skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Who are you or anybody else to make a decision like that that effects billions of dollars spent and tens of thousands of lives? I didn't elect Assange. He doesn't represent me. And I have no recourse to remove him from his post if I feel he is acting maliciously or incompetently."

This has already been happening for years with our 4th branch of government, our very own government agencies. They aren't elected. How do we know that they are complying with the branches that we elected?

"Some random person doesn't have the right to "fix" what he thinks is broken -- because if he can do that, then we all can. And at that point we might as well just go out in the streets with guns to get our way."

I don't understand why you are comparing Wikileaks to an armed insurgency. Wikileaks is only doing what the mainstream media either won't or can no longer perform because of their new owners. Wikileaks is not an armed and violent insurgency. It isn't usurping anyone's power if they are acting within the law or within what they were elected to do. It is only releasing information that should be known to the public.

Our government is already supposed to make freely available a lot of information that it is still withholding:

http://www.aclu.org/accountability/released.html

What is an alternative to Wikileaks? We've already tried voting, and I'm not keen on supporting revolution. I'm just advocating transparency to help preserve our current government, albeit just making it a little more honest and a little less crazy.

Just saw this the other day on The Onion's competitor: http://toofar.tv/blog/?p=7
Are they keeping secrets that have been leaked? The Pentagon has insisted so far that none of it really mattered that much. It's not like there has been action for war crimes or something.

Seems like the only action that will be taken is the leakers will be prosecuted for violating security classification laws but most of this stuff shouldn't have been classified in the first place. Or perhaps should have been classified differently.

There is a different kind of "secret" that appears to be what has been compromised so far. You ever write code and maybe you're fast and furious and you've got some vulgarities in the comments but you're just hacking it out, then once it's working you start to button it up and maybe clean some of that stuff out? Face to face I might call and idea "fucked" but I rarely call it that in an email, I try to be a little bit more reserved, that email might live for a long time where as the face to face conversation sort of ends and disappears. It seems like the current wikileaks shows some of the unfiltered information that hasn't been processed for mass consumption yet but I have yet to hear about real lack of transparency or corruption. That's not exactly a lack of transparency or secrecy though.

It's the same reason they don't put the slaughter house right there inside the grocery store... You could do that, and offer the freshest of the freshest meat, it's a great design if freshness of meat is your only and primary goal. It's a terrible design if you're goal is to get protein to the masses though. Technically in a very black and white sense, it's a lack of transparency but not seeing how the sausage is made isn't always a bad thing.
Thanks, good catches. I just fixed the email text, and the job listing should be getting fixed soon as well.
This is definitely a huge problem in project management tools. I don't mean to spam, but with AgileZen (http://agilezen.com/), we're trying very, very hard to create a project management app that isn't workflow-specific. I'd be very interested in knowing how we could make it even more flexible.
Fair enough.

I would appreciate it if nobody shares their predictions in this thread, either. I know this isn't at all rigorous, but I'd still like to try.
Yeah, that's good they sometimes point out the flaws in Islam. But, still most venom is focused on the least harmful religions because there is the least reprisal.

And insofar as the atheists' goals are humanitarian they should join forces with the most humanitarian ideologies, which tend to be certain religions. The least humanitarian took root in atheistic thought (whether atheism is a direct cause or merely an enabler is a different debate).

Compared to the Nazis and Communists the radical Islamists are a bunch of puppy dogs.
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I'm not a fan of the "affiliate" phrase. Most affiliate banking relationships are purely marketing relationships. Stick a logo on another bank's card and call it done.

While our relationship with banks is similar from a regulatory perspective, we have deep technology integrations that allows us to provide a much better end-to-end user experience.

This is why it is possible to launch an 'affiliate' card in a matter of weeks, but it is taking much longer for us. We first had to find banks that shared our vision, were willing to cede control of fees and user experience to us and had the technical chops to integrate with us. It was a tall order, but we'll be making some key announcements on this front real-soon-now.
Why would people be paranoid about unsurprising information being revealed? The leaks are embarrassing because privacy is expected. He wants to make people paranoid by destroying their expectation of privacy, but if the expectation of privacy is destroyed, then there is no reason for people to become paranoid, because the expectation of privacy was the basis of the embarrassment in the first place.

If he thinks he is accomplishing something by this large-scale indiscriminate leaking of banalities, I fear he will not focus on acquiring and revealing information whose publication could have a real impact.
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Most persons undergoing first-time heavy weight training, or re-training (after a long layoff and losing that muscle mass) have muscle memory kick in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory#Retention "Whether strength or endurance related, it is plausible that the majority of motor movements would require a skilled moving task of some form, whether it be maintaining proper form when paddling a canoe, or bench pressing a heavier weight."
http://www.syfit.com/articles05.html

http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/2/631
"These data suggest that rapid muscular adaptations occur as a result of strength training in previously trained as well as non-previously trained women."

I believe he achieved this potential lb's due to previously having those gains in muscle mass.

My own personal experience (and training in an amateur / non professional fashion friends and family) were massive gains with proper nutrition and intense weight training, compound movements at the initial onset of training (myself, 30 lbs in 3 months, the first time I ever did weights on a consistent basis, lean muscle though my frame is skinny).

However, with a 1-2 month ramp up I can typically add 5-10 lbs in a more lazy fashion (whereas my previous ~30 lbs of mass I was extremely regimented and ate / trained basically full-time), which is muscle memory.

This "extreme" undertaking is probably better explained in his book (only because the article does not take the claim to task) and probably involved him slimming down over the years, and revamping an intensive training protocol.

Body types will also influence Weight vs Appearance. Tim had a previous article which was much dissected pre-his even stating he was coming out with a fitness book.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/bull-strong/
“He could just be a freak of nature, but even the most genetically gifted body builders have NEVER gained this amount of muscle in such a short period.

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This could be another factor on top of all else. I find Tim’s writing refreshing. He does not fluff or sugar coat his “step by steps” and this leads to (another discussion perhaps) arguments over the simplistic validity of his systems.

Edit: Note "weight cutting" for professional sports probably relates to his large gains. (MMA Fighters frequently cut between 15-20 lbs, sometimes more, I am not sure how relevant this is to the discussion, so only a Google link :D)

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...
I don't get it. The URL looks like it's doing something dodgy though - should this post be flagged?
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[EDIT: Can't edit the top message anymore, but the problem was broken browser and amusing 'blink' vs ' blink' confusion as detailed deeper in the thread. Also in chrome it doesn't appear to animate, removing the annoyance entirely.]

Interesting. I asked a few coworkers if it was just me and they confirmed it. The actual favicon doesn't blink for you? http://www.litfuel.net/favicon.ico

It reports itself as a 6 frame gif for me. Maybe your browser is just more sane than mine (Firefox 3.x) and refuses to honor animated favicons?

I figured I was getting rightly downvoted because I wasn't saying anything about NLTK.
I'm really skeptical of what this book talks about (adding muscle mass in x days, weight loss by this, extend orgasms by that and what not) and sounds like a whole bunch of miracle cure type bullshit.

His diet outlines etc. are nothing but mashups of good nutrition advice out there and cherry picking some points about certain diets .. it almost seems like he spent a whole lot of time on messageboards and compiled what he read into a book ..

Blindly following the advice in the book could well be a recipe for disaster .. there's nothing like one-size-fits-all for the stuff he talks about in the book ...

btw .. have you ever seen those fat loss pill ads (hydroxycut and what not) where they show a reasonably inshape guy/gal in the before picture and an extremely ripped version of that person in the post picture?
it's someone who's already well chiseled from the get go (fitness models basically) who don't workout for a few days and put on some fat by eating certain types of food .. then they go back to their nutrition and workout regimen to get back in the shape they were already in ..

e.g. the VPX Meltdown model had some sort of a genetic makeup that made him put on muscles very easily while losing fat (or appearing to do so) .. read that on a fitness board.
Either way, the power of the state over the people is lessened. It doesn't matter that no-one cares about the contents, it only matters that the state cares that people don't see the contents.

I'm not sure that even matters. If you look back at the great conspiracies of history, they haven't been "hidden" by the conspirators at all. Could Wikileaks have stopped Hitler, who actually published a book explaining his views and telegraphing his intentions? So did Lenin and Mao, and the future slaves of their totalitarian states did nothing but nod their assent. The signatories to the PNAC all but told us to expect a "new Pearl Harbor," but, heck, that's just tinfoil-hat territory, there.

I'm pessimistic about the benefits of Wikileaks' activities simply because history has shown, again and again, that nobody cares about conspiracies except the conspirators. The free flow of information might effect positive change eventually, but it'll have to wait until next Tuesday night, after American Idol.
Premature optimization much?
You're right I won't. It's like trying to predict the next lotto numbers.

Fear and greed fuel the market in the short term, so even if you got close 2 days before the deadline, a scare in the market would throw off all your predictions out the window.

All you can really predict is what you believe a stock will be worth (intrinsic value) assuming the EPS forecast is fairly correct, the economy behaves ok and that china doesn't cock up.

edit: I do appreciate anybody taking time to run an experiment though! That's why I voted up your post.
This has been a running joke among friends for awhile: a Foursquare for girls. Checkin to girls and see who else has as well.
..He has not been in the dietary supplement business for years. "Brag" vs spreading knowledge?
If you assume it's best to disclose US clandestine activity to Russia, China and North Korea.
I wrote better-makefiles, a project that appears to be similar in scope. I've used it on half a dozen small to medium projects. Since I'm very familiar with it, I can get a new project up and running in about a minute.

https://github.com/kbob/better-makefiles
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This seems to be counter to the goals of the attackers, no?

Problem: Site is disseminating information that you view as confidential at a slow rate.

Solution: DDoS / otherwise stop the site.

Catch: The entire archive of unfiltered content is already widely disseminated via a non-DDoSable channel and in the event that you ever actually manage to succeed at your stated goal there is almost certainly a dead man's switch to trigger distribution of the cryptographic key to unlock said information.

It seems to me that by pushing this option you just bring the "enemy" closer to the nuclear option of simultaneous, mass, unfiltered release. Unless you think they're bluffing with the insurance file, I suppose? Doesn't sound like a good risk to take.
Nothing in particular, just read up on how lighttpd and nginx differ from Apache, and why one or the other is better suited for different tasks.

For example, Apache has a lot more modules that can do obscure things that aren't mainstream for a web server. Such as LDAP, and WebDAV, these modules might make Apache better suited for an intranet setup. Even if the nginx community popped out a good WebDAV module, the Apache one would still be a better choice because of the vast documentation and larger user base and community support already available for it.
What is the full story?

It seems to me that two tricks nail it. First use parametrized queries. And secondly if you have information you need to send/receive from the client that isn't easily parametrized, have a limited list of possible things that can be accepted back, which is checked in code while building the query.

If you're doing those two things, I don't see how much work it is to avoid SQLI. Furthermore if you're using a reasonable ORM, then you should get both of those pretty much for free. (Well you have the overhead of learning the ORM itself.)
I want to be able to use chrome os in my browser (Chrome) while still using my normal os. Some of the features look pretty nifty like user sessions per window and other such things.
The point wasn't that he wanted to kill him, I think, but rather that if Assange's own views don't respect rule of law and governance, the resulting outcome of those kinds of beliefs is vigilante justice.

Essentially pointing out the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" point in all of this.
Great phrase, Totalitarian Democracy. I think that's exactly what Assange sees himself as fighting against. If the lobbyists are writing bills in congress (they are), then maybe all the rest of it is just enough window dressing to keep us in line while we're being taken advantage of. The old "illusion of choice" from the Matrix.

That's the line of thought, at least. I probably believe it significantly less than Assange and significantly more than Markham, above.
What's the advantage of this over using the many HTTP parsing libraries available?

Can I only extract data from 1 URL at a time?
Does this at all apply to a service hosted in the US but owned/operated from Australia? I wonder if there is a separate organisation we would need to register with here.
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That's a great question. I'm not sure how motion (and thus transfer of information) would be possible in a discrete universe. A somewhat related question is whether the universe is the result of computation. Many thinkers have chimed in about the physics and philosophy of this sort of thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_finite_nature_hypothesi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_philosophy
looks good, i have a few constructive criticisms:

1. put some info about you/your company somewhere, otherwise I am reluctant to give you $

2. explain/reword the product/show some screens.

I am guessing this is like a paid version of sharefeed right?
The quantum world is indeed discreet, and (as far as we know) half a planck length doesn't make any sense physically.
AIUI the $105 fee is to register as your own DMCA agent. Presumably it would cost much more to hire someone to handle DMCA requests for you.

I don't understand the legalities about registration, but there have definitely been problems about sending DMCA notices to the right place. In many cases attackers send the notices to your hosting company who just nukes your server and then notifies you later (or nukes your DSL and sends email to an address you've never used). Would they have sent the notice directly to you if you registered?

Putting abuse contacts in whois is a good idea; it's already done for IP addresses but not for domains. http://www.fr2.cyberabuse.org/whois/?page=abuse-contact
What's the disadvantage of openness for Canon? It's not like the firmware was limiting features as a way of artificially segmenting the market, so they're not losing revenue because of circumvented price discrimination. Presuming that there are controls outside the firmware's control which prevent hardware damage (and therefore warranty claims), what's the issue with limiting customer service and warranty claims to only issues experienced with the standard firmware?

Why not go a step further and ship the camera with a grandma-friendly firmware but host an open source community which provides various Canon-curated firmware versions? What could be done to make Canon's cameras suitable for even more cool hacks? How could this not sell cameras? Those most trusted by non-techies to recommend products surely would hold more favorable opinions of those cameras as a result.
Does everyone get an equal vote?
> why are you making a general assessment of the state of the social contract and then taking action which effects me because of your analysis?

This sounds a bit bitter, but if you have a way for me to remove myself out from the spectre of government, I'm all ears. I'll gladly leave you with it.

Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way. There's no current system that I (and I'd suspect, Julian) would feel comfortable living under. I've taken a slightly different course of action than he, but I can certainly understand and respect it.

To bring this back on topic slightly, it sounds like you're saying something like, "I like my job at MegaCorp, why would you create this startup that disrupts me. I'll lose my job!" Such is the way of the world.
A third party who Comcast would charge to accept their traffic. Let's be honst here; wherever Netflix goes, Comcast is going to chase after them demanding money to handle their traffic.
The big problem here is that no one actually really knows just how much vitamin D is necessary. So their claims of X units per day recommended are just as bogus as those claiming 2X or 3X.

Until we can actually figure out just where all that vit D is supposed to be used in the body, we're just making it up.

(It should be noted that this study only seems concerned with bone growth-- something we are not sure of yet is vitamin D's only function)
You can lower caloric intake significantly by getting your carbs from fruits and vegetables and avoiding grains, breads, and refined sugars. The fat slides right off as your body enters a ketogenic state and burns fat instead of carbs for energy.

That said, I'm not sure if it'll result in 20lbs of fat loss in a month.
You are saying if her cover wasn't blown we wouldn't have gone into Iraq? Not sure I follow.

It is a fact that revealing HUMINT data has a high probability of ending the life of informant or spy.
Quantifiable experience related to what I am hiring them for. Merely knowing the language of the platform or application is not enough. They need to have a fundamental understanding of what I am trying to accomplish and/or have the aptitude to take it further than I anticipated.

I typically put a ton of thought and and research into projects that I want to have done and usually go to great lengths in writing it out. I expect the same in return.
If you are interested in doing a meetup, can you please fill out this form?

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It's not business as usual, which is why it's a big deal. Comcast is trying to do something new. They used to get a cut of revenue from Netflix traffic because it was on Akamai, who pay to sit in Comcast's datacenters. Now that traffic is going to come from a peer. It's the same traffic, but Comcast isn't getting the revenue, and they're pissed.
What people really need is fundamental help with managing their spending and finances.

Check the "Know what you can safely spend" blurb under The Product section. It seems like it's in the ballpark of your grand vision. You can allocate spending/saving buckets, and it will tell you — based on your income/spending streams — how much discretionary money you have at any given point. Seems really handy.
Palin:

> [Julian] is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?
When will we start seeing links to Kevin Trudeau on HN?
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anything suggesting a weight loss of over 5-8 lbs a month is not healthy and you'd yo-yo right back to it after getting off the regimen, diet or exercise.
I know people who have successfully exorcised demons:

http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2007/10/04/cosmetic-surgery-...

Plus, how much have you looked into things such as spiritual disciplines? Meditation comes up here on HN quite often, which would be one spiritual solution to psychological problems.
I think of it as: Newtonian physics makes down to a certain scale where it is no longer accurate. Quantum makes sense down to a Planck length where beyond that, we may need different theories.
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I maintain there is positive evidence as well as negative.

For instance, having a supportive social group has a significant impact on psychological wellbeing. What is the biological or chemical mechanism in this case?
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I also believe we need to get rid of 99.99% of the secrecy we have. But there is still a role for government and secrecy.

Well, we're all basically on the same side, then, it's just a question of methods.

Some random person doesn't have the right to "fix" what he thinks is broken -- because if he can do that, then we all can.

If no random person does it, then it doesn't get done. I mean, what should he do, try to get booked on Anderson Cooper? This is an asymmetric situation - they've got 23:30 left in the day after his half hour on TV. In his reasoning, the best way to break the circle of graft is to scare everyone straight that they're going to get caught. That may or may not work, but it's at least vaguely plausible that it'll change things, unlike a politely worded letter or a talk show appearance.

And, btw, the Declaration of Independence was released when we were already fighting in Massachusetts and the south, and the context was, "Ok, now we're going to make it public, undeniable, and impossible for us to walk back. Total commitment." Not just a politely worded letter, quite the opposite in fact.