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Exactly how I read it.

Computers answering questions from humans about computers! Why didn't I think of that?
Ah, updated Chrome to latest Dev version. Much better.
It's all in steps.
Ellsberg: WikiLeaks attacks parallel Pentagon Papers.
I don't know where this guy comes from. But, USD15/hour is a very high rate in many countries. Or, he is just trying to build up his portfolio and get his name out there.

This seems like a very good approach to attract people attention.
Is the "Hire my services now" button supposed to have a 2px blue border around it?
I'm just really uncomfortable with a "chrome version" of the New York Times. How many of us would be freaking out if it was "The New York Times: Internet Explorer Version"

I don't want versions of the web. That's the whole point of the web.
Please don't build a portfolio based on work you spent 2 hours or less on.
I'd really like to see the quality of these designs. I sure they'll reflect the price.
Yeah sure. Oil makes up 38% of global energy consumption. Fossil fuels makes about 80% of global energy consumption. Electricity is NOT a primary energy source, and basically you don't know what you're talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004_Worldwide_Energy_Sour...
In general, there was very little written about the performance of Snow Leopard on traditional benchmarks when it was released. Most of the comparisons were to previous OSX versions based on boot times etc.

However, Leopard's poor OpenGL performance was noted at the time of its release (but generally drowned out by the choruses of "it feels faster" from the echo chamber [see http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=s...].
HN, yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $100 and I build them a car.
Developer posts his early sales numbers from Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
I use Adobe Lightroom for this; it's an image management and photography workflow app and is organised around both folder and tags. That is, it organises images on disk in folders, but provides tools for tagging images and browsing by metadata. Version 3 has built-in support for Flickr uploads; previous versions had plugins for this.

I haven't used Apple Aperture, but I understand it's similar to Lightroom.
Initial thoughts:

- the linked images have blue borders around them, look ugly

- you could put a couple of samples up if a design costs just $15 worth of your time

- I hope you don't live in North America or Europe, otherwise, you're undercharging.
Chrome OS is just another step in the division of labor. Instead of managing our data ourselves, it pushes us even further than most other products so far to let others take care of it for us. It'll be there when we want it, and probably better organized, too.

And, for a lot of people, security is a concern, but in the background. A fly buzzing by the screen door, but not something that would keep them from taking an easy option from a company that 'knows the answer to everything'.

So, for most people, what's not to like?
Who says he's spending two hours or less? Normally, you'd spend hours on a portfolio for free. Now he's making a small amount.
Get some sense of humor.
Are you still waiting for someone to put some food in your mouth too?

These leaks are more than just about the US foreign policy; they're a glimpse into the shady dealings of the "Powerful" all over the world!

Want examples? How about the revelation that Jordan, UAE, Saudis, etc. are urging the US to attack Iran? The details about who ordered the hacking of Google in China? The revelation that rich royals in Saudi Arabia are snorting cocaine, while the average citizens there are caned for showing some skin? Come on! Open your eyes and read the damn things.
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Nice! Do you want to tell us something about your background? I'm thinking a lot of people will see this as absurd, but if you're not spending too long on each individual design, $10-15 and hour is great money for a student or hobbyist, especially since you're developing a marketable skill at the same time.

Also, the #1 recommendation here is gonna be to put something up under "latest designs", even if you haven't had any clients yet. The first customer is the hardest, and you can help that along by putting a few coins in the proverbial hat yourself. (Although I realize the site itself is an example of your design :)
Press releases? On HN?
RISD has an amazing reputation. RIT has an awesome program I once heard Barbarian Group cofounder Rick Webb extol the values of. He said it was a great program for exposing students to a vast number of things (video, 3D, design, development) and letting them enrich their studies. In full disclosure: I went to New Mexico State University and had a great BFA program. In all honesty design school shouldn’t matter as long as you have opportunities to create and are motivated do great work.
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Wikileaks released the letter publicly.
Only SecureCode is affected (the MC equivalent of Verified by Visa), not all MasterCard online payments.
I think this is setting a very dangerous precedent. Yes, it was lame what Mastercard did to Wikileaks, but it wasn't technically illegal. What Anon is doing to Mastercard, however, is completely illegal and damaging, not only to MC but to its customers too (who are innocent bystanders in this case).
It works very well on iPad. It’s responsive to touch gestures.
Poll: Which 3 languages would you learn
A lot of the comments to a recent post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982903) suggested that they would like to see a similar poll for HN, so here it is. I don't want to restrict the choices and will collate the data in the replies. THREE languages per reply, please

Let me broaden it a little and also ask the optional question: Which new natural language(s) would you like to learn and why (i.e., other than your native language an the ones you are fluent in)
What's that?

But, seriously, it wasn't even funny - just a little incomprehensible. Certainly unlikely to make sense to the vast majority of their users.
Nothing last forever.

Eventually all the "startups that you love" will either close their door or be acquired and I think people should expect that since day 1.
From stackoverflow.com -> "1,133,721 questions" (08/12/2010 15:34)

Looks like it's pretty much there then.
True, but given his advertising and rate I would imagine he'd be busy enough. And yes, you spend hours on a portfolio for free, free from the pressure to do inane, boring corporate work for example. I mean, at the end of the day it's just advice, but I don't imagine there are many designers would agree this is a good thing. Entrepreneurs, maybe; designers, no.
Also, the last commit on Unladen Swallow is from august. While it doesn't necessarily means "dead project", it sounds awfully close to me.
Similarity should establish the P/E ratio.
Listening to the pre-launch audio is amazing. T-9 minutes right now. This is so badass!

A private company is launching real capsules into space now. SpaceX definitely represents the dawn of a new era of space development.

Edit: Launched!
That was the second phase of their strategy, and then they went out into the platform-as-a-service. There is a lot to be made in selling the picks and shovels to developers, and for Salesforce this would have been easy since developers already had faith in them, and hosting with Salesforce would put your app closer/in the same environment as the platform you are building on.

Salesforce take a small cut of app sales, they could have made a lot more hosting all of these apps and providing the remainder of the dev toolchain/platform.

It also meant that they could have captured part of the market for intranet apps. The app might not be related to salesforce at all, other than using it for auth, but salesforce could have hosted the app and charged crazy enterprise rates (ie. not cents per hour like EC2, more database.com type rates).

On a semi-related note, I think Facebook will eventually get into this. Bret Taylor who is the CTO now was on the AppEngine team. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook do PHP and Python app hosting soon.
Yes, it was just a joke, I'm sorry :). If anyone really did need a tl;dr for THAT, they're probably not the people you want answering this question anyway.
You and lots of other people.

I doubt it was based on Heroku profits so there must be some other major factor, especially given that this is a cash deal.

It will be very interesting to see how they are going to make all that money back, it's not exactly pocket change.
At this point, I don't think diaspora will work. The project has lost its hype, so it has no more fuel. Its heading towards the deadpool. It doesn't even look like it'll live on as an open source project.

The main issues with the diaspora project, besides buggy code, was that there was never a good reason to build it. People were not angry enough at Facebook to start learning how to run their own servers (which costs money) or pay diaspora to do it (which costs money)
Are smart pointers the accepted alternative or are you talking about real garbage collection?
If you're doing the designs yourself you're doing yourself a great disservice by charging so little.

Often times most people assume they have an endless well of creativity in them but in actually its a feast and famine scenario. Assuming you want to do this full-time you will burn out eventually.
As an entrepreneur, this is exactly the kind of situation I'm worried about: a service provider (PayPal, Amazon, etc.) shutting me down based on nothing more than somebody in the government disapproving of some of the content on my site.
Who says he's spending two hours or less?

If he spends 1-2 hours on a design, that's $7.50-$15 per hour. Any longer and he wouldn't be making enough to be worth his time, even in the Philippines or India. For a true portfolio, you'd want better designs than 1-2 hour quickies
Dude, you are talking so far out your ass that your small intestine is showing.
Kind of, as I am using Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ, I cloned the repo and took a look at it.

ZeroMQ is a message passing toolkit with a lot of goodies where Pluton is to solve the concurrency problem, that is, when you generate a web page, you can access maybe 20 different services and merge the results in the page. If the 20 services requires each 5 ms to answer, you get 100 ms compute time when called in series, but imagine you can call the 20 in 2 batches, you can get an optimal 10 ms.

This what is provided by Pluton, a framework to call many services in parallel to improve the overall latency of your application from the end client point of view. Each small service run by default on the same system, but they can in return use ZeroMQ to communicate with other components.

The HTML documentation of the project is really good.
I remember this, it was part of Operation Sundevil..

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Operation_Sun...

(oops apparently it is not, but it's an interesting read anyways!)
EFF: Say No to Online Censorship
One notable difference is that the chrome version reworks the article pages, the skimmer appears to just frame them
I am a man of principles. Your mistaken assumption is that they are your principles. :)
Great concept, love the branding, and love the marketing built into the concept. Not a lot of fluff on the page, just the necessities. And once you get busier and have a portfolio, you can start charging more, more, and more until you're getting a good return on your time.

Helluva business model, love the thought that went into it. If there's anyway I can help, let me know. Tweeting commencing right....meow!
I think you may want to leak a little more. You ask for emails to sign up for beta invites, but there is no clear indication as to what perspeck is. Why would I want to sign up?
In what way are lambdas convoluted?
What's the point of this submission?
Why are these the only 2 outcomes? Why not grow a business?
Daniel Ellsberg's an amazing counter-example to everybody who says "these new technologies are only for the young."
Luckily, the State Department doesn't have the power to declare something illegal. Please stop adding to the hyperbole of the already heated reactions.
Tobias Buckell's blog post: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/12/08/dragon-spacecraftfal...
To me 'first' and 'original' have a pretty specific meaning that does not translate in to 'hugely successful', that's a yardstick of marketing, not of originality.
Completely agree, but to play devil's advocate: maybe they're catering to the OS (in which case it's closer to a "The New York Times: iPad Edition" than your IE example).
- C
- Java
- Python

Optional: Japanese, probably. I thought of learning a new language for some months but am still unsure which. Maybe this thread gives some idea :)
To disseminate some novel information to programmers who are interested in this sort of thing.
if you're a fan of python, keep your eye on djangy. those guys are sharp.
I'm having trouble seeing this as anything but bad news.
If he's trying to build up a portfolio of work, he'd normally be doing it for free, why would he be trying to make market rates? You're assuming that this is someone building a living from this.
I went to IED in madrid, it (was) strong conceptually which is exactly what I was looking for in post grad studies
I'm going to try to articulate a position that I think that I understand but is not mine, so please bear with me.

Let's put aside what is "legal" and focus on what is "socially desirable" business behavior from the perspective of Anon. MasterCard, as a private entity, has wide leeway in how it chooses to deal with other private entities such as Wikileaks. Is this socially desirable? While I have no special insight into what Anon is thinking, I would surmise that they are not pleased that private entities are restricting free-flow of information and acting as a state's agents even when not compelled to do so by the force of law.

We've heard from many business (Amazon, PayPal, etc) that blocking WikiLeaks (and consequently inhibiting free distribution of classified US documents and secret corporate information) is, at its core, a profitable business decision. I would guess that Anon is trying to send a message that such an "anti-freedom" decision (scare quotes intentional) can instead become very expensive.
Thanks. I updated the title.
How the Wikileaks Mirror Network Changes Over Time
My reasons for choosing an OS:
-Software I want is written for it
-User Experience is reasonable
-supports my outboard hardware

So I use either a Mac Pro or a macbook pro with snow leopard and windows 7 on it. Every requirement above is satisfied by either OS. Linux, unfortunately, does not meet the first or last requirement for me. As a hobbyist musician, I get the desire for more performance per clock cycle, but today any OS and even a netbook offers enough performance to get some work done. I guess Im a Macindows fan boy.

I see merit in performance testing the various OSes out there, and its safe to say that all of them need improvement in some area. But this does little to make me want to give up my software/hardware and make do with an open source alternative.
Not necessarily. The businesses have been on very different trajectories.
Seconded. How many programming languages would have nearly a third of their community not choose to learn them again?
I really want the New York Times website to look like a newspaper. Changing it to a non-descript anybody site throws away the richness of its heritage. I know the richness is in the content but warm fuzzy feelings help you digest the brain matter.
I'm with you man, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. I cast my fate to the wind years ago. And by the way, I think the use of tin foil is highly underrated and needlessly ridiculed.

What I want to know is, why should harmless fuzz-balls like us have to worry about anything in life? We are but simple people, minding our own business in honest toil, needing only our daily ration of beer and bread. Now if I could just write that with an Irish accent.
HotOrNot already exists.
Ask HN: Advice for 'sneaking' into dream school.
I really want to go to Georgia Tech. It is the best school for what I want to study and it would be a stimulating environment for me where I would be around passionate professors and like-minded students.

Two problems:
1.) My high school gpa and SAT/ACT is not what most students have. A 3.2 and a 1800/27.
2.) Community college was so boring that I do not want to waste time there trying to take more classes to transfer. I'd rather try to get in as a full-time student.

Why do I think I am worthy of acceptance?
1.) I want to study environmental engineering and industrial design so I can help solve problems that will affect all of us.
2.) I worked for my brother's startup (www.myriann.com) from 14 to 19 instead of participating in extracurriculars.
3.) I am creating a science-fiction series that has an accompanying soundtrack and animation with my best friend.
4.) A first generation college student from bottom half of income bracket. Worked a job since 14 to help parents pay bills and pay off debt.

Anyone have any advice, experience, or ideas?

Please and thanks.
I just started a new blog and wanted a nice design for it. $15 is definitely a good price, if it's a decent design. (Note that I said 'decent' and not 'outstanding'. I know what design is really worth.)

But without some samples, it feels like I'm just throwing away $15.
Since Lieberman himself is an Israeli agent, this takes some nerve.
Python, Ocaml, Erlang

Learning Korean at the moment. Mainly in order to know what I'm buying in the supermarket.
Because Google Apps isn't free and gmail is?
I wonder if the perpetrators of this attack realize an attack against e-commerce may attract the attention of federal authorities more than one against a quasi-religious group.
The cynical part of my brain is currently quite convinced that there several members of some US security agency currently on 4chan instigating these pointless attacks in an attempt further turn public opinion against wikileaks and their supporters. People quickly switch from indifferent to hostile once they are personally affected.
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Since it hasn't even been a generation since MZ started Facebook, shouldn't that be 'the current generation of MZ wannabes'?
Cyber warfare has always been a staple of sci-fi fiction, but generally between nation states. I can't help but wonder if the reality is that this 'warfare' won't be so much between nation states, but between governments and the public and we're witnessing the start of this with a secretive and paranoid government(s) on one side and a distrusting and increasingly activist 'public' on the other. Corporations are stuck in the middle looking at their bottom line, but pressured from both sides.
I upvoted you, but I was mostly just quoting the jwz article from 1998.
There is a free version of Google Apps: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
But what is "socially desirable" is a completely subjective thing though. There could be a small group of Anons that think banning gays from entering the military is "socially desirable" and use that as a basis for taking down websites of companies who work with the military.

It's Mastercard's choice whom they do business with, and by launching this attack Anon is only further solidifying the misguided popular belief that Wikileaks is akin to a terrorist organization. It may seem like a victory in the short term, but in terms of Wikileak's PR I think it's a huge setback.
A poll on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983229
Can you explain why the aa gets disabled in Safari but not Chrome? Seems strange considering they're both running Webkit.
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It's not a dissimilar concept to strike action, in that it may well have a negative effect on customers, but is believed to be neccesary none-the-less.

I fully support unions and strikers, however I'm not sure how I feel about this kind of action. The similarity ends with differences such as strikers have names, faces, spokespeople, they decide together if they are for or against striking, it isn't one or more people with nothing to do with the company who makes the decision.
Right! Novell was already hemorrhaging cash before they bought SUSE, and Linux was replacing Solaris before Sun gave away the family jewels. Neither one of those companies were known for their open-source contributions before Red Hat started eating their lunch.
OK, a lot of people are saying this is bad news for developers. They may be right but really, one of the good things about Heroku is that there is no lockin: seriously, it is simple to take any rack-based web app off of Heroku and other hosting options like self-managed EC2s, VPSs, etc.

I suspect that Saleforce will at least try hard to not lock the boat.
In fact, I don't see that Sun was any more of an open-source company than, say, Google (another public company that contributes to free software but makes its money elsewhere).

And don't forget Mozilla, which might not be a public company (it's a non-profit foundation with a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary) but is entirely open-source-focused and pays hundreds of people to work on free software.
Is there any possibility that they'd start redirecting to this based on User-Agent?
Put not your faith in cloud computing: it will one day rain on your parade.
While I too, am not sure that I agree with the position Anonymous is taking, I do feel like the fact that even you qualify the word "illegal" with "technically." And the first reply makes a fine case for why MC's positions and reasons not to do business stink of the heavy hand of a certain first-world nation.

Excepting that, I would also argue that what has happened to WikiLeaks in the wake of the documents being release by the bureaucratic nations of the world is setting a far more dangerous precedent online.

I, for one, hope ICANN is working on solutions to DNS being effectively held hostage by a few sovereign nations.
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But this time it's social.
I go to Florida Tech. I was watching the webcast of the launch up until just after it launched. Then I ran outside and caught it just as it was getting over the trees. Watched it until it was just out of view.

I love my university.
I'm really not a fan of Internet mob justice. I don't see how this attack helps Wikileaks in any way. It's only going to make it harder to find anyone willing to do business with them.
Columbia in Chicago, though the best school is the one called "just start designing" and reading every how to blog post on the internet.

If you're around Chicago, we're pretty plugged into the design community here and can get you intros to folks and events. Good luck!