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I'm not sure I agree with you.

Yes, classified information will continue to leak, as it always has.

But WikiLeaks, at least to my knowledge, is deeply wrapped up with Assange, and it is not clear (to me, at least) how it would function in his absence. In the words of this article (http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-...), WikiLeaks is essentially a "Single Person Organization".
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Those who try to hire Haskell devs (and write about it) seem to have no trouble finding experienced people. In fact, it seems like there is almost a "glut".
From personal experience where I work (mobile apps company) I can say that a RESTful API is a good choice usually in terms of familiarity and reuse of code. We usually work with RESTful APIs, so when a new one comes, we already have our internal libraries to handle it, speeding up development.

But we work with other kinds of APIs as well, when a client asks. Apart having to do more work since we don't have code to reuse for that, we have no other problems.

If it works well, it does not matter if it's RESTful or not. But as for everything, if you are familiar with something, you are usually faster and more accurate.
Julian Assange writes for The Australian
ITA, wasn't it the company that got a Lisp project cancelled from Air Canada because the project was going nowhere after 4 years?
It is more about the continuity of the site. If the financial source is dried up as suggested in the article, Wikileaks as a website will eventually die, and it is not about this particular cablegate. Of course, Wikileaks probably already prepared for all these. I am just still surprised that so many companies act together to stop Wikileaks as an organization without any illegal charges yet.
That's WordPress default behavior. It also changes simple and double quotes.

The simplest fix is to enclose your command lines with the "<code>" HTML tag.

A good WordPress companion for blog featuring lots of command-lines and code is Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter . Several WordPress plugins are available. I personally use SyntaxHighlighter Evolved: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter
Can't you "apt-get install mono"?
TeslaTouch uses an effect that has been known since at least 1954 [1] and has been subject of some research so far. This does not mean that noone has IP on an implementation, though.

[1] Mallinckrodt, E., A. Hughes, and W. Sleator, Perception by the Skin of Electrically Induced Vibrations. Science, 1953. 118(3062): pp. 277-278. (from the academic paper on TeslaTouch)
uhm.. at least one of them was bragging on twitter after she'd bagged Assange.

It was only a few days later they both decided that they'd been raped. Go figure..
Having to support that many languages sounds like a pain. It's also be tough to hire train junior developers who had decent mastery of one language but not several. I'd rather have a junior person really know their stuff in one language than me average in multiple things.
I once worked at a place that had a code base that contained more or less parts in Ruby, Perl, Java and PHP. It was not fun at all to keep enough knowledge in the company over the years to maintain this nightmare.
I do realize it, however I was referring to a reasoning why antidaily's comment was downmodded. This was questioned by the OP (wooster) and I do probably realize that the reply to wooster should've been fitted at a better between wooster's question and a reply to antidaily. Since that was not possible, I chose the former.
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Julian Assange arrested.
So, it seems Julian Assange has been arrested. Let's see where this goes...
If something happens to us key parts of CableGate will be released automatically
Britain Arrests WikiLeaks Founder on Sex Charges
Does anybody believe this isn't engineered by the CIA and has no connection whatsoever to cablegate?
This article doesn't seem to mention anything about an actual arrest, it just says he agreed to meet with / surrender to police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-us...

That article seems to have a bit more info, but it's still doesn't seem like he's actually in custody yet.
Why?

Medical science seems, sad to say, incompetent (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract rediscovers integration, and statistical illiteracy among doctors has been repeatedly reported) and corrupt (conferences in lavish locations, vendor-sponsored efficacy research).

I'm sure there are good researchers, don't get me wrong, but I'm also not surprised that some really questionable stuff gets reported.

I'm sadly, even less aware of the state of research in sociology, but I'd like to point out that non-scientifically-tested psychological theories tend to be complete nonsense (cf. lots of Freud's work). With respect to economics: the field has many problems, but a book like Freakonomics is a very readable argument in favour of the use of statistics in (micro-)economical science and related fields. (Do note that the scientist-author, Levitt, actually understands statistics. This is, I suspect, important.)

That said, there are issues with the scientific method, like the fact that it tells us to drop falsified hypotheses but does not, in itself, teach us how to find interesting results. That's not germane to your observation, though.
Wow, an entire article about the costs of choosing an obscure language—which are real enough—but nothing about the benefits. I think everybody here understands that Java and C# are popular, and that this means you'll have an easier time finding libraries and warm bodies.

Here are some other questions the recruiter should have asked:

1. Can you develop your application less time using Closure or Scala than Java? How much less time? Can you iterate faster and try out more ideas before you run out of money?

2. How easy it to recruit good programmers who know Java? In my experience, less than 5% of people who apply for programming jobs know how to reverse a singly-linked list. In a startup, you care about the ease of recruiting 10x programmers, not the ease of recruiting warm bodies.

In short, the article explores half the problem. Without exploring the other half, there's no way to decide which companies should follow this advice, and which should contemptuously ignore it.
With all this hoopla, Assange and Wikileaks will serve as an inspiration and martyr to others who will create sites for similar purposes. I'd even consider creating one myself if I had the resources.

As for the content hosted by Wikileaks itself, thousands of mirrors and torrents of that have been going up since the fervor over the cables. I wouldn't worry too much about that. I think the real worry should be that Assange is about to get black-bagged.
BBC says he has been arrested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110
From the video: "... and than we have got the common sense test about the gross irresponsibility of this conduct."

So when all else fails, there's still good old fashioned "common sense" huh?
Manager-types are more risk-averse than they are opportunity seeking.

Grokking that goes a long way towards understanding this kind of blind decision making.
This can be better for him in terms of his safety now. Hope everything will end safely for Assange.
Actually, I think Assange did a pretty god job of making it look like a one-man-operation when it is positively clear there are many more skillful people involved in WikiLeaks.

Assange might take the fall, but the means nothing of the rest of the operation.
I expect that this was carefully planned.

Ideal would be the leak of documents describing the conspiracy to trump up charges against Assange after the relevant governments realized that he cannot be prosecuted under any existing speech or espionage laws.

I'm also curious to see at what point the key for Assange's insurance.aes is leaked.
It's interesting and all, but I think the New Yorker has a right to restrict access to paying subscribers.

EDIT: well, non-paying subscribers apparently. That makes me feel better.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110 . When Assange arrived at the appointment as scheduled, the arrest warrant was executed.
Hey Sriram - When are we getting coffee? I'll code against Amazon's gnarly API because I have to, not because I want to. Flickr's another great example of this. I mean, seriously, look at some of the calls, here: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

I think it's way more logical to POST a photo_id to http://flickr.com/galleries/123456/photos than to POST to http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.galleries... (note: HN is truncating the displayed link.)

Then again, I don't think I'm in the target demographic for Azure.
Can somebody with some legal background explain to be the benefits of him giving himself in to justice in the UK?

I am apparently naive and cannot fathom why he would choose to do this when he knows that there is a strong chance of him being extradited to the US. While I understand that being a fugitive with your assets systematically frozen is not fun, I am still puzzled by this move.
So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?
Disappointing link. What I would be really curious about is an assessment of (some of) Scala's features and their effect on code readability, reuse, etc.

I don't know nearly enough Scala myself to have a proper opinion on this. From trying out Scala, I remember some features that seem highly dubious to me from a maintainability/readability point of view. In particular implicits and right-binding operators ending in ':' did seem to be asking for trouble, to a lesser degree the sometimes overly punctuation-based syntax ("\:" is the method name of fold left...).
That wouldn't help against Oracles patents, which they are seemingly happy to use.
Unfortunately, what Java really does isn't only to be that combination of low-level and high-level. Just as vitally, (1) it is nice and easy and familiar for programmers familiar with current mainstream languages -- C-family syntax, approximately the usual control structures, few concepts that someone who's already programmed in C or C++ or C# or whatever won't find reasonably familiar -- and (2) it comes with a big bag of libraries for doing standard things: UI, database connectivity, regular expressions, logging, XML processing, and so forth.

Yes, ML is pretty good at those underlying principles; yes, you can use it to write code that's compact, safe, and fast; but it's not going to replace Java because #1 and #2 make Java easy for "ordinary programmers" doing ordinary businessy programming in a way that ML isn't and probably never will be.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not arguing that anyone who is comfortable in ML should use Java instead.)
I'm interested to know where you live that this is true! The only reasons I can imagine poverty would lead to poor food choice is lack of education or lack of facilities to prepare meals (ie. those living in transient conditions).

I come from Australia and can whole heartedly say that if you know the basics of food preparation and have access to a kitchen eating healthily is like a fifth of the cost of eating McDonalds!
Manager-types are more risk-averse than they are opportunity seeking.

But is this an appropriate strategy for a startup? As Paul Graham points out, the average startup fails, so you don't want merely average performance. If you're not prepared to manage risky tradeoffs, you may not be prepared to manage a startup.
Does everyone have to provide a unique in-depth analysis of the subject before they can make a comment? Maybe the rest of the thread adequately illustrates why advice from a recruiter is not necessarily credible and this comment is just made to tip people off before they get to the bottom of the article. I think that the guy can throw in an off-hand remark without having to provide boons of evidence.

I don't see a problem with pointing out that this guy speaks from the outside looking in.
My guess is that he is confident he can get out on bail. Maybe he got a deal from the UK - who knows at this point. It will be very interesting to see what happens next.
After listening to countless rants from friends in the UK about the cost of video games and other media, I've become convinced they just take the US price and switch the currency symbol, giving or taking 20 bucks.
If you have not actually done anything unlawful, it is best to just give yourself to justice and let the courts sort it out. Otherwise, they can use it against you that you obstructed justice...
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.

Also, when judging how well a country will do in science you should not look at the average, but rather at the top. Only a small number of people will choose a career in the sciences, so as long as you have those people, the ones at the bottom don't matter for this purpose - they bring down the average, but don't prevent a country from being a leader in research and development.
No. There are many factors which make it harder, and Google can't be arsed to make an effort and they only open products internationally when that requires next to none. That's exactly what they've always done.
Assange willingly showed up at a police station and was arrested by appointment. He probably has a plan.
I downloaded it by signing up for a free account, and it's littered with their ads
Take a look at Wikipedia's description, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer...

Applying this to one of Vambenepe's examples of an AWS method--

"AWS mostly uses RPC over HTTP. You send HTTP GET requests, with instructions like ?Action=CreateKeyPair added in the URL..."

you can see that it's not RESTful. A RESTful version of this method would have something like "KeyPairs" in the URL path rather than in the query string, and it would use POST rather than GET to signify a create operation.
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>But is this an appropriate strategy for a startup?

No. A startup should just use whatever the tech co-founder is going to work fastest in.

Hiring strategies shouldn't even be a consideration for a startup.
Don't want the facts to ruin a good story! :)
Use the Guardian thread, it has the most comments.

Guardian http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978645

MSNBC http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978690

BBC http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978651

TheNextWeb http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978656

Sky http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978613

CNN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978636

NY Times http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978692
I believe Steeplechasing is the most dangerous, widely practised sport, although apparently golf has more fatalities due to all the retired preople dropping dead on golf courses - ofc this could just be urban legend!
Nice story. However it takes place at much lower altitude (around 6000m). Trango is great climbing area with demanding climbs but it is entirely different category than Everest.

It is not saying that one can not succeed in saving someones life (even if it is highly unlikely). It is more if you are willing to risk your life to do it. If there weren't people risking lifes in rescue there would be no firefighters or mountain rescue. But one can hardly look down at people covering their butt first in extreme situations of high altitudes.

I agree that some mountains are heavily commercialized though.
I would love to see a link to that claim.
I find that RESTfulness improves the quality of design by forcing a little consideration on how to represent resources and actions on resources. The alternative is often littering the API with actions anytime a new one is needed - once that first version is out in the wild, it becomes a lot harder to take the time to consider the design choices. REST gives you a conceptual framework in which to implement new functionality.

In addition, all the consumers get the benefit of a common specification - if you tell me your service is RESTful, I can probably start making requests without even knowing much more than a starting URI, because I know how GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE will behave; I know what the error/success codes are going to look like; I can guess that Content-Type is going to drive the input and Accept will drive the output.

Sure, the consumer is probably going to leap through whatever hoops I put out there if they want my data, but RESTfulness is a courtesy, extending a hand and saying I'm not going to make extra work for you.

In the case of the OP, I'd say "Amazon proves that people who want to use a well-designed and beneficial service will work with whatever they're given".
Agreed - What happens in the next few days will tell a lot about the position the UK really has in this matter.

The optimist in me is hopeful the UK is helping him to get the Interpol heat off of him and set him free on bail.

After all, Assange might help the UK in anticipating future Wikileaks releases. There's plenty of potential for deals.
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Wouldn't int main() be even better. Shorter, and acknowledges that main actually takes parameters (command line arguments).
Take your pick:

Guardian http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978645

MSNBC http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978690

BBC http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978651

TheNextWeb http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978656

Sky http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978613

CNN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978636

NY Times http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978692
I think this problem has no satisfactory answer. We are asked to operate with quantifiable information —probability of special and normal coins coming up heads— and unquantifiable information —my "belief" in a coin being a special coin, which may, or may not, depend on my level of knowledge of several factors, like the plausibility of the existence of special coins, their prevalence, my competence identifying them...

EDIT: ...my friend being or not a usual liar, his sleight-of-hand skills, my level of rational analysis and critical thinking, me being on drugs, me dreaming, me actually experiencing the Matrix...

We are trying to quantify the unquantifiable: my "belief" in something, a psychological phenomenon which depends on millions of rational and irrational factors.
For an article that bitches about Scala too much, the recruiter clearly overlooked another poster child of Scala - Twitter! While the general premise is well intentional, but really, what you need the tool for makes more sense. Sure, FourSquare and Twitter use Scala - but the rest of world's backend needs aren't that special cases.

I hope the op recognizes that organizations are inherently islands and sometimes the smaller more productive ones tend to be little paradises of productivity with no ferry service. Happy swimming there :-)
Well it will have an effect. He could be telling the truth or lying. This has to be taken into account. The question is how much weighting you give to his statement. If you inclined to believe his statement then the first heads must increase the confidence, for a given weighting.
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Capability trumps everything else.

If AWS sucked, or was merely a typical collection of services, then details about its API design might matter. Of course, AWS isn't typical – it's exceptional. Thus, its API could require the use of carrier pigeons and people would still be lining up to use it.

That said, nicer APIs are nicer. As someone that has programmed directly to EC2's APIs, I so wished they were less crufty. I now use jclouds (via pallet), so I thankfully don't have to think about such things anymore.
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Just before arrest, Wikileaks Sweden based servers under attack
Is the statistical analysis behind this sound or does it suffer from the problems outlined in http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_...

Also, are there any side-effects to eating an aspirin every day?
I think the plan is fairly simple: to clear his name by showing these absurd trumped-up charges for what they are, the machiavellian machinations of the US via a disturbingly compliant Swedish legal system.
A fairly detailed article around the circumstances that have lead to the charges filed against him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1307137/Su...

Certainly not the definitive source but seeing the number of allegations thrown around in this thread I figured it could be a good time to start linking to reference material.
Largely because it regards developers as a commodity that can be summarized with a few keywords - which is something I have always hated.

Incidentally, I did co-found a start-up in '94 where we chose Java as the platform because we wanted to to do shrink-wrapped server side applications. Java was probably a lot less popular then than Scala is now and that choice turned out to be a huge advantage for us technically. I don't think any of first round of developers we hired had any real Java experience - it really wasn't a problem.
How well would Germany do if it took away Turkish scores, and how well would France do if it took away Arab scores?

Perhaps the U.S would do even better if only Asian-Americans were allowed to participate.
I'm at a loss as to why he would be worried about extradition to the US when the only charges against him are from Sweden.
Similar sites exist already e.g. Cryptome. It's just a matter of getting information to a source that will publicise it, and whether others have the chops to go as far as Wikileaks, even risking events like this.
I read a good article on why the charges against Assange are absurd: http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,01.shtml

And a more recent follow up: http://rixstep.com/1/20101202,01.shtml
This is a bayesian problem, depending on the a priori probability given to a "special dice" pri,

P = 2 * pri / (1+pri)

(Which is > to the probability before tossing)
http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,01.shtml
The big problem with this is not that it teaches people to abuse main() return arguments, but that it covers up a complete lack of understanding of what "void" is doing in this context ..
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