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Note that this has been one of the top news stories for a couple of days in a row now. And not for a lack of other pressing issues... The whole thing is extremely embarrassing for the hard liners, who seem to have a hard time repositioning themselves in the face of ever new discoveries and new experts chiming in (e.g. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002250.html).

It's a neat combination of illegal behavior and incompetence. In one case, the software continuously took screenshots of victim's desktops, which was ruled illegal in Germany. The encryption used in the software is terrible. The company which apparently developed the software -- though so far, the government won't confirm it, citing fears of internet revenge against the company (I'm not kidding) -- was convicted of bribery a few years ago.

A lot is still unknown, ie. how many other versions of the government trojan there were and are, a more exhaustive list of the ways it has been used, etc. Three cases in Bavaria are known so far: in two of them, the software was installed in fraudulent border/customs checks, in one case the police broke into someone's home to install it. None of these cases involved terrorism or child abuse. Hopefully, the next couple of days will see further reveals or leaks.
You know... It's in fact much more like the reverse: compiling assembly language into C. Java is a less expressive language than JavaScript. The result is that you code in the slow-to-develop/fast-to-run language and it spits out fast-to-develop/slow-to-run code.
Don't they realize that the point of buying the new iWhatever is to let everyone know how elite you are? iFans are more impressed with the color something comes in than whats inside it.
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It's an artefact of the way in which news.arc (actually srv.arc) uses functions for links. Here's the key code:

(= dead-msg* "\nUnknown or expired link.")

(defop-raw x (str req)
(w/stdout str
(aif (fns* (sym (arg req "fnid")))
(it req)
(pr dead-msg*))))

If the fnid (function ID) isn't in the fns* list then you get the dead message.

(def flink (f)
(string fnurl* "?fnid=" (fnid (fn (req) (prn) (f req)))))

In many places in the code closures are used to handle requests (see the flink code there). If the fns* list is cleared (say news.arc is restarted or harvest-fnids kills them) then you'll get the message.

The use of closures in this manner means that the code needed to handle say a form submission is really compact and set up when the form itself is generated.
The comments under the "Feeble Typing" section make it clear the author has never seen or read Gilad talk about optional typing. For one example, read http://bracha.org/pluggable-types.pdf
Is it so hard in this futuristic day in age to take even a 1 minite video of the movement of the arm?
Is there a good definition of "robust" in this context?
He was just responding directly to the article's points. The author lamented that now he would "need to write If (1==1) instead"
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The way I understand it, Dart is a higher-level abstraction of Javascript. People thought that Java was crap too when it came out and said C/C++ was still king. Look how that went.

Perl has been out fucking forever and still isn't in the browser, so stop whining. Javascript whipped your ass in this arena, Perl.
Well, 10Gen is a little smaller in scale that that Facebook company.

Also, doesn't DHH code too?
I've never gotten that impression. HN is generally fiercely libertarian, often to a fault, and that hardly suggests an anti-drug sentiment. There is probably not a single actively contributing user who would support the death penalty for repeat drug offenders, for example, yet such people are not hard to find in the general population.
I think the shadow of addiction is the real concern for most, more than the drug or their effects while "on it".
I believe his point is that you should write in the most human friendly language you can and, maybe, let the computer translate what you wrote into something less human-friendly that the computer can run fast.
I totally understand how governance-free currencies appeal to libertarians and hacker-types, but the fact of the matter is that they do not serve society well.

The Euro is an empirical data point in that direction. This illustrative article from 1998 gives another data point: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...

The more theoretical explanation why governance is necessary is roughly as follows. While our living standards are ultimately only concerned with real wealth, the fact of the matter is that our economy is driven by moving nominal wealth around, i.e. it is driven by flows of money. If we ignore issues of fair distribution for a moment, our real living standards depend very much on how much money flows per time as aggregate demand towards buying things.

But flows of money add to and subtract from the stocks of financial assets of individuals. And since every financial asset you own is somebody else's liability, your ability to accumulate net financial assets is limited by others' willingness to incur net financial liabilities.

Now economists like to theorize that those things balance out nicely in equilibria, where the desire to accumulate net assets and the willingness to incur net liabilities somehow are matched by a market. In practice, however, the paradox of thrift occurs.

This is because (a) the real world does not actually work the way that those particular economic models say it does, and (b) even if the real world did work that way, the conclusions rely on assumptions about how uncorrelated the individuals in the market are. Particularly in times of crisis, the behavior of individuals and firms tends to be highly correlated indeed, and you end up in a kind of Prisoners' Dilemma, where nobody wants to be the first person to incur liabilities, but because of that, the flows of money dry out, and because of that, the real living standard decreases.

A governing body can break this kind of symmetric behavior by unilaterally deciding to incur additional liabilities via spending.

Note that I implicitly assumed in my argument that your goal is to provide for the society's real living standards, and I subordinate economics to that goal. I realize that many "sound money" advocates do not think that way, though I've never really understood why.

I recognize that the governing body can also cause a huge amount of trouble, but limiting that trouble is what democracy is for.
Mozilla has been implementing new ES Harmony features for a while. Proxies work now. Strict mode works now. Let, const, destructuring assignment, generators, they all work now. V8 hasn't gotten around to implementing a lot of that stuff, but that's its problem.
> if (1) { ... } will never execute, because 1 is a
> number, not a boolean,

This hasn't stopped Ruby from being popular.
LeveledCompactionStrategy is still a new piece of kit for Cassandra, and probably should be used sparingly. If I've understood anything I've been told, it's best fit is if the workload involves many random overwrites distributed over a large set of rows & columns. It's also currently not concurrent, so if nodes have high I/O throughput and many cores, it's even less likely to perform as well as standard compaction.
nobody can stop you from doing a bad service company, but no one can stop you from doing a bad product company as well IMHO. The difference from an open source point of view is that the community can write better documentation, but can hardly fight you if the open source main developers are trying to push forward a business model where part of the code is closed, or there are commercial plugins that are very useful, and so forth.
We matter in the future. If we want to use a sane language in our future, we should probably help promising ones to take up and prevent more lame from doing so; the article is doing the latter.
So this guy finds a phrase that's kind of similar in the Bitcoin paper and in a patent application, then sees that the patent application is about some unrelated kind of cryptography, and then decides they must be Satoshi? This is nonsense.
A lot of little, or a little lot. (Wordpress vs. Building it yourself)
I think it's a mistake to focus too much on the mystical "revelation" angle that some people use to frame the benefits of psychedelics. I have no trouble believing that the positive outcomes people get from psychadelics are real while rejecting the notion that there's some obscure mystical reality that's being tapped into.

I think the "brain-addled delusions" you describe can be appreciated as rare and useful shifts of your own perspective even if that's all they are. Sure, there's nothing supernatural about it, but you may still have valid insights which you wouldn't necessarily have arrived at during your morning commute.

Our mundane, day-to-day perspective on the world, on some level, is only distinguishable from "brain-addled delusion" because we're desensitized to it.
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Those psilocybin studies are the same ones which led to the study OP cites about psychedelics increasing Openness to experience (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Openness_to_e...), incidentally.
"Illegal drug money is used to finance so much corruption and killing, that there seems to be little value in keeping them illegal, especially considering that everyone who wants to take drugs still does. If certain drugs do have harmful effects then at least the effects will be mostly limited to the people who take them."

Mexico is already corrupt without the drugs. Making them legal will give the cartels even more power because they will now be able to legally sell drugs in the US.

They already have (and know how to run) multi-million dollar operations, you don't think they won't think about legally partnering up with companies in the US?

"If certain drugs do have harmful effects then at least the effects will be mostly limited to the people who take them."

Many people want government-run health care in the US. Legalizing illegal drugs will add to the already large amount of addicts. Do we really want more addicts in our hospitals? I also don't feel like I should be forced to pay for your poor life choices. Regular Drug users should immediately get a huge increase in healthcare costs.

We still have tons of people suing the cigarette companies because they cause cancer. I can only imagine how many lawsuits will be in our court systems if there is a company selling heroin.
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It's really fascinating. At 2 months old, my daughter reacted differently when people spoke German around her instead of the English my wife and I primarily speak at home. It's the same reaction when my wife and I speak German to her as well, so she's almost certainly not reacting to "new" people. Now, we're trying to speak bilingually as often as possible (which is hard as hell because neither of us is fluent in German - merely conversational). Hopefully it will stick and our daughter will still get some benefit.
I'm referring mainly to the page load time increase, which is important, especially on mobile. (Given what I've seen of the generated code, I suspect runtime performance will be affected too, but I haven't tested, so I can't say for sure.) This is why people create microframeworks—the page load time improvement with e.g. zepto over jQuery is not insignificant.
FWIW the Jew discrimination in Moscow State University was non-existent by early 90s, and likely even earlier than that. I had a well over a dozen Jew friends join Math dept - basically every one who applied - around that time, with no fuss whatsoever. This was an attribute of earlier times, 50s through 70s.

Secondly, to those asking who did they know who was a Jew and who wasn't. First of all, the nationality was in a passport - the primary ID issued to everyone over 16 years of age. Secondly, they looked at the last name. Thirdly, to those trying to evade this sort of filtering through changing the last name, they asked for mother's maiden name - which is as conniving as it is clever. Fourthly, they just looked at the person. It was an oral exam after all.
Oh hi, OP here. I wrote this a long time ago. My opinion has changed a little in that time. I've already heard the arguments for/against GWT and understand its benefits. Not really sure why it's on HN now and honestly a little embarrassed by it.
The first complaints are from 1575 days (over 4 years) ago, including about the more button breaking, so I am guessing pg has no interest in fixing it.
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I think you overestimate the impact of V8 on JavaScript speed improvements. Both Apple and Mozilla were working on JITs well before V8 was announced...
I would be interested to know how much state is in those closures. If it is less than 200 or so bytes, it would not be impractical to encode it (b64) in the url for the next page (rather than a reference to the state).
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Food bloggers seem to have a lot of online (and offline) meetups.
Contact relevant blogs (up to you to find which ones) and offer them a reason to post about it.
A guy created an iphone app that was relevant to my website users, contacted me offering a few free downloads for my readers. I made an article about it (because I thought the app was cool) and then went around forums/reddit etc telling people the first 5 who would comment on that post would get the app for free.

It's a large numbers game... from my blog maybe 1,000 people read the article and of those maybe 20 bought the app.. but the ones who bought it probably recommended it to their friends etc..

contact 50 blogs, it's time better spent than twitting IMHO
We're making an author's box so that everyone easily knows who's article it is. Thank you for the input mate, really appreciate it ;)
Americans can be delusionaly racist and nationalistic to. But, you can't sell the idea that shark attacks were orchestrated by from Iran or anything like that.

As an American I wish this was true but there are people in the US that believe man walked amongst dinosaurs and the earth is 5000 years old. These are people that were educated to at least a high school diploma and learned the scientific method at some point.
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The main problem with your comment is that it has nothing to do with the article...
I'm seeing some pretty spurious arguments. The idea that semicolons would be a point of contention is mind-blowing to me.
> exactly the sort of morass that JavaScript has been
> stuck in

You mean the one where some large corporations are doing what they can to keep it from improving?

Seriously, Google has been sabotaging all sorts of JavaScript improvements by flat-out refusing to implement them.

So in fact the "other players" _are_ directing their effort to something they perceive as better than Dart: Harmony.

As for the rest, what will "win" is not necessarily going to be based on the merits of the technology but on the strength of single-vendor tie-ins, in the usual way....
I agree that it's perfectly legitimate to discuss the runtime needed for Dart, and point out that it's a disadvantage that it is needed at all, or to criticize the runtime, or whatever.

What shocks me is that people who are supposed to be techies are pointing their fingers at the runtime and making monkey noises, because they apparently have never seen a language runtime or heard of the concept. Dart did not compile "Hello, world" to 17000 lines of code; most of that code has nothing to do with the specific program. And that's the usual situation for compilers, although some specific compilers can avoid that (e.g. CoffeeScript, which is a close mapping of its target architecture).
I guess the thinking is that if you have enough patents, the other guy is surely infringing one (or more) of them.
how is it irrational to say everything is connected?

if you can show me two things that AREN'T connected, you'll have proven him wrong. but you can't, because you just connected the two things you named by putting them into the same sentence.
It's not particularly irrational or mystic. That experience he describes is quite common for people who use mushrooms a few times. What is the difference between you and a chair? What makes your brain so special, and why is it so important that it continue to exist? Why shouldn't a stick held in your hand be considered part of your body (in fact, one of the big differences between humans and most animals is that, unconsciously, we do think that). And why stop there?

And so on.

They sound like stupid questions to dwell on, and they sort of are. They don't have concrete answers, but it's the asking that's important. The drug merely helps a person to honestly take them seriously.
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To what drugs are you referring, exactly? And what does "particularly good" mean? The whole point of the article is Jobs' claim that some experience with hallucinogens was, in fact, particularly good for him.
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> Bitcoin is hardly innovative in cryptographic research (in fact, that's part of its appeal, since it makes it more trustworthy

Nick Szabo disagrees: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-y...
"People thought that Java was crap too when it came out and said C/C++ was still king"

I was there in 1995 and I have no recollection of anyone saying that. People were generally excited by its possibilities. The worry was about a) embedding a VM into a browser back when memory was limited and b) java was controlled by one company and wasn't an open standard.

Javascript won the 'browser war' because a) it was already there so it didn't need a plugin b) it was 'good enough' for its time c) it had Java in the title d) it had the sense to become an ECMA standard.

Perl never had any plans to be in the browser it was always a Unix command-line tool.

What is interesting is that Java started as a language for making UIs on iPad-like devices, The first web-server was written in Objective C, Perl gained traction as the way CGI programs were written. Now, Objective-C is used for programming iPads, Java moved from UI to Server and displaced Perl for corporate web apps. Meanwhile Javascript has quietly solidified its role in the browser and may finally make the leap to being a major server tech.
>>until recently, throughout much of the west

You should see my local Swedish media...

The reason I follow this is not that I care about Middle East politics -- it is because I am shocked about my local media. I have compared Swedish media with BBC and NY Times since 7-8 years.

Some subjects are more or less censored in Sweden. Things like torture between Palestinian groups have been cut out since the 1990s, Pallywood has never been mentioned, etc.

Translation of Reuters/AP/etc telegrams are slanted.

And so on. Sweden is probably an extreme case. I am seriously thinking of Swedish as the language of lies.
VBScript had both (actually the browser was the most popular), and look how far it went.
Hehe, I was waiting for the standing desk folks :-) We actually have a bar in the office that I sometimes use to work, but I never made it through the 2-3 days you say are necessary to appreciate.

Will try to make it through (if my knees let me)
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This comparison is asinine at best. The runtime is bound to be bigger. And remember DART eventually will have the runtime included in Chrome and hopefully other browsers. The way things are going in the browser world, all people might actually care about is Chrome and if there is a wonderful IDE support which comes with strongly typed languages, there is a real shot at this becoming a standard.
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The classic resource for this (does the same sort of tricks, taken to an extreme: code overlaid with tables, tables overlaid with other tables, etc.):

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/

(62-byte hello world among other things)
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Argue with the article, not me. He's the one claiming to be perfectly sociable now.
It's not crazy at all, it greatly simplifies development to use callbacks for actions rather than manually encoding the necessary state into the URL. Techniques such as this are what enable a single developer to be so productive by automating boring and time consuming stuff.
The Xoom has been commercially available for a little over 8 months. Various Samsung Galaxy Tab models have been available for almost a year. Both have sold millions of units, the Tab reportedly well over 6 million units.

Perhaps not a random selection? Apple makes a good tablet.
"I've seen people nearly talk about marijuana as if it is the destroyer of worlds, which I don't think any reputable scientist has possibly ever endorsed"

Are you denying the negative effects drugs have on many people? Pot may not have many effects on physical health, but it certainly does on mental health.

Many people I know that smoke pot have almost no ambition. Pot becomes almost like a second girlfriend. Everything in life revolves around getting money to smoke more pot. I've seen this happen with way too many people to think that it's a unique case.

But, it actually helps me, because it just means less competition in the workforce.

"yet people are scared and hide in their bunkers because they're never tried, done any research on their own, and just take the "AboveTheInfluence" ads at face value"

How about the people that know how bad it is and just don't agree with the sentiment that it's good for you?
Regarding such 'trivia that might come in handy one day', it is possible on some cars to shift gears without using the clutch, but you have to get the timing exactly right.

If you time it right the shift will happen from say to 2nd to neutral at one rpm (to neutral is always possible without the clutch), then you reduce the rpm until you know it will match 3rd gear for that speed (good hearing helps here) and then you can make the shift from neutral to 3rd without any force at all. The more 'sloppy' a gearbox the easier this goes.

As long as you don't force things you'll be fine, if you do force it you'll likely be greeted by expensive grinding noises.

On the classic 'beetle' and 'mini' engines I can do this without fail or any chance of damage.

Modern cars (read more expensive) I haven't tried.

Of course this is not what you're supposed to do but it's interesting when you have a 'junker' to play around with it until you can do it right.