skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It seems like there are plenty of alternatives to a vulnerable website (such as Freenet).

In that sense Assange role would be reduced to authenticating and releasing, and wouldn't have a lot of control over the publishing side of things. And that's the side which gets the most press coverage and attention (including from powerful governments).

Switching to that type of system would likely reduce his exposure to trouble... but that's probably the opposite of what he'd like.
Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant
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I really don't think it matters what langauge, as long as they can compile and run code.

Most of us probably started with BASIC interpreters, so easy and readable code is obviously not a prerequisite. What BASIC interpreters did tend to do well was allow you to write a few lines, then run it and have it do what you said.

To answer the question then - I think any non-compiled language would be fine. I think things like Python is probably the best, as you're not required to program in an OO style, or in a functional style - just write lines, and they'll work.

Once the kids are interested and know a bit about how programming, sure, then teach them proper style. The important part is getting them to realise how to formulate thoughts in a structured manner - once you've done that, forming them in a different structure doesn't seem too hard.
Six years on, Benjaman Kyle is no nearer to answering the question: who am I?
The most important thing is to help the kids stay motivated.
This happens if they have little successes.
Now is the question: What is a succes to a 10 years old? Is it number printed out in command line or is it something colorful, maybe in a web browser?
Personally I wouldn't recommend things like C, Assembler - the need month to leave the command line.
My recommendation would be HTM/CSS - for a 10 years old this like programming - and then moving Javascript (obvious for the browser) or Python (Pygame and other fun stuff).

Remember, the most important ingredient to learning something is fun. If you got you kid started and it like what it is doing, it will choose the right programming language on it's own.
Last paragraph under history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#History

And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopholes_in_Bell_test_experime...
The Least Surprised (Ruby comic by _why)
How do I apply this in my life? I want to get into shape... doesn't that already put me into the "I will" mode? How do I switch into the "Will I" mode?
Submission for leaks (usually) also involves some sort of authentication, however. And that authentication needs to be kept confidential.

The result is that there's no way around a 'trusted' provider who signs releases, and that will inherently be a personality like Assange.

Simply relying on a reddit-style submission method would lead to a worse form of reddit. Currently you can evaluate whether or not you 'trust' content submitted to reddit by looking at the site hosting it (is the content from the NYT or a random blog?). For a wikileaks-reddit, all submissions would have to be anonymous, and you'd have no idea what is a real leak or not.
Don't you think subversion (pun intended) would be a more appropriate VCS?

Perhaps they should use the SVN interface to github?
> Yes, Assange may be running wikileaks to embezzle himself $50 grand a year, OR it could be that he's gone dark and doesn't have time to update the site because he's brushing up on his waterboarding technique with Maher Arar.

You can't blame people for being suspicious. Humanity has proven time and time again that when there is a reason to suspect somebody absconded with large sums of money, they probably did. I have no opinion on the matter, but what could make a more effective cover story for vanishing than a believable 'Big Brother wanted to find me'?
That doesn't make any sense.

1. The article described specific research into creativity that does suggest that it can be taught, but you're completely ignoring the content of the article.

2. We live in a global economy now. A firm in the U.S. can design a product which is manufactured in another country. This would negatively affect U.S. manufacturing output, but would not have any impact on "creativity" as you describe it.

3. I have to disagree with pretty much every single statement you're making here. Creativity can be spontaneous -- any bored kid in a school class with a pencil and a paper will show you that. Loss of industrial knowledge does not mean there is "less and less left to be taught to people" -- that's completely uncorrelated, because industrial knowledge isn't the only form of knowledge available to a modern society. Whether or not you "buy" the "fairy tales", the interesting parts of this article do suggest that abstract creativity can be taught, and those suggestions are based on quite a lot of research -- versus your simple assertion that it's not true because it doesn't fit into your industrial-complex worldview.

And so on. You're pushing some kind of agenda and it's not even self-consistent.
If Condé Nast is unwilling in investing in reddit, what exactly DO they do?
Strictly legally speaking, sure, but marriage is much more than a legal contract in reality. The ceremony, living together, commitment etc. is most of the definition of marriage. That activity your describing has been called marriage for thousands of years, with or without legal components, and just because some people are doing it now without making it legally binding doesn't make it something fundamentally different from marriage.
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Oh, God, yes. I was working on learning sysadmin tasks in MVS, if I recall correctly, when I experienced a weird mental inversion on the freeway and saw the trucks as data structures for a short time. Pointers and all.
There's no need for a trusted singular provider. You can just implement this sort of thing as a circle of trust.

A leak could be made by anyone. But content would only be published on somerandomsite.com if it has been digitally signed by someone.

Who that someone is could be configurable. wikileaks.com would be things that are only signed by Assange, but you could spin up your own site with your own signing policies.
Seriously. Take a page from the various illegal groups out there; use torrents, use filesharing, so on and so forth. Release snapshots of the website, let other people do the hosting and hide the true source.

People have been successfully hiding behind clever distribution techniques for as long as the internet existed. You'd think Wikileaks'd be able to think of something.
http://teachingkidsprogramming.com/
No, it's centralized. Making it pretty much useless for this application.
Under $200? That’s pretty incredible. You have to pay three quarters of that to get from Munich to Berlin. That’s with a high speed train, but still — under $200, wow.
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What kind of UI fine tuning do you mean, and what is missing from Safari?
I'm curious if anyone in the anti-marriage camp has children.

I've heard the "marriage is an anachronism" argument for many years, exclusively from childless couples.

If that's true - and it may be just due to small sample size of my personal experience - then it implies confirmation bias on both sides of the debate.

Is anyone here in a committed, non-married relationship with kids?
> what is the point of living if we are not happy?

This seems like a foolish statement. There are many points of living even when unhappy. A few that come to mind:

- live and suffer in exchange for happiness later (working at a crummy job to earn money or a promotion)

- live and suffer, that others might be happy (defending people is a purpose, but I doubt it makes many happy)

- live and suffer, because it will turn around one day (hope)
What Wikileaks is? How have you managed to avoid hearing about it, and its struggles so long?

Here's a place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
au contraire, it would appear most of you are wasting time reading HN like me :)
Nah, I remember saving to buy Microsoft QuickC for Windows when I was 12 or 13. Good times, those.
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
In what language do deaf people think?
Riding a bicycle
Taste is hilariously subjective. Pepsi Max tastes, to me, how cat piss smells. That said, Diet Coke is even worse.. perhaps I'm overly sensitive to artificial sweeteners in some way.
This article's been discredited by Wikileaks on twitter:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/17646287388

Found on reddit by the way =P
From the same archive, here's a previously-unpublished Twain essay about being interviewed.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/documents/mark-twain-con...
Sounds good! The problem I have is thinking of a program to write and then actually using the write code to write the program. Can someone help me with that one please? I appreciate all the hints!
Could he possibly have agreed to sell at a low price to spite his ex-wife?
To save you time in case you think you saw this 11 days ago - you may have done so, it was here ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472217

... but there is no discussion there.
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Single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/books/10twain.html?_r=1...
Cryptome seems to dislike Wikileaks for some reason, at least that's the impression I got. Never tried to dig into it though.
only, you can choose not to get married :)
I am baffled by these new trends. I have seen websites that need scalability cache all the DB queries in memcached, but the queries didn't have any large degree of temporal locality. How is this supposed to do anything other than move the database into memory? Shouldn't the DBMS already do that by itself? The only benefit I can see is that the queries would be memoized instead of having to be run again and again, but I'm not sure that would be such a great advantage if the entire DB was loaded in memory.

Anyway, I'm just thinking aloud here, but it seems to me that in many cases you really don't want a caching layer above the DB...
If they really wanted to be an eternal pain in the ass they'd have taken a page from that Anonymous group.
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A week of live Half-Life 2 reference art can't be wrong.
HTML: http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD...
After quickly reading the info on the front page I didn't see a direct comparison with other distributed key-value stores. Could anyone point to a comparison? (sorry if I've missed it)

I think membase is analogous to redis (HD-backed memcached), but unlike redis it distributes the data across multiple physical nodes. AFAIK Redis needs the DB to fit on a single disk.
I like the fact that Twain was opinionated and sharply critical.

I also like the fact that he thought it best to wait for a hundred years to unload all of this. We can read this now and put it in context, whereas at the time it was only so many of his reactions. He had the sense to realize that not everything you can think is something you should say publicly -- at least while the folks you are talking about are still alive. He even included himself in the list of professional idiots: It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.

Not just a humorist, but a pretty smart guy. I'm looking forward to the next books in the series!
I'm not-- I'm happily married with four kids-- but here in Norway, committed, non-married relationships with kids are extremely common. In fact, a majority of children in Norway are born outside of wedlock (a fact that nobody views as a problem.)

Also worth noting is that co-habiting partners have almost all of the same rights as married partners, so legally, there's not much difference if one marries or not.
Wow that is mind-blowing. I could not possibly imagine a world without words, especially the ones in my head. It goes against every intuition I have to believe in thought that lacks language.
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That may be true, but it's not as though Wikileaks has been particularly well-managed, or done much to decrease their (by which I mean 'his') exposure. There has been a lot of what appears to be, to put it bluntly, showboating, intentional or otherwise.

I can't say whether it stems from a desire for celebrity on Assange's part, which would be totally incompatible with the mission of a site like WL, or if it's unintentional and simply the result of accidental mismanagement. But either way I don't think it bodes well for the future of the site.

That said, I don't think that Assange or Wikileaks in general are critical. If nothing else, he proved that there is material out there waiting to be released. The concept, at least in broad strokes, is still sound; it was the execution that was flawed.

I think there is an open opportunity right now for someone to step in and do right -- less politically, less bombastically, more securely and more decentralized -- what WL aimed to do.
I have tried to be a practitioner of better parenting over scared parenting.

I do not "child proof" my house, or screen toys for lead. I have never heard of this toxin you are writing about but I think it all fits into the same category. If you as a parent are actively involved in your child's life, you should never be worried that they are eating the paint off of a toy or drinking the bleach under the sink-- because you are there.

When I had my children, I wasn't ready. I was young and selfish-- I had no time for them. I did not desire to make time for them. My wife, thank the maker, was the exact opposite. She gave up everything to be mommy and eventually I came around. I discovered that my children are not a burden, and I have found less and less time for the things I used to enjoy because I now enjoy my children.

Because my wife and I are always with our girls, we can proactively coach them away from eating things they are not supposed to or chewing on things that could be harmful. It is like you said, things were likely a lot worse when we were kids. Lead was everywhere. I have been a fisherman since i was born and I cannot tell you how many sinkers I have swallowed-- maybe some day this will have profound effects on me, but not yet.
And nothing in his bio indicates any first hand experience with managing development work http://startups.typepad.com/about.html.
Everyone should start using this module for remote method invocation in node.js!
A shameless plug for my project, but hopefully you might find it useful.

I run http://pdfcrowd.com which is an online service providing html to pdf API. It lets you convert a web page to pdf quite easily - have look at examples at http://pdfcrowd.com/doc/api/
Thanks for your replies!
Also, Cryptome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome

They've been doing a very Wikileaks-ish thing since 1996, operating (sometimes just) inside the limit of U.S. law and First Amendment protection.

The "PGPBoard" referred to is actually a Yahoo Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pgpboard/), which seems stupid but is probably more resistant to international censorship than alt.anonymous.messages on Usenet. (Although if it were my butt on the line and I had a choice, I still think that Mixmaster+Usenet would be the better choice.)
I think we have to question if Onada really still thought in days, weeks or years. At least to me, it does not sound totally unbelieveable that he eventually stopped counting days and weeks and rather lived a sequence of days. A very long sequence of days, long enough to make him lose track how long it was.

At least to me, this is kind of plausible, because he had no more reference in his days. You know: Hey, every seven days there is this special day where I cannot go shopping if I need something. This coincides with a week going by, and thus, you have a fairly "natural" notion of a week. For him, I guess, a day consisted of getting up, checking his surroundings, gathering intelligence, staying hidden, maintaining his weapons and eventually hiding and going to sleep again. Day after day after day.
There are some awesome videos as well, at _why's Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/whytheluckystiff
Totaly agree with first and third one.
Second one should not be a rule.
The girl who fixed the umlaut
it seems that this was published originally in 2005 - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
One of the reasons really like and recommend the Antipatterns book (http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch...) and approach is that it starts with the identification of a bad pattern (this author's complaints are at a higher level, though) and ends with recommendations on how to re-mediate it.

As you indicate, based on this article it's hard to see Mr. Rainey providing constructive help, and for that matter I wonder what he's trying to accomplish with this screed. I suppose that's consistent with it, the major takeaway is "don't get involved with this person or his firm!"
I may have missed a joke here, but even mathematics is based on belief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
Where do the magic numbers (p, b1-b5) come from? Are these empirically found using curve fitting?

Also, wouldn't it be better to write things like

(+ (- (* (exp (* (- r) t)) strike) s) call)))

in a more schemer-friendly way as

(+ call (- s) (* strike (exp (- (* r t)))))

to avoid parenthesis syndrome?

(I was probably wrong to expect self-explanatory code, e.g. with docstrings, but IMO the readability could be improved)
Whose Idea Was the Dry-Cleaning Bag Anyway?
Good NYTimes story about someone who "stole" the idea of a dry-cleaning bag from another person.

Did he steal the idea? Does it matter? Interesting to see the "idea doesn't matter" meme in other areas besides tech.
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I am getting a sign-up page. It is freely available somewhere else?
I sometimes check some tech news sites like wired.com or arstechnica.com, out of bore. I usually use HN and reddit as meta-aggregator; I recently started using RSS again (liferea).
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"Google, Times of London, New York Times Consider Paid Content Plans"

Google, Times of London, New York Times is not, however hard it is to snap out of that belief, the internet.

Another point totally oblivion to many authors of such articles is that the internet is a WORLD WIDE web. For many europeans for instance "internet" is still "free internet". Content is free. News is free. Information is free.

Personally I wouldn't say it's free per se though. Rather "publicly available". Still, in practice it's the same effect for the end user.

Headline should read;

"The end of Big Corporations providing free access to their content on the internet"
I find that premise ("lack of industry") difficult or impossible to believe. The real (inflation adjusted value) manufacturing output of the US is doing just fine, it's manufacturing employment that's taken it on the chin. The US is still doing a lot of the higher value stuff, including R&D which employs scientists.

A big problem with industrial employment of scientists is that the deliberate stuffing of the pipeline (e.g. by the NSF starting in the '80s) to keep the price of science labor low also lowers the income of industry scientists. Basic supply and demand.
But if you get the consept validated it's great. You only have to focus on execusion. If you're focusing on execusion without a valid reason, you're wasting time.

Those landing pages are time savers.
Brilliant.

My fav:

"Even when the house is totally clean, I have the kids go through the motions of vacuuming and rinsing -- we call it UNIT TESTING"
Here's a good list: http://empoweryou.com/zen_area_res_3.shtml

also check out all the other resources there.. especially the list on networking.
I've also often wondered if the language one thinks in has any effect on cognition or the "efficiency" of thought (if that even makes sense).
Scratch[1], because its very easy, provides immediate feedback, is fun, educational and at the end of it they will understand fundamental programming concepts like variables, conditional statements and loops. Its also a visual language, so it will be immediately more appealing to kids than text, which is, lets face it, extremely boring.

[1] http://scratch.mit.edu/
What ideas? People reading the e-book likely want more information. You could build a landing page for another book, with a ToC and see if people are interested. And if they are, you write.

But that's if you ideas are more content.
Really? I'm bilingual from childhood (and I've since learned a few more), and I seldom feel like I'm thinking in any specific language. Furthermore, I don't see how that could be puzzling to anyone - haven't most people had the experience of temporarily forgetting the word for something that they are very familiar with? A situation where they have a concept in mind, but have forgotten the "label" for it in their language? So why couldn't people think using these wordless concepts instead of with words?

(To me, thinking in words seems strange and inefficient. On the other hand, I often have clear and simple thoughts in my head that take me several minutes to translate into any language, because none of the words and expressions I can think of seem just right, so thinking in words seems like it would be useful for communicating.)
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Ask HN: Feedback on business models
I'm looking at creating an online, part-time service business to fund my graduate math studies, possibly involving some colleagues.

The idea is a "virtual research assistant" service, i.e. you hire someone smart, highly-educated and comparatively cheap who can do the intellectual ground work for you. This would include things like background research/reading, preparing a decision with evaluation of products/technologies, on- and offline research for possible solutions the client is not aware of, discovering existing experts, report writing, ... The smallest unit you can buy is a single hour of research, for trial.

I can cover Software tech, CS, EE & Mathematics and hope to add more subjects with collaborators. I realise that traditional consultancies fill this market, but they are usually quite expensive and invasive, so I suspect there might be room for a lower-cost, no-frills service like mine.

What do you think?
Hard to know who or what to believe. I thought that crytome was was reliable. Certainly the some security state apparatus is turning the screw. It'd be nice to know the whole story.
>He met a woman in her 90s who would sometimes slip into a reverie, her hands moving constantly. According to her daughter, she was thinking in Sign.

It sounds to me like she was thinking out loud, or 'talking' to herself. Thinking would correspond to imagining her hands moving, presumably in far more detail then the rest of us can render internally. Except perhaps for some master craftspeople who use their hands professionally.

For example, a few pianists can learn a piece from reading the score alone, away from the keyboard.
Submitted two days ago and was on the front page for over a day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499868

Many comments and lengthy discussions, some of which were very interesting.

Don't comment here - go read that item instead.

Ask PG: These URLs seem identical - is the duplicate detection not working at all? What am I missing ...
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