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As with all flashy (pun intended) web technologies, they can be effective if used with good taste and in moderation.

For example, the Path landing page uses a well designed background video and falls back to a simple image if the video isn't available:
https://path.com/

(Incidentally the background video didn't load for me every time. Straight link to the video: https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.path.com/v2_home/background....)
What is this projects relation to the referenced BabylScript project? They seem similar enough.
Not at all as far as I can tell. There was an inside joke for a while at Sun that the only successful languages were failed ones that you put out the source too.

Sun was going to flush the folks in the Liveoak/Java group (this was in '94) since there wasn't any practical use case for Java, James Gosling and Patrick Naughton got Sun to agree to let the source be put out there on the net so that those of us who had been working for the last few years on it could point to it when someone looked at our resume and said "what is this Oak/Java thing, never heard of it."

There are people who would hire Guy just to be able to say "Guy Steele works here." :-)
Chasing followers, there's at least:

http://twitter.com/PLT_Molyneux

http://twitter.com/PLTAlaindeB

http://twitter.com/PLT_Borat

http://twitter.com/PLT_RyanGosling

http://twitter.com/PLT_Zizek

EDIT: Found some more:

http://twitter.com/KuzcekInstitut/

http://twitter.com/popltarts

There are also a few ones that are not PLT-specific but are similar in spirit to the others, like http://twitter.com/fakerichhickey and http://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT
New Zealanders buy houses Instead if other investments (to the frustration of numerous finance ministers). The housing market dipped only fractionally with recent world events, and basically sits where it was in 2007 at the moment. Kiwis love houses.
There is no copyright on government documents. Once you know something it is no longer a secret by definition and you are free to discuss and report on it. It seems with Wikileaks that this is no longer the case, making this a stunning attack on freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

If you want to get uptight about the security implications of the leaks, a better place to start is wondering who setup the system that allegedly allowed a mentally unbalanced soldier to carry evidence of war crimes and private diplomatic correspondence out of a military facility on a USB key. Assuming it was Manning who leaked the information AND it constituted any real security threat, it seems clear he should never have had access to that sort of material.
Where is this meme from? Most Interpol notices are red (3 out of 4). The color codes are not a ranking of severity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_notice#Notice_types

http://www.interpol.int/fr/Expertise/Notices

(while not even Gaddafi had a red one)

Under what nation's police jurisdiction? Gaddafi was a head of state! (Although Interpol did issue a red notice at one point, at the request of the ICC...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/09/201199949503933...
It would be reasonable for all parties to be transparent with respect to what they plan to do re:extradition.
That's interesting. This might be the first time I've seen someone specifically choose not to link something because they find it objectionable but point out their decision in this way. I'm not sure how to react. I want to ask you to post it anyway, but that seems disrespectful given you've stated your choice so clearly. At the same time, I'm trying to disassemble the reasoning behind your decision to comment (vs not commenting at all).
Yan Yan sauce could be referring to http://snacksdigest.blogspot.com/2012/04/yan-yan-dadaist-sna...
Insert snarky euro-centric reply about how some people in the "more enlightened" parts of the world already do this and enjoy seven week vacations every summer.
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I used nothing but a text editor to write the frontend, and the backend is entirely yourls: yourls.org. Song lists are stored directly in URLs using iTunes IDs, and yourls shorturls them. A very preliminary version was piggybacking on a third-party shorturling service. I plan to release the source on github in the next couple of weeks.

The top result on a YouTube search for 'song title+band' is played. The Fail button cycles through the next few results.

I agree that the video is a little too small. I've experimented with making that a resizable window on the screen -- I'll try that again.

Copy button! Yes!

Thanks for the feedback!
I was worried about that too, it looks cool, makes the text hard to read because its distracting, and ultimately might result in a bunch of pages which get less useful.
As a reborn lualist, but also "C" lover, I think the arrays should start at 0.5. Just adjust the rounding mode accordingly!
Isn't it ironic that we discuss the article here and not on Scott's blog?
Scientists develop lithium-ion battery that charges 120 times faster than normal
This is really wonderful. I particularly like the ability to add two lines of text to the button.
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Really? I'd expect that robotic cars will dominate closed-course races sooner rather than later simply due to the fact that the course is known, can be mapped down to the millimeter, and can be simulated offline. AI cars don't get bored, distracted, suffer fatigue, or need the physical stamina to drive an optimal line rain or shine hundreds of times in a row.
I'm the author of the blog (thanks for the upvotes).

Sorry I don't have any commenting on the post itself - but I'll check back on this.
"Our telescopes, which we call the Arkyd 100 spacecraft, are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each, though the first one, of course, will cost much more."

I seriously find this mind-blowing. $1 million for a telescope launched into space sounds ridiculously cheap to me.
* trying to use M-q (fill-paragraph) and killing the app.
You're free to classify me as foolish for this, but before clicking the link I honestly expected this to be one of thought provoking articles (as there are often ones here on a sunday), with an intentionally absurd headline.

Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one.
IMO, it probably wouldn't be best to put this on a page with content is the main factor. This is sort of cool for branding/marketing and can have a big impact in that arena.
Afaik Excel to this day uses localized function etc names.
I've never really understood the Ruby community's attitude toward for loops. I learned Ruby as my first language and read many blog posts and instructional books that told me to absolutely avoid the for loop. Of course when I started to learn JavaScript and C, I had to figure out their versions of the for loop then, and it made me start wondering why there had been such opposition to something that seemed to be a normal part of the Ruby language. I can understand "idioms" if they have some benefit over non-idiomatic versions, but in a language like Ruby that supposedly embraces TMTOWDI, I can't, for the life of me, figure out why .each is always best.
I agree (some seem not to). However the courts are whittling away the crown case, and both the police and the FBI have got explaining to do. This current government brown noses the US somewhat but compared the other countries, we are positively independent.
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Thank you for your useless attempt to be a jerk.

If this is not the place for "that sort of thing", why are there various "Ask HN" type posts a la http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403897 ?

My apologies for feeding the trolls here, but it seems HN is a hostile and destructive environment.
I think the language constructs/keywords are the "easy" part. But how do you translate identifiers, comments and other "textual" content automatically?
There is a lot to racing, particularly interaction with other, drafting, rubber on road, etc. I don't think it is going to be that easy.
Product Managers can be obnoxious at times.
Pretty much that, and darker shades of grey.
The reason to use each instead of for loops is for code consistency. Also there are custom objects which require you to use each to iterate.
Assange could probably fall out of a plane on his way to Sweden and there'd be people on here saying how they see no evidence that it was anything other than an accidental mechanical failure.
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HTTPS Everywhere has had known issue with youtify, so that could be the issue. What browser are you using?
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This could be really great if they release an API to interact with the camera hardware. The article linked above takes a negative view, citing old Android versions and so on, but I think this is really a step in the right direction.
Nice start. I'd recommend a way to add songs by bulk, though. One at a time can be very inefficient when you want, say, everything by your three favorite artists.
The American nuclear navy is one of the classic examples of what process safety experts call a High Reliability Organisation. HROs are organisations that run dangerous systems susceptible to so-called "Normal Accidents" while having fewer such accidents than their competitors.

The main things that have been found to contribute to HROs are: A chronic sense of unease even in the face of normal operations - always be thinking of ways to improve safety. A separate engineering standards organisation that is not responsible for operations - i.e. they can order shutdowns without affecting their own job objectives in a way that a plant manager cannot. They do not tolerate the so-called "normalisation of deviance" (which is when out-of-range behaviour becomes accepted as people get used to it.).
Search engines could be localization-aware. Google already makes quite complex transformations to the queries, I don't think this would be insurmountable.
In general the west coast of Japan is much less susceptible to tsunamis.
Programming isn't just about giving instructions to a computer, it's an act of communication to anyone who will read your code down the road. Having a consistent set of rules is an important part of that communication. Just as a style guide for a natural language can help readability, good conventions can make code more readable. Python goes as far as defining an official style guide (PEP-8)
I don't think using a for loop is "taboo" among Rubyists in general, just for iterating over each element of an array, where Array#each, Array#collect, and Array#inject are preferred. This probably comes from the influence of Lisp and its emphasis on writing code as a series of list operations.

To my mind, anyway, using each/collect/inject expresses intent much more clearly than a for loop. If a clearer approach is available, why not take advantage of it?
No, you're right. They have a water pool that cools the secondary loop. That will need refilling after a few days, 72 hours for the ESBWR iirc.
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Related: Something I made awhile ago - http://www.tunesicles.com It allows you to do the same thing but also search by album and add all of the songs off it instantly!! But cool project. I like the hashtags feature.
This reminds me of the original 2007 version of songza - http://web.archive.org/web/20080111032427/http://songza.com/
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Now I'm uptight?

I raise a valid point -- journalists don't capture and disseminate private conversations, they report. I have never seen a journalistic article from Wikileaks, much as I have never seen a journalist simply distribute a bunch of private conversations with no story.
Actually, in some aspects, we're already there! :)

Computers can run a car at the limits of its traction circle much better than humans can, even with nothing more than an accelerometer. I've done some hacking around this, and it turns out that you can go about it fairly naïvely, code-wise, and do way better than even good amateur racers. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any top F1 drivers to datalog them side by side with my software, but maybe someday.

In terms of the quickest path around a given course, computers are _way_ better than humans at that. There's the official "racing line", which is a generally accepted fastest line, but as you can create more acceleration, the line actually flattens out towards the shortest route through a given section. Take a look at something like Spec Miata vs an AWD time attack car for a great demonstration of this.

Humans still have the edge on understanding & interpreting the environment. There's a lot of work being done in this area, though - I suspect we'll get some fairly robust stuff that's available to us on the open market in a few years.

Then there's the fatigue factor.

Heck, if nothing else, having to cart around 150-180lbs of meat with fairly tall packaging and some weird requirements about having to see and what kind of forces you can exert on it is a bit of a drag to making the quickest possible wheeled vehicle.

Sorry for the wall of text - this is something I've been hacking around a bunch for the last while, as it's the intersection of a bunch of my interests. Drop me a line if you want to chat more about it sometime.
Eh, that assumes work volume directly correlates to getting closer to product to market fit. There is plenty of research within the study of behavioral economics at that shows when people get to close to their products they tend to become blind to much easier solutions. Taking time off in a very early stage company especially after a less than successful launch can be equally efficient.
Ah, typing random characters can be a pain, for sure. That said, what was your calculus that leads to picking >600 bit keys? You'll likely be losing most of that to hash collisions.
There is a simply way to answer one part of this problem (Can Apple read iMessages?): court records.

If Apple can read these things, then so can divorce attorneys and criminal lawyers via subpoena. There would be records of that.

Anyone have knowledge of iMessage subpoena results?
I always interpret "idiomatic" as "avoiding performance issues". In Python, for example, using the join method on strings is not only idiomatic, it's performant. Even if a particular idiom has no effect on performance, the worst that happens is I write idiomatic code. Not only that, but idiomatic coding allows me to write performant code without having to understand why it performs well. I don't know Ruby, so I can't comment on each vs for loops, but in general there's a practical, performance-based advantage to idiomatic coding.
Umm, what? Who was this attacker? I assume you simply mean an attack happened due to finding out the abuses committed by the US government. As opposed to what you seem to try to imply that the leaks themselves put someone in danger.

The truth didn't kill anyone. Those who committed the acts and gave the orders that became the truth that had to be leaked did.
>Please clarify how reliable government-issued ID impacts personal freedom. You're making an awfully big leap here.

Is he? It is obvious that the government amassing all the more data for it's citizens impacts personal freedom, from privacy, to dissident control, to squashing protest movements etc etc.

People make the assumptions that current governments are the be all end all, and something like a mass protest moment and/or revolution will never again be necessary to change them. Even if that was true for the US, how about in places like India or thinly-veiled dictatorships all around the world?

>This argument seems to be based on an assumption of the right to anonymously take out loans, make bank transactions, and conduct business with the government. That right simply doesn't exist.

No right "exists" (in nature). Rights are not god-given, they are what the citizens of a country can demand of their government and what the political forces in play can negotiate for them. The right to anonymously make whatever transactions is as valid as any other right if it's fought for and won. And a few decades ago, before prevalent credit cards, it was not a right someone would defend, it was what everybody assumed to be the normal situation, unlike nowadays where almost all financial transactions are tracked and catalogued.
I remember my course at a TV and Radio Repair training shop. They emphasize a lot that you need to learn and memorize where all the screws go on popular models.If your client sees you trying to figure out where the screws are, they won't trust you no matter how good you are with the electronics inside.
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I would say yes.

Journalism is supposed to guide you to readily available and verifiable facts whenever possible. The journalist gives you insight into an event. One is then able to leapfrog the initial hurdle of that initial research and more easily educate yourself about the world you live in.

Without facts and sources, it's just storytime.

EDIT: More importantly, you can't divorce journalistic research from journalism itself.
At $10k/kg to orbit I'd guess these will have to weigh less than 100 kg. Some articles report they will be 20 kg each: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/20/12326161-aster...
argument saying that your post might dissapear is wrong. how long will you host your blog when you're not feeling like writing blogposts anymore?
Reliably proving your identity becomes very important in India due to the vastness of the population and the number of subsidies earmarked for the under-privileged. Subsidies aside, reliably identifying someone guarantees their right to suffrage. Umpteen columns of newsprint are devoted each election year to voter fraud - people go to their designated election office to cast their vote but are turned away because they have "already voted". Having a reliable way to identify an individual will reduce the occurrence of these activities, if not totally eliminate them.

I have railed about the corruption in India in earlier posts and comments. That the government has green-lighted a project that leverages India's strength in IT to actually help its citizens is a departure from the norm, and is worth lauding. It remains to be seen if this will actually be implemented once the current government's term runs out.
I've decided to take a few weeks off and focus fully on the project. Had some interest in it already so I'm getting stuck in and hoping to launch something in a few weeks.
> he wouldn't have spent the rest of the opening paragraph name-dropping extremely successful people who he claims read all his articles.

I'm surprised that anyone would take that part seriously. He's obviously being facetious.
to be honest I lost track of the thread. I don't know what we're talking about anymore.
The word "idiom" has two different senses. First, there's the sense that the author is discussing. In this sense idioms are expressions whose meanings aren't derivable from the meanings of their parts (linguists call this "non-compositionality"). The other sense of "idiom" simply means "an expression that characterizes idiomatic speech.

Now "idiomatic" also has two senses. First, it can mean "having to do with idioms". Second, it can mean "peculiar to a particular group, individual or style". (See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiomatic)

So, I think when people speak of idioms regarding programming languages they're using the second of the above senses. While this sense might be characterized as having to do with social mores, I don't think it's a misuse of the word "idiom". People don't mean to say that .each statements are non-compositional in the way that "kick the bucket" is. Indeed, given that programming languages have formal grammars/semantics it's hard to imagine what non-compositionality would be at all (though I'm sure any good Perl programmer could probably give some examples!)
Interesting point, however I am having a hard time coming up with another journalist in this era who reports their findings by dumping information onto bit-torrent.
Why does the author insist that to teach each to a beginner he has to teach all of those concepts? Sure, to understand it fully you need to know about those things, but you can definitely get a beginner far enough along without explaining every detail.

Did K&R explain everything about the preprocessor with their "Hello, world!" example? Or the implications of different return codes from main(), what 'return' from a function even means, etc?
I, too, think like that, although Ruby's nomenclature frequently confuses me. Coming from Scheme/Haskell I'm quite at home with 'map', 'filter', and 'fold'.

However, Ruby uses the methods you mention, "collect" and "inject", and these in turn have a few synonyms. And as best I can tell, Ruby's 'filter' variant, 'find' collides with ActiveRecord. What's the general community take on these functions? Which name is commonly used, and how do you do filter in Rails?
Any reason why this discussion should not be held inside of hacker news instead of on a third party website?
I've been using Vim for almost 2 years, now, and I'm very happy with it. Somehow, I'd like to try vi but I have no idea of where I could find the source.
Great. I perceive webdev as pretty boring. I hope using an exotic language like clojure will make it a little more interesting for me.
There's nothing sexist there.

legitimacy--
It's worth mentioning that Woody Allen has a fairly unique relationship in Hollywood; the studios grant him an unprecedented amount of creative control and allow him to continue making films within the system for very little returns, and Actors also voluntarily take a cut in their usual fee to appear in his films.

I'm not sure what lessons can be drawn, if any, from this stray point away from the normal distribution curve.
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Interesting take: "I assume you simply mean an attack happened due to finding out the abuses committed by the US government."

You do realize, Wikileaks released unredacted documents with names of people who were working with the US to try and right wrongs in their own countries? People who were later targeted by their own governments who are known to "commit abuses.."
Certainly there are traits that most great managers share. I think it's a stretch to say they're all alike. That said, I generally agree with the given points.
I disagree that "facts" are "journalism" -- but can you even say that the text of a bunch of emails, dumped verbatim, are readily and verifiable facts? Or is it simply somebody else's conversation?

Is whatever you say in email a readily available and verifiable fact? is dumping your private emails "journalism"?
It's fast and simple which is good.

When I want to share a track, I use toma.hk beaucse it does not care about the content source. It can resolve tracks using a lot of different providers, making sure my contacts will always be able to listen to it.
1 - find a guy managing stuff and is successful at it

2 - declare all others are like him, without any kind of comparison

3 - post with sensationalistic head line on various sites

4 - profit