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Deterring future whistleblowers (as mentioned below) is why the Bradley Manning has essentially become a political prisoner who is being held in solitary confinement. It is why, as the article mentions, the DOJ issued a subpoena to Twitter for the personal info of 600,000 supporters. Fear. Fear is why Rep. Peter King talks about "labeling" WikiLeaks a "foreign terrorist organization".

This article made me angry, but also sad, as I believe if we allow the government (in many cases we already have) to use tools like the Patriot Act as a kind of umbrella document to provide cover to go after normal American citizens - academia, free-speech advocates, journalists, hackers working on Tor - we allow an extremely dangerous precedent to be set that will likely lead to all kinds of future abuses of civil rights of people who simply want things like transparency in government. (I mean the real kind, not the kind you promise to implement when you are running for office).

Anyway, Glen Greenwald gave an excellent talk on WikiLeaks and Why They Matter (55:00 minutes mark of video) He speaks eloquently on this very issue. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/04/09...
I'd have to think more about this particular tool, but I remember seeing some calculations that passphrases have greater total entropy than random passwords, even if it takes more characters to get the same amount of entropy.

Generally speaking, I go with the mnemonics, myself, rather than something like this.
Reddit: Why is Vimeo so much better/smoother than youtube?
Since no particular solutions were offered in the talk...

HN: What are the best technologies for writing large JS apps?

I have experience writing Closure (http://code.google.com/closure/) and its structure is pretty scalable, but it feels like so much effort to do simple things. Styling the widgets is a pain. Making a custom widget (extending goog.ui.Component) is surprisingly difficult to get right for even simple extensions.

After all that, I still think it's probably better to develop in that over jQuery -- at least you end up with a straightforward, modular, testable structure at the end of the day.

Is there something better? backbone?
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A proof is not a program.

The Curry–Howard isomorphism[1] would beg to differ. I think programming is much closer to math than this comment gives it credit for. In some sense, programming is even stricter than math. When doing math, you just have to satisfy your instructor or your reader. When programming, your program must run on a real computer -- there's no room for hand waving or imprecise arguments.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence
There is a total $200 prize pool, plus a 'mystery prize' if you can do the (almost) impossible and rescue all the 10 girls in the game. I will also pay fairly for any decent review / suggestions on how to improve the game. It may look crap, but I did put a bit of work into this game. I'd like to improve it to the point that it could be popular. The game is in the public domain at the moment.
Working my way thru it now. His Einstein biography was fantastic.
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We are currently working on building a server-side/system Javascript library on v8. It includes all the CommonJS specs as well as being threadsafe and optional asynchronous/evented functions.

We are currently looking for opinions, suggestions, advice and someone to help us put together a nice build script to make it as easy as possible to build/embed CoreJS or build it to run as it's own process.

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Creative people are really using specific social platforms like Flickr and DeviantArt However Facebook really captures "casual creativity": Like a mom posting a photo of a child's drawing to share with grandma. This audience doesn't want Google to crawl that semi-personal content. As where a Flickr and DeviantArt user will pimp their creations to the masses.
Producing something other people can freely enjoy is hardly a waste of time. Would you considered Steve Yegge's blog a waste of his time? I don't. I have had a great many hours of enjoyment reading his words. I only wish I had such talent (and drive) for writing.
I know that it's entirely irrational and counter-productive, but I can not bring myself to do this and find out things I'd rather not spend the rest of my (hopefully not too short) life obsessing over. I'm already busy enough focusing on the obvious things, like being overweight. If I discovered that I'm certain to end up with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or something, I might have a pretty difficult time coping.

It makes no sense. It's entirely irrational. I love information. Knowledge. Informed decision making. And yet . . .
Not everything is an object. Also you should try coding against both object and graph dbs from an (OO) domain model.

Object identity is a fundamental problem that has nothing to do with the fact that a RDBMS is your persistent back-end.

Also, consider the notion of 'dirty' objects as just one of the problems.

Finally, you still have to manage (to some extent; per your db ymmv) relationship semantics.

Object and graph dbs shine where you wish to traverse your object graph. That is what is painful (and entirely alien) to RDBMS notions.

So if your application domain is naturally mapped to traversal semantics, then it is simpler (but note that you certainly can write complex joins that would support the same) and more importantly, the db engine is tuned to be highly efficient for such use cases.
Hard to say. It wouldn't work for any product or service that I can imagine, but that doesn't necessarily it's not right for something outside of my imagination or interest. Personally I would go to great lengths to avoid anything with a logo like that but maybe that's just me.
It's totally worth it; everything just feels so much smoother. If you can live with 160 GB you can get down to ~$300. The reliability is not an issue.
I don't care as much as other people that Facebook === blue.

But, IMO it needs a bit more polish. To a designer's eye, this immediately screams "programmer-designed". You may want to hire a designer - hand them these mockups - and let them add a "designers' touch" [more padding, better typographic alignment, softer contrasts, etc].

That said - this is a big improvement over the previous design. Also, please don't feel like I am ragging on your work, just a bit of constructive criticism.
(A) What looks good when written/printed and what sounds good when spoken frequently have little to do with one another.

(B) Modern journalism has the same problem, only worse due to (A).
lol man, I like. 1 suggestion, do the 'geekification' in JavaScript so they don't have to wait for your server. Or else, add some more options such as Klingon translation, Pig Latin, etc to make the server-side app more worthwhile.
btw pls check my project http://sam.ai.ki/rescue.html if you have Linux (any self-respecting geek should have Linux or some even more hacktastic OS thing)
Thats a great point, and we did think of that. My hypothesis is that there are more people out there who will actually take it seriously than not. Thanks for your POV - I appreciate it.
Totally.

Downside, you were detained for sixteen hours without counsel... But hey, free upgrade to the latest Macbook refresh!
You may be interested in this guy's comment (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gj74k/man_cleans_fi...): "I was changing out my water and as being the usual idiot I am, I didn't condition or warm the water before dumping in 5 gallons of cold water into the tank. The zoos didn't like that and started squirting a long thin streamer of black tar stuff. I scooped it out with my hands to throw it away, a few minutes later I felt light headed and about 5 or so minutes later is when it kicked in full force."
Ok, thanks for that. But as a User, why should I care? This would p*ss me right off.
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never seen one
With toxins this deadly you're safe until you're dead. Unless you're lucky like the guy in the story and inhale the toxin.
Proof is a pretty high bar for any SEO assertion. You can (and should) apply the scientific method to SEO for years, and still never arrive at objective data because much like economics, experiments tend not to be reproducible to any great degree. The architects of the search engines are in an arms race against the black hats.

Which brings me to my next point: the gradient between black and white hat SEO is very wide and gray. The perception of hat color is largely dependent on the perceiver's opinion of the content in question. That's why Calacanis swears up and down Mahalo is not spam, and why no one here buys it.
A brand is more than just a logo — a brand is the entire context of the product. Coca Cola isn't just a logo, but also the shape of the bottle and the water beads always used in the photography. So asking someone to give you an opinion without a context won't give you real insights into what the logo is communicating.
50x more accurate geolocation using contact page info
I'm shocked that someone with a handle like GiraffeNecktie would be so punk panda adverse! ; )
Never going to happen. Welcome to a complex adaptive system that is SEO where you can never rewind history to pinpoint exactly what you did to get a result. At least not any more than an economist can tell you anything.
Two comments on Google's focussing on social.

First - Bonuses? For many developers bonuses are not motivators, or not as great a motivator, as ego boosting recognition. (Don't have sources for this at hand).

Second - Social is what Facebook does/is. It is not a secondary goal, a necessity in a strategic space. For example, there was Google notebook. It withered, but evernote keeps going. Notes everywhere is what evernote does/is.

We've seen this play before: a company becomes dominant in a particular field, upstarts are innovating elsewhere, dominant company chooses to respond. Film at 11.
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I have all kinds of reports set up and ready to roll - Im working on a "results so far" view so we can see what is happening along the way.
Also, internships in the NYC Area: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431089
Dear Apple: Please come up with some competition for the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite because it's a total mess.
This is great advice, I am on it, will update you on the results.
The first question is very flawed. Nobody can answer how much something is worth to you.
I held the top spot for search terms relating to my service and site for more than a decade, until I shut it down. I never spent one second of my life worrying about SEO. I focused on usability, generating word of mouth (far more valuable - how do you think people found out about Facebook and Twitter?), and content.

The nature of a search engine is to derive the value of your content from the content. Therefore, focusing on your content is a far greater return in value than focusing on trying to draw the attention of a search engine to tags, meta data, or URL paths. Not saying that those things don't contribute, but I'm not certain that the ROI is worthwhile.

Think of it like a resume. If you have the talent and background to put on a resume, you'll get consideration. You don't need to spend hours upon hours refining it to add just the right trendy keywords or ordering things in the most appealing way to automated resume readers. On the other hand, if you have little to offer and you are concerned that you'll be weeded out quickly as a result, you can substitute your background and experience (content) with keywords and other tricks to try and get beyond the initial weeding out. Kind of a tactic of desperation and lack of confidence.

I do have a strong bias against the whole SEO thing. I won't pretend that I don't. I'm put off when I hear people focusing on it rather than content and it makes me think of greasy, scummy, snake-oil salesmen. Guys on late night infomercials trying to convince you that you can skip everything and get right to becoming rich and famous by thumbing through their special book and employing their special techniques for flipping property with only two hours of work per week.

This is probably a very unpopular opinion to share around a group like this, but what can I say?
Please do not infer that I was accusing anybody of dishonesty. I wasn't aware that disingenuous carried that overtone -- to me, it means "aware of a couple explanations and intentionally picking one that makes a little less sense," and I have seen now that my usage of the word was incorrect. I meant no such attack, and had I wanted to call you dishonest, I would have gone about it more directly.

HN certainly gets more and more hostile as days go by, and I think it'd do us all a favor to assume the best in our conversational counterparts. Judge of integrity, indeed.
I know little about Fuel (just discovered it today), but my take on it is that it is pretty much exactly like Kohana 2.3, but less complex and verbose than Kohana 3 (because Ko3 changed so much from 2.3).
Symfony/Symfony2 is a much more heavyweight framework -- much more "enterprisey", which I don't mean in a bad way -- the Symfony folks seem to have a much better understanding of OO patterns and best practices than most PHP folks, and if you're building a very large app that needs to be scalable, extendable, etc., Symfony is the way to go. But for more straightforward CRUD apps or sites without humungous user bases or numbers of pages, Kohana/Fuel is a better fit, IMO. The usual lightweight vs. heavyweight tradeoffs.
As a final note, the Appleseed logo in the top left is going to cause some undesirable behavior if left like that.

I also thought this was kind of strange. It looks alright in the mockups, but I can't think of a behavior for that logo that would deal well when you shrink the view horizontally. The design seems to suggest that the left margin will remain empty space, as trying to slide it to the left would cause the profile picture to overlap the logo entirely.

Neither leaving the blank space nor covering up the logo seems ideal to me.
How in the world is lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat a top search result? If I do the search and go to Google's cached version, it tells me "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: buy propecia"

It's actually a really good collection of links for anyone interested in medieval manuscripts. Bookmarked.
No, it's just a marketing gimmick. Most automated fabrication device can make parts for a copy of that same device, if given the spec's. The reality is the fact it's open source is what allows people to make copy's of them, not any capability of the device it's self.
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There are about 50,000 commonly used words in English.

That means that each word has an entropy of about 15.6 bits. (Probably less since some words are far more common than others.)

Using a typical 4 word phrase gets you about 62 bits of entropy.

In contrast a password can select from a set of about 72 characters. i.e. 6.1 bits per letter. Using an 10 character password gets you about 61 bits of entropy.

So they seem reasonably comparable.

It would be nice to redo the calculation while accounting for how common each word is, and also that special characters are used less often in passwords.
a person who was poisoned had an opportunity to figure 'oh i dont feel well', went to a hospital, made it to the hospital, and survived

This doesn't, specifically, mean anything about the potency of the poison. It means something about the potency and the size of the dose the guy received. There is a spectrum of possible conclusions between "huge dose and weak poison" or "tiny does and strong poison".
Yeah, I think it is a kind of joke. When bitcoins were worth something like 1000 for 1USD a lot of the early users would kind of just use it to playaround with. Monopoly money.

Hey at least they're being honest about them being ponzi schemes, quite refreshing.
Nope - you should make the web site.
I just want to attend.
Already started NYC Internships here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431089
Actually, the most exciting news from the project is that it has gone from a prototype with poor printing quality to a 3d printer of a great quality to its low cost. Not to mention that it has also inspired dozens of other printers design, including comercial ones like the Makerbot, and can easily be modified to support a lot more printing materials than just thermoplastics (you can even use it to print electronic circuits or food!). In the end, if you know what you are doing, with a couple of these you can print models as good as the ones from the expensive comercial printers.
Another reason to stay whitehat that Rand doesn't mention: it can screw your acquisition prospects.

Anyone in the business of buying SEO-driven sites (Demand Media, Internet Brands, Quinstreet, Specific Media, WhaleShark Media, etc.) looks VERY closely at the backlink profiles of acq candidates. They aren't going to do it unless they're clean, or if they sense there were blackhat links, they're going to discount the price massively.

I've watched several acquisitions go down the drain on account of perceived spam.
Bootuplabs (No. 69) in Vancouver is now defunct. Anybody out there know about anything new in the British Columbia area?
I think there is a limit to the positive feedback programming presents as well. Sure, a program may run as intended, but what if there are bugs that need to be worked out? What if there was a cleaner, faster way to perform the operations that version 1 did? This is what I truly enjoy about programming. Not that there is "instant, positive feedback," but that there are so many approaches to a solution, and room for refinement to make the program faster and cleaner.
Facebook has so much momentum, it's hard to imagine anyone competing with them head-on. X will stay on Facebook because that's where [A, B, C] are, and B isn't going to switch because that's where......

I would guess that the only way to compete against Facebook is to target smaller, more specialized kinds of social and try to bring them together. Also, they need to focus on under-served markets (women, emerging markets, elderly). If they can get to these before Facebook does, they'll create the same kind of momentum.
I don't think it's a good idea for a person's identity to be anchored in one particular community, because people join and leave communities over time. In a generic system like Facebook, I can cut all ties with high school if I want to.
With the way prices and capacity are dropping, you might consider just getting the laptop now and the SSD later. Within a few months, the capacity per dollar for SSD's will come down even more, so you can spend less and get more than what you'll get from Apple.
Believe me, it's unlikely you'll get anything that dramatic.
But, do they contain aquariums? That is the real question ;-)
>wondering something, running to the computer and finding out that its very likely that nobody else knows either is a rare pleasure

What is not rare is finding out that nobody else knows only after wading through 100s of web pages by people who think they know but do not.
This.

I don't even like going to Web MD, in fear of exaggerating a condition or, even worse, synthesizing symptoms. I can't imagine knowing several years ahead of time that I have a high chance of developing this or that unpreventable disease. I'd probably end up seeing "signs" long before they ever presented themselves or perhaps even worsen my condition through the anxiety.
>wondering something, running to the computer and finding out that its very likely that nobody else knows either is a rare pleasure

What is not rare (sadly) is finding out that nobody else knows only after wading through 100s of web pages by people who think they know but do not.
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We all have our biases, but not all biases are legitimate.

I'm biased as a developer who started a site that ranked top 3 for about 5K very competitive long tail phrases. So I've seen first hand the enormous benefit of allowing some time/effort/thought toward usability for bots.

It's not a given that Google will just "figure it out" and your reward will be in heaven. Anyone who thinks that is just hoping Google will do their job for them.

The upside for me is not having to work for the man thanks to selling the aforementioned site.
I tend to believe it's not a race anymore, and having a strategy is the start of the end.
Google should utilize it's manpower on something visionary.

I guess I wait for the time, Neal Stephenson's metaverse becomes reality.
With all the expertise in gmaps, search and scale, add some kinect to the mix, and buy second life for a change, and you could get very close.

Create a new exciting virtual place/space, and the crowd will show up. I can only hope they are working on something good. Just another gmail feature, or some +1 clutter in my search window will not fix this. Google was never the fun place on the web, only a tool to get a job done, and with every year, that brand become more of burden to even enter anything social.
If its a touch screen, why is there a mouse connected?
One of the last things he did in office was move it 2 weeks earlier. Canada followed along and now North America is out of sync with most other countries.
Yeah, I wasn't complaining that conclusive evidence should have been included, more than, because of the lack of proof, a list of examples shouldn't be used to make the point at all.
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I think the stock market belongs to the big fishes. We small investors have no say. Nice tut!
It's not irrational at all. If there's not yet any pragmatic benefit to knowing that you have a significant risk of getting a serious disease in the future, it's probably better not to know.

You can select which tests to make available to yourself, though, and avoid finding out about things like Parkinson's.
Passwords are not "security by obscurity".
I've been using this all day today. It's very nice but I wish I could enlarge the videos to full-screen.
Guilty of not reading the article; I thought it was going to be about cyanide (sold for for killing algea in aquariums) being readily available for terrorist misuse (probably from reading about the 80's Tylenol/cyanide scandals).
Can we avoid these types of submissions in the future? This article isn't trying to educate the readers with anything in particular, HTML5 is just a buzz word and by dumping a ton of links about the topic they can drive traffic to their site. Just look at the content: there are two articles about "Drag and Drop with HTML5", a half dozen articles about writing HTML5 that is backwards compatible and cross-browser, and another half dozen articles that are just generically talking about how to create a page with HTML5 from scratch.
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Probably worth noting that this editor calls their service for the image transforms.