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Amazon defended the child pedo guide based on free speech rights. They completely collapsed here to political pressure.

Hypocrites.
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Then demote.
Just fyi, this was originally on techcrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/japan-to-fix-your-economy-h...
I think it's great that you've tried to provide a review criticizing this post. But please resist the urge to tell me what I ought to find funny, just as I have resisted the urge to tell you what you ought to find interesting.

Especially resist the urge to criticize others for liking things you find unworthy. Your comment's criticism of the OP is appreciated. Your comment's criticism of other members for voting for the post is, well, something else entirely.
Part of the article's popularity probably has to do with the popularity of Steve Yegge.
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> 140 points? Really?

I think some of these votes are purely because the author is a very recognizable name who hasn't blogged in a while.

I for one broke out into a smile when I saw a new yegge blog post.
Right, but this is basic, practical stuff for everyday life (except for the stuff about bushels and rods). Even though you can learn it and then pass, the fact that you are past 8th grade and cannot means your education is deficient (mine as well).

Rote memorization is underrated. Yes, memorization alone is useless, but critical thinking without anything to think about is also useless.
I agree with you. Just posting to say that there is an HTTP server in Erlang that's supposed to be very good: Yaws.
Unfortunately I believe this is optimized for long-running connections which I don't always have the luxury of maintaining
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In 1895 I would have been too busy being an immigrant farmer with the rest of my family to go to school at all, so I'm pretty ambivalent about what my standardized testing fate might have been.
Wow, it would be one thing if Lieberman wrote a bill to ban all US ISPs from hosting Wikileaks content, but in this case he is simply using his clout and acting like a thug by pressuring Amazon (an e-commerce retailer first and foremost) right around the holiday season.
Surely there are better places to post funny but thought-free links than Hacker News?
There are two ways you can write Tropo apps:

1) Tropo Scripting, where the app is hosted in the Tropo cloud (similar how Google App Engine works) and is written in PHP, python, Ruby, Groovy or JavaScript; or

2) Tropo WebAPI where you run the app on your server and communicate with Tropo via a RESTful API using JSON. The app can obviously be written in any language you want since it's on your server and can use all available libraries. To help developers get started with the WebAPI, we've made available libraries for Ruby, PHP, python, C# and Node.js. (Available at http://github.com/tropo )

And yes, Voxeo has been around since 1999 and is the largest hosting provider in the VoiceXML/CCXML space.
I agree with your view here. I've flown a reasonable amount, although not much in recent years, and I wouldn't have expected them to cancel my flight like that without contacting me in some way.

Likewise, this left me feeling somewhat positive about WePay. It was a rant about the ways they want to always help you, and how your problems are more important to them than "policy".
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Federal judges have enormous power in a courtroom. Usually, they are very bright, very decisive, and pretty domineering. They also have lifetime tenure, subject to removal only on grounds of impeachment. Federal courts also use the single-assignment system (as opposed to what is known as a master calendar system) by which they will have a given case assigned to them from pre-trial all the way through to trial, meaning that a judge typically has lived with a given case through the process and knows it well.

Having litigated before such judges in quite a few settings (though not criminal), and having clerked for one back in the day, I can say with great assurance that, if the judge starts the trial by saying to you as a prosecutor, in effect, "what the hell are we doing here," you know your case is in pretty serious trouble. When the judge goes on for a half hour straight berating you, it is doubly so. This does not mean that a determined prosecutor can't push a case forward but it will be a real uphill fight.

The items that offended the judge in particular: both the prosecution's witnesses had dirty hands relating to the central issue in the case (both having themselves committed crimes); the government's own manual had stipulated for the past decade that a crime of this type could only be a crime if the defendant acted with a willful intent to violate the law (mens rea) and the prosecutor waltzes in with proposed jury instructions (i.e., jury instructions that he is asking the judge to adopt as the court's own and use in instructing the jury in this case) that say that such an intent is not needed for the jury to find the defendant guilty.

Therefore, a case that reeks and a total lack of integrity in the government's position. And the judge says, in effect, "what are you trying to pull in my court, Mr. Prosecutor." Not a happy position for the prosecutor here, though I think this one deserves to squirm a little for doing what he did.
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> and the search result simply disappears in the other case

Except that the search result didn't disappear on Bing. it had the same behavior as on Google.

You seem to have a bias to assume that Google did something algorithmic and Bing just hand crafted the search results based on absolutely no facts at all:)
Thanks to all the people that participated and I hope you had fun creating your bot.
When somebody tosses around phrases like how to subvert Haskell's type system to accomplish basic shit you can do in other languages, it's a big red flag that they've never used Haskell, and possibly have never even seen Haskell code.

IMO, it proves exactly the opposite; a person could never say it unless they at least tried to write some Haskell code.
Scanning the QR 404s for me, and I can't find it on the Market.

Is this US-only?
Not being an iOS developer I'm a little in the grey here. How would developing a product for the private market go in terms of distribution? I gather your product is for mass consumption?
That's a server, not a browser ;)

I was using FORTRAN, Erlang, and Python as examples of languages which are heavily used in industry, but have neither the crushing popularity of Java/C# or the pop-culture appreciation of Ruby or Javascript. It doesn't really matter how much Haskell or Erlang are used, or how many billions of dollars pass through their runtimes every day; for whatever reason, the Internet has decided they are not popular.
Facebook uses haskell.

https://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php (They only accept answers in languages they actually use.)
I'd also be concerned that on Android that the user might have a device that doesn't allow off-Market installs, and then I'd have to use a distribution mechanism I don't prefer (maybe even an alternative market like Amazon was rumored to be creating).

No platform is perfect.
That's very interesting. Thanks for that link. Will look into it.

I was more thinking of a commercial product/platform that could be used for a variety of reasons.

So what is the only anti-dote to a DDOS right now? A bigger pipe...no?

Well imagine having a service that you can 'spin up' any number of nodes/machines to intercept all those packets. I am not sure how the economics would work, but in order for it to be a good service with good support it would have to be commercial - not an open source project.

The only issue with that is that if there is one company, it makes it easier for major governments to try and get their hands on it. So for WikiLeaks case, it might not be completely helpful, but imagine the many other cases where popular/large sites are hit by constant DDOSs. I think there could be significant use there. Especially as high-speed & fibre connections become more prevalent and latency (around the world) comes down even further than it has over the years.

Just my $0.02.
Good point. When I hand my Nexus One around to people who haven't used it before, they always bump one of the soft buttons or put it in a state which confuses the crap out of them.
hmm didn't know the founder worked for RIM, this got a little interesting
The ones I know will invest very early, before you have a finished prototype.

Since I was talking about France specifically, they tend to invest in France only (the fancy ones invest in France and US). But I'm sure other European countries have similar angels.
Well, unless you don't: http://code.google.com/p/iphonedevonlinux/
Subverting the type system is roughly equivalent to embedding assembly in C; possibly useful for very special cases, but almost never done otherwise. It's certainly not required to do anything commonplace.
How cool would it be if the guy behind this site did a writeup now to show what happens to search traffic and income when you shit on customers, then get your very own article in the NYTimes, and then Google tweaks their search algorithm specifically to hurt you?
So choose not to do iOS development.
kinda like techmeme?
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I don't see the parallel; calling for people not to do business with black people is absolutely indefensible; Lieberman would have a civil right to do so, but might also be impeached as a result.
But government officials are throwing around political pressure and making statements in public that confirm what the documents are. How is declassifying them going to do anything worse at this point?
My concern is that the 30% will be rejected by VCs when doing your first round, and will force you to recapitalize to something more reasonable for the founders. At least that's what good VCs in the US would do, but this being Europe, who knows.
That's not the point. Has anyone actually made a virus? No. Will somebody? Yes. Are they perceived as better in that regard? Yes.

The point is that they are not perceived in that way, so people are not scared of them. It doesn't matter how true it actually is, it matters what people think.
Or the Onion. Not as much of a compliment...
yeah I think that is the real case, especially given that WM6 wasn't locked down, I went to one of the early previews of WP7 a while back and there was a lot of angry WM6 enterprise developers about this issue, and all the MS representatives agreed with them.
Would you prefer a sound effect for when the 5-minute count is done?

The reasoning right now is that some people might want longer than a 5 minute break, but still want to keep their eye on how long a break they've taken. We could add a sound effect at the 5 minute mark but keep the count going.

In any case, thanks for your feedback and thanks for trying the app out! I'm glad you found it of value!
I disagree. For instance, debug printing is a very common pattern in many languages.
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A little late for me to comment, but why, exactly, would they lock down information sharing if not out of fear of a popular reaction? Nothing revealed so far has been any worse than embarrassing. One commenter compared the revealed diplomatic cables to things one would say to one's wife about one's mother-in-law, but which one would not say to one's mother-in-law directly. They aren't even any state secrets yet, just a bunch of "Oooh, did you see what he said about them?"

We found out Hosni Mubarak hates Hamas. Did Hamas not know that? Suppose they didn't... now what just changed? Are they going to get their feelings hurt? The only way this will change the relationship is if one side or the other is pressured by a popular reaction to that information being aired publicly.

Our ambassador to Libya passed on a rumor that Qaddafi is sleeping with his nurse, oooh, juicy. Or check out this, which of all the things I've read isn't just a "tee hee" and actually resembles a real scandal:

In what is widely being seen as a dangerous blurring of the line between traditional diplomacy and intelligence work, the State Department has asked its diplomats to obtain "credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries," according to the New York Times' reporting on multiple cables dating back to 2008.

Gasp... blurring the line between diplomats and spies! Of course, for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, the most common cover for intelligence agents has been diplomacy, so this isn't exactly news. Embassies are nests of spies, yes, I have read a couple of John Le Carre novels.

The amount of non-news surrounding this "event" is just stunning. Just a whole lot of we-knew-that-already.

So by what mechanism will this pressure anyone to lock down information sharing?
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She explained the trap they set for Briars: "We crafted a fake satirical post lampooning Haskell as an unusable, overly complex turd -- a writing task that was emotionally difficult but conceptually trivial. Then we laced the post with deeper social subtext decrying the endemic superficiality and laziness of global industry programming culture, to make ourselves feel better. Finally, each of us upvoted the post, which was unexpectedly contentious because nobody could agree on what the [HN] voting arrows actually mean."

Apparently their approach was more successful than they thought.
trademe.co.nz is the poster boy of ebay killers. There is always an exception to the rule. I know of several other countries were ebay has no traction and there is a local alternative.

It is a valid strategy to get in and own a regional variation before the bigger players move in. But you have to move very fast - so fast that the 'big' player hasn't really been noticed yet, or bothered with the local market.

There's still plenty of countries with no real craigslist implementation. But for some reason nobody seems to want to do it.

So you're correct, you can early-move-copy on a big idea, but you've got to have the conviction to move early, and your idea must have ties to the locality through real life goods and businesses (or, I suppose, languages).
Privately, I agree with you and I haven't upvoted it. After that, I suggest that our options are to (1) Flag it if it's really off topic, and/or (2) Criticize it, which I think you've done well. My only concern is whether we should (3) be galled or outraged that others have their own idea of what ought to be #1 on HN.

I like humour, and it seems like we share a personal preference for the kind that makes you laugh and then think hard when you realize that there's something incredibly insightful at the heart of the joke.

Alas, I'm not skilled enough to pull that off myself. All I can say about Haskell is to quote Alan Perlis: A language that does not change the way you think about programming is not worth learning. And given that, the sad observation that most "Industry Types" as stereotyped in the OP are not interested in changing the way they think about anything.

It's more than a Blub thing, it's a comfort zone thing.
Quite obscure, but I was surprised to find that a 3D modelling program, Wings3D, that I've used on and off over the years, is written in Erlang.
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So you can still pass all your tests you wrote in school? I certainly can’t and I don’t consider my education deficient because of that. To say nothing of the fact that those questions are more than a century out of date.

I also think you are misunderstanding the point I’m making about rote memorization. What good does it if you can merely name and define all the parts of speech? You can learn that whole list and all the right definitions without ever understanding anything. You can answer that question in the test completely without knowing anything of worth. There are better ways of testing whether you know what the parts of speech are and whether you can identify them.
Good old Posterous. I have 2 blogs in there and I love it.
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You don't need to subvert the type system to debug print; simply use 'print', 'printStrLn', or for something truly complex, WriterT. Debug.Trace is available as a last resort, but in roughly a year and a half of writing Haskell code, I can count how many times I've needed it on one hand.
There is certainly more republics in Europe now than it used to be back then
> For example, one could mention its extant-but-completely-useless shared library support.

That wouldn't be funny. This article is funny because of the hyperbole of the usual criticisms (e.g. too academic). I think you have taken the post a bit too literally:

> "We crafted a fake satirical post lampooning Haskell as an unusable, overly complex turd -- a writing task that was emotionally difficult but conceptually trivial. Then we laced the post with deeper social subtext decrying the endemic superficiality and laziness of global industry programming culture, to make ourselves feel better. Finally, each of us upvoted the post, which was unexpectedly contentious because nobody could agree on what the reddit [OR hacker news] voting arrows actually mean."

His post is this fake satirical post, it's actually about "the endemic superficiality and laziness of global industry programming culture". So if you look a bit closer, you see he's making exactly your point: these criticisms are superficial.
would you mind sharing one valuable insight that came from the "master" class, that you will be applying to your current/next project, please.
What they call "dogfooding" has a different name when it comes to the relationship between government and business - subsidy.

If shielding local industry from competition is the mayor's idea of creating a new market, Portland's efforts should probably start with getting a better mayor.
I wonder if a lack of tolerance for bullshit has something to do with it?
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Maybe the details will appear on Wikileaks?
Sadly...
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I don't know where to find the stats, but the number of categories has expanded greatly. I assume that trend will continue.

The hard part is convincing people to upload their work. Even in physics the use of the arXiv is not uniform. In some areas, almost every published and unpublished paper is posted, while in other areas of physics hardly any papers are. For example, compare the category Quantum Physics with Space Physics.
Let's upgrade this concept: women should have sex at work.
Sounds ridiculous/offensive/immoral etc.?

If the above doesn't sound good than women should just be competitive. It's equal opportunity. These articles take problems out of context.
I had an evaluation copy on my desktop, but didn't play with it. There were others when I was looking; I went the traditional development path for the project instead. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/infoworld-review-... has some of them.
Wikileaked
Discussion on the Arstechnica post on the same
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960161
This is another great example of United treating it as if it is a privilege that you get to fly. They don't realize that you flying with them is their privilege. This is the difference shown at Virgin America.

A bunch of US airlines are just as bad. That tag line of "we know you have lots of choices, and we're pleased you chose us" shouldn't be empty words, it should govern the experience from end-to-end.
The problem with Portland is talent seems to be hidden. I haven't explored too much in the time I have been here, but the bits of exposure I have had didn't seem too promising. Contrast that to a larger area like Seattle, or a very talent-dense area like Silicon Valley, and you have the opposite problem of sorting through talent.

Additionally, there are very few resources for people just starting out. There is the Oregon Entrepreneurship Network, but with their fee structure it seems to be more of a business than a resource for a small business. You have to pay annual membership dues, and from there you have to pay entry into their events. Want to go to their monthly pub talk? Yeah, that'll be $30 for non members, and $15 for people already registered with the OEN.

Of course talk is cheap, why not put together something myself? From the few events I have been to, the SNR was poor enough to be intimidating. 2/3 social media consultants, 1/4 looking for a free lunch and the rest as lost as me.
I am very excited about this bundle. I've previously used Olark at other companies, and it's a great tool. Can't wait to introduce it at my current company!
Disagree completely. I could only answer one or maybe two of the grammar questions and yet I speak and write English just fine. Honestly, I don't even know what the "Principle Parts" of a verb refer to and I certainly can't list them. What bearing does that have on anything?
Seriously, the first thing I thought was, is this going to be really hard to develop for?
Surely you could implement this search in at least O(n) time?
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Yes, that is what I am assuming.
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When somebody tosses around phrases like how to subvert Haskell's type system to accomplish basic shit you can do in other languages, it's a big red flag that they've never used Haskell, and possibly have never even seen Haskell code.

Well, actually, unless you've tried using Haskell you probably don't realize the it has a type system completely different from 'other languages'.

About Blub: That's a stick you can use to beat anybody who criticizes any other language.
Oh, you don't think Brainfuck has anything to offer? Hah! Go read pg's essay on blub!
As an Argentinian, you should be well familiar that your country took in scores of actual fascists from Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, giving them safe harbor from war crimes prosecutions. There remain entire towns in Argentina where German is the primary spoken language, where still-living Nazis are residing undisturbed.

Calling America "borderline fascistic" because private companies aren't allowed to harbor illegally obtained diplomatic documents is less an accurate characterization of the United States than it is a display that you have little or no understanding of what fascism is. This should be particularly embarrassing because of your country's historical entanglement with fascists.

You could talk to some of your German-speaking countrymen if you're still unclear as to why Godwinning this thread is idiotic.
Here's some content-rich Yegge for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttI-y9VzXQ
What about French people? Remember "Freedom Fries"?
You can't inject 'print' or 'printStrLn' into a random function, which is the point of debug printing. And using 'Debug.Trace' qualifies perfectly as subverting Haskell's type system.
There's a lot of comments on this post remarking that the guy who lost his flight just didn't understand how airlines work. This is indeed a mistake only the inexperienced would make.

But it really is a problem that the thing we buy from airlines is called a "ticket". This noun conjures up what you purchase for a bus or a train, a right to a seat on a segment, an anonymous token which should be transferable to somebody else. That is not what you get from an airline these days. You enter instead into a complicated agreement that only applies to you.

So I think it is fair to expect the inexperienced to be confused by this terminology.
Has to do with how much data can be effectively pushed across it to a large number of people.
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