skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yes. By buying positions.
No. Why give up native applications?

With NaCl, you may not have to, plus the user would have a much more secure system.
In what way do you think the aggregation function is "complex" or that it is not transparent or democratic?

You are stating opinions as facts. Please back them up?
So this is actually pretty funny.

In my local version of firefox, the entire icon vanishes for about 5 seconds, every 5 seconds. Causing a notable visual disturbance. In Chrome on another system the eyes blink every 5 seconds or so. So yeah, my browser is being broken.

But when I asked people if it blinked ... they, of course, said yes.

EDIT: Also, as noted in an edit above, when viewed in Chrome it didn't animate unless the image was accessed directly. So for you it may blink, not blink, or really blink, depending on your browser and configuration...
I'm not sure why this isn't a more popular approach. I've often wanted a JVM (or Ruby VM) that ran without an OS, but it's a little "off the grid" right now. Good idea.
I must say I'm confused as to how this guy is reading all those books so quickly...
The allegations are from back in August.
According to Al Jazeera, the charges were dropped in August. I clicked through to their original source link, though, and it says he's been "detained in absence". Have to assume it said something different when the article was originally published on 8/21.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/20108211530...
I'd say they tend not to be handled well in most deployment mechanisms regardless of the language because all moderately complex systems are going to have multiple levels of caching that need to be taken into account when you are trying to update without restarting anything.

This isn't a failure of the deployment tools, by the way, because there is no way to write one that can take everything into account.
I really like Clean Code
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Here is the difference. Almost every startup I know uses Google Apps and Docs. I can't really see a huge switch to Chrome OS when it comes out. I love my Mac and I do not see any reason for me to switch.
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"Views only operate on the original pool of documents, and are not able to be a view of views."

The inability to chain map/reduce calls is the biggest thing holding CouchDB back, particularly w.r.t. CouchApps that don't have the luxury of an easy workaround. There is a bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-249 however no progress has been made recently.

By allowing views on the output of other views, more "normalized" document structures could exist that would still be transformable into useful outputs.
Wasn't there just a story linked here the other day about the advice given to the newly minted (back at the IPO) Google millionaires? As I recall it said;

Don't try to beat the market.
Don't try to beat the market.
Don't try to beat the market.
That's what his 'insurance' file is for!
Words have changed over the past couple hundred years. It probably wasn't tautological then, though I wouldn't care to try to translate it to modern terms as I am not familiar enough with Jefferson's thought to have more than a sketchy clue from reading other works of the time.
This is pretty awesome, I was looking for something exactly like this the other day. I can't wait to play around with it.
Governments would no be likely to use tactics like DoS attacks. If they were attacking wikileaks, the most likely methods would be using political pressure to get the hosting revoked. If they wanted (or needed) to use technical solutions, they would probably either attempt more direct attacks, or attack the dns and routing systems.
Unfortunately Google Docs isn't ready for commercial use just yet. I use it at work and it is OK for small pieces of work but I'd not trust anything important to it, I've been burned enough by it.
Then it's time for judgement of the people of pretty much every democracy outside of Switzerland.

The US might have the most imperialist foreign policy on the planet, but many democracies have relatively fresh blood on their collective hands, and many more haven't washed off the dried blood.
> As to where money actually gets deposited, it probably depends on which bank offers the best deal at any given time.

Is this what is referred to in the industry as a 'brokered deposit' ?
Many (most?) large cable providers, such as Comcast, have co-location and hosting businesses. After all, they have significant server facilities and a serious traffic deficit to make up.
He's too high profile and disappearing him would not prevent the publication of other documents, or some already published in unredacted form.
it's a great question. my intuition is yes at the first level: control of information is a key technique for many powerful unjust systems. it's a good point though that the same kind of power could also make unjust systems better at "false flag" attacks. certainly food for thought.
I really just disagree with all of that. Assange did not appear to me to be making any assumption about political power being monolithic. He is only talking about conspiracies as things in general having power, and notes that large parts of the US government act in conspirational ways..

Further, I don't think you can really have any model of current regime which absolutely could not function if it could not communicate secretly.

The sum of every secret conversation that the conspirator would not want the world to know about because it would breed opposition is the net capacity of the organization to act in unjust ways. If it cannot communicate internally in secret, it simply cannot act in unjust ways for any length of time.
A friend's startup does precisely this (given a target vertical or, ideally, a list of target companies, comes back with a scrubbed target contact list.)

They generally work on referral, but I'd be happy to make an introduction if that's what you're looking for; my email address is in my profile.
In a very LessWrong sort of way, you might find if you really think about it that the "apathy" of the governed is frequently quite rational. If you are a middle-of-the-road voter and really don't particularly care one way or the other which person gets elected or which proposals pass, why vote? If things are going fairly well, why vote? Arguably they're doing us a favor by not casting an essentially random vote.

In the past couple of elections there's been a lot more participation, broadly from the Left in 2008 and broadly from the Right in 2010. Because not caring has become a lot less rational.

Humans aren't rational by any stretch of the imagination but groups of humans are frequently far more rational than supposed, if you take the time to figure out their real incentives and not just the immediately obvious ones, or the ones being loudly claimed. (And yes, I agree there are truly apathetic individuals. But most people read "apathy" as simply a variant of "lazy" and I don't think that's necessarily as true as it pleases some people to believe.)
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And that was said by the US coach. He should know better.
"Until Motorola takes over the world, that is." FTFY
If you consider the logic of this essay, it makes perfect sense for him to post his own emails. It won't trip up his very small network which is probably operating under the assumption this stuff is coming out sooner or later anyhow.
Somebody already did it with OCaml, so Haskell shouldn't be too far off.
I took mpk to mean the timing of the Interpol Red Notice, not the allegations themselves.
What crime has he committed under American law?

And remember, he is an Australian citizen so the whole treason thing doesn't apply.
i think its important to stress that Assange is just the public face of the wikileaks organization. Bringing him down wont stop the leaks in any way.
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I had to work out a sample game the long way to understand the strategy for a 3-sequence game, maybe others will find it helpful:

Suppose some games where the players choose a sequence of 3 and the game goes up to 4 tosses max. For any sequence of 3 there are going to be 4 possible ways to win. Let's suppose player one chose THT, the ways of winning are:

HTHT - game ends after 4 tosses
TTHT - game ends after 4 tosses
THTH - game ends after 3 tosses
THTT - game ends after 3 tosses

Now, as player two, you know that any combination you chose will also have 4 ways of winning, so in order to beat player one you need to rob them of one of their ways of winning by picking a sequence that appears before their winning sequence.

You have no options in the latter two cases, player one wins after only 3 tosses, but you can beat them in the first two cases. Both HTH and TTH appear before THT, but in the third case THT appears before HTH. So HTH won't work, you both take one of each other's winning conditions leaving you both with 4. But there are no cases where TTH appears after THT, so you have 4 ways of winning while player one only has 3.
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How are you tracking the Cydia freeloaders? This has been a concern of mine and I'm not sure what the best way to deal with it
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> the generated CSS by the bake tools is non-usable.

Bake doesn't generate css, it generates view scripts. The default CSS is supposed to be over ridden by your own style sheet. Django-admin is like a gimped version of bake, it's actually closer to Cake's auto scaffold.
To have no secrets it desirable, but I do not see how this would not lead to pure Anarchy (in the political sense)

I wonder if government could even function without secrets. A wartime government certainly couldn't--World War II would have gone much differently if Germany knew Britain had broken Enigma, or if Japan knew how to build an atomic bomb.

But what about more routine things? A lot of times we trust the government to keep our personal secrets. Consider health care. Most governments provide health care to some people in some capacity, be it the local public hospital or through a single payer system like Canada or even the NHS. How do you run one of these systems without protecting the privacy of your patients--i.e. keeping secrets?

Perhaps we should consider diplomacy, given the recent leak. Sometimes diplomatic negotiations are very sensitive, and the smallest leak can catastrophically queer the deal. Consider the Cuban Missile Crisis--a well-placed leak there could have led to war.

Or perhaps we should consider the criminal justice system. No state secrets means no Witness Protection Program. Sealed juvenile criminal records are generally considered a good thing, as is (in some cases) jury sequestration and the identities of rape victims.

Finally, a government that can't keep secrets can't use cryptographic authentication or cryptographic channels for anything, from running an HTTPS service to transferring funds. Hell, they can't even secure their computer networks. We would all have the constitutional right to root access on every government computer.
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The "hunt" consists of him showing up in public whenever he wants and the Americans stridently insisting that he's a shadowy, mysterious criminal, like Osama bin Laden.

This has nothing at all to do with any actual investigation, and everything to do with appearances in the American press. It's spin.
When I hear the term 'Totalitarian Democracy,' I think of the Terror durring the French revolution, where everyone spied on everyone (even members of the government) and anyone who strayed too far from the norm was executed as a traitor. Privacy, even for the government, is an essential component of freedom. Personally, I oppose wiretapping and a government spying on it's citizens. I am also quite critical of Assange and his politics.
WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...
I'd be interested in giving it a spin.

Currently I'm dubious of the value of a browser-only OS without real local apps, but back in 2007 I was pretty dubious of a "smartphone" that had neither a keyboard nor a stylus. <shrug/>
>by pushing this option you just bring the "enemy" closer to the nuclear option of simultaneous, mass, unfiltered release

Perhaps, but maybe this is the goal. Wikileaks' stated reason for staggering the release of the material is "to ensure that there is time for them to be written about, commented on and discussed widely in public". Maybe someone knows there's a scandalous cable somewhere in there and believes they can minimize the chance of it being noticed by the media by hiding it in the deluge of a simultaneous release.
Treason does not apply. Espionage does. Most countries have laws that provide for prosecution in absentia if the defendant refuses to appear in response to a summons. For espionage, the U.S. takes it one step further: our laws specifically give our federal law enforcement agencies permission to operate outside of normal international extradition processes for the purpose of arresting espionage suspects. In other words, if espionage charges were to be filed against Assange in the U.S., the FBI would be allowed to go wherever he is and more or less kidnap him. This would undoubtedly cause a huge international incident, as it would almost certainly violate the laws of the country where the arrest takes place, but it would be perfectly legal under U.S. law.
And, of course, you've never been burned by using Microsoft products!8-))
When I started the business my wife was working, yes. She doesn't now. She's on full time "mum" duty. She is a web type as well and she does some of our content and client work when she's got the time.

I'm not sure what you mean by the second part of your question?
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U.S. law does not apply to foreign citizens. It's the equivalent of you getting arrested for some vague Chinese law.
> I think he's reckless, and I think he's in it for celebrity and attention and power rather than his stated ideals.

Then you are starting to believe all the misinformation that the government is trying to spread about him. This is how the discredit people and this information, since they can not actually deny it.

I really believe that this is one of the greatest actions to happen to democracy in a long time, and everybody should be rejoicing in these leaks.

We need more transparency in government, and there are people out there willing to do this, and get in all sorts of trouble for it. Fortunately he has left Australia, the government here would be more than happy to send him over to the USA on any trumped up charges.
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I said nothing controversial or offensive here. Downvoting me just because you disagree is just plain immature.
I'm surprised a flood that regularly takes an AWS load balancer offline isn't showing more link congestion...

get /:

tsl@crabapple:~> time curl http://wikileaks.org/ > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 5837 100 5837 0 0 20684 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 30087

real 0m0.298s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.005s

where:

tsl@crabapple:~> dig wikileaks.org A | grep -A 1 "; ANS"
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikileaks.org. 2517 IN A 184.72.37.90
tsl@crabapple:~> dig -x 184.72.37.90 PTR | grep -A 1 "; ANS"
;; ANSWER SECTION:
90.37.72.184.in-addr.arpa. 300 IN PTR ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.

palo alto:

3 rtr-border1-p2p-core1.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.252.133) 0.796 ms 0.433 ms 0.400 ms
4 slac-mr2-p2p-rtr-border1.slac.stanford.edu (192.68.191.245) 0.371 ms 0.415 ms 0.400 ms
5 sunnsdn2-ip-slacmr2.es.net (134.55.217.2) 0.668 ms 0.709 ms 0.676 ms
6 sunncr1-sunnsdn2.es.net (134.55.209.98) 0.808 ms 0.842 ms 0.823 ms
7 eqxsjrt1-te-sunncr1.es.net (134.55.38.146) 1.231 ms 1.268 ms 1.247 ms
8 equinix01-sfo5.amazon.com (206.223.116.177) 1.930 ms 1.780 ms 1.516 ms
9 * * *

nyc:

3 te2-7.ccr01.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.134) 0.564 ms 0.575 ms
4 ntt.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.66) 0.664 ms 0.659 ms
5 ae-2.r22.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.174) 0.760 ms 0.731 ms
6 ae-1.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.9) 31.672 ms 7.974 ms
7 ae-0.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.53) 90.576 ms 98.458 ms
8 ae-4.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.103) 93.544 ms 85.011 ms
9 ae-1.r21.plalca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.32) 90.292 ms 108.205 ms
10 po-2.r03.plalca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.142) 78.070 ms 82.080 ms
11 xe-3-3.r03.plalca01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (140.174.28.118) 91.133 ms 91.491 ms
12 * *

dallas:

3 vb1300.rar3.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (216.156.0.81) 4 msec 0 msec 4 msec
4 ae0d1.cir1.dallas2-tx.us.xo.net (207.88.13.125) 12 msec 0 msec 4 msec
5 dap-brdr-04.inet.qwest.net (63.146.26.169) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
6 snj-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.34.14) 44 msec 44 msec 44 msec
7 snj-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.233.38) 48 msec 44 msec
snj-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.233.34) 44 msec
8 67.128.102.202 48 msec 44 msec 44 msec
9 * * *
Interesting. Except the Federal Reserve has absolutely no intention of raising short term interest rates above 0.25% for several years. The spreads in the real world will be much, much thinner than the example above suggests. Although it's possible to make money from thinner spreads, doing so exposes the trade to greater interest rate risk.

The model sounds interesting, but I hope these guys have stellar risk management.
I am really surprised the by the reception here on HackerNews. Tim has a few hacks for the human body and knows how to market it well. That is all.
M-W defition 2(b) of transparent : readily understood

It seems clear to me that the pricing mechanism is not readily understood by anyone, hence the ability for quantitative models to make money and yet still not be pure money printing machines (with the exception of HFT which does not claim to understand the general pricing mechanism, only short time span deviations from prior prices regardless of whether the prior prices are "wrong" or "right"). Further, the quantitative models I'm aware of price things on a relative basis : "given that we derive these general market parameters, things should be priced like f(x)", as opposed to "this company is worth X dollars". That fundamental analysts have jobs while still differing widely in their opinions suggests to me that the way to price things on an absolute basis is not well understood.

The underlying aggregation function may be simple, but we can't know that since its not transparent. My vote there goes towards not simple though.

Its most certainly democratic in some ways, though its unclear how votes are allocated. One per individual? One per trade? One per dollar? One per unit of influence?

I think the idea of crowdsourcing from a subset of the market could provide some edge, but think this is the wrong subset.
That's okay, the US would threaten the country where Assange would be kidnapped from: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/11/leaked_cab...
Do services like Disqus handle this for you? The infringing material is hosted from their site, after all.
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You don’t understand the philosophy and failed to realize there are already number of scripts that already do this. (Let’s ignore that you you referred to 2K as “the kitchen sink.”)

However some things need loaded in he head (for using HTML5 tags in IE, for example).

Thus there are obvious efficiencies to be gained by essentially hybridizing Modernizr.js and LABjs.

I’m now watching head.js on GitHub, and suggest you reconsider before dismissing it out of hand…
These are old tactics, the FBI used it on MLK (yes, your guberment didn't like MLK either). How is someone making information available so offensive?
I doubt he'll be charged with espionage, if the Russian spies that were caught this summer weren't charged, it'd be very telling if they charge him with that
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Microsoft with all its resources, and without having to standardize and version-lock IL bytecode across the web, managed over 10 years to build other languages, but the only credible one in my book besides C# is F#. The Iron languages are lagging versions of their progenitors. I'm not the guy to evaluate COBOL.NET and Fortran.NET. For some reason you left out the failed VB7 (aka Visual Fred), which is grist for my mill.

That IE9 Dead Code Elimination JS optimization that seemed strangely overtuned for one SunSpider test has nothing to do with JS source vs. bytecode. It does show how poor the industry-standard benchmarketing tests are (Apple is fixing to use the result of the loop, btw).

If you assume DCE happens upstream of transformation to bytecode, you assume more tooling than most web developers I've spoken to prefer to run. And anyway, web developers generally don't write useless yet computationally expensive loops!

But let me agree that it's possible a bytecode for JS could catch on, if only it could be standardized and implemented in all the top browsers.

Then we would have the versioning and future hostility problems I've mentioned, along with some other languages than JS being developed, which might or might not catch on.

So why don't we standardize some (or any, to read your comments) bytecode? I listed reasons including NIH and patents. Those are the "bad" ones but they're real. I don't think they afflict Mozilla, so kindly spare me your inflamed sense of grievance against "vendors".

Regarding web-based apps vs. native apps, see:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/html5-mobile-apps.html

and also

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008010

Opinions vary, but web-based apps if not "web apps" are trending up, not down.
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Your response would be appropriate if we were talking about a new browser but the fact is, virtually no non-Webkit browser, especially on Mobile, supports these media queries. Web dev is all about working with the browsers we’ve got, not the ones we want.
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Yes, exactly. And if the expectation of secrecy is nonexistent, Assange claims, those in power will act with de facto integrity because the probability of being caught committing a crime (even a boring one) is so palpable. Hence the claim that the purpose of WikiLeaks is to make WikiLeaks obsolete.
Ask HN: They say no one knows all C++ so what parts do Game Devs need to know?
I recently heard the expression: "If you think you know C++ then you don't know C++".
I take that to mean that C++ is sufficiently large and complex that it is not very common for someone to be deeply familiar with all of its facets.
So this made me wonder what parts of C++ are really essential to know to become a solid indie game developer.
Are there any dark corners that a developer would do well to learn?