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WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I'm sorry, I generally avoid snarky posts on HN, but that comment literally makes less sense to me than anything I've seen on HN is a long long time. Down vote me to -3000, I don't care, I can't let that one slide.

Do you think the nuclear launch codes should be published? (of course not right? who would do that?)

How about where are nuclear submarines are right at this very moment. (of course not, who would do that?)

Do you think George Washington should have written in the paper he was crossing the Delaware river on Christmas? This country has had secrets since before its inception!

Ok, I guess in your defense you emphasize the phrase wrongfully classified. Everyone agrees too many things are classified (though having a clearance, I was actually shocked how many things AREN'T classified that you would think should be). But lets say I agree on your premise that things that are wrongfully classified should be made available to the public. Who decides what is wrongfully classified? Wikileaks? The guy leaking it? You? I find it interesting that of the thousands of people who had access to these documents, over 99.9% of them thought they rightfully should remain hidden, and one guy disagreed and leaked them. This isn't 100,000 documents leaked by 50 people out of 80, it is 100,000 documents leaked by 1 guy out of thousands upon thousands.

So lets go to the official definitions of classified material to see if they were "wrongfully classified"

Top Secret (TS)
The highest level of classification of material on a national level. Such material would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if made publicly available.

i.e. your launch codes, orders, locations of troops, capabilities of weapons (things you and the people we are fighting don't even know we can do)

Secret
Such material would cause "grave damage" to national security if it were publicly available.

Confidential
Such material would cause "damage" or be "prejudicial" to national security if publicly available.

Restricted
Such material would cause "undesirable effects" if publicly available.

I feel like the fact that the state department has spent the last week running around trying to clean up the diplomatic brush fires that have been caused by this prove that they were right to be classified in the first place. Should the cables have been classified as Top Secret - of course not. And thats why none of them were. Should they be restricted (i.e. noforn or distro d or something similar that says they are not to be released)? I think they rightfully should be. Nothing in the cables were above Secret, and most were simply restricted. They're not wrongfully classified when the definition of restricted is that it impedes your ability to do the job of the state department if leaked, which clearly this leak is doing right now.
Yeah; not that uncommon for a major research university.
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Seems reasonable to me. It's pretty clear that inasmuch as the Manhattan Declaration is openly anti-gay (or, at least, widely perceived as such by the gay community no matter how much its purveyors would protest otherwise), it's just as much a violation as openly racist material would be.
Wow. The Thanksgiving parade was last week Mr. Raincloud.

Here's some positive thoughts for you!

- Running your own business is quite simply the most rewarding thing you can ever do (professionally at least).
- Succeed or fail, you'll come out of it better off than you started.
- Don't measure your success by whether TechCrunch writes about you. Measure it by being proud of what you achieve.
- Even your biggest failures are at worst just one learning step to your first success.
- If nobody has heard of you in 10 years time, but you're happy, enjoying your work, have a happy and healthy family and you're still your own boss...then you've succeeded. Congratulations.

Most importantly - Ignore "minimum viability", "traction", "iteration", "deadline" and all the other things a dozen different "5 steps to success" books might tell you.... if you have the confidence to go it alone, then do what works for you, YOUR product and YOUR dream.
Colin Powell was as well until they decided to throw him under a bus by using his stature to push a bunch of lies.
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>Free speech != exposing classified documents.

The Supreme Court has ruled that publishing classified material is, at least in certain circumstances, protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press. New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971). The First Amendment's protection isn't absolute, of course; publishing the details of imminent planned troop movements most likely would be punishable if such publication would place our troops in severe danger. Given the sparse caselaw on the subject, it is an open question whether Wikileaks' publication will be considered protected by the First Amendment under the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, but I would guess that Wikileaks' actions are indeed Constiutionally protected.
Please help me out here. I never understood why people always argue that Chromium is open source. Sure, Chromium is, but not Google Chrome.
From what I understand, the changes for Chrome from the Chromium source are not obvious.
It is not by accident, that it takes me 10 secs to find a Google Chrome download, but to find a Chromium download ready for install on all platforms? I doubt that Average Joe will either understand the difference, and/or find a Chromium download.
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Even assuming independence from the debug output, `putStrLn` may fail or block, which breaks referential transparency.
No, they're acting as a property owner saying "get this shit off my lawn, we didn't ask for you to have your fight here".

Once again, the freedom of speech does not give you the right to abuse other people's freedom to control their own property. Amazon's servers are their property, why do they have to let their brand image go down in the mind of people who are anti-Wikileaks?
That's also the impression I got when I spent a couple of months in Portland last year.

Somewhat unrelated, there's a lot of interesting programming language companies around (Galois, Gemstone, and some others I can't remember now). I don't have hard data, but have the impression that that's a lot more than average for other US cities with high-tech sectors.
As Stalin supposedly said, "Once the avalanche has started, its too late for the pebbles to vote."

And Voltaire, "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
background for those scratching their heads (a friend just asked me what this comment was about):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Well, it's one thing to confirm that some of the documents are real and that the principle of the thing is outrageous. It's something else entirely to confirm that all of the documents are legitimate, or to identify which ones are, for example, drafts or notional. And it's something else again to clarify individual statements, give context to conversations, and to discuss which of the revealed facts are current and relevant.

It's not as simple as saying, "these documents are unclassified". You have to look over the facts they reveal and decide which might still be worth the effort of keeping secret, and which it's okay to talk openly about.

There's also the possibility that the documents may contain misleading information or even disinformation written specifically for Wikileaks. I'd be surprised if such a thing has never happened, and surprised further still if it never does. A policy of never confirming or commenting on leaked information means those who would like to make serious use of it must always wonder.
Almost 100% recyclable waste - with the exception of commercial glossy print (I hate glossy print) almost all paper products nowadays are recyclable.

I'd attack the horrifyingly wasteful, and deceptively un-recyclable bottling industry. Depending on the recycling capabilities of your area, if you throw away plastic soda bottles with the cap on, it very well could go into the landfill.
Your response is predictable and completely devoid of new ideas in addition to not being funny. I don't think it was even worth 4 but you've got over 30. Whatever. That's the way the system works.

The three sample article titles you offer are not even analogous to the original post. Yegge's title is a humorous re-working of the phrase "nobody gives a shit about Haskell," the subject of the article. Your suggestions are analogous to half-assed critiques of the language itself.

And again, they weren't funny. For example, instead of "LISP: It Would Be a Lot More Useful Without All the Parentheses" try something like:

* Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio.

* Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: "the car that's always in front of you."

* Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...
I would send it back and ask for a version I can read.
(Off topic) If I remember correctly he currently has the lowest approval rating in his home state of any sitting senator (25% approve, 67% disapprove) and is up for reelection in 2012. Since he has pissed off both sides of the aisle, he won't be receiving national money and I can virtually assure you this is his last term. If that doesn't make him resign, nothing will.
These sort of 'green' gimmicks really annoy me. I'm a strong supporter of being environmentally conscious and taking actions to minimize our environmental footprint. However I am a bigger supporter of the idea that if you are going to take an action, make it really count and for it to be long lasting.

Virtually no-one is going to download a unique .wwf file viewer (and most office environments where pdf usage would be rife are probably locked down anyway). So straight away it fails. Greenies will often say that this sort of campaign builds 'awareness', and that it's not really about results - which is exactly what annoys me - we seldom need more awareness about issues, what we need is real practical ways to make a difference.

Instead of 'creating' a .wwf format, why not base their campaign around educating people how to turn on the built-in 'disable print' capability that is part of the standard pdf format?!? They achieve their 'gimmick' around paper conservation, but also actually give people the knowledge on how to actually make an ongoing 'difference' since pdfs will be around for a long time, unique .wwf viewers won't.
Why are some young talented people so eager to be on the losing side in this "culture war" (his words)? It's sad to see a guy like this who is ignorant of his own religion's history.

The Christianity of today is not the Christianity of 1000 years ago.

The Christianity of 100 years from today will not be the Christianity of today.

Christianity redefined marriage over the last two millennia, so clearly redefining marriage is Christian.
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The argument rests on the assumption that the increase in bandwidth consumption is now and will continue to outpace the decrease in the cost of bandwidth production. I don't know how much cheaper it is to provide a gigabyte of bandwidth today than it was a year ago or a decade ago, and I know that bandwidth consumption is certainly skyrocketing, but if the rest of the technology industry is any indication (where I now pay pennies for CPU cycles that would have cost millions a few decades ago), it may turn out in the end that bandwidth becomes so cheap it doesn't matter how much video a few billion humans watch each day online.

On the other hand, if it does turn out to matter how much bandwidth costs, I'd much rather pay for how much I'm using and have equal access across all channels and content types, than to have "unlimited internet" but have to wait for videos to buffer because my ISP says it has lower priority than something else or someBODY else they deem more worthy.
A simple color change or font change on the browser tab would do it, though I'm not sure if that's technically possible. Maybe another idea could be a popup when it's done where you can choose how long you want your break?
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yeah I think these days WWF exists for it's own ends - more of a political advocacy think-tank than an organisation actually trying to save animals. It's come a long way from being a bunch of tin-rattlers trying to save a certain species.
Of course it's possible, it's just not helpful to the discussion. It's like reading Outliers and then expecting a solution other than saying: put in 10,000 hours and then hope you're in the right place at the right time.

Focusing on what they've done, rather than their race, gives others a chance to disassemble and possibly, duplicate what they've done. Race is used as a disqualifier, rather than a single factor...that's what I have a problem with.
Because input validation is hard to do. A rule to not pass input EVER (outside of parameters), even in a supposedly validated form, is something different.
Just pointing out: there was a breaking change from text 0.10.x -> 0.11; a few functions were renamed for consistency with the rest of the Haskell Platform, which it is now part of.
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I'm heartened to see that pointless gestures don't fly with this crowd. Not one single supportive comment in the entire block.
Out of curiosity, is there an official policy on that?
The two statistics you cite are independent.

Purchases are up 50%. period. the end.

Independent of that is the fact that when an artist sells two songs on Itunes they make as much money as if they sold a whole CD. period. the end.

The second fact does not refute first, it is orthogonal.

The point they're making is that purchases are shifting from albums to tracks (as you mention), and because of the higher revenue generated (for the artist) by selling tracks, artists are winning in this scenario and the record labels are losing money.

This point is clearly made in the first bullet of the EFF article.

The larger point isn't about artists at all, but that the old school music industry is waging (and winning) a war using copyright laws, and this is having disastrous effects on free speech. The example in the first paragraph was about the seizure of 82 domains, without any due process, and this was basically because the government enforced (without question) the claims of the music industry.

Imagine if it happened to you, your domain was seized because a company with some lawyers said it was infringing on their copyright. Think you'd be miffed?

Other countries are enacting 3-strikes laws (e.g. France), where if you were accused of copyright violation (downloading illegal mp3/mp4) 3 times (accused, not even convicted), then your IP is blocked, and you can no longer access the internet from that connection.

And the EFF is saying that the music industry is getting these kinds of legislation passed on the false premise that "piracy" is harming artists' livelihoods, when in fact margins on money from sales of music is increasing for artists.

Obviously you can disagree with their points, but the facts they've presented do not conflict.
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Private as in "not a governmental body subject to the whims of politicians", not private as in "not traded on the stock exchange".
I've read several reports about specific cables saying something to the effect of "this was one piece of intelligence being reported home, but we actually don't think its true". I.e. a bunch of papers ran with the news that Iran had missiles from North Korea we had previously said they didn't have, but it turns out the one cable saying that was incorrect information. (or so they say).
Followup and correction to this thread from Monday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950975
Ask HN: Who is firing?
Though there are lot of companies hiring compared to year before, there are bunch of companies firing as well.
If he is the most capable IT guy you have, there really is no choice but to have him as the "fixer of last resort". You can minimize his burden by:

- making sure you don't call him if you can fix it yourself, or if anyone else BUT him can fix it

- identifying probable or possible areas of failure and have him provide a little advanced training for how to handle incidents

- making ABSOLUTELY sure that any incidents that do occur, are addressed with systems to prevent or repair any recurrence of the same problem. Preferably automated systems whenever possible. You should be doing this anyway, but if you want to know how to minimize the emergency workload, the best way is to make sure each emergency happens only once and never happens again. Thus the number and severity of emergencies will naturally decrease over time.
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Actually I think he's making fun of the people who take Haskell really seriously.
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My initial reaction was that there is no way this thing works, but over 3,000 games have been made with this thing:

http://gamesalad.com/games

Thats not to say anything about the quality of the games, but that is still an impressive number. Much like Game Maker, I am sure there are some gems in there.
Ask HN: IT concerns using an apple laptop in a windows environment?
Howdy HN,

I'm upgrading my laptop at work and I'm campaigning to have a Mac Book Pro instead of a Dell Laptop. IT has concerns about the security of integrating OSX into what is solely a Windows 7 / Windows XP environment. I was hoping you could help me out:

* What resources can you point me to that would help assess the security concerns?

* Are there any immediate security concerns that come to mind? (I'm meeting with the IT Manager later this week and I'd like to have an understanding of his possible objections)

* Any advice that you'd give?

Thanks!
Building frameworks like this for game developers is similar to building handicapped escalators for people who compete in running marathons.
Anything that runs OS6 has a webkit browser. I believe thats everything starting from the 9700, but official 9700 OS6 builds are probably a looong time from coming.
> I'm not taking it seriously

Serious enough to claim you found it "galling" and to paste a quote from Paul Graham that virtually all of us have probably read (including the author of the original post).
Thanks Paul, I hadn't heard of that before.
I'm a follower of Jesus and take God pretty seriously and I can't find the energy to care about something like this. This sort of thing always strike me as a way to say "We're the good religious people and we believe X and we know we're the good people because we believe X." That's a bunch of crap.

If you read Paul's letter to the Romans his main argument seems to be that thinking being an insider is what makes you better is a path you don't want to be on. He goes to great lengths to show that just knowing what's right is meaningless because it's going to lead to judging people and feeling superior. To put it another way you could say the Christian point of view on this sort of thing is that "If you consider yourself superior to one person God considers you worse than they are." Paraphrasing Thomas a' Kempis a bit there.

If Apple banned an app that showed the Nicene Creed or the Apostles' Creed I'd be more concerned. Those statements sum up with Christianity has meant to people for a very long period of time. This sort of thing shouldn't probably have been written let alone had an app produced for.
So the US has done a good job of protecting them. (You don't _seriously_ think the Taliban has just turned a blind eye, do you?)

Still, it'll hardly embolden anyone who might've been considering becoming an informant.

So, fair enough of you to presume no killings have eventuated _yet_, but it's a diversion from the main point: you can't call it a step forward in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Afghanistan.
Seriously good luck suing an anonymous person on Get Satisfaction for libel
Good luck! One odd piece of advice I have is to recommend limiting the amount of startup advice you read online. It's too generic now that you've committed. Focus on what you're creating, not on making your venture look like the internet's current concept of "startup". Look, for example, at the popular phrase "Minimum Viable Product". You'll find a lot of excitement around the "minimum" part, but the "viable" part matters also and is fully dependent on what you're doing. There are many things that are unique about individual businesses, but generic online advice by necessity exaggerates the shared aspects.
Yeah, because lord knows how programmers hate to laugh.
Wow, a judge that understands that new technology shouldn't destroy 200+ years of freedom.

Here's how I determine whether or not I should be able to mod something. Would it be OK for me to smash to device to bits with a big fucking hammer? If so, I feel it's also OK to use a soldering iron to make it read non-special discs, too. Can you play pirated games with that mod? Yup. But consider this: it's legal to own a handgun, and even in unmodified form, you can use that gun to kill as many people as you want. Kill. Take away their life. Forever. And society is fine with people owning those, because they know that if someone kills as many people as they want to (and that number is more than 0), they will be brought to justice. It's worth letting that one psycho have a gun if it means everyone else can hunt animals or protect their families; that's what society has decided. Similarly, people should always be free to tinker with their devices (and even other people's devices, with those people's permission) because the potential positive value to society (a cheap workstation for elementary school computer labs) outweighs the potential negative value to society (someone playing Kill Zombies XXXIV without paying MegaGameCorp $85). Mod chips don't kill game companies, people do.

(Don't get me started on why the government thinks it's OK to put people in prison for growing certain plants in their own homes. I think it must be because some politician had a long talk with God, and God says he hates it when people enjoy themselves. Since God does exist and does talk to people on a regular basis, this sort of makes sense. But I digress...)
Very interesting. I think "No coding. Ever." is a little disingenuous, some of the screenshots sure look like coding disguised as rules systems, which I would expect to break down into an awful mess for anything complex. But I still like seeing things like this, and it does look very slick. I think things like this are a great way to get kids into game development, for one thing.

Reminds me of The Arcade Construction Set from when I was a kid. I was already programming stuff in Basic by the time I got that, but it was still a blast to drag a few things around and see instant results. You're not going to make the next Quake or Angry Birds that way, but it's a great first step.

I even hope I'm wrong and someone does make the next Angry Birds with this thing. The lower the barrier to entry on game design is, the more great games we all get to play that would've otherwise existed only in someone's head (Just as long as someone else filters out the corresponding increase in awful games before they get to me :)