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Oh, what I would give for a "mechanize for humans" built on this! I love mechanize, but I dream of not having to go back to its one page documentation and the source code every time I want to do something.
Excellent presentation, I love the slide with the Gartner-esque magic quadrant!
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I very much doubt that Google threatening to pull out of the country would cause any action in Congress. The government has no incentive to act, and all the power to spin the story if there is some sort of public outcry - something to the effect of "Google is unpatriotic and doesn't care about your safety." Most people will buy it.

If anything, Microsoft would just step in to fill the vacuum with Bing, and business would continue as usual for everyone but Google.
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I assume that this is a reference to their excellent "Facebook gives you cancer" piece:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-...

Always worth another look if you want a reminder how far the press has fallen.
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Thank you for the long comment.

It took me a while and I needed to move here to get a tiny feeling for the complexity of this issue. Before that, 'jewish' was a label that I had in the same mental box as 'christian', 'muslim', 'hindu' or whatever. Boy is that misleading.

So many things here in Israel are challenging my understanding, every day. It doesn't help that I'd describe myself as agnostic or atheist. I guess Jews are the only example (that I know of) of a group of people that claim to share religion, ancestors and culture. I wouldn't know how - for example - one could create a model of a secular state here. I wouldn't know where to separate culture from religion and I'm convinced that I'll never understand the idea of common ancestry / being descendants of the same tribes.

Maybe this intermingled religion/culture/ethnicity (if this is the right word?) is confusing more people, just like me. And maybe some people react with fear if they don't grasp a concept?
I have to respect the balls with which they present utter nonsense, and the purity and refinement of their art of utter nonsense.
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I have tried d3.js but it seems to drastically slow down beyond a few thousand nodes. Currently, the number of nodes in my dataset is around 50K. Are there any other alternatives?
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I thought this was a reference to Ted's "Node is Cancer":

http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html

Seems that nowadays lots of things are cancer.
If it isn't sufficient for non-cloud systems, how is it expected to be sufficient 'up there'? Ah...I don't think so, less secure, in fact.
This thread prove only one thing: you can be sound and logical Hacker News reader, but once the topic is Jews and/or Israel - you become irrational and brain-washed.

Mdasen's comment is the only smart reply on this thread.
That's why I'm sayin' they can't just leave, and they can't just threaten. It has to be real civil disobedience. They have to be willing to say:

No, we're not going to do that. You'll have to shut us down, which will take years, and cost the economy millions of jobs and trillions of dollars.

Oh, and I hope it goes without saying that we won't be complying with any court orders related to this matter. If you're serious about doing this, there will be pictures of men pointing guns at innocent American technicians, right next to the headline "The Feds are Coming for Your Email," and underneath that, Senator, will be your name.

Then they'd say something like: "This is America, motherfucker. Land of the free. You can't get away with this shit."

...sigh. At least it'd make a good screenplay.
and not by just drawing that box over them in the original (textual content) pdf. You need to squash it down to images, then destroy the bits you need to. (There might be other ways, but enough Big Government Agencies have screwed it up to make it worth noting)

Is the 'decoding' paper this one: http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php ? The blur function is just smearing pixel values across their neighbours in blocks, so you can treat it as a hashing function, and then generate enough candidates that eventually you get something that hashes correct (or close enough)

I'm not sure how practical it'd be on data longer than a credit-card number, but it's an interesting hack nevertheless.
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No. I would simply not give them my data in the first instance. I don't believe you should have to pay for privacy - especially if you are simply an average citizen.
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Apologies for the incivility. I disagree, the only thing in Laurie's comment as presented is elitist superiority, by quoting it Norvig evidently agrees with that attitude "why are you wasting your time doing that when you could write a program to do it instead?".

EDIT Whereas IMHO writing a program to solve Sudoku just to prove how superior you are really is *$!%ing pointless.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3097684

...same entry, [deleted] but with a little discussion.
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"why are you wasting your time doing that when you could write a program to do it instead?".

That's exactly the feeling I had when I saw a computer play tetris.
In general I do agree with you, but there's also some truth to the argument that statically linking only the required dependencies is better than embedding a VM. In a way, this is the difference between CoffeeScript and Dart for client side programming. Sure when your app is really large you'll probably end up with the same thing, but for smaller apps "compiling" should mean "including only the necessary stuff" which CoffeeScript successfully does.

I do have an issue with this trend of building VMs on top of VMs, abstracting further and further away to the point where we're using 1000 times more CPU cycles than in the 80s to run the same Pacman in the web browser. I'm for translation rather than virtualization I guess.
Scarily, I have often wondered this and have no idea. I fear I might have become an accountant, and probably a bad one at that.
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I'm wondering why the grid notation doesn't account for the irregular variation, and why the grid size values are hard coded, so mini and large-size sudoku is out too.

The second is easy to correct in a live (i.e., not pedagogical) version. The first is a bit more difficult.
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I checked Dalai's profile on G+, it is filled with "His Holiness" this, "His Holiness" that. I don't know, it seems a bit from past centuries to have to call oneself "His Holiness".

Moreover, I have been to tibetan plateaus, I can tell you, the peasants there are much richer than Chinese peasants. They have animals, cars, SUVs, etc. Chinese peasant only have their arms. Not to say Tibetans have a better life, though. It is not easy to live there, in these cold, arid and remote places. It is extremely beautiful too, obviously.

A very astonishing thing is that any small town has it's emormous lamasserie ("temple" if you will), filled with monks who do not exert any productive work. I don't say they should. Maybe for those who believe in their faith it is normal to have a consequent part of the population living of prayers, but, well, I guess these monks really do not share very much with hackers on HN.
> Many googlers I've spoken to firmly believe that you need a strongly typed

Dart might be many things, none of them come remotely close to _strongly typed_.

Also, I never understood why Google ever started GWT, the idea itself is like a bad Apr 1st joke that got out of hand. I guess that the legions of Java programmers google has been hiring have started to take over sigh
If that's the case, it's a very misleading statistic. If you have 1 million each of "facebook", "fcaebook", "facebok", "faceook", and "fakebook", and one "asdweniviwnxoemmgmejvj v fef", it's kind of spin to say "we’ve never seen 16% of the queries we see every day."
Not being sarcastic: The interviewer would explain it to you in 2 minutes (like the article does, including very common strategies), offer you a simple one to sovle and maybe grant you a little more time to come up with an algorithm.

If you don't understand sudoku rules afterwards or cannot implement something according to a set of rules and without previous exposure, than this might be a result the interviewer is interested in as well?
I still have trouble understanding how anyone can take something like GWT seriously.

Whole books could be written about everything that is wrong with GWT, but here is one post that barely scratches the surface: http://ryandoherty.net/2007/04/29/why-google-web-toolkit-rot...
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Thanks! I looked for other entries but couldn't find them. Interesting discussion
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And Dart is awesome by default because of Gilad Bracha :P
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Probably because you made some points of discussion that could only be linked together in the most vague context without demonstrating any real knowledge on the subject at hand.
A "bit of an editorial" would be you playing down the fact that in 4 comparisons of smartphones, the 4S is first by a mile in all 4 or claiming that a Sunspider score of 2220 is somehow meaningfully better then 2222.

Everyone and their mother knew the SGX543MP2 was gonna smoke everything else on the market right now. Maybe the new Nexus will leapfrog that but as of this week "beats all smartphones" in benchmarks would seem accurate.
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I guess Jews are the only example (that I know of)
of a group of people that claim to share religion,
ancestors and culture.

Japan (to some extent)?
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Thanks to you, I just spent half my morning trying to solve this without getting anywhere. I tried using vectors a, b and c that i project unto the xOy plane to get the sum of three parallelograms.

But then the problem is to parametrize these three vectors' positions. The first one can be define in spherical coords as (acos(phi)sin(psi), asin(phi)sin(psi), a*cos(psi)) but then I need to introduce a third parameter for vector b and write both b and c using this system...

I'll give it another try this afternoon using matrices.

EDIT: Alright, I guess you can write a, b and c as a rotational matrix using Euler angles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_angles ). You can probably also cancel one of the angles (let's say theta) by rotating your xOy plane around which doesn't change the problem.

You then just have to calculate S using phi and psi.

S = ||a^b||+||b^c||+||c^a||

and solve

dS/d(psi) = 0 and dS/d(phi) = 0

However, that's way too much trig for me for today so I'll leave it to someone more courageous than me.
This reminds me of the very early days of C++ were people would use the size of a compiled "Hello World" to argue their point. C++ targets a completely different domain from JS where the size of the runtime etc. is somewhat important and it makes sense to think about this.

I always thought that JS had this culture of "it works and is fast enough for most users" attached to it, so I'm curious what is so different here? Every JS application nowadays comes with tons of framework code already. Does it make a big difference if you carry around a (non-minified) 17000 lines runtime?

Of course, if you argue about elegance, none of this matters.
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> A2 has 4 possibilities (1679) and A3 has 5 possibilities (12679); together that's 20, and if we keep multiplying, we get 4.62838344192 × 1038 possibilities for the whole puzzle

I realize this is the start of his search section, and he uses it as a springboard to present constrained search, but this struck me as either incorrect or an intentional straw man.

Applying even the simplest constraint (that a value cannot appear more than once in a cell) means that standard combinatorial formulas don't product accurate counts: by selecting a value, each peer has at least one cell that decrements its count of possible values (otherwise the value would have been detected by the naive algorithm). Applying constraints is the subtext of his eventual point, but I'm not seeing the value in presenting the flawed math the way he did.

The math on this really bugged me (my mind went directly to his eventual solution), and I had to go back and read the introduction to the "Search" section a couple of times to even wrap my head around what he was proposing for the "brute force" solution. Maybe its because I arrived at a solution similar to his eventual one years ago when I tackled a sudoku solver.

The other line that bothered me was: "The second choice is to somehow process much more than one possibility per machine instruction." After reading through, I understand what he means, but it's not equivalent to what he said.
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Why would I want to use something like this?
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I'm sure the CEO of Myspace was similarly furrowing his brow when Facebook came out.

The guy "on the top" is always going to FUD and poo-poo the upstarts. Whether they make it or not should be left to their own merits, not what issues the existing hegemony has with it.
Taiwan doesn't even technically recognize itself as a country. It's just a part of China ruled by a rival government.
I go back and forth on whether I like this. On the one hand, the clean split makes it conceptually simple what's going on. On the other hand, you can have allocated, uninitialized code, which makes me uneasy.
If I had to guess, I'd say that these folks are going to make a lot of money.
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I'm also intrigued by these web app + product combos - this would have been a perfect idea for Kickstarter as well, just because they could have sold some of their glasses upfront.

On the flip side, whenever you have physical production and products, you also have a lot more points to control in the customer experience to maintain a quality experience for your clients. I think this is a good idea, but could also go drastically wrong if they don't get the right resin, plastics durability, etc.
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8) auto-converted to a smiley image (well, any kind of automatic conversion to a graphical smiley face is generally a bad idea, but this blog post only has 8) :P). It kinda destroys every bit of credibility you had.

It also looks rather awkward in the middle of your post.
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Awesome. Like the Venn diagram particularly ;-)
But, you can't sell the idea that shark attacks were orchestrated by from Iran or anything like that.

Probably you could.

From my observation of the Arab world (which includes travelling there for work fairly extensively in the last few years) has been that a) these crazy stories do exist and b) the majority don't believe them outright, but shrug their shoulders at the suggestion.

As you said the subject is complex; ask a "standard" person on the street about the stories and they would probably know what you were on about. Ask if they believe it could be true a decent portion might say "maybe, who knows!".

But you could be stood on a US street and talking about 9/11 conspiracy theory. Or a UK street and talking about whether the French smell perpetually of onions (deliberately picking two ends of the scale there).

The key problem is you get a set of stories from the absurd to the quite reasonable; and you mix it with an already existing resentment. That leaves you with people who don't simply laugh at the absurd, and instead just shrug.

As to whether you could sell these stories to people; of course you can. The media, and other aspects of society, sell absurd stories to ourselves every day. Facebook has been abuzz at least three (distinct) times, to my recollection, about the fact that FB were going to start charging for access. People genuinely outraged about this development were raging about it.

Chain letters.

I also travel a lot in the US and in certain areas you see equally absurd stories about all sorts of different classes of people. Go back over history and it is even worse; we still get absurd stories about homosexuals. A little further and black people got the same treatment. Perhaps the stories we see here are not so openly absurd to us as "Iran releases killer sharks" - but if you dig into the story you example it is built on a perfectly plausible basis.

There is even a wholly relevant very-recent example; Jews and Money. That is still sold to people with alarming regularity.

I know a perfectly lovely, middle class, suburban housewife[1] who, on finding out one of my friends was gay, asked me if it was because he had been abused as a child. She is quite convinced that homosexuality is commonly the result of childhood abuse (safe to say; that one floored me :S).

1. No, not like that!
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> I could try Dart, which will cost me a significant amount of performance in all browsers that aren't Chrome

But will it, though? Sure, "Hello, World" transpiles to 17,000 lines of code, but I'd want to see some actual benchmarks of actual code to see what kind of performance hit that implies, before deciding against Dart on that basis.

And then there's the whole python argument about developer time being more valuable, and most applications these days not being performance constrained, etc, that could possibly apply here, as well.
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