skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is far from peaceful and force is very much involved:

"Not being able to receive money from the public for a week can cost Wikileaks 7 digit figures in losses, and DataCell as well, as it is unable to process any cards," Fink said.

The suit will be filed in the UK against Visa Europe. The company will file a court case with a request for an immediate injunction "to limit further damage," Fink said.

Wikileaks donations can still be made via wire transfer, but that MasterCard and Visa handle small donations, which make up the majority, according to Fink.

"Wire transfers are good if you want to transfer €10,000, but if you want to pay €10, the costs of the transfer eat up the donation," said Fink. "Visa and MasterCard are vital for the small amount donations, and that's around 99.9 percent of the donations."

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bullet-in-10000166/leg...
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Mostly works in Mobile Safari on my iPad, after a prompt from the browser to allow 10MB of offline storage (which in turn appears to be an iOS 4.2 feature, since older versions simply silently disabled offline storage when any page's cached resources totaled >5MB).

Performance isn't awesome, but then again, the flagship NYTimes iOS app hasn't worked for me in weeks (crashes on startup, fails to refresh articles when no other app has connectivity problems, etc.) so I might just give it a shot as a Times UI for a while.
Thank you for the replies, I think the message was clear enough.

I have now accepted the new position and will be handing in my notice.

Thanks again
I dont really think Anonymous has a real plan on this, up to some degree, they understand the fight for the Internet rights the way Malcom X and Black Panthers understand the fight for the civil rights.

"You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."

— Malcolm X

Not that I share those ideas, not even remotely, but I respect the people that fight for their rights.
V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was a Warner Bros film, a subsidiary of Times Warner which is "the world's second largest entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind Disney and ahead of News Corporation and Viacom), as well as the world's largest media conglomerate".

Your dreams of anarchism were manufactured in a bottle and sold to you on a silver screen.

Grow up.

(Edit: as acknowledged below, the final 'grow up' is a bit snarky. Sorry, that's withdrawn)
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this is THE lisp I recommend to people that are curious about lisp
Why don't we have better shells that give hints on these things?

I'm thinking like an IDE will pop up some help text when you begin typing a function name or a recognised special word. Why doesn't the standard sh (bash for me) give me similar help, as I type "ln" it could give me a pop-up with the possible completions and then as I get to "ln -s" it could remind me with "TARGET [NAME] // will create a file named NAME that is a soft link to TARGET, or use TARGET's name if NAME isn't specified". You get the picture.

In a pure text env the help could appear on the next line highlighted appropriately or could be to the right of the cursor or somesuch.

I'm hoping someone will say $CONSOLE does that already ...? Anyone?
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Damn, it's usually safe to read HN with something in your mouth... [gets napkin]
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Ironically, this will be a major boost to Amazon's Christmas sales, since they don't rely on securecode.
A Gibson poem, programmed to erase itself after a single use.
All this talk about how to price your service and nobody mentions the .99 (save a penny) trick? Put that in your A/B/D(umb) testing and that'll be your winner. People are sheep.
I am talking about the effect of these things. You are talking about the point of these things.

They are not the same.
> This is misleading. I'm not sure if this is intentional or due to your zealotry. If I take GPLd code, make changes, and try to release it under a BSD license, I am going against the license and will be taken to court.

It's not misleading, though you seem to be misreading it. Dependent code (eg, an application depending on a GPL'd library) does not have to be under the GPL. It's completely fine to release a BSD-licensed application or library that depends on (for example) readline. The GPL only applies when you're distributing readline itself, such as in a compiled binary.

> Look at the guy from thesis. He made a Wordpress template, which used small parts of Wordpress to run, and the wordpress creators laid claim to all of his code.

The GPL doesn't allow them to "[lay] claim to all of his code", and they didn't. They laid claim to their own code, which he had copy-and-pasted into his theme. He had the option of either abiding by the licensing terms, or stopping his infringement.

If his theme hadn't been based on pirated Wordpress code, he would have been able to distribute it under any license he liked.

> This was specifically designed to prevent people from using some open source apps as web services without giving back the source. In your example, if you had an AGPL web server, you would be required to give the source code of that server to anyone that connected to it.

According to what law?

The GPL and AGPL are copyright licenses. That means they apply whenever their covered work is being distributed. Since I am not distributing the hypothetical AGPL'd web server, I do not require copyright permission, and the AGPL does not apply.

It doesn't matter what the AGPL claims. It could claim that anybody running the software must give the author a million dollars. There's no way the author could ever collect, because copyright doesn't cover running the software.

> Many people of the community love when companies accidentally use licensed code because it means they will be forced to give out their sources to the community.

Bullshit. It's not possible to force release of source code, and even if it were, that's not the point of the GPL. The GPL exists to give Free software a competitive advantage over proprietary software, by making it easier to develop and maintain. You have fallen victim to propaganda, and I suggest you educate yourself.
If they're Malcolm X, then who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
You're right, it isn't quite ad hominem - it is however uncivil, mean-spirited, and a personal put-down, all of which IMHO does not belong on HN.

That's the problem with this WikiLeaks thing, even highly educated, supposedly level-headed people start frothing at the mouth and lose any semblance of rational discourse. There are few moderates and way too many extremists - on both sides.
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V for vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd. In writing V for Vendetta, Moore drew upon an idea for a strip titled The Doll, which he had submitted at the age of 22 to DC Thomson.
And let me add: if I'm going to get downvoted into the light greys, I'm proud that it's for mocking people who compare anonymous DDoS attackers to Rosa Parks.
think like so: ln -s {source} {target}

(not "from"/"to", which is ambiguous)
V for Vendetta

subtle

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=V
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While I don't agree with this course of action, I'm not entirely sure to what extent this is actually illegal. Clearly, organizing DDoS with malicious intent should be illegal, but is it really illegal? After all, technically, it is only causing high load by doing something that is more or less intended use for the technology.
Failing to stand up for some principle? Probably.

But unethical?

Do you doublethink so?
Not exactly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
does it look any different?
Oh don't get me wrong, I fully expect the US to do... interesting... things to Assange. Still doesn't mean they have a legal case around it, though.

The best they have on him are questionably well-timed sex crime charges.
The way I think of it is that the path that exists first (the target file), comes first.

It's kind of a dumb way to think of it, but it seems to work for me.
This is terrible...something must be done post haste
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendett...

"""
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation in 2006.
"""
I don't know if you're trolling or cocksure, but no, that is not what I was talking about. I said the constraints create a bias, not the measurements themselves. For example, the performance measurements are biased against most garbage collected languages because the rules don't allow any options to fine-tune the GC's behavior (which can make a big difference). Obviously, there are no equivalent rules forbidding people from fine-tuning C++'s manual memory management.
And I haven't even seen any comments on the possibility of this being a smear campaign to tarnish Wikileaks further in the media?

I'm just saying, if you wanted to completely discredit an organization what's the fastest way to go about doing so?

Step 1: Manufacture accusations against it's founder for which there is no defence, where the individual is guilty before a trial even begins. Oh, I don't know, how about accusing a man of a sex crime? (Especially a funny looking foreign one!)

Step 2: Manufacture scary "hackers" who do scary "hacker" things. Hide your children!

Step 3: Let CNN and Fox do what they're paid to do. Spin and spin and spin.
Even if the mob is right to be pissed?
They have no way of identifying which customers are ddosing them :D
Oh I knew everyone would say "But it was a graphic novel". Bar humbug. Anonymous all wear plastic masks from the movie at protests for a start.
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Down-voted, not because I disagree with you (though I do), but rather down-voted for being both snarky and cliched. Your comment would have sat better without the "grow up" there at the end.
>that's just an artefact of the way you happen to have chosen to carve up the world
...
>In any case, why focus on single events?

I just picked these noticeable acute periods from the _continuous_ history of human violence as mere illustrative examples.

While only few practice medicine, majority of the people do have ideas about what "valid and just" violence can be applied to what group of other people, and as result they either directly participate or support violence performed on their behalf. So in my view, major combined reasoning activity of human species brains, ie. performed activity integrated over participants (think "top" command), is the reasoning supporting the various acts of violence.

Vs. the actual consequences - my numbers look differently than yours. May be one Einstein or Mozart resulted in even more lives saved than medicine. It doesn't change the fact that for each hour of Mozart's brain developing music there are several orders of magnitude more hours cumulatively spent by others at the same time reasoning for violence.

An the reason being here is that human species got evolutionary advantage by being able to strike first with overwhelming power. Lions don't try to exterminate hyenas and hyenas doesn't try to exterminate lions. They peacefully coexist until paths of specific lions and hyenas cross over specific zebra. Humans are unique in their ability to reason that exterminating others they would potentially have more zebras to themselves and that the "others" may have the same reasoning, and thus "either we or they". Thus we have, again just for mere example, tutsi and hutu.
I thought "wow, 200M!!". That's a huge value per customer! (Considering how small most of them are).

And yes, the GroupOn valuation is bubble.
I could drive a truck through half of those clauses. Of course you can just mark your shady activities TOP SECRET. It's national security!
update:

http://yuanfenflow.com/hackerLab is a mini-site complete with mailing list signup.
Wrong comparison. If a moderator removes your comment you can do many things: pm him/her to relent, post your comment with a new id, go post on another forum -- none of which are possible when dealing with a worldwide financial processing goliath(s) running a superpower supported duopoly.
Yikes. Hope Twitter is preparing for a DDOS themselves. These bot nets need to be shut down.
http://yuanfenflow.com/hackerlab
Yup. The thought process is basically "the target is optional, so it has to go last".
That's the reason behind a most of the argument orders in the Haskell standard library: To ease Currying.
To be fair to NASA, Constellation was a human space flight program with the ultimate aim of leaving LEO (Low Earth Orbit) so it is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison.

I am not however excusing the Constellation program, it is a sad chapter in NASA's history and one they may never come back from.
That's like objecting to the statement "Most people have two arms, two legs and one head" by replying "For whom? There are plenty of demographics, such as amputees, where having a different number of arms or legs is the norm!" The fact that unusual things are normal for some subset defined by those characteristics is tautological. It doesn't make the general statement false.
I ask b/c I want to know about his willingness to sell. If you contacted him out of the blue he may have gave you a high number b/c he does not really want to sell. If it is on a marketplace, you know he wants to sell; you have more negotiating power.
Fair enough. It was a bit snarky. I withdraw it.
Shouldn't their priority be not encouraging illegal uploads of music they don't have the rights to stream and then making money off of those streams?
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Forth uses

expression memory-location !

to store and

memory-location @

to read.
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How many people will actually recycle CFLs with instructions like these?
The point of imposing speed limits is not to 100% root out risky road behavior, it's to set a framework within which a 'generally safe enough' situation is created. Enforcing traffic laws is not a 'futile affair', I have no idea where you get that idea. Are you saying that people's behavior is not influenced by traffic laws? Are you saying that these norms do not transgress from the administrative to a collective social norm, where respect for general road safety becomes ingrained in all well-adjusted participants to that society? If so you have not reflected much on changes in social mores over the last 50 years.

You can hardly expect these things to arise overnight. I'm not sure what your point is on all the data that will be generated, transmitted and consumed. There is (in the context of this discussion) no need to track all of that, only to find out what the source is of traffic deliberately causing problems. Of course we will be able to pinpoint the origin of disturbances; when we can't any more, we'll be in Singularity territory, and then all of this is moot anyway.

This 'this is the Internet, your norms don't apply to us' nonsense needs to die already. With the internet becoming institutionalized, the same order that has arisen in meatspace will arise online. Of course there will always be the fringes where subgroups hang out in to a greater or lesser degree separate order (like the downtown biker bar in meatspace), but that doesn't prevent order from existing elsewhere.
It would be a great open source project.
What is your plan for the site? What "niche" are you targeting and what is your goal with the site?
Internet? Grassroots?

The Internet hasn't taken down anything. A small group of geeks have taken upon themselves to take down a few targeted websites. No due process, no rule book, no accountability, just naked use of force.

If I'm following correctly, I'm supposed to believe that a staff member of an elected official asking about the activities of a private company is an abuse of power but a small group of unelected geeks representing no one but themselves are to be commended for actively disrupting the activities of a private business.
Gosh, you're right. How is something as theoretical as "free speech" important in the face of minor inconvenience?
I'm satisfied with BackBlaze (http://backblaze.com)- $5/mo
Everyone watch as this fellow goes from zero to burn-out faster than any web designer ever.
They still take a cut from the merchants for each transaction--though it's a good start, and living debt free is great.
Good post but sadly the title isn't very informative. I'd change it to, e.g. "Twitter response to allegations on censoring #WikiLeaks in trends"
I do agree with Josh's advice (not that I considered anything like that at the time), but just to clarify, Jonathan was in New York with the rest of the Google Spreadsheet team, was due to fly somewhere else (I think it may have been Europe) and felt it was important to meet at the Googleplex in Mountain View with the Writely team. I don't think I could have showed up in Mountain View without him being there since he was the champion of the acquisition, and the decision makers weren't in New York so it probably wouldn't have helped much for me to fly there. Obviously, none of this matters now, but I just wanted to explain that the logistics weren't quite so simple.

That said if you want to make something happen then you make it happen and I didn't. Fail.
I never worked with one, but I believe the HyPra system included disks (as shown on page 148. http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&pg=PA148 ).
I recall it was one of the earlier systems to achieve high transaction rates by logging updates to memories of multiple replicas (described on page 181: http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&pg=PA181 ).
DDOS attempts that utillize illegal botnets are, well, illegal. As such, they are by definition not a legitimate form of protest.
Facebook has safeguards such as requiring a certain amount of friends in a certain network to add you before you actually become a part of that network (i.e. a high school network), and if you don't meet that quota in a certain amount of time they disconnect that account. Facebook also sets a limit on the number of friends you can add in an amount of time after you join their site, i think its about 100, more than that and you'd trigger flags and they shut you down and don't let you do stuff.
The government shouldn't interfere with private transactions without proper cause and due process. When a big business complies with a "polite request" from the government, and that request is the sort that would be illegal and justification for armed rebellion if it were phrased as an order, that business is unethical and colluding with corrupt government.
Thanks. Don't leave out France, either, inventors of the dumbest system of government possibly in world history in Lebanon, and the proximate cause of about 30 years of civil war.
Ask HN: Can we get a Wikileaks-free feed?
The front page is becoming very polluted with Wikileaks related stories. I'm tired of the conspiracy theories, attention whoring, endless propaganda (pro & con), and other Wikileaks material.

I'd like some way of viewing HN without this pollution.
I don't think mass declassification of government documents is a good idea, but...

The government is going after Wikileaks in a similar way that they would go against a terrorist organization (cutting off funding and detaining them without due process). Are the government's actions legal? Are they ethical?

Cutting off funding is an interesting move on the government's behalf, because it seems that any funding would have gone to Wikileaks' legal defense, once someone found something to charge them with (looks like it will be rape).

As far as I know, distributing already leaked classified information is not illegal. (If it is, why aren't Robert Novak and other members of the media in jail?) How would detaining Assange make us any better than China detaining a dissident like Liu Xiaobo?

As an aside: I know Assange is being detained for 'rape,' but the crime we know that he has actually committed, (and presumably the crime for which his funds have been frozen), bears a striking resemblance to "inciting subversion of state power;" which Xiaobo is charged with.

It feels like the government's decision to exercise its power in this way is kind of a desperation move, trying to hold on to its rapidly evaporating secrecy.

And the question is, is this really between the government and Wikileaks anymore, or is it between the government and its citizens?
Maybe this will shut up the conspiracy theorists?
If the government was making calls to message boards, asking them to remove my comments, I might be suspicious that my free speech rights are being infringed upon.

I might suspect this even before I hear that the government is lobbying for those specific bulletin boards being excluded from pending Russian regulation.
Graph problems are really hard to scale out because any node could theoretically be connected to any other node. That means you can't just break the graph into 5 chunks because some edges will cross server boundaries.

The only way I've seen it done in Hadoop is to store a big file listing every edge as a pair and do N passes if you want to do a calculation with a distance of N. Not the most elegant approach but with enough horsepower it'll work.
>I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore.

because of the stagnation of the government space exploration programs there have been very little new achieved in space in decades - thus lack of general interest (with notable exceptions may be like Hubble&Chandra, Mars rovers, and GPS/mapping - each of which spurned a lot of interest, activity and development in their respective niches). Put the man on Mars - you'll have all the 40K trying to squeeze in to listen. Or even back on the Moon ... just for a week :)
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>this letter is confirmation by the State Department that what Wikileaks did was in fact, TOTALLY LEGAL.

I don't know USA law that well, certainly not whatever your equivalent of the UK Official Secrets Act is or your counter-espionage laws. But it stricts me as a no-brainer to assume that publishing documents classified by the government as restricted (or above, secret, top-secret, etc.) would be a criminal offence with a pretty hefty jail sentence attached.

Is it really not a crime in the US to publish or hold without clearance documents classified as "secret"?
according to netcraft, it only took 400 machines. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/08/visa-com-taken-...
"ln -s something somewhere"
A mob is just a group of people. If we are ever going to have a free, just, and rational society then by definition the mob is going to have to support freedom, justice, and rationality.

In the same way that the Encyclopedia Britannica gained fame by endorsing the cause of rationality, and in the same way that Wikipedia gained fame by endorsing the cause of free information, so too can anonymous gain fame as a mob that supports social justice. Anonymous has a lot of the characteristics of other populist uprisings, so I wouldn't be surprised if their (mostly) harmless civil disobedience today morphed into something more interesting in ten or twenty years. I'm not saying I support them, but it's worth keeping an eye on.