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Wikileaks takes some time to assess stuff before releasing it. That's probably not a bad thing, despite the boredom of anticipation. The general reason for the delay is dealt with in the first question in the interview (to which the article links).

Forbes: To start, is it true you’re sitting on [a] trove of unpublished documents?

Julian Assange: Sure. That’s usually the case. As we’ve gotten more successful, there’s a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
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Gah!

> It isn't controversial so it doesn't hit the front page of American centric sites/blogs/media.

This is the context in which I said it was not controversial to which you said it was. I never said it WAS controversial on the world stage, in fact that was my original point.
For something 30% the price of the very cheapest iPad, I'm not surprised.
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> The unusual aspect of Australia's voting system causing such bad policy is compulsory voting, rather than proportional representation.

I disagree. Compulsory voting is a net benefit, because it drives the parties to focus on the median voter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotellings_law).

In voluntary systems, only motivated electors will turn out. How do you motivate people to vote? Not with discussion, but with emotion.

Consider: US politics is marked by a startling mix of soaring rhetoric and ruthless negativity. Why? Because the goal is to get your own voters to turn out and to make the other guy's voters say "We give up, they all suck!"

Australian politics might be a bit country-bumpkin in its tone and content, but it tends to focus on boring service-delivery issues rather than Grand Visions. Reform in stages is the general paradigm of Australian politics -- you have to carry that median voter with you.

We do have the key advantage that bills to do with appropriation must deal only with appropriation (s 54). This makes it much harder for horse-trading to occur. Likewise, Australian-style party discipline is the strongest in the world and pretty much precludes sideline deal-making (for good and ill).

As Murray Rothbard observed, minor technical details of process can have surprising practical consequences.
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It's not necessary. In fact, at some point I hope to write up a larger piece on it.

The only two NECESSARY pieces of data are the CC number and the expiration date. ZIP code drops some of the risk, and, accordingly, drops a fraction off the percent you're charged by the processor.

On the web app we're about to launch, we only have the number and the expiration date. I'm hoping to get my act together to do some A/B tests, but we're going into it assuming that we'll do better with fewer fields to fill out.
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That's interesting, however the position of the older guys is quite understandable in some ways. The entertainment industry over in the 'States is pretty unionised in the professional part of it, so I guess those guys were just advocating what they know.

Obviously this young musician is a pragmatist, though.
The companies who buy ad space are served by real salespeople, no? Google product end users for the most case are not Google's customers. Rather, access to end user eyeballs are the product Google sells to the real customers, the advertisers.
Atlassian will help with getting a visa - might be a stretch to still call it a startup, though.
Peter Sunde (Pirate Bay Co-Founder) Seconds The Idea Of An Alternative Root DNS
Look at it as an entrepreneur: if your customers are getting in value received some large multiple of the price they are paying you, is that not a good thing?
Looks very nice. Maybe add a button to toggle between light and dark interface?
For some reason I found these videos extremely compelling and I can't wait to go to class tomorrow.
A big part of this is the timing of the release; video game systems are always big sellers before the holidays. Anyways, the difference in price as well as function makes this a pointless comparison.
Neither society nor the enterprise are zero-sum games, and that kind of thinking seems to imply that they are.
I love this lol,^_^. I hope someone puts out a track using this.
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Sorry, I misread your post.
You profoundly don't want that.
no, there is no category. this might as well be "how to build a python app"

1. print "hello, world!"
2. finish your program

the point is that there's a lot missing between the two, but we often present the progression between the two stages as monotonic (even/especially in documentation or instruction manuals or coursework!), but it's usually much more nuanced (even for 'experts')
I like it. One minor suggestion: Put your < link > tags in the head because right now, I'm seeing ugly flashes of unstyled content (http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp/).
There's nothing wrong with plugins. The problem is when I apply a plugin to one package (in these cases the core OS) and it silently adds a plugin to another package.

Unintended side effects are bad.
http://blettr.com/ seems closer, with support for photos, videos, and privacy controls as well.
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On a public exchange, there is more liquidity, but the valuation would still be based on the last traded price. Nevertheless, I guess this gets you closer to its "true worth"
They really need to give up and turn their attention elsewhere, because whatever replaces Facebook simply cannot be built by Google. And it doesn't matter how hard they try, because Google will build their social network in typical Google style -- a big, monolithic, overarching, ugly, centralized, database intricately geared for maximum advertising revenue. And that is precisely why Google will fail. At this point, a true Facebook threat would need to be something quite radically innovative that Google would never have even thought of it because they're focused on advertising dollars.
That works if you can enforce that 100% of the time, against all CSS loaded by your site. The first time you forget it in e.g. a lightbox script you add to get used on a landing page whose implementation you didn't even glance at, your registration page will break. This has cost me thousands of dollars before, so I enforce assumptions like "there are no http:// urls in my CSS files" in code.
They figured they should talk about their discoveries of life on other planets before Wikileaks says it first
Great idea, but I suspect too painful to type in contents. How about this...let me take multiple photos while filling the box, integrate it with your website, then later I can inventory items I want to by viewing the pictures for each box. Or if not, i can quickly skim through boxes and just look at the pics if i'm looking for something.

Typing on a regular keyboard is a must. Website integration is a must. I'd use an online app like that for lots of things, especially if it bad a nice iPhone app. I've been unable to find my travel router twice in the last 6 months, even though I swore I wouldn't forget where I put it each time!!

How long until RFID tags are cheap enough that we can just attach one to every new thing we purchase?
This is a huge problem with a lot of discussion about software development practices. Software spans an astronomically huge realm of scales and varieties, yet so often we talk about it as though it's a monolithic thing. As if you could talk about bacteriophages and pachyderms or cap guns and moon rockets in exactly identical terminology without any loss of fidelity in describing either.

It is very true that software development techniques and practices should differ, perhaps even greatly, depending on the nature of the project. It's most important to be able to have the experience and knowledge necessary to know when and where to use one technique over another rather than to just be a mindless sponge of advice.
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Could have been that, but I think it was just a coincidence. In CBMSCII, pronounced "ka-BOOM-ski", which was the warped and bizarre version of ASCII used on the Commodore machines, the end-of-line character was 13, aka Ctrl+M, not the C/Unixy Ctrl+J.

From dim, distant memory, every one of the 255 characters had a sound mapped to it, though surely I'm misremembering since there are only about 40 distinct phonemes in English.

I just remembered that it was called SAM, and here's the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth Ah, memories...
You might want to fix your link concerning Startmate: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/11/29/dont-worry-paul-graham-au... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616586) should be http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616586
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Poorly written article, but the main point is that some of the comments made over the last few days were a bit rough, and misinformed.

We had a government with a huge majority plan to install a mandatory internet filter and everyone met it with huge opposition, it was quite clearly voted against in a number of areas, and as such the parliament is setup so that it is impossible for them to pass it.The reason that you had seen articles on the internet filter is because Australians were outraged by it all.

Not only that, but we're pushing ahead with a national fiber network, which will provide brilliant opportunities for startups, 100 mbit or higher to the majority of citizens is the goal. Pretty impressive for a country with such a spread out population.

I'm not saying our government isn't dumb, but aren't they all? What I'm saying (and I guess what the author of this horrible article is saying) is that Australia isn't a black hole for technical innovation, and it would be unwise to ignore the opportunities that can arise from having fast internet across the nation - especially given we are doing it in rural areas as well, plenty of opportunities for startups in e-health, agriculture and mining.
I was very impressed to see the left and right arrow keys work "as expected" when tested. To be specific, the keys on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, the arrowish >>> and <<< links are broken. When the page first loads, it give the most recent snapshot, which is nice. The problem with the arrowish links is they do not allow you to go backwards in time, but do allow you to go forward in time, hence causing an error since the future hasn't happened yet. ;)
Zuckerberg and Schmidt are talking about the privacy of individuals. This is about the privacy of governments and large businesses. The power dynamics are vastly different.

See: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/privacy_and_po...
Agreed to this - Google asks you straightforward (but difficult) computer science stuff.
Why should this be surprising, given most of the Kinect users are owners of X-box ? iPad on the other hand is a stand-alone device. Why does everyone keep comparing Kinect to iPad/iPhone etc ?
Generally, I ask for access to the user's data at any time (even when they're not logged in) for flexibility. There are some situations where you need access and the user is either not presently using the website or Facebook isn't properly detecting them. I'm normally not worried when a legitimate company like Groupon asks for permissions like these.
I am so looking forward to the day when the Comcast monopoly is brought to it's knees! Bring it on GOOGLE!
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Thank you, your comment reminded me of why this is Severity: Critical. Here's where Thomas and I live in different worlds: I hear "open proxy" and I think "a malicious user can use your server to attack other services on the Internet or download kiddie porn.". Thomas hears "open proxy" and starts to see visions of a host possibly within the firewall which can be used to make arbitrary HTTP requests against servers within the firewall, which let's you target the weak underbellies of e.g. intranet applications which have no security because all users are presumed to be employees and where compromise can do interesting things like e.g. read out all your source code through Trac, initiate wire transfers through the accounts payable application, etc.

Yeah, you profoundly do not want open proxies.
Reading the article title I immediately thought of those leaving Google for Facebook. This IS happening. They're doing it to catch the FB IPO.

OP mentions this topic but mostly talks about his view, which I get. On the other hand, I've spoken with plenty of ex-Google employees who've left because Google is getting so large and has so many 20% projects that it no longer feels so entrepreneurial being at Google and so they leave. These are employees that don't care about a business model and just want to see their projects see the light of day.

So, Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Sure, it doesn't apply to OP, but that doesn't mean it's bullcrap.
Ah, thanks, so I don't need to read Getting Real if I've already read Rework (I've skimmed Getting Real and it seems to be mostly the same thing).
I recommend Andrew Tobias's classic _The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need_. Very sensible, and very readable. http://www.andrewtobias.com/theonly.html
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Plain old grocery store eggs outsold the iPad 20,000 to 1! Meaningless.
Neat. Reminds me of something I built in college: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfh9upwZWA0

I must admit that mine was quite a bit simpler.
I'm having mixed feelings about this. Aside from the security aspect mentioned by the author, I'm also unsure about whether this will really fix what seems to be the core problem. The way I understand it, this idea is meant to prevent domain seizures - yet there is still nothing that prevents ISPs from blocking the IP addresses.

If one was to evade IP blocking, the most obvious way to do that would be by using a SOCKS5 proxy - which would mean that you also have the opportunity to do the DNS lookups remotely.
very limited in choices in "Small Town" USA when it comes to ISP
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Where does short-term risk come from? And what's the difference between HFT and LLT?

If anyone knows of good high-level reading material on the subject, I'd appreciate a link so I can spare you more dumb questions.

I admit to having drunk some of Mark Cuban's Kool-Aid, as well as Jon Stewart's and that of some other liberal sources. Their argument, as far as I understand, is that HFT doesn't provide value proportionate with that which it extracts from a system designed to connect investors with entrepreneurs.

The idea has an appealing simplicity, especially given recent history, but don't know very much about markets, so I thought I'd ask people on the other side of the debate for their take.
Irrelevant. They aren't even similar products, similarly priced, or in similar markets.
He calls it an "Out of Context Problem".
I said "until the end". If you only read 80% of the article, you would think CA was an oasis of economic growth with a model government. If I were trying to persuade people that things aren't so bad in CA, I would start with the most glaring problem and perhaps offer reasons why it isn't a problem, or state how the problem will be overcome.

Sure that $136B gap is only 1/7 of the CA GDP, but a lot of that GDP is being siphoned by the Fed's gap, too.
Sev: biblical. You're coughing up the lights-out management consoles on servers and storage appliances with them. I'm sure there's all sorts of funny business to be perpetrated through them with admin and account management applications. But I wouldn't know, because you're usually 5 minutes from command execution on the server once you find one.
This has got to be one of the most terrible domain names I've ever seen.
This is one instance where I would've thought lowering the price to somewhere around the cost of an expensive textbook ($200-$300) would dramatically increase their sales.

From the looks of things, they've only sold 200 copies. There must be many more budding lawyers than that taking the bar each year.
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It's literally Apple-s to oranges.
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I think the point is that it's a catchy headline pointing to a page that has 27 banner ads.
The main people getting excited about FTTH are the contractors and IT companies. The taxpayers aren't getting so excited about it.

You can't argue that every home with fiber isn't a beautiful idea. But then every highway should be 4 lanes, every school airconditioned and every hospital should have more beds than patients to fill them.

It's not a technological argument - it's an argument on (a) whether the cash spent is worth it and (b) should we be paying a private company (Telstra) to remove infrastructure to replace with a public monopoly. Or should we just organically grow the network and expand with fibre in new areas and spend the money where it is needed.

I for one are scared about the abuse and waste that will happen with a public project of this size and the one-size-fits-all mentality that goes with it. The monopoly will be protected by law to make it pay, and that's a bad thing for all involved. It matters not that it is a wholesale network, the pricing power (and power to keep the monopoly) will remain with a government official.

The Coalition policy was flawed in parts but I liked their approach a lot better.
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I launched http://www.hackerlunch.com

It lets hackers meet up with each other for lunch (and hopefully an interesting chat). You basically make a post stating when and where you are free to have lunch and others can join in.

Launched it a few days ago but unfortunately haven't received much interest or feedback. I will probably release another polished version in a month and see if it gets more traction.
Ask HN: Anyone have insights into Kinect's SDK release?
If this doesn't literally bring down a major bank, it's already been overhyped (and it was just announced).
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Google is a systems/infrastructure company. They should figure out how to build frameworks that other people can build on top of and turn into something real and usable than to try to build everything and copy everyone else. Google isn't Apple, or Facebook.
You can also do this by emailing anything (e.g. text, pictures, YouTube link, gist URL, etc) from any email address to post@posterous.com. Of course, future emails to the same address are tied to the same blog, so if anonymity is your goal (including no association to a previous anonymous post), that option wouldn't work.

Nice clean look & feel though. It looks almost exactly the same as what my Readability bookmarklet turn out.
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If Microsoft opens the drivers and people (hackers?) find many other ways to use it, it will sale even faster.
I liked it. The logo text in the header does not link to home page. Is it deliberate?
Favorite, in that it succinctly summarizes what I spent 4 years of my life dealing with. Frustrating pretty much sums it up.
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saw this long time ago.

do you have one too?
I would even say that the reverse is possible. That because of it's extremely strong private sector, the state was able to afford these bad policies.

I'm pretty sure that this is not true, I'm just emphasizing your point of not reading into it that much. Pretty much any theory you want could be proved from two seemingly related pieces of data.(broad generalization I know.)
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> Google will build their social network in typical Google style -- a big, monolithic, overarching, ugly, centralized, database

Actually they are working hard on pubsubhubbub, activity streams, portable contacts, salmon and all the other federated web stack protocols in order to make facebook (and twitter) features available to any apps (wordpress, diaspora, status.net, gnusocial, buddypress already implemented those). They are trying to make social something open, in other words they are trying to pull an android on facebook by making it irrelevant or at least not as needed as all websites will get the same features. You will be able to communicate with/share photos with/follow your wordpress friends from blogger.com or diaspora or status.net or buzz. Only time will tell if it will be as successful as Android.

I think this is a good strategy, google can't beat facebook at their own game by creating a facebook clone just like they could not have beaten the iphone with their own phone. Making all of facebook features an open/easy/distributed/federated stack and attacking facebook with the help of the rest of the web seems like a much better strategy.
Someone build a little web app that lets you press symbols that represent each instrument, and build beats that you can loop.The google site stops letting you use the "Listen" button after a certain number of characters.
aren't NDAs void in California? ...I'm not a lawyer.
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There used to be these commands in the pre OS-X TTS system that let you specify arbitrary pitch/timing for the synth. People could make songs with it.
At google Brazil some crazy people found out the address and actually showed up on the building to complain about some non-sense happening in Orkut.

I guess they had their share of crazy advertisers hitting some random number (heh, just like recruiters) and hearing some joke from a employee
It also seems very similar to the (crowded) pastebin space, which according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin have been around since at least 2002.

To be honest, I think it would be hard to get a profitable business out of your idea (the cost to acquire customers would probably exceed the lifetime present value). However, I suspect that profit isn't necessarily your intention here.
Annoying, yes. But really? A deal between FB and TC?
At 21, males are still essentially boys. Physically we treat them as adults. But mentally we are still closer to boys. And when you're a programmer, and a boy, the computer is basically this big awesome multi-purpose toy you can make do all kinds of cool/weird/esoteric things, some on the screen, some in mindspace -- some of which we find that others will pay us millions of dollars to do. Bonus! It's easy to be obsessed with it under these conditions.