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Chavez was blaming the US. God said "Japan Industrious." Venezuala would flourish if it were conquered and ruled by white men.

If we gave land back to mexico, it would be... MExico.

Africans took white owned farms. Ba ha.

China put intellectuals in labor camps.

God loved Jacob and hated Esau. Esau gaveup his birth right.

If God gives you a gift, He fucken hates it if you don't take it and thank Him.
I always think that when the comedians can speak, there is hope for us all.
This started out as a joke for PyCon / teaching folks how to use Python AST, and it's grown to be kinda useful for a few things -- Macros aren't there yet, and the language is immature / special-snowflake about some things, but it's generally saneish.

Since we do target Python AST we don't control the runtime (at all), since hy stored as a .pyc (or even use pdb to debug lisp in Python, wat) it's really (really) hard to build up a traditional lisp.

C'mon over and hack with us!
Yes, I'm pretty familiar with this topic. I'm not trolling, I just don't know what else was supposed to be done. It was a big complicated affair. My mistake here was contributing to the political noise that is taking over HN.
It sure does.

Some of the issues are technical and others are cultural.

This thread focuses on the cultural issues and largely overlooks the technical issues. That is, operating systems are only convenient in a single language. Try using a French notebook with French keyboard to write English, especially if you are used to the QWERT layout !
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Regardless of how companies feel about pairing during regular development, it's hard to imagine what they would have against pairing during an interview.
All the majort powers in the world spy on each other.

They know that they each spy on each other. Friendly nations spy on each other; foes spy on each other. If nations know they spy on each others' 'national secrets' and don't publicly do much about it, I don't think they'll care much about the more quotidian things each other might record about their masses of people. Would the US care that France recorded American civilian citizens comms? I don't think so. Same for France. They might make some public fuss about it, but they care more about the spying on 'sensitive' information --and even then it's more of a 'game'.
Snapjoy (YC S11) is closing
>"there are certain positions of power from which I do not appreciate joking."

Exactly how I feel.

And no way it was a joke, since he used bad words in the original post I haven't translated, which indicates he was really pissed off and writing fluently.
You just added a good bit of fun to my day, thank you.

I don't remember receiving that many channels on a TV like that, though!
I'll have you know this will now become one of the official Hy mottos
I like "Clojurer" 'cuz it reminds me of "conjurer"
Of course it is, but they are trying hard, to make it even worse.
The issue is independence from the US. I'm sure Assange is painfully aware of Ecuador's deficiencies.
> (I hate looking stupid, especially in front of strangers, especially in front of male strangers--don't we all though?).

I feel the same way. One thing that helped me cope with it was taking some improv classes. I still get nervous, but I can feed off the nervous energy instead of letting it get in my way.
Sealand? Vatican City?
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OTOH, most seventeenth-century colonists got on ships expecting their existing knowledge of agriculture, medicine, construction, diplomacy, warfare, etc. to be as applicable in the new world as it was in the old.

But we already know that Mars can't naturally sustain human life, and that colonists will need to build and maintain self-contained systems to grow food, clean water, recycle/dispose of waste, protect them from the elements, etc. And we already know how Mars differs from Earth in available solar energy and atmospheric composition; we understand in advance what resources might be extracted from Martian rock and soil.

So we can prototype Martian survival systems in advance, and simulate them, prior to actually going to Mars, something that seventeenth-century colonists not only lacked the means to do, but which likely never even occurred to most of them in the first place.

I'm sure there will still be "unknown unknowns" for the colonists to deal with, but I doubt that the risk exposure will be quite as life-or-death as the Jamestown or Roanoke colonists' was.
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That's just my conclusion - does that really surprise you? I hope it does, because I find your conclusion that the USG and all of its agents and allies are acting totally legally and ethically towards Assange absolutely flabbergasting.

I'm also saddened that you decided to argue the rhetoric instead of the substance, being that Assange going to the embassy is a good way to avoid eventual extradition to the US, which would carry far higher consequences than a Swedish rape charge.
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The most intelligent question ever raised that I saw. It left me thinking too, thank you.
How would you make HTTP better? How could you get it to send multiple files per request, because, while a little weird in some ways. HTTP is really quite well designed, there isn't really a good way to send multiple files with one request, unless you want to mage HTTP kinda hacky.

Sorry, I've had to write an HTTP compliant server recently, and I don't think there's any good way to send multiple files without completely redesigning the protocol, and even doing that, I don't think there's a good way to do it. Plus, keeping requests atomic makes more sense than bungling then together.

I know the main point of your comment wasn't too make HTTP better, just that sprites are, in your opinion, a bad hack, but your implying that HTTP is bad. Also, and this is just nitpicking, everyone uses 1.1, which has persistent connections in the spec, which help negate some if the computing cost for sending multiple files.
I once read a story that it should be possible to hook into a transatlantic fiber optic cable using a submarine. But I do not know if that would actually be feasable since you probably would like to save some of that data and there ain't much room in a submarine.
You make a couple of reasonable, but unwarranted, assumptions. You assume that 'grenade' refers to something like an infantry grenade. However in weapons circles, things have a 'CEP' which is the circular error probability that describes the probability that your target will be destroyed based on various distances from the activation of the weapon. In the case of drones, since one could, in theory, manually fly it in very very close to the target, the CEP could be quite small for the device used. Small CEP devices can be made more easily than large CEP devices, and they are lighter.

My thought was to fly a drone up and video my daughters graduation from college, but my wife pointed out to me that it would probably end poorly for the drone (and completely change the tone of memories she should have of her graduation). So I decided against it :-)
Adjust, not abandon. And if you do abandon your stance, you owe it to your constituency to reveal the evidence and explain your change in reasoning.
I'm not a C++ programmer; what is the difference between a const pointer and a reference?
But democracy is just government. Americans might still take the initiative to colonize Mars with or without the United States helping them along.
It's relevant because Reagan renewed the Nixon-era drive towards assertions of executive power to advance national security.

You might even think he did it for good reasons, e.g. because the threat of communism was sufficiently dire that it really did justify a suspension of the usual legal niceties in order to defend the U.S.'s national interests. The point is not "Reagan was wrong", but rather a more descriptive one: Reagan pushed the boundaries of executive power. Maybe that's good, maybe it isn't. But as a descriptive matter, Reagan is an important link in the modern chain of presidents broadening executive power on national-security grounds.

I don't think this is particularly controversial even among conservative historians. The debate is over whether Reagan's general tendency towards a strong-executive, law-and-order-via-military-if-necessary position (shared with folks like Edwin Meese) was justified, not over whether it was the case. Even going back to his pre-presidency days, for example, conservative historians typically argue that Reagan's declaration of martial law in Berkeley in 1969, in which he sent in the national guard to put down a series of protests, was necessary to maintain order and prevent subversive elements from gaining a foothold. Nobody actually argues that he didn't do so, or that it was some kind of situation where he was tricked into it. He was pretty explicitly a national-security hawk in favor of a strong executive.
Yeah, no one ever raids Sealand...
Windows Phone now 3rd in the race. Android 1st at 75%
FreeBSD still distributed their ports tree over cvsup up until about a year ago, even though the primary workflow was moved off of CVS quite some time ago.
Err, SPDY sends multiple files per request... I suppose it counts as "completely redesigning the protocol" though.
Can't help but be reminded of Morning, an iPad app featured here the other day.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901251
Nirvana? Meh. They just ripped off the Pixies.
Awesome! :) Great list by the way -- good work
SPDY[1] multiplexes multiple assets over one connection, which will (one day; many years from now; eventually) resolve some of the performance issues with HTTP and TCP.

You can already use SPDY now (and fall back to HTTPS), FWIW.

[1]: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
Well that's a biased sample if I ever saw one.
We are not at war with China, and should not be, and hopefully never will be. As an American who has lived in China for two years, the Chinese people are our friends/family. It's only government psychopaths who seem to want each country to be its own secretive cult whose members hate other cults. Snowden's just providing proof that, despite what it always says, it's actually the US that is belligerent and bellicose, attacking everyone, even supposed allies.
Background Info:
Snapjoy was bought by Dropbox a couple of months ago: http://blog.snapjoy.com/2012/snapjoy-joins-dropbox/
Just as an intellectual challenge. A dark dictatorship would also claim national security, but people would likely not accept that. Is that because we simply have a bit of blind trust in democracies, or is there something else going on?
Iceland's Pirate Party lawmaker advised him to go to Cuba.

"If I was his legal counsel I would urge him to look at many countries, not just Iceland," [Jónsdottír] added. “Maybe New Zealand, Ecuador, Cuba—many countries."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/icelandic-lawmake...
Without getting into the details, it should be pointed out that:

* Mr. Assange hasn't been charged with any offense and denies any wrong-doing.

* He submitted to questioning by police in Stockholm in August, 2010.

* He agreed to further questioning in UK, something routinely done under UK's Mutual Legal Assistance system. Sweden refused for unspecified reasons [1].

* Mr. Assange has agreed to go to Sweden upon assurance that he won't be extradited to the US (an assurance the Swedish government has the legal authority to provide).

* "[Sweden] has a disturbing history of lawlessly handing over suspects to the US. A 2006 UN ruling found Sweden in violation of the global ban on torture for helping the CIA render two suspected terrorists to Egypt, where they were brutally tortured (both individuals, asylum-seekers in Sweden, were ultimately found to be innocent of any connection to terrorism and received a monetary settlement from the Swedish government)." [2]

* The physical evidence provided in the case does not implicate Assange in any way.

[1] https://twitter.com/Utrikesdep/status/236792222937399296
(Swedish Foreign Ministry)

[2]

(a) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/julian-a...

(b) http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...
> Airbus A400M could be served by the C-17

Aren't these rather different sorts of plane, despite the overall similarities?

The C-17 uses jet engines, has a rather big capacity, and is intended for landing on prepared fields, making it more of a "strategic" military transport.

The A400M, on the other hand, uses turboprops, has a smaller capacity, and is supposedly able to use rough landing strips, moving it more towards the "tactical" end of the military transport spectrum.

[Of course there are many other planes that might have served too, but each has various tradeoffs...]
This works well for alimony non-payers and for puny tax cheats.
For global-scale celebrity like Snowden - anyone's guess.
Too much at stake.
It can't be coincidence that the most recent dumps of information from Snowden concern Hong Kong specifically. I have to wonder if he is floating information to prove to Hong Kong/Chinese officials that he has more information to broker safety/asylum.
I get that "Free software" means more than "open source" and I appreciate that the difference is meaningful and significant.

I haven't heard an argument for "GNU/Linux" that's any more than "hey a bunch of GNU code is part of linux so GNU should be in the name." which seems a much less principled objection. If I'm wrong though, I'd love to be corrected.
A rapist in denial - "I has no idea what she talking about. I no had black eye"
They are and perhaps there will be a phone version in two weeks. We still need a project for our next 4 hour venture...
Just lay another cable from the tap to the nearest friendly shore.
> Spell-checkers/dictionaries in other languages are not as capable, accurate as English ones.

But they are less needed in certain languages. If you know how a Spanish word is pronounced, you can probably guess how it is written. If you are uncertain of an English word... well I'd take a dictionary over memorizations and "rules of thumbs" when it comes to the gigantic mess that is English spelling.
Fair enough. Sorry about the ton of bricks.
"It's only government psychopaths who seem to want each country to be its own secretive cult whose members hate other cults."

Of course. That's the best rationale for increasing the size of government.
It's the exact same sequence repeated 3 times, not 3 different cars.
I've been working on an iOS Dribbble client. Thought you guys'd like it
The Go Team regrets defining the scope of the range variables as the for statement. I am not aware of any regrets regarding the alias issue.

The range variable scope is the one big gotcha that's missing from the article. See http://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines for one discussion of the issue.
I'm honestly not sure why this is #1 on the front page. It's not that the topic that I find objectionable (although it has been pretty saturated lately), but this satire is not particularly well written or interesting.
That they commit terrible crimes isn't the question. This is:

When North Korean leaders make geo-political decisions do they act in their own self interest? As a state or even individuals?

The mad man caricature is an attempt to justify arbitrary action against North Korea, actions which would be much harder to justify against someone rational that could be influenced by carrots and sticks. It denies even the existence of motivations, however ill-intentioned those motivations may be.
Managing user traffic is actually pretty easy, you just build a state table and then meter access by request volume. The problem often becomes managing the state table and not the actual code complexity itself, but most of the time that can be avoided by not tying the state table into the site's authentication backend.

I haven't seen any good "off the shelf" systems that do this so maybe there's a niche to be filled.
If your disk encryption software gets exploited, then presumably it's a hop skip and a jump to make your way into the kernel, rendering recovering from tainted backups pointless. You'd have to start from scratch with new encryption software that you trust hasn't been exploited.

There's always a chain of trust that you have to follow down. It just gets harder to mess with the deeper you go. Not impossible, just more difficult and less likely to be entirely automated.
The 100-mile number is taken from a federal law that was found to have no importance with respect to constitutionality. The Supreme Court made is clear that border searches must actually involve border crossing.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774...
Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us
I browse Hacker News with show dead on, and what I see is that increasingly Hacker News is becoming haunted, with more and more undead walking amongst us. Not knowing they are dead; making comments no one will read. Worse, I often find that the comments of the dead are interesting and have value.

I realize they were killed off for a reason, and I realize that moderating is a tedious pain and a real chore, but it makes me feel sad to see that people who have taken the time to enter a good comment in good faith, will never have it seen. It leads me to wonder if their death wasn't a mistake.

And it makes me feel lessened to participate in that.

I wonder if it might be more fair to our undead to either inform them of their ban after a time, to resurrect them after a time, or to give to the rest of us with show dead set a way to give them a resurrection upvote. To indicate they seem to be participating in good faith, and allow a way bring them back to life after enough some period of time.

Anyway, it's not often we can bring the dead back to life, ....
I can't figure out how Borowitz got hired by the New Yorker. His satire is so consistently ham fisted and painful.
I bet his actions are directed to make HK/China consider their options instead of immediately complying with the US rather than to trade it directly with them. That seems more villainous than what he's currently up to.
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I've heard that if you use a second-hand, requiring frequent display updates, it kills the battery pretty quickly... is this true?

It would seem a pretty big flaw for a wristwatch...
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Also the code is open source, isn't it?
Some people think the US rules the world. There are plenty of countries that don't give a shit about the US...
And plenty of people who want the freedom to be found in establishing a new frontier and leaving old institutions and constraints behind.
I don't know if the way web development is done needs a reboot, but I can say as someone learning web development that there is a steep learning curve to all the different pieces! The fact that jQuery needs to exist because different browsers all have their own rules and JavaScript was designed in a rush is the most relevant example to me. It's nice to write a program that's not written for the web without having to worry about a bajillion different devices and UIs in mind!

I guess the reality is that technology evolves at a quick pace. If you want to develop anything user facing, there will alwahs be some hot new thing to keep up with. In the 80s it was the desktop GUI, we got the web in the 90s, the 00s gave us smartphones, and in the 10s we'll start using ?? ? Holodecks?! My only point is there will always be something to keep up with it when developing a UI.
No, they actually declassified some of the stuff he leaked as a result of the leak, so it's not just "ese hombre está loco, yo"
Who says we can't already do that?
That would have been helpful information in the blog entry.
People should not forget - it runs on many architectures. Especially a toaster.
I think the Apple Airport Extreme is ( was ) running NetBSD
What I need to get the job done? I can't even find a library to do 2-way CSS style binding. I would have thought that was obvious, but it looks like I'll have to do it myself. To get the experience I want I might need to do a bunch of other stuff myself too.

I understand the forces that produce multiple solutions to problems. Maybe OP was wrong about that being evidence of a deeper problem. But a lot of the problems are deficiencies in the underlying platform. That's the real problem IMO.
Isn't "this bad thing is OK as long as the good guys are doing it" exactly what Snowden was complaining about?
Its worth noting that most of the press issues in Ecuador centre on national politics. The big news organisations are highly partisan (fox-news like), pro-right wing and anti-Correa. Correa won a big law suit against one last year for libel (mentioned in your link). Is this state-enforced intimidation of journalists? I don't think there is an easy answer...

(Not trying to put my own opinion on this, just state some complexities of the issue)
I'm debt-free. Where's the Kickstarter?
Why Haiti and the Dominican Republic Are So Different
Any embedded video ever for Youtube, click that little logo in the corner.
Dear NSA, It’s Not Just About the Spying
No. Nobody's saying it's OK. We're just talking about what countries are possible refuges from the US.
Sometimes you don't know. There was a spy for Israel who was caught spying by the U.S., but it wasn't until later (albeit before the trial) that they figured out Israel was the beneficiary.
Noam Chomsky on Google Glass: Orwellian
I totally write code like this all the time, when I need a quick one-liner that I don't really care about. A little more then a technicality.
The cables were already underwater, what's a few more feet of storm surge to them?
Create a Simple Autocomplete With HTML5 & jQuery
FBI uses facial recognition to compare subjects with driver's license photos
Great! Please don't stop playing when I search for something.
Any interest in a Java nio file system implementation over SSH?
It says "Edit my profil" everywhere instead of "Edit my profile".

Really cool service though dude, I shall be using it if it stays live.
If he was willing to stay in a country with poor support for human rights then he could have just stayed in the U.S. and kept his head down.

If human rights is really what he's about then I'm not sure how raising Chinese prestige as a refugee while lowering U.S. prestige is really helpful to the overall cause.
You're being obnoxious.

I've followed Swedish news for over twenty years. My conclusions about Sweden has nothing to with Assange.
Dropbox forced them into STFU mode.
What about things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption ?
Thanks for compiling this list. It's quite fabulous!
Well, trade in the sense that if they keep him free that he can release the rest of the information.

Do we know how much information he has that hasn't been released yet? Or if he provided information to The Guardian to release in the event that he was captured?
After giving this more thought, I agree. Large demonstrations don't happen over night, and it's necessary to start somewhere and gain traction, with the ultimate goal of snowballing into a large centralized demonstration.

Maybe what's needed is an agenda that clearly works towards such a demonstration, one that's broken up into attainable goals/milestones. If demonstrators don't feel that they're continually making progress, they lose interest -- or maybe its hope that they lose. And at some point, you need strong leadership to reign in all the pieces.
How does the rambling blog post relate to this strange title?
But the spying's a big part of it, too.
This is the coolest thing I've seen on HN all month! Discovering stuff by genre or even a suggestion feature would make this even better. Great work!
I actually don't know who this commenter is.
He also could have leaked the info anonymously.