skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to the Ruby one, of course. Semantic tree > string mangling.

I'm not a Java hater (I just think it's a horrible language to start in), but I'll make the counter-point that the Java approach is significantly larger and less readable than either of the others. There's likely a significantly simpler implementation somewhere deep in Java's frameworks, but ouch.
You're definitely correct that we are progressing as societies. We observe new rights and freedoms along with rates of death and murder lower than ever in history.

However, it's almost guaranteed that you do descend from conquerors, warlords, or murders. This probability says nothing about what you should do or whether you should learn from the past. It only states that in the past few thousand years shit has been pretty bad, and humans adapted to it.
No. What's done is done and the perpetrators of this genocide are dead.

However we should acknowledge the history, the lies our ancestors placated themselves with and the parallels in the lies we tell ourselves today. An example would be the premise that we are "more" civilised than other people or are in some way better.

As a westerner and an Englishman considering my history I also find it very difficult to get onto a high-horse about much. As an example in the UK there are many that complain about levels of immigration but if you look into the history of the British Empire it is very apt to have a lot of immigration here.

What's even more interesting is that we are still standing on the backs of the third-world. Sure, we've dimmed it down a little bit and abstracted it beautifully but spare a thought for the chap who made your IPhone or VCR and the number of hours they worked. Acknowledge that our life-styles cause a degree of suffering elsewhere in the world.
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How so? His political decisions and policy were based on his conviction that the federal government should have as little role as possible and that social, financial, corporate and labour regulations should be implemented at the state level. We may argue about the wisdom of this view and the role it may or may not have had in creating the Great Depression, but I don't see how it conflicts with his personal views on talent and perseverance.
Earth life in general but humans in particular seems to represent an unusual amount of concentrated order. I have no idea if life is common but it's surely interesting.
Here are some other links: http://wiki.github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/demos
I wonder how many concurrent connections FF/linux opens as opposed to FF/OSX. IE: your architecture may present more strain on the server and contribute to the higher rate of timeouts you encounter.

It's only an uninvestigated theory of mine.
I'm sure all of this will make it's way into the sequel(s)...
Sadly enough that page consistently causes the "Aw snap" failure to load on Chrome right now. (Mac 4.0.288.1 dev build)

Great book, however.
Makes sense though dark matter (if it exists) would then make black holes a lot less significant in this measure right?
I think the main culprit hurting the readability is the inner classes. Which is bad form, in my opinion, unless someone is being very lazy.
The third-world isn't some laggard full of overbreeding simpletons. It was created in the 18th & 19th century by well armed invaders helped at the end of the 19th C by drought & flood that killed 50m people in India & China and 50m in S. America.

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

Indian & Chinese civilisation was crushed by armies & opium.
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That's pretty much accurate. Lie detection methods almost all base around detecting stress, and large amounts of stress (like being on TV for the first time) tend to throw them way off. In order to really have a baseline to compare lies against, you need to have a baseline. If they're not stable enough to do that, the science of it gets lost, and it's basically up to totally subjective methods.
What if the top .1% (however defined) of poor countries wouldn't have had the opportunity to exercise their talents at home? How many famous scientists would be subsistence farmers if the GDP of their country was lower?

I would guess that India gains by having rich Indians living abroad. They increase the wealth of their families still living in India, they sometimes move back to India or start businesses there. If they didn't have the opportunity to move abroad and get rich, India probably wouldn't be as wealthy.
I think our moral viewpoint has changed over time !

When we were in tribes killing animals, that was deemed necessary at that point of time, because of all the benefits of animal food and the shelter provided by the animal skin.

Then we moved into killing other humans, to gain control of their resources, because it was either them or us. I think it was correct from their viewpoint what they did.

It's unfair to judge them using our morality, maybe our descendants will judge us in the future for wasting our natural resources, who knows ?!
@callmeed, Yes that is almost correct...they allow you to run FBJS on load.

@poundy, A mouseover will not work to run JS, I have tried.

I have been playing around with FBML,FBJS for the past few weeks...Say you wanted to load a external page(or for your case your recent image galleries) in a iframe, you will have to do something like this...

<a onClick="iframe_wrapper.setInnerFBML(the_iframe);" style="cursor: pointer;">
Click here to view your image gallery</a>

<div id="iframe_wrapper">
<fb:iframe width="560" height="560" src="hxxp://mywebsite.com></div>

<fb:js-string var="the_iframe"><fb:iframe width="560" height="560" src="hxxp://mywebsite.com></fb:js-string>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> var iframe_wrapper = document.getElementById('iframe_wrapper'); </script>
-->

Really not a big deal for the users to have to click, but after reading thru there wiki I think using an iframe on a static fbml tab is frowned upon (I may be wrong?)..But anyway,I managed to do some pretty cool stuff with FBML+FBJS that I haven't seen done yet...If anyone wants to chat about this topic,leave your aim/skype/gtalk..=]
Tell HN: Guess what Baidu and Yahoo China have already censored?
Step #1: Visit www.baidu.com or cn.yahoo.com.

Step #2: Search for Google or blogspot.com. Note that both work.

Step #3: Now search for google.blogspot.com.

Step #4: Enjoy your Baidu lockout. You should be able to search again in 5-10 minutes, I haven't timed the duration exactly.

Source: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1508260&cid=30746302
I had forgotten about these relationships...

You are right, one gram is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water at 4ºC (a little away from 0ºC so you don´t solidify by mistake).

I heard that imperial units used to change a lot, that the patron was the current king at the throne. Do you know if this is true?
Because a user is going to get the same experience already with the latest Flash player, in any browser. In JavaScript, there are numerous differences, ranging from the subtle to the not-so-subtle (do they even have canvas?) "Standards" aren't worth anything if they aren't, you know, standard.
It would have almost no effect. Unless the Americas were completely isolated from Eurasia, everyone would have died anyway. The Americas were not conquered by force of arms, but by disease. A common pattern: send an expedition, which discovers cities, towns and gardens. Send another expedition years later: find nothing. I highly recommend the book 1491, which is a great historical account.

There was absolutely nothing (short of complete isolation until the development of modern medicine) which would have prevented the Indians from dying out. Even if the Europeans did nothing but bring candy, puppydogs and fireworks in trade for furs, the puppydogs would have carried diseases deadly to American Indians.
Haven't read it but given the context of your question should be interesting. Thanks for the pointer.
I made it about halfway this through before bailing. Yet another "western civilization is so bad" articles. Ho hum.

The problem here is, as mattmaroon put it, if you buy into this logic we'd all still be chasing down antelopes on the savannah. At some point some civilizations, for whatever reason, start developing things like private property, the wheel, common law, reading, the printing press, etc.

It's become fashionable to say something like "well, that doesn't make them any better than other civilizations" but I think that's soft-headed horseshit. Anybody who lives in a civilization with private property, contract law, medicine, literature and art is living in a better place, and in a better way, that somebody who doesn't have it. Some cultures are demonstrably better than others, like it or not.

The interesting question, especially with alien stories, is "How do two wildly diverse cultures interact in a way that is respectful of both?"

I've thought about this for some time, and using all the earthly examples I can come up with, the fact is they don't. If we ever meet another primitive species and interact with them? It's going to be very traumatic on the part of the other species. Likewise, if Cebulons from the Osari System arrive next week with technology five thousand years ahead of ours? You can say goodbye to a lot of what people think of when they talk about human culture.

And I guess I'm okay with that. If the Cebulons show up, I'm going to be first in line learning to speak Cebulonese, watching all the Cebulonese TV shows, and taking my kids to Cebulonese high schools. We will learn, adapt, and overcome, and the human species will continue. To me that's a lot more rational that sitting around moaning about how things might have/would have been had things not changed. I just hope the Cebulons come to trade and exploit our resources in a manner respectful of private property, so we can go to their system and do the same one day :)

I really did not like Avatar. Gorgeous, magnificent movie. Terrible hackneyed, one-dimensional plot. Ugh. I think a quote from Cameron's other movie is most apt: I vote we nuke it from orbit. It's the only way we can really be sure.
"The United Nations .... pays no taxes"

Yes, but it also lets the US slide on all the money it's been owed for years.

"The place is a sinkhole dominated by anti-American, anti-Semitic and authoritarian fantasies. "

Oh please. If you're going to say that, you need specific allegations. Filing a motion condemning torture that Israel refuses to sign does not constitute anti semitism.

Anyway, this isn't Reddit, so let's flag & move on.
While there's no magic wand for the past, you can affect the future. We're in the midst of a great extinction event, combined with anthropogenic climate change, various unsustainable practices. A lot of life--human, nonhuman--is going to die, badly, and for a long time, if people waste their time on junk like Avatar instead of dealing with this mess.
But not useful SWF files on the iPhone. This doesn't magically give you anything you didn't already have in javascript.
I thought about that and assumed it was a plot hole in the movie. A neutron bomb seemed like such an obvious solution.

The scriptment fills in some of the gaps though. First, corporations are banned from using weapons of mass destruction in space. Second, the planetary consciousness convinces the humans to leave and not return by threatening them with a virus that will kill all of them.
The third-world isn't some laggard full of overbreeding simpletons.

Any concrete reason for that belief? It looks like the "overbreeding" is objectively true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rate . As far as simpletons go, you tell me: is there any intelligence test you know of that routinely ranks people in Djibouti over people in Japan? If not, it sounds like your statement is unfounded.

The rest of your interpretation is also suspect. The places Victorians conquered weren't more advanced than the places the Victorians came from. Regardless of the reason, Europe was more technologically advanced than the rest of the world, and they used that advantage to conquer as much of the world as they could.

When you complain about how the Victorians ran things, you have to compare it to something. If you compare, e.g., the Congo in 1955 (http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,866343,00.html ) to the Congo in 2008 (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713275,00.htm... ) you get the idea. You might not like how imperialists run things--but they run things well because they run them for profit. You can also consider Singapore (which is basically Victorian, and basically paradise on earth for law-abiding people).
True, but then there are situations like Rails, where 37 Signals could have built their apps using existing tech, but said 'there should be a better way'. I mean, if you told someone "I'm building this project management app, and I'm going to take an esoteric language no one knows, and write an app framework from scratch" they'd rightly tell you you're crazy.

Most endeavours that start like that end up as failures, however without these attempts tech would stagnate.
There's got to be something more here. Redirects through seven partners - most likely paying on net 30 terms and taking a cut of the revenue themselves for brokering - would reduce the money torrent to a long-delayed trickle. Perhaps the intermediary partners are placing cookies for targeting purposes and therefore adding a bit to the revenue stream?

I'm also surprised that clicks are being generated from Google, of all places. Faking the click from an affiliate of a comparison shopping site would be much more lucrative (higher PPC due to higher purchase intent) and much less likely to result in aggressive countermeasures (comparison shopping sites aren't Google.)
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Its a fair point, but there is something to be said for looking at what the PRC wants. In particular, they want/need western business. If google can show the Chinese government that their practices will prevent western business, then the confrontation can be useful.

Its not to say that a direct confrontation is the right move, but there is a balance point between direct accusation and giving the PRC a face saving way to make a small change.

The real question (in my mind) is: is google at the right balance point.
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Note that this causes some mail readers (like Google's gmail notification program) to stop working. It's possible that this has been fixed since I last tried it or there is a workaround, but just thought I'd mention it.
And even if the management (all the way up to the Executive Director) can see through the fog of their daily firefighting to see the potential of expanded an IT budget to make the overall mission more effective & efficient they often can't shake money loose to do so because their donors insist that their dollars go toward costs directly associated with serving the bottom-line mission of the organization (e.g., to pay for meals served at a soup kitchen); not for organizational "overhead."

Grants exist for tech-oriented projects, but it's very difficult to be adaptive & iterative because the grant life-cycle is measured in years. Not very "agile." Apply for a grant to make an improvement X using technology Y this year. Next year, receive the grant but realize that improving X is no longer relevant or technology Y is no longer optimal and you risk your grant funding by changing course or stay your course and achieve a non-optimal (or irrelevant) goal. Extremely frustrating.

Incentives in the non-profit world (especially for charities & social services) are really skewed because the people paying for the services are not the same people receiving the services, and the demand for services is essentially unlimited.
Could have been from some of the plant life. There certainly seemed to be an abundance of native flora and fauna that took sufficiently different forms from the standard leafy greens that it isn't implausible that the "feathers" were really plant-based.

Then again, it's a made up world in a sci-fi movie; there is a long list of things that wouldn't be "implausible."
Compared to javascript though? (that's the point after all). I definitely prefer javascript to as3.
This happened to Charles Petzold! A living programming god. Time for the flaming torches and pitchforks if you live anywhere near Atlanta.
Awesome. It looks like a mod here changed the title for HN. The original article has a misleading title reading "China: Google attack part of widespread spying effort".
I don't think I'd call Google's announcement either 'tight-lipped' or 'cautious'. It was unprecedented.
There appears to be support for video in there, audio is a different issue. http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/blob/master/src/Movie.j...
Would you be OK with that if the Cebulons wiped out 90% of the human population? Because that's at least the scale of the genocide we're talking about.
That would be great - imagine if everyone worked like that. How would anyone ever collect on their loans? I owe you $50? Well, you hit my cousin the other day...
It depends entire on what the universe programmers are interested in. If they programmed the universe to study black holes and high energy physics, then we are most certainly unnoticeable noise.

On the other hand, if they were interested in studying intelligent life, we're probably in a nicely organized database along with millions (perhaps billions) of similar forms of life.
By saying that it's not working, you assume that a raw domain.com is "broken" if it doesn't resolve to an address which is presumably the same as www.domain.com, which is pretty much baseless. There's no technical reason for a bare domain to resolve to anything, it's just a popular convention to make it redirect to www.domain.com because most people who type that into a browser expect your web site to come up.

Why not just add a CNAME for convenience? Who knows. They may have an internal technical reason, or it may just be a case of "don't do something unnecessary just because it's easy". For what it's worth, government agencies have a pretty good variety - army.mil and navy.mil both have the same behavior as nasa.gov, whitehouse.gov and justice.gov both have redirects to the "canonical" www url and house.gov and senate.gov both serve the same content as their www versions without a redirect either way.

Regardless of their particular reason, I see no cause to assume that it's due to laziness, funding level or how "high-tech" they are. It's just a convention that they don't use, but you expect.
The salient point here is the email have to already be in the spam box. If Gmail already thinks it's spam AND it contains any of the keywords, then it gets trashed.

That being said, you still have a point.
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Perhaps most things about Earth wouldn't be MOTD-worthy, but our creation of EM energies of various frequencies modulated to contain highly-compressed information probably would, as would the particles generated by the LHC that probably don't happen much without intelligent design (in the form of us.)

An interesting thought occurs to me, though: wouldn't a black hole be the perfect way for a non-omniscient being to sample the universe? Because any information you encounter will become quantum-entangled to you in some way or another, you'll want to make sure that you aren't mucking up the samples taken with your presence—and what better way is there to ensure that than to have information probes that look and act like natural phenomena, and "disconnect" the source of any data they gather from the rest of the universe before working on it? It makes UFO abductions seem mightily small-scale.
>this will just be used to run legacy Flash code

Wether flash stays dominant or not, this would still provide a way to run flash code without any proprietary plugin, and in any modern browser, so the interest is still big, from an user point of view
Google probably has been wanting out of China for some time. Like many companies it had felt pressure to be in the 'largest market of the world'. The problem is that it really isn't equipped to compete with the likes of Baidu even if the playing field was level, which it isn't. As a poster upthread noted the Chinese Internet is entertainment dominated and not information/search dominated like in the USA. Just look at Baidu and you'll see videos, music, shopping and celebrity news where Baidu makes much of their revenue. Google doesn't have this content and more importantly Google is bound by western business ethics that prohibit the violation of copyright that the Chinese content companies engage in.

Secondly, the deck is stacked. There are no real opportunities to sell to the wider Chinese Internet audience for foreign companies. The Chinese government considers information distribution and the Internet key to its rather tenuous hold on 1.5 billion people. It will not let any foreign company participate in a significant way in this area. Period. On top of this is a system of corruption that foreign companies can't possible engage in. Google indeed realizes this, that even if they could compete the rule of law doesn't protect them and their business will be given to their competitors. One needs only look at the Youtube experience in China and the rise of Tudou as a result.

Thirdly, even if Google was able to compete and the rule of law applied the market opportunity really isn't that big. Of course you may sputter about this seemingly absurd statement given your week in China, however the facts don't add up. Baidu is projecting about some $800M of revenue in 2010, assuming you trust that figure (you shouldn't trust any number coming out of China). It seems around half of Baidu's revenue is from search where Google could participate. Google has 17% of the Chinese search market in the latest figures I could see (significantly down, they're losing due to the first two points I've made above). Doing the math this equates to some potential $73M in revenue for 2010. Probably equivalent to what they get from Northern Ireland.

There is no upside for Google in China.

Adding to that depressing bottom line is the fact of the continuous attacks on the infrastructure, the probable infiltration of Google by Chinese spies (see Wikileaks for more), the demands by the Chinese government for access to Google's logs and the beating that Google's reputation is taking in its important markets it's pretty obvious that the Google exec is fed up. Leave China to the Chinese and return when there's rule of law is their likely strategy.

My background is as an Internet entrepreneur that worked on a startup in Beijing for the past couple of years, having recently returned to Canada after falling prey to many of these issues, though at a much smaller scale than Google of course.
as2 was sweet though. Object.watch and __resolve() were a lot of fun to work with.
I'd like to think modern man is a better class of humans than their murderously genocidal ancestors.

With so many of the comments seemingly endorsing manifest destiny on the part of "civilized" people, I'm beginning to reconsider this opinion.
Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures.
Quite. If the Martians are not alive now, obviously it's because they were sinners :-)