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Terrific analysis. This bit summarizes much of the article:

> Level 3 thought it was entirely fair—in part because this is not traffic that is transiting through Comcast's network, but traffic that is headed for Comcast subscribers and was requested by them. Under this view, Comcast is trying to charge a content provider for the very access to content that it is selling to its own customers.
I think "uncertainty" is a simplistic excuse. Really we as business owners may not need to overstaff, or want to. We may be more efficient from an hr perspective than we were 10 or 20 years ago.

The interest rate excuse made me think we should guarantee at some level access to capital to all businesses (at risk relative rates of course).
That is how I understand it to work, yes.
If he did do it, he was presumably drunk and horny and not really thinking straight. If he did do it, it's not a jump-out-with-a-knife rape, but a "hey stop that"/"naah c'mon" type rape.

The dude doesn't exactly seem to be one of life's alpha males. Suddenly getting a lot of action at the age of 39 due to newfound fame could easily have gone to his head. Who knows?
Wu's solution for the Cluedo puzzle seems inefficient. Could've saved an array assignment by doing mur[] and wep[] at the same time since they are of the same length.

Also, there might be a bug in Wu's solution. It seems the first time through the while loop, the parameters for the Theory function are off by 1. i.e. m=6, l=10, w=6.
Is there a measurable benefit compared to having the OS stack there? I suppose none of the POSIX stuff are there, right?
You are saying the CoC is in bed with the republican party, I admittedly haven't paid much attention to them other than at local levels but never saw them as being in bed with the GOP.
Text and words were the original thing that copyright applied to, back with the printing press.
So by "closely connected" you mean a non-profit that received some funding from an organization that has partnered with many companies, one of which Comcast may buy some stock of?
They get free public education for a reason. That was a fairly outrageous proposition back in the day. (More so than free healthcare would be nowadays). But they get primarily so they make rational voting decisions. Math and literature is nice as a side-effect but that was not the original intent.

Now when they see their kids getting left behind and brainwashed by the school system they should be doing something about it.

Otherwise they should be held responsible for being apathetic.
If you wanna build a really cool building out of stone, save up your money until you have enough to build it with cash. That's what the men who built those cool old buildings did.
Does your app have i18n?
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>There's a big gap between Wikileaks' stated goals and the actual results of their actions.

There is nothing in what you say that constitutes a critique of the project management going on at Wikileaks. You're saying their schedule is slipping, or that the goal is succumbing to yak shaving? Look at what site you're on.

You can't always plan the outcome and/or the effect of a project. It is the nature of the entrepreneur to execute on their idea and let the chips fall where they may, and indeed the very site that you've spent enough time on to earn a five-figure karma has a culture and a tradition that glorifies the MVP: minimum viable product. What of WL in that light? How is it that your judgement comes down so squarely against such a central concept of the HN world this time? I don't think politics is a good enough reason here, and Assange cannot be faulted for not being able to predict the future. Shorter: let's look at YouTube's original plan, shall we?

Maybe the lesson you're teaching is that the best MVP is an appropriate MVP? An MVP that has a known outcome and thus is the perfect project: one with a known need and no competition, a pure niche?

The above may be blunt, and I don't mean to raise a One True Scotsman specter, but I think it's appropriate to question why WL is not given the conceptual-outcome leeway generally allowed to MVPs, or whether they need it at all.
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Is it my imagination, or is this a poor line of argument?

"Uncertainty about future business regulations is causing us to hold off on major hiring and investment decisions for now."

"Wuss!"
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IMHO, websites should include a single js file. In development you can have 100 js files, but in production these should be combined into a single file.

The downside is that you might include things you don't need in all pages, but that's not an issue because the file is transferred once, and cached. This will also minimize future conditional GET requests that check wether the cached file has changed or not.
There is a new site up by the guys/girls who created kiva.org:
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I think you would be a good fit for it.
> One parking ticket per day for the rest of your life.

That one left me breathless. Surely no government would be that cruel.
I can't reply to your more deeply threaded comment, so I'll reply here. There has been many stories about the CoC this year; here's an example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/us/politics/22chamber.html...

The CoC is the largest lobbying organization in the US and >90% of its advertising during the 2010 election cycle went to support Republicans or attack Democrats.
Minimum Viable Product doesn't apply when people get killed as a result of your actions.

(Yes, this also applies to the poorly planned and poorly executed occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. government doing stupid shit in a war is not a justification to leak unrelated diplomatic cables that risk getting good people killed for no good reason)
Interesting. Anyone know of a barebones Xen harness? Could be fun to bring a few other things straight to the virtual metal.
How is saying that non-autistic people have autistic traits any different than saying non-sociopaths have sociopathic traits? You're being hypocritical.

Certainly there are traits that are well established as being "autistic" and "sociopathic". This is the former, not the latter -- the latter is characterized by a more predatory or ambitious nature, which this guy seems to lack, at least by his own descriptions. It's morelike he doesn't see the point in socialization. Sociopaths, on the contrary, are very social.

And, despite the fact that you keep claiming I did so, I did not call him autistic, and the first time you accused me of calling him autistic, I said that wasn't true. I guess I'd hope I wouldn't have to tell you things twice.
But they don't come cheap.

And that is he crux of the issue, most non-developers don't know what is involved in developing a software product. They get sticker shock and start nickle and dime'ing the developer. Once this happens, if the developer does not walk or assert there position, it instantly sets the project at risk. Because the developer leaves the mentality of quality and starts down the mindset of good enough. Developers have a dollar per hour target, if there bottom threshold is broken they are going to comprise quality to keep their numbers where they want them to be. The sign of a good developer is seeing this and being willing to walk away from the situation. The old saying holds true, you get what you pay for.
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information that didn't serve any real political purpose than making the U.S. look bad

Wow. Look, there are other countries in the world besides the US. And the citizens of those countries deserve to know the truth about their governments. So yes, this data dump doesn't make the US government look particularly bad. But it does make some other governments look quite bad, and the people that live under those governments have a right to learn that information.

Don't you agree?
I'd call that more like mob rule.. totalitarian implies institutions. But I guess it's all connotations once you're splitting those hairs.
I know you don't really think that's the website for his bar.
yeah, i don't really care about original intentions, we're now where the rubber meets the road. i don't fault an opportunist for seizing the moment, and i read anybody arguing that this is not the right moment for wikileaks to exist. that the (US) media shirks their responsibility in kowtowing to power is not a controversial assertion.

by and large, people with a problem with WL have a problem with the implementation. they want the warning messages to be reworded, and maybe have a 3px box-corner radius. i dunno, you think 5px would look too soft? anyway, what harm is there is letting him do whatever he does? he's not taking info himself, he's at the mercy of his submitters. i'd certainly love to see a zynga tag go up on WL, but until then we have our wonderful government and military to pay attention to and read about. consider it political pornography.
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So in Rosen's book he argues that full transparency will never work because A) people have a short attention span so the majority will never work to understand the context that our actions take place in and B) good ideas often take several years to come up with, and full transparency would open us up to ostracism or punishment based on a work on progress or something that we are just exploring and don't even fully believe.

In general I think secrets are good when they protect us from others, as Rosen shows is necessary, and bad when they are used to exert power over others. (Which seems to be how secrets are used to hide corruption.) I have no problem with the government analyzing foreign policy in secret, but I have a big problem with them killing people without producing any evidence to justify it. It would take more effort to come up with a litmus test or working definition so that's the best I can do for right now.
I'm interpreting this article to say Assange's goal is to decrease the effectiveness of the conspiracy (eg, US government function) by killing off information flows within the conspiracy.

If that is so, then I really fear a world with Assange as the head of Wikileaks.

One of the major reasons why the government failed to prevent the 9/11 plot was because nobody had all the information in one place so that they could connect the dots. The 9/11 Commission recommended that different parts of the government increase the amount of information they share with each other. (Indeed, the State Department posting certain cables onto SIPRNET that was the source of this leak was part of the response to that recommendation.)

If Assange's actions induce a return to the world of stovepiping, then the future might not be so rosy.

Then I guess my only question is why does he want a world like this? Will society be better off in this kind of world?
The goal if Wikileaks is not to make the US Government look silly or appear to have lied. It's simply to make it harder for it to keep secrets ... any secrets.

Don't forget that with the Afghan/Iraq war logs we learned that much of what is being kept secret is simply for propaganda reasons, not for the security reasons claimed by the government.
as long as someone gets hung, right? i mean, let's be clear about our priorities.
yes indeed, "who knows?"
But vigilante justice is homicide, and what Julian is doing is equivalent, how? You could call him an anarchist nerd publishing whatever low-level diplomatic snippets fall through the cracks, but surely, the things that are truly classified won't fall through the cracks to the likes of him.

This is the internet: you can publish content anonymously without extraordinary effort. Assanage simply provides a microphone. If he'd been a little less paranoid, he'd have made an amazing journalist.
How do you distinguish between living as a fugitive for "attention-whoring purposes," and having legitimate concerns for one's freedom and well-being? I would be pretty damned paranoid if I were in his shoes, even prior to the most recent release, and all of my hats are made of natural fiber.
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While I'm not nearly rich enough to make the loan anyway, if I were I'd be disinclined to give a better deal than the bank. It seems like a fairly risky loan; your money is guaranteed by a property which probably can't be sold for its construction cost and some shares in a business which may or may not go broke.
It's funny, people attack Assange for only wanting to leak this information to attack the United States. Obviously, they've looked at it and they know what it says, thus, if they release the info even when it doesn't "shame" the United States, it seems to refute those claims.

In fact, I think the fact that these items were leaked despite, in some cases, the good light it places the United States in, goes to Wikileaks' credit.
There are some of us with such specialized talent that finding yet alone employing us is next to impossible.

For example one of my firms big specialties is persons with disabilities development and consultancy for web applications. Put simply, we make JavaScript web apps work for the disabled. So along with our general UX/HCI development services, we have people that specialize in PWD/UX.

To hire one of them would be ridiculously expensive, there are maybe 50-100 people in the world with a formal HCI/PWD education, and you would only need them on a project for 1 or 2 months max, usually less than that.

So unless you are doing a lot of different projects it makes no sense to hire that role. Security is another that you generally don't need a full time loaded person for.
and you know that if one could be even remotely identified as such that obama himself would announce it on national tv. they got nothin'.
You really believe the intelligence directorates of various top nation states are walking around jabbing glass ttys with sticks and saying "durrr"? Stuxnet, Titan Rain, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Keyhole?

It doesn't take a genius to know DDOS'ing isn't going to accomplish anything of significance, basically you just have to be paying a fraction of attention.
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I'd argue that the American people don't actually have any say over the organizations that keep secrets... they've taken on a life of their own.

Evidence? That much of the information revealed about Iraq/Afghanistan was suppressed for propaganda reasons -- the government didn't want the American people to know that the taliban has certain weapons, that the simple good/evil story is complicated by ISI involvement, that the US knowingly handed detainees over to the Iraqi regime for very likely torture, etc.

Any voter who supported the pretense of the war would surely want to know the truth about how the war is going before deciding whether to continue supporting it! The propaganda agencies suppressed certain info in order to tell a particular story back home.

The truth can work in favor of the war or against it. There were some aspects that worked in favor of it, but in my opinion the reason Wikileaks is a good thing is b/c it helps deprive our leaders of the ability to deceive us.
Since the book talks about accessing the geolocation facilities of the phone via JavaScript then that should clue you in to that as a kind of lower limit to the limitations. God that's garbled--- I think I mean to say if you can mess with GPS using just JavaScript then you shouldn't have much in the way of limitations. Can't be as good as objective-c and IOS, but this should be for lighter apps anyway.
This is not a facetious question, but if 60-80 hours a week isn't optimal, what is the optimal number of hours a week that maximizes success rate for an early-stage startup?
And anyway, how many people make the Interpol Red Notice list for rape allegations?

Most alleged rapists don't constantly relocate around the world like Assange. People who don't hop from country to country don't end up on Interpol watchlists because generally, the country that wants to take them into custody just directly negotiates with the country they're residing in.

I'm not saying Assange moves around a lot to avoid the Swedish justice system--the idea that he does it for the interests of Wikileaks is credible enough--but regardless of his motivation for moving around from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, that's the kind of behavior that elevates a matter from a simple extradition matter to an international watchlist.
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I am graduating from college soon. My eventual goal is to start my own company. I think I should work at a small (<50 employee) company. My parents think I should work at Google or Facebook. Any thoughts or links to previous discussions about this?

Specifically, I would like to know what all you think is the best preparation for starting something on my own.
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Can you cite your source please? or a source? thanks.

<i>For reference, the average American uses 16 different financial products, with about 2 products per bank. A good bank like Wells Fargo boasts a ratio of 5.5-6 products per customer. Your typical bank earns its money on an 80/20 split, where 80% comes from the interest spread (borrow at 3%, lend at 6%, net 3%) and 20% comes from fees (overdraft, interchange, fees for other products). </i>
It also helps if you can wait until a period of enormous wealth inequality so that skilled labor is basically free.
but he should certainly return to Sweden to stand trial

If you're innocent, there's no moral obligation to stand trial. The onus rests with the accusers to make the case. It may or may not be in the accused's best interest to offer a defense, but I fail to see how he's bound merely by the accusation.
In defence of wikileaks - Economist Post:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/ov...
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The main limitation is not technical in nature. The App Store is a marketing force that you get benefit simply by releasing a native app.

Can you name any good HTML/CSS/JS iOS "apps"? Either there aren't many (any?) or people don't know about them (which is basically the same thing)

edit: responses noted, guess I didn't read carefully enough
Yeah, and it's a damned shame, too. I used to look at the Chamber of Commerce as a pretty cool civic institution. Now they're just one more group of hacks. Especially grating to hear them talk about 'small business' when the policies they're advocating, by the dollars, are way more about entrenched big business and institutional investors.
The book has a chapter on using PhoneGap to automatically create apps that can be submitted to the App Store, so this is not a limitation.
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I search the web extensively looking for guidance and resources to build a curriculum that I can follow to learn to program. I want to get out of my current job and into work building software. I have some experience, but still consider myself a beginner.

One thing I noticed is that there are a huge amount of resources available but they are pretty widely dispersed. It occurred to me that it might be helpful for beginner-types to have a place to go that collects pointers to these resources. I can't be the only person with this idea, so why haven't I found something like it? Since I'm building my own study plan I've already found a lot of the content that would make the site. Perhaps the site would elicit feedback/improvements and become a useful resource and place for self-motivated beginners to connect with fundamental topics of programming.

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My domains have my actual contact info on them including my name and address of service, I can't imagine a court wouldn't find that a sufficient substitute for the $105 listing. At least, that's the angle I would take if I found myself in that position.
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So you want to work at a small company and you want to know whether working at a small company is a good way to do it? Yes, I'd say so.
legal action because?

The only thing i can see, is if they actually "owe" you money, but for poor support not so much.
The article was longer than the title, it turns out. I was surprised too.
37Signals Chalk is the first that comes to mind. But we're doing a few of these apps where I work, and my HTML5 and CSS3 book shows how to do an offline app with the Web SQL storage API too. This is actually really cool stuff when you think about applications for business. You're not gonna write games with it, but you can make usable interfaces for your apps.

And if you feel the need to be on the app store, grab Titanium, use the Titanium.UI.webview control and point it at your mobile site. We're proably going to do that to make a few of our web apps show up on the stores, because we don't have the resources to develop native Android / IOS versions of the apps we are building. So we'll do Rails apps with HTML5 / CSS3 / JS and jQTouch or jQuery Mobile, and wrap them if people demand appstore access.
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You'd likely never even know that an HTML5 app wrapped in PhoneGap or Titanium wasn't native. There are many of those on the app store already. In fact, the subtitle of the book specifically mentions the app store: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa.
Yeah, my phrasing there was a bit bad, what I meant was that they didn't serve any intended political purpose than making the U.S. look bad. I don't think Wikileaks was out to accomplish much else than sucker punch U.S. policy.

The effects on other nations, while likely the primary effect of these, probably were considered "collateral damage" towards the goal of the leak by the leakers.
That was all I was asking for. Thank you, not sure why my asking this got so many down votes but I appreciate your response.
"Meanwhile, a similar scene will be played out in every embassy across the world as the State Department is forced into damage control mode across a hundred or so different fronts."

Perhaps, but that's really just opportunism by the various governments. After all, they know that they often turn around and criticize/mock/denigrate the Americans they meet.

This sort of behavior by diplomatic staff has been going on since before the invention of "diplomatic staff". And they all know it.
You'll learn a lot more at a small company as you get / have to wear many hats in your role. The many roles you play will prepare to better for your own business

In a large company everyone is very specialized so you won't really get to step outside your role too much
I'm born in CA and live in MN, and well... this applies. CA is a more 'asking' culture, Minnesota definitely not.
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