skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually getting fond of these single-point-of-entry for learning type of sites for a language. Along with the Prolog one that I saw here yesterday, I think they really make picking up a non-mainstream language a whole lot easier.

I remember when I was trying to start learning Common Lisp, I found it a little difficult for the lack of a resource similar to these. Eventually I stumbled upon PCL and LispBox and managed to take some baby steps. So kudos to the author.
Why should they get "just compensation"? What does this even mean?

In a capitalist society, they will get whatever they can get on the open market, whether that is "just" or not.
Head to the new page and vote on some stuff you like.
If you have the "insurance" file, you likely already have them on your computer.

Why would Julian's arrest/conviction/disappearance affect whether or not you see the documents? He has nothing to do with the leaking effort.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/12163859271917568
The documents will continue to be released as usual. http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/12114747864391680
Incidentally I see Ben Nolan has released his xmpp port of Diaspora today. This goes some way to assuaging my worries about their architecture.

https://github.com/bnolan/diaspora-x
OK, look at the comment you originally replied to. It's a "reasonable objection" about Wikileaks. It also has actual content and a point that it makes, as opposed to, say, being a one-line opinion with no support. Now look at your comment.
I think a huge requirement for success is that distributed social networking needs to be a framework, not simply an application (as Diaspora is now). Hopefully they're considering refactoring in that direction, and that definitely falls into point #1 (Coding before designing). You don't want to haphazardly code a framework, you need to design it on some level beforehand.

The killer feature that moves people over to distributed social networking is not distributed social networking itself. But third party developers building onto a distributed social networking framework is what will allow the next killer feature to be built.
They seem to have exactly positioned themselves in a spot that will ensure that nobody ever uses them.

Cloud databases are what you reluctantly use when you realize that your thing is going to need to scale big. Database.com is prohibitively expensive for anything but tiny datasets and low traffic. Oops.

So while it would be great for running your in-house inventory application, there's no compelling reason to migrate off your existing (possibly free) relational database infrastructure.

And while it would be be great to be able to handle tons of requests to tons of data at the low latency they quote, you can do that on AWS for 1/1000 the cost.
> Who says our healthcare is more expensive?

WHO indeed - http://www.photius.com/rankings/who_world_health_ranks.html
Visa has since followed suit. :

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jzXb7...

The only corporate entity so far that does not have egg all over its face on this one is the French OVH which went to a judge to establish whether or not wikileaks was illegal according to French law, the judge rejected the first request and asked for more info on the second, pending a ruling OVH says they've done what they should do and will continue to have wikileaks as a customer until the court tells them otherwise.
They didn't even provide a link to database.com.
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Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you were referring to Manning. My apologies.
I find it telling that the one actually interesting and critical question from an actual diplomat, about to what extent he feels his leaks are undermining the diplomatic process, is the one question he refuses to answer.
The problem with logic in ethics is taking things to a logical end with the mental tool usually creates some sort of absolutism a la the unibomber.

There was an article in the NYTimes op-ed section about how it was humanities duty to exterminate and genetically replace every predatorial animal to prevent suffering in prey animals.

Kinda glad I found out about the Middle Way and Buddhism through studying meditation. Our world is constantly changing, and a precept is based on some given that may no longer exist. Hell, even the speed of light varies.
If it's within minutes, does it truly matter? Also, neither site really "breaks" news.

Anyway, to answer your question...

You will probably have to measure it, if you want. Should be too hard. Another, better, solution might be to generate and publish a feed that combines the two, without the redundancies. You could even include links to the separate discussions.
AFAIK, they have statements like that from the alleged victims... If that didn't make them drop the charges, I am not sure what would.
> If he's not guilty, then he's got nothing to hide.

This assumes the other side plays fair. This assumes that the judge and jury will be rational. This assumes that it's really about sexual assault, and not about politics.

Have you ever seen a rape trial? They're not known for being level-headed.
Wouldn't situations like these be one of the easier cases for GM food to be accepted by the vast majority of the population? I mean, if normal bananas die out, and the only ones left are GM bananas, it's not like anyone can claim that GM bananas are crowding out 'real' bananas. And hell, since they're all clones (by hand!!), there's no worry about them 'alien genes contaminating nature'.

If people were given a choice between no bananas and GM bananas, doesn't that make GM bananas a no brainer? (I can't answer directly as I actually dislike bananas...)
JPEG artifacts on the logo, The arrow images left to "Cloud", "Open", "Social" and "Secure" are not antialiased. The arrow in the search box is below the center of the box, and lots of other minor issues that makes it look really awful.
They killed him anyway.
Not one book, but two graphic novels.
"Watchmen" and "V for Vendetta", Alan Moore's perspective is such a great perspective. Alan Moore tackles important philosophical questions in a really accessible medium. Alan Moore is a realist with very dramatic inclinations and all hackers will appreciate the references in his works. He combines the pretentious with the subtle in a way that will blow your mind. It's not very time-consuming to read through a graphic novel, but after reading them you will spend a lot of time processing the content in your mind, until you reread the graphic novels by Alan Moore.
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Hi,

I am a late bloomer in terms of new web technologies. I have entered university to start computer science. I would like to learn new technologies.

I am familiar using HTML, CSS, javascript frameworks and php frameworks over last few years.

I would like your suggestions on technologies that are widely used for developing and deploying across continents.
Of course you should want to make money. But money should always be the means to the end, never the end. As soon as money becomes the end to someone, that person has lost sight of what's really important in the world.

From that point on that person isn't living life any more, they're just playing WOW with better graphics. "Must farm more gold..."
actually, you can do consevative GC in C just fine without any special support in compiler, see Boehm's GC. Which is actually what was until recently used in Mono and also extensively used by various other runtimes (gnu java, ecl, many scheme implementations...)
"It’s not as though Sweden can lock him up and throw away the keys."

Don't be too sure. To quote from the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/06/wikileaks-julian...):

"Assange has also said that he declined to return to Sweden to face prosecutors because he feared he would not receive a fair trial, and prosecutors had requested that he be held in solitary confinement and incommunicado."

The age of democracy is now officially over...
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Did anyone else watch that interview and wonder what was up with Kara and Walt? I have seen a few interviews from them and they always seem to fire off questions to instigate who they are talking to. This time around everything was compared to Apple or them finding a way to cut off Rubin from presenting. I am all for the grilling of these tech folk, but I think there is a time and a place for it.
I think there's two issues with this, though. One, it's somewhat dangerous to have an incompatible fork so early on. Of course, the code is so immature that this may not be as big of a deal at this point.

The other is that I'm not sold on XMPP as the best protocol for distributed social networking. I think it can be overly verbose, and a simple protocol over HTTP/HTTPS makes more sense to me, and I've had good luck with that so far. That said, I'm not completely sold against XMPP, either.
I think Diaspora could do itself a huge favor by writing up a blog post explaining how the $200k was distributed. Everyone keeps harboring on the fact that they have that much money, but everyone forgets that they have quite a bit of liability with what they guaranteed on Kickstarter.

I think once that is done, people won't be so fast to suggest to them to hire a $100k/year engineer from Google or other things. Just my $0.02...

[edit: spelling]
Come on, really? So suddenly, because it's Assange, the justice system will conspire against him. He has a world of sympathizers...this thread is proof of that.

I think he'll be fine.
Australia's Foreign Minister - who has been reasonably conspicuous in the cables released so far - covered this issue during a presser on Monday:

QUESTION: Mr Rudd, just on that question. Do you think WikiLeaks will have a chilling effect on diplomacy, and, you know, back-room talks.

KEVIN RUDD: I think it's having a focusing effect.

QUESTION: As far as, you know, making people more cautious, and making diplomacy [indistinct]?

KEVIN RUDD: I think foreign ministers around the world, from countries of all sorts of political traditions, are scratching their heads about this one at the moment - I'm just being frank with you - and particularly when, if we are dealing with diplomatic communications the content of which, if we are to be consistent with our profession, we then don't comment on.

At the same time this has created real difficulties in various other parts of the world. Let's just put all this in a bit of context. You've had recent reports concerning - heads of government have been accused of corruption, being associated with the Mafia, been urging the United States to go to war against particular countries. I mean this has been happening in recent times. And without commenting, again, on the content or accuracy of any of those reports, it does create a separate and new dynamic.

Now, what's the challenge for all of us? I was actually asked this question in Bahrain yesterday - what now happens? I think, rule number one for our friends in the United States is how do you tighten things up a bit? I think that's a fair old question.

REPORTER: Security [indistinct]

KEVIN RUDD: Well, it's just - you know, maybe two million or so people having access to this stuff is a bit of a problem.

REPORTER: It's not the Lady Gaga CD.

KEVIN RUDD: The - that could be a bit of a problem.

But secondly, I reckon, what I believe to be the professional challenge for all of us, is to get on with the business, because all the big challenges we're dealing with haven't gone away.

I had a question before about the Korean Peninsula, that is real, and live, and contemporary. And diplomacy, and the business of diplomacy, is underway, as we speak, on that. And if diplomacy gets it wrong on that then we all pay a very big price.

So these challenges don't just go into suspended animation while we work our way through this stuff. So my answer, in Bahrain, as it is here today, is all of us to get on with the business, and not to become fundamentally side-tracked by all of this.

But there are deep lessons, in terms of providing proper protection for such a large volume of diplomatic documents.
Just to add to the chorus of voices: yes, Disapora team, please let your protocol spec define your application code, not the other way around. This one factor will make the most difference to the long term success of the project.
1. Some/many (?) Germans do not accept all children born in their country as native Germans. So a person with 'migration-background' may be born in Germany, but one of the parents has immigrated.
2. I interpret the PISA data as: If parents have a low education, then in Germany their children will probably get a low education, too.
Avoid blogspam, direct link to interview snippet; http://video.allthingsd.com/video/google-andy-rubin-highligh...

I have to say the women is very annoying in every single interview I have seen her in. Why does she feel like its OK to interrupt people when they are talking? Its not even in the form of follow-up, relevant good question. Just interruption for the sake of interruption to say something. arghhh
And no coincidence that Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers case is a huge supporter both of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.
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i figured you'd need a few large data sets to start with. find verticals with data needs (stock market/finance for one) that have lots of quantifiable data.
Agreed. I saw a great quote from OVH's managing director about how it's not up to them to decide, and it's not up to the politicians to decide, but it's up to the courts. That's the kind of service provider I want.
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> any misspelling of variables could result in extremely difficult to find bugs

Weird. Unless all you do is to attribute them values, Python will complain when you try to use a name that's not in the current namespace.

> The lame anonymous functions

I too complained a lot about them. In the end, all I had to do was to declare the function in the closest scope and pass it to whatever would use the anon function. No big deal.

> warning when you use an unbound variable

Python throws an error when you try to use an unbound name. Python is not BASIC.
Agreed. Most use case scenarios will involve a code library wrapper around the API. There's some unique challenges in building the library as well though - in a small & quick start-up, it might be hard to find experienced programmers in the 7-10 languages you'd want to support. When you get an experienced PHP developer to write the Java API, it will work, but will it "work"? In other words, will it follow the conventions that Java programmers are used to (classes, objects as parameters, static methods, etc.), or will it simply be ported PHP code to Java (hashtables as parameters to every method, fewer objects, etc.).

I've often said you can tell how good a code library is for an API based on how often the user needs to read the API documentation - ideally, they would never need to even read the API. After all, why have a code library if the users still need to look up the exact spelling and capitalization scheme of string parameters, or look up the numerical codes in return values?
Isn't that part of physical ageing?
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Canada scores significantly higher than the US. Yet I don't see Canada beating the US at anything anytime soon.
If there is treason, it is with the person leaking the documents -- not the media vehicle which publishes them.
Do you have a link to the Prolog one handy? I've just started re-learning it and could use a good guide. Cheers!
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In many ways it's in fact insulting to software engineers to suggest that 'anybody could do it' - then what, exactly, do we do?

You miss the point, so let me rephrase it for you. A few centuries:

A: Everybody should now Mathematics.

You: It's an insult to us, not everyone can understand discrete Math.

A: Dude I do not mean they should know how what graph theory is, I am just saying they should know basic math so one they can become bank tellers, do their own basic finance, measure how much water is in the cup etc...

Edit: I am a firm believer that only a certain % of the population are able to think in that funny way we programmers do.

Wrong. Anybody is able to think like a programmer. It is not as if programmers, doctors, or physicists were born with certain brain functions that others lack. Every single professional developed their skills over time. It makes more sense for a athlete to say "not everyone can do what we do", then it is for an engineer to say the same. That being said, I have admiration and respect for what software engineers can do.
Yeah, they have to send out 3,296 t-shirts alone, and even if they get a great deal, and end up paying $5 each (incl. shipping & handling), that's $16,480 just in t-shirts.
Crikey's ‘Critical infrastructure’ = hysterical reaction had more on this, including

In the event al-Qaeda wants to prosecute a death-by-rattlesnake strategy in the United States, yes, it could take out Mayne Pharma’s Melbourne plant, in the hope of increasing the number of deaths from snake bite, although most rattlesnake bites are not lethal. Or … maybe that would just increase sales of the other, Mexican-developed antivenin Antivipmyn, which some practitioners regard as cheaper and more effective than Crofab.

Or they could sever the Southern Cross fibre optic cable in Sydney (“Australian link broken — rest of world isolated!”). But then, terrorists would know about that from Wikipedia, rather than WikiLeaks. Or perhaps they’d find out from the website of the cable owner.

In fact if you want the exact spot for that cable, consult ACMA’s handy “Sydney Submarine Protection Zones”, which details the precise location of these important pieces of communication infrastructure.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/critical-infrastructure-...
I've been working with jQuery Mobile for a week now and it's pretty cool just how quick you can get an app up and running...and most importantly looking great. Granted that's mostly to do with their CSS files. However, I really like how they designed their page navigations - in effect, the app acts as a browser within the browser and animates transitions between pages, auto-generates back buttons, lets you put footers with persistent buttons, all that stuff you've grown used to on phone apps.

As people have pointed out here, you can probably create 80% of the apps that your client would request with it and other HTML5 tools, rather than writing native code. Added bonus, it will run on iOS, Android, WebOS, and likely in the future Windows Phone 7.
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I replied to a comment in the thread, re-enforcing that commenters opinion. I'm sure people don't like it, and that's fine, but to consistently be downvoted every time I post a negative reaction to Assange is absurd. I wish we, as a community, could elevate ourselves above the infighting reminiscent of an MSNBC or FOXNews.
A lot of people use the down button to say "I disagree". No real news there, but it's best not to take downvotes to mean anything more than you have less than a 50% popular opinion.
There is that. On the other hand it could be that they just can't see themselves reacting to it other way, and are just too short sighted.

I feel that if anything explosive was to come then Assange would have hinted at it by now - he has done in the past.
> So you can't cliam it does what it has to to be useful

You can always claim it's based on OpenJDK.

> and you run the risk of unknown lawsuits on hidden grounds from a large and litigious company who you're trying to outmaneuver to avoid giving them money

I won't be the one to indulge such a paranoid delusion. Oracle won't sue you for using OpenJDK because they know it would be a lost cause.
The lame anonymous functions that don't have the full power of the language are ugly.

Tis true, python lambdas are lame, but in practice, their use has been mostly superceded by list (and now set and dictionary) comprehensions.

Edit to add: Other dynamic languages have various solutions to the variable declaration problem, usually involving a parser or compiler warning when you use an unbound variable. Python's syntax would have to change to make that possible, I think.

I don't understand. If you mistype a name, you'll get an error when you run the code.
1. Agreed. While I like hardware buttons in general, the fact that the device is otherwise orientation-less, sometimes leaves me sliding my finger around the edge looking for the button (particularly in the dark). A glowing button would solve this 50% of the time for me. But always having it on the bottom edge (i.e. an on-screen button) would fix it 100% of the time.
2. The $10k figure he gave isn't the retail price, but what he thought it cost to individually fabricate the prototype device.
Then the reason you want to make money is that it is your way of keeping score in life. The money itself is obviously not desirable.
Just look at our power plants. We want to switch away from coal and fossil fuel, but we are so gridlocked by argument over what is the best replacement we're getting nowhere and thus still use coal and fossil fuel.

I would not be surprised if we argue about GM, even on this excellent candidate, until all bananas have been wiped out. Sadly, everybody looses that way, but we're really good at arguing.
I think the huge requirement for success is that is grows at grass roots level with completely non-technical people because of non-software reasons. I don't think you can compete with something like FB if your scope is "we need to develop better software" unless you have a whole other aspect of creative and analysis skills that this kind of development drive do not posses or engage.
Politicians overreacting hardly needs an ulterior motive of super-secret documents. Just try flying in an airplane if you want an example...
There isn't a rule that "Google don't care about design" if there is an exception. Exceptions to rules disprove rules. However, an explicit exception to an unwritten rule suggests the existence of that rule - for example, a sign saying "Parking allowed between 9am and 5pm" would imply that there is a rule that parking is not allowed at any other time.
I would imagine that the cables mention the targets because they actually have some security - since they are critical (or perhaps Echelon is looking for their mentions?). So if I were a terrorist and be looking for a target I would certainly avoid those. Besides it doesn't look like the terrorist have any problem with coming up with important and visible targets.
You might be interested in reading about the concept of Natural Law in the Thomist tradition, which attempts to clarify the principles of morality that can be discovered most intelligent people with sufficient reflection. Don't know if you'll find it persuasive, but it lends itself to analytical reasoning.
Sell stuff on your most popular websites. Sell other games for a cut (Minecraft?). If you contact a 100 game owners, you are bound to get some on board. Ask your visitors which games they like and sell those.

Don't be lazy and go with low paying ads. Be more proactive, you will create lots more value for game makers, gamers and yourself.
To be fair, it is possible to say "it's a bubble" and have to wait a few years to be proved right. It takes nerve to hang on until you're proved right. See The Big Short http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short for good examples of this during the recent sub-prime housing bubble.
There's two things here:

Protocol and the architecture. Protocol-wise I have no problem with http - it's well understood and any RoR dev can pick it up an use it. And indeed you could even, with a lot of work, build a federated network off http(s).

But http is not a a federation architecture. XMPP provides this out the box and makes bootstrapping a secure federated social network much easier.