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There is no intrinsic value in gold either. In fact, all value is subjective and individual. If for you the gold may have technological value, it may not have such value for me. But it may have exchange value for me because you or other people demand gold for their own subjective reasons. And yes, technological value is still subjective because there is no objective measure why you should be involved in that particular technology requiring that much of gold. It all depends on your own decision (which may take in account equally subjective valuations of your customers who demand products of your technology).

Gold may have started being used as money because it was already demanded for, say, jewellery. Bitcoin may have started for "fun" or belief in future growth and even bigger demand. The truth is in both cases the initial value was purely subjective.
I don't use Linux because I enjoy annoying kluges.
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Thanks for the link, the video looks interesting. I was basing my claims on this talk (also from 2010) http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Scale-at-Facebook. Or it might have been this other talk: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack
There seems to be quite a lot of Javascript in there as well :) Really nice design.

BTW: works fine in Safari 6.0 OSX
Was it a truck carrying supplies to nearby Harrod's department store? That's what I remember reading.
I like how the article re-defines "startups" so that they can then claim that most small businesses aren't one unless they do X, Y, and Z.

Last time I checked any new business was a "startup" since they were, you know, just starting up...
Wow! I just created my new desktop wallpaper, in about 10 seconds.
You are probably not giving your body enough time to recover the muscles damaged in your workouts.

For more details i can recommend "Body by Science" by John Little and Doug McGuff.

Or google "muscle recovery time" and read through
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To be convicted of something he'd have to go to Sweden, something he's doing his level best to prevent.

As a result the fact he's not been convicted is potentially somewhat misleading as he's made it impossible to do so up to this point.
Why Ageism in Startups is BS
It seems England is really serious about sexual assault.
Why do you need a SWAT team to arrest someone for copyright infringement?

Great great grandparent used the words increasingly and expect, not simply are.
I believe you are referring to Corn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_(emulator)

Running around in Mario 64 on a Celeron 233 with 3d being rendered in software blew my mind.
In the US. Not sure on Sweden's laws on that.

At this point in the US he'd probably be charged with obstruction of justice, at which point venue is again no longer up to him.
Ask HN: Mixed class airplane fares online?
Are there any websites that let you choose a class (biz, premium econ., etc) for a different leg of an airplane trip?
"jQuery is primarily a JavaScript library for doing DOM manipulation, Ajax, events, and effects. Dojo is a more comprehensive toolkit that offers those same features, but also includes many other pieces that facilitate building rich web applications, such as patterns for code organization, tools for abstracting data syncing between server and browser, internationalization, accessibility, templated widgets, graphing and charting, rich UI widgets, and much more. Dojo also provides dependency management and build/optimization tools for creating a production-ready JavaScript application." Rebecca Murphey [1]

Rebecca also gives a detailed description of her first foray into Dojo coming from jQuery. [2]

Personally, I think Dojo's lack of good documentation/reference code, lack of 'marketing', and relative complexity keep it from becoming popular. It's much easier to get started with another library like jQuery because of all these factors. However, once you get over that initial steep learning curve, Dojo is great!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Rebecca-Murphey/answers/Dojo-JavaScript...

[2] http://rmurphey.com/blog/2009/11/12/dojo-confessions-or-how-...

edit: corrected name to Rebecca
It's taken 10 years since McKinnon was arrested, and he's still not been handed over. When the current coalition gained power, his case was dragged out as justification for a review of the current extradition system, and a current pending review of McKinnon's case was effectively frozen and pushed under the rug quietly.

In other words: The US is very successful at getting "ordinary criminals" extradited from the UK, but not so much when it comes to thornier cases like or example McKinnon's. Maybe he eventually gets extradited, but it might still drag on for ages.

Meanwhile, Sweden has a history of having had its police drive people who were in their country seeking political asylum to the airport, handing them over to masked CIA agents and waiting while said CIA agents stripped the asylum seekers naked, drugged, handcuffed and chained them, and threw them on a plane to send them back to the Mubarak regime where they were tortured - Sweden has admitted as much, and paid restitution to at least one victim for torture as a direct result of Swedish actions in blatant contradiction of Swedish law.

There was a massive outrage. Shortly afterwards, Swedish military intelligence determined that US intelligence agencies where still carrying out illegal rendition flights via Swedish airports with full knowing compliance from Swedish airport staff who apparently didn't get the memo... Or who got the wrong memo. Or something.

I know which of the two places I would take my chances if I'd pissed off the US government.
You're misinformed. He has not been charged for anything by any country. Do your reading.
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Popularity is fickle... things that are new and sexy get more buzz, things that are solid and reliable and powerful get used a lot, but don't receive as much hype.
Also see http://sweaxis.org and http://sweaxis.org/stats/age
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Thank you for the answer, and the downvote.

After you replied I remembered that TC is Michael Arington, arch-nemesis of Leo LaPorte.
Slightly weird that they didn't actually link to http://makr.io once in the whole article?
I'm obviously lacking in imagination here. How would using an ID for styling a "clearly one-per-page" element lead to problems? I'm thinking of things like the main page title, or some sort of primary navigation block. The whole point there is that I want the specific rules for those elements to override the defaults, right?
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Fair enough, but consider that although couched in diplomatic language the letter is nonetheless a threat.
The UK has the power to declare an embassy not to be an embassy anymore.
The Vienna Convention is indeed a cornerstone of international relations and I would also be very upset to see it violated. But fundamentally it's about the rights of Westphalian states, not human rights. I think it's entirely fair for Amnesty International to say that they're only interested in securing human rights.
Check out the new docs. I think it's no longer reasonable to say Dojo lacks good docs or reference code.

Marketing is challenging for engineers. We tend to not go crazy over every small feature, but focus on the big stuff. That said, we're improving our approach.
The layer of HTTP is either "layer 7" (OSI) or "application layer" (Internet Protocol Suite). The article would be correct to call HTTP either of those. "Layer 4" is incorrect terminology for HTTP (and is not even mentioned in the RFC you linked).
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This is really quite genius. It uses ligatures (normally used to replace multiple letters by a single, nicer glyph, such as fi fl ae etc.) to replace "55+24+31" with a chart. You could theoretically use this on the web, and people who use screen readers or text-based browsers can still see the data. Cool!
How do you assume that he is guilty? The way all countries including America are taking an interest in him, it sounds less rape related and more of a power struggle.
In Sweden you can't be charged without being questioned first. The questioning is clearly a precursor to charges being brought.
Assange is facing politically motivated charges in the US that may include the death penalty.
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I agree and wish I had not done that. But before I go through all the hassle and export everything, I want to make to make sure not to run into the exact same problem again.
He's not a suspect. He really did breach the terms of his bail. Regardless of any other allegations, he IS guilty of that.
These articles are great, thanks OP.
Ask HN:  Keeping yourself hire-able while not working?   
I have roughly have 2 years experience in the software industry, 1 year in dev role and 1 year in testing/qa role. I left my job as a developer a couple months ago and am currently unemployed.

My question is what i the best way to make myself appealing to prospective employers even though i am currently not working?

Thanks
Considering the actions of UK government in the last 24 hours, denials that this is a political persecution sound much weaker than before. Do you think Chinese authorities don't brand their actions "simple criminal matters" in most cases? Of course they do. There is no such thing as a "political crime" in undemocratic countries; they're all "internal criminal matters".

Regardless, there are many ways of going about obtaining justice for alleged "simple" crimes. Violating the Vienna Convention and jeopardising the basic cornerstones of human-rights policies is simply not worth it for such a small-time criminal matter. A long-sighted view would see that, and find a compromise that Sweden could live with.
This is not a chicken-and-egg problem. Initially there is some value of doing bitcoin: some find it fun, some believe in future growth and do early investment. Sceptical people join later when they see some people already joined. As number of people slowly grows, more people join after them seeing increasing value in the system. So there is no catch-22: system is unrolling completely by itself until everybody is in. If people discover some problems with it, growth or even total demand will go down.

See also my comment above about subjective value of gold.
Yes it is illegal. Consent does not give you free reign of a woman's body. If she consents to sex with a condom and you proceed without one then you have raped her. "I don't like condoms" isn't a defense for disregarding her autonomy. And neither is "She was still asleep and never said no".
I'm really curious that people are having this reaction. I looked at the side-by-side pics and saw two fairly generic e-commerce layouts with a few small similarities, but just as many differences. My immediate reaction was, "Huh? There's no case here."

A lot of HN commenters are having the opposite reaction, not just you, and so I suppose you all might be onto something. But I still don't see it myself.
The pricing is completely in line with what professional typefaces cost.
This is great advice for when you're working on something that follows logical principles and guidelines. It's also great advice to follow when you're working on a green field project where you're allowed to work out the best place for certain pieces of logic to live.

However, when you're working on legacy systems or have to refactor some horrendous code written by developers many leagues out of their depth, and nothing whatsoever is in its logical place, it's less effective than in other circumstances. This sort of critical thinking is a wonderful tool to have; but just like any other tool, there's times when its use is appropriate, and times when it isn't.
I know, I emailed the author :/
As for 'LibDems and Labour'?! You appear to be suggesting that it should be self-evident to everyone reading your post that the LibDems and Labour have a claim to moral superiority over Tories? The LibDems pay lip-service to Civil Liberties (they never expected power, they never expected to be called to deliver) and Labour are the most authoritarian party to ever hold power in the UK. It's just as well Labour are not in power, else Assange would have been shipped to Gitmo months ago.
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...and it tanks again. Many facebook employees purchased houses using facebook stock. That is, they didn't have enough income to qualify for a loan, but they showed their facebook stock + current market price(pre-ipo), and got approved that way. So one bubble(FB), inflated another bubble(housing), and it's all deflating before our eyes. The fact that facebook employees are tanking/will tank this stock further should tell you something. I believe the employees start selling en masse in October, so this is just the warmup. I'm betting we'll see $12.
In general getting permission from ATC for flights over London is non-trivial (primarily because it is sufficiently densely populated that any emergency, especially at low altitude, is likely going to end badly).
I'm a little surprised that they aren't showing what the stretch goals are. Presumably, they'd be features the players would want, so it seems like it would help funding if they at least mentioned them.
You have no idea what you are talking about. What entertainment cartel? Where have they ever helped out the RIAA on their OS? Give us a citation.
Your hate is alright; people like you never learned to do anything except throw mud at others.
Jeez, what a douche bag.
You cannot have human rights without peaceful international relations. You cannot have peaceful international relations without the Vienna Convention.

If Amnesty cannot see that, they're unworthy of their fame. Unfortunately, I suspect they do see that, and nevertheless they're not acting. Which is even more damning.
You are correct of course, I'm talking about the popular terming of startup as a funded business trying to become huge. I make this distinction at the beginning of the article.
There's a middle path. Release it even when it's not done, but don't go full throttle on marketing.
Sorry but sexual assault is a very serious crime. Never mind the unusual circumstances of this particular case, your comment is insulting to sexual assault victims as it implies sexual assault is a lesser crime.
The nature of the charge is irrelevant. We're compelled by international agreements with Sweden to hand him over.

The question is really why would the UK want to piss Sweden off and not honour their agreement?
Very few protocols fully or properly implement the entire 7 layer OSI stack. Most times you see layers 3-5 lumped together. The way that they are looking at it is that the application (a browser, something else?) is being used to generate HTTP requests. So while it's technical accurate to say that because a browser or other application is acting as an HTTP client, the attack itself it not at layer 7 because they are receiving the attachs on layers 3 and 4 on their side.

Where the article says "But layer 7 attacks, where the attacker actually connects to our hardware using TCP and makes apparently valid HTTP requests are another matter"

Those would be layers 3 and 4.

Mis-communication and outright wrong communication about layer 7 in networking has been rampant for years.
Excuse me, that's not the case except in the most narrow and pedantic sense. Here's the English High Court denying his appeal:

"In England and Wales, a decision to charge is taken at a very early stage; there can be no doubt that if what Mr Assange had done had been done in England and Wales, he would have been charged and thus criminal proceedings would have been commenced. If the commencement of criminal proceedings were to be viewed in this way, it would be to look at Swedish procedure through the narrowest of eyes. On this basis, criminal proceedings have commenced against Mr Assange"

Link in the cousin comment.
Does anyone know how rounded corners like this can be applied in practice?
I am trying to grasp what you are saying. I live in a developing country and I exactly know what you mean. Protectionism sends shivers down the spines of policymakers in developing countries. My country (India) has seen great progress in the last ten years thanks to relaxed trade and red-tape.

I am writing this on an Apple laptop. I love this machine and it is reasonably affordable for me. There is no incentive for an Indian company to ever produce a good laptop. Even worse is that there is never going to be an ecosystem in India that will work on complex engineering problems that go into making such a machine.

So while I enjoy as a consumer, I am only adding to the imbalance. It is not only for engineering products. China has become the producer for many simpler products that could have been made in India. I chose to become an entrepreneur and maybe will try and fix a miniscule part that imbalance some day, but I am not sure how many will. Are Indian producers better off because of China? I don't know.

For many decades, my country has been running a trade deficit at the cost of inflation. It all seems fine so far, but there is something surely wrong here. China has been doing the opposite, they have decided to become super producers, which is never possible in India because of the complex decision making.

In the ideal scenario, there must be a balance between global and local. It cannot be all global and no local (or the other way round), which is often a matter of perception. Globalization + technology has led to concentration of capital and the the playing field is not level. I still feel people everywhere must try and level the field.
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You're underestimating the drive hat comes from conviction in an idea. The guy has been living like a nomad. He gave away his book rights earlier to pay for his and the organization's defense. That's when all donations were blocked by credit card companies and Paypal. He could be making much more money working as a programmer in San Francisco or as a talk sho host on CNN. His fame came from the effects of his actions. It's like saying Larry Page started Google because he enjoys the limelight. He built a world-changing organization, and fame happened as a side effect. He might get rich in the future though another book or a movie. But at this point he's personally in the red.
They have Login with Facebook. What can we say.
I believe/hope that this rise is not really a bubble, but driven by the rising difficulty, which is due to the availability of cheap(er) fpgas. Also the rise is much slower than last summer and supported by much larger trading volume.
It's unlikely as the same building houses private flats and the Columbian embassy
Well they don't want to interview him. They want to interrogate him. And interrogation is not something that usually takes place on the suspected's convenience. Assange have walked out of interviews in the past.
I know we had this discussion a lot, but I can't be the only one to find this trend a little disturbing.

I seriously admired (and still do) the Diaspora guys for tackling probably the hardest problem there is, replacing facebook with a distributed alternative. And things have probably been a lot tougher than any of us can imagine.

However, how do you go from the ambitious Facebook-Killer to an quickmeme/pinterest mashup, especially from the godfather YC? I know all the big things start small somewhere, but something just doesnt feel right to me. There must be some secret sauce that only pg et al. know.
First of all, most of wikileak's budget goes to pay his salary (other than that, wikileak's accounts are notoriously murky and not very transparent), second, for a while (until he was called out for it) donations to wikileaks went to his personal defense fund, which is still listed in the wikileaks donations page.

Even after that, to this day, Wikileaks lists his personal P.O. BOX in Australia as a way to donate, as far as I know no auditing of what has happened to any money sent there so far over the years. This is a curious detail that I have not seen anyone report, and that can be checked if you look at his pre-wikileaks website in archive.org, which lists the same P.O. BOX.

For all practical purposes, Assange is Wikileaks and Wikileaks is Assange, anyone that disagreed or questioned the wisdom of his actions has been kicked out or left in frustration at his dictatorial and self-serving management style.

Edit: Oh, and almost forgot how Wikileaks kept most of the money that they had supposedly raised for Bradley Manning's defense, who in the end, is the real hero of this saga, and who is languishing in jail while Assange goes on with his egotistical show.
The idea that all political arrests are going to be labelled as such is absurd. Of course they are calling it something else.
Should we stop using green because some people are color blind?
And many people detest in the UK and detest that decision and the woman who made it.

And so what if you make a bad decision historically? Are you suggesting that having made one that's a precedent and we should continue doing the wrong thing?

The rights and wrongs of this case aren't determined about mistakes that may or may not have been made in the past.
Amazon killed a coworker's Kindle Fire account, because he was forced to add a test credit card - you can't use Kindle Fire without an U.S. cc, which sucks.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secret-kindle-fire-north-americ...

tons of hoops to jump to use a Kindle Fire outside the U.S.
Work on stuff that's quantifiable and visible to recruiters. Like contributing to GitHub, Stack Overflow and other code communities.

Work on your code portfolio. You should have your own site where you collect and publish work and ideas. Lots of people use GitHub for this too.

Keep your brain in shape by taking a course on Coursera or Udacity.
I wonder how government is going to pay for all that equipment if at that point Bitcoin will start proving more and more useful than government-issued paper.
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Applying to jobs, working on projects, taking contracts. You know what to do, you just want us to tell you to do it. Do it bud!
You should probably read up on the situation before commenting.
You could tether a blimp. I just saw it done a day before yesterday night here.
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The US federal government retains the legal right to the death penalty for cases of espionage.
So 15 more years, basically. Man, that's depressing. What's fast becoming the standard for HTML5 video has 15 more years of not being truly free. I wonder what mozilla will do about that.
So does that mean that Diaspora dream of replacing Facebook is dead? A Facebook login option and .io domain points strongly in that direction.
All of this "giving away" of stuff has stopped our society from reinventing the wheel.

Unfortunately, the people "giving away" spend a lot of time reinventing fantastically-different but only-very-marginally-better wheels. Every week I see on HN about some new language or framework someone has invented that fragments the market even more. If you aren't being compensated in dollars, being compensated with being "the inventor of X" can come close, so there's a big supply of this.
One of the best javascript library out there, checkout my work in progress attempt to port ikog to web while I am learning dojo: https://github.com/amitu/ikog.

I find dojo project way more neater than an equivalent jquery project by default.

Module systems rock. Real object oriented programming rocks, see how I extended Pager to make PausePager, this is how object oriented programming was meant to be. The fact that I can extend any dojo class, and the fact that dojo comes with a large collection of class, its just too sweet.

I have not yet created a "build", so there are a bit too many http requests (check work in progress live version here: http://amitu.com/ikog/), but I am hoping after build this issue would be solved.

Lets see how it goes.