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When conspiracy theories have supporting evidence they cease to be conspiracy theories.

Your Myers Briggs personality type is probably enfj.
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This is actually the reason why I use Chrome. Just seems more efficient and logical.
Australia's Governor General writes to media, requests censorship of wikileaks
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A list- on the right side of the page- with the 10 most popular words discussed on HN the last day.
"Consulting is like inception"
He's not claiming anything about the probability of being caught committing a crime.

He claims that the probability of leaks will force government to lock down information sharing increasingly tightly, and this lock-down will make secret policies impossible (because other arms of the government will not know those policies exist).
This excuse gets a lot less tenable about halfway through DS9, when the Federation is in the middle of a gigantic, potentially genocidal war against a far more powerful opponent. Especially when the Jem'Hadar ships have the exact same flaws (and for that matter, the Klingon ships always did).
>This classy response by Gates is but a brief glimpse of honesty from an otherwise hysterical, paranoid, and secretive government.

I think you're making a really careless characterization here, and it's taking me some time to put a finger on why.

Maybe it's that the government has _not_ acted hysterical, paranoid, or secretive in any way throughout this hubbub. It was pretty much like "Yeah, we know what's coming, we're bracing ourselves," with an additional stated position of "It is wrong to release state secrets."

I think you're conflating the media coverage, which _is_ hysterical and paranoid, with the actual government's reaction.

I think in addition, you're conflating what the loudmouths of the political process call for action with the actual government's reaction.

The loudmouths are there for us to consider extreme courses of action.

The reason this took me long to force out was that this brief glimpse of honesty really is in contrast with the reactions of the irked and probably very harassed officials who have been quoted, so I didn't disagree with some part of the statement. However, I expect this is because the government is realizing how it came off pretty well--I would not be surprised to find US policy advanced in some ways, especially Iran. The US was a victim in public world opinion.

So maybe now the government is able to communicate with the media its composure.
The content of the URL field is dependent on the tab. It arguably makes far more sense to have this strong relationship represented by containing the URL field in the tab itself rather than having a global URL field in one part of the window with content that changes as different tabs are selected in another part of the window.
Completely agree, but I'm looking for an outlet to share my ideas that I won't execute on and a way to critique ideas. Partly for fun, shared knowledge, through exercises for why an idea may or may not take off...

I actually am (and have been for 2 years) executing on one idea. And I'm learning a ton...
Exactly what I was going to say. Maybe the warp cores are dangerous because it's simply not possible for them to build one that's completely safe. It's actually reminiscent of the accidents that we've had with nuclear power in the last century - creating a reactor that won't ever go critical is something that's only been possible recently.

Though I do have to admit the holodeck failed far, far too often.
As a whole big companies are machines for turning energetic, scrappy, visionary people into sluggish, overspending, risk-averse, reliable cogs.

Don't even work at a startup unless you need to. You're more likely to succeed by repeatedly starting your own companies than any other path.
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The terminology is unfortunate. "Modern music" or "serious music" might be better. But, for many people (least that I know), "serious music" == "classical music", regardless of when it was written.

But the author makes a larger point, that even the stuff people have grown to like was often considered outre and difficult in its own time, and that people have gradually grown accustomed to some amount of dissonance.

"Classical music is, by contrast, a tightly controlled club with a bunch of smart guys deciding behind a curtain what is and is not legitimately classical."

Really? I've never gotten that sense. At least form what I've read or heard from composers such as Michal Nyman, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, John Adams, they all see pretty open that what might be called "classical music" and really only seemed concerned that their own stuff might get pigeon-holed (e.g., tagged as "post-minimalism" or something). Shows on NPR, for example, are also quite broad in what gets included on the club.

Maybe some critics or authors have some scheme to control the meaning, but they seem to be doing a poor job of it.
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While the overarching mission/concept has disturbing aspects, in all honestly it probably wasn't doing much of anything during its maiden voyage.

The biggest events were the changes in orbit, and that was probably mission control testing positioning thrusters and associated systems to prove the craft is capable of dropping in and out of a geostationary orbit and repositioning itself into different orbit patterns with ease + accuracy (and probably with little human involvement).

Given the craft hasn't passed a test of re-entry nor an automated landing from space, it seems unlikely the US Air force would have loaded sensitive + expensive monitoring equipment onboard, nuclear weapons or any of the other conspiracies - on this initial trip anyway.
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Well that's the point - there is not much learning in critiquing ideas. Just assumptions and personal opinion. No one liked Google or Twitter as Ideas.

But anyways, since you've been executing, the next question is - shipping. What have you shipped and how often do you ship something out there?

Working on an idea forever in your own private corner is not a good learning either.
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I am working on such an app, over Google App Engine.. http://creator.ifreetools.com

Sample walk-through :: Building a Store Locator type Google Maps app over GAE, using iFreeTools : http://blogs.ifreetools.com/2010/11/building-store-locator-t...
To be fair, a quipu has been a data structure, or rather a data storage medium, for at least 1200 years, and possibly several thousand years: http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/Science-khipu-decipher-0...
Everybody seems to miss the biggest part of the story. 15 percent of readers use internet explorer.
There's no technical evidence (you can check, quite easily, who's peering with who and if there's a cost associated) that L3 and Comcast are using a purely-symmetric SFP agreement. It's quite likely they aren't (consumer ISPs would never upload enough to large providers to get a symmetric agreement worth their while.)
Obviously this is futile from the national security point of view.

This further demonstrates the ignorance of our Government in Australia when it comes to technology.
That makes sense, however, I don't spend time looking at the URL. I look at the tab titles much more than I ever look at URL's. Additionally, to the common user the URL is a mysterious, meaningless thing anyway. They are more concerned with what the title of the page is.

Having to look over and past the URL bar to see what the title is, or having to look over the URL bar to select a tab, then back down past the URL bar to the page is less efficient visually.

I'm sure there are pros to the tab placement in Chrome, just as there are cons. Personally, it just isn't for me.
As Michael Caine said in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29

"Some people would enjoy seeing the world burn"
They're also under alot of time pressure to produce scripts so the filming, and retake after retake, can get done. IANAE but I imagine for a weekly show that's not easy. Having tried to both a regular blog and a book, it's harder than it seems.
Ask HN: How should I connect with the London start-up scene?
I'm a Toronto-based entrepreneur and today, I was supposed to be leaving London, England, for a short vacation. Originally, I planned to stop here for a few days to see family.

Unfortunately, due to weather conditions, my flight has been postponed until Saturday morning.

But, in every disappointment, there's an opportunity.

In this situation, I'd love to connect with the London start-up scene. I'm not sure how to do it, but I'm hoping the HN community might be able to help.

Any suggestions?
I think you underestimate the intentions of Assange/Wikileaks here.
Ask HN: Home office advice.
In a few weeks I start my first job as a full time telecommuter. In preparation I'm moving to a new home with an extra bedroom so I can separate my work area from other personal space.

Does anyone have other suggestions for finding maximum productivity and focus while working from home?
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Give it a year or so, if the Govt and Fed can't stave off deflation anymore, will be perfect timing then.
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iOS 4.2 exposes accelerometer and gyroscope data to web apps now. http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932107

As for scrolling, a number of JS libraries/frameworks such as SproutCore now implement fake scrollviews using touch events and CSS transforms, transitions and animations. For example: http://touch.sproutcore.com/

As for the cameras, IIRC the Chrome team is proposing APIs for camera access to HTML5.
I enjoyed the completely unnecessary diacritical mark over the 'e' in anime. "Pretentious? Moi??"
That was either one of the more hilarious comments I've read on HN, or I'm too drunk to know any better. Either way, have an upboat.
You have an issue with fast text search?
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The most important productivity tool at home: a closed door. Make it clear to your family/flatmates that when you're working, you're working, and that non-urgent interruptions are not appreciated. Otherwise your productivity will go down the crapper.

Also, treat work-time as you would if you were at work. I.e., don't do household chores during work hours.
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If all you want to do is pitch ideas and get feedback on them, the best place I've found for that is startup-related meetups. In London, there's DrinkTank, HNLondon, and others. There's probably some free events where you live too.. if not, set one up!
You forgot warp. Am on it is not ridiculous, because the first thing in the world you could program was a loom. We are all an of-shot of the textile industry.
Also, we heavily share code and data between applications with symlinks. Symlink handling (especially the interpretation of ..) is different in all ruby-1.8, ruby-1.9 and jruby. Makes the whole ecosystem smell like different ghettos.

Perhaps they'll change that in 2.0 as well.
Different perspective than I have, but you're right that Google/Twitter at face value aren't anything.

Well I am good at shipping. OrangeSlyce.com is the manifestation of an idea I had 2 years ago (which has changed), and we pivot, on some level (may be very small) every 2 weeks.
no why is there no rel=badsite tag to indicate that you dislike a page/website?
The code might be much worse than anything they would have written themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah explains they started with a fork of the SourceForge code, and they seem to still be on it (the Python/Django rewrite isn't complete). It's not obvious what SourceForge was written in, but http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Open%20Sou... shows an awful lot of PHP dependencies, and the site dates back to 1999, a time when the worst of PHP's myriad design flaws (such as register_globals and magic_quotes) were widely embraced.
There has been a fork due to developer squabbles. The new one, with quite a few new features, is here: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/index

This explains the squabble: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/faq#faq-fork
I looked all of these up; in doing so, the only quipu I could find is on what I believe to be your own GitHub page. Are quipus (or, to use the Quechua plural, quipukuna) something you devised, or are you borrowing the name from elsewhere?
Moving to an elastic infrastructure in the face of an attack that aims to increase usage, seems like a recipe for a huge bill.. The wikileaks guys are obviously uber smart and have thought through the pros and cons of the move, but it seems an unusual choice..
I'm not familiar with Amazon's content policies, but I couldn't see Amazon wanting this stuff hosted on their servers.
This is interesting. Have you contacted them with your findings? How prevalent are multi-stream docs?

Also, they don't discuss discarding any of the initial keystream, which means that combined with the block number, this could lead to related-key attacks just as with WEP.
Tl;dr: jqTouch jQuery plugin, convert webapps into real apps, tips on HTML5 client databases, and accessing some ipod info.
That's funny you said that... I actually did start a meetup in Phoenix, AZ called Young Entrepreneur Mixer. We get about 20 or so people come and share ideas and such.
I looked into having a small stone wall built a few years ago. It would have cost more than my house.

I find it fascinating that after all the progress of the millennia, skillfully stacking stone is still one of the most costly things men can do.
If you aren't building an index ahead of time, you're writing a state machine, in which case you're better off treating it as bytes for efficiency and simplicity. (An array of 256 pointers vs a nearly unbounded dynamic map of pointers.)

If you are building an index ahead of time, just use byte offsets in your index instead of character offsets. You'll still be iterating through it from the beginning to build the index.
That wasn't my experience.

Oreilly I think has done a good job with this and so did Pragmatic Press among a few others. The good ones give you the choice of downloading in several formats to use on your different devices. I think that's a good thing to do. And I try to only support the ones that do that.

My problem with some ebooks right now is the price point. Some publishers insist on maintaining the price of the ebook to be the same as that of the regular book. One would think that removing the printing costs and logistics would bring the cost down substantially.
They talk blot about independent publishers, but most of the books people wants are not likely to come from those publishers. How will Google get these companies on board?
I've been using Chrome as my primary browser for almost two years now, but the Firefox 4 nightlies are really getting impressive and it's starting to become a viable alternative to me. The Omnibar extension, superior font rendering, and tabs-on-top address a lot of the common usability complaints and Firefox's JS performance is finally on-par, and in some cases much better (especially where graphics are intense), than Chrome/V8's.

Chrome still has much more pliable tabs, but things are finally looking up again for Firefox, and it's about time.
I was going to leave this thread alone, but one thing keeps sticking in my mind.

Water infrastructure is a state owned monopoly. Telecoms is not, even though Telstra dominate residential connections.

A friend of mine wanted to connect water to his house down a short laneway (about 100 metres) in a rural area. The water authorities wanted $15,000 and 6 months to do it.

He asked Telstra to connect the phoneline. It was done for free within two weeks.

That is the difference between a government monopoly and private enterprise. If Telstra was still Telecom Australia, I have no doubt that the line would have taken twice as long and probably cost something as well.

You might scoff and say that couldn't possibly happen with the NBN, but in all seroiusness, anyone who thinks setting up a massive government beauracracy will result in anything but this type of behaviour hasn't had much experience with governments. The role of Government should be to design the laws in such a way as to encourage investment, and to leave that investment to the private sector where the private sector is willing to invest. Where they are not because of low population density, government subsidies can be provided to private companies to do that investment.
MIT hosts a lot of their course materials online at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm . Dig through some of their classes.

I'm not sure at what level you mean by 'beginner', but my recommendation is to run through 6.001 (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). MIT has a new Python-based intro class that has since replaced 6.001, but the old class is still a very well-baked and well-respected curriculum.

After that, if you want, dig into a couple data structures and algorithms classes (like 6.006) to build up your theoretical background.

Next look into a software engineering course (theirs is 6.005). This should get you a bit of feel for diving into a large system without getting lost, or organising one of your own.

After that, just start poking around at things that look interesting. Build something shiny. (That's the great thing about our industry---you can get your tools for free, and build something useful without making a huge initial investment. That would not happen in a lot of other fields.)
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I think that you will have the willpower to finish all four :)
So apparently accessing a secure URL isn't straightforward... No login is required, its just an HTTPS but it won't go in curb.
I presume that's a trade off for fast javascript?
> Humans need meat to survive. [citation needed]
Related paper by Boehm:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/proceedings/spe91-95/spe/...

If I recall correctly an implementation of "ropes" ships with the Boehm GC sources.
BTW -- one essay I wrote, "How Universities Work," is in there. If you like it, you might also like a follow-up piece, "How to Get Your Professors' Attention:" http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2... , which is about how to signal to people with knowledge that you're worth investing in.
HN has a certain bias towards entrepreneurship and start-ups, so let me try to offer at least a few morsels of support for working at Google or Facebook, though I definitely advocate for start-up or small companies too.

At Google or Facbeook, you would be well-compensated and comfortable while learning new skills in a still quite fast-paced environment. You will be surrounded by many very smart people, and that's probably the most important part.

Your ability to learn new things is definitely greater if you can wear many hats and accept a lot of responsibility at a small company, but at the same time, you may find that you are ultimately better equipped by working at a larger firm full of bright people and building not just your skills, but your network.

Who would you want to start a company with? While it is often difficult to entice away workers from such enviable jobs, you will find a large pool from which to recruit! This is something that you would find rather more difficult at the smaller company, though if it were in the SF Bay area, you could still do a lot of socializing. That's not quite a substitute for getting to work closely with people, obviously.

That's one line of argument there, but really, I suggest going where you think... A) you like the people best and B) you will learn the most. The rest is ancillary and will come out in the wash (a bigger bonus, etc, is much less important than being able to grow a little bit more someplace than somewhere else).

I struggled with many of the same questions myself recently, ultimately choosing something quite off the beaten path from what I originally imagined - we'll see how it works out next summer when I start work!
What's interesting to me is that 48% are using a webkit browser
You can't treat its as bytes because you are than dependent on what the came before those bytes, which messes with your ability to skip ahead on a miss.
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Ah, I was not aware of that. Haven't seen DS9.
The real reason is after Gene Roddenberry left in Season 2 of TNG the writers didn't stay entirely true to his original vision. When DS9 came about they had zero obligation to that vision so they went in a different direction. The writers could have done a better job putting it into context on-screen.
Which does cause occasionally hilarious but usually mind rendingly irritating to ferret out bugs, from time to time. Common Lisp strings are the same way (symbols in both languages being the immutable type).
Accuracy never really bothered me. They're just hollywood-types. It can be fun to see technology through their myopic eyes. Its the inconsistency that gets me. The transporters have wildly different operating modes and capabilities depending on the week, problems that nearly destroy the ship in some episodes are solved by three keypresses, rerouting this to that (often by their 15 year old boy-mascot) in others.

Dammit Jim, pick some damn rules and stick to them. Constraints make good drama. I doesn't count if the plot can be resolved at any time by some idiot in a Jefferies tube.

I used to hold up Star Wars as an example of good consistency. Then Ep. 1 came out. My wife asked me (5 minutes into the damn movie) why the Jedi bothered to swing their light sabers at the robots if they could just wave their hands at all of them and knock them over in groups. Gah. I sensed a great disturbance, as if a thousand sharks surfaced and were suddenly jumped...
That graph just strikes me as a really healthy browser ecosystem. If only the rest of the web's traffic reflected that.
Boy! what an experience you have had, thanks for sharing.
The reason I recommend Chrome to all my non-techie friends is due to its automatic upgrades. I can be reasonably sure that my friend would be using a modern secure browser at all times.
Scala was easy for people like me who took a compiler design class given by Odersky at EPFL. We actually wrote a compiler for a simplified version of Scala. I would have never thought to see that language again after university. (That was about 6 or 7 years ago.)