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> These powers are vast

We need to increase the number of checks and balances in our government. They've been eroding steadily over the last century, resulting in the overly powerful executive branch we have today. For example, there was a time when the president did not have the ability to wage war without legislative approval.

The progressives (circa 1900) were not the first group that wished to diminish checks and balances, but they were the most consistent opponents of that system. And because they had a complete, systematic ideology, they succeeded in their goals, even though they were incorrect. See the following paragraph from Woodrow Wilson's book, "The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People":

"The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live. On the contrary, its life is dependent upon their quick co-operation, their ready response to the commands of instinct or intelligence, their amicable community of purpose. Government is not a body of blind forces; it is a body of men, with highly differentiated functions, no doubt, in our modern day, of specialization, with a common task and purpose. Their co-operation is indispensable, their warfare fatal. There can be no successful government without the intimate, instinctive co-ordination of the organs of life and action. This is not theory, but fact, and displays its force as fact, whatever theories may be thrown across its track. Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop."

(from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14811/14811-h/14811-h.htm)
A couple of items that would help the initial page:

- the page title would be better represented as "Financial Modelling Ebook" or similar

- a simple book image with the book title would be a quick way of making it obvious what you offering
Ask HN: Browser benchmarks for WebSocket, TypedArray, IndexedDB operations?
Have been working with IndexedDB, TypeArrays and WebSocket for some time now. It always seems that the browser implementations are at least an order of magnitude slower than they need to be.

For example, even though IndexedDB uses LevelDB under the hood in Chrome, it's much slower (and many times slower than KV stores outside the browser on the same machine).

Another example, at one stage, the ordinary Array implementation in most browsers was counterintuitively faster than the TypedArray implementation.

And then consider this recent Chromium issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123228 where Chrome's WebSocket client implementation takes 160ms to transfer 1mb from a localhost server.

Does anyone know if there is a website that compares browser performance across these api's, continuously updated as new browser versions are released? It would be great to a have a single page that shows:

1. A subset of the LevelDB benchmark applied to IndexedDB in Chrome and Firefox where possible (and compared to the same operations against Kyoto Cabinet and raw LevelDB).

2. Time to allocate a 1mb, 10mb, 100mb, 1gb TypeArray, and timings for standard operations on these.

3. WebSocket transfer speeds and browser memory usage, for binary data with 1mb, 10mb, 100mb, 1gb message sizes (and compared to the fastest non-browser WebSocket clients).

4. Browser storage limits, and permissions policies, and which browsers allow the user to grant privileges without going through a proprietary webstore.

Something like that would give more power to the next generation of web apps.
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I sometimes wonder if this whole thing isn't sort of a catch-22 for the record labels. It seems somewhat intuitive that greater piracy/sharing would lead to more exposure and more sales, but how many of those sales are driven by people who use file sharing as a means of music discovery, then purchase their favorites out of guilt? If the record labels acquiesce and begin to embrace file sharing as another method of exposure, that guilt-factor would evaporate because now torrenting isn't "wrong" anymore, thus eliminating those increased sales.
My faith in universal human rationality is decreasing day by day.
Hi, thanks for the feedback. The current layout is the result of lots of playing around with the site. Testimonials and the video had a big impact on conversions, so they are front and center now. I guess I might be biased from looking at the site a lot, but to me it seems pretty clean.

I think it needs to be clear exactly what step I want the user to take to join, so that's why that huge big green button is there. It's also not half bad looking in my opinion, although depends on your browser since it uses some recent webkit CSS stuff.

Factory tour / other kind of video back scenes content is probably a good idea. Since the current video works, it may be that that would work even better. Even before that though, I've been thinking of experimenting with a video that would just explain the service in simple terms.

You have a lot of ideas, have any for how to bring in traffic?
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Here's the court order for the inclined - http://www.scribd.com/doc/93879417/John-Doe-order-to-block-s...

IANAL, but as far as the court order goes there are no specific sites mentioned to be blocked. This implies, service providers like Airtel have perceived the aforementioned sites to be liable for copyright infringement. It is curious as to how they decided Pastebin and not Youtube could be used for "copyright infringement".
First, you probably don't want to serve all of your users the same CDN hosts - topological/geographical location will play a role: a user from US will see >100 msec latency from EU servers and vice versa.
Second, the largest hit will be to users with empty caches - which will be further worsened by the evaluation session, so the first load will be at best mediocre for everyone.
Third, getting a CDN which already does some sane load balancing (Amazon perhaps?) might be cheaper in the longer run than trying to DIY.
Works fine for me. Apps, music, TV shows, podcasts, iTunes U.
why is that? esp on pastebin that is.
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Yet you just made no argument for why his arguments are weak, while yours are: jobs create consumers and consumers create jobs, but in your equation absurdly rich people and increasing inequality does not seem to be needed...
I've heard this figure cited before. Do you have a source? Also, is it true for online purchases, or just consumer spending in general?
Thailand censors the net. They're very bad at it (reload a page a few times and you'll usually get through) but it's law nonetheless.

It's interesting to note that they don't censor sites for copyright infringement or piracy. They censor for moral reasons and violations of the country's lese-majesty law.
I get a similar 'even to Australia' message, and damn do I appreciate it. As an Australian I find myself avoiding online purchases because shipping costs routinely run more expensive then what I want to buy, unless you want to wait 30+ days for your item. It's a fantastic personal touch that just makes me instinctively like the service and want to show my friends.
Non-French here, but trying to learn. What's the difference between "manger le fromage" and "manger du fromage"?
You can't just declare a speech insane without a good reason, especially if it more or less agrees with what you state just next...

Edit: although i don't know how to read (insane vs. inane), this does not fundamentally changes anything in context...
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Not sure why, but in latest Chrome (19.0) on OSX I get a lot of flickering during the transitions (like a full browser black flash).
Any news on when the beta version will be released?
Sidenote: interesting how the guys in the video don't look directly at you, but do that lookaway thing, which I associate that with Apple videos ("we're launching this incredibly awesome piece of technology, now available to all of mankind enjoy, you're welcome").

Google, I expected them to look right at the camera and talk to me (for example, like Matt Cutts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhwPC-5Ub4).
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> The only tangible benefit to affiliation is the ability to vote in the primary—a benefit so dubious we all personally know people who affiliated opposite their beliefs just to muck up the process.

OT: I don't know anyone who's done that, but I've long wondered if the most effective way to get the result you want is to simply destroy everyone opposing it, rather than promoting the result directly. It seems that it'd be much easier to manipulate the system (and the people) using a negative influence than positive. It's definitely not right, but seems like it could be effective. Then again, as I write this I realize that this is half of what happens already.
For makers, its huge. The first time I put a garage door opener on the internet so I could open it with my smartphone was early 2007. At that time it required a chain of ill suited hard to program parts totaling nearly $300. Its was $90 just for a module to "get it on the internet" via RJ45 ethernet.

I did it again 3 months ago with a TP-Link 703 running openwrt. $22. Built-in wifi AND RJ45, usb port for io. (although I used the GPIO hooked up to is LED to save a few bucks). So that made it cheaper than buying a new remote at sears. Now I can see if the door is open and open and close it from anyhere. And give my friends temporary access to the door on Facebook.

Why is it important? Its the difference between "$297 of patented KCD IP, LLC technology"(1) requiring a monthly subscription to use doing almost but not quite what I wanted, and spending an weekend making it perfectly what I wanted for $22 with what I already had.

(1) http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/dap_10155_12602_DAP_Garage+Do...
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http://www.42share.com solves it pretty well and doesn't require a download or registration
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This post is not worth bothering with. It is a really simplistic world-view, with some errors along the way too. Certainly not suitable for HN crowd.
Most people who work in an agency still do it this way as the roles are divided by specialty.
There are plenty of terrible Apple policies, but I hardly think that disallowing free advertising for competitors on Apple's own platform is uncalled-for censorship. Would you make similar claims on ABC for not running ads for shows on CBS?
Finally a common sense move by Washington.
No mention of JIT compilation of Java either.
It languished for a while and then new devs rotated in and there was a flurry of work and then it became just steady.
Maybe a more logical extension of where you could go with "only considering half the problem" is that the wealthy often put up the initial capital to create the enterprise that then sells to consumers. Salary earners tend to have a harder time creating enough spare capital to execute against an opportunity even if they see it.
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Countries with smaller population, smaller geographical area, or more homogenous culture are at some point more comparable to individual states in the US than the United States as a whole. "Federated" isn't very meaningful relative to other metrics when making international comparisons.

For the sake of presenting the alternative perspective advocating the abolishment of involuntary schooling, I would recommend reading the following piece by Cevin Soling: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/02/27/w...
Just political speech, not science at all.Science starts with facts and the fact is, the rich pay mearly all US taxes, the poor pay nearly nothing at all. Thus sugesting otherwise is very poos science.
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Banning wealthy entrepreneurial investors from your country would surely be counter-productive to stimulating growth?
same about xmarks, it's bookmarking service for god's sake...
yesterday's comment thread on reddit pretty much covered this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/tqi15/too_hot_for_...

basically, this talk is mostly partisan and not supported by a lot of data. this TEDtalk, on the other hand, is:

http://blog.ted.com/2011/10/24/how-economic-inequality-harms...
I have seen several discussions on several forums already. I just wanted to bring together the links from all angles so that people can find the references easily than for them to do a manual search again.
it is banned in chennai, can't access on my office leased line
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I don't buy things after torrenting because I feel guilty for torrenting. I buy things after torrenting because I like those things. If I dislike those things I delete them and don't buy them.
That's really grammar bad...
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I always use Photoshop for my mockups for clients, but I'm still pretty new to web design.

I've only been at it about 5-6 months, with 1-2 years experience in graphic design. Any advice?
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It's candy and it's japanese... that just conjures all sorts of images of a super high tech factory run by cats and magic. I'd love to see a candy envelope being stylised packing animation in the background or off to the side. It could look amazing visually and would explain the concept instantly.
All valid points, and there are testing suites that do exactly what you say that are widely used (this one is pretty standard: http://www.nwea.org/products-services/computer-based-adaptiv...), but they aren't the assessment that's measured by state departments. There are probably lots of reasons for this, (cynical: they were outlobbied by Pearson, which has million dollar contracts with many states to write their state tests.), but nonetheless they exist.

The other problem is that this is a problem at which we should be throwing our best data scientists, and in many cases we're lucky if those involved have an intro stats course under their belt. Evaluating student performance is no trivial task (ESPECIALLY when trying to create some accurate measure of reading level), but we're not putting the brainpower behind it to figure out. And as much as I love it, I don't think Khan Academy will be solving those problems, but I'd love to be wrong.
I looked into it briefly, right now i'm more focused on getting the charts right. Once I've done that I was going to work on different data transport options.
Probably less, since you don't have to worry about, say, adrenaline dampening the negative feedback loops between brain and muscles.
Just updated. The response to this has been way beyond my wildest thoughts. Thank you!
Cool looking project, terrible name. You have just forced the following upon anyone who uses your module:

>>> import aargh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named aargh
>>> import aaaargh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named aaaargh
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."

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Diffie-Hellan is a pretty simple algo. You can do a frame-by-frame analysis of it in about fifteen minutes and it should be fairly easy to understand.

The trickiest thing about public key cryptography is that I always lose my keys!
But I'd say Pinterest-style scrapbooking is a type of bookmarking, a visual style of bookmarking. And a lot of the things people get excited and interested in are at least in part visual: fashion, lifestyle goods, home and garden projects, wedding day stuff, arts and crafts, food and drink, cars etc.

I'm just looking at the comments on items on the Pinterest homepage: "Love this!", "WANT IT", "available now on Etsy", "Gift ideas", "can someone give me a link where i can buy it online". It's a veritable treasure trove of consumer information for people in the right markets. And it has just enough pictures of hot men, cute baby pictures and occasional silly memes to remain interesting.

Yes, it appeals more to women (and some gay men and arty types and so on), but in the right hands, it's a powerful tool for understanding and supplying the needs and wants of a significant market segment.

There's an interesting possibility for doing some kind of content partnership: imagine Pinterest TV, discussing all sorts of fashion and lifestyle stuff, with partnerships with existing media and retail brands - think Mumsnet or L'Oreal or Vogue or MTV...
AC/DC isn't on the iTunes store anyways. One of the few holdouts.
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Australian resident here, internet access is slow, overpriced (Example: $30AUDp/mo for 5GB including upload and downloads, after which you're slowed to 65kb/s until end of month), and seemingly constantly under threat of censorship or lawsuits against ISP's.

Allegedly the National Broadband Network currently rolling out will help alleviate the first two, but best case scenario leaves the latter hanging over our heads.
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inane != insane
Most startups are privately held and view profitability as valuable information. If you're the only company in industry $z and everyone thinks you're unprofitable, you don't have to worry about competition. If you're the only company in industry $z and everyone knows you're profitable, you're going to have to deal with a lot more competition.
This is huge if they can pull it off. I wonder how accurately they can make it happen. Even if they're simply able to position layers exactly the same as in PS, it's already something I would use as being extremely useful. This could virtually allow you to not code in HTML/CSS3 anymore - which is something I really hate to do.

So would it output the HTML elements and give you CSS3 code for it? How about <forms> and other elements that aren't just simply <div>'s? Can you make those?
Can a moderator edit the link and change it to the ted one? http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_...

Also, what is the karma threshold to edit other people's posts?
Professional CDN's do anycast so first load will be pretty sane. My problem is, areas like Australia are part of very few CDN networks. Most of them are a lot more expensive. For my Australian viewers it makes sense to use Akamai or have an Australian server. For my European viewers I am best having the assets served directly off my European servers. For other viewers I may be fine using a budget CDN like maxcdn or OVH's currently free in beta CDN.

This is my motive for such a solution. Plus I have the benefit of it being able to routing around problems with little manual effort.
It looks like it only exports webkit-compatitble CSS. If this is the case, this would be really disappointing.
All sites work fine for me using Google's DNS servers on Airtel.
I think that generalization is false as often as it is true.

But also, have you read any of the papers involved? Datalog is pretty simple. It's a restricted, forward chaining prolog. Once you know that, you can recreate most of it from that description alone.
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Some science history today :)
So is it never appropriate for teaching to be a mechanical process, or is it a failure of current techniques that they cannot be applied mechanically?

I don't mean to be flip, I'm thinking about trying to teach the same lesson to 15 or 30 people and how some of them won't need the lesson and some of them won't have the base knowledge to understand it.
Duff said inane, not insane.
I think the name is triple A, and so is the spelling. :)
Nobody mentions that an economy has a hypothetical failure mode (like the game of Monopoly) where all of the money ends up in one person's hands -- and then trading stops.

Huh? I'm having a really hard time imagining how this could possibly happen. Does that person not ever need to buy anything? If they don't buy things they're taking that money out of circulation, and if you have a central bank targeting anything (or free banking, or most banking systems humans have tried) the people who can make more money will make more money in order to hit their targets. I'm pretty sure that nobody mentions that because the idea is, well, pretty ridiculous.
Buy a dictionary :-)
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There's a very simple explanation: Unlike all the countries you mention, the majority of our US tax dollars goes toward military spending.

The npr graph from the parent post is extremely misleading, and understates the US military budget by roughly a factor of 2. Huge portions of the "non-military" budget entries are covers for military spending.

For example, the npr graph counts $141 billion dollars in VA health care for soldiers, but this isn't listed as part of the military budget. The same games are played with weapons r&d (often budgeted to the Dept. of Energy). Our recent Dept. of Homeland Security contains a great deal of military spending as well.

When one separates the budget by spending intent rather than the politicized department budgets in the above graph it becomes quickly apparent why we don't have good social services -- we're spending it all on military.
While httpstatus.es seems much more functional (the short descriptions on the index are a really nice touch), this one just made my day. Thanks!
Those updates would also be good on the sales web page.
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Yes, it's a cluster. I totally concede.

I just meant it's not the same kind of clustering as Hadoop/HBase, Vertica, VoltDB, Cassandra, Riak, Greenplum, Netezza, Teradata or even DB2-Cluster.

If clustering is a spectrum where Dynamo-style systems like Riak are on one side and my Dell SMP system is the other extreme, the Sun cluster is probably closer to the SMP system than to the Riak cluster.
We've come so far, yet still have so much to do.
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