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Wikileaks may be important, but they should really think of the consequences of their actions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7...

If any death results from this "leak", Jake should be held accountable.
Judge her by her merit then. Take a look at her github profile. I disagreed with parts of the article, but it was refreshing nonetheless.

Her github: http://github.com/nataliepo
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Graph scale makes all the difference: try searching "python, clojure", "java, clojure", or "c#, clojure".
Organic SEO via scalable content creation on fairly uncompetitive tail search terms, with profits and exposure being used to target progressively more competitive terms and fuel more expensive customer acquisition strategies like AdWords.
Where is your blog? I mean common, I never see mean comments like these in hacker news posts. Attack her ideas, totally fine with me, but leave the petty comments at home.
You'd downvote me to hell but I once had ~700 tabs opened all at once in 5 different browsers.

~200 is normal.
Measuring stock performance by looking at one of the biggest bubbles in recent years and comparing it to one of the biggest crashes in recent years is a little bit dishonest. Given that this article is writing to young people interested explaining how they should invest if they're interested in their financial situation 30 years from now, a 30-year outlook is more reasonable.
Yeah, definitely don't play the first angle. The first think I thought of when I read that was Google's similiar link that I use pretty often.
I love that Dave McClure was able to put together a $30 million dollar fund. I like the idea of investments being made pre product/market fit, with subsequent double down investments once the ideas gain traction.
Ask HN: Favorite startup demo videos
I am searching for examples of really great demo videos that explain a product or service. In your opinion what are some of the most clear and/or creative videos from startups out there?
They do, they don't release material that could potentially cause bodily harm to specific individuals.

could some of the leaks potentially lead to the Taliban uncovering an agent and murdering him? possibly, but not likely. The New York Times or Washington Post could probably be accused of the same.

These are hard questions for Wikileaks, as they have been for the rest of the press for decades.
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> If you're a white American male,

I am not a white American male. I am a young white South African.

> Grow up and take responsibility for your own situation.

This is a bullshit argument. You say that people who are discriminated against are responsible for their own situation. WTF?

If a white person cannot gain entrance into a university (because he is white) or he cannot get a job (government mandated quotas in the private industry and basically a moratorium in the public sector). Here is a simple example: I did really well in my school matric exam (in the top 3 in a province). I applied for over 30 bursaries for which I did not receive a response for an engineering degree. The same companies gave lots of bursaries to black people who cannot complete the degree in 4 years. In other words, they do an extra year of “pre-parationary classes” and then do a 5 year engineering degree (which is usually six). So people spend 6-7 years on a 4 year degree! (I passed mine in 4 years with an 88% average).

Luckily my parents dug deep and I could go to university (with difficulty). If they were just a little poorer, I would have been fucked (and would probably be doing manual labour or something).

By the way, afterwards I studied received a much more competitive and prestigious bursary to study further overseas. So apparently I was not good enough for SA universities but elite university in a foreign country is OK. That is what I am doing now.

What you should also bear in mind is that it is usually white people of lower socio-economic status that is the hardest hit. Not everyone can be an engineer, etc... Discriminatory policies create a lot of poverty among them and create a continual poverty trap. It also seems that there is a lot of hate (among both black and white people) for poor white people. It is even common to use slurs against them (e.g. white trash).
I don't want to engage in a long discussion, especially as I'm not acquainted with all the facts, but who is held accountable for the deaths caused by our government funding a security organization that directly undermines efforts in Afghanistan?

It seems that there are no risk free way to unravel great injustices. In what has become an incredibly contracted and bloody conflict, it seems absurd to try and apportion blame and fault to an organization that's trying to reduce net suffering.

It seems similar to someone exposing human rights violations in a company, the company performing poorly because of the press, and them being blamed for all the jobs lost.
Can you elaborate? I'm confused. Email is already pure social...
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Who has the moral authority to hold Jake accountable? He exposed the truth. By contrast, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld gave us Gulf of Tonkin II, the meretricious congressmen gave the executive branch all the power it wanted, we know that we invaded a country based on lies, 100,000s have died, and noone has been held accountable. What's the rule here? You kill 1 it's a tragegy, but if you kill 1,000,000 it's a statistic?
I haven't looked at what's in the leaked data but is it some guy just incrementing id numbers and getting the JSON result via http://graph.facebook.com/someidnumber ?

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
Am I the only person who just hooks up to Google's index and keeps one tab open for every page on the web? That way I never have to waste any time opening a page!

(seriously, though, every time someone mentions tabs someone posts your comment, and every time I'm more convinced that those folks don't get a damn thing out of actually leaving that much stuff open)
Getting into the building is a simple matter of putting on a business suit and tailgating after an employee. Every company who has ever had a security meeting has a rule against tailgating... and it is observed precisely nowhere.

After you're in, just look like you're supposed to be there. "Excuse me, I'm here to have a meeting with Tim and I'm in a bit of a rush. I really hate to ask this but I left my presentation at home and I don't know if the presentation laptop will have Internet: will you mind if I quick use your computer to go to Gmail and download it to my USB key?"

Relatedly, a white man in a business suit could probably get about as far as the door of the Japanese equivalent of the Oval Office before getting questioned for the first time. I am not confident that he would be stopped.
She insults my code and I can't criticize her CSS?
There may be others, but a class action lawsuit was brought againt Yahoo! Personals for their use of sockpuppets in converting free to paid accounts.

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-class-act...
That's a perfectly valid strategy, and you're right to focus on buying experiences rather than things. As long as you don't subsequently complain that those who did save more are in a better financial situation than you are, and therefore they should be taxed to support you.
Baseball may be slower than anything in the world to watch, but this one of the things that always brings me back to the game - stats.
Sounds like you've got some personal issues getting in the way of a good idea from Zed. The OSS community has taken the world by storm exactly because of coders like him who donated their time and vision to create systems that now power trillion dollar economies around the world. The web didn't build itself - and the good stuff certainly was not built- by those with only a commercial interest.

All he's asking is that some, especially the ones who are profiting from it and can afford it, donate a little something back.
We're going to need a new word because I don't think the computer is going anywhere, and neither does Apple.

I think Steve was spot on with his car vs truck analogy: the iPad will be like a car, which everyone will have, and the computer will be like a truck, which people only have for special purposes.

That's what computers used to be anyway, and I think it will be fantastic to have them back in their niche again, instead of trying to please everyone.
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Is that a clumsy way of establishing rapport with the subject, or are there actually FBI agents who think like that?

No no, they were getting to know their subject, building a profile, seeing how he responds. Did they deliver the question straight? Then see how he colors it. With sarcasm? See how he deals with antagonism. etc.
One of the best parts of Defcon is the opportunity to party with feds all night long. You discover they're just like you.
I concur. Additionally I think it's interesting how blame is being specifically ascribed to Jake and Julian, the most visible speakers for wilileaks, when the number of people contributing, editing, managing, and supporting wikileaks is in the hundreds.

I feel it might be part of an urge people have to latch on to concrete and explicable causes for events they feel an emotional repulsion to, ie:

"You, specific human being (Obama, Bush, Jake, Jesus, what have you) are to blame for the evils in the world."

as opposed to

"You, complex social phenomenon that may or may not be capable of being influenced by any individual action, are to blame for the evils of the world."
The best advice I've ever heard on getting rich.

Get a job and bank 10-20% every week. Live on the rest. Get there faster? Get a second job and bank all of that.
> I put comments so future me will remember what the heck I was thinking when I wrote it.

People who don't do this: please don't underestimate the importance of this.

Be descriptive as possible with the comments on possibly clever/incomplete code - you will thank yourself months later when you realise:

x += 1 # border

makes no sense to you.

Yes, at the time you wrote the code, it's perfectly obvious to you, but you will forget it and think to yourself next time: 'wtf is this being incremented by 1 for, what about the border, is the border being incremented?'

If you hesitate even for a second about the possibility of your code being misinterpreted in the future, either fix it on the spot or add a damn descriptive comment.
Well, I'm pretty sure I'm in minority here. After abusing tabs for a long time I decided to switch back to windows and I must say I'm very happy. Now when I Command-Tab in Safari I get a new window. These windows pile on the desktop, so eventually I must do something about them, either read, bookmark, when it's something I want to read soon I just drag the page icon to the desktop. And I think that's better for me personally than having hundreds of tabs open. Usually I'll go clicking and filling the desktop and at some point, start to read and close the accumulated windows.

But I try to avoid web applications for mail, rss and anything I can find a decent desktop app, so maybe my way of dealing with windows wouldn't apply to someone who wants to check gmail all day.
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For most people the real value in saving money when they are young is not investment but to avoid debt. 10+k at 22% is a huge trap that catches a lot of people.

PS: 10k of CC debt when you are 30 can easily cost 23,000$ EVERY year in retirement. 10,000 * .22 * (1.07 ^ 35). Even if you pay that off after one year you are still looking at (10,000 * 1.22 * 1.07 ^ 34) = ~121,732$ of lost cushion when you retire.
Square, without a doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSzsFAJAKHI&feature=relat...
While your post gets a lot of facts right, you seem to be giving Apple the role of the good guy a bit too quickly.

Apple has been flooding the mobile phone space with patents ever since they started working on the iPhone and the industry has been suffering from crippling stifling of innovation ever since (in case you were wondering why it took so long for Android to get "pinch to zoom").

As for your other point:

> but it's pretty difficult to imagine them going from retail hardware company to professional patent troll

There is an in-between: they are working on apps that they are not sure they will be able to ship in time, so they are filing these patents to make sure nobody will beat them.

If you have a great app, the only decent way to execute is to ship it and to grab the market. Using patents to stifle competitors or blanket the market with a chilling effect is lame.
Tibetan monks can survive in 40 degree environments just by meditating.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html

Does this mean that shelter and clothes are unnecessary? No. Just because a handful of people are able to cope with extreme conditions without X doesn't mean X isn't a fundamental need.

Fundamental != you will die without it.
Ask HN: VPS management for the absolute beginner
I have a new site that I want to build, something that I as a programmer wish existed. While there is no way this site would ever reach StackOverflow levels of success, I do hope that it will have a broad appeal and become decently successful - I'm optimistic, anyway.

I'm going to start with a shared host, possibly sticking with the company which hosts my blog since I know them well enough, but I don't think shared hosting is a good long term solution.

As such, I've been checking out Slicehost as a good "next-stage" host. The problem is that I would be completely out of my element with a VPS. I only have limited experience with Linux (I've tried it a few times on my laptop, but always ran into issues that made me give up on it - usually wireless issues), and while I'm pretty sure I could get the basics setup, I worry that I'd leave things horribly insecure or that I just couldn't handle maintenance issues.

Obviously, my idea may flop entirely, but I'd rather not get caught with my pants down if I ever got to the stage where a VPS becomes a necessity.

So, are there any good tutorials / (e-)books / articles describing how to get to know your VPS, or any other issues I should be concerned with.

An ounce of prevention, etc.

Thanks!
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Stocks are, generally, fairly speculative. If they weren't, everyone would invest in stocks. The person this article imagined had an unfair advantage- he knew that the decades upcoming would see stock upturns, so stocks were not as speculative. Still, stocks just need to beat the rate of inflation. I can easily see them doing that after they've fallen so much.
Slower than golf?
> [...] when he was pulled aside by customs and border protection agents who told him he was randomly selected for a security search

> [...] Receipts from his bag were photocopied and his laptop was inspected but it's not clear in what manner, the sources said. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained, the sources said. They asked questions about Wikileaks, asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and asked where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is, but he declined to comment without a lawyer present, according to the sources. He was not permitted to make a phone call, they said.

What's more worrisome to me is that doublespeak like nonrandom "random searches" and "not arrested but detained" — not to mention state officials imprisoning citizens and holding them up to some political litmus test over their opinions of our foreign wars while searching through their documents and confiscating their equipment without a warrant — has apparently become such a norm in the USA that even more open-minded news sources like Wired don't bother to question it.
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Good question. I'm somewhat in the same boat as you, and I've found Linodes tutorials good.

Check them out here: http://library.linode.com/beginners-guide/
FWIW, Tarsnap is both b2b and b2c. My best guess from eyeballing email addresses and talking to some Tarsnap users is that businesses are only 20% of Tarsnap users,
although they account for about 80% of the total usage.
I guess it's useful for tracking people who might have deleted their facebook account.
Oh, I don't know. When I've encountered code that I say sucks, it was for code that had single letters as variables in massive function, didn't believe in breaking logic into discrete functions (this was primarily in VB/ASP, so it wasn't for perf reasons ;-)), used copy and paste all the time for large amounts of code (and since they didn't use discrete functions, lost out on simple abstractions), etc...
I suppose so, but for human languages it's much more difficult, since it assigning a type to a token is context dependent.
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I'd just like to add that spending the time to put together a good-quality demo video for your startup can be a rewarding experience, and very worthwhile too. I think many still treat it like an after-thought when getting ready to launch their app, though. I was almost more proud of my demo video than when I launched LeadNuke in the first place (realizing that I lack any considerable experience making screencasts). I also took the opportunity to slip in a plug for my other startup, RateMyStudentRental.

That being said, it's just a simple screencast, so I wouldn't say it's inherently creative or out of the ordinary. But it does go to show that you can make a decent quality demo video on the cheap in under a few hours if you take it seriously.

EDIT: Oh, and just in case you'd like to see it: http://s3.amazonaws.com/leadnuke-com-cdn-streaming/introduct...
Every site is different.

Many sites ban scraping and will only allow you to use the API. Even using the API they may only allow you to hold on to the data for a limited amount of time.
It's a bit harsh to hold Jake accountable for deaths. I think that's the reason people downvote the comment.

It is a true concern though whether or not exposing data like the Afghan documents could endanger the lives of people in Afghanistan and people working in the area affiliated with the coalition forces. After reading this article http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/30/taliban-says-it-will-targ... it becomes clear that the Taliban is checking the documents to find Afghan people that supply the coalition forces with information. If found they will be 'punished'.

This doesn't take away the value of the documents exposed. I'm just trying to point out that besides the great value of this exposure some damage to (relative) innocent people might be done as well.
If you're looking at slicehost, then you must know they have step by step instructions to get you setup at http://articles.slicehost.com/ This should get you pretty far.

You can always ask the community for help if you need and worse case turn to http://www.admingeekz.com/ , http://www.geniusweb.com/system_administration , http://www.supportpro.com/administration.php or some other hourly/per case type of sysadmin service.
But are these coal seams burning as fast as if you mined them and burned it for heat, electricity, etc?
A good sports channel will jump around the course enough to make it seem faster than baseball. Plus golf courses are better to look at especially in the women's tournaments.
Having enough savings to not worry about money is worth more than just about anything else you can spend money on. And unlike a vacation in 10 years you still directly befit from that money every single day.

Think about it this way, if you save 15% you can spend 85% on just about anything you want AND not feel bad. Spend 100% of what you make and you are constantly hoping that nothing bad happens at the end of the month. Spend 101% of what you make and you will soon enter a world of pain.
Shouldn't 'fuck' be a verb in this context?

go/VB fuck/NN yourself/PRP
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You're turning this into a semantic argument. The original discussion began with the question "Which one could you live without?". Whether or not sex fulfills some other evolutionary function is not the point.
What does this have to do with hnews? Go back to digg, or reddit, or boing...
That's only if you put your money in a the start, put 100$ in every week inflation adjusted and you will have made money over the last 10 years.

PS: I made over 40% last year just buying mutual funds in my 401K. Look for the worst 40 years to dollar cost average inflation adjusted and your return is going surprise you.
You can drown code in comments, though. In your example, saying "x += borderW" would be as expressive, and tie that context to everywhere else it was relevant. Some comment issues are really better handled as (variable/function/method/structural) naming issues.

Comments are better for explaining the rationale behind seemingly arbitrary or crazy design decisions - "I would have done obvious thing X, but that causes huge problem Y". Why, rather than what. For things that provide important context, but could not be expressed in the language itself.

Many "what" comments should instead be static typing declarations, asserts, or tests. At least that way, people will notice when they no longer hold. Comments are just declarations the language ignores. (Citations, like "implements algorithm X, see Okasaki 1999", are fine though.)
No, 12000 X 473% = 12000 X 4.73 = 56,760.
yeah def has a feel of communist Russia
"Who has the moral authority to hold Jake accountable? He exposed the truth. By contrast, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld gave us Gulf of Tonkin II, the meretricious congressmen gave the executive branch all the power it wanted, we know that we invaded a country based on lies, 100,000s have died, and noone has been held accountable. What's the rule here? You kill 1 it's a tragegy, but if you kill 1,000,000 it's a statistic?"

So you claim nobody has the "moral authority" to hold the people from wikileaks accountable, yet you want to hold Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld accountable (it's interesting you would use only republicans as examples btw) for their actions?

If I intentionally gave out your address to criminals and told them when you wouldn't be home (and they robbed your house), would you hold me accountable? I'm just "exposing the truth"

This information has the possibility of getting thousands killed. On a side note, I'm hoping I can get jake's full address and phone number so I can give it out to some people. I'm sure he won't mind. I'm just "exposing the truth"
Flipboard. Very clearly explains the point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vpvEDS00o
So here's the back story: we're working on migrating the reddit blog off of blogger and have a test environment set up that we were playing around with. We have a semi-private IRC channel that your coworker, as a close friend of the reddit team and heavy duty open source developer also hangs around in.

I asked if anyone wanted login to the new blog interface to which I got a "Me! Me!" from the gentleman in question. Since he isn't strictly speaking a member of the dev team, I did the natural thing and said, "ok, but in exchange you're going to have to dance for my amusement." Suffice it to say he called my bluff.
Thanks. Incidentally, I just wanted to say that I almost always use Python for scripting and design automation stuff. I wrote about it here:

http://svffap.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-python-for-hardware.h...
The one by rule.fm that was shown a few days ago is quite good, even if I will disagree with the way it was messages.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDwiw2rfJE
That is not Sarah's github. If she has one, it isn't registered under her name.
Could work, but I'm sure almost no one will take the time to name a group, so you want to do that automatically (which you can do by finding out what those pages have in common)