skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://keithmajhor.pastebin.com/xvgVAKve

removed the implicit global
Well, OK, Amazon removing themselves from the whole situation is passively taking the side of the governments, but it's rather different to actively hosting anti-Wikileaks propaganda or telling the CIA that they know where Julian Assange is this afternoon.

As for the rest of it, we've been hearing that Wikileaks are not done yet for a long time. If they are genuinely interested in transparency rather than raising their profile and/or causing extended embarrassment to people they don't like, then why haven't they just published everything on their web site for all to see? Transparency theatre is becoming as tedious (and unconstructive) as security theatre, and it's time for Wikileaks to s@#t or get off the pot.
"they are going to find themselves being increasingly irrelevant in the tech space"

Go check out stuff on code.google.com, then tell me again if they're going to find themselves being increasingly irrelevant in the tech space in the next couple of years.

You see, everybody is talking about products like YouTube, Gmail and so on, and we may argue about how successful some of them are, but in the end, these are all end-user consumer products. Some of the finest things that Google has done, and for which I'm very grateful is stuff for developers, stuff like Guava (formerly Google Collections), WindowBuilder Pro (Ok, I know, they bought this one, then open sourced it), CodePro Analytix and so on... The point is, they have this great central point where you can find a whole lot of open source software, libraries etc. This is, as far as I'm concerned, they're greatest contribution, and a proof that they will definitely not become irrelevant any time soon.
I have and adore a pre-lawsuit Artist. It's a fantastic instrument.
For amazon's business model, yes.

Amazon doesn't have a philosophical goal, they are a business with customers. One customer's goal is another customer's nightmare. Amazon has to be a balancing force between everyone's computing needs.

This was probably a marketing decision. Do they want the PR challenge of supporting wikileaks? I doubt it. Either way, they are screwed from a PR point of view. They just took the safer option for the business rather than an ideological one (which seems like an ideological one, but it is more business centric).
An interesting question and if there's one takeaway from this: startups, please could you mention on your jobs pages (not just this thread!) whether you will look at non-US candidates?

It's time consuming applying to places that either won't take H1-B applicants, or who aren't likely to get USCIS to approve the H1-B transfer even if we already have the visa.
When I was with Happy Camper Studios we used to stick colored index cards up on our desk backboards or atop a monitor to indicate willingness to be interrupted. Red meant leave me alone; green meant open for interruption; yellow meant you can poke me if it's work-related.

We looked around for lights and such (I wanted a traffic light) but they were too pricey so we went low-tech.
Install Windows from scratch. It’s a much better experience. I recently installed 7 from scratch on a cheap two year old Compaq laptop (that’s a HP brand) which originally came with a lot of bloat and Vista.

I didn’t have to download any drivers (Windows Update was clever enough to download them for me), I didn’t have to install any bloat and all the features of the laptop (special buttons, all ports, Wlan, …) work without any problem. I ended up with a squeaky clean fully functional laptop. Windows 7 is pretty awesome by Windows standards.

I really don’t know why HP and other manufacturers insist on putting so much crap on their computers when the experience with stock Windows is so much nicer.
Mark Abramov said the following on the Facebook page you linked. I hope John Draper follows this advice (and that the surgery goes well):

"Captain, it would be great if you connected your known web identity (webcrunchers.com) with your identity on facebook (this account) and/or the donation website. Put a link on the sidebar or something because some people get suspicious.

Hope you get well soon."
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Another lesson: you may think it is a business card (it is), but surprise! They can convert to personal (read the fine print).
misleading? maybe. but if you read the diplomatic cables, and if you look at them as an example of the modus operandi of the state dept., you can honestly and rationally wonder if this official (along with others maybe) wasn't ordered to go disseminate this kind of fear in some of the leading academic institutions... as a matter of testing the response or just as a matter of getting youth to reconsider any public support they might choose to give to the wikileaks movement here.

At least, this tells you what a high ranking state dept. official thinks of student political engagement behind the ideas carried by this movement. These ideas are perceived as an indicator of a potential for treason in any individual being considered for government work.
No idea. There's some old, old stuff on there. I just want the rotovap. Someone buy me a rotovap? Thanks!

(I have two kids, for what it's worth.)
This dog did not lift weights for 10,000 hours in order to look like this.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?...
Once we’re uber-connected and getting information online from people we’ve only met online we need to know more about the “authority” of the people we’re following.

This comment was the most striking to me. His references to Klout, namesake, Quora, and HN imply that, for him, this is a central issue in the future of the web.

I think it's unclear what place "authority" has in the future.

Despite its personal problems Yelp has worked well because of it's democratic nature focusing on corroboration more than an individual's clout.
What do you think would happen if Amazon didn't shut down Wikileaks?
Housing prices will fall 50% in the next year or two.
I just wanted to post _exactly_ the same.

I imagine that John Draper has some sort of health insurance. So why are those things even an issue? Healthcare is one of those few areas where I think that a government backed approach provides more benefits than a private approach.
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Some more spare time. Please.

Failing that, a ton of books -- my Amazon wishlist is pretty up to date (if anyone's interested: http://amzn.com/w/OW6V76NBR5HF);

An iPhone 4, which I'm avoiding buying for myself since I have a perfectly awesome Nexus One, but which I wouldn't mind being given;

And a Garmin, for the upcoming London Marathon.
I don't find Steve Martin that funny. But I do enjoy his writings about his career. I know he works hard at his craft, and think he's a class act.
Not black-holed for me, either on verizon DSL, or via Tor and OpenDNS... Anyway, they're running a bunch of mirrors now:

http://wikileaks.realprogrammer.org/mirrors.html
I'm hoping for an EcoSphere - kind of like Sea Monkeys for grownups, or maybe it's just like a tiny aquarium that never needs feeding, just indirect light and making sure it doesn't get too warm.

http://www.amazon.com/EcoSphere-Small-Sphere-4-inches/dp/B00...
Chrome on Mac here, looks fine. Virtually no hyphens.
I've always been interested in robotics, but I've never actually built one, so an Arduino, servos, and some sensors are at the top of my list. I really want to build an autonomous quadcopter.
Yes, particularly if you aren't the one doing the financial reports (which stopped by the way, along with bills getting paid, etc., etc).
I think this is a general result. If a number is not an integral square root, and has a square root in F_p (and possibly Z/Zn in general) then it must have at least one other square root.
Maybe this is why I rewrite backends from scratch in different languages searching for the one that just feels right.

This probably explains why I get a bunch of groans when I announce "I'm going to rewrite the back-end".
I have tremendous respect for what Google has done to the Computer Science community and the Programming community. From MapReduce to BigTable to Gooogle Files Systems to tools like Google Collections and GWT, they have contributed a lot to the community and made many of our lives simpler.

I use GMail exclusively for private communications. It just works. Period.

I love the Android system. It has bolstered my interest in smartphone development. And I think it is a good case study for VM developers and kernel developers.

Then there is Chrome, which is probably my favorite Google product right now.

tl;dr Thank you Google.
http://technorazzi.com/?p=1254

It looks like Christine Marie is at least aquainted with John Draper, and Christine posted this site on her twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalginger
Sure. I'd say that, all other things being equal, being tall gives an advantage to a basketball player. Therefore under lwhi's definition of talent, it counts. Why wouldn't it?

I realize this may not match up with what people usually mean when they say talent, but I think this definition is more consistent and useful.
funding for my startup
TODAYISEVERYBODYTALKLIKEFORTRANDAY

FORTRAN taught me that languages should understand some spacing.
It's hard to say without knowing more about the business, but assuming you know who your most likely acquirers are get a contact within those businesses and approach them directly.

Who do you primarily owe money to ? - if a significant chunk is to a supplier then you might want to see if you can negotiate a deal with the supplier writing off the debt in exchange for equity in the company.
It stands to reason that a lot of the people watching the simulcast were probably more interested in Steve Martin the celebrity.

I think the only audience that should have been sampled, was the audience in the auditorium - after the event had run it's natural course.
Yeah. Funny thing though, in all my life I've never had a resume, always things found me. It doesn't feel like it will be that way now, but I Aldo understand that I'm having some very strong feelings at the moment. I'm not much of one to hold on to them too long though. perhaps to a fault. I'll be refreshed by new year, but want to burn through all the dark parts now and leave as much behind as I can.
get the kindle- you will not be disappointed
Paste this into your address bar:

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[Thanks Batsu http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972150]
I agree on most aspects but also respectfully disagree on a couple.

Keeping old apps isn't always a bad thing. Yes, the source should be preserved so the application can be ported forward as required, but from a business expense aspect, when an application is still doing what it needs to do, it is far more expensive to have to re-write it every OS iteration vs. getting 10,15,20? years out of the app then paying to upgrade it once and leap up 5 levels in technology. Rewrite when needed, and don't be afraid to, but it's a good thing if it's not needed very often.

And yes, agreed, that tipping point has essentially hit for 16bit apps to avoid emulation.

The pre-ASCII project sounds like a nightmare. On that one I would say the "needed" point was well passed!
I believe that, by default, "C-x f" is bound to set-fill-column. Did you mean "C-x C-f"? Or did you rebind it? (I can see doing that; I've never used set-fill-column anyway.)
My uncle is a specialist and when I visited him a few years ago and asked what he did for fun/off-work - he pointed at the piles and stacks of journals on his specialty. Continuing Medical Education (CME) helps ensure all board-certified doctors keep their skills current.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education
I've had both the Miracle Berries whole, and the tablets. The tablets are less strange tasting, but they're not quite as potent or effective as whole berries. Both will last for about 30 to 40 minutes.

They're fun though, I suggest getting a group of friends who are interested and setting up a buffet for everyone to sample from (single ingredient or simple foods work best, and try various beverages too).
You asked us, "what on earth do I do now?". I recommend you start another post and change your question to "how do I monetize millions of users?".

Give us a description of your market without revealing your business of course, customer profile (age, income, etc) , how much information you have on them (do you have emails? location? interests etc), and how much time they spend on your site.

I'm sure you'll get much more practical and useful advice from that thread on solving the problem rather than the commisseration here on your bad situation.
I cant think of a single hacker I know that would be happy in doing a 'work wave'. There's that itching inside, you know you should be building something and its impossible not to work on it..

So I can't really see how 'wave' working would ever really work without hacking drifting into the little free time you have.
Precisely. Even if you have insurance in the US, you may not really have coverage when you need it. And even with insurance, bankruptcy is still a very real possibility in the long run.
Banks!
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I'd like to see the results of a blind taste test by persons who swear it would make a difference to the taste.

Mythbusters actually did that and yes they detected a difference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282008_season%29#M...

I'll leave it to you to watch the video (I saw a re-run a few months ago) and decide if it is real or not. I couldn't fault it barring wanting a lot more replication and testing with different people.
Thanks for those words. :)
I can see how you get that association, especially when discussing education and wealth disparities.

But I think there's also a strong association in the reverse direction (I haven't figured out quite how the two interact). To me, the sort of Puritan conservative approach is "keep your head down, work hard, and you'll succeed", and emphasizes practice, paying your dues, being a diligent worker, slowly moving up the ladder, etc. The left often recoils at that, seeing it as a "cog in the machine" mentality, and certain parts of the left at least have a more Romantic view that emphasizes inspiration, creativity, etc. instead (think of, say, the Beat poets).
USD 6000 + 2000? I don't want to seem insensitive, but a guy with Crunch's talent should easily be able to make the payments. He could take it across several years if he wanted to.

(Or he should have just gotten medical insurance in the first place, although I've heard some nasty things about private health insurance in America.)
I'm using this with @HNFirehose ( www.twitter.com/HNfirehose ) added and it's working great. What do you guys think about using Lazyscope for subscribing to Hackernews articles?
if interested you can have my arduino if you cover shipping. been sitting in my closet for a year and never really got the chance to use it. email in my profile. cheers.
You need to share more info. What do you think about the business in general? How your co-founders feel about it. Are you all at a point of wanting to call it quit because you don't believe in it anymore, or is it simply the debt that makes is all seem like a bad movie.

You need to be honest about the business. Selling a business when all founders want to get out is HARD if not impossible. If however, at least some of you want to keep at it, you might consider selling your shares (or part of it) rather than the entire business.
Definitely. Seriously considered giving this to my younger brother as well...
Too late for investors I think. And it wasn't so much the wrong business per se, we didn't shift when the market did, and later we didn't give up when we should have.
Aren't they ultimately all built on top of Windows and Mac? (Which are proprietary technologies)
True, but he has little talent, and his success is almost purely a combination genetics and hard work (eating + training).
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Before we can begin to discuss "what exists" we must first discuss "what".

That is to say. We must first discuss what is talent? What counts as talent? What doesn't? because until then I feel that many of our ideas are going to be based on our own slight understanding and ideas about talent.

For me, I have no idea what talent is the same way i have no idea what a skill is because it all seems so arbitrary.
Most people can learn to be OK at most things, with enough time or a "breakthrough". A significantly smaller number can be great at them.
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I find the lack of a decent package manager the biggest flaw in Windows. I get very irritated when my workflow is interrupted by an autoupdater from Adobe, InstallShield, Steam or whatever. I'd so much more prefer updating all my applications from a centralized service of some kind.

A good package management system should also serve as a solid foundation for an App store. OSX will have an app store soon, I guess Windows must follow the example.

The damn autoupdaters waste so much time and effort that it's embarassing. It hasn't been once or twice when I go in for a lecture and the professor opens his computer and then 200 people have to wait up to 20 minutes for his PowerPoint to install updates.

What comes to Windows 7, it's the best Windows I've used so far but that isn't very much to say. I have never used Windows for any real work, once I tried for a week but then I had to get actual work done and switched to my favorite Linux distro.
The last few times he came up on HN I'm sure there were several accounts of him being accomplished but not a particularly nice person. I have no idea. Can that be balanced out?
I'd like to have some light that indicates the status of our continuous build. However, I can only find solutions that require too much low-level hacking (like the original article, very cool but it'd take me ages), or are two expensive, or not customizable enough (Ambient Orb).

Do you guys know of other solutions?
I use 'i' for 'index' / 'iterator', j because it follows i, and k because it follows j. The first time I wrote a double-deep loop, the only ones I could recall having seen had used x and y, because they mapped to x,y coordinates.

So why don't I use x and y where it's not coordinate based? Weaker fingers. 'X' is inherently much harder to hit than 'i', 'i' serves as a mnemonic as it's usually referring to the index being accessed, and 'y' takes a larger movement than 'j'.
Awesome analysis. Honest to god, I get pitched this idea of a "social network for startups to get funded by accredited investors" at least once a month. A friend wanted me to develop this application for her, and was convinced every investor would be all over this. I wasn't able to show her the light, but I agree: Angels would hate this.
Have you legally donated money via paypal that has been frozen? Perhaps if you had you would be quite disgusted!!
Very true! I will wait a week and gather those thoughts for a post next Sunday.

Of course, it's not that we haven't thought of things, but how much good time do I want to throw after bad?

But how insular I have been to not think first of posting that question. Thanks!
But that would remove part of what you are paying for when you order a fine cocktail. The experience, the luxury of a complexly built tincture. While I agree these rituals may not significantly affect the taste to a blindfolded fellow it surely affects the perception of a tuxedoed gentleman at the bar.
I can highly recommend "Micro Men" the BBC's dramatisation of the story of Acorn computers, the pre-curser to ARM.

It's a shame they didn't keep its original name: "Syntax Era".
Yeah, a post like that would be really great. I do that for my side projects and the slow down caused by having normal working hours and not all weekends "free" for work is just terrible.

A project which would normally be released in two months can take a year or so - I can't really imagine doing business this way.
Are you working every day to get your blog to display without annoying hyphens ? Or are you complacently settling for not knowing how to fix it ? If an entrepreneur isn't improving on how to publish their ideas, then what profession are they in exactly ?
And if you never want to work for the Government in any way, shape or form, and in fact feel a desire to tell the likes of Senator Lieberman to go to blazes - and remind him of your First Amendment right to say so to his face?
What's wrong with socks? Seriously, socks are a great present - I always need some.

Failing that, t-shirts. Cotton whites are fine although I send along a few links to some 'funny' shirts I'd wear for those who want to get me something a little less generic.
Been there. Destroyed my credit right out of the gate when I tried to run a web development firm in 1997 on student credit cards. Was threatened with eviction twice, and eventually was forced to move. Was fired and subsequently sued for $millions from/by a dot com in 1999 at a time when I literally had a negative account balance. I had dropped out of school to pursue my ambitions, so I had no degree to fall back on in order to secure a well-paying "job".

Disclaimer: the following is intended to be inspirational, not boastful.

13 years later, I am partner in a profitable ecommerce enterprise, after having put a startup success notch in my belt in 2004. My credit score is pushing 800, and I no longer even think about money.

My point is, your life isn't over, no matter how much it seems that way. It doesn't take long to bounce back.
I have the same feeling. There's another comment that says "[Usain Bolt] has little talent, and his success is almost purely a combination genetics and hard work (eating + training)." To me, once you take out genetics, eating, and training, there's nothing left.
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Physics and optics journals that you can read without any subscription:

arXiv.org An archive of e-prints maintained by the Cornell University Library.

Optics Express The open-access journal of the Optical Society of America

New Journal of Physics The open-access journal for physics.

Journal of the European Optical Society – Rapid Publications

At the same time there is a new trend in many journals nowadays to give to the authors the options to pay so as to have their articles available free of charge
For the TV trivia inclined, there is an episode of West Wing (Stirred Season 3 #18) where the President lectures on it saying JB is ordering a weak drink.

Take with grain of salt, as the series also reports some stories like the whole "NASA Pen/USSR Pencil" story as fact. Fiction tis fiction.
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