skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about, 'legitimate targets'? There are no rules who they are allowed to attack and not allowed to attack. 'They' are capable of targeting any man in this country they like. This is why you either make friends with other countries or carry the biggest stick. We're already talking acts of war, it's not like you can increase the backlash any further than a declaration of war.

I think you're forgetting that war is not a board game with a friendly set of rules everyone has implicitly agreed to follow.
i would reject everyone and everything of the official sites that go against wikileaks. like the icann will possibly at some point or paypal for cutting of donations or twitter if they ever kill the wikileaks account but amazon is a hoster that was getting ddos'ed. every normal hoster wouldve dropped your page if you harm their business others pay a lot of money for in some cases.
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If the universe were large enough it would be impossible for some other civilization to even see it all, much less have a presence everywhere.
Ask HN: There was a cool website which is about Modern Offices?
I saw a web site which is about modern offices (google, digg, github, twitter, facebook). I can not remember the name of the website.
That MO sounds familiar. I had no idea there were so many Mossad operations in south central LA.
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I doubt any company could or should do it all. But picking a healthy list of those is useful. I got a huge portion of those between working for gamerDNA and then working at the betahouse coworking loft in Cambridge (but of course not all).

Each company should figure out what is right for their particular culture. Defining that culture in a meaningful way can be rather difficult.
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Photo sharing isn't new, but tagging people in photos is, as is being able to effortlessly access anyone's photos without having to figure out where they are and find some link in an old email or something along those lines. I'm not arguing that Facebook has been particularly innovative, though they have been in some cases. My argument is that their product has changed the way people interact with each other, and that's easy to see.
The US isn't really under threat from governments so much as distributed guerrilla/terrorist organizations which might benefit materially from this intel.
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Humans generally argue to seek truth or status or both. It's a disaster that status-seeking gets involved in the process of truth-seeking, and I wish that we all would recognize that and avoid it when we can (to the extent that we can). "Please, help yourself to the last word" strikes me as motivated by status competition.
Title-bait aside, how much of the article was wrong? I found it (and the rest of the site) fairly interesting.
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Something that works well here is "everything you think about until you leave belongs to us" PLUS "company will give written permission for you to own IP of any personal/open source project that is not work related, permission will not be unreasonably withheld"
What do you set your TTL to? Do caches actually respect it?

(My experience with this is that the downtime that I want to route around usually lasts longer than the TTL. And even if it doesn't, the recursive resolver / OS cache / browser cache ends up persisting the record longer than the TTL advises.)
Are you talking about the money spent compiling the lists or the money spent on the things in the list? The former is trivial, and the latter isn't actually provided by the list. It isn't limited to U.S. assets.

The only information this list provides is what the list says it provides: facilities that are vital to U.S. security. I can't think of a beneficial use of this data, but I can think of plenty of harmful uses. The list isn't hard to figure out, so I don't think its release is a huge loss, but there is no gain, so I can only wish that it were never leaked.
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It's full of realistic ideas you can apply to your freelancer career, and no BS about becoming a trillioner in an x amount of time. Its actually stuff that can put to work now as you read it, so it worked as a manual for me.
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I agree here. It's especially nice things like "posted x minutes ago". Murder for caching, but easy for Javascript to compute.
s/not/now/. What a terrible typo :)
Who is downvoting this? What's wrong with people?

You can't see how listing the facilities that the United States thinks are vital to national security in Qatar could possibly be a bad idea?

It's like once people pick their teams, they can't reconsider. They have to find rationalizations "oh, this isn't so bad" or "well now we know what the government is working on" - guess what? There's random unhappy people in Qatar who don't have the resources or skill to do their own recon and intelligence work. Wikileaks just delivered America's own intel/recon to them. This makes the world less safe. This is a bad thing.

I don't care what team you're on. This one is a bad thing. Shame on everyone who downvotes etherael for pointing out a really valid point. Stop the blind allegiance to the cause and think this one through critically. This is a bad thing.
My fault -- I implied it.

I would guess that it doesn't since amplifying the sequence was successful.

Or the sequence doesn't contain (enough) arsenate.
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So why not Merced-Fresno? Then you'd at least have some population to move around, and all the track would be just as cheap.

Looking into it more, it emerges that they have to have an initial route approved in December in order to claim Federal money. So it's a panicked plan.
I would say that leaks like:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-detainee-ab...

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/11/hbc-90007831

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007836

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/12/01/john-perry/yes-it-was-a...

Are positive things. The only reason those are getting less coverage than the leak in the OP is to delegitimize the leaks that have occurred and sweep the violations of day to day governance under the rug.
It's worth pointing out that while this may not have been truly secret, the work of pulling together this intelligence would have been significant for anyone seeking to act against US interests.

It's one thing to take a guess at what might be valuable. It's quite another to, right from the horse's mouth, have a definite listing of everything that is valuable.

Let's use a familiar comparison: MVC is hardly a secret design pattern. Still, it's a lot cheaper for me to get crackin' with Rails today than it would have been for me to roll my own MVC code ten years ago. That's a lot of legwork out of the way.

In the same way, Wikileaks has democratized intelligence gathering, at least with regard to these targets. This multiplier could be significant, in that it lowers barriers to entry for coordinating attacks.

I don't have a dog in this hunt – I don't side with Wikileaks but I'm also realistic enough to grasp that this is a post-secrecy world we're entering. Foreign policy, national security and government are going to have to learn, very quickly, how to exist here.
Are there really companies that do all pair programming? Does Pivotal?
This leak Does serve the public good, if the public surrounding these vital targets learn that these locations are vital. Instead of being ignorant bystanders who think it's "just a factory"; they'll know that it is a Vital factory, and that suspicious activity around it should be reported.

Whenever I'm in a train station I hear about how important I am, as a civilian, to security and that I should report
suspicious bags. Couldn't the government take that attitude to the next level?
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Twitter discussion aside, this is one of the most compelling 'sales' posts I've seen in a long time.

It offers the reader something of value just for reading it, with the promise right there up front, and it introduces the product naturally as a solution to the difficulties that arise doing this by hand. The only think that seems to be missing is some kind of social proof.

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Both great books, as are all in the Culture universe. Don't skip The Algebraist either - it's not Culture but it's as good if not better...
I agree, but I really wish that Steve would invest in a book designer. It's truly one of the most ugly books I've ever seen.
But to be fair it is actually the minimum viable product.
Any government with change in its couch cushions can buy the services of such organizations, either directly, or through proxies. Any government with the cash to directly train and fund even a mediocre group of operatives can do plenty more.

Anyone with an axe to grind against the US can find something of value with a map indicating every testicle kick site on earth, I'd think.
As an added benefit the call to action (tweet more links) guarantees that this is the first article people will be tweeting...
This article actually makes a lot of sense to me:
http://www.infowars.com/is-the-internet-911-under-way/
Yes, except you have to use CNAMEs (you're meant to point at your distribution's hostname, not its IP address) so you're out of luck if your site is foo.com rather than www.foo.com.
You're attempting to make the argument that newspapers (most of which are not even American) can make accurate judgements about the effects of releasing US intelligence. That's a poor argument. What is it about news agencies that qualifies them to make such judgments? Compare this to the Pentagon Papers where someone with intimate knowledge of the situation decided what to leak.

Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that your original claim that Amazon rolled over because of Lieberman is false and unsubstantiated.
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It's a toss up for me between Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Ender's Game is one of those books I never got round to reading and I thought it was incredible what they put that boy through. I got the main twist a bit earlier than I should've done but it was such a good story that it didn't affect me too much. I loved the manipulation of political debate by the other children, it reminded me of Fox news for some reason.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is the tale of two Afghan women, one in Kabul and one from outside. It's incredible, harrowing and keeps you in a vice-like grip from start to finish. I loved it so much I bought a copy for my Mother in Law as I kept raving about it. If you liked the Kite Runner then you'll love this (it's by the same author).
New Scientist seems to have had an earlier item about this too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966519
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Not only is it a great story, but it's about a self-made man surviving by hacking languages, cultures and business. I read it as an allegory of entrepreneurship.
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I would suggest HNews.

You get the HN that as maguay says is how we all shorten "Hacker News" but at the same name you will avoid being too cryptic by using a two letters name. At the same time having the keyword "news" in your application it can only help.
New Scientist seems to have two items about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966519

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974409
You're assuming that the benefit from the public knowing about the facilities is greater than the detriment. That isn't necessarily the case, and it's unlikely to be the case in my opinion.

The train station analogy is flawed. Train stations are targets because they're train stations. Security through obscurity isn't possible.

If this leak is somehow beneficial, how would you feel about a leak of the identities of all covert agents? The public would know who they're paying to do certain kinds of work, but I'm sure we can agree that it would have a negative effect overall. I think this situation is similar, although the information is easier to deduce.
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My favorite is The Use of Weapons. I liked Surface Detail but I do think you should read the Culture novels in the order they were written.

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Yeah, brilliant. A great illustration of gumption and willingness to pursue self-knowledge giving rise to amazing opportunities.

Along the same lines, Siddartha by Herman Hesse was my favorite book this year. Quite similar to the Alchemist really, viz. understanding yourself and being conscious and receptive to your environment.
I don't know what international law says, but I'd destroy the crops and leave the farmer alone.
Here's hoping that this is the first step towards making ELB actually usable -- i.e. dropping the requirement that you must point a CNAME at the ELB hostname, which prevents you from using a zone's root record (you can balance www.foo.com but not foo.com). To wit:

In the future, we plan to add additional integration features such as the ability to automatically tie your Amazon Elastic Load Balancer instances to a DNS name

As demonstrated by https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=32044, lots of people want this.
Traditionally, yes. With al Qaeda (inasmuch as there is a single body with unified aims), not so much. One of bin Laden's videos spelt it out: their aim is to economically cripple the US and the West by forcing them to spend a vastly disproportionate amount of money on security measures through performing relatively cheap acts of violence.

It just so happens that attacks involving large numbers of civilians are particularly effective for this, because the political pressure to protect the public is high. In the case of targets on this list, there is a similar pressure to protect them, but in general they won't be as expensive to guard because their nature makes it easier to restrict access.

If I were on the Chinese politburo, though, this leak would read like a literal shopping list.
This is a very important point. It seems that for the past decade it's only become increasingly clearer that we've had these terrorists' motivations and desires all wrong or we're dealing with very stupid people. I consider it a mix of both; does anyone still believe they're out to destroy "our freedom"? And I also would bet that for many individuals on HN, were they not good people, they could trivially cause some major damage.
One of Heinlein's stories had a device that would automatically mute the TV when it got too loud. It effectively worked to mute the loud commercials.

It's too bad no one ever made that technology. :(
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Ask HN: Favourite film of 2010 and why
My choice: Inception. An easy cop out (last year my choice was Up) Black Swan might just take it away from Inception if I get to see it before the end of the year, but for me Inception had a great story, wasn't afraid to do something requiring a modicum of thought to comprehend but didn't overdo it and didn't overdo the CGI. Most of the acting was great (although DiCaprio seemed to be playing the same character from Shutter Island), Tom Hardy had a promising supporting role, as did Cillian Murphy.

What was your favourite film of the year and why?
This is massively irresponsible and smacks of the Wikileaks team trying to 'get at' the US government for reasons unknown. This is really the sort of information that could put lives in danger. Whatever good Wikileaks attempts to do is immediately overshadowed by such a stupid and naive leak such as this.

I hope the people responsible are brought to full justice when an innocent person dies because they work at a facility that has just become a target for terror.
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Ask HN: Book title Suggestion "How to kill a zombie with your mind"
I'm writing a book on programming languages. The book is about how to write a programming language in 7 mind-bending days, and I need help in choosing a title that isn't too lame.

"How to kick ass and write a programming language in 7 days".

"How to kill a zombie with your mind, a guide to writing a programming language in 7 days"

"How to get things done by changing the structure of the universe; a 7 day guide to writing a programming language."

Ideas for book titles are welcomed too.

- - -

The whole "7 days" things is all tongue in cheek, but it should enable readers to have plenty of questions and get the big picture of what you can do when you alter the language. My code kata in life is writing grammars and writing programming languages, and much to my shame, I never open sourced any of them (which could also be said is a good thing because some of them were terrible)
> The only reason those are getting less coverage than the leak in the OP is to delegitimize the leaks that have occurred and sweep the violations of day to day governance under the rug.

Wikileaks clearly makes it's most dangerous, least-helpful, almost indefensible leak, and your argument is that the media are covering it as a favor to the U.S. government?

Think this through a little. The world media all works for the U.S. governmment? No. The reason they're covering this is because it's the most dangerous, least potentially good thing Wikileaks has done.

Inventing some media conspiracy that it's all a smear? C'mon, man, think a little more. Regardless of what team you're on, this one is clearly, indefensibly bad. What rationale on Earth could you have for releasing a list of places the U.S. government would feel destabalize the world if they're destroyed? Terrorists - real terrorists that really do exist - are going over those lists right now as we speak.

Edit: I get downvoted for saying that an international press conspiracy is an absurd idea? Really?
Non-fiction: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! - I'm not sure how I'd managed to avoid reading it this long given that I already really liked Feynman and had read and watched a lot of his stuff already. It's a great book and I proceeded to inflict it on quite a few other people.

Fiction: Of Mice and Men - A tiny little book that fits in masses of content and atmosphere.
Well, there's huge differences in the scale of eminent domain projects. A new rail line is likely to affect a huge area with a whole lot of people, many of whom vote. You have to get politicians on board representing many different areas of the state. How do you convince the guy who represents a district that is just "passed through"? It's a pure negative for his constituents.

Not saying it can't be done, but it's a whole lot harder than building a shopping mall, that displaces a handful of houses.
It would be a simple project, but the problem is that it would probably mute explosions and gunfire too.

More on the article, it's nice they're doing this and all, I don't care so much since I don't watch t.v., but I don't think a simple facepalm expresses my feeling that this is about the best our government can do over the past few years when it comes to making the lives of its citizens better.
The American Government was given an opportunity to redact the data themselves, they refused.

> Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that your original claim that Amazon rolled over because of Lieberman is false and unsubstantiated.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/01/amazon/
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Hmm I hope that doesn't mean all my code is publicly available somewhere.
There are many. For example: http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/08/the-hashrocket...
Work
Where wizards stayed up late - Matthew Lyon, Katie Hafner: The beginning of the internet. Plenty of history and lessons

Fun
The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins. Young adult fiction that reads fast but makes you think.

Life
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough - Lori Gottlieb: Amusing book, easy read and aimed at women, but has some good insights on why we fail to get married before it's too late.

I love that I was able to scroll through pages on Amazon to check (most of) the books I read this year.
"Chinese passenger train" or "Passenger train in China". China passenger train sounds wrong although I cannot explain why.
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Same story from Yahoo:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968712

No comments or upvotes on that item, but it is a different source.
while not having an army of google employees hacking on it will obviously slow down development, personally i'm much more comfortable and likely to use and rely on the tech now then when it was just another google service.

how long until we can apt-get install wave?
My main argument against pair programming is that you never feel that you have done anything significant. You can never be proud of a single line of code since it's always made by someone else together with you. You can't take credit for an invention/algorithm, and thusly never get the kick of true craftsmanship.

You are always expendable and can be shoved around like an animal, especially if you are a true team player that always nods and smile are "the best" to pair up with.

In fact, the cowboy programmers still rule the programming session when you pair up with them and they can easily take up most part of the day arguing small uninteristing details until they get it their way making the software theirs - not the team.
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Thats interesting: When searching for Wikileaks on Google, I get "213.251.145.96" as the #1 result. Im in Germany. Dont know if its the same around the world.
If we or someone else who signed that is the one making a strike, sure. But it won't always be.

It could even be a country that signed it, but is aiming for complete dominance, and throws out the rules because they are already at war with the rest of the world anyway.
Write the book.

Make it good.

Then, ask us to help name it.

Otherwise, we're just bike-shedding here.
When the question is about 100% pair programming I'd say there aren't that many. Hashrocket is one of the few companies (I believe Pivotal is, too) where it seems to be true, but most teams that I know are only pairing part of their time.