skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I think your perspective is less tenable than mine.

"We did talk with others about David Leigh’s allegation. Several people confirmed that you had initially wanted to publish all the Afghan War Logs without redacting names. We also allowed you to deny the charge. As for content sales, you mentioned in your interview that you had explored financial incentives to improve the reception of the Collateral Murder video. There is more about this in the transcript of your interview that is published on Frontline's website."

That's Marcela Gaviria, a veteran PBS FRONTLINE producer. So that's The Guardian and PBS FRONTLINE --- both extraordinarily reputable newsgathering organizations, and both thoroughly on the liberal side of the spectrum with regards to conflict reporting.

Against that, you have Julian Assange's word and the fact that two Der Spiegel reporters apparently didn't add Assange's statement to their notes.

I tried to track down a denial from John Goertz or Holger Stark; maybe you could point me to one? Leigh's made a bombshell claim. If Der Spiegel reporters are calling into question, it shouldn't be hard to find!

I believe The Guardian and PBS FRONTLINE.
Three thousand cheers to you. Of all the good things about my generation (early thirties) nothing bothers me more than the trend of never standing up tall in the wind and planting your flag. Always always it seems that people are infinitely hedging everything they say under the implied assumption that gusto and principal are hopelessly old fashioned. It is so refreshing when people are willing to risk being knocked over and smile while they're at it.
Nah, fear isn't really the issue here, I would say that I have a rather calculated understanding of why I find radioactive waste so problematic (and since you asked, you'll have to endulge the full explanation).

For me, it comes down to what kind of pollution we are talking about and radioactive pollution is particularly nasty to me as it represents a chaotic pollution that is just exceptionally hard to deal with.

Let's say the simplest, non-chaotic, kind of pollution is "dirt on your shoe" - you know where it came from (that thing you just stepped in), you know where it is (you see it on your shoe), what it does (hardly anything, except look bad) and how to get it out (wash it off).

With radioactive pollution, knowing where the pollution is coming from can already be a tough job - if you have a known leak, sure, that's where it's coming from. But often, you have to use a Geiger counter to detect it in the first place and often times, you then still have to figure out where the actual source is.

Where it went is mostly a statistical science, which is only comforting if your arm chair is not close to the accident in question. If it is, it's highly distressing.

Next up, it's still completely up for graps what it does - for humans, it can be anything from a challenged immune system to instant death, depending on the dose. (Although the latter is reserved for those rare occurances where you happen to hang out with the direct fallout of an exploding atom bomb, I believe.) Most of the time, in an accident, you only determine how bad it was after the fact. At minimum, it always carries a risk of mucking with your DNA or giving you a higher chance of cancer down the road (we have differed on how "horrifying" this prospect is, before).

How to get it out is where it gets even worse - most of the time, you scrap together everything that you determined to be affected in step two and put it in sealed containers, which isn't helpful if that thing is 'most of your own cells' (although the people around you will differ on that opinion). Your most likely prospect in terms of any kind of unusual exposure is to die slightly earlier and a lot shittier than you had anticipated.

In conclusion, I would say that it's more of a "we simply don't fully understand what we unleash, so let's develop what we do understand" concern. Not a "omg, a castor drove through Italy, I'm gonna get cancer tomorrow" fear.

> There is a pollution action day in my city right now because of people like you, and I'm not happy about it. I want them to shut down all hydrocarbon electric plants (save the hydrocarbons for cars), and switch everything to nuclear.

That almost made me LOL - Why is it "because of people like [me]"? Maybe it's time for me to get off your lawn?
I'd be interested in what proportion of that is spent on education, because sponsored research is sort of its own (problematic) can of worms. When sponsored program revenues are up by 60%, for example, that almost requires that expenditures go up by 60-80%, because those programs generally come with quite strict conditions on spending the money expeditiously, and often specify exactly how to spend it (this is particularly common with DARPA grants, which are extremely front-loaded and micromanaged). In addition, these grants often come with some co-funding requirement on the part of the university, both explicitly and in terms of "upgrading facilities", though some of that is then taken back again by the university in overhead charges.

UVa, like most research universities, has been quite aggressive in trying to "encourage" faculty to get more grants. If that's successful, overall spending must of course increase proportionately, because the grant requires the recipient to ramp up hiring of program personnel. If that's not a goal, then the university should de-prioritize or even discourage grants, because they mandate spending increases.

A different angle would be to look at breakdowns by department. Which departments have gotten more expensive? My guess is that, as this is likely tied to grant-funded research, it's mostly STEM departments, not the "marginal" humanities.
I respect jwz, but this is very much a step backwards, and while I appreciate his complaint about breaking existing APIs, this would be for programs near 20 years old targeted at a different platform.

OpenGL is a terrible, awful, crufty API, and the reason those methods were removed is that they are comically suboptimal. They do not reflect anything remotely like modern card capabilities, and their use directly causes harm to the ozone layer, kittens, and infants. I'm pretty sure that glBegin() gave a coworker cancer, and the matrix stack has claimed more lives than Kevorkian.

Building a shim to port over old OpenGL 1.3 apps is kind of like translating the Necronomicon into English--possible, of questionable utility, and likely to bring about insanity and demons.

As others have pointed out, OpenGL ES is not intended to be an extension of OpenGL--it was a chance to break out a lot of the dumb cruft that had accumulated into the API. Most of the features he's complaining about are either bad practice or should be gotten rid of entirely.

Compare the length of the API listings for GL 1.x, 2.x, and modern 3.x / 4.x. Remember that the whole thing is a hissing, clanking state machine, and that interactions between functions can be arcane--and threading presents additional issues.

Immediate mode rendering with glBegin()/glEnd()/glVertex()/glNormal/etc. is ugly. Any shim that collects that information still has non-trivial work stuffing it into a buffer, and the overhead of drawing anything with more than a few hundred triangles soon becomes absurd. Worse, this style of programming discourages storing geometry on the card, and that causes additional inefficiency--and trying to use those calls remotely over X causes all kinds of stupid as glx can barely do indirect rendering anyways.

Additionally, we have additional vertex stream attributes available now which are very flexible and don't map onto that anymore. It's time to let go.

~

tl,dr: jwz is complaining about a fork of an API that removed cruft people depended on, but the cruft needed removing. :(
This is pure nonsense.
If the Surface comes out at an attractive price point (subsidized?) then how long before somebody cracks it and runs Android or Linux on it? It was done with the HP TouchPad and Apples iPad/iPod/iPhone.
U.S, Israel developed Flame virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
No, I understand that point. I just don't agree with it in this case.

* "thou shalt not break working code". That's not some Universal Code of Software Engineering, that's just something he made up.

* No one in their right mind would expect you could port 20 year old C using OpenGL 1.x code to an iPhone with no effort.

* There are plenty of reasons APIs can benefit from breaking changes. Security fixes, major architectural improvements, platform porting, even general evolution and modernization. The question is always one of cost/benefit, relative pain vs relative gain.

* Sorry JWZ, but your X screensaver project is actually not an overriding concern driving the evolution of OpenGL ES.

* I didn't mention it again because so many other have pointed this out, but this isn't even the same API. OpenGL ES is not the same thing as OpenGL 1.x.

* Changing the major version number is a common and accepted way to indicate breaking changes are present in an API. The OpenGL board went even farther and gave it a different name and a different versioning scheme specifically because it is different.
The first instance of that landing would be quite something to witness!
This is a bit off topic, but according to wikipedia; "Adverse reactions to adrenaline include palpitations, tachycardia, arrhythmia, anxiety, headache, tremor, hypertension, and acute pulmonary edema."

I've always thought that a true straight-edge person wouldn't deliberately trigger adrenaline releases. The fact that your body produces it given a particular stimulus doesn't seem to really be relevant to the "goodness" of the substance. If your body produced cocaine when you get in a mosh pit is that different than just taking cocaine?
Your friend was arrested for being a Christian in a country with a large Christian minority? Please elaborate.
God what flamebait, how is this near the top of the front page?

When your primary argument that the ES designers were idiots is lack of immediate mode, I'm sorry, you are the idiot. These are embedded systems with highly constrained resources and that immediate mode API is horrible for a lot of reasons:

* Requires tons of driver calls.

* Stupidly hard to optimize on the driver side when you have no idea just how many vertices or other per-vertex data are to follow your call to glBegin.

* Trivial to replace with a much better, and much, much higher performing vertex representation either through vertex buffer objects or simple calls to glVertexPointer/etc.

* Teaches beginners the Wrong Way of doing things -- you won't use this API for anything beyond a toy program as the last thing you would do is load an exported mesh from Max or Maya and then iterate through every vertex.

Having learned OpenGL initially with the ES 1.1/2.0 spec, then transitioning back to the desktop version, I couldn't believe how bloated the API had gotten. There is a reason they want to deprecate most of it and move to a spec that is similar to ES in its simplicity.
Cue comments about how Elon Musk is doing so much more with his money than everyone else, and how SpaceX/Tesla Motors/SolarCity are so much more valuable than anything else.

Cue complaints about how no one works on hard problems any more, and that everyone is just chasing instagram/facebook/twitter/groupon/zynga/social/local/mobile.

Forget that Elon Musk started an advertising/publishing company in 1995-1997, intelligently riding the bubble, and then created X.com (a more complex Mint.com), which he then merged with Confinity to create PayPal (from where he was essentially fired - unfortunately).

Forget that battery tech wasn't useful enough until just over 5 years ago (not nearly dense/cheap enough), and how we needed the massive production increases in laptop battery production for Tesla to make sense. Also forget that NASA had 0 use for SpaceX until the Space Shuttle program was shutdown - which is curiously lined up with the COTS program. Also forget that Solar panels required massive production gains thanks to China which only occurred within the past 5 years. Finally, ignore the fact that he would never have been able to do anything without the money from a stupid email payments thing.

Big problems are awesome. Little problems are better.

Everyone starts small. Even Elon (a personal hero of mine and a man I deeply respect).

Start on new small things, work hard, and TIME your entry/exit with extreme precision. Malcolm Gladwell says a lot of things which are "truthy", but his Outliers book was right on the money.

"Big things have small beginnings" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB52xyaY4kk).
Only if there isn't a footrest at the proper height.
My favorite: git diff --color-words=.
The answer to this question very much depends on your niche market. The assumption is that the founder is a domain expert in what ever niche (domain) he/she is starting in. Keeping this assumption in mind, one should at a minimum know who the competitors are.

In my humble opinion, the more important question is: does your competitors know who you are?

If they know who you are, then I would have tremendous trust in your execution.
How is this different/superior to gtalk in anyway?
I use linode for flask apps. A lot of configuration at first though, managed servers are easier and let you get to coding faster.

I like to play with Server stuff though.
So to view these videos, I need to be running Safari for the streaming version, or have iTunes installed to download the videos?

Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way? I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) running Chrome. Sure, I could install Safari or iTunes, but why do I have to? (And don't say "So you can watch the videos.")
Actually, it appears that Windows is actually on track to move down into second place in OS market share behind Android, and into third place next year behind Android and iOS.
http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/19/the-evolution-of-the-comput...

I'm actually torn about the Windows platform on this form factor. Solidworks on a Surface - or Core IMPACT (scary!) sounds really cool. The installed base really is awesome.
On the other hand, Blackhole, Zeus, TDSS, and everything else will also run on day one (or day zero) - and they'll run on the cheap version or the expensive one.
What they should think about doing is refusing to sell to anyone from that wacky district in east Texas that's causing all of the patent troll messes.

Now that would benefit the country more than some goofy ethnic profile rule.
Finding the right "heigth" in JavaScript.
To put this in perspective, 6'0 and 130 is a BMI of 17.6 which is off the charts. He is well below the ideal lean BMI of 21.6.
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Except he didn't port his code to OpenGL ES - he ported the missing API from OpenGL 1.3 to OpenGL ES.

If it takes one developer three days to implement the missing API, then perhaps it suggests that this API wasn't in any way damaging to the new system and could have been left in place originally?
My note wasn't for you.

You solved your "problem" in a Google search, but used this article as a trojan horse to soap box about two unrelated tangents. My note was for everyone here who was wondering how to fix it, but weren't willing to look in the second lines of the sixth paragraph.
Which is what I mostly do these days.
A spec that's not backwards compatible. Oh my! I've never seen that before. Get over it. Some software isn't backwards compatible. OpenGL ES != OpenGL. Get over it.
Link to the actual EFF page for the petition:

https://defendinnovation.org/
> the 15 story hotel

It's not as pretty as you think.

http://zjj.house.sina.com.cn/zhuanti/yuandajiemi/index.html

scroll down to the bottom.

http://zjj.house.sina.com.cn/images/U4528P915T3D125F161DT201...

This is the 15 story hotel entrance. Can you imagine?
Bonus = built in wrist rests!
Diagramming sentences:  What it's good for
Yes, many! On the submission form, I even referred folks to Wikipedia's list of prime numbers but, alas.
How dare people occasionally relate a link to something they're reminded of from their home country.
Unrelated but interesting. I always wondered if it was just nostalgia, preference, or some other reason for green text. It makes sense with RGB pixels of course. Now what about orange? That's not monochrome ...
> Threw the JS into closure compiler with advanced optimisations
> and pretty print and out comes relatively unobfuscated code...

Boss hack. That strategy would have never occurred to me. Thanks!
As I said, sponsored programs only make up a quarter of UVA's budget. It's not a heavy science/tech school where most faculty salaries are funded by research grants. A 60% increase in sponsored programs revenue would imply a 15% increase in overall expenditures.

Half the 80% increase in expenditures was funded by A tripling of tuition. This is not a situation where expenditure increases are being funded mostly by grants.
re: your username. Like retired basketball jerseys, shouldn't "quux" be reserved for Guy Steele?
Judge for yourself. I think you understand what I was saying.
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Chances are, most developers they are targeting are on Macs, so they made it easy for them.
> The iPad was to be a gift for her cousin who lives in Iran.

I'm guessing they may have mentioned this fact, which would have made it illegal to sell to them due to the export ban.
With all the misinformation that's out there about the conflict, living in Tel Aviv will give you an opportunity to see the reality of the situation. An yes, you should be safe in Tel Aviv unless Hamas or Fatah decide to start suicide bombings again (but they haven't in many years). If you travel to the south, you should learn what Tseva Adom means.
Your core message was pretty fantastic, and with a different tone it could be even better, and better received.
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My goodness, no, this is terrible advice. Never do this. Go fix all the code you wrote immediately. It is full of security vulnerabilities. I'm not kidding, this is so bad.
2 people on 61 is thinking, damn it, almost!
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Open source 3D drivers will have a hard time EVER being useable for anything beyond glgears... everything in that space is going to be really patent encumbered.
Actually, in the end, I came out even and my original post is worth +1.

Obviously, everyone has an opinion. You are entitled to yours.

Mine is mine and that of most UX people I have spoken to. I have used XFCE, I have used CDE, NextSTEP, the Irix UI, Gnome, KDE, Comice OS, Mint Linux, all versions of Windows, all version of Mac OS...and I happen to believe Mac OS X is the culmination of decades of gradual, tedious, laborious, unoriginal improvement. I just happen to believe it's better than any alternative.
I may be wrong. I am not a man of great certainties.

My original point stands: People should spend less time repackaging existing distributions with a different logo and background image, and more time coming up with a UI that can compete with something a proprietary, profit-oriented entity came up with.
Am I strange that I like rain, especially with thunderstorms? I like variable weather, not sun every day.

I'd rather go to Tel Aviv in March.
I'm surprised the EFF supports software patents...

They're just mathematical constructs, I'm not even sure how they're patentable.
It's interesting. I am against Software Patents and find them totally absurd.

Yet I have this one little UI invention that I believe I could get patented if I went for it. (I wont)

I wonder how many of these patents are about vanity more than actual business intent.
Felt like I had to get it off my chest. My sincere apologies for the ranty tone everybody.
You are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_nationality_law#Natural...
Google's C++ style guide strongly recommends using signed ints over unsigned ints:

https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide....
google voice integration for sprint does this, I don't see how this is better.
I do think the appropriate course of action is to /nick SkyNet and start shouting killAllHumans
Who cares about XP? I was fearing legislation because his cry of wolf was heard far and wide.
Not impossible, just very difficult.
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If you're not going to patent it, publish and/or otherwise disclose it ASAP, to establish priority. Otherwise, in many countries, you can be sued for using your own invention by someone who bothered to go to the patent office.
UVA is not the corporate world. If UVA wants to maintain its stature it can't be missing entire departments (of thought). You end up with a university that is less than the sum of its parts.
Oh I figured as much, and it does make sense. But I'm unclear as to what types of streaming video Safari supports that Chrome doesn't.
Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency
And you can keep saying "most", it still doesn't dispute the fact that without hard data or more solid anecdotal evidence to back your claim, you're mostly talking out of your arse.
FWIW, greenscreen (and amber) CRTs used green and amber phosphors; color alignment didn't come into it, right? As I understand it, green and amber because they were cheap.
I'm curious, what is it like living in Tel Aviv if you aren't Jewish and are from the USA? The reason I ask is this article seems to focus on the benefits of cultivating a startup in Tel Aviv. Are there cultural disadvantages to folks who are not Jewish?

This is a serious question, but I'm already feeling like I'm treading lightly on egg shells just asking this...:)
So you get to set the rules for what appears not only on Stack Exchange, but some guy's own blog? I'd love to see your explanation for that.

If you want to see if he has evidence, try asking him. And not in a "it's your job to argue with me" way. Call him up on the phone, ask open questions, and then listen to the answers without being demanding or dismissive like you are here.

That's a pretty basic product management skill. If it's something you're not familiar with, plenty of people teach classes. I know the Luxr folks do a good job, for example.
Wait, I thought WhatsApp or Google Voice were the replacements for iMessage. It needs to work everywhere like Google Voice, or save you international SMS like WhatsApp does.
Is this supposed to matter? If it's important for human health to get up and walk around every 20 minutes, and not to stand all day, what do I care about the design of the space I'm in?
Ask HN: Is there an open source SAAS framework?
If you want to build a SAAS app that has the usual components of user registration/subdomains, pricing, subscriptions etc, is there a framework out there for this ? preferably python ?