skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we talking about Wikileaks' disclosures or are we talking about the DDOS attacks?

There is certainly an argument to be made for government transparency but I fail to see how MasterCard, Visa, and Paypal, and so on are the organizations that should be pressured in order to bring about improved government transparency.

And no, I don't think that 'radical actions for transparency' is a widely supported movement and regardless of our disagreement on the term 'widely' I don't think DDOS activities are effective, appropriate, or justified in the furtherance of better government transparency.
It's mostly for historical reasons. More specifically we have restricted shell as text mode only tool, and intellisense-like features/inline help do not tend themselves neatly to line/character based output.

I think that there could be a place for a modern, more graphical orinted command-line interface. In addition to inline help it could display tables more nicely, maybe even allow proportional fonts. And while we are changing stuff, then maybe the object passing idea could be taken from PowerShell.
At the very least, you just said it. If this counts as "saying." Jeesh.
We've experimented with this, and we've found that with "social network" graphs (that is, scale-free networks whose degree distribution follows a power law) it's possible to determine "good" partitions on which to split the nodes. "Communication" (that is, algorithms that run across edges) within a partition is fast, and message-passing between partitions is minimized.
In England that can mean either way, depends entirely on context.
Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the masks were in the graphic novel too.
and it would be just as valid.
Anti-Anti-Wikileaks attack overview
and the logic is just as valid.
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Is your algorithm general or is it based on details specific to your data?

If it's general and not secret sauce, mind posting a brief description? Appreciated
Really though? Wouldn't that be the Verified by Visa program, which not all online commerce sites use? Or do they process all transactions through that site?
Google's ChromeOS Laptop is not yet a disaster
Reminds me of this post on Reddit from 2 years ago suggesting the exact same thing: http://www.reddit.com/comments/66cj2/hello_scientology_we_ar...
Elon's goals for SpaceX - awesome
Her intro is listing her notable traits that are rather uncommon in the field of web entrepreneurship. Female being probably the biggest one. This is no different than any other 'hook' people use to gain attention. It's only worth noting the fact that she noted her gender because everyone is so sensitive about the subject.
Anon isn't doing anything to hurt the people who work for those companies. Those people are paid to handle exactly these kinds of attacks, so if anything Anon is just making sure they're actually earning their paycheck.

The fact that there are only two choices and both are shitty is just a symptom of the fact that we are at a transition point in the relationship between government/business/everyone else.
There is a difference, but not all protest is peaceful assembly. Some of it is disruption of private business.

The Boston Tea Party, for instance, was hardly a peaceful assembly.
I'm male and I empathized quite strongly with the article. I have friends that I only speak to on the phone rarely, and I have that exact feeling... that we need to catch up, but since we're so out of synch, catching up is kindof boring.
I'm not sure about purchases but I can tell you that installing Olark on SyncPad's website saved us some bad reviews from people who didn't read the instructions.
You can call Anon a bunch of script kiddies, but they hit the front page of nearly every major news source today. What have you done for free speech lately?

edit: If you want to help http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html
I added in a comment on her site as well that she might want to look into making some more of those images on the page actual text for some SEO boost on the page. As it is right now, there is almost no 'text' on the page.

As google sees it: http://bit.ly/gZ2inI
Is the security of our citizen lives paid for by taxpayers money? Yes it is.

I'm not saying I am against the leaks of most of the cables/documents, but putting national security at risk is a different story
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You don't think the right way.

This is a hold up because:
- Your bank provides you a service: credit/debit card, they have to because you are their customer.
- Visa provides a service to your bank

Visa and Mastercard have a responsability to allow your bank access to their networks.
To whom the money goes is none of their business.
Damn, you beat me to the punch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985661
MASTERCARD and NagraID Security Present "Information Display Cards"
You're also in a different country, where you don't understand the pop culture around you, and you're far removed from yours. When I spent a month in Thailand I didn't even have to try, but back in the states it's not quite so easy.
That's been my experience as well. These sites have been a royal PITA and I'm glad to see this extension.
I know this hacker. He works out of Hacker Dojo in Mountain View (across street from ycombinator). This guy is for real.
afaik basic DisplayPort is not directly compatible with DVI, but the cables are able to carry DVI singal nonetheless. While I'm not very familiar with DP devices, probably most of them currently have Dual-Mode DisplayPort, ie they are able to send either DVI or DisplayPort data.
I have given up soap, shampoo, deodorant...etc...due to serious health issues. For me, it was a gradual progression. I add salt to my bath water. If you have serious skin issues, I would recommend a salt water bath. Kosher or "canning/pickling" salt is better than table salt. A good quality, high brine sea salt is better still.

Good luck with this.
You're a fucking loser giftydev, go back to canada you celine deon of developers.
Very comprehensive post.
Mint Opens Up Its Data: See How Spending Is Truly Trending
This is the third time in a short period I've seen Godwin's Law used as a way to discount serious discussion online. Are we really so uncomfortable with the concept of metaphor or the importance of remembering and analyzing serious events? We're discussing censorship, freedom, etc and 20th-century history is off limits?
Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.

The way you negotiate and approach any deal is going to vary drastically based upon your current situation. As you're not in a position to give away confidential information on HN, you need to speak to someone to whom such information can be given.

I don't know where you are located, but I am under the impression that pretty much every investing hub has lawyers with a focus on startups. I am confident that they will know the ins and outs of acquisitions, and will be able to provide you with advice as to best navigate the deal.
Wow. I'm a total search geek and I missed this one. Radian6 has a similar feature, but that's the only place I've ever seen something similar.
Luckily the Chinese are already on it: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.37081

edit: iirc at least TI had some HDMI receiver chips that are able to output something nice and analog, if you want a more DIY solution. No need for custom chips anyway.
I don't understand the obsession with working anywhere in the world. Yes, you can... and? Do you really want to be traveling all the time? If so, that's a good thing to have... but I just can't sympathize. I like to travel, but it's also nice to feel home.
This is probably not representative, but my facebook feed is full of people posting links to news about this with comments that mostly semi-applaud those actions. The interesting thing is that my facebook acquaintances are mostly neither hackers nor Americans.
I assume the search for places-demo should work by pressing enter? Nothing happening for me... Or am I just looking at the wrong locations? I was testing with the map zoomed in Manila, PH, and Turku, Finland.

My browser is Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta on Windows Vista.
Less ambiguously:

cp existing_thing new_thing
ln -s existing_thing new_thing
The internet is distributed. How else could you post to this site while VISA and MasterCard are pounded into the ground?
For a little more info on these sites:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/58369/did-anyone-not...
Hard to give good advice from just the details in your question.

I guess the most important thing to think about is, do you want to be acquired? And if so, what would it take to make you sell? Then, does that number seem at all justifiable from your current trajectory?
I'm surprised. I thought they organize mostly on 4chan, and then go down to IRC channels spontaneously and temporarily, and keep their identities only temporarily. Am I to understand that there are actually people who have a persistent identity? Who are "in charge"?
Read the last sentence of my post. There's no passive way to do it, you need a converter box, as I mentioned.

Thanks for paying attention.
Often times, efreedom ranks higher than StackOverflow, and in some cases SO isn't even on the first page (for some reason the official source 'misses' with my search terms). In those cases, I open up the efreedom link and click through to SO. This seems to be happening more and more.

EDIT: I see that the extension actually redirects to SO. So in a way the presence of those sites when I wouldn't normally see SO results is a good thing. Nice.
SEO is non-deterministic enough that I hesitate to even speculate, but the clean markup on sites like eFreedom is probably a lot of their advantage. Stack Overflow buries its content in quite a bit of presentational markup. Everything else being equal, it makes sense that the tighter, more focused page should rank better than the larger, more convoluted page containing the same content.
DuckDuckGo does filter some of these sorts of sites. Not sure about these in particular, but I did try searching for "NSFetchedResultsController" there and none of these sites were in the results.
The problem is that you're using the wrong definition of "link". I also say "link $foo to $bar", but that puts it in the right order:

I have a folder. I want to link that folder to some other name, over yonder. " ln -s foo bar". See?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985644
Sites like these are, in my opinion, the scourge of the internet. There is a lot of talk nowadays about curated search engines displacing machine-generated search engines but I tend to think this goes too far. A search engine that could reliably determine the authoritative source of duplicated content and only include that source would be killer. Seems within the realm of possible... Anyone working on that?
Reddit and hn, too!
Solitude and loneliness are not the same thing. Some people like their solitude and are probably happy that alternate means to communicate empower them to enjoy more of it.

(My attitude seems to be evolving into: "Don't friggin' call me and expect me to drop everything to chat with you. Shoot me an email and I will get back to you within a reasonable period of time without dropping everything like it's some crisis." And I'm a former phone-junkie.)
Toronto police chief won't resign over G20
Ask HN: Have you ever had strong emotional reactions to pieces of code?
I just noticed that there was a bit of UI that I actually feared debugging. Having pulled it out and replaced it, it's remarkable how differently I'm feeling about debugging the UI portion of my app.

I've read a lot about code smells. I'm wondering what other emotional reactions have folks had to code they were maintaining/upgrading?
You should ping them again once some time has passed, just to inquire as to how things are going. It will only take you a moment, and there's a non-zero chance they may have grappled with the problem enough to have changed their mind and be eager to speak with you.
It could still be text-based if it uses ncurses. For instance, something like bpython: http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/
a before and after picture comparison would go a far way, since I'm on osx, I cant see much difference.
I would not agree power is a zero sum game. Defining it is squishier than defining wealth, and even giving you broad latitude in the definition, I don't think you could come up with much of a proof of that assertion.
If I may ask, what are your read and/or write patterns like (random, sequential, predictable, etc)? What's the typical read and/or write size like for your application? How much data are you dealing with?

I understand you're set on a cloud-like environment but have you considered running off a dedicated server(s) with SSD? The IO improvement is dramatic. We have several clients running SSD in production without any issues to report.

Regards

Joe
I don't know what the deal is, but it's weird on SO's part. If the issue is, as a sibling comment says, presentation html / js confusing G's crawler, then you email your account manager at Google and it will almost certainly be completely kosher to show the G scraper different material than is displayed, as long as the difference is true to the intent of the searcher. So you can present the G crawler just questions and answers with no javascript and no additional markup.
putting national security at risk is a different story

"national security" is a vague concept; and either way security by obscurity doesn't work for terrorist groups with the right resources.

If "national security" is compromised from the leaks of a couple of documents to the public, than the nation wasn't so secure in the first place. After all, if Wikileaks got a hold of those documents, how hard do you think it is for somebody with a couple of millions in cash and the right connections to do it?

But yeah, we should think of the children.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985714
Neat, though you will want to be careful not to fall foul of the law but they're pretty liberal in the US right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Legality
And if they say nano...
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
I have zero experience with this. But I learned a lot about communicating effectively under pressure while very ill and being jerked around by doctors. If I got all emotional, it was just another excuse to dismiss my very real concerns that I might die if they didn't treat me. I had to keep a very cool head at a time when that was enormously challenging due to pain, fear, how sick I was, etc. I found that doing a few minutes of "meditating" just beforehand -- breathe deeply, clear your mind of prejudices, that sort of thing -- was one of the most effective things I could do.

I would also recommend you pick up a copy of "Getting to Yes" if you aren't familiar with it. It is a quick read and research-based. A meatier book is "The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator". http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Heart-Negotiator-Leigh-Thompson/d... But it might be a bit late for that. (EDIT: Both were required texts in a class I had on "Negotiation and Conflict Management".)

Good luck.
Google Blacklist can be used to remove any arbitrary site: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hbodbmhopadphblo...
Mozilla's David Mandelin on Crankshaft
Android phones, App Store, and, oh yeah, check out the industrial design of that Netbook they came out with. And those are the flat out rip-offs...

Google is not all about stealing ideas, but they certainly will if it benefits them. They are probably going to end up taking the crown from Microsoft for mediocre implementations of others good ideas, just by virtue of their size (and still growing) and their reach.
It shouldn't be difficult to detect. Whichever site receives content first is likely the definitive source.
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considering that Google's acquisitions are about about technology as much as about talent, and the fact that you hired another guy to help you with coding it is possible that they expected a team behind the technology to join them, but were disappointed when learned that you hired outsiders to help with building that technology.
I'm not arguing that you have the right to a credit card. But you should not be discriminated against on grounds that violate the social compact. Otherwise, your argument suggests it would be legitimate for Visa and Mastercard to refuse to process donations for specific political parties or politicians. Or for Paypal to close the accounts of people who vote.

I think most people would accept that there is a fundamental right to engage in peaceful trade. And just thinking of the issue practically, there are far more ways for someone denied access to the subway to get to their destination than there are ways for people to collect money remotely without access to the banking infrastructure and credit transfer services.
Might want to add a bit of a delay before announcing that you've just detected radar. Otherwise, police following site site will know who's reporting them...
27M USD, 30 employees, this is sweet.
WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed
It's 'only' a blog. The economist goes to print Thursday nights, so we might still see an Anon article in the next edition.
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Every mob claims to be operating for some sort of community justice. Sometimes that results in innocent lynchings.
Awesome. I plan on listening to some of the more interesting in the car.

Sadly, I see 3 courses on Marxian economics and zero on Austrian economics. Here's one I found on mises.org

http://mises.org/resources/2022
Talk to the founders of companies in your sector who've been acquired recently. Find out who represented them. Then hire that firm. Selling a company is like going to court. You can do it yourself, but when the other side has trained professionals working for them, it makes sense to have the same level of expertise on your side.
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Yes, because the US government only managed to get 63% voter turnout would dare to seize the assets of credit card companies when it would be pissing off 80% of its voters. Given that the US has over 5 credit cards per capita, it's relatively safe to assume that the 80% of households with a credit card literally translates into 80% of voters have a credit card as in it would be an insta-lose at the next election to be "the party that knocked out credit cards for a month+"

Furthermore there are [3 (65% visa, 30% MC)] billion credit cards used outside of the US. If MC/Visa's assets were seized, the US would be under global shit for fucking up the global economy that it wouldn't even have to reach consumers in other countries before all hell broke loose.

What do you think the global repercussions of half the western world being unable to buy anything with credit for even a day?

Sorry, but it's a no brainer not to obey the government when they're making rice paper thin threats and to not even consult your legal department on the matter. Now they're dealing with genuine losses from their online payments being down for trying to brown nose the US government.
The idea of a giant hivemind conducting business as it sees fit frightens me. There are countless stories of 4chan, Reddit, et al. raiding the wrong individuals and causing great harm. Of course there are other times where everything goes better than expected, however, as Voltaire once said, 'It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.'

The internet has no filter. Information flows at a steady constant pace; in fact most communication now a days can take place immediately. This has its pros and cons. Pros, well its awesome. Cons, without a filter many people will jump on a bandwagon without knowing the full details of a situation.

Sometimes people do not think as logically as they think they are. Acting on hearsay and emotions alone will lead people to act reckless, and once that stone starts rolling it's hard to stop; zerg.

This should not be taken as a generalization of online networks as there are outliers in most situations. This is just a reminder that not everyone on the internet has other people best interest in mind. Some people are just mean.

The best relationships are somewhere in the middle.
It is a bit , umm, different - I always describe my Salesforce Sales Engineer friend as "having drunk the Salesforce kool-aid". To me it seems like he's bought into "the company vision" in much the same way I see in many Apple employees (and customers).

He's a smart guy though, and he's been there a while now, and he's still fully convinced they're "going to change the world".

Maybe they will - I can think of _worse_ companies "winning"...
The stuff in parentheses that you cite refers to a crime like the crime of inciting subversion. Why ohyes says "we know he actually committed" such a crime, I don't know.
My point is that the quantity of activity I am talking about will far exceed our ability to analyse and/or control it. Hell, that's already happened; if you don't believe me, I've got a record industry I'd like to sell you.

Take your own phase, "pinpoint the origin of disturbances." What exactly is meant by that? There are literally thousands of people all over the world who loaded up LOIC and are participating in this attack. I myself contributed simply by surfing to Mastercard.com to see what all the fuss was about, as I'm sure millions of others did as well. Who is culpable? Assuming it were technically possible, how would you go about solving this problem? I hope you'll agree that the word "pinpoint" is hopelessly inadequate here.

Anyways, the entire analogy is flawed. Policing that internet is absolutely nothing like patrolling the highways. How do you account for encryption? The fact that physical presence has no bearing on your online activities? This is unlike anything we've experienced before, and I have a hard time seeing free and democratic societies putting the genie back in the bottle. China is another story.
What has Anon done for free speech? Internet vandalism? I don't think that counts.
...we are at a transition point in the relationship between government/business/everyone else.

This transition point is called "history." Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
"Raising awareness"

"There is no bad publicity"

...etc...
What Anon is doing today makes me thoroughly proud of The Internet. It's not just Anon's attack on some way-out-there reactions to what WikiLeaks is doing, it's the whole internet's attack.

Days like today restore my hope in humanity and our ability to resist our oppressors.

Sure, it might be illegal. Yes, it will probably cause inconvenience to many innocents. It is very likely somewhat foolish. But there sometimes "The Mob" simply has to retaliate.

Who was it that said People should not be afraid of governments, governments should be afraid of people?
His account was opened legally when he was in the country, but closed because he wasn't at that time a resident. This strikes me as a rather absurd policy on how to hold an account given that you'll have to be closing down temporary residents accounts and reopening them whenever they exit or enter the country.
stephen, any events or hackers that you know of in shanghai?