skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marx was a tool for change in China mostly only in name. And that was limited more than Western minds have been taught. Chinese were and are good at reading between the lines of propaganda. I agree Marx was not correct in his economic theories and he certainly crossed the line in advocating violence as opposed to simply predicting it most likely. He's certainly no hero.

However, anyone committing violence or supporting the status quo which directly or indirectly suppresses is the actor that deserves most blame. Blaming a person that lived on another continent and I'm guessing did not speak Chinese (maybe I'm wrong?) is really a stretch.
The post suggests more, though doesn't illustrate it all (because I couldn't think of a simple way to do so). The key is that x and y can be statistically related yet still have zero correlation (because that is just one specific measure of relatedness). Interpretations of causation are not data driven. They come from theory.

The role of confounded factors came up in the examples because that is just an easy way to illustrate the points.
I covered another Glassdoor's list a few weeks back. Their methodology is based on averaging anonymous user-submitted reviews and scores. It's as scientific as zoning a district through Yelp.
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Pharo is still maturing, but I've encountered the occasional exception.
I saw the special barcode for the cuecat in the wikipedia article but I don't remember it being restricted to only those types of barcodes. I'm pretty sure it worked for any barcode. It also says they were trying to avoid patent infringement. I suppose that patent has expired (cuecat was 10years ago! wow), but now that redlaser is worth //evil-voice One Million Dollars!, they may have to pay the piper.
So again - you think it's economical to invest 2k into a device that lets me save 40 cents on Ketchup?
For one, this was Pharo Smalltalk; a fork of Squeak that's still in beta. For another if I was shipping an application to a customer I probably wouldn't ship it with the workspace, or any of the development tools really. I would also consider buying a license for a commercial Smalltalk if that was the case.
Of course! Sorry for all the renders; they look nice, but it's good to see the real thing.

Here are some of the cases coming off the line now: http://u.phoreo.com/pa.JPG

And here is a hand shot (the original art was a bit messy; the printing is correct): http://u.phoreo.com/en.JPG
Some good points, but a whole lot of outright bullshit as well.

San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle

Oh really? Maybe you should take a look at the healthy San Francisco program, which basically arranges medical insurance for the indigent. That works. I like to grumble about Muni, the public transit system, but the fact is that it covers the entire city, is (mostly) available around the clock, and every vehicle is GPS tracked so you can find out when the next one is coming. I've called in problems on a bus by phone before and had an inspector board the bus a few stops later to resolve the issue.

Although many of the criticisms in the article are individually valid, many of them are divorced from context, eg not considering the facts of state politics. There are a bunch of things that need reforming in San Francisco, but this article is hit piece rather than serious journalism.

There are two free weekly newspapers in San Francisco. For years the Bay Guardian has been the standard bearer for grumpy hippy activism (and by 'grumpy' I mean an interest in basic fiscal rectitude). The SF Weekly, by contrast, has done much better out of promoting entertainment and lifestyle with some human-interest stories sprinkled in as news; indeed, for several years they've had a policies of not even offering endorsements at election time or putting any resources into election coverage. Now both papers have seen a calamitous drop in advertising, both classified and display, and have shrunk from tabloid to magazine size. And the SF weekly is desperately churning out what it regards as hard-hitting journalism in a bid to stay relevant, after years of coverage that amounted to little more than 'LOL politics'.
"a gurgling software slurry of incompatibility, user experience inconsistency and general frustration."

Like that wasn't utterly predictable. And here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996783 - someone was arguing that the iPhone changing minimally between versions is a bad thing.
I am not sure if it is backwards, but maybe resetting. I think China is one of those unfortunate countries that is trying to find themselves after the world norms have been already developed. It seems that a lot of their issues are getting noticed now, but many developed countries did the same thing, just under less notice.
> It's also not in their Plurk's interest to go legal as it will be a distraction from building software.

I think it's your last point that's the most important one here. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, lawsuits are a massive, massive distraction. The startup landscape is littered with the carcasses of startups that got distracted by things other than building and selling their core product, and who thus ran out of cash before achieving any kind of revenue stability. Distractions like this can easily be the death of a startup, and they should be avoided wherever possible. Even if you win the lawsuit, by the time it's all over you'll be far behind where you should be in terms of product development, which will probably more than offset any net win in terms of a legal settlement.
> ...generally fostered violence and hostility between groups of people that do the best when they work together to create the best world together.

You seem to forget that the nineteenth century was extremely harsh (sorry, I lack a better word) for the working class. There were no regulations on anything - for instance, before a regulation law was passed (around 1860 iirc), flour , could contain things like sweat, cobwebs, and other tasty things.

It is also a well known fact that the industrial revolution had an effect on the workers - the average worker lost 20 to 30 cm of height : http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html

Speaking from the 21st century, it seems easy to dismiss Marx as irrelevant. He wasn't. He just shows from how far we come from.

Besides, saying Marx brought the khmers rouges is like saying Nietzsche brought the nazis.

(sorry for the faults, by the way, english is not my mother tongue)
Not everyone's brain works the same way. For you (and me, for that matter) understanding the meaning of the abstractions first helps you learn the "less important" specifics of operations on them and how to apply them to new areas.

But for many, having a well-practiced ability to do operations on matrices and vectors first (even if it's just a bunch of magic formuas) allows them to learn the more basic facts via experimentation, because they don't get "stuck" right at the beginning. My experience is that there are more of these people than there are of us.

Basically, teaching is hard. Don't take the fact that you dislike a particular method for a proof that it's flawed.
Looks like you're spot on, good call. I'd misunderstood the other comment, as you only have to tap the top of the screen once to scroll to the top. I wonder if they could just capture and prevent onscroll?

PKUtils.disableScrolling = function (a) {
a.stopPropagation();
window.addEventListener("touchmove", PKUtils.preventEventDefault, true);
window.addEventListener("touchend", PKUtils.restoreScrollingBehavior, true);
window.addEventListener("touchcancel", PKUtils.restoreScrollingBehavior, true)
};
Research conducted by Dr Peter Lovatt from the University's School of Psychology on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme's website...

Um, is this survey technique even within hailing distance of pseudoscience? How do we know this guy isn't sampling the biases of the user population that stumbled across certain links on Twitter or Facebook?
And if a tree falls in the forest, will anyone hear it? As has been said the goal is destroy the earth. Not to leave no witnesses to confirm if the deed has been done.
Stop making this such a big deal, its like every little thing on the internet has to be bracken down into some philosophical principal that was violated.

This is the best thing that could have happen to Plurk. Microsoft could just buy the whole darn thing, which they probably would have anyways.

Bad rep for Microsoft???? I already thought Microsoft's rep was in the dumps seeing as how every internet site trashes them.

Principal? Like this thing doesnt happen all the time, or like how big companies havent already bought up every little company that stood in it's way? At lease Plurk can get more money with all the PR, if they ever sell.
Taxes don't work quite the same as the U.S. Taxes in China for the most part are pay as you go. Payroll taxes work pretty much the same as U.S. but there is no 1040 to file each year.

As to the bullet billing, I do know a bit about that. Its something they still do and is mostly to make a social point. I have no idea if anyone actually pays and doubt there is punishment for not doing so. But no, its not tax deductible as your income was already taxed when you received your income.
Confidence intervals are based on both the sample size and the standard deviation. Given the 100 mile radius of 3 out of 4, you can have some confidence that this is not random. It is quite likely to change with new samples, but it is not meaningless.
now if only java had a package manager (not maven) - something like "gem" for jar files.

That would be golden.
I've tried using Chrome as my default browser on Mac many times, but always end up going back to Safari. Chrome just isn't ready yet.

It has no bookmark manager, so when you have more bookmarks than space on the toolbar, there is literally no way to move them around short of deleting enough so that they all fit on the toolbar then moving them around. I ran into this when I wanted to add a new one to my toolbar and it was not possible. There is no way to rearrange them in the menu.

The scrolling in Chrome annoys me by being all herky jerky.

Lack of bookmark synching in Chrome is annoying. I have a desktop at work and a laptop for home use and it's so nice having my bookmarks sync up with Safari without any intervention.

Chrome on Mac is the first browser I've used where if I scroll down a page, go to a link on that page, then hit my back button it doesn't go back to where I was before. I have to scroll down the page again manually.

I'm a 1Password user and they do not have a version of their plugin that works for Chrome.

Chrome also does not make use of the standard OS X Keychain. So I have to put all of my passwords in again manually. Huge pain.

Some of these things can supposedly be remedied by using the latest version of Chromium which has extensions enabled and installing random extensions, but that is a workaround for a browser that's not ready yet.

Until it is possible to rearrange my bookmarks, sync them, use 1Password, scroll smoothly, and not have to scroll every time I hit the back button, I'll stick with Safari. Chrome has great potential, but is still not to the point where it can serve as a valid replacement for me. When I'm using Windows, it's my default for sure, but on Mac Chrome isn't ready yet.
One of the more interesting aspects of the site was image processing. Since the print process requires high-res images, we have to deal with fairly large images (anywhere from 5-20mb). Using image caching from Interface and a custom nginx module, we sped up image resizing and caching considerably for this site.
Well, Turkmenistan is black box when looked from outside, I wouldn't jump to conclusions based on couple minutes of Google search :-)

Our government is paranoid about money leaving the country. And I think, rightly so.

We spend quite a lot inside on infrastructure, build some shiny new schools/hospitals/residence buildings, invest on some factories, etc. It may not be "wisest" way possible, but I wouldn't call that stupid either. At least, better than distributing the wealth among "family" like in Russia 90s.

My original point was "No, you can't make millions by getting on radar here in Turkmenistan. It is not as easy as you think."
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That would make the most sense. He probably does more presentations in the area, and I bet people are more likely to donate money to someone that they have met.
Sonian has its HQ on the east coast, but a majority of its hackers live elsewhere.
Orbited functions as a proxy which lets you use a raw socket on your server end to communicate through the black-box Orbited in the middle to a JavaScript API that looks roughly like the WebSocket API. So as far as you as a developer are concerned, the code you have to write is about the same as if you were using WebSocket directly.
Carlin's specific bit was about marketing, but the meme took on a life of its own as a simple refutation of environmentalism.

How many times have you heard some chuckle over "save the planet" and then open an honest debate about an environmental policy? At least in my experience, when someone points "the earth will be fine", it's typically followed with a simple example of some natural phenomena that exerts more one-time ecological stress than a given societal issue and then they're done. They're using that idea to argue their position.
If you know what version of a library you want to build against and you know the path to it you can link against it. The compilation and linking is no longer automatic because you have to specify your dependent library specifically, but you can put it anywhere you want and it won't conflict with a different version of the same name.

But that's my point: we should be able to get automatic linking. Different versions of the same library already don't conflict because the file names are different:

libncurses.so.4.0.1
libncurses.so.5.1.1

When you build your application, reference the .pc file for the library version you want. If the application does not support pkgconfig you could write a wrapper that parses it and provides the build/link options you desire.

True, I see what you're saying. It always seemed to me that custom pkconfigs for this case, that generate full paths to the libraries instead of -llibrary options, is a bandaid on not having automatic linking against a specific version.
I don't find your function-composition slant motivating, though it is interesting. My linalg is self-taught, and I'd never seen / thought about the differences between the row picture and column picture.

These can be really useful when doing linalg by hand if you're e.g. trying to massage a system into a form that you can solve / code. It's useful to see that "oh, I don't have to multiply these out, I can just regroup them in this way because of the col or row picture."

Here's my motivation for LinAlg: implementing physical simulation / graphics papers on the computer. Strang's sytle is a very good fit for that.

I'm interested in a more abstract style for AI / knowledge rep issues, but it's not the first motivation.

Er ... I should add that in Ontario / Canada we did matrix multiplication in high school, so the university "first course" wasn't really a first course. Not sure about now, though.
Do you prefer a single page resume or multi-page? If multi, then how many pages of resume you think is good enough to sell you?

Single page. If I absolutely, positively have more to say, I occasionally attach a one page Appendix, "Sample of Project Particulars," which includes 5 or 6 quick stories about major projects I completed that are relevant to the company and position I'm submitting to.

Do you elaborate on your work experience (like, job description, responsibilities, etc.) or you want to keep it short?

Yes, but I wouldn't say "elaborate". More like "itemize". Forget about things like "experience", "job description", or "responsibilities". Focus on one thing only: results. What I did, who it was for, why they needed it, and what they accomplished with it. "Built an AJAX e-commerce site that enabled a $10 million catalog distributor to double sales in 6 months." Show that I understand the forest in which I'm planting trees. Short, sweet, and to the point. If it catches their attention, they'll ask you more about it. If it doesn't, then you probably don't want to work for them, anyway.

Do you have more than one resume, like a master one with all details and one page resume targeted to a particular position?

Just a custom one pager specially made for each company. I show them the same level of special attention that I expect in return.

In what order you present information in the resume: Objective, Experience, Skills, Education, Summary?

1. Very short summary (with embedded skills) that pretty much says it all, "AJAX programmer, expert level in e-commerce, 100 projects completed, ready for next long term challenge in Big City, USA."

2. Applicable accomplishments in reverse chronological sequence. (Emphasis on "accomplishments".)

3. Degrees.

Do you really think the resume layout matters more than the content itself?

No.

Which font do you use for your resume? Arial? Verdana? Webdings?

Who cares.

Do you prefer to maintain an online version of your resume?

No. I'll contact them. I don't want anyone contacting me.
The linked test wasn't "google's", it was independent. And you do realize that that cnet link you posted, while it might look a little anomalous for the safari numbers, shows a huge win for chrome?

Really, there isn't any meaningful debate that V8 is the current king of the hill in Javascript performance, by a pretty large margin. Your statement that Safari's engine runs faster than Chrome's isn't supported by any evidence of which I am aware.
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Dang... I wish I had seen this two weeks ago. I would love to have purchased something as a Christmas gift for my wife. It's cutting it a bit too close at this point, though.
I need to read that for the title alone.
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 seaside because there are less things to understand at the same time.
no it won't. If you want to operated a server in China, you need a Chinese company to do it. If you operate your server outside China, the bandwidth will be so bad you won't be able to retain many users and you might get blocked. For the most part local Chinese have an advantage over foreign companies trying to operate an Internet business within China.

This move by China's gov to only allow companies to register a domain is most certainly just something to ease the trouble of overseeing site ownership and regulation. You may not agree with the regulations, but they aren't draconian (yet).
Either way, it's a win for WebKit.
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Safari still "works" better on the Mac than the Chrome dev builds. Little things, like where you save a file work better in Safari.

Plus Safari is very close to Chrome's performance on a Mac, at least insomuch that anyone wouldn't notice.
I don't know why everyone is downvoting this, it's true as of 12/9/09. On SunSpider, Safari edges out Chrome by about 12%.

source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142004/Safari_edges_...

Now of course on Windows there is no contest, Chrome is faster, but on Mac Safari is slightly faster.
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Title says it all.
Understood. No disagreement there. :-) I actually assumed you were something of a "patriot"; people here expect me to avenge insults to Russia with blood all the time for some reason.

And certainly, a policy to contain the kind of international laundering^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcapital flight that characterised Russia in the 90s is wiser than the absence of one.
(disclaimer: former intern this past summer)

That is not at all how management views it. They are not at all emphasizing revenue; they are engineering-driven, not business-driven, and their engineers are driving the company, not just the management.
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The JavaScript VM will have a significant amount of state associated with it. Executing a virtual instruction will require accessing that state. If that data is not in the CPU's cache, it will cause cache misses, which stall code progression.

If you then use that data in the cache for a while, then the cost of the cache miss will be amortized. But what you're proposing is going back and forth quickly between the JavaScript VM and the rest of the browser code. The browser code will also need to bring its data into the cache, which will kick out the JavaScript VM's data.

Since you're proposing that the JavaScript VM should do a very small amount of work at each time, and it will likely need to bring all of its data back into the cache each time, you will see a lot of CPU stalls.
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Detroit's been great since OCP took over. Didn't you see that documentary?
Here are a few of mine to start off:

"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."
-- Robert H. Schuller

"If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough"
-- Mario Andretti

"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
-- Steve Jobs
I agree with you that it should be possible to avoid much of the complexity of Java EE if you just use the JVM.

But one motivation for using a JVM based language in the first place is that so many libraries are available on that platform. Unfortunately, many of them suffer from excessive complexity and some of that complexity is due to the JCP.
Is there a way to gift these? I'd buy two right now if so. Also, when is the touch version going to be available?
The latest version of RedLaser is much more impressive than what the Android guys were able to execute. It's able to identify barcodes before I stabilize my hand over the image, upside down, or sideways, almost as if I were swiping it. The vibration feedback and rest of the interface are a great UX touch. The app was brilliantly executed - both in UX and in hardcore vision algorithms. This wasn't an easy task - they deserve every penny of that $1m.
I think you're conflating "can't" and "won't". They have not been focused on driving revenue up; if this were a company goal they could have done a lot more sales. They acquire sales of advertisements in different ways, and if they really wanted more money, they could have pumped cash into expanding their sales force to do a lot of heavy lifting. However, their eye is on making that sort of sales unnecessary through producing an ads platform that people can go to directly instead.
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"The scrolling in Chrome annoys me by being all herky jerky."

Call me shallow, but that's the biggest blocker for me.
Yes, that's why I use their (slightly overpriced) services.

It couldn't possibly be the features, reliability, ease of us, awesome documentation and almost instant availability.
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i love this guy's scifi, too.

http://qntm.org/?fiction

i first found the ed stories through scifi.reddit.com