skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past, civil disobedience was "we're accepting punishgment for {x} to demonstrate that doing {x} should not be punished."

The two modern defintions are:

(1) "they should get off because they meant well/are good people"

and

(2) "they should get off because {x} is acceptable"

Which definition are we using here? If (3), what is {x} such that it is acceptable? Is it any DDoS? Any DDoS against a large organization? Please be precise so we can know what kind of DDoS are acceptable and which kind aren't going forward.
One hilarious example of this effect at work can be found at http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_... -- the gist of it is that polling indicates that a decent number of Bush voters in 2004 believed that Bush held policy positions that he never held and in fact never claimed to have held. It is not that Bush lied to these voters about his issue preferences: they just liked him for other reasons and ascribed their own issue preferences to him.

John Sides explains a related phenomena here: http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/08/me_talking_to_politico_... whereby voters don't necessarily know much about most issues and end up adopting issue positions held by parties they trust. See the link towards the end of that piece.

In general, there's been a ton of political science work on how election outcomes are largely determined by non-issue factors, like economic conditions. An electorate that voted based primarily on issues should have stable preferences that don't swing wildly based on the state of the economy.
Don't learn C, learn assembly and take a few ee courses. Learn about new and interesting operating systems written in type safe languages. Linux, FreeBSD and friends while practical are all based on ideas from the 1970's and IMO are bound to die out within the next 20 years.
Actually, I think very large bridges do need to account for the curvature of the earth. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama_Bridge
The boy has confessed. He's still entitled to put on a defense, I take it. And he's still entitled to seek support for that defense. In any case, you can break the law, and then argue, in certain places and circumstances, and without self-contradiction (which I suppose would be the possibility you find problematic) that you shouldn't be punished because a) the law is unjust or unconstitutional, or b) breaking the law was necessary to prevent greater harm (though if I recall correctly the latter defense by necessity is not permitted in most cases of civil disobedience in the US).
Security Flaws Force Firefox, Opera to Turn Off WebSockets
Interesting. I've sent you an email!
Because that's what they say they're doing? They've been comparing themselves to a sit-in for a while now.
The Seattle School Board voted Wednesday to keep Brave New World on the district’s list of approved books for high-school language-arts classes.

Nathan Hale administrators dropped the book as a regular part of its sophomore Language Arts curriculum after Sense-Wilson’s initial complaint, however students can still read it as part of class “literature circles” in which students reading the same book discuss it in a small group.

Reading the above it appears that the book hasn't been returned to the high school's curriculum. The school board merely said it could be. Judging from the school administration's initial actions I would say return to the core curriculim is still in question.
> Also, I do not get why Gruber plays dumb about Angry Birds' profitablity on Android when that report about Rovio hitting about $1M/month on Android was on every tech site over the last few days.

Gruber has a very specific audience that he targets his blog posts towards, and he tells them what they want to hear.
so here I have a great IDE, lots of static analysis, continuous integration, automatic dependency management etc... people who say you can't maintain java don't know how to code in it, after 13 years it's clear to me why it's still popular.
Finally, a "pure CSS3" demo that isn't a total gimmick. We'd be in good shape if there were as many of these as there are CSS3 icons and the like. Nice job.

And to anyone who wants to do this, make sure you have "overflow: visible;" on the container. The far left shadows in the demo get cut off because he set the overflow to hidden.
Wow, that must be the only movie ever made that takes longer to watch than it did to make.

(It was filmed at 24fps for 6 hours, 36 min, but is shown at 16fps for 8 hours 5 minutes).
Ask HN: How many of you are sad because you did not get the Cr48 today?
I came home from work with the excitement and anticipation of a kid on Christmas morning. But alas, the deciders decided I was unworthy. No Cr48 for me. -=(
I think if we met in real life we'd be great friends.

I've never been held, but many of my friends were... and nothing in my life made me more mad than the actions of the police those days...
It depends on what you're looking for.

I'm thinking of throwing $15 his way just to see what comes out, and see if it sparks some new ideas for me -- i.e., I'm not paying him for a polished final design for my site, I'm paying him for his thoughts (in PDF form) on how my site might look different.

I might not like his idea, and it might just offer a contrast that helps me suss out what I like about my current design. But as it was only 15 bucks (not much invested from me OR him), I won't feel bad about just chucking the results.

If I were paying someone for a real site redesign, I would lay out a lot more than $15, but I would also expect to go through whatever steps necessary to come up with a finished product that I would actually use (because if I'm paying real money, it had better not be a waste).

In any case, I'm waiting until he has some example sites online... so I can tell if he's a talented designer doing rapid/rough work (useful to me), or a weak/inexperienced designer who is just making bad designs (in which case I'll pass...).
give me one example of something I can't do.
of course I've done functional programming and sometimes it's nice, but I don't see it as the big advantage many people do.
Algorithms and engineering are sometimes hard, actually programming is rarely the difficulty in any project.
> Why would anyone want a netbook with such a limited OS?

Maybe they didn't have tablets for this pilot thing.
I haven't decided how I feel about this, but emailing your senator is likely to accomplish absolutely nothing, so perhaps more severe behaviour is somewhat understandable.
That's separate from the Google Fiber for Communities project. I haven't seen any news on that since all the applications were submitted.

I'm sure the selection / due diligence / contracting process is ridiculously complex, though! I would assume it would be a while before anything was announced.
So Dale Herigstad is the guy that did a lot of the design work on Minority report actually still does a lot of work in this space.

I saw him at a small conference recently talking about the future of these types of interfaces and I think where he's going is trying to make much smaller movements meaningful. One example was having EPG on your TV that you could navigate by just flicking your hand. He's looking at ways that smaller, more natural movements can be used to for controlling a lot of the interfaces around you.

(behind pay wall unfortunately ) http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/start/dale-h...
I'm sorry; I shouldn't have written that. I'm sure you're a very smart person who is probably doing some fascinating work that I would totally dig if I knew about it. It is just that I see a lot of really basic political science ignorance around me, and it grates after a while.

I mean, I'm sure you would never write something like "I think hand-washing causes AIDS!" because even if you didn't understand any biology, you probably get that there's a field called biology and that claims about biology really shouldn't be made unless one has some familiarity with the field and has spent some time studying, etc. It really bothers me that in the US at least, all of the media institutions that cover politics and policy literally act like the field of political science doesn't exist. And so everyone just makes up crap about questions that experts have actually studied empirically. But that's not your fault and I shouldn't have let my frustration with the ignorance of large powerful organizations leak cause me to express displeasure with you. Again, my apologies.
Video review of Google's CR-48 netbook
My Y Combinator Interview (W2011)
> I think if we met in real life we'd be great friends.

Any time Steve, consider this a standing invitation.

You'll have to make it to Europe somehow, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989825 but I'll meet you on the continent where ever you want.

Besides that I swore I would quit going to the US because of the TSA madness and it does not seem like it's going to let up any time soon, if at all.
That two letter word… No
You are confusing two distinct things: socialism is a type of capital accumulation (capitalism, therefore) that considers that essential assets of productions should be government owned, or controlled. Anti-trust is a classic, albeit minimal socialist law; it is also coherent with populism. Anti-trust is necessary as the last control in a free capitalist market, but is rather contradictory with private property being absolute. Other notable economic system around property include Saint-Marc doctrine (a man can steal to feed his family if its his last resort, that has been extended to land expropriation after peasant revolts), financial capitalism, or Rhine capitalism, where the means of production are family-owned, but social ties between owners offer a conventional control and can be used to enforce standards (like paternalism).

The last one is the system described in Karl Marx's The Capital It's also slightly incoherent with free market, because properties can't be exchanged freely: the community of owners have a say, albeit implicit. The best current example of that is Silicon Valley, where Arrington can sell TechCrunch to AOL, but still has to pull up a couple of stunts to prove his editorial independence; or where the value of your start-up is dependent on PG's impression of you being a nice guy. It's usually a very efficient system, especially with innovation, but it is quite “unfair”: winners are not always the absolute best (well, they tend to) but generally make orders of magnitude more money. It's acceptable in SV because most people have enough money to eat, and those who own redistribute it, but it wasn't so acceptable when the children of Rothshild's workers starved.

Free market, vs. planned economy are system that consider production. You can have a planed economy with private ownership (France in the 70s) or free market with very strong control over workers benefits, like Switzerland. Because large corporation have far more responsibility (thanks to heavy State controls on the job market) Switzerland indeed has a lot of SMEs.

I have no idea why you asked you last question: it goes well beyond the usual straw-man.
He doesn't miss it. Perhaps you didn't read till the end.

The economy for Android apps may well trend toward resembling the economy of the web. I think that’s the mindset with which Android was designed. But I don’t think the iOS App Store resembles the web economy at all. Isn’t that the whole point, the reason Apple created the App Store in the first place? Apple’s pre-App Store “just write mobile web apps for Mobile Safari” developer story for the iPhone in 2007 was unsatisfying, both for users and developers.

....

The differences between the iOS App Store and Android Market are a microcosm of the differences between Apple and Google. Apple is a retailer, a purveyor of well-crafted goods that people will line up to purchase. Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.
They might be relatively small, but http://www.grouplens.org/node/12 has some interesting datasets that can be used to experiment with recommendation systems, e.g. book and movie reviews.
The nuclear launch codes actually were leaked a while back. It turns out they were all zeroes, and always had been. The folks in charge of choosing the launch codes didn't agree with the policy decision to have launch codes, and the folks who made the policy decision (McNamara I think) weren't authorized to know what they were.

But you're probably right that that leak wasn't by a nuclear engineer, since I doubt any of them were authorized to know the launch codes either.

I'm pretty sure that none of this is still classified.
Youtube supports what are essentially commercial breaks on long videos already. The uploader can even choose to place them at logical breaks in the video.

I was watching some in-the-ER/ridealong-with-the-cops type videos on a Youtube channel the other night, and the video would be interrupted on occasion by video ads in between scenes, etc.
I think you're stretching the meaning of "CRUD" far beyond its useful range. CRUD is a fairly specific term that refers to a database with a user interface. There are a great many applications that are built around this basic idea. Software like the linux kernel superficially resembles a CRUD application, at a high level, and you could identify elements that are like a CRUD application, but most of the hard problems solved by the linux kernel bear little resemblance to the class of web applications called to mind by the term "CRUD."
I don't think it matters. There should be as many scientists roughly in each party.

But why? I mean, this statement seems like a religious belief. There is no obvious reason to believe it true.

Many interesting properties have a significant partisan valence. For example, authoritarianism correlates strongly with political conservatives in north America [1], so why shouldn't science aptitude as well?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
"Science" Cut From Anthropology Association’s Long-Range Plan
The other issue is that there is no "Android Hardware" -- the older or lower-end devices might not be able to power it. Then, though, it would only support a subset of the devices, and the more expensive ones at that, and Id is blamed, not the device itself.
On the about page it says:

Performance

The HTML backend has received a particular attention to be as efficient as possible.
Well if the US makes it hard for people to go to the US then what should they expect?

The USA should loose the "they took our jobs" syndrome and make it easy for foreign people to work there, because then the they would receive tax, currently they receive nothing.

This is pretty general, but applies well to the IT issue.
Sorry - if the guy was controlling a botnet, he can do his time just based on the massive numbers of computers he was illegal controlling.

Sure we might feel some underdog sympathy for wikileaks right now, but the people doing these ddos attacks are the exact same people who ddos other sites and cost a ton of money every year. No free pass - civil disobedience is not free of consequences, and nobody should seriously suggest that launching a DDOS against a major corporation is "fair"
I will certainly take you up on that, when I eventually find myself over there.

I initially swore that I'd stop traveling due to the TSA, but then I realized that going through an opt-out would be a better statement than just staying home. But if I wasn't already here, I wouldn't come here either.
youtube could as well detect if you're running chrome os and use their HTML5 player instead of the Flash-based one. any idea why they don't do this by default on supported browsers? last time i checked, the HTML5 player was opt-in.
However, Eclipse is different to Apache in that it is primarily a pay-to-play organisation

This isn't related to the discussion at hand, but can you elaborate on this?
I've been dreaming of true computer switching portability for a long while. What I mean is that my primary work machine, my travel machine and portable machine are all identical and store the same state whenever i switch from using one to another, except with varying levels of computational power (hardware). Imagine working at home on a powerful machine and you feel like going out to work. Take your portable machine to the coffee shop and everything is there like your powerful home machine, except with lower hardware specs.

It is hard to imagine working without local files on your computer and Chrome OS still needs to work out how to handle interfacing with other hardware (hard drives etc) but this seems like a step in the right direction.
I don't think this is the whole story, because DOM manipulations are also very slow.
If you had a botnet at your disposal, you did clear premedidated and pure WRONG regardless of whether or not we agree with who he used those stolen resources to attack.

Getting the botnet itself was wrong.
Nice. If your canvas isn't interactive, render it on the server with the same codefor browsers that don't support canvas (i.e. I.E.)!
True but here in the US "engineer" is not the term that matters. "Professional Engineer" is the term given to licensed and accredited engineers - generally identified by the initials "p.e." after their name, and you usually include some indication of the state you are licensed in.

Since graduating with an engineering degree is not enough to become a "Professional Engineer" in the US, you can actually argue it makes some sense to differentiate the terms - being licensed as a PE requires 6 years of professional engineering experience before you can even take the exam. So simply listing a job title of "engineer" might help demonstrate relevant engineering experience but means nothing with respect to your actual license.
more appropriate name would be: "Drop Box for Big Companies, or Drop Box Enterprise edition."

I was really excited until I hit the pricing page. Should so a small biz edition at $25-$50 per month for 3-4 people.
Same for me. I even filled out the long form.
A New Globalisation? User-Generated Content, Transparent Production Chains
I live in South Boulder. We should go climbing together sometime. My email is jrward at gmail
Ooh awesome! My app's #7!
Very nice. One small nitpick - pseudo elements should be selected using ::, not : in CSS3

see http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#pseudo-elements
It's easy to get that idea from watching cop shows, so I don't blame you for thinking so, but it's not actually true.

Once you invoke your Fifth Amendment rights, as simply as saying "I want to talk to a lawyer", interrogation must stop until your attorney is present. That means stop asking questions, period. Cops are typically pretty mindful of this— since after that, any questions they ask, and anything you say in response, is inadmissible, and in fact could go to poison whatever legitimate case they have outside your testimony.

You do still have to watch out; this doesn't apply to "offered statements" which aren't in response to direct interrogation ("You know, Jim, there's a lot of kids around here. It'd be a shame if one of them found that shotgun...") At that point they may be able to claim you voluntarily waived your right to remain silent and resume questioning.

(It's also worth noting that the Fifth Amendment only applies once you're under arrest. It's a protection from self-incrimination, after all.
Ask HN: Do you test your service in Opera?
Sometimes, things are really broken in Opera. Usually they're fine, but some sites seem to disregard it completely.

In terms of market share, Opera is almost infinitesimal, so it's difficult to feel entitled. But it still feels like something you would or should check out - eventually that is; it's not a main priority for a soon-to-launch company.
I was surprised to find out this morning that I received a CR-48.

My wife called me midmorning to let me know that UPS had left a page for me from a name neither of us had heard before. A few minutes later, I saw a link to this Techcrunch article on Twitter, so I suspected that maybe that was what was waiting for me at home.

Sure enough, when I went home for lunch, I opened the box and found the notebook.

I had no prior indication that I had been selected for the pilot program, and I believe I read somewhere that those not picked would not receive notice.

So, hopefully some of you will get a surprise too as they continue to roll these out.
I don't think it's absurd to use this for hours a day, given that for many deaf people signing is their only way to communicate face to face, and people will find ways to talk all day.

I work in construction, I spend my days holding 5lb drills in front of me. Using the standard gesture position (forearm down) your arm won't get tired during a day. I basically live my day in the 'gesture position' often for well over 8 hours a day, always with weights in them.

When the upper arm is lifted is when your arms get not so much tired but literally drained, which is what I think the Kinect will likely have to adapt to.
Me to. Check your mailbox. I've also sent you our logo and some design references we wanted you to have a look!

Cheers!
There are two conflicting stories in the job market.

One is "we need more developers and engineers", usually said
by top-tier companies such as Apple, Intel, Google, MS. They really do need well-educated graduates to push the envelope.

The other is "there are many unemployed IT people". These were individuals who worked where IT is a cost center, developing CRUD and maintaining in-house systems. Hum-drum, but it pays the bills. Their jobs are being outsourced.

Now, when deciding on a course of study, if you don't know, for certain, that you are top-notch, have a passion for development, and upon graduation will be desired by startups and established concerns alike, will you want to risk time and money studying cs/sw? Especially if you are smart enough to recognize that that situation exists.

If the hum-drum jobs are gone, you have fewer fall back positions available. It becomes akin to working hard on your football skills in high school, going to university on an athletic scholarship and hoping to be picked up by the NFL. There are no hum-drum, non-NFL jobs available; miss the NFL draft and you're just another communications major on monster.com.

This negative feedback cannot be good. We want to encourage brains into STEM, but if there's no fall back position those smart people are going to stay away and study to work in FIRE, or, if we're lucky, medicine.

I have no solution to this problem; it is a massive multi-player prisoners' dilemma and everybody is snitching.
I want bolded headings to guide my scanning.
Most people who are richer became so because they employed others. They wealth did not just come from their talent, but the quality of the education that the government helped these workers obtain, the fact that they could arrive safety to work; they wouldn't be so rich if no fire brigade stopped the stocks from burning to the ground — that's the reason why wealthier people should be more taxed.

My initial answer was about resentment, not tax rates. You strike me as a libertarian: Everyone is free of their opinion, so who are you criticizing them for being jealous? ;) No, seriously: some people, often not those who made their fortune by being nice to their clients, but their self-entitled heir, behave like pricks. I see it all the time when I go to fancy restaurants, and it actually bothers me.

From anecdotal declaration from wealthy individuals, I'm assuming the original entrepreneur would prefer that their children behave, because they know the importance of being nice, but until recently, social rules have prevent them from disenfranchising them. Before Warren Buffet set an acceptable voluntary roof for inheritance, forcing heirs to behave was a social conundrum, resolved by guilt.