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Yes, the point wasn't so much i think that's the case - it was just to show how, hours after this has occured, we can hardly figure out the truth.

I honestly expected better of hn :-(
Scenario 3: Assange coordinated with these two women to file charges in order to convince people that he really is under attack by various governments and garners more support for his cause and efforts.

I do not necessarily believe this scenario but since where throwing possibilities out there.
> most rape accusations are false

That does a disservice to the very large number of rape victims out there.

Some rape accusations are false, but to claim the majority of them is false would require a citation I think.

Indeed. I've often heard that claim from people who don't (or don't want to) believe that in most cases of rape the victim knows the perpetrator. According to statistics in Sweden, only one third of rapes are performed by someone unknown to the victim[1].

There was a case like this on TV here recently, where a young boy who has been found guilty of rape (twice!) gets a lot of sympathy from his community while the victims are trash-talked along the lines of "she actually wanted it and changed her mind later"[2].

1: (swedish pdf) http://www.bra.se/extra/measurepoint/?module_instance=4&...

2: (more swedish) http://www.google.se/search?q=uppdrag+granskning+v%C3%A5ldt%...

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Oh, I also forgot one very interesting question: why would a woman falsely accuse someone of rape? In the case of a custody battle I can see the logic, but what would be the gain of accusing an acquaintance (who account for a third of reported rapes)? If it's a case of "did something she later regrets", wouldn't it be a lot easier to just deny that it ever happened?
I'm more scared of the RIAA than I am of the CIA.
I was thinking more of the number of who claimed rape against a specific person - as opposed to rape in general.

And that number is way, way more than 10% percent.

But that wasn't clear from my comment.
Sorry, but "being scared to death" and "being in fear for their lives" are your words, and has not appeared in any news reports so far.

The Swedish word "livrädd" just means "terrified", not that you are in fear for your life.
WikiLeaks founder charged with rape, molestation in Sweden
What percentage of rape accusations against public figures are false?
Which is the strongest counter-argument. :)

But really, trying to frame some guy that a hundred-million people think is some super-hero? It's crazy. They certainly may be doing it, but it's really beyond-stupid crazy.

I'd just shoot him. Easy enough to whack somebody, and without evidence people can spend their lifetimes pointing fingers at each other. Might even make a great series of books and a movie. But with real, live people making criminal allegations that aren't true? Lots of little loose ends dangling around. Too many.

In fact, I'd bet you that even if he was guilty and was not framed, there'll be a series of investigative articles and blogs "proving" he was framed anyway. The narrative is simply too hard to ignore.

Which -- if you think about it -- would give him a free hand to commit any crime he wants. After all, no matter what he was accused of, he was framed, right?

Welcome to the hall of mirrors.
No, they were about to work on the budget, vote on some important issue, a big merger, celebrate their anniversary, about to have a child...

I appreciate that the mind of a philanderer let alone a rapist is a bit alien, but you must understand that the decisions are not entirely rational. As I state above, I find the charges suspect but "he would have known better" is not a convincing counterargument.
I hate the proverbial bus. It seems to assume that central employees should be completely dispensible.

If a key employee, being the architect or even the CEO, is hit by a bus, the company will take a hit. If employees are a central, strategic assets, you can't go around killing them off and expecting no impact on your business. Deal with it.

The important metric is whether the company/project can recover, if it is resilient. Just because one guy drives the decisions, it doesn't mean that the team filling in the details don't know the code and the motivations behind it, and there can't be a guy from that team who could take a promotion, or that the team couldn't be reasonably productive for a while, while a new architect is brought on.
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Are you sure that isn't just cruddy OCR?
The probabilities of a man committing each of two individual rapes are not independent. This is the worst statistical fallacy you can commit. Please see the following for further tragic details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Meadow#Cot_death_trial_cont...
That is what I intended to convey with "scared to death" which in English is used colloquially to mean "terrified". I appreciate that translation is likely the intended meaning.

I gave both translations because the term used was "livrädd", not merely "rädd". This could be an intentional obfuscation of the sentiment behind the words - thus, it could be read to state they said they were "scared to death" (or "terrified" if you prefer) or actually in fear for their lives. Implications with plausible deniability.
I suppose there is some logic to this:

"By doing this they might actually find a compatible partner - instead of spending years paying for dating sites they have no hope on."

I don't really get the whole dating thing. It looks like a broke system to me. Still, my first thought when seeing the title of this was along the lines of "Finally, a site I might join!". I don't really think I'm ugly. I think my reaction is a cross between "bizarre sense of humor" and disdain for the current system where, according to a recent article posted on HN, good looking pictures are likely to be far more out of date than more average looking pictures found on dating sites. (So: Maybe we already have dating sites for the ugly, the difference is they just lie about it.)
Very interesting, although he comes to some unfounded conclusions. Especially the "if I had increased the price I'm sure I could've gotten a lot more revenue" remark. Maybe 99 cents is exactly the sweet spot, or by lowering the price he might increase his sales disproportionally and earn even more.
Of course I am willing! As long as I believe in what I am selling I think it would be a great challenge to get my point through
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Thanks a lot for the links! I did read some cool stuff from Sivers before but I missed the articles you linked
The Swedish translates more closely as his position of power, not high status.
Is money a good measure of wealth?
Oh c'mon, that's just bullshit and slander. A very dirty trick. Disappointing of Sweden, to say the least.
Money can buy political power, and chicks dig people with power.

So yeah, it is a simulacrum for something else - hot girls.
Rapes are seldom the outcome of a rational decision.

Scenario 1.3: Assange parties with two women, gets slightly too fresh with them and the ensuing sex wasn't completely as agreed on.

Scenario 1.4: Assange parties with two women and the morning after, they decide he's a douchebag and gets worked up that he took advantage of them and what happened was really, actually rape.
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Well, the US government started a war for no reason in Iraq that exterminated a million people. Don't you think bringing about the deaths of a million Muslims for no apparent reason might enrage some people?

How many of your friends and family would I have to brutally murder before you said "screw it, I'm going to devote my life to revenge or maybe to just stopping you from killing more people"?
Just killing him would not discredit him and might even be seen as increasing his credibility. There is also the 'insurance' file that was released, which presumably would have the key released upon his capture or death, but probably not in this case.

Even accusing him of rape discredits or puts a cloud over him and what he is trying to accomplish. It probably does not reflect that badly on whatever wikileaks publishes, but will hamper his efforts to lobby for whistle-blower protections in different countries.
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Woah! Who died and made you omniscient? At most, you could state than most rape charges are unproved. And that doesn't prove much.
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On the other hand if (and that's a very big if) there will be another whistle blower that details (assuming this was a set-up) how it was done with hard proof and that data is released through any outlet but wikileaks it will do damage to the relevant authorities beyond belief.

Just taking that risk is bordering on the insane.

The best way to get rid of 'inconvenient' people is to have them commit suicide leaving no note or to have them have tragic accidents.
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I'm glad to see an actual news organization checking into this story by talking to Swedish police. It's a nice change from the thousand blogs reposting that single Swedish tabloid article and Twitter post.
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How is the explanation that the US did not pay said women not simpler? Or even that an organisation much smaller than the US government did it, if money actually changed hands? Say, a former executive of one of the financial institutions that Assange bothered a few years ago. It's not like Assange don't have enemies outside the US government.
Well yeah, the chances of you having done something that would piss off the RIAA are way more than having done something that the CIA would frown at :)
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They have their uses. When the Unix user group at my college sent out invitations to a social event, they concluded with "... and if you don't want to come, log on to Unix and type rm -r *".
That's the thing you see. This man does not know better!

If he knew better he would have been running a startup and laughing his way to the bank.

This man is obsessed with one idea. Freedom. Or, his version of it and such people are really really unlikely to burn up their cause for something like this. This is a man who spent nights awake working on a cryptographic framework for his baby. This is a man who spent months trying to decrypt files while on the run. This is a man who hardly lives a life of luxury and spends almost every second of his time towards his cause. Do you think that he is rational enough to do anything else?

On the other hand, what does the USA have to lose in terms of PR? They're one of the most powerful countries in the world and they can call the shots for now, and unfortunately people know that. The shame of losing their secrets on the other hand...

I really wouldn't be surprised that the women would have been chosen for some sexual history with him or something if possible. It's a longshot, but this will become a trial by media. A blot no matter how small will overshadow the leaking of the documents, and the know that. Why? Because it makes for a better story. Think about it.

Would you rather see an hour long TV special about 16000 leaked war logs and their statistical correlations to war time deaths? As well as strategic failures that might get a bit dry?

Or, the story of an outlaw on the run :flash picture: Out for a cause :cue music: with a dark twist? Did he or did he not? With an exclusive panel to debate it.

I think that's your answer right there. Most people don't give a damn and that blot will permeate through and cloud their vision of what's going to follow, and it's not like they were eagerly awaiting it in the first place.
There's an option more that isn't smear: that the accusations are real, but that he's innocent.

Accused of != guilty of
Progressive multiculturalism believes that any muting or regulating of a person's sexuality is oppressive and wrong.

This is obviously incorrect though. Progressive multiculterists insist on many sexual regulations: they prohibit sex with children for example and they tend to look down on people who cheat on their spouses.

Moreover, in the US, hatred of Islam and hatred of Muslims correlates very highly with Christian cultural beliefs that sexuality is a destructive and corroding force that harms individuals, families and society. Surely you have noticed the fact that cosmopolitan urban environments are far more accepting of Muslims than reactionary rural areas where cultural conservatism is far higher?
You could argue that intelligent life is something that our ecosystem has evolved in order to resist mass extinction due to meteorite impacts. Last time round with the dinosaurs there was no answer but maybe next time we'll be ready. It just about makes sense if you think on then scale of whole ecosystems and meteorite impacts and many planets.
If a false accusation can turn into a PR disaster, what about the killing? That'd be a PR apocalypse. And also, your target shouldn't be Assange as an individual, he should be quite expendable if there were other people motivated to replace him, which seems to be a very likely scenario, if he was assassinated.
At least they weren't as transparent to go straight to "nazi" or "pedophile".
These sorts of accusations seem to stick around, even if the case is dropped.
The amount of propagandish trolling in this thread is incredible. It is absolutely clear that this is a smear campaing.

C'mon, a man who knows is being watched by intelligence agencies because of the information he divulges, agencies which have covert and public disinformation programs, would actually go ahead and do such criminal behavior? Possible? Perhaps, but absolutely unlikely to the point where the notion is absolutely ridiculous.

I'm beginning to wonder how many of the posts claiming that it's a likely possibility are paid shills from the various disinformation services.
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So killing the guy who has a hundred million fans is a good idea?

When compared to false accusations, someone getting killed by a hitman who was hired by the government would far more likely create chaos amongst the public when the truth comes out.
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Well the blogpost here says it’s “on the booklist”. Otherwise, you’re right, it’s not clear who exactly it is that _delirium thinks called this a “book”. (Note: “text” and “book” are quite different terms. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_%28literary_theory%29)

Also, _delirium: this is a brand new course, so it has no “usual” reading list to compare.
We can't know if it's significant at all based only on the fact that we haven't seen it yet. It seemed pretty significant that Europeans had only seen white swans, to the point where the concept of 'black swans' was a jest, like "when pigs fly!". Then they got to Australia and found black swans. The black swans had been there before English was even a language.

The simple fact of not having seen something is totally baseless as evidence to whether or not that something is possible.
You're out of line I think.

The suggestion that people that have been here for years are paid shills guilty of disinformation is beyond the pale.

I agree that this is most likely a smear and at a minimum blown up, but evidence is where it is at and people that defend the 'other side' of the argument (especially ErrantX and DanielBMarkham) are for the most part just playing the devils advocate and cautioning you to think for yourself instead of following the herd.
In retrospect, that sounds so dumb.

I should have specified what I meant by the time frame. My co-founder is still in school. So I was wondering if you has something like a block of time you scheduled it in so that if he had any issues at all I knew 100% whether or not he would be able to come.

So, what I wished to ask is if there was some flexibility in the dates just in case someone throws a fit (we are still monetarily dependent).
I'm beginning to wonder how many of the posts claiming that it's a likely possibility are paid shills from the various disinformation services.

Then I think you've misunderstood Hacker News.
My personal favourite explanation is that since in the beginning there was nothing, there wasn't just no matter there were no rules. So there was no rule to say 'you can't get something from nothing' so out of true nothingness things would happen. And from there it was a matter of generating the right set of rules (which could have taken an unimaginably large number of iterations) where nothing was contradictory and then viola, the universe was ready.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination

A hundred million fans (or more if you count the rest of the world), a couple of thousand witnesses, plenty of time has passed and we're still waiting for the truth to come out.
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JavaScript: as part of my personal web stuffs. Recently experimenting with node.js aswell.

I use a couple of others (Ruby, mainly) to learn them, in case I'd need them someday.
If it's a case of "did something she later regrets", wouldn't it be a lot easier to just deny that it ever happened?

I think it's more likely to be a case of denying to herself that she wanted it in the first place.
That New Yorker article linked above was fantastic. Who is he? How did WikiLeaks arise? Julian did not come out of nowhere, he's always been somewhere.

> Soon enough, Assange must confront the paradox of his creation: the thing that he seems to detest most—power without accountability—is encoded in the site’s DNA, and will only become more pronounced as WikiLeaks evolves into a real institution.
I suspect WikiLeaks would have a plan in place if Assange was removed. WikiLeaks should live on and continue to do it's work.
This is like saying if we were bothered by engines powered by fuels derived from oil, we would stop using them.

Google and services like it have become vital to a lot of what we do. We can be bothered by it while not having much choice but to use it. Every service collects the same data and does the same thing with it, so there isn't anywhere to go.

I'm not personally bothered by it though. I just wish Schmidt would be less Caviler when discussing the data I don't mind his company having.
Confreaks is easily convinced by paying them lots of money. :)
"Proven to work -> medicine" doesn't imply "medicine -> proven to work".
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Paid shills or "astroturfers" seem to be fairly common in other areas of endeavor - especially where there is money or political influence at stake - so I also wouldn't rule out the possibility of it also happening here. One way to unmask such individuals it to check their profiles to see how long they've been members of the forum. If their membership is in the order of a few weeks or less, and they havn't commented on other stories then it's quite possible they could be astroturfers.
Shooting him wouldn't do anything...
Your scenarios also raise the possibility that judgement-inhibiting substances such as alcohol may have been involved in his decision making at the time.
If it were Barack Obama then yes, the rape accusation would be the end all be all of the whole thing. But this guy isn't exactly considered by most to be a standup guy to begin with. The accusation of rape just looks out of place and ridiculous.
Good point, but that was more than almost 50 years ago.
> but that was more than almost 50 years ago

That makes it a stronger point, not a weaker one.

Imagine the journalistic coup if you could conclusively prove who did it and why. The fact that to date nobody has in spite of the size of the prize means that such things can happen and can be kept secret.
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A hundred-million people don't think he is a super hero. I doubt a hundred million know him by name. And the fact is, it won't be too hard to convert most of the people who do know of him and like him into disliking him.

This could be the first part of it. Combine it with the first solider to die which is linked to the information released, and any goodwill the public feels towards him is going bye-bye.

In the next year, he can probably look forward to going from a modern day Robin Hood to some weirdo, introverted, odd male hacker who is trying to disrupt our ordinary lives.
> If he knew better he would have been running a startup and laughing his way to the bank.

OT, but that assumes the "better" in "knowing better" == "having tons of money" as opposed to, say, "improving the world" which is not a foregone conclusion.
FWIW:

1) I've done two college papers on date rape. In most cases, date rape involves alcohol (ie impaired judgment) and bad communication, often due to cross cultural misunderstandings.

2) I read once that if you ask a room full of (American?) women how many of them have been raped, half the hands go up. If you ask them how many of them said "No" and then had sex anyway, 90% of the hands go up. Given that the legal definition of rape hinges on consent, I think it's pretty clear that even women who haven't had completely consenting sex have difficulty figuring out whether or not they were raped. (On the flip side, I think there is a counterargument that sometimes, even when she initially said "no", maybe it wasn't really rape -- which muddies the water even further.)

My point: I think genuinely, unquestionably consenting sex is really a quite difficult standard to meet and there are many cases of less than ideal encounters where it ends up being a judgment call on the part of the woman as to a) how she views it in her own mind ("rape" or something else) and b) whether or not to publicly accuse/charge someone.

I will toss out the idea that a man who feels not only okay with but morally compelled to publish all kinds of stuff the American government doesn't want published (ie without their consent and over their protests, with consent being the legal lynch-pin for the definition of rape) might well start applying that general thought pattern to other situations. People who are very morally self righteous frequently feel justified in treading on the will and rights of others and then pat themselves on the back for being "heroes". I can imagine someone who feels he knows what is best for others basically telling himself "these two women needed it and I'm just doing what is best for them".
Child pornography would certainly be a far more effective smear charge if you wanted to discredit the movement and not just the individual behind it.
If you are so convinced then why don't you correct the wikipedia article?

Perhaps also call up LSI and Adaptec, who use the same formula in their documentation.

http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/01/raid-reliabili...

But what do they know, they only build raid controllers...
From where are you getting your data?

AFAIK sectarian violence has killed many, many more Muslims than the US.

And terrorist organizations existed before the US invaded Iraq.

EDIT: I gather from your comment that you believe terrorism committed against Western civilians is a reasonable response to the way the US has handled the war in Iraq. Correct?
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