skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Web site must be shut down and prevented from releasing more documents -- and its leadership brought to justice."

The latter imperative might be achievable.

The former is the height of delusion.
I prefer Google's simplicity. Doesn't make my life complicated. Simplicity isn't ugly either.
FWIW, this guy and his employer earn their living by foaming in the mouth "for America".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
There's an easter egg which allows you to do #1 @:) - I'll let you figure it out.

#2 is something I'm looking into!

#3, would tags have the same effect, or do you mean something else?

Thanks
"The United States has the capability and the authority to monitor his communications and disrupt his operations."

So, a member of the American Enterprise Institute is privy to the US Government's electronic spying capabilities? And, he's complaining about the release of intelligence-related secrets? I don't actually think he knows for sure that Wikileaks' communications are monitorable, but the statement is laughable.
I really want my $ back now.
Here in Kenya there was such a program in the 60's and was known as the "Kennedy Airlift".One of the earliest beneficiaries was Barrack Obama's dad. The other notable beneficiary was the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Wangari Maathai. The program seems to have petered out after the end of the cold war.

Many of those whose studied under the program came back to Kenya when the country needed them most.
It also sucked. You would get an email that something changed, and the context given was the first message/blip/whatever in the wave instead of the message added at the end. It was a huge let down to log into wave just to read 'yeah' as the entirety of the update. Leaving me to ignore wave update emails even more.
I was thinking of dividing categories. I could divide by projects or by team members name. it would allow me to see what everybody is up to in one look.
The Chrome team valiantly tried to incorporate it into our design process, but stopped using it precisely because it was painfully slow.
I could not read before kindergarten and, given that they later home-schooled me, I would not say my parents were "fucking up".
Yes, I will engage in a little ad hominem, only to give context to the author's surrounding beliefs:

Marc A. Thiessen served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004-2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001-2004)

The argument is very well laid out and I'm not qualified to mount a case against his claims; however, it does have a slight political tinge to it.
found the easter egg :)
The Second Act of Alan Klapmeier
Whew! That was a close one!

Well, call off the witch hunt and fines, Obama! The free market saved the planet and will never, _EVER_ do it again.
As far as I know, courts in the past have ruled that being gay is not an "immutable or highly visible trait." There were however some recent decisions that questioned that rationale.
I'll one up you. Everyone who wants to get straight married must first be gay married for 5 years. Radical.
This sounds great in principal, and ending American and European food subsidies would be great for Africa. Additionally, food subsidies distort the market by, for example, making corn syrup cheaper than sugar in the US.

The problem is that many Americans (I don't know as much about Europe) aren't actually that wealthy. Without food subsidies, our food quality would probably increase, but so would our costs. Poor Americans are overweight today because the distorted food costs make it cheaper to eat processed food (that is more expensive to make overall) than to eat basic fruits and veggies and grains. Without subsidies, they would be starving, or at least calorie deficient.

Nixon put in our current system of subsidies because "food should never be an issue in a presidential race". And since then, it hasn't. America may be wealthy, but the wealth is very unevenly distributed. Without social programs, many of our people would be starving as well.
You can mock me all you want, but communicating effectively with your customers, especially during a "crisis", is important.

It will affect how people perceive your product and your ability to continue to provide it. If they want to monetize, they need customers.

We're not talking about a major undertaking. Simply providing useful information in the main avenue they have open during the DDOS seems like a pretty straightforward thing to me.
after all these years: 95/100. great work huh?

why don't they stop with IE already and start shipping a webkit-based browser? why would they want to always be a couple years behind everyone else on that front?
Seeing people chatting using this thingler app, I realize I would love to live-chat with people about the top Hacker News stories.

Basically, each top story would have its own chat room. In the landing page of the app, I can see each room and the number of participants.

Later, I would love to be able to upvote pieces of chat so that people can easily find relevant discussions in the chat.
Completely agree. Whoever planned the launch strategy for Wave should be flogged.

Wave had huge potential. I can't believe Google are so short-sighted as to let it go so quickly, with so little effort.
Hey I'm a systems guy -- technology systems and people systems. If you have a good idea for how a system of people would work to govern themselves, I'm game.

Is there an example -- in the entire history of the planet -- of a government which had no need for secrecy? Sounds cool if it would work.
OK, then propose another way.

If there's a gate, there's a gatekeeper. There is no doubt in my mind that I would rather have Julian Assange and the Wikileaks staff be that gatekeeper than the U.S. government and military, who have a track record of keeping horrifying, god-awful secrets regarding their own misconduct.
"Is there significant support amongst the intelligentsia for nixing laws like the Espionage Act and Official Secrets Act that the government and military rely on?"

It's not that there is widespread support for nixing those laws, but since the US government has been using those laws rather broadly (most notably during the invasion of Iraq), I'd say there is support for revising those laws.

Laws that protect secrets are a sort of Schrödinger's cat, though, in that in order to decide if they are a secret, you have to know the secret. So all government declared secrets are both secrets and non-secrets at the same time.

It will be a long time before the Iraq invasion documents are declassified, far too long from now to consider it ammo for those that want a more transparent government.

I'm not defending Wikileaks nor their supporters necessarily, but I would guess that this is the link of thinking with exposing (some of) these documents. For some documents, clearly they are exposing things just to provoke people and draw media attention, for which they have been insanely successful.
I know if I were running a covert op anywhere in the world there's no freaking way I'd put anything on a computer anywhere. If he would rather have millions of little secrets offline and out of sight, that's what we're going to get.

I don't think that's what would happen. Forcing people not to keep electronic records of secrets they wanted to maintain would make it a hell of a lot more work to make things secret. If millions of things are currently secret, and on computers, I think you would wind up with more like tens or at most hundreds of thousands of secrets if they had to be not kept on computers. That might be a good thing.
Commentary is really scary for his lack of understanding of the actual law that could be applied to this (whether or not you agree with what was done, there's a difference between that and what's legal/what's not). For a great breakdown of whether or not its legal, see http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/07/26/pentagon-papers-ii-on-wi...
A) I thought I had posted something to the web about that on someone else's site, but the link from my site to theirs is dead and the internet informs me the domain name in question has expired. So I can't even confirm if I did a breastfeeding story. (I think I did it as one of two contributions -- if I really obsess about it, I might be able to find it in my email somewhere.)

B) I have a parenting site that I want to develop more. I have been thinking since writing the above that I should probably post info about breastfeeding to it as well. It was extremely important to the well being of my oldest child, who has a serious health issue and needed the extra support it provided. That site has languished while I got myself well, started my life over post-divorce...yadda yadda. Thanks for the suggestion/encouragement. :-)
The thing that concerns me is how panicked governments seem to be over the release of documents and their reaction is insane (IE seemingly trying to block out all free speech and free right to publication, etc) that I can't help but wonder what they're not wanting to be leaked.

Someone without secrets doesn't worry about things being leaked. What secrets do these governments have that are huge to the point that they seem to be wanting to violate their own laws to block this guy.
It was only 48 hours ;)
Ah I'll think about that. I'm planning on having cookie-based history, with a drop-down at the top, so you can switch between recent lists easily. But I have yet to figure out how/if I'm going to have usernames and the like.
It wouldn't bother me too much. I am not ashamed of my body and neither should you be.

It is a shame that we as Americans are taught to be afraid of our bodies and nudity in general. Why is this? I think it is a cancer on our culture that we need to change.
So instead of replying to the people who are too lazy to check their Twitter page / follow @posterous they should... not do that? Oh, and if you took two seconds to click the "more" button, you'd see they have posted a link to the instructions. Using post.ly and bit.ly. But by all means, make up more things to complain about.
I see your point. Still it would be useful to see some typical BSD/kqueue in action compared to typical Linux/*poll. I bet Zed is not doing a big sysctl tuning at this stage. Just leaving default system settings as they are still is some starting point for further investigations.
Fflick - What your Twitter friends are saying about movies
>>>especially if you use ladders instead of stairs.

Unless you break a leg or ankle or even an arm.
As I posted in that thread, I live in 150 square feet (by necessity).

I agree that the Hong Kong solution is very cool (I love the hammock) (direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iFJ3ncIDo ).

My version is having to move the computer desk that's in front of the wardrobe, having a bunk bed that turns into a double bed, and moving the couch when I want to go to the bathroom (also very cramped with the toilet in the shower stall).

Of the houses depicted in the article, I liked "Penguin House" the best - the others are just not sunny enough - what's with modern architects' disdain of large windows and balconies...

I'm still amazed that the housing boom hasn't exploded in Uruguay (it's bizarre that housing is cheaper in most of the United States than in Montevideo - ok, NY and Silicon Valley excluded). The arcane government regulations and heavy taxing of for-profit development is really weighing us down (end rant).
Yep, same here. I gave a friggen' talk about Wave at a TechCrunch event. I used it. I wrote an article about it. Inc.com wrote a "personal viewpoint" column where they presented me as a Wave supporter.

Google just lost all credibility with me as an early adopter. From now on, I'll wait 2 years before I start supporting a new Google product, since they apparently have no staying power.
Uhm, you cant multiplay on them perhaps, but you can use them locally fine..
Mercurial, Subversion, and Wesley Snipes
>1) Wikileaks is really pissing people off

This is because what they're doing is effective. Ineffective things don't piss people off and trigger military disinfo campaigns. The author of the WPO blog article is an AEI member, a player in the neocon agenda: not some random pundit.

>2) Assange has more power than many 3-star generals

I'm fine with that. Assange isn't killing people. 3-star generals are.

>3) Anarchy is not the same as openness... Governments can't function without secrets

Government can function with much less secrecy than it currently does. WL is serving a public need in challenging a growing regime of secrecy that blossomed under Bush and that Obama has failed to reign in.

>4) If Assange wants to play this game, he should think long and hard about where it's going to lead him... If he would rather have millions of little secrets offline and out of sight, that's what we're going to get.

Opsec has a cost. The more expensive it is to keep the secrets needed to maintain questionable military practices, the less chance these practices will continue.

>There's a certain amount of cocky self-promoting asshole about Assange. As much as I want the maximum amount of liberty, freedom, and openness, this isn't the way to make it happen.

I'll take a self-promoter over a murderer any day.
Some data, from justin.tv:

IE8: 75.57%

IE7: 17.84%

IE6: 6.57%

All other versions of IE: 0.02%
So instead of just using the word marriage for something that IS a marriage, we have to invent another term that doesn't mean anything else than marriage, but of two people who are of the same sex. Just because we have to. And that isn't petty.
I was surprised to see George Lucas on that list. I didn't know he was so wealthy.
Wikileaks is the only place in the world where you can be a whistleblower without the threat of censorship or persecution. Sounds like two of the best things to happen to democracy in a long time.
It's the same reason they partnered with Zynga. It's a backdoor way to get at large chunks of Facebook profile data for ad targeting.
I wrote an article on the topic back then:

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html

"What problems does Google Wave solve?"

Wave solved many problems. Google are idiots to axe it after barely a year and a half.
Custom blends of beer ? Have you had a beer before ?
Sorry you feel that way. A lot of our users have been thankful for a personal response. I think we can agree to disagree here.
I'm also impressed with Amazon. They kick ass. They innovate. They execute. They provide something that people actually want. Etc. The only thing I don't really like is that their website design is very cluttered, like cognitive vomit, very distracting. I'd love to see a more simplified, use case-oriented UI wrapper around what they do. Make all the side noise go away.
Microsoft Bobs. Google Waves.
I temporarily screwed my wrist/forearm reading books while holding it up one-handed for a good week or so. Switched to two-handed or sitting it on my lap/table/whatever and problems went away.

That was only for multi-hour reading sessions, too. Casual usage is perfectly fine.
I think a lot of products are trivial. I don't use facebook. the slide slideshow thing looks ...stupid. But then I do understand that if you plague the entire internet with your "stupid" widget, you build a broadcasting platform. Even to the extent of that article about companies monetizing internet-user browsing profiles (beacons, 3rd party tracking cookies etc). Slide can make money installing these shady cookies across all of its trillion of pages. Sure don't know the actual numbers, but being a plague on the internet does have value.
Well, Google just killed Wave. When they won't finish something, they just kill it. This is not a slam at them, just frustration at their inability to finish something to polish.
Tiny houses that still, mostly, look to be half empty due to a minimalist aesthetic. Except the 6' wide house, they all look roomier than mine and I've got a wife and baby kicking around :-)
I don't know, I never asked... I think it was a government job... there might have been some special security. No idea, though, sorry.
This was Wave's failure: One year after release (and having never used it), I still don't really know what it does.
The polite thing to me is keeping it all in one place so I don't have to go multiple places looking for updates.
"Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible -- including to the United States' enemies."

That is _not_ their stated goal. They aim to expose and distribute material of interest to the public, not national security information in general.

"These actions are likely a violation of the Espionage Act, and they arguably constitute material support for terrorism."

Yes, 'likely' and 'arguably'. Except that it's difficult to see how the Espionage Act applies to a group outside of the US. Also material support for terrorism actually means supplying _materials_ i.e. money, weaponry or physical goods. Which they obviously are not doing.

"On Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told ABC News that Assange had a "moral culpability" for the harm he has caused."

Oh please. This is coming from people who have been involved in the direction of military actions that have needlessly killed civilians. They don't have the moral high-ground here. Additionally; I'd like to see this harm quantified in some way. Thus far there has been much talk about damage, but no evidence.

I'm all for holding people to account, but these kinds of statements seem like FUD to me.

"Assange is a non-U.S. citizen operating outside the territory of the United States. This means the government has a wide range of options for dealing with him. It can employ not only law enforcement but also intelligence and military assets to bring Assange to justice..."

Well firstly, lets establish what law he has broken shall we? That is a rather extreme option, with it's own set of complications.

This article is full of lots of tough talk, but blithely ignores the complications of international law and dipolmacy. It also fails to ask one simple question; does the Obama Admin. see it in their best interests to arrest Assange?
Suggestions for data recovery of failed hard drive.
Does anyone have a data recovery service that they'd recommend?

The techs at the local Apple Store diagnosed that my MacBook Pro suffered a physical failure of its hard drive. They replaced the hard drive for free (Thanks, Apple!), but they don't handle data recovery. It's been ~4 months since my last backup (I know... I know...), and there is quite of bit of client-related work that I'd like to be able to get off of it.

I'm considering SalvageData (http://www.salvagedata.com/). Do you have first hard experience with that company or their service. Alternatively, do you have another that you'd recommend.

Thanks in advance for your help!

As an FYI, I already tried the putting the drive in question into a housing and accessing it as an external USB drive. The results were as expected -- there was no joy in Mudville.
I mean pretty soon he'll start doing things like exposing secret tapes of the president ordering break ins. If that happens the WaPo will have to ask Bob Woodward to start doing journalism again.

Wikileaks is the best thing to happen to freedom since the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.
That's a very cynical point of view based on seriously flawed premise i.e. that the biggest reason people get married is to obtain some financial benefit.

People mary because they are in love and they want to assert that loving relationship in the society and with government. What comes with that is a rich array of benefits and obligations. Most of the benefits (like the right to vist your spouse in the hospital) only have value if you actually care about your spouse.

So yes, technically gays can do fraudulent, non-gay marriage with a random person, but don't use it as an argument for discrimination by denying the marriage with people you actually want to marry (for a host of reasons that have nothing to do with the financial windfall you claim to exist).

Also, if there really is such a financial benefit to getting married, how come we don't have an epidemic of fake marriages? Your basic claim of financial benefit to marriage is not supported by observable facts.
The Fun Theory: easiest way to change behaviour is to make an activity more fun
That is actually pretty impressive if done in 2 days only. Did they had a lot of experience with Arduino before? I can't see somebody that just picks the arduino stuff and does this right away without being a bit experienced on it.
FYI: The header file behind the magic:

http://cse.osu.edu/sce/rcpp/RESOLVE_Foundation/Miscellaneous...
U.S. government and military, who have a track record of
keeping horrifying, god-awful secrets regarding their own
misconduct.

This is true. However Assande and Wikileaks have put over a hundred peoples lives directly in danger through their leaks as well as potentially thousands more. Which effectively puts them all the way on the other end of the spectrum. Your saying that putting 100's of peoples lives at risk in the interest of shining a light on Government secrets is acceptable. Are you sure that's what you mean to say?

Theres nothing wrong with pointing out that one way is just as bad as the status quo. Telling people they can't object without proposing a solution won't change the fact that your solution is still wrong.
YC puts effort into Hacker News to find new prospects for investing and, secondarily, to have a solid place to read interesting stories and try out language-creation.

How are you able to assess the ROI, when even YC takes a 5-10-year look at their portfolio, and a 100-year look at language design?
I use it:

- Sitting on the couch
- Lying in bed, on my side or back
- Sitting at my desk, holding it or with it sitting flat on the table
- Walking down the street (if I need to look up something)
- At cafes, etc.

Perhaps I just have large hands (~9 inch handspan) and can get more leverage to hold it properly, but I haven't had a problem. Your arm will get tired eventually if you're not being ergonomic, but generally I haven't had a problem.
self-service beer sounds a like a terrible terrible idea.... a good way for some idiots to intoxicate themselves to a point where a bartender might be help responsible.
That Slide has 100 any human beings working on essentially a slideshow flash widget, a couple embedded video players, and a patronizing knock-off social game is incredulous. If they can fetch that number, then whateverlife should've been worth a billion.

This may be where we see Hunter Thompson's high water mark for the Social Web, where the tides broke and rolled back.
So, that leaves us with 0 popular GWT applications? Or did Google build anything new / ported something old with it?
Is there an example -- in the entire history of the planet -- of a government which had no need for secrecy? Sounds cool if it would work.

Secrecy? Those anarchists care about secrecy so they can stop the government from finding about their economic activities.

They don't care about if government have secrets or not, just that the government can't spy on their black market activities.(Which could be anything from selling pets to lawn mowing, and drugs)

If you want technologies, a lot of techno-libertarians are into http://bitcoin.org cryto-currency. For credit and reputation management, some have looked into complementary systems like Ripple.

As far as social system? I prefer free markets and voluntary systems due to my libertarian leaning. However, I don't know if they're effective or have flaws.

All I do know is flaws that exists in the government, especially the democratic system of government, in addition to my ethical dislike about the nature of governments.

Really, in my original reply, I am just pointing out how anarchy hate secrecy is laughable.
Hey downvoters, it's an honest question. It makes him sound like "if I don't get mine, I'll keep you from getting yours", but I'd like to hear an alternate (more positive) interpretation.