that Europe actually has workplace security: Langewiesche alleges that lax security and deference to workers essentially allowed URENCO (the UK, Germany, and [mostly] Netherlands) to arm the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan.
I'm not talking about Microsoft being noble. I'm talking about Microsoft being screwed by the contractor. Microsoft wanted to compete against Plurk, they hire a contractor to help in this, and now where are they? Their site is suspended indefinitely. Microsoft is now significantly worse off now than before they even started this.

Should MS have watched the contractor more closely? Probably. But in the end, it's reasonable to expect that if you hire someone to do work for you, that they're going to do it ethically and legally, even in China. Of course MS takes all responsibility here. That's not even in question. But put yourself in MS's shoes. Yes they are the largest software company in the world, but ignore that. Put yourself in their shoes. You hire someone to do something. That someone does it illegally and deviously, you have no choice but to completely rip out everything they did. You just got screwed.

In the end, it even looks like Plurk may benefit from all of this, there is now a lot more people out there that have heard of them.
I live in SF, where do I get my deserts?
Don't tenacious failures exist in professional sports?

In boxing, there are fighters who never achieve "greatness", or see much success, but are regarded as having heart. What could be more tenacious than knowing you're outmatched and still getting up to press the fight? The 09' Celtics might also be an example.

So, yes, I'd say there are people/organizations who are failures and labeled tenacious.
Send an email from an anonymous email account. I think your message is super well written.
Curious: what consumer group should they have invited? The EFF isn't a consumer advocacy group; they're an issues advocacy group.
I have seen this argued before. However I've had trouble finding the people who find rote formulas a better way to learn.

In my math classes, if I found myself forgetting the formulas, I found it useful to stop and think about what the formula is trying to accomplish, and re-derive it from scratch. That works, but you can't do it if you don't understand the point of the formula in the first place.
EU Drops Browser Antitrust Charges Against Microsoft, Won’t Fine
From the section, "Things which will not destroy the earth":

Gay marriage.
Skimming the preface, this book appears to be something like the approach btilly describes. Thanks for the link. Intend to download to my iPod Touch to compete for my rare moments of free time with Elements of Statistical Learning, and the other free Math and CS books I'm sure will be on there soon.
Web accessibility no longer an afterthought
Is it for sale in Sweden?
Modellers claim wars are predictable
> I bet you think it's an accident it's a tech innovation hub.

Actually this is an accident; San Francisco's reputation as a tech hub is due to its accidental proximity to San Jose and silicon valley.
First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes
Comparing Carvas Shadowblur
Ever consider compiling your lecture notes and making them available somehow? (A book would be great, but even some slides would be pretty interesting.)
i too hope one day all this will be automatic (though we still have to specify a version, and keep up to date on what version supports what, so its hardly automatic for the dev or packager). the real fix to me is to embed all relevant information in the binaries and let the dynamic linker figure out which one should be used at run time. compile time would merely embed what version was used to build the app. maybe this is already possible? i'm curious...
SmartGit - A better GUI for Git
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One of these days I'll remember that agents aren't actors, just not today.
Thank you for taking your time to reply. It was really interesting.
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Front end code reusability with CSS and JavaScript
Nope, he advocated the initial overthrow of the government. Following needless violence against civilians was never in his playbook.

I never understood him to address the government as such. I understood him to advocate the overthrow of the "bourgeoisie". That is, a class of people, distinguished (among other things) by the fact that they were the ones financing (i.e., accepting the risks for) industry. It was not simply a case of unseating rulers, or even attacking the persons embodying the rule. It was far more broad, attacking ones citizen neighbors simply because they were landowners, for example.

Every revolutionary's ideas end up causing similar devastation.

Absurd. The results of "communist" revolutions of the 20th century are orders of magnitude greater than the fallout of any other revolution, before or since. We're talking about the greatest mass killings ever seen my man.
On Monday the entire cover of Metro (big London/UK free commuter paper) was a four side Chrome ad. It attempted to explain open source, javascript performance and the independent tabs. Not exactly normal advertising material. And today I saw a Youtube ad on the side of a bus...
Good riddens. Comet was the painful reminder of how little browsers have developed over the last 10 years. It may be a little late, but who doesn't like sockets?
That is definitely not true. The atmos in the Bay Area is part of the reason SV is where it is.

It may well be a coincidence that SF's government is so inefficient though. Portland has the same tolerant attitude, and their city government doesn't seem to be inefficient.
Unfortunately Mao was too ignorant to properly implement his own ideals.
PastryKit / iPhone User Guide Demos
I just went through the ordering process and from a designers standpoint, this is a really solid execution. I'll probably order a case soon but I need to spend some time designing something worthwhile. Bookmarked! Great job fellas.
I prefer it the other way around: Live every day as if it is your first. http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-You-Live-Every-Day-As-If-it-Wa...
Nearby "Super Earth" May Have Oceans, Thick Atmosphere
Huh, my title got changed by someone else. How weird...
They also seem to have no concept of mailing lists over there at gawker.com. I mean, im subscribed to quite a few -dev lists which I rarely read in depth, just a quick topic scan to know what to search for later. I also get lots of pointless internal email that I am cced on. This adds up to a lot of email a day. (today I'm at over 400 across my work and personal accounts, and I'm not very important).

Now, depending on what they have, perhaps this internal email also includes certain public facing addreses, such as president@whitehouse.gov -- if so I'm almost suprised that there isn't more, with the spam and whatnot.
"Number of times the Earth has been destroyed: 1"

I was expecting this to reference the event that created the moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis
I think you should ask this at StackOverflow instead.
"The Five Best States to be an Animal Abuser"
What makes you think this excuse to kill MSIE will work when 10 years of other excuses have failed?
Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
Pooh BBC, linkbaity headline and no link to the study? Well, they're really bad about external links anyway...guess they don't want people leaving their website for any reason grumble

Interesting news though, thanks. More informative press release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/wtsi-lca12150...

Project page with lots of resources: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/projects/cancergenome.html
I believe tenacity can be "learned". I don't know if I'd call it learning though and don't think it's like learning to ride a bike.

Your environment can chisel an "edge" into your personality. Something like a chip on your shoulder. Doesn't this happen a lot in small teams? You against the world? Soldiers in small military units, startups, and again, sports see similar "effects".

Adversity or emotional abuse might produce a similar result. A parent telling a child that something isn't good enough or to not let them down on a task.

Isn't this loosely related to all those posts about not telling kids they're smart?
Really? No cached conclusions allowed?
Are you viewing this as a hobby, or as a business idea?

As a hobby (or learning project), I'd say: sure, go for it, have fun.

If you're planning on monetizing it, well.....
Zero ironic? Private ownership of a communal resource is not Maoist.
I think that could be better said as "intrusion of politics into governance"
Chrome just doesn't do it for me [yet]. I'm sticking with Opera for the foreseeable future. For me, "great speed + few features" doesn't beat "adequate speed + great features".
Well, hey, if it were me I'd surely have invited the EFF along with Larry Lessig.

But I was thinking someone from a group like Consumers Union or even Public Citizen (if they're not still considered too "radical").

Heck, even inviting the consumer electronics lobby would get a little diversity of opinion (they're not big fans of DRM).
just curious, what was the site you sold?
Meh, doesn't have anything compelling that would make me switch from gitx + commandline.
TV Everywhere–A Pivotal Moment in the History of Television
The graphic represents the goal in dollars. nearestneighbor said 8% of the target number of individual contributors. It appears that each corporate sponsorship is worth about 200 individual donations (10% of the targeted 2000 individuals).
ULocate shows how to earn actual money on location-based mobile apps
Don't you mean "simpler to grasp than Squeak"? I doubt Seaside and GNU Smalltalk have much in common...one being a framework and the other a smalltalk environment.

What I'd be more curious about is whether GNU Smalltalk can run Seaside...
Yes. Because the best way to screen for an experienced developer is to make sure they're using the latest hotness in a tiny corner of the tech universe.
unfortunately currently yes, but it is high on my list to reduce this to ksh only. but anyway everyone should have ksh for scripting and zsh for interactive shelling if you ask me. ;)
Indeed. I can't believe the IE team hasn't implemented a standard whose draft specification is dated today. Why are they so fucking slow?
I dunno, i think this is too reductive, putting all the blame on a unique aspect of San Franciscan character. It sounds like the ballot system there allows for this kind of chaos, and so of course it ensues. It would happen anywhere. It might not always have the same generally lefty bent that San Fran's does, but otherwise I think its bad governance structure, not bad people.
I like how failing to implement a standard dated today makes it a legacy browser.
Really slick. And that's saying a lot since I typically dislike iPhone cases (they look clunky and makes the iPhone look big and ugly) - I love the designs you have on the site. Good job folks!
Shameless plug:

http://www.zazzle.com/free_kwame_t_shirt-235175928761389846
Well, I do use and love their SmartSVN... I might give this a try.
While not explicitly mentioned in the introduction I think it's safe to say that the books title is a play off of the popular title "Linear algebra done right"

http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Sheldon-Axler/dp/...

Which is a pretty amazing text if you're delving in to the algebra side of linear algebra. Though I suspect significantly less useful than "Linear algebra done wrong".
Whats interesting is the fact that they license their tech to any other app that wants barcode scanning functionality in exchange for 10% cut of the sales (10 cents on the dollar) so the "app" will live past the success of redlaser.

Of course Occipital has other things brewing as well :)
Exits: Laying the foundations for maximum company value
the problem isnt the server, http servers right now can serve webpages to any client, its wether the client will allow the connection, as they dont with xhr

from a guess at the fact they specifically say they use the existing same origin policy, they cant, but the confusion is cleared up with a simple test, I will check tomorrow
Would the idea now be to compare multiple cases of lung cancer to identify the genetic error that causes the tumour formation and develop a way to actively target said errors?

I mean would it eventually become feasible to put a chemical (or something) into a cigarette to greatly reduce the risk of lung cancer? Similarly could a chemical be devised for addition to sun block, or even after-sun to actively fight the cancer before it develops.
Seconded. A few years back for a school project I had designed and digitally modeled a chess set in 3D. After showing the renders to people, some folks claimed they'd buy an actual physical version. I pursued it for a bit, but all the places I emailed required orders too large for me to afford, or made the one-off prohibitively expensive on a per-set basis. It would be interesting to hear more about how you folks pursued this.
TechStars to launch Seattle program (Fall 2010)
This sample-size too small thing is becoming ridiculous. You do realize that although something might not be significant, in a hundreds of situations in real life, you are perfectly willing to draw real conclusions from a sample-size of 1?

Stupid example: You are with a group of people, and wonder if it is safe to swim in this river. The first person that walks in gets grabbed by a crocodile. Do you ridicule the rest of the group for not going for a swim? Especially since the only crocodile you observed will not be needing another meal.
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world actually do.
I'm currently taking one of Matt Blaze's courses at Penn (Operating Systems). It's cool to see one of my professor's papers posted on HN. If you liked this one, he also wrote another cool paper entitled "Cryptology and Physical Security: Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks." It discusses the ability to reverse-engineer master keys in the context of computer science. Here's a link:

http://www.crypto.com/papers/mk.pdf
They didn't really crack it. They found a whole bunch of dna errors in cancer, but they don't know which ones matter.
Feynman at his best
Management’s Dirty Little Secret - How to Increase Employee Engagement
Java, web and web design! have you any idea on how to do web surveys in a smart way? You could've written a survey app using those 3, or used existing ones to save your visitors from thinking and writing for questions that could've been fairly objective. And then maybe you could apply some statistics on the data and do something better with it :)
At least I wont like writing something more than this
The backwards values are solely in regards to how they view the proper role of government. Not their beliefs regarding things like gay marriage or other social values.
Only when you hit that 40% number(or something in that range)

93.5% of bloggers make up bullshit statistics. 84.8% of people use statistics to obfuscate and distract people from the fact that they don't know wtf they're talking about.
Plus, the games section of the app store has very aggressive pricing. Personally, I use price-watching apps to monitor for when games go for free.

Some of these games are highly polished, and to compete against them when they're available for free (even for 1 day) must put significant downward pressure on pricing for other games.

Unless I'm looking for a specific game experience (e.g., I bought Beneath a Steel Sky), I'm more than willing to wait for free games to come along to satisfy my mobile gaming fix.
You can easily dismiss the numerous non-style related errors that JSLint finds because of the claim that JSLint "opinionated". And you can dismiss the numerous non-style related errors that one finds because you can claim a flaw in poster's personality.

The point being that I'm tired of reading responses that only focus on an insulting comment a poster makes in order to dismiss all valid technical criticism.
Firefox Logo - Prescient?
A weird coincidence of web browser usage visualization?
similar to "buy vs. rent" you could probably have something like "hotel vs lease"? It seems like the duration of stay is key. Another key might be business users - if you travel for business and have to stay with client for e.g. three weeks or a whole months maybe there is a gap in there.
A few comments:

- SF's massive spending on the needy would seem to attract more needy people, so the point of comparison to the rest of the bay area could be misleading. SF also has a more consistent climate than the rest of the bay area, useful if you're homeless and sleeping on the street.

- Whole sections of the city are overrun with homeless people (tenderloin, golden gate park near Stanyan) such that passers by may be attacked, etc. I am aware of 3 people who have been attacked by homeless people.

- The MUNI system is decent, but there is little enforcement of fare violations. Not sure if this is really a problem.

- The mom and pop restaurants in SF are the best I've tried in any city, including New York.

- The level of tolerance in SF is fairly remarkable. You can dress however you want, men can wear nail polish, etc., and nobody bats and eyelash. One should not underestimate the importance of this sort of tolerance.

- I agree that rent control is a big problem. It's just bad policy and unfortunately it plagues lots of big cities.

- I don't know why there is a housing project in Hayes Valley. It's hard not to feel poor in SF if you earn over $100K Per year, and so one can imagine how it must feel to actually be poor.
What biking has taught me about business
And yet you'll find no shortage of fanboys who'll go to great lengths about how great the system actually is.
edw519, What do those numbers in your profile mean?
Why are people modding this guy down? I know people who are employees in the NYC system, and despite being the underlings, they complain about the unionization.

The MTA, for example, apparently has more management/support than they have actual engineers working to fix things. If you went to a public school, you would have definitely heard a good number of top teachers and administrators complaining about both the BoE and the teachers union.

NYC's system is much worse than you'd think, but they've had two business and efficiency mayors in charge, back-to-back, trying to fix these things.
I usually _hate_ Flash intros, but this one was just right. Quick intro, and the animation leads the eye nicely to the products. The shifted perspective on that spinning product animation gives it a bit more impact. Really well done.
This is a way for servers to opt in and tell the client to allow cross-domain requests, just like crossdomain.xml or CORS.

I haven't tried it myself with web sockets yet, but I've done some experiments with XHR+CORS (almost the same protocol, except for different names of the response headers) and it does work cross-origin on recent Gecko and WebKit browsers.

UPDATE: Ran a quick test using the current Google Chrome beta for Linux and standalone.py from Google's mod_websocket, and successfully opened a cross-origin WebSocket connection, just as described in the spec. mod_websocket will authorize requests from any origin by default; there's a sample handler included that shows how to reject cross-origin requests on the server.
It can, as of the recent releases.
"Move fast and break things. It's not the end of your career if you bring the entire site down." - Zuckerberg
Did you try GNU Smalltalk (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/)? It's a command-line smalltalk that interfaces well with unix. I find it simpler to grasp than squeak because there are less things to understand at the same time.

edit: replaced seaside with squeak
gnu smalltalk can run seaside but it tends to lag behind pharo as pharo is the target platform ( gemstone, cincom et al also lag behind to some degree ).
Or it is merely someone who sells product Y saying 'our sales are up' and extrapolating from there.
Agreed, but sometimes it's hard to be tenacious when you are broke.
Xcerion icloud web based OS released (in Swedish sorry)
Read the Sean Ellis article.

Although he says it's a ballpark number, he based it on hard data from many companies(I believe ~150) that's he worked with.

Just curious, are you an actuary?
This is a really important issue from all sides- technological, business, ethical, and more. We think newspapers are dying, but I'd have to say Cable is even worse off. There's something substantial about having printed paper that you can hold at least. It's just making the economics work. With cable, there's absolutely no reason to have it with the internet. It's purely double dipping.

I will tell you this. Comcast and all the others are scared shitless of one thing- hooking your computer up to your tv and canceling your cable subscription. Right now at least they have the value proposition of you being able to easily watch their cable on that new HDTV you bought. Once the 50 inch HDTV screen is as open as the internet/computing itself (im not talking about silly set top boxes btw), they're utterly fucked. Content providers don't need them and their revenue decreases substantially with people just canceling cable.

ps- if this type of vision/stuff interests you on a personal/professional/hobbyist level please please please email me: j@jasonlbaptiste.com. I'd love to shoot the shit, im very passionate about this topic.
once you dont have all the nice smalltalk tools which gnu smalltalk is still lacking a number of right now, you basically have something that is rather like ruby without anywhere near as many libraries.
I wish Hyde (the python equiv) had this much support/momentum.

http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde