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I don't know what you are smoking or drinking but I want some.

I had been living in Argentina for a year(I'm Spanish with family there), and something more in UK. Argentina could not compete in a war against UK, period.

The industrial base is so overwhelming in favor of UK that Argentina has not an option.(industry is what supports war, not soja). If they need it, they could create whatever planes they need, including US drones.

The people in Europe is disciplined, Argentina is a chaos, everything is disorganized, the UK army is fighting wars with US as a partner right now, they are so much better trained in real combat.

UK has nuclear weapons, Argentina do not. UK needs Falkland as a base for the Antarctic continent, and fishing.

UK situation is stable(with all the crisis, crisis in Europe is "normal' in Argentina).

UK is not a fried of the USA, it is the father of the USA. They could have problems from time to time but when when push comes to shove they are relatives.

USA is not going to tolerate an invasion of Falkland(whatever the Argentinians feel about Maldivas as their own). They don't want conflicts.
now that hn has pretty much jumped the shark, does anyone know of a good site with smart, technical people and interesting discussions?
> Use short enough and long enough variable names in each scope of code. Generally length may be 1 char for loop counters, 1 word for condition/loop variables, 1-2 words for methods, 2-3 words for classes, 3-4 words for globals.

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A variable name, function, or class name, should be exactly as short as it can be and still usefully to convey its purpose to someone who is not the code's author--no longer, no shorter. Their "best practice" was backed into by counting how many words it usually takes to convey this information, but the horse goes in front of the cart.
I love IE6. It has caused years of pain to web devs, something that I, too, someday wish to do.

(I expect to get downvoted for my brutal honesty, and frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn).
If you frame the question as, "Would you like to continue receiving free services from Google, like Maps, Gmail, and Search, in exchange for targeted advertising?" I think most people would say yes.
I spent far too long finding web sites that failed to load or experienced problems, and constantly tracked them back to Ghostery. It was actually interfering with web development, and so I uninstalled it after 5 days or so.

I use adblock plus* and click-to-play flash embeds now. Occasionally a website breaks because of it, but very rarely.

*I whitelist websites I want to support, but a lot of websites go too far. I've been the 1,000,000th site visitor too many times.
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> Supported by what?

Both sales data, and user agents on the mobile web. This is fairly easily Googlable.

> The article was vague, it talked more about the plastic than the apps. What apps?

Are you saying app #s would be a more relevant measure of market growth?
Oh Xandros... (http://www.xandros.com/products/downloads/downloads_eu.html - look at the prices!)
Of course. Quite the contrary, I believe that very few of your worldview values should need to be imposed by force.

That's really a change of subject, though. You said "take responsibility". In our society today, "take responsibility" has connotations, mostly legal. Or the next line of reasoning is if people should "take responsibility", then the government should enforce it with laws and police action.

Yesterday, a married couple emailed me for advice on a condo that they're looking to purchase where I just bought one. I don't know them. I don't owe them anything. I don't even feel any social pressure since it's a vacation area and I likely will never meet or see them. However, I took about 30 minutes to write up a lot of details on what I had experienced in my purchase and gave them my best advice I had.

What I resent is someone telling me that I had some real "responsibility" to do so. I did it because I'm a friendly person and I wanted to. Not because I had someone else's tyrannical view of enforced egalitarianism.

My reasoning all ties back to Google. They have a responsibility to their shareholders. They have a responsibility to keep the contracts that they enter. Their responsibility to their shareholders might include showing useful dinosaur information in their AdWords to someone researching dinosaurs because they want to look clueful. They have no moral responsibility to do so. They have no legal responsibility to do so.

That's why I asked you. What do you mean by "take responsibility"?
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I thought this is actually in the process of being standardized?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-02
Looks awesome. How are you seeding the stories?
This seems like deja-vu, I swear this was on HN before. (yeah probably without the m=1 on the url)

Anyway, super easy to try on linux servers.

First double check your existing setting

sysctl -a | grep tcp_slow_start_after_idle

then

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle=0

if you want to enhance to IW10 then first check the last line of

ip route show

should be something like

default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0

then copy it to the middle of this

ip route change default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 initcwnd 10

if you are using a VERY current linux kernel, you can also add initrwnd like so:

ip route change default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 initcwnd 10 initrwnd 10

Note the ip route change is not permanent unless you add it to something like /etc/rc.local

You should be able to see the change before/after in wireshark if you look very very carefully at the milliseconds before the first real ack.
How do you decide which stories are more important? Would be interesting if you let users curate and present their own newsola frontpages.
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Can't read the article, but I use evil every day to do my work. I don't like vim so much as I like modal editing, and evil gets it right for about 98% of what I want. Emacs is (IMO) just a better platform, although going down the road of learning emacs, but none of its bindings is pretty rough, and probably a bit too much work for most people (m-x describe-key was my greatest friend when going through that process)
Although some of the surprises are different to be fair!
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Maybe it's more purposeful then.

I know Youtube does it, but I think they do it on purpose because the desktop version wouldn't work at all on my phone because it doesn't support flash.

Surprisingly Google sends me to their mobile site by default. I don't really see what they have to gain from doing that? My phone handles the desktop version really well and I have access to all the other extras that come with it. I don't think Google would have been so sloppy to have done it by accident.
I have Firefox configured to remove almost everything on exit, including cookies and flash cookies, also do it manually when I'm switching proxies, have disabled third party cookies which seems to be working in Firefox (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/?hl=en returns "Cookies are disabled").

As preventive measures I have Ghostery, NoScript, and Adblock with EasyPrivacy list https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ installed and only use Chromium in private mode when the site is some cool demo from HN, as those tend not to work with all the limitations. Next up: full blown paranoia and Qubes (I'm only half joking).
But then we need to use the same set of templates on server-side (on full page loads) and on client-side (when updating via JSON) ? Or we do like Quora and generate HTML on the server-side?
Mint is not lightweight, it's based on Ubuntu.
I reset my cookies all the time, when doing development on my machine sometimes, the browsers just need a good reset to behave normally again.
His "interactive exploration of a dynamical system" looks like some very sweet software.

It's not an entirely new concept though. Modeling tools like Vensim and Stella do something very similar, modeling differential equations with "stock and flow" diagrams. Modeling problems with tools like these is a pretty active field, with applications in economics, ecology, and engineering. There are a fair number of books about it.

Vensim has a free "personal" version, if anyone wants to play around with this stuff. It's definitely not as elegant as Bret Victor's demo, but might be better for more complicated systems (depending of course on how much Bret left out of the demo).
I came here just to say that. Linux Mint comes with so much bloat. Arch Linux and other distributions come with just the basic, and Mint is shipped with a graphical interface, lots of graphical software, media codecs, and it's huge.
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Ask HN: Help plan my Silicon Valley trip
After 13 years as a software engineer, I've outgrown Indianapolis. The time has come for me to move to Silicon Valley.

Since I've never actually been there, I'm planning a weekend trip, March 9-12, to take a look around.

Are there any meetups, bars, or locations that are "can't miss"?
Is San José the whole show, or should I get out to other cities?
Is there any advice you can give me?
I run with the most strict settings that firefox has to offer. No cookies, private browsing, no JS, etc.

On top of that, I use noscript, ghostery, the web dev toolbar, better privacy, and adblock.

Only use cookies to log into HN to post (I browse without logging in), my email, and other programming-related page (such as /r/programming).

I also use a proxy for those times that I must use Google (my search engine of choice is Duck Duck Go (it works great)).
> Right. Javascript is not Go or Python. You will need more than those two languages.

Well, not necessarily. You can make a cool website without javascript at all. What with those fancy CSS animations and transitions etc.

> Please don't do that.

Why? Not that different from using Coffescript, or the Closure Compiler. And transparent to the end user.
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But Quora loads HTML chunks via AJAX.
Some good suggestions here, but I have the feeling that the author did not get to the deepest consequences of this "curiosity". For example, let's take Fengshui (a Chinese geomantic practice). A superficial knowledge will tell you it tries to avoid straight lines for your alleys in your garden, because ghosts like straight lines. And if you can't avoid a straight line, you may add a mirror or other reflecting plane at one end of the line, because ghost, who are obviously ugly, don't like to see their face.

All this is not very likely to be the cup of tea of a well-bred rationalist. But if you are curious enough and keep your mind open, you might discover that Fengshui is, for some part, a string of ancient wisdom pearls disguised behind mnemotechnic tips. Maybe the real original reason was that the most fearful warriors were the archers at that time, and the ghost explanation stayed because it was easier to remember.

And digging in this direction you might find teaching that are still very useful today. An example could be acupuncture and Chinese medicine: the fact that it seems to be in continuous use since so long time and still used by very informed people in some of the most developed East-Asian countries might be a sign that this practice is useful, sometime, even if no proof pro or contra has been brought to the debate (to my knowledge).

So with a bit of real curiosity, not only the one that feeds you with suspicions whenever you read an articles with figures in it, but with the kind of curiosity that is a real openness to the "strange" and the "strangers", you might find out that pure cold rationalism is not a silver bullet, and that in fact curiosity is a value to be placed above.

After all, rationalism is not able to tell us why one should not pee every evening on one's neighbors fence, right?
Never, I dont need it.
Was instantly reminded of this: http://newsmap.jp/
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Ask HN: Anyone used G-WAN web server?
http://gwan.ch - Are these speeds/resource usage even plausible?
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you might find out that pure cold rationalism is not a
silver bullet, and that in fact curiosity is a value to be
placed above.

you're presenting a rational argument for your point, which implies you think it's rational to place curiosity higher. That implies "pure cold rationalism" is a kind of strawman.

After all, rationalism is not able to tell us why one
should not pee every evening on one's neighbors fence,
right?

you sound serious, so: because they might not like the smell, because they might able to see it, and not like the sight...
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obligatory:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache
invalidation and naming things.
-- Phil Karlton
Maybe you can find a way into the open vs walled garden debate in a way that doesn't come off as shitting over someone else's work.
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This has been on HN before. I read the article and comments as well as used the information at work.

If I had time I would go dig it out but unfortunately I'm leaving for a midterm. Maybe someone else can find it; I think it had a good discussion with it.
C-h k is a shortcut for that function, while C-h f gets documentation on a function, while C-h a gives you fuzzy matching, which is wonderful when you're not sure what a command is called
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Yes, original post on HN 455 days ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942442

Op Follow up
http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/slow-start-follow-up.html
But why is it a benefit to society to protect it?

I think what I said about software patents applies to hardware patents as well, if less so. There is this idea that patents are a compromise: I file a patent, and I get a temporary monopoly on the idea. In exchange, the world gets full disclosure of my idea.

The point I'm making is that the full disclosure is worse than useless. Nobody ever says I wonder how I should implement this? Let's go check some patent filings to see if someone else has figured it out...
Some Linux distributions are not free (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for instance).
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16. No variable name should be fully self-contained within any other variable name:

Wrong: Cust & CustCtr

Right: CustID & CustCtr

You should be able to do a global search with any tool and get every instance of that variable with no instance of any other variable.

This pretty much kills "1. 1 char loop counters", which is a good thing.
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once upon a time i visited my father's house. when he started watching TV my 3 year old ran to the televisionscreen, tried to swipe it, pushed on some things on the screen, even did a two arm multi arm gesture to minimize the current screen - nothing happened - he turned away quite bored, i was very proud.
I feel like that about Java.
This is awesome. I've been waiting for this! Now all I need is the same thing for JavaScript and I'll be in heaven!
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> I am not an "out lier"

No disrespect intended. I meant to say that you're well ahead of the ASP.NET pack. Many of them are still making webforms, never mind getting over MVC or even experimenting with various ways of doing things that have not yet been blessed by Microsoft.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532271
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Can anyone comment on how the "Vim-ness" of this compares to Vintage mode in SublimeText 2?
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Also, how about Arch Linux? It's very lightweight :)
Oh, and Gentoo. Because you build Gentoo yourself, you only choose the packages you need, so it's super lightweight, only comes with what you need.
Seems to be a very direct clone, down to the colours, but using a different back-end system.
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Agreed as well
i like the design - i don't think the animation adds much though. For all the stuff that's going on in the world and how the other aggregators behave, i think that just 5-6 stories showing up is not enough when I click sometimes.
Your categories are a little weak "Lin" shows up in news of the World, Apple shows up in National.
Keep tweaking - there is definitely room for a better news aggregator and being able to easily switch to other national editions is great!
I'm currently using viper-mode (a vi mode that ships with Emacs). I haven't tried evil, and I'm interested why you choose it over viper-mode.
There's been an incredible amount of traffic today and 17.4% of you bookmarked myTextarea :)

Thanks everybody!
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Thanks andyl, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.
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What about diesel engines? I have a diesel, have run out of fuel (clogged filer), have had air in the system - bled it out, was dangerously low on radiator fluid but no ill effects.

All that over the span of ten years and I still drive it actually the engine is the best part the rest of the truck is falling apart around the engine.

Add to those no spark plugs, no spark plug wires, no distributor, a more durable engine design, higher efficiency compared to a gasoline engine.
I like this version: "There are two hard things in CS: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Because viper-mode only covers vi features, not vim features. Once you start using text objects[1], its hard to go back to normal vi.

[1] Like, if your curser is anywhere inside a set of parens you can type 'yap' to copy the entire paren block or 'yip' to just copy the stuff inside the parens. And unlike 'f0y%' it always just does the right thing with nested parens.
I want to echo your sentiments on Arch. I have a very lightweight Arch guest running headless through virtual box. I then use PuTTY to connect to it from my Windows host. For me, this is a much better way to have access to a *nix environment than running Cygwin.
I'm new so the re-post is awesome :)
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It's a different front-end too (JS instead of Flash). But the author not even mentioning Newsmap in the about is low.
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I wrote program for that, will this do?

for x in chain.from_iterable((product(*repeat(string.ascii_uppercase + ',.!? ', n)) for n in xrange(1, 2**32))): print ''.join(x)

It's currently limited to 4GB though. I am also afraid it will produce content that infringes someone elses existing rights.
You'd probably be inclined to cheat if your business had the most-viewed web page in the (Western?) world.
I didn't realise it had been on HN already. I just saw it because Sam Saffron tweeted it. I guess I should search more thorougly (I just searched for "cheat" and checked the first page.)
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Record a skype or Google hangout video call. Probably easiest to use an external camera for recording, instead of wasting time with screen capture etc.
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I disagree with the bit about test-driven development.

It is not necessary to add tests specifically for type errors. Unit tests for basic functionality will usually catch them.
In my experience if you're struggling with naming something (variable, function, class, etc.) in your code, it often indicates that you're not entirely sure about the role of that particular structure. When this happens to me, I ask myself: what is the role of this variable? What does this method do? If you can't figure that out sometimes that's indicating that it's time for refactoring.
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I created a (now defunct) product called Inbox Assistant which would parse plain text emails and create events automatically in your calendar.

I had to figure out how to do essentially what Apple does, and I'm by no means a computer scientist. Here's what I learned: http://blog.myinboxassistant.com/post/9613650483/experimenti...
Is it possible to use a script to roll back redis transactions. Currently transactions aren't like SQL transactions in that they don't roll back if there is a problem executing the commands between the multi/exec.

Say if I add a new hash, and also increment a counter, and update a set to track a relation. I currently do this within a multi/exec to ensure it's atomic. It would be nice to roll back the commands, if say there was an internal error between the exec/multi or if there was an external event like losing a disk / bouncing the server by possibly writing to the AOF log.

Out of interest, how do people deal with this now?
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Thanks! Was just wondering if that is acceptable!
I think there's room for both. Firefox is pretty popular precisely because of all the things it can do.

In any case, modern TVs suck at doing either of these things. I wouldn't mind which way they go as long as they do one of them.
Also, the free probably refers to free software - free as in beer, and not as in free beer ;)

I know some distros are not free software, but I don't know any.
This just my personal opinion, but in the case of a "like" button, it relies on you having interacted with Facebook, having previously accepted their cookies.

In the case of most ad networks, no one knows who they are, no individual visits their site directly. Now in the case of Google, I don't know why they couldn't just serve ads from google.com and still get around this issue, since most people would have accepted cookies from them already.
Looks nice, I would recommend it to my friends for a quick glance of news. But I would like to bring the attention of the author to the comment of nuttendorfer. The two sites seem very similar and you should either mention it somewhere, or try to differentiate yours in the design part
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fnando/i18n-js is awesome and works flawlessly with rails.
Is this a fully capable interpreter? In other words, is it capable of importing and running code from external sources? This would allow for some cool use cases.