skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He can also nuke half the U.S. if he wants to, but that doesn't make it probable.

An hour of internet downtime in the U.S. would cause more economic damage than 9/11 and the grounding of all airplanes. Do it once and you lose the confidence of investors everywhere, and you will see a bank run that will drive the value of the dollar to the ground. Not to mention what it will do to domestic confidence.

Economies and national sovereignty are an illusion that must be kept by the state, through constant projection of power and stability. Shake that a tiny bit and it will ripple across the board.

[Edit:

This blog is a fringe, vanity publication that seems to cater to the extreme right. Their "articles" include a list of properties and social-security numbers of people associated with Obama, along with other wacky ideas, like using the word "homosexual" as a derogatory. Doesn't look very credible, or for that matter accountable.]
Except that when it gets shut down the "real hackers" will be able to link up to forgotten/abandoned satellite networks and still be able to communicate and plot their various schemes.

You know, like Die Hard 4.
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There's a useful page here:

http://www.python.org/download/mac/

Basically, since the OS X Python is usually a bit behind, you are recommended to get the full install package.
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And if she wins the next election, Sarah Palin can also choose to shut down the internet for 4 months.
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1) Apple will definitely file a lawsuit against this rogue developer.

2) The rogue developer will never be allowed in ANY app store EVER.

3) Lost of credibility and reputation for the developer.
http://freetestbank.com thats what happened
Languages evolve too but much more quickly. The British who came to America spoke the same dialects of course, but this changes in one generation.

We pick up the dialect of the people that we are exposed to as we learn speech, so likely back then family was more influential then now, especially if you lived in the country.

And, of course, how we speak was influenced by the native population. I grew up near the Onondaga Reservation in New York and probably speak a bit like the people who live there.
This.

The recent popularity of this topic is a bit FUDish. If it comes to the point that an administration would willingly shut down the Internet, whatever precipitated that scenario would be much worse than the Internet shutting down.
Seems to me Android is "Linux on the desktop". It's a user facing Linux-derived operating system, and seems well on track to become the most widely used OS in a few years.

Pure desktop Linux never took off, for various reasons (at least some of them non-software related at all). It doesn't matter, the desktop is no longer the main way we use an OS.
No one who has taught functional programming to students has complained of higher failure rates. University students, high school students, middle school students, disadvantaged inner-city middle school students, elementary school, pre-elementary school (what do you think Logo is?).

In America, there is also overwhelming market preference for junk food. It doesn't mean junk food is better for you.
Can't just copy photos off it unless you go through the right software.

Plug it in to a windows pc, it appears as a read only drive with your pictures / videos on it for 'just' copying off.
Well, Hardy said that mathematicians peak in their twenties or something like that (I can't find the exact quote), but there have been exceptions like Weierstrass for ex.
well, this guid says that you must sanitize user input, but at input time, you may not know where it will come out. So, the solution proposed by this guide is to escape the output. It is another layer of defense: you don't know if you have properly verified the input, but everything you will send to the output will be clean.
When your sanitizer fails against a previously-untested kind of input, such as the recent problems on YouTube. As audiodude on reddit[1] points out, all you needed was "<script><script>PAYLOAD" to break their sanitizer. I'm honestly surprised this wasn't discovered sooner, odds are someone just got lucky.

But yes. Sanitizing user input (assuming a perfect sanitizer) can assure perfect XSS protection, but at a rather severe loss of features (no images / URLs / formatting in your comments). A separate, limited DSL is often the solution for this (BBCode, Markdown, etc), but those sometimes make mistakes too, especially when they're younger.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cluc5/html_inje...
Look at photographs of people 60, 80, 100 years ago. The relative perception of obesity in the US is extremely distorted. The average male is 5 feet 9 inches (176cm) and 195 pounds (88 kilograms). That is overweight. The adults in the photo are also overweight.
>>> but "French", even in France today, is but a loose collection of mutually-comprehensible dialects.

That's simply not the case. A lot of effort has been made by the French Republic to spread the standard french language (mandatory school with class in french, even for kids speaking regional dialects). Nowadays, there are still local expressions and idioms, but the vocabulary is quite homogeneous.
The ugly truth is that kids don't study because they aren't expected to.

Let's face it as long as their kid gets that perfect GPA and is obedient enough most parents don't give a damn that they actually learn something. To my peers it's just a ritual they need to complete in order to have a good "life" whatever that is.

In fact, my teachers have scolded me for trying to derive stuff on my own. It is quite obvious to them that I should be spending time practicing to get marks instead. Who cares if I actually know that electric flux is only the field lines that penetrate the surface? As my teacher put it they'll check my mark sheet instead.

So, is it any shock that students don't study?

I know that I am learning the secrets of the universe in some ways, and what within my textbooks lie answers to questions that people have pondered over for centuries, but the truth is that no one else gives a damn. They know what a muon is because they need to know what a muon is. They can't see nature and they really don't care.

No one expects them to create things, that's left to those nuts like me (someone said this to me point-blank). What is expected of them is status, prestige and a good paycheck with a stamp that they won the rat race of life. Nothing more. Nothing less. Oh and a big house in the suburbs to show that they have arrived won't be too bad either.

In the end, this is a problem that is core to us as a society. Most kids are a mirror of how they were brought up, and only if they are taught to see things differently can the status quo change, but as anyone may tell you it takes integrity and it is just too damn hard. (no one makes the case better than Al Pacino in scent of a woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsf0XynGz8)
* I don't have windows
* Read only? lame

Having a microSD card, and being able to mount it r/w mass storage from anything, is pretty nice. It's irritating that Apple don't recognize things like that.
Get 10 people to buy pamphlets for $10,000 each, in which it is explained how to turn $10,000 into $100,000 within 1-2 years by selling pamphlets. I suggest marketing to Lisp programmers as they will be enticed by the brilliant logic of the recursion and fall right into your trap.

Also, if you do this, you owe me $10,000.
I'm pretty sure that "shutting down the internet" is something that is well beyond the reach of US administration. Because most of the important infrastructure is redundant and in most cases not operated by US government (and also often not even located in US).
Great, a blog with stories like "Yet another terrorist tie to Obama White House" excerpting prisonplanet.com. I suppose this means we're supposed to think that Obama will shut down the internet to allow William Ayers to assume power as Grand Imperator of North America, who will then kill you with a missile from a black UN helicopter before revealing his true Reptilian form and teleporting into space.
I can't speak for him but as someone that had the exact same thought, here's the problem: it's not a "delightful jab" at all. You misinterpreted it and then went on to say things in a way that could be easily taken as being a dick or an internet troll.

I have a sense of humor and will laugh at just about anything but the written word does a poor job at conveying subtleties. If you want to be interpreted as "piss-taking" and not another internet troll, you need to do better.

EDIT: How does this get down-voted? I'm simply saying he misinterpreted a comment and then was himself misinterpreted. If the point of "piss-taking" is just to have a little fun then I would think that it would follow that it be relatively clear that's what you are doing. Clearly that didn't happen on both sides here.
I went from iPhone 3G to Nexus One and it was a massive step up. From what I've seen the Nexus One is still far superior in functionality to the iPhone 4.
On the other hand, transatlantic travel was far more time-consuming, unpleasant, expensive, and difficult then than now. If you couldn't afford it outright, one-time passage was worth years of indentured servitude even if you were from a rich country. While the odd rich American aristocrat like Jefferson or Franklin could travel to France for a few years serving as a diplomat, and a group of Puritans could commission a ship to take them across for their latest religious crusade, transatlantic travel can't have been that common.
Most of the population growth was fed by immigration, and most Americans traded regularly with British merchants even after 1776.
Is there really that much of a difference between Flemish and Dutch?
The problem with Apple is that if you use an iPhone, you are a smarmy cunt; if you don't use one, your a hater and a conformist.
Finally! This was never clear to me until I got a Nexus One and realized that the contacts on the GV app (which are linked to my google apps account) are different from the contacts on the GV website (which are linked to my google account)... At least it looks like I'll now be able to transfer my GV number to the google apps account.

Now I just want to be able to access my Chrome bookmarks from the Android browser and I'll be set.
Readers of this publication may very well be preparing for the rapture by stockpiling bibles and ammunition, so it's not worth applying logic to the situation.
I'm at a loss to think of one good reason a president needs this power. Can anyone elucidate?
Speaking with "no accent" is the same like not speaking in a dialect: it means you speak the dialect which has become the "official" one.
knowing where to look up the facts seems like a perfectly fine substitute for memorizing them

I suspect that you might revise this statement if you applied the simple metacognitive strategy of thinking about this as if you were a software system: if you put all of your facts on the other side of a high-latency lookup system — as you are suggesting — you limit the size your brain's base of associative firings. The work that one does to bring facts into the brain instead of leaving them in external storage allows those concepts to be quickly brought into the short-term "working memory" system where they can take part in cognitive activities. Eschewing practice and memorization limits the rate and scope of your thoughts. Worse yet, you won't know what you're missing. (This is the basic reason that Paul Graham's Blub programmer doesn't know what he's missing.)
It might not be what you are looking for, but I like to visit this site:

http://www.shorpy.com/

It's an oldtime hi-def pic site that updates twice a day.
I understand the definition Castellano = Spanish, as it simplifies a lot of things. The danger of such definition is that it overshadows the other languages spoken in Spain. The definition British English = English proper is one thing, but British = English is another, as it obscures the fact that there are other languages spoken in Britain and, thus, is somewhat "imperialistic".

In any case, I have never met a Spanish person who said "I speak Spanish" in Castellano. I have heard Spanish people saying that in English, because most foreigners are somewhat ignorant about Spain and think that the country is all about toros y sevillanas, a monolithic, homogeneous block, culturally and linguistically, which is far from the truth.

Disclaimer: I am Portuguese.
Sort of. There are two probable ways it would happen. The first, and most likely, is that the government could order all ISPs to stop the flow of data through their pipes. Theoretically, they could also shut down some of the root nameservers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver), many of which are owned by the government. But again, this wouldn't truly shut down the Internet, it'd just stop browsers from being able to turn addresses into IP addresses. If you knew the IP of the site you were trying to visit, they couldn't stop you with that method.

Edit: also note that since DNS resolution is a redundant system, they'd have to shut down EVERY root nameserver (or at least the ones in the US) to stop resolution completely. Otherwise it'd basically just slow down, though potentially to the point where it'd become unusable.
This code is almost as old as the web itself. The debug loglevel stuff was in the original check-in in 1994, by Guido himself: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py?revis...

A simple find-replace would be enough to switch it over to python's built-in logging module.
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The only reason I don't recommend desktop Linux to people is that explaining ubuntu-restricted-extras to them is too much work. Other than that it 'just works' out of the box and anyone who is currently using Windows XP should upgrade.
Interesting story. I actually have worked for a small package delivery service between high school and college. That was a fun job.

My UPS connection is an old friend whose first job was data entry at UPS. And I see on Facebook that she still works there 29 years later. God I'm old. :-)
I strongly suspect the key connection here is insulin response. Eating slowly is probably akin to eating foods that do not cause spikes in insulin levels. What leads me to believe this is that there has been a study (sorry, don't have the link) that changing the order in which you eat certain foods as part of one meal has a similar insulin dampening effect.
While the article is correct that the iPhone was good on day one (not sure I'd say great) and Android was seriously lacking. I think it's fair to say now that Android and iPhone are running neck and neck. iPhone 4 leapfrogged Android, but note, they actually had to leapfrog Android.

The new Android devices (EVO and Samsung Galaxy in particular) are just as good, if not better in some respects than the iPhone. Froyo as an OS is better and worse than iOS4. And from what I've heard about Gingerbread,I think Android will again take a lead against the iPhone.

I think the real difference between Android and Apple is that Apple is good at finding a market and coming out with a compelling product. That's in their DNA. But what is also in their DNA is their ability to lose that market due to slow innovation after day one. The only real exception here is the iPod. And they won that battle on fashion as much as technology and UX.

If I were Apple I'd be really worried about Android. I think it's conceivable that iPhone sales could plummet in a given year. I plan on getting a Galaxy phone as my next one.
The level of virtualisation, or the way resources are shared is also rather critical.

Fully virtualised servers are not necessarily all that efficient either, especially if they're configured to do simple resource dedication among the hosted systems/processes.

Shared systems can wrap their hosted processes with very fine-grained utilisation monitoring and reallocation, as well.
todayiamme you should check out gigapedia* for Waitzkin's Art of Learning. You have to register first, but you could find it on there

*.com

Keep it on the DL.

Update: just found it :)
Here in the Veneto, the former Republic of Venice, the dialect is still very alive and well, and in many situations is more prevalent than Italian. And it really is quite different than Italian in many ways:

"She's a beautiful girl"

Italian: E` una bella ragazza.

Venetian Dialect (at least one version of it): Xe na bea tosa.

Lots of words change, and even the grammar a bit. Indeed, with many italian "dialects" it's quite likely that they evolved from Latin on their own, rather than there being some standard "Italian" that then diverged.

It's really amazing, too, how much it changes over short distances - I can't hear it myself, I don't speak it that well, but you can ride an hour by bicycle from here and people recognize that you're from over there...

Edit: another good bit of dialect would be appropriate for the comment by Mark_Book below, "xe un mona".
Immigration from lots of different countries, though I'm not sure how many immigrants standardized on English at the time. And while contact with British merchants may have been a factor in port cities where trade happened, there were a lot of farmers far away from that influence as well.
It does not follow that no government research equals no research into the imaginative.

There isn't anything preventing millionaires and billionaires from funding their own space agencies or space programs.
So what are they doing instead?
Yeah, the American English that people use in the Midwest and on TV is the correct form of English. Everyone else has an accent.
Documentation. This is often done, but there's not always as much as it there should be. There's all sorts. Reference documentation. API docs. How-to/cookbooks. Beginner tutorials. Also, all of the above can come in developer-oriented and user-oriented flavors.
The red thing on Thinkpads is called trackpoint (or clit, for simplicity). Trackballs are entirely different animals, it is a ball that you move (if you remember old ball mouses, it is basically ball mouse turned on its back, with bigger ball).

This post was brought to you by Thinkpad, with trackpoint as a sole pointing device ;).
Ten times faster? Ten times? I find that completely implausible.
I believe that I and others have mentioned objections that would include (a).

1. Take any given browser-based security check. A server that cares about security could do it, as a last step, instead without waiting for a hypothetical browser that would do the step. Worried about scripting in the body, strip script or whatever tags off as your last step. Sure, you could do it wrong but so could the browser. This wouldn't solve client security problems but that is the client's problem - it should be the clients problem. Some of the clients running in a large site are going to be compromised and the site has to deal with that separately from its own potential use as a vector for infection.

2. Take away the sites that care about security and ... you're left with the sites that don't care about security. And with these, even if you add the browser-side security, the uncaring sites would still be there and vulnerable.

Sure, this division might be a little simplistic and you could cook up an argument for script signing but it still doesn't make sense to me. Implementing security in a single reliable place, your site, seems inherently better than implementing it across multiple domains you don't control. Microsoft's signed applets were a failure back in the day as I recall. Indeed, if you need something totally secure, why not try Java applets? They've already implemented inherently secure. (Java applets were not perfectly secure but at security was in Java to begin with, so it will always be much stronger than Javascript ... but we have think why Java applets were much less sucessful than Ajax applications).
And spam. Mustn't forget spam.
Spanish from Spain sounded really ... almost guttural to me the first time I heard it. Plus they do that lisp thing - thinco instead of sssinco. I think I prefer the new-world variety.
There are deficiencies in certain grading schemes but "eliminating grades" is too radical and impractical solutions. How do you think we should evaluate the students at the end of the semester?
Note: this is not a regular expression in the technical sense. It's common to talk about "Perl-compatible regular expressions" (PCREs) or regexes to avoid confusion.

No regular expression can check for prime numbers because the language { 1^n | n is prime } is not regular. You can see this by applying the pumping lemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_langu...
Not really. You don't need to know about electromagnetism to fix a car.

But you do need to know about data structures, algorithms, computational complexity, and so on, to write software. You also have to know a lot more -- languages, frameworks, libraries, APIs, and good taste.

(I refuse to use the expression "design patterns", because all design patterns are what people with good taste naturally do without thinking. So have taste and you can skip reading about Flyweight Factory Facades.)
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Compiled from source and using it from a separate folder it's fine for me. Also added easy_install from source and used that to install a few libraries like boto, readline, ipython, etc. without a problem.
My theory-of-computation prof a few years ago was of the opinion that CS-theory people should stop making that argument, and go with the standard usage of "regular expression" being a particular syntax for writing matching statements, of which PCRE syntax is the most popular, and use "regular language" if they want the CS-theory meaning.
It actually uses PTP protocol for transferring photos.

Once upon time I was trying to get data out of iPhone, that was paired to iTunes on a harddrive that went into the big bucket in the sky. To my surprise, connecting it to the Ubuntu box allowed me to copy out all the data I cared for, without any wonky iTunes.

But I agree with you, having microSD or at least USB mass storage is much better.
Does Your Startup Have a Good Story?
I'm not a huge fan of LISP (sacrilege to this board...) and read this long after being a pro dev, so I read for general concepts and supplemented elsewhere.
Computer Engineering and Software Engineering are two completely different things. SE is "testing, version control, design patterns", but CE is electrical engineering with a few programming classes. (I was a CE major.)
I run the web site for a friend who has an antique book store here in Padova. He is not a power user kind of guy. And his friend put Ubuntu on his laptop after he got sick of getting viruses and random problems. So far, he's quite happy with it - which honestly surprised me, because I don't really push people to convert to Linux (I don't like doing desktop support). It's surprisingly good these days, though, and continues to improve.
If this story is accurate, and it probably isn't, it's a step forwards for Internet-libertarians. Under the Communications Act, the President already had the power to shut the entire Internet down indefinitely for national security reasons. The people making angry noises about stuff like this don't understand the law as it already exists.