skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Internet autonomy" = we want to have our own intranet so we can cut off the rest of the world from our population without causing technical trouble.

"Unilateral action" = we're gonna do this whether you like it or not.

But you know what, the Chinese already have the means to do this. Just block anything that doesn't end in ".cn", and block port 53 on all foreign DNS servers. Then what's the point of this internet draft? Just something that somebody can cite later to lend an appearance of support when China does break away from the internet?
I read it on my iPad. No obvious view-source option.
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I don't think China would care at all. If all the links to www.yahoo.com suddenly becomes invalid by default, now the Great Firewall can do whitelisting instead of blacklisting!

On the other hand, they already have access to a ".B" suffix, and it's called ".cn". For exampe, www.yahoo.com.cn.
I am not sure I understand.

I never questioned his integrity. In fact I think I went to great length to say that it was not him but that post.
How did we end up with OK/Cancel in the first place?

When I run into an OK/Cancel box (usually on a web page using the generic built-in confirm()), it often feels to me like the meaning would be far more clear if the options were "yes" or "no", no matter which order they're displayed.

Is there a UI 'best practice' reason OK/cancel "won" over yes/no?
Possible, but more likely more people are right footed than left so it's more natural to control acceleration with your right foot vs. the more mechanical shift process.
phantomJS + CasperJS make crawling easily. I build http://sp.iderman.info to help scratching easier.
Awesome, i loved that (more as learning material though) :D
Well, client-side attacks are great because they typically rely on the naivete or indifference of the user. And the client-side attack surface is typically protected to a lesser degree than a server. A well orchestrated spearfishing attack is tough to defend against, even for a security conscious user. The attack surface is just so large.

However, the meat on the bones is really on the servers. If someone pops my desktop at work, they won't find much valuable data. But they will be able to keylog me, grab admin password hashes, arp-spoof etc. Still, no data. But what they will get enables them to access our company files and databases in short order.

In essence, client-side attacks in the corporate world are definitely targeted at server data, while in the consumer world, they're targeted towards identity theft or botnet creation.
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The '@qq.com' part seemed more professional to me than the '644247110' part.
A personal opinion: Lua comes close to having a predictable control flow, as more program structure stuff is built in to the language. One of the headaches I had with Tcl was maintaining heaps of scripts that implemented structural features (OO, object references, list comprehensions, to name a few that come to mind) in different ways _because you can_. Doing things the elegant way can sometimes be the enemy of doing things the predictable way.

This is strictly a limitation of languages like Lua, but in day-to-day use it sometimes becomes an advantage.
That's because the costs of a security vulnerability are externalized.
How on earth is that by any metrics tangential to what we are talking about here.

I reacted to a post that made great claims and then ended up with trying to sell me something.

The internet is changing things, but humans are often the same.
I kind of like

3, 4: A page about "GTD for hackers", which I found on HN awhile back

drowning in that list.

Maybe I should be happy about Firefox (granted: Beta) being extremely buggy for me when restoring sessions. Just today it killed my equally big list of things I meant to look at again and never did.
Why do you think this is not a "real effort"?
And if you do that you force the user to read all options, which is completely unnecessary.

If the question is "Reboot?" and you have Yes/No as alternatives I will see that it is a Yes/No-dialogue-box instantly, way before I read the buttons I see the button structure and recognize it as a typical Yes/No-dialogue-box.

I read the question and because I already know my alternatives I have go directly to the option I want, if the buttons change every time I have to read and assess the situation every single time. This is good for critical questions (like, do you want to format this drive?) but bad for common questions (such as Save?).

The author never even considered this, which is exactly why you should follow platform conventions. If you don't people are going to feel weird coming to your application and even if you manage to gain 10% in comprehension by switching to a non-standard layout you are going to loose 80% in comprehension and 10540% in speed just because you are different than what the user expected.

Android ICS changed the place for the Cancel/OK buttons when unlocking the sim-card, my muscle memory still haven't learned this despite using ICS for many months.

The only thing this article managed to get through to me was: follow your platform guidelines.
Why not just take an ax to the Internet cables crossing China's borders, and implement this internally?

I suppose bitcoin mining might suffer.
Clearly you have not worked in enough fields to see where this may be used. I've worked at high frequency traders where we used some of this technology. And how about a large portion of android phones?
Amusing anecdote, but faulty reasoning. I’ll tell the story another way: Would you betray your country if I kidnapped you and your family, rendered you to a secret location in the third world, and tortured your children? You would? Here’s $100, betray your country. We’ve already established that you’re a traitor, we’re simply haggling over terms.

That is clearly ridiculous, the word “traitor” clearly means something a little more than “There exists at least one set of circumstances—no matter how extreme--under which this person would betray their country.”

The expression “This jersey is for sale” means something a little more than “There exists at least one circumstance—no matter how extreme—under which I would sell the jersey.” If it doesn’t, we might as well throw it out of the English language, because it would convey zero bits of information.

When we say “Everything is for sale,” we don’t mean “Because I can kidnap your family or drive an armoured car full of cash to your house,” unless we’re members of the Hutt clan. In the OP, the CEO is discussing how the company being for sale affects everything they do. He doesn’t mean, “We do what we do because someone may kidnap my children,” he means “We do what we do because I’m open to negotiating the sale of this company at any time."
I think having good app icon design is a luxury. There are many things to worry about before your app icon.
Yeah I agree. I probably should just have kept my mouth shut but I was just so disappointed when I saw that last line.

I was in fact trying to go after the ball not the man.
If you want to strap a monitor to your laptop don't go with Dell, (I've had several problems with the Dell XPS and Ubuntu including a white screen of death), Ubuntu probably won't recognize the driver.
Professors have been holding office hours for decades, and it is indeed a very efficient use of time if done properly.

The best part of it, if you're usually on the maker's schedule, is that you can set aside a period of time during which, and only during which, you're on manager's schedule. That's much better than switching in and out at irregular hours to attend meetings scattered all over the place. No show? Shame on you, but it's no big deal for me, because I wasn't planning to do anything terribly important during that time anyway. Maybe I'll check my email while I wait for the next appointment, and take care of, you know, managerial chores.

By comparison, if someone wants to see me in the middle of a 3-hour coding/writing/etc session, and then pulls a no show, the impact on my productivity could be a lot more serious.
This implies that "there can be only one." The idea that you could effectively prove that a seller is keeping their side of the bargain also implies that no one else would discover it.
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You might be able to find answer to your question by contacting these guys. Hope it helps.

http://www.ready2inc.com/outsideUS.asp
> Also, the authors are on Yahoo/QQ free webmail addresses, which isn't very professional.

Par for the course in China, really. I know very few businesspeople here who don't use a free email service.
I can't think of anything that meets the hyperbolic claim, but I know some insurance companies have introduced driving monitors to assess how safe your driving is and adjust your premiums accordingly.
There aren't many "hard truths" in this world. I would say after reading this article that newspapers have hit a bottom. Look at Warren Buffet's recent investments. The future of paying for editorial, premium content is for groundbreaking work (like NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic) and local. "Monopoly" is a relative term, and what is and isn't a newspaper is changing, the real value is the content.
Cydia (the gray market app store) generates over a million dollars a year in revenue. The operation of this store, and thus its revenue stream, is entirely dependent on jailbroken iOS devices. Thus, there is a business entity with a existential interest in iOS exploits that are easily available to the iOS using community (i.e. the public). Would Cydia pay a quarter million dollars for an exploit to ensure that their customer base continues to exist? (Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Cydia in anyway, that revenue figure is from an ex-Apple employee discussing an informal estimate.)
This is true for the current transition, I think, but historically it was only a quite short period that newspapers had any sort of monopoly-esque hold over particular geographical areas. The traditional business model didn't depend on that; rather, there were many newspapers competing, even in smaller towns.

The competing-heterogenous-information-sources model discussed here is actually closer to how the newspaper industry worked. Some of the competing newspapers were large companies, others were smaller or even a single editor/publisher; some were thick while others were barely a few pages; some were dailies while others came out less often; some were morning papers, while others came out in the afternoons or evenings; some relied primarily on subscriptions while others focused on retail or street sales; some were business-targeted while others were targeted at home readers, and still others were targeted at explicit political/interest groups; etc.
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docopt will maybe borrow a few ideas from dreamopts.js :-)
Would you like to join forces on [docopt.coffee](https://github.com/docopt/docopt.coffee)?
I nearly flagged it based on the title alone (until I saw who'd submitted it). It screams "someone tried to post a link to HN but pasted the url in wrong".
Is it really a good idea for a foreign startup to setup a US company just because of handling recurring payments for international customers, even including the factor of US tax?
Hacked companies fight back with controversial "strike-back" steps
Without taking sides, I would say look at some books on each. Kinda like comparing plutonium and uranium, or a cello to a guitar. Maybe these comparisons are silly. While youre at it look at scala and O'Caml.

You can look at the Yesod book, Real World Haskell and "Learn You a" online, i.e. read the complete, updated texts. Thompson's orange "Craft of FP" is a good read also, with methodical (and relatively slow-paced) coverage of all the basics. GHC is piling on language features and libs at a breathless pace, from deferred type checks, limited forms of dependent types, concurrency (async loops, STM, updated thread manager), IO abstractions (conduits), web apps (Yesod)

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May12

Clojure is an incredibly well documented (in books) language. I'm looking at the excellent O'reilly and Pragmatic books, and the 2 Manning books ("Joy of" is terrific), all of which came out in the last 4 months and target 1.3. And i will wager that Marick's book will be top notch as well. Unfortunately, these don't have texts online.
Because it reads like it was generated by one of those Markov Chain text generators and then run through Google translate a few times.
America is the widely used casual name for the United States of America. Context matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America

"America usually refers to either:

"The Americas, a landmass comprising North America and South America

"The United States of America, a country in North America"
On Python I'm a fan of Opster: https://github.com/piranha/opster
I wonder if they thought about what would happen if Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world adopted this RFC?

For example, lets say an entrepreneur develops a new product and wants to have it manufactured by an outsourced company. Searches for it on Google, but thanks to this RFC the results from China either don't show up, or don't load at all. The entrepreneur therefore opts for a manufacturing company in Des Moines, Iowa.

I guess perhaps the same could happen if only China adopts this RFC, i.e. business people in China who don't know better launch their website on a Chinese only DNS system and wonder why nobody from the rest of the world calls them.
That pub guide is good. It should be noted that all the stuff about every pub legally having to close at eleven doesn't apply any more. The "last orders" ritual still exists, but it will occur at a later closing time.
Kinda fun. I thought the original made noise and allowed for a monkey to drill through a building with a series of bananas. When I tried to do that, the banana didn't go any farther than the previous banana hole.
When I think of pink, the first thing tha comes to mind is the "hot pink" used in breast cancer awareness and "girly stuff." This color is a mix of red and blue, putting it just shy of purple. I think magenta is the more correct name for it, but I'm more likely to attach pink to this color than to light red. Native English speaker, but there are probably other factors influencing our perception of colors.
It's funny, when you pour your blood sweat and tears into creating something you certainly feel a sense of ownership over the damned thing; it's your baby. But at the same time, witnessing much of the absurdity emerging out of the current state of copyright law, I'm starting to wonder whether you might be right.

I just have no idea how such an economy might operate and still remunerate creators for their work.
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There are many Wordpress plugins that do this (eg http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sharebar/ or http://www.designchemical.com/lab/demo-wordpress-slick-socia... or many others ). Just copy the code and paste in your website.
Depending upon what you do, you could be using Perl, with the help from the Tkx (for GUIs) or Tcl (for about everything else) CPAN modules and use TCL liberally from within Perl.
Access to people that write good english can be very hard to get in China, so that is probably not a good indicator of anything in this case.
> And are there any real world use cases or benefits of
> "semantic class names"?

Yes. Class names tell what the stuff is, CSS rules tell how to style it.
Once you see blue 14px text on the left which has class "red-12px-right" you are enlightened.
Oh by the way, I just visited AddThis and did you even check their site?
https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing

They offer 3 vertical styles!
I have Spivak's book actually, I got the hardcover from a used book store several years ago. It did seem a bit daunting to me from what I recall, I had used Tom Apostle's book when studying calculus back then.

I'll give more time to working through Spivak, hopefully it feels more approachable this time around.
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A bad hit to your image among opinion leaders in your field might not hurt your sales right away, but it can hurt them in the long run if this creates a negative image for your brand.
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The show specifically talked about words changing the meaning of color. In fact they used the same japanese example mentioned elsewhere in these comments. Did you perhaps listen to one act instead of the whole thing?
Yep. Testing 41 shades of blue gave Google products really nice designs.
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I'm attempting to implement a Splunk-like setup with open source components. This blog entry is the first in many to be a brain dump of how I'm using this setup, what I get from it, and why I've arrived at each of these components.
People who understand, that there is such a thing as optimal line length, and that line running across 24" monitor does not have it?
Entrepreneurs Need to Brand Themselves First
Thank you for the link, I used to subscribe to r/math at one point. However, my problem is a bit different. I am looking to re-learn the stuff I had gone through in college, as opposed to many people on r/math (as well as the audience for that post I presume) who want to cover new ground in math.

I seem to have just forgotten a lot of stuff or maybe not studied it right the first time around. Still I'll look at the books there, I'm sure there should be a significant overlap in my goals and those of people who want to start learning math.
It just means that the seller is incentivized to minimize the number of people that know about the vulnerability. Which is effectively what "exclusivity" actually means, at least in this case.

As an additional point, if either side becomes known as a bad actor in the market, they will severely limit their ability to operate. There is some short term incentive to be dishonest (more money now), but in the long term it removes the ability to earn in the future. Like selling your fishing rod for fish today, tomorrow you'll be hungry again, only now you can't fish. (To butcher a cliche.)

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To me the assertion that users read buttons the same direction they read text is bogus.

I'm an OS X user and I'm trained to read the right most button first as it has the description of what will happen (Save, Log Out etc.) Often it means I don't even have to read the rest of the dialog.

As others have pointed out, this indicates the whole idea that users will read all the options is bogus. But even when I do read them all (marginally complex set of options presented, or high risk scenario) I read the right most one first before skipping back to read left to right because I'm trained to skip to the right most button at the bottom of a dialog.

This invalidates much of the analysis on visual fixations and comes to the conclusion that placing the primary action on the left actually makes it easier under certain conditions (it's easier to track back to the left most button than to the right most).

It just goes to show that training can affect behaviour. If you did extensive eye-tracking tests explaining you're looking for high accuracy, with people who are unfamiliar with technology or who are used to the primary action being on the left, placing the primary action on the right will lead to less effort. But as the user is trained, the effort would probably increase.
I'm not sure Delaware has a huge number of benefits for founders. I was under the impression that a large number of companies are based there because its easy to do online and it's what VCs are used to.
As was shown during prohibition in the US. The challenge isn't changing the culture by legislation, that's easy. The challenge is changing it in a particular desired way.
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It is not necessary to interfere with GPS in a wider area to mask your own position. The GPS signal is very low power (below the noise floor). It does not take much effort to block it. For this reason, the in car maskers (aka jammers) will block signals over a wide area unless they are precisely engineered to stay localized. There are a lot of poorly engineered maskers out there. I study these maskers and how they affect WAAS for the FAA.
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Law enforcement use them by placing them on cars they are following unbeknownst to the suspect. A jammer is an effective countermeasure.
I can't necessarily disagree with Buffett's thought process here. Roger McNamee may be right in that we are seeing a return of premium content due to the monetization problems with mobile advertising and the consumer's dislike of them. Of course, I do have my concerns with some like Mary Meeker whom believe otherwise.

There are holes that aggregation sites like the Huffington Post simply cannot fill and I do believe that consumers are looking for something more. It may be because the they are becoming accustomed to paying for applications on mobile devices.
Save this document before quitting?

<Don't Quit> <Don't Save> <Save>

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Save this document before quitting?

<Cancel> <No> <Yes>
Unless the Great Firewall also blocks websites offering proofreading services, I'm not sure if that's a valid excuse.
It's not possible to open a bank account without being here in person (due to Patriot/Anti-Terrorism Acts). Other than that, there are many companies who can help you to get incorporated just by e-mailing papers back and forth.
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I'm considering linode for my next launch, and heard nothing of this as well. Thanks?
An example of an engaging "404 Not Found" page
I agree. I thought, interesting challenge, although not interesting enough for me to actually try it. I wonder if he has any example solutions that I could look through. Huh? Ooooh.

If I had just seen it presented straight out as, "Parse arguments based on docstrings," I doubt it would have been nearly as memorable.
I think it's a great pitch, because the pseudo-pitch appeals to exactly the people who would be interested in this. "Ha! I've got this licked, I'll just whip out argparse ... Wait ... Oh!"
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Best takeaway for me from this: RAID-Z on Linux is now ready. Good to know!
No, there are several tax and legal benefits (no jury trials for example) by being incorporated in Delaware. There are lists of pros and cons everywhere on the internet.
It doesn't make sense to do this just to block sites. They are already doing it.

Can it be a fallout from the SOPA fiasco? Assuming best intentions :)- It seems like running your own autonomous root DNS enables them to stay up even if the domain name is taken down by domain hosts.
I find that at a practical level, linear algebra and probability/stochastic processes are the most valuable and heavily used topics in machine learning. For Linear algebra, i'd recommend Gilbert Strang's book+his MIT OCW lectures. Check out Papoulis's text for probability. It is very dense, and packs in lots of insight per page.
I posted this earlier:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4122804

It got flagged, and someone suggested that the title alone might make some people flag it without reading.

I nearly flagged it based on the title alone ...
It screams "someone tried to post a link to HN
but pasted the url in wrong". -- mooism

So this is a re-submit in case you flagged it without reading and in fact would be interested, or in case you missed it because it got flagged, when perhaps it shouldn't.