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> Perl is meant for something else entirely.

No, in fact Perl/Ruby/Python are virtually identical in a technical sense. They're capable of, and intended for, exactly the same kinds of applications.

> All of these (and most other) languages are Turing complete, so what does this even mean

It's very obvious what it means, you're just being intentionally obtuse.
"I stopped these at first with IP banning, and switched to Rack::Attack for throttling per-Twitter-ID."

I wonder what Twitter-ID he means. Is there an API to get a numeric ID for a given handle that stays the same even when you change your username?
If he means the username, wouldn't it be possible to programatically change the username after each request and thus avoid the throttling?
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netflix is the us company to which drm in html5 is the most beneficial as they're the business using it the most.
that doesnt look like a grocery store to me. (the analogy is pretty off course anyways)
Before anyone gets excited, this is following labor treads throughout the world; a few "rock stars" and many more lower paid people. You can see this in law, medicine, business, academia and so-forth.

The US has very highly paid educators too. The only difference is they generally don't set foot in the class but rather serve as consultants ... on how schools can reduced average teacher pay and imposed pay-for-performance (among other things). This was the case for Beverly Hall, who created the local model for No Child Left Behind, sold it on a national level and was eventually arrested for falsifying the system.

Her report on Atlanta School's local program which NCLB (No Child Left Behind) emulated:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hwl55bH...

Her arrest:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577688/ex-atlanta-scho...

Edit: And another posters mentions, this isn't a "teacher" in the conventional sense of the word either but a slightly more hands-on testing-guru. So we can pretty much move along now...
No, they take the links from bing and provide a more interactive experience on top of it. I just finished reading a research paper last month where they explain it. The concept made sense but their execution is really terrible. Their web page just looks too cluttered, distracting away from the users search experience.
> Still forced to support IE 7/8

I want people who use this shit to die already.
If there is one thing DRM actually makes sense for, it's for streaming content you don't own.

"The announcement is Netflix's latest chess move in their long game to blanket the web in DRM. Slipping a DRM delivery mechanism into the HTML5 standard is the online streaming giant's endgame."

Really? Netflix exists not to disrupt cable and bring streaming video to the masses (not to mention money to its investors), but to proliferate DRM?

I think it's a severe stretch to see breaking the dependency on Silverlight as a bad thing, and if you think rights holders are going to license their content to Netflix without DRM you are living in a fantasy world.
That's correct. It was basically:

wget http://att.com/obscure/url?id={1..114000}

Aaaaand that's a prison sentence.
"If people really wanted to spend more on education, why don't they vote to raise their own property taxes?"

They can vote for more funding all they want, but they know the funding can go anywhere once it's approved.

For example, in 2012 Prop 30 in California was supposed to go to the education system.. turns out it went to cover bad investments and otherwise non-education expenses racked up elsewhere:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/18/Surprise-...

If you want to make sure your money goes somewhere, you need to spend it on that.
Ask HN: Any laptop support 32gb of RAM?
I have a current MBP (non-retina) with 16gb of RAM.

Does anyone know of a laptop that supports 32gb (or more) of RAM?
for example i need a charting solution, and google charts seem good enough.. but now would they abandon it?... all google bets are risky...
> Either David Cameron is an abject moron or he (and his cronies) don't understand this whole internet thing.

That's awfully disingenuous, it may be neither -- PM Cameron and his cronies may in fact fully understand that their legislation will have little effect on child abuse. They may in fact be interested in establishing a police state, which implies that they're not morons and that they fully understand that the internet as a communications medium is far too open.

Or they're indeed morons that don't understand the internet, but they're being lead by the nose by their military/surveillance-industrial corporate masters. War efforts are winding down and they need another excuse to pour billions down a rabbit hole.
Maybe someday one of those consultants will package an approach based on raising the bar on salary and teacher/student performance moderately and call it "Moneyball Education" and it will finally take off. It will have a better chance of success if it's already been approved by ESPN.
Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]
This seems overly negative, and for rather simplistic reasons. If Dart is successful internally, I'm sure they'll keep working on it. Making their developers' lives easier, and making their web properties faster/better is easily worth it for them.

Also, your edit doesn't strike me as evil. It's only evil if they prevent other vendors from putting in a Dart VM. The language is opensource, and so is Chromium where their VM implementation would be, so that seems unlikely. They'd have to put in quirks that make it "work best" on Chrome that they somehow hide from the competition.

I mean, was SPDY an evil move? It was originally baked into Chrome but the spec and implementation were open. It just took Firefox and others longer to decide to add support.
Yeah, this is exactly what I meant.
I hope Google will provide some iron clad guarantees that their Dart project will be around for the next 5 years

5 years is a lifetime in web technology. 5 years ago nobody was using coffeescript, angular, ember, or any of that. They didn't exist, or if they did they were crude ancestors of what they are today.

I just don't think you can have this expectation of any guarantees like that in web development. Things move too fast. If you want that kind of guarantee, use open source stuff and acknowledge that you'll have to support it yourself when the rest of the world moves on.
After they had enough market share with Chrome they just figured they could force people to install Chrome.
I don't feel DRM in Netflix is so bad, I would not be happy to have DRM in something I've purchased to own, but since I'm paying a subscription and know fully that I'm not paying to own what I stream, I don't care that they want to use DRM.
Nope, the movie studios are the companies to which DRM is most beneficial. Netflix just happens to currently be the biggest distributor.

Let's do a little thought experiment: Let's say #CancelNetflix goes massively huge and Netflix goes out of business next week. Do you think that's actually going to keep DRM off the web? (The studios would be ecstatic at this outcome.)
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I can list sooo many things people would want to hide:

- Salary

- Medical history

- Home address

- Phone number

- DOB

- SS number

- Bank account numbers

- Passwords

- Photos of yourself

- Photos of your children

- Job search history (when you are already employed)

- What time you'll be out of the house

- Porn search history
Indeed. I don't know who's behind this site, but reading this screed makes me feel embarrassed for them. What do they expect Netflix to do in response to this? Do they believe Netflix is some Dickensian villain who just wants to make everybody miserable through DRM?

I really doubt Netflix cares that much about DRM. Probably a lot of people there would rather not have it. But they can't have a business without content, and the content owners demand DRM.

If you were in Netflix's position, would you say, "Well, there's no way to do this without DRM, so I may as well close up shop"?
Since most of Netflix's content is licensed, they may have no choice but to limit it to technologies with DRM. I'm fine with folks dropping Netflix if that's what they want to do, but I don't see it leading to a web where Netflix's content is free.

This proposal has me scratching my head.
Note, he makes most of his money from leverage. 150,000 students each his lectures each year at $4 an hour.
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Won't let you use the Kinect? Paranoid.
I hear you. FreeNode IRC has been pretty good to me, although occasionally you run into the angry God-complexed sysadmin who ruins your day, and reminds you why people sometimes really hate interacting with IT personnel.
We all need to back this project to get rid of the monopoly of Google.
It's because you can't give that information out without also granting write access to a person's life.

If there were a way I could give you my SSN/bank information/etc without also granting you the ability to impersonate me, I'd gladly do it.
How do people make those snazzy ascii diagrams (they're in a lot of github pages) like this: http://snag.gy/LqA7j.jpg

Page: http://google.github.io/tracing-framework/overview.html
Each twitter account comes with a unique numeric identifier in addition to your handle. If it didn't you wouldn't be able to login with twitter on some websites when you change your handle.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/users

EDIT: After rereading your comment you might have been asking if it was possible to retrieve this id with a simple API call and not with OAUTH. It is possible with "users/show" as explained here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/show
I am going to preface this comment by saying the following. Its very important that we do everything we can to improve the quality of education our children receive. Nothing I am about to say should be taken to mean that we have no room for improvement!

I think we should start measuring education systems by results not by test scores. This is stupid that we are elevating a system which makes kids score better on a few tests but produces a workforce that is persistently behind the American and European workforce in terms of accomplishments. Great your kids can read really really well. Mine are changing the world by becoming the leading Engineers, Scientists and Doctors. Maybe these tests aren't what we should be optimizing for.

If you told me to go out and reform our public school system the last thing I would do is say is keep the kids in class twice as long and remove any vestige of childhood or independent though to thoroughly condition them to check the right box come test day. That's the impression I am getting from this article.
The Search button doesn't seem to work. I select my criteria and click Search and I see the spinning progress indicator but it never finishes.
This is a great idea. I can imagine lots of parents finding this site through Google and making good use of it. Some SEO work may be worth it to make this easier for people to find. The one page dynamic nature might deter this but some simple workarounds would fix that.

Thought I'd note, however, that when I changed the district to Los Angeles and hit See Results. It remained in an endless loading screen and would not return results.
Did you even read the comments? And there is even a mod there in the comments saying "haters gonna hate" in support of the answer. Do you have this comment saved in your system and paste it anywhere you want to complain about SO?
Using mmap in Java is not really that interesting-- you just use FileChannel#map, which has been around for a long time. There is no need even for JNI. The only remotely "interesting" part is that Java doesn't provide munmap, so you have to work around that.

This whole thread makes me very sad. I might have to write a "Mythbusters" post about Hadoop at some point.
An interesting titbit of information from this post is the approx. # of visitors reaching the front page of HN can get you:

"BlinkLink managed to get about 50k pageviews against 17k visitors"

I'm not sure on how much other sources (Reddit, Twitter) contributed to that number though.
Schools are not underfunded. The U.S spends more per capita on education than pretty much everyone: http://rossieronline.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-..., twice as much as South Korea.
In all the documentation and press materials, they're still referred to as zips, though. Do you know if they support proper uploads and downloads of EXE, MSI and DMGs directly? Github used to support that a while back and purposely disabled it. Google Code has recently begun disabling it due to 'abuse'.
I don't think I would call consultants who don't teach "educators". They act more like management consultants one would hire from McKinsey or similar. Its akin to calling Steve Ballmer a great programmer because he runs Microsoft.
I realize the US military is much stronger per capita, but in a hypothetical contest, what's the chance of defeat vs. 120 million infantry in a militia?
I just released 0.0.2, so those who are having issues with running and building on 0.0.1 may have better luck this time. It also now correctly uses command instead of control for keyboard shortcuts on OS X.

As I said before, it is still a very early release, so please let me know about other bugs you find.
Gigablast (founded in 2000 by Matt Wells) announced [0] about open-sourcing their engine under the Apache version 2 license at July 30. The engine is written in mixture of C and C++ and counts more than 500,000 lines of code, see the Github page [1].

Some facts about the engine:

The code compiles into a single executable file which can scale on thousands servers.

It is easily configurable and has a nice documentation [2].

The code is very stable, it works in production since 2002.

Document processing is done using plugins, so you can write a plugin for any type of documents.

---

I would like to see a search engine based on this in the dark-nets, particularly in I2P.

[0] - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigablast-now-an-ope...

[1] - https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine

[2] - https://www.gigablast.com/admin.html
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The thing I take issue with is that the government DOESN'T have billions of pounds. This is a government of austerity that consistently derides the previous government of stupid spending. They take any opportunity of insulting Labour about how their bad spending habits have ruined our economy yet then want to fund something as stupid as this?

Kids will see porno, whether its blocked of not. It's the same as people being able to download torrents after the pirate bay was blocked or making drugs illegal doesn't stop people getting drugs.

This is a deeper issue that can't be solved by closing off parts of the Internet. We need to improve society in general, not make it harder for the people who want to seek this sort of thing out.
Oh man, I remember PHP-Nuke! One massive switch statement. My first introduction into coding anything beyond HTML, believe it or not...
Don't just "dive in" on Windows. The frustration will drive you away from learning Rails, just because it's such a miserable experience on Windows. Set up a VM or use a VPS.
With all due respect to the author there are probably 200 people worldwide who will do this. Tops. Do you know how many customers they'd lose if they started streaming without DRM? Virtually all of them, because all of the major studios would pull their content and Netflix would look like cable access programming.

I get that DRM can be a bad thing in content I purchase. But for streaming content where my access ends when my subscription does -- I have no qualm at all about it.
The database is getting lots of hits right now, after I posted to Hacker News. There are 5 million rows in the database, so any lookup takes a while, in spite of indexing.
Based on the headline and the first few paragraphs I was excited to read about a free market approach to public teaching.

But most of his students are "high-school students looking to boost their scores on South Korea's version of the SAT."

So is the article really about a $4m/yr teacher?

Or a $4m/yr test prep guru?

Test-prep is a HUGE industry in the USA.

"Princeton Review" alone pulled down ~$150,000,000 in 2012.(1)

John Katzman, a Princeton grad, founded it in 1981.

So we've already tread this right?

And the major criticism of Princeton review and other testing houses is that they drastically skew the balance of the tests by (a) Giving privileged kids an unfair advantage (b) Damaging the test integrity which is designed to find bright kids, not just "well prepared for this one day" kids.

So that's not really that unique and, in fact, we've got a long history of how this type of market has under-served the US' own system.

But great headline, got me to click.

(1) http://www.wbjournal.com/article/20100830/PRINTEDITION/30830...
‘Defective by design’ is a great name for that blog.

The writer would’ve preferred Netflix stuck to propietary tech like Silverlight and Flash, which allows DRM, than move to an open standard like HTML5 video, which allows DRM. Writing on behalf of an organization that promotes an open web, her logic is defective.
Dart is part of Google's strategy to replace open-standards with its own proprietary walled-garden. Let's hope it doesn't work. Stay away from Dart.
i'm not sure i'd call that leverage, more like a clever distribution/marketing plan.
So you don't think this question is worth reading?
So I get that by cutting out the insurer you are saving some funds, but where does the rest of the difference come from? Are the hospital rooms and surgeons so much cheaper because everyone in those countries pay them rather than just the few people who actually use their services?
> It'll matter later on when you get the hang of some more intermediate to advanced concepts.

Or when you want to install any gem with a C extension, like mysql2 or nokogiri, which many tutorials will steer you towards in the first 30 seconds.
"Google can artificially increase traction of Dart by putting the Dart runtime inside Chrome and using that as a weapon to increase Chrome adoption"

Chrome itself gained in traction because V8 was faster for a while. Putting Dart VM in Chrome and getting another competitive leap seems like a no-brainer. Not sure how that is evil or going against the spirit of the web. It's a one-liner to have it use the Javascript version, making it available in other browsers. It's not like ActiveX, as far as I can see.

In practice, Dart is a decent enough compile-to-Javascript alternative with a low barrier to entry. And it works as advertised. Easy to learn, use, and debug. And the claims about structure are true.

As far as I can tell, the lack of conviction is as much about seeing where developers are headed as anything. Why spend a lot if there won't be adoption. It's a tough call for Google in a pretty crowded and evolving space (ie, compiling to Javascript).

I should add tha NaCl and LLVM complicate the vision of the future for web technologies as well. Hard to place a bet at the moment.
That's why I only addressed local property taxes. Local people have more control when the scope of government in question is smaller. A single town raising its own taxes to pay for its own schools is unlikely to run into as many problems.

I know this works, because this is what people did where I grew up. Will it work everywhere? No, that was part of my point. Many people just don't value education enough to spend more money on it than they absolutely must.

Another thing to keep in mind. The article says that "students are the customers". But this is false. Parents are the customers. So what you've got to compare is South Korean parents and American parents.
Thanks for the ideas. Sorry for the slow site response: the database is currently getting hit pretty hard.
I also missed the fact that it was open source, and was about to post a comment about it, when I found this thread. "Open Source" or "Open" should be one of the big features in bold. I'd also like to know more about privacy and security features - for example, is PGP built in?
You're welcome for PortableApps.com.

I'm dropping Roberto a note about the possibility of doing a fully-integrated installer for really basic installs (NSIS-based, based on PortableApps.com code, using really basic INIs so folks can do an installer with the ease of a zip) as well as an NSIS drop-in to have the recommendations appear on a given page of an NSIS installer (by far the most popular installer used in open source software) so folks can use their existing NSIS installers and custom code for advanced installers. It'd be open source, of course, and both would contain the full installer on the initial download. This would help with security concerns and allow offline installs (possibly even skipping the offer if we code it to detect being offline) as well as silent and automated installs.
Also worth nothing; the context in which he is making that statement is as the owner of his own company with 30 employees. In other words he isn't being rewarded by an employer for working extra hard.
Very timely. Might be a viable alternative to NSA's Gmail.

The tech lead is from the Empire though - an ex-Googler - not exactly a privacy caring company :) Maybe that's why he left :)
This is true, but I think the U.S.' education spending doesn't just go towards academics but extracurricular activities (sports, the arts, dances/events, facilities + infrastructure) to an extent further than that of other countries.
The avclub link makes more errors than I can count, honestly. For one, you don't combine the probabilities unless they're independent. So for example, the kid losing his knife and the murder being committed by the same kind of knife aren't independent, because it's plausible that the kid left the knife at his father's place and the actual killer used it to commit the murder.

The next problem is that prosecutors systematically reinforce confirmation bias in presenting their case. The probability that someone has brown eyes and is 5'7" tall and lives in New York and knows the victim and has a motive etc. etc. would seem to be strong evidence (especially if you're assuming them all to be independent, which they're not), but that only works if you're taking an unbiased sample of the possible characteristics of the perpetrator, which the prosecutor explicitly does the opposite of. If there is no apparent motive, or the knife used to kill the victim isn't a match for the one the defendant is known to have, or the perpetrator was wearing a suit and the defendant isn't known to own a suit, you won't hear any of that from the prosecution. And if you only consider the things that match, using the article's flawed method, all additional evidence can only ever increase the probability of guilt, since any evidence to the contrary doesn't make it into the calculation. All you have to do is keep collecting evidence and excluding anything that doesn't comport with the prosecution's theory of the crime and soon you have a seemingly insurmountable case.

Then you have the "DNA database" problem with statistics. Take a 1 in 10,000 chance and it sounds like solid proof ("99.99%") but if the population you're testing against is 6,000,000,000 people then you still have a pool of suspects containing 600,000 people. You can't then just pick one of those people arbitrarily and claim a 99.99% chance that that was the perpetrator, the probability that a person is the actual perpetrator if chosen at random from the group of individuals whose DNA would match is only ~0.000167%. It isn't good enough to prove that a defendant is statistically in the top thousand people in the city as far as probability to have been the perpetrator of a particular crime. You still have to exclude all the others or you'll convict the wrong man.