skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is really culpable for the release of these names?

Here's an excerpt from an interview with Assange...

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2968342.htm

TONY JONES: Well, not according to the Pentagon. They're accusing you of revealing the identities of Afghan informants and putting their lives at risk. Afghan's president, Karzai, agrees with that he says 'the breach is extremely irresponsible and shocking.' Your response to those comments.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well we have yet to see clear evidence of that. I mean the London Times is also making this allegation today and in a quite disingenuous way, for example they mention some informers' names they say they had found and with a headline Afghan informer already dead, but when you actually read the story what you see is in fact that individual that they're mentioning died two years ago.

So there's a little bit of media manipulation occurring here. In terms of the Afghan government, it's in their interests to sort of play up the irresponsible, irresponsibility of the United States that they say has been involved in sort of collecting and permitting this data to release, be released.

Now we contacted the White House as a group before we released this material and asked them to help assist in going through it to make sure that no innocent names came out, and the White House did not accept that request.

TONY JONES: So you're saying that you offered the White House a chance to go through the documents, or officials from the White House a chance to go through the documents and single out names of people at risk. Is that correct?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Yeah that's right. Now, of course we did not offer them a chance to veto any material, but rather we told them that we were going through a harm minimisation process and offered them the chance to point out names of informers or other innocents who might be harmed and they did not respond to that request which was mediated through the New York Times who was our, acting as the contact for the four media groups involved in this.
long live the Wave.

the time is right for a New Wave startup
Slide? Really? They couldn't have picked a much worse company to buy there, except RockYou. Slide got a bunch of users early by making Facebook apps that gave it functionality MySpace had like ability to post videos and photos to friends' walls. Those kinds of apps never monetized well, and all of that stuff unsurprisingly ended up on Facebook's roadmap anyway.
I hope Wikileaks can leak things about "Palestine" regarding where and who are benefiting from all its aid - not that anyone will care that much. Is there a disproportionate focus on the USA? China's another country that could use some leakage.
RIM Helps Russia, China Monitor BlackBerry Users’ E-mails
Leave. You can't turn it around. Not to sound negative or anything :) This kind of situation can only be turned around from above, not grass roots style. There has to be VP level buy off on the importance of the product, the user interface, and engineering. Unless you are in a start up, then one implementer can make a large difference.
...and for a company that won't insure musicians, to boot.
Is that Jason Calacanis in picture 10?
A company in Berkeley is doing this: www.iqengines.com (see Developer API), and demonstration app www.omoby.com. HTML Post image and JSON/XML return label (also face, barcode, ocr, etc).
Answering this question will require multiple pages so I will just stay with the work I am doing: gene therapy. Some new strategies seem to be relatively successful. For instance my group has developed a way to target the healthy surrounding area of the tumor to start "attacking" the tumor. Read this if you're interested in this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2863297/?tool=pu...

As for the challenges the blood-brain barrier makes reaching the brain difficult. And even when we reach the brain its size makes it hard penetrate it deeply. However new research is coming out every month that one by one solve these obstacles. There is a long road ahead though.
how do you strike a balance between making something easy, and treating your users like idiots

This is something Apple seems do do very well on every product. Follow their example. Picture your kids, parents, grandparents, and neighbors using it. What would they have trouble with? Eliminate those rough edges and tricky steps, even if it means removing features (save those for an "expert mode" maybe).

When I got my HTC Evo, it had a nice interactive tutorial showing me how to use the touchscreen, type, pinch to zoom, etc. I wish more products did this, especially now that they are getting more complex. The same goes for web apps. If this is the first time I'm logging in, give me some thought bubbles to walk me through the process.

I believe Mint does a good job of this the first time you log in.
So in retrospect I agree with all of this.

I think Patrick's current logo is pretty ugly. I think the 99designs logo is bland and cliched, but I don't think it's ugly. I thought that would count for something. It doesn't.

Lesson learned: a logo that speaks to your audience can succeed even if it's ugly.
Aussie IT-savvy politician on the iPad and Twitter
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That answers showdead, noprocrast, maxvisit and minaway. How about notifo and delay?
This site … it's like they turned Google Wave into a mix of http://YourWorldOfText.com and 4chan. THAT use of the technology would be awesome.
Especially when google says in their shutdown notice "despite … numerous loyal fans"

They know a small but loyal following uses wave. They are shutting down because that wasn't what they had in mind for wave. They were aiming big and failed. That's ok, but only if it doesn't continue to drain from the company.
Magnitude of desires? Unless you're asexual, you're not going against your sexual preferences by marrying a heterosexual woman. I have no interest in getting married and neither does my girlfriend. She's opposed to it on philosophical grounds (related to Prop 8, actually), and I just think the whole thing is a ridiculous sham. But, I would never throw an oppressed minority under the bus just because I think marriage is a joke.

I humbly invite you to go seek out a handful of people who identify as gay or lesbian and ask them why they feel like they should be allowed the right to marry, regardless of their intention to actually do so.

It shouldn't be very hard in the NYC area to find a handful.
Assuming you discover the fact that the truth is massaged...
Wow. I'm certainly in the minority here. I returned mine after about 3 weeks of use.

For me it's just a very expensive browser. I spend 10 hours a day in front of a computer screen at work. When I come home in the evenings, I like to minimize my screen time. I usually limit myself to checking email/facebook/twitter for about 5-10 minutes only. On weekends too, I like to spend less time in front of a computer. And if I do, it's work, so I have to use my work laptop.

So the iPad did not really make any sense. Check email, check out CNN, HN and check out twitter. 5 minutes a day and $600?

The other thing I noticed is that there are significantly fewer apps for the iPad as compared to the iPhone. And iPhone apps look plain ugly in the iPad.

Basically seems like an overkill for me. I know, different strokes...
The site is called Next Paradigms, what did you expect? :)
The main reason I didn't like it is a very simple one, and it has to do with automatic sign-in to Google properties based on whether you're logged into Analytics or Gmail or the like.

Since we use a corporate email for Analytics but personal ones for Wave it meant having to switch logins all the time. Might sound trivial but actually put me off using the product at all.
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+1 for consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

Proffering a system where it's perfectly ok for one random dude in Australia, who is beholden to no one, to make choices about the distribution of information directly impacting the lives scores of millions of people as some sort of acceptable alternative to fixing the structural defects of the current system is INSANE.

It's a false dichotomy between leaving the current system untouched and disowning the need for a system at all. It's like choosing between optimizing the world financial system and returning to an agrarian barter economy.
That article was so full of double standards it was hilarious. Many of the things he accused WikiLeaks of doing, the US military is also doing, and often more directly and at a higher level of magnitude. Also, at the end I noted the author works for AEI. Not surprising.
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> "Assange isn't killing people. 3-star generals are."

For me this single point is one of the most powerful and clarifying.
google notifo. Its a notification service you can link your account to.
> Everything Google does requires me to turn over my data to them so it can be monetized somehow.

And Apple (or any other company) doesn't?
NYTimes: Ask the Crowd
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Google actually does. Here's one example http://act.ly/3o, where people in Romania were petitioning to get street level data added to Google Maps. Google responded fairly quickly and about a month later had data, which they then asked all the people who tweeted the petition to beta test.
I get blank screen in FF and nothing but a logo and some links in IE.
It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".
Our local newspaper started its own Groupon clone. It could be a great side business for all those struggling newspapers. (Or a great startup business for someone to provide turnkey Groupon clones for all these struggling newspapers.)
How can I become more creative in my problem solving?
I never found out what Google Wave was for, so it is really not a big loss.
First of all, why were 91,000 documents secret? I wouldn't really know, but isn't that something like half of all the significant events in the war so far? Doesn't that make this whole operation kind of veiled from the public eye? THIS is what Wikileaks is exposing; the fact that routine events in this war are being kept secret for no apparent reason, not just a few justified occurrences where secrecy is necessary. It should be the burdon of the governing bodies to justify making something a secret, but from these documents it looks like they're slapping a "confidential" sticker on every other file just for the heck of it.
Ask HN: Is the "adult space" a career-killer?
I'm a product guy. Successful, good at what i do, and looking for a change. Came across an opportunity which (at first blush, so to speak) matches what I'm looking for -- the team, the company stage, growth potential, etc. The catch is that it's a well-known gay "dating" site. And more in the "looking for mr. right now" sense of dating than "looking for mr. right".

Career killer?

Would a background like that hurt my chances of a successful exit if I ever started something on my own?

I probably wouldn't think twice about hiring someone who worked there (speaking as both startup junkie and a gay guy), but I've been through acquisitions and know those HR girls in Fortune 500 companies might think twice if they're doing a background check.
I also wonder how many Groupons are never redeemed. My wife buys them fairly often and I'm sure we will lose some in the shuffle and never get around to using them.
sorry? why am I being downvoted? surely if you think Ive missed something in the above summary it would be more constructive to post a reply?
You can't marry any sibling, regardless of gender. You can marry some people, but it's gender-dependent. It's called equal protection for a reason.
That does nothing to solve the overall problem, though. It would give us back Buffett's taxes, but they pale in comparison to the aggregate taxes being avoided by the thousands of other super rich.

As a businessman, he's required to exploit these loopholes, much like a lawyer is required to defend a client they know to be in the wrong. What makes Buffett special is that he, unlike so many other super rich, is choosing to publicly draw attention to the system they all know to be broken.
Ok, so based on fiscal-year technicalities and on the GIANT ECONOMIC DISASTER that Bush and supply-side economics presided over, Obama's increased the deficit a lot. True.

He still didn't inherit a surplus and double the national debt.
You should also post this on Reddit to maximize the upvote potential of this one witty statement.
Who wouldn't be there if government market distortions didn't make it profitable or otherwise culturally unfit. If a corporation is a machine that purely maximizes income, disabled people are a tiny niche market for boutique shops.
I'll bite. There exist in the world countries and people who would like to kill me (not me personally but me as in the citizen of a rival nation/ethnic group/race/...). The military prevents them from doing so. Therefore the military is necessary. History has numerous examples supporting this fact.
I hope not. Unfortunately the US doesn't have the best "track record" for respecting other countries laws. Off the top of my head the "extraordinary rendition" program and the SWIFT data records comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-tortur...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/15/swift_processing_hal...
Between Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years arguably the US military has put millions of lives in danger, against their wishes. If releasing some documents might lead to a 100 deaths that would not otherwise have occurred is evil/criminal then how does that not pale in comparison to the field deployment of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and weapon systems in a foreign country which go on to cause 1000's of deaths that would not otherwise have occurred. If Assange's actions are reckless to any extent surely the US government's actions have been 100x+ more reckless and damaging.
Thanks for the downvote, just trying to be helpful!
Warning: The petition just got overtaken by an army of trolls.
It's not just that... large corporations that are sticking with XP are finally getting around to upgrading from IE6 - and skipping directly to IE8.
Alternatively, Google says "net neutrality is is great for everybody else, bitches."

"Don't be evil" is officially dead at the hands of a lust for control. Compare to Google in 2006:

"Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody – no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional – has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay. Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight." -- Eric Schmidt

http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality_letter.html
Sure, but you don't work for that guy anymore, do you?
Not particularly no, it's a nice thing to have and it certainly helps as a private citizen, however this is generally confusing anonymity with privacy. I'm comfortable sharing things online because I'm anonymous, because I'd prefer people in my personal life not know about certain things. However I don't keep this information to myself for an illicit benefit, however people don't have a reasonable expectation or justification to know what I'm doing at 10pm on a wednesday night. My boss does have a reason to know what I'm doing at 10am on a Wednesday, in fact he showed up at my job site - didn't concern me, because I wasn't doing anything I shouldn't have been.

However I have a reason and a reasonable expectation to know what my government officials are doing, or at least be able to appoint someone to supervise them. Yet I'm told 'tough shit' because my government for as far as I can see is embezzling my money to areas of government I have no legal rights to even have a trustworthy official even monitor them.

Security Intelligence Services is watchdogged, but why aren't members of my parliament as closely watched as fucking spies! Spies have a lot to hide, and they have justification to hide it, my MP does not have a reason to hide things from me because they got my vote.
That will be the ultimate proof of whether he's truly a threat to any powerful interests. If he suddenly disappears or has an accident one day, that will likely be the other shoe dropping.
I'd rather they just integrate Wave with Gmail, something that I wanted from the start. I had no use for Wave, on its own, especially in the early days when invites were slow to go out. For a long time, Wave sat there, unused. By the time more of my friends and colleagues got access, no one cared anymore. This is a shame, because Wave has tons of potential.
Unless you're asexual, you're not going against your sexual preferences by marrying a heterosexual woman.

Some people are in fact asexual, and prefer no sex. Others may prefer not to be married, even if they do wish to have sex with people of the opposite gender.

These are both preferences; what makes them less deserving of protection than a preference for gay marriage over straight marriage?
Android Selling over 200,000 handsets a day
Ridiculous speed sign
Thank you for the very extensive response! Chile sounds really interesting. I have some additional questions:

What about immigration: How hard is it for a foreigner to move there / get long term visa ?

Are there many good developers and what's the average salary of a developer ?

Are there other foreigner software startups / companys or immigrants ?

What about the government / bureaucracy: How hard is it to hire developers for a foreign company ?

What about the English skills ? Of course, if we come to Chile we have to learn Spanish, but our software is written for English-speaking (and German-speaking) customers

Last question: What is the cost of living like there and where's the best place to live?
Management as a Service (MaaS)
I just got back from the Philippines (3 weeks in May), and while I was there I learned about a new visa - SVEG (Special Visa for Employment Generation):

http://immigration.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&t...

The SVEG is a special visa issued to
a qualified non-immigrant foreigner who shall actually employ at least ten (10) Filipinos in a lawful and sustainable enterprise, trade or industry. Qualified foreigners who are granted the SVEG shall be considered special non-immigrants with multiply entry privileges and conditional extended stay, without need of prior departure from the Philippines.

That may be exactly what you need. I'm looking at it because I already employ 10 locals.
Write on a future resume that you're under NDA about the exact site. Say that you worked on some social-networking site, and give a description of the traffic you got and your role for them. If you know your technical shit, very few companies will care and this lie will work.
Your results seem correct to me, even though I'm a bit disappointed at the actual number (I was hoping for 0.8 or 0.9, not 0.6), and the code looks good. I'm meaning to run it for myself, but didn't have the time to do so, I should get on it shortly.

I still of the opinion that a >0.6 ATR means you're fucked anyway (where processing all those fds can't be done as fast as data arrives), but I'm trying to come up with a good small test for that hypothesis (like you did).

Until I do, it's just an opinion/hypothesis, and it's kind of hard to argue about it strongly either way.
Does Slide utilize Zynga-style dirty tricks to psychologically manipulate users to their detriment? If so, and if Google continues such products or starts their own using such tricks, that’s evil in my book.
actually, it has had a discernible impact: geographies that have allowed it have or will see increased economic activity: http://www.missourirecord.com/news/index.asp?article=10072

Repliers: don't bother citing the contradictory NOM study. If you believe anything they have to say, there is no room for conversation between us. The study hinges on an argument from Tony Perkins' Family Research Council, which is about as biased as any organization can be.
"The Imagination Of Nature Is Far, Far Greater Than The Imagination Of Man."
While most people meant anarchy as "lawlessness", anarchists use anarchy to mean without rulers, which is a pretty big difference.

So as you can see, anarchists are not advocates of no laws simply because there are almost nobody advocate chaos.
Both gender and relationship to the potential spouse are attributes of a person that cannot be changed. Why is it ok to discriminate based on one but not the other?
Exactly. The level of hypocrisy is astounding. It is well-known that the US has been spying on other countries for a long time. There is a track record of involving citizens of foreign countries to engage in acts which are considered treasonous by their own countries standards and, if they had been our own citizen, treason in our own as well. What the US calls "treason" against itself would just be called "smart intelligence gathering" by the other country.
That's irrelevant. No one can marry a sibling. Anyone can marry the opposite gender.
Isn't this an about-face for Google? I thought they were for neutrality?
yea i was, both title and storyline. :)
The one listed first in a `git log config/whatever.yml`

Just because it isn't in a public repo on GitHub doesn't mean it isn't versioned properly. Quite the contrary, I use git locally and on a personal webserver for tons of stuff.

The point isn't that it shouldn't go into git. It's that it doesn't belong as part of your project. Different config options are often needed on each machine, especially development boxes. I don't have the same database.yml as my co-workers... I have my box in production mode or with memcache off for testing purposes maybe... There's tons of stuff like that.

I still keep those files (along with my ~/.git/config, ~/.ssh/config, .gemrc, ~/.profile, ~/.vim* and a hundred other things) in git, just not on GitHub in a public repo.
The relationship between marriage and culture and society is complex. A majority of the society in California voted for Proposition 8.
I understand that some people are asexual, which is why I mentioned that. Asexual people get a raw deal, there's no question about that.

I'm all for eliminating marriage subsidies, but let's take it one step at a time and recognize that there are literally millions of people in the United States who are being discriminated against by the state.

Saying that gay and lesbian individuals shouldn't be extended the rights enjoyed by the rest of the adult population of the United States because the entire institution is unfair misses the point.
WoW - what? Start-ups are going to have to pay ISPs to get "prioritization"?

If this is true Google just like Skype is selling it's soul to Verizon and if this deal goes through the Internet is seriously going to change for the worst.
I respectfully disagree. The same prophesies of doom were advanced when in 1984 New Zealand's Labor government took the dramatic step of ending all farm subsidies.

Productivity and efficiency have increased much faster than when subsidies were in place.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/business/worldbusiness/02f...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3411
could it be that Google is trying to show people what could happen if a tiered internet became a reality, like reverse psychology