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So, because of your experience in Afghanistan (you were there as an aid worker?) you have decided that wikileaks is somehow illegal.

There are fanatic idiots everywhere, that does not mean that we can't strive for a more open government, especially not when it has come to light time and time again that our governments and corporations do not just have secrets because we all benefit from them, but for the most part that they have secrets in order to cover up the lies and the corruption.

If it weren't for that wikileaks would not even exist.

I'll take the extra 0.000025% (that's a doubling) chance of dying in a terrorist attack because of that, which is still substantially less than dying of old age in my bed.

Stop being afraid.
Motion and Speed Effects: Adding Motion Blurs in Photoshop
Motion Blur is an effect in Photoshop under the blur filters which renders an image blurred but with direction and sense of speed and movement. It is somewhat similar to overstretching an image but it is more realistic because it applies blur.
My quick read is that the code they gave you earlier allows anyone capable of writing a cookie to execute arbitrary JS code against anyone who loads a page with the affected Javascript on it. It is 3 AM, though, so don't trust me on that read.

This class of mistake is very easy to make any time you have a paradigm which revolves around using eval(), and document.writeln() is eval() for all intents and purposes.

I kind of prefer doing my A/B testing server side, where I have the usual guarantee about the safety of all code I choose to execute. This isn't the best reason to abandon GWO -- not by a long shot -- but it is an added bonus.
I just had an interview with a few of these types of questions (find if the permutations of a given word are in a list of words, write an algorithm to fetch objects from an arbitrarily large list given that we can fetch a max of 100 at a time and users can scroll through results 10 at a time...blah blah blah). I had good enough answers and I got the job. Guess what I had to do for my first project...
This year's special guest speaker will be held in a CIA rendition cell in a secret location. Get your tickets now!
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It takes all kinds. People with the balls to summit Everest are rare, and they provide great stories to humanity, just the same as astronauts, deep sea divers or spelunkers. I can admire that because it's unusual and inspiring, something that can not be said for people playing it safe.

I won't judge you for your judgement, and I might even share it for people mountaineers who have kids, etc, but I can not agree with your premise that risking death is automatically bad because of how others might feel about it. There's more to life than staying alive.
No, fight for your freedoms. Be thankful for them as an afterthought.
Apple's communication gap irks business buyers (Xserve death)
> Be thankful for the freedoms you have

I think this should be "Be thankful for and watchful of the freedoms you have..."
I disagree with his opening thesis:

"Are you in the software business? I bet most of you would answer no. So let me put it another way: Do you have a website? If the answer is yes, you're in the software business. A website is software. It has utility, and that utility is accessed via an interface on a computer or mobile device. That's software."

Most business with a website are no more in the software business than they are in the electricity business or the plumbing business or the furniture business, even though without these things they would not be able to operate. Using software tools does not mean you are a software engineer/developer any more than flipping on a light switch or changing a bulb makes you an electrician.
I was there as a US Army NCO. I'm not afraid, I'm simply pointing out that there are people that despise the West, and it's bad enough that we have to take it from them...we shouldn't have to take it from our own people too.

I didn't say Wikileaks is or should be illegal...I asked where we draw the line. I don't think Wikileaks is a benefit, that's all. I think it has the potential to do good, but the way he's released documents has been more reckless than intentionally beneficial.

Can't we push for an open government without extremes? I'd say that our electoral process still functions well, as does the legislative one.
I doubt it's anywhere near as intense as, say, a 30" LCD's backlight, let alone stage lighting, or daylight. It's not a laser pointer, it's just IR.
> Be thankful for the freedoms you have and

fight for more. (Or at least donate money to others who will do some fighting for you.)
I suspect the main reason the NSF was targeted is it's transparency.

As far as I know, HHS and the Office of Minority and Women's Businesses don't have a publicly available list of projects. The NSF does.

Quite a disincentive for good management, no?
Can we be thankful for them while we fight to defend them? What's wrong with that?
I never said that one should not make small logical commits. I just think you should actually work that way, instead of trying to fake it after the fact.

It sounds like you are, so cheers!
Sure bets - Cloudprint (http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cloudprint.html), Chrome App Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/)

Likely - Chrome OS alpha/beta release (http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os)

Speculative - Chrome netbook or tablet released with hardware partner, free or subsidized 'test drive' of Chrome notebooks
The fact that it's better than some others is no reason to avoid condemning it when it fails to live up to its own standards.

By this argument, we shouldn't complain about any abuses of government in the western, because a lot of countries do even worse to their citizens. That's a nice idea, but if it was really applied, the result would be that the western governments would soon be no better than others.
This paragraph is hilarious:
"The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. We mark events such as World Press Freedom Day in the context of our enduring commitment to support and expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age."
Oracle RAC? That explains why it's so expensive.
I guess the event will be sponsored by the Ministry of Truth.
The Cortex-A15 (Eagle) design will have the option of hardware virtualization support ( http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/virtuali... ). No word on exactly what that means yet.

ARM's lower IPC and frequency may increase the time overhead of pure host-side virtualization or paravirtualization slower, but ARM is also a less convoluted architecture from a system software point of view, and may well have less state to virtualize, so the two may cancel each other out to some extent.

As for other operating systems with ARM support: iOS, several BSDs, RISC OS ( http://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads ), Haiku ( http://www.haiku-os.org/ ), and all manner of RTOS and other embedded operating systems. Oh, and Windows CE, Windows Embedded Standard, Windows Embedded for Point of Service, Windows Phone 7, etc.
Watch Connections[1] to learn why this attitude towards scientific research is foolish. The soccer study could be crucial to finding a cure for cancer or sending astronauts to Mars. That's not reaching; that is really how it works. Technology is a package deal. Take the whole thing or leave it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
Ask HN: Wordpress, custom PHP or Rails/Django for a simple Web app?
I'd like to build a web app (with help) with hopes of it becoming a FB and mobile app in the long run.

The structure is basically HotorNot/FaceMash to start. That will be the minimum functionality. From there I'd like to improve it and add the features that will actually make it wicked fun but at the very least a HotorNot that people can contribute to is the immediate goal.

Is it a waste of time to build that into Wordpress to use all of the user, db and registration framework but have to build a plugin for the whole purpose of the site?

Would it be better as a dead simple app built from scratch on a more modern framework?

Should I go with PHP so I can get cheap coding help or man up and learn a big boy language so I can finish it myself in 10 years or go broke trying?

Thanks for reading =)

UPDATE: Thanks for the wicked response, it's great to be able to 'talk' this out with the HN crowd!
Your have a 10% chance of dying if you attempt a summit, right?

10% of people who attempt a summit die, but that does not mean that attempting a summit necessarily has a 10% chance of death. That 10% figure is not conditioned on your individual preparation, your guides, and your fellow climbers. I would guess that with the right preparation, the chance of death is much less than 10%.
Yes, when you imply that thousands of Americans are guilty of giving material aid to an active enemy of the United States (a federal crime) because they've donated money to someone who posted documents that were handed to him --- when you, in effect, suggest that the New York Times is an accessory to an act of war on the United States ("act of war", by the way, being Newt's own words) --- yeah, I get to call you a crazy person. You are of course free to disagree.

No, suggesting that Julian Assange might not in fact be an active enemy of the United States and that his supporters might not be stepping close to the line of committing treason does not mean that I think Wikileaks is no big deal.

My favorite part about WL --- a subject I would happily support banning from Hacker News --- is how aggressively it tries to co-opt people into one of two factions. On this side, you have people who believe consent-based sexual assault legal frameworks are an tool of US hegemony, and on the other side you have people who believe that patriotism requires supporting the notion of guy with a bunch of leaked documents being assassinated. It's just a catalyst for drama.

The irony to this subthread? I was agreeing with you.
Donating money is fighting. Financing the warriors helps the cause, sometimes more than one more weak warrior (read: a person that's not been fully informed of the nuances and "gotchas" of parts of the debate) could.
my issue is more deeply rooted. Linear logic depends on a given true, this works fine in mathematics, computer science, and physical sciences, where assumptions are made, but resultant conclusions are void if assumptions are false, but when attempted to be wielded by philosophers said assumptions seem to be made desperately, and all attempts to challenge an assumption are met with desperate shouting and intentional deafness.
haha... the title is an oxymoron
http://singinst.org/upload/CEV.html holds some promise; unfortunately, no mere human intelligence or collection thereof can figure it out.
this is the first time i can remember when such a headline would appear ironic.
There is a growing number of dual-sim mobile phones on the market. The chief players are Samsung and LG, the latter of which is named in this article.
"For freedom of speech, there's Wikileaks. For everything else, there's Mastercard. And Visa. And, um, Paypal. And Amazon." -- James Ball, on twitter.
I wonder too about the leaks we haven't seen yet either, but at the same time, wouldn't WikiLeaks want to release the most scandalous and head-line grabbing info first? That would go a long way towards vindicating their position in the public eye.
While hunting down Wikileaks and Julian Assange?

dont get me wrong, i live in iran and what you have as freedom of press is a thousand years ahead of us, but really, 'world press freedom day' and calling wikileaks 'a terrorist organization' AT THE SAME TIME?
How ironic given our actions of wikileaks, crazy.
Yes, are worse countries, but the U.S claim to be pro free speech, land of the free and all that. The reactions from cablegate speak a very different language.

The irony that this announcement happens right now is beyond belief!

EDIT: Fix some stupid typos
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Security cameras use IR illuminating LEDs. At the lab where I work we have video eye-tracking hardware that uses a 4x6 array of IR LEDs to illuminate the subject's eyes.

I don't think it's a problem unless you get into significant intensities, as per a >1 mW laser.
Apple’s Patent Infringement Headache Could Lop 15% Off Upside Estimates
Who doesn’t imagine Facebook’s early design to be “ad hoc”? It was programmed as a spaghetti mess of PHP on Zuckerberg’s tiny laptop, and only worked because the user base was inherently limited to a few thousand people. Then the spaghetti mess was grown and added to over the next year or two, and the system scaled because each college’s network could be contained in a single server that only had to support a few thousand users (these servers used to use domain names like harvard.thefacebook.com or mit.thefacebook.com, IIRC). At some point they completely rewrote it with an architecture that would scale and not waste hardware, but it definitely didn’t start out that way.
Semantics of "fighting" vs. "supporting" aside, we agree that it's good to give money to organizations that advance freedom of the press.
> He has no particular expertise whatsoever at deciding
> whether project Y is more useful to society as a whole
> than other possible uses of the money. In a democracy,
> that decision is left up to our elected leaders.

That is not and never has been how science is funded in the United States or in any other developed economy. In the case of the US, Congress provides funding to and defines the overall mission of various funding agencies. The beaurocracies of those agencies supply funding to researchers, usually on the advice and recommendation of peer review panels. It is no accident that every time Congress created a new funding agency, it followed that same basic model. NSF works that way. DOE works that way. NIH works that way. DOD works that way.

The only case in which our elected leaders have a direct say in decisions of funding research are ear marks. In all other cases, Congress explicitly distanced itself from the quotidian chore of deciding on specific research programs.

Your assertion of how decisions about specific research programs should be made in our democracy is not well supported either by history or by the actual structure of our government. It sounds, instead, like a statement of personal opinion. Indeed, that fine-grained control over the quotidian role of government is something Representative Cantor and his party have campaigned against in the form of ear marks.

In any case, reforming 10^5 dollars worth of NSF funding in the presence of a 10^11 dolar budget deficit is clearly political grandstanding and not a sincere attempt to address structural budgetary problems.
Google Maps 5.0: Why Even Bother Looking At The Road?
Smart phone users love Google maps, as they should. It wasn’t too long ago when Google added turn-by-turn navigation, resulting in the anti-climactic killing of GPS manufacturers around the world. But now it is about to get even more interesting when Google releases Google Maps 5 for Android. On top of the feature list: we’re going to get 3D buildings!
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Give it two years for the hardware to catch up, plus some blessing from Apple (instead of the hacky stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString way of talking to Javascript), plus a open-source Javascript framework, then we are talking.

But not now.
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This cuts both ways though. Even today there are a lot more openings for JS people than Obj-C or Android. Either or both of the latter might be confined to a niche in five years but "HTML5" is clearly here to stay.
You can do it in all of the above. In a relatively similar amount of time if your starting from zero.

What you should do is first try the base language of each and see which one is easiest to work with. Then you can go from there.

Honestly the most important thing is that you ship.
And hockey of course.
To go with the cult of Myers-Briggs, it's because they're NTs.

Still, we should encourage all students to go through at least one programming class in high school. We don't want to lose any potential programmers from not exposing them to programming.
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Personally, I'd go with a php framework like Zend, Symfony, or Cake. It's php, so you'll have an easy time finding low cost developers (you'll have to filter out the bad ones). These frameworks have tools built in or easy to find for things like Ajax, user management, etc.
Who doesn’t imagine Facebook’s early design to be “ad hoc”?

Maybe just me. I don't know much about the history of the project, except Zuck started it in college.
It's ironic, isn't it? Worse is better, confirmed yet again.
Good catch, updated title. Thanks.
As reasonable as your assessment is, humanity has not gotten so far in the fields of ideas, philosophy, technology in general or any other field you can think of by being purely altruistic. Inspiration is a powerful feeling that drives progress.
An example that comes to mind is how Galileo chose to defy the powerful figures of his time and was, admittedly, willing to die for it. He had children.
>> Should I go with PHP so I can get cheap coding help or man up and learn a big boy language

Facebook was written in PHP...

Re: language choice, pick whichever you are comfortable with, they all kinda do the same thing and you can mix/switch to other languages if the need for them arises later. If you go with PHP, better to go with a MVC framework like Cake or CodeIgniter or whatever, rather than Wordpress, because the Wordpress codebase is famous for being a mess.

Re: ambitions: I'd suggest doing some reading on angel investing etc before assuming you can make a "FB and mobile app" with merely some "cheap coding help".
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Uh? What am I missing? "Because-it-is-there." The 's counts as one word, no? At least that's what I was always told.
Would you like to test drive a Chrome notebook?
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It's unclear whether you're in favor of recreational drug use for this purpose.
Just in my own experience [1] this is not a U.S vs the rest of the world thing: It's literally Silicon Valley vs the rest of the world. I've seen a lot of "steady niceness" outside of the Valley.

[1] I've lived in London, and on both coasts of the U.S, each for several years. YMMV of course.
My N900 is dual booting Maemo and Android. It totally makes sense to have two operating systems on the same phone and I could certainly see many advantages to being able to quickly switch between the two.
Google is announcing an OS today that is based on the user being on the web all the time. Chrome OS announcement is happening right now (10:30am Pacific). Tune in:

http://www.youtube.com/googlechrome
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What reactions? I don't follow. What has the U.S. unilaterally done? The U.S. doesn't run Interpol, nor the companies which have been blacklisted by members of the community. Politicians have opinions, and due to free speech they are able to speak them.
IPad: Bookmarklet to open all links in a new window
Here is a bookmarklet for the iPad to open all links in a webpage (like HN) in a new window, so we don't have to tap/hold and select 'open in new window'.

for(i in document.links) document.links[i].setAttribute("target","_blank")
I don't know about that. I've used a bunch of java frameworks which were designed as such ... Oh I see your point there
> This is not politically correct to say, but given the gap between white and black scores, I wonder how the US would do if you ranked it based only on white scores.

Questions of political correctness aside, this seems like some fuzzy thinking to me. Why focus on skin pigment as a distinction? Presumably because these numbers are easily available, and the categories are relatively "neat".

But why not skip all that and just use the top quartile scores? Or the top percentile?

The relentless focus on skin pigment is damaging to our thought processes as a whole, globally. It's an easy target, and it is definitely a (relatively) reliable proxy indicator for certain attributes (e.g. income, test scores). But most interesting questions (and answers) are causative in nature, and with skin color only being a proxy indicator, it seems limited to correlative questions. Also, in our civilization's more primitive and less-informed times, skin pigment was a critical distinction in both daily life and foreign policy. However, this was simply due to the lack of better or easier-to-use distinctions.

I mean, does anyone truly believe that skin pigment causes lower test scores? I doubt it. Now, do inattentive parenting and poor schooling cause lower test scores? I think so.

It may be that skin pigment correlates with poor education at home and institutionally, and it may be the only reasonable "metric" for quality of upbringing. But the focus should be on the causative force, and shortcuts that we make for practicality's sake should be broadly disclaimed at the outset.

So let's drop our vestigial attachment to skin pigment as an explanatory or causative condition. Not for reasons of sensitivity or political correctness, but for reasons of epistemological correctness.

Also: most of the "issues" that people have with skin pigment are actually judgments of culture and not appearance. Again, appearance is merely a proxy for culture, here. Note that I see nothing wrong with condemning cultures that are judged to promote or result in "bad outcomes".
Yes, though that's not the whole story.

Have you heard of principal-agent conflicts? What benefits certain subgroups / lobbies may not benefit the organisation as a whole.
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which leads again to the "I'm lost and my phone cannot help me without data connectivity" problem that vector based maps could solve.
Hence his praise for the feature: In his case this is not just a matter of 3G availability in terms of technical coverage, it's whether 3G is affordable as well.

Both could be solved with "preloading" the phone. So - I dare to say that he knows how to disable that and that's completely unrelated. He doesn't even want to need data roaming to have Google Maps available. You misread the intention of his post.
Just remember to add javascript: at the beginning.
10% is the wrong statistic. According to the article, for every 10 people who reach the summit, 1 person dies in the attempt. So, already, that's somewhat less than 1/10, because not every person who dies does so after reaching the summit.

But it also doesn't count the many people who start climbing the mountain but turn around before the summit and make it down alive.

The true statistic is likely much less than 10%.
I don't think I said we should avoid condemning it. Did I?
Please enlighten us. I have a friend who served a tour in Afghanistan around the same time period and he reported that most people there were friendly and just wanted to be able to live in peace...