skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly agree with their Goals and I see very similar flaws in many governments. I am not sure their way is the best way to make governments listen, but it certainly is one way that gets publicity. The issue with their publicity is that news networks do not broadcast their message, they broadcast their actions which in turn intimidates and scares the less tech-savvy portion of society. This does not achieve their goals, but they make a statement. A statement is better than no statement.
Their Twitter status from about half an hour ago is far more interesting:

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/94033541196824576

"We're currently working with certain media outlets who have been granted exclusive access to some of the News of the World emails we have."
Using the right tone is paramount, innit?
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Thanks, it makes sense now also thanks to brehaut's comment. I hadn't realized it actually _is_ a Clojure implementation in JavaScript.

Edit: Actually that's not strictly true. "What ClojureScript is Not" https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Core-blog-post...
This really speaks of Hacker New's segment. For non-techies it's perfect - yes, multi monitor support is corrupt, but I'm sure it'll come by in couple of months. The important thing is that working with fullscreen apps via mission contra doesn't feel like IQ puzzles.
Hehe:

“I generally tell Mac users that if they care about security, they should upgrade to Lion sooner rather than later, and the same goes for Windows users, too.”
Totally off topic, but that is an amazing Javascript library. Thank you.
Yep: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/
> It's basically parity with Windows 7 and mainstream Linux; inferior to security-specific Linux builds (e.g. SELinux).

I am not aware that the kind of sandboxing Lion offers (and promotes, and encourages through things like the pbox daemon) is available on any consumer OS (apart from SELinux, and that's hardly a consumer OS), let alone with that attention to painlessness from the user's POV.
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I'm not sure it is a "move by Apple" - Adobe have had months of access to Lion (like every developer in the world) and didn't bother to check or patch incompatibilities. Sloppy Adobe.
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I read "Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits higher" and instantly pictured an executive somewhere rolling his eyes as he reads that.

I understand the feelings disgust with the current state of the system, and I get how in leu of an actual solution one would feel frustrated enough to act out in the ways that they have, but I stand firm in my belief that there is a better way of accomplishing the changes we/they want to see, even if nobody has figured out what that is yet.
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Works fine on Airtel.
Reminded a bit of V for Vendetta's speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORflS7uEIc

And bit of John F. Kennedy:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
Who writes this stuff? It comes across as silly, hyperbolic, and even melodramatic, and detracts from the actual content.

Lulz: consider this constructive criticism. Take it down a notch.
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I like the point of this post, but I wish the author would have elaborated more. Sanitary URLs are great because they play on human emotions. Looking at the simple, clean Apple URL, it does two things: it provides an easy to remember route to their specific product, and two, it feels clean. In contrast, the Sony URL feels dirty and disorganized, lacking a real focus and seemingly, makes the Walkmen feel like just another electronic whatchamacalit. Although it seems purely cosmetic, there's a subconscious thing going on. Yes it helps developers/consumers but even more importantly, it makes your brand look focused. There should be more writing on the psych aspects of web development. I feel like there's a lot to be said.
Not that it's a DVCS, but I remember ClearCase had this brilliant "dynamic" mode which would hook into explorer and simulate a drive with the entire contents of a repo, but only download the files you need when you needed them. I haven't seen that anywhere else
That's why it would be nice (as the grandfather post says) to streamline business and labour laws so that would be easier. It could happen as more people move to that kind of existence. I don't think he denies that the red tape is currently necessary.
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I'm (hoping) guessing a 14 year old kid with too much time on his hands
Can someone rehost this elsewhere like pastie.org or something?
Pastebin is blocked by websense. :/
Focus on your app...harder and faster. This validation from the competition means that you are onto something. Maximize in-game social remarketing potential to expand the audience. 600 users is small enough set that a willful larger competitor can throw 50-100K at to develop their own solution and market it to out penetrate you. Unless this is ESPN calling to market your app on their website, I don't see this as anywhere near a fair deal at current terms. The value of traffic is relatively low compared to high value terms like equity, brand and rev share, especially in a high growth, early stage product.

Don't get into hard negotiations with this firm until you know they are serious about making a play that benefits both parties equitably. This deal initially sounds like a mid-level VP found you guys, is hustling for a stellar deal that'll make him/her look great, without the CxO's awareness. Remember, a banner ad and pixel space on a website is cheap and relatively intangible, cold hard cash and brand awareness is not. Make sure you get to personally know the general directors of the company. Impress them with your team's insight and prowess on the social market.

They should fear your team--not vice versa.
I like this idea. There should be some sort of "base" that you go to, though, it shouldn't be a requirement that you be there all the time. I feel like humans respond better to changing environments and being able to jump between the home, office, or wherever influences a much better mood and willingness to be productive.
There is no way that they're going to kill off the research group at Google. I suspect that they're just going to be keeping a lot of their research out of the public eye, not letting us play with the toys that they've created.
> it seems to confuse the document itself with the editing framework

Is it me, or is this a sign the format isn't going to be open in any meaningful sense?
1) The fact Myhrvold is brilliant is beside the point 2) if Kedrosky looked up Myhrvold's credentials in Wikipedia instead of hearing from people who knew him first-hand, Kedrosky would still be taking other people's word for his brilliance
This is probably missing the point, but JavaScript is hosted on both the JVM and JavaScript VMs (thanks to Rhino). By extension, everything that compiles to JS is hosted on both.
"I would automate myself right out of writing software all together."

Interestingly, the usual way to accomplish this is to become an employer.
Hello thar FBI and international law authorities,

We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138555799/fbi-arrests-alleged-...

The statements made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky in this
article clearly seem to be directed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, and we are
happy to provide you with a response.

You state:

"We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable,
[even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it's entirely
unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts."

Now let us be clear here, Mr. Chabinsky, while we understand that you and
your colleagues may find breaking into websites unacceptable, let us tell
you what WE find unacceptable:

* Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep
them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.

* Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking
advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for
federal contracts we all know they can't fulfil.

* Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits
higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around
the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough
so the status quo will never change.

These governments and corporations are our enemy. And we will continue to
fight them, with all methods we have at our disposal, and that certainly
includes breaking into their websites and exposing their lies.

We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to
us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your
citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our
mission to help these people and there is nothing - absolutely nothing - you
can possibly to do make us stop.

"The Internet has become so important to so many people that we have to
ensure that the World Wide Web does not become the Wild Wild West."

Let me ask you, good sir, when was the Internet not the Wild Wild West? Do
you really believe you were in control of it at any point? You were not.

That does not mean that everyone behaves like an outlaw. You see, most
people do not behave like bandits if they have no reason to. We become bandits
on the Internet because you have forced our hand. The Anonymous bitchslap rings
through your ears like hacktivism movements of the 90s. We're back - and we're
not going anywhere. Expect us.
Actually, no, it goes deeper than that.

Most people never learn how to use the address bar. Period. It's not that the URLs are too hard or complex to learn, it's that they don't know there's anything they could learn to type in there.
This hits the nail on the head, for me. I thought staying motivated would be my primary problem before I started, but what's definitely worn me down the most is the lack that delineation -- both in my routine and in the physical separation of work and home.

I've tried to remain positive -- and have for the most part -- but after time, and especially when I have projects at work accumulating, it's extremely easy to feel trapped at work/home.
The person you responded to stated a belief that environmental considerations were the most important. The website that started these conversations has listed only ocean fish. Three of the five points you listed have nothing to do with the environment. Your statement about jeremymims logic is out of place.

There are negative environmental impacts from ocean fish farms. I don't enough about non-ocean fish farms to comment on the environmental impacts of non-ocean fish farms though.
What are they gonna do when every govt/corporate website starts sanitizing its webapps' input and patching its network services? All they'll be able to do is DoS.

Wouldn't it be funny if the FBI & associated agencies actually worked to increase the security of the nation's networks instead of acting surprised every time they get penetrated?
The democratization of technology has rapidly brought it to the masses in the past two decades. Information is much more easily available and for the most part free. I couldn't imagine trying to predict what is going to happen in the next 50 let alone 10 years. Just like the iPhone several years ago surely the next disruptive technology will come out of left field.
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Users don't, unless they are typing them. Which is rare, since most people use search engines and click the links. However if you are developing a URL that you intend people to type, of course you make it easy. A deep URL for a product in a shopping site? Users don't care what that looks like.

SEO is another matter, self-descriptive URLs are generally ranked higher.
As far as some of the more "vandalism / hax0rs having fun" type things like redirecting the Sun's homepage I mostly agree, but the documents they've acquired might cause actual damage to the people they oppose, depending on what they contain. So that portion might be effective.
For an article that claims that Lion has bested anything found in Windows or Linux, it doesn't seem to bother to list the functionality that can be found in Lion but not Windows/Linux.
I find the idea of a bunch of 4chan, excuse me, "newfags" and "oldfags" frakking around the internet "for the lulz" and/or "shits and giggles" a lot more friendly and support-worthy than the same people rolling out a huge Robin-Hood/"the abused Davids striking back against Goliath Corps" banner and all in the name of "true justice" and "freedom".

I miss the "wild wild west" internet a lot but the last thing we need is yet another entity pushing its interests onto the web.

Hack and deface and publish, by all means, for great lulz! You are a lot more unique, random, loveable and (actually) useful that way.
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That's tumblr's URL scheme, and I don't believe there's any way for the user to change it.
Twitter has some serious UX issues to overcome. If this sacking is a step towards finally dealing with those issues, then Twitter Inc. will only be stronger. If its just some part of a power play or structural re-alignment, then I fear that Twitter may be at risk of losing the plot. They've got an awful lot of work to do to start rationalizing the sharp edges on their service or risk alienating the next wave of Twitter adopters. The UX and value proposition is way to arcane for most people and I view this as Twitters biggest challenge to continued growth.
>What are they gonna do when every govt/corporate website starts sanitizing its webapps' input and patching its network services?

If that actually happens as a direct result of lulzsec, I submit that they should be given some sort of medal, and their choice of pacific islands.
I think I discovered a tiny problem in your 'relative proportions' formula picture.
you have

y' y
- = -
z' z'

in the first line. The z' on the bottom right should be just a z, right?
Other than that, this is perfectly clear, and I understood it even though I just came out of high school and haven't started college yet! Absolutely fantastic work!

EDIT: Fraction format
>What are they gonna do when every govt/corporate website starts sanitizing its webapps' input and patching its network services?

That's among their stated goals.
Or a 30-40 year old trying to impress, mobilize and exploit 14 year old kids with too much time on their hands.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but I recall reading something about Apple not participating in any philanthropic ventures? With so much money (and aside from the point that they invest a lot in their products), it's a wonder why they don't work on innovating products to help struggling nations. Granted, there's no rule that says a company needs to do these sorts of things, but I think it would be a cool move.
Mandatory Integrity Control provides an equivalent under Vista/7, but is not a requirement for applications. (The only applications I can think of that use it are IE8-9 and Chrome.)
Shouldn't this be solved by automatic saving apps' settings? In Lion, shouldn't I be supposed to put an application somewhere and it will stay there even after I quit it? I've installed Lion but had no time to play with it, will try this when I get home.
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It comes across to me as a deliberate, conscious and very effective attempt at mythmaking.
Unless you are working on a profit-share type deal where you are going to do the work at a cut-rate price and share in the profits later, most clients in my experience want to know what something is going to cost as early as possible (even it it's just a guesstimate).

You can work as much as you like on a proposal and it can, on paper, be the greatest thing ever and promise to increase profits by whatever-percentage but if it's something that is going to be out of reach of the immediate budget of the client, then you're wasting your own (and their) time.

I have been involved in multi-million £ proposals and when it got to the end it turns out the client was expecting something for 50k. Would have been much easier to lay the cards on the table earlier in the process.
Thank you - that's great news. I'll keep an eye out for it.
A title of "..which are sustainable" would be clearer. The article concerns the sustainability of the fish and not the goodness of them as a food. There is for example no mention of the problems of eating catfish farm raised in China (high levels of toxins).
Is the iPhone really an amazing new discovery that came out of nowhere?

I see it more as the result of inevitable cost reductions in recent technology (fast/low power CPUs, capacitive screens, better LCDs, higher density batteries/flash/RAM)...combined with a willingness to tell the phone carriers to suck it and do a phone the way Apple wanted to do it.
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Well, part of the reason for that is that people never actually need to learn about URLs, Google is perfectly adequate for the average web browsing needs. And I would say most people know how to copy/paste URLs to share them, so it's not a problem of 'learning' what they are and what they're for.
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I'm not following the logic on the hot water issue. What does heating it with gas have to do with it?
Sooo, why is this top link on HN? Am I missing some nifty tech embedded in the site, or is everyone here just interested in fish?
Honestly, this has been my argument against the menubar. It made sense in MacOS 1.0 and similar, but nowadays, it's just an archaic element kept for unknown reasons.

It's one thing that it's incredibly inconvenient in a multiple-monitor setup, it's another that the menubar is context-sensitive. So even if you've got the right app selected, you may have the wrong window, and when you go to print, you get the wrong page. Worse than that is that depending which window is chosen, certain options will also be grayed out.

It's the least innovative feature in MacOS X, and personally, I think it should go. You'd think by now that we'd come up with something better than a crappy dropdown menu.
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The way the adversarial judicial process works is that lawyers hire expert witnesses based on their ability and willingness to look the jury in the eye and claim in loud, ringing tones that they are 100% confident of their findings.
hah, technologies always seem obvious after they are created! Certainly an iphone like device was eventually inevitable - most inventions are. But Apple introduced it with a speed and quality that the rest of the industry would likely have taken many years, perhaps even a decade to innovate without Apple leading the way.
I wonder if the global cooling predictions of the 1960s and 1970s should be mentioned.
I don't even understand why it's named that, and it's not like they even bought the webputty.com domain.
Let’s compare Apple’s cash hoard against countries’ cash hoards rather than their GDP. Assuming the source data at:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

is correct then Apple slots in at position #4 (!), slightly ahead of Russia and quite a bit behind Germany.
Yeah I'm working at home a lot right now and it's not everything I hoped it would be. There's the nagging feeling all the time that "I could be working on X right now, the computer is right over there..."

It helps to have a real home office, a place you use for work and nothing else, in a separate room if you have the space. It also helps to set "work hours" otherwise you feel sort of like you're always (at least potentially) at work.
If Google+ said "here's your list of several hundred contacts, now categorize them" I would never get around to it.

But what they mainly present me with is three contacts at a time, always visible, and it just takes a couple clicks to categorize one. Then I get to see who pops up next. Every time I go on g+ I do a few of them without really thinking about it. And if you saw my hard disk you'd see I'm not much for organizing at all, generally.
I don't know of any option for that built into the OS, but a number of third party tools can add it. Quicksilver triggers are my method of choice, since I'm running Quicksilver anyway.
Can Apple do that? Helping struggling nations is not exactly extracting value for the shareholders and that’s what Apple has to do.

You can argue that spending some money (maybe a few million dollars per year) is good PR work and good for the company’s image – but spending a substantial portion of those 76 billion? Hardly a good way to use the money (from the shareholders’ perspective).

Apple could certainly participate in philanthropic ventures but it’s not a way for them to get rid of their money.
It's still odd. This whole thing seems a bit half baked.
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So you're saying balanced workouts are better than just pushups alone. I agree. But, in lieu of being able to do a full body workout at your desk, I think pushups are a good alternative to keep the blood flowing. Just be conscious to stretch occasionally.
"Remember when XP came out? (oh god, did I just age myself) " No, but unfortunately you aged me by implying that remembering that might age you.
@bitdiffusion Thanks for the real world reply. The only decision maker able to just work on an ROI number is the CEO and even then I'm not sure. Budgets rule. And I have worked for both Fortune 3 and 3-person startups. ROI is important but more important is the cost of entry.
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How do you discover that though? If you get to it from Google or another site, you're immediately thrown onto a page with a hideous, unrecognizable URL.
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Can you recommend any hacker channels?
Rest assured that it won't be the guardian. Charles Arthur, their useless tech editor, has recently been on the end of a torrent of spite from topiary, who writes the lulzsec press releases, likely including this one.

http://twitter.com/#!/atopiary

EDIT: apparently sabu has been joining in as well. Pretty amusing.
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Did anybody else read the factory factory story analogy and thought of the genie/meta genie analogy in Godel Escher Back?
Current documentation (as of 2011-07-06):
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...

Demos:
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As a customer, it is of very limited use for me to know that your product’s price is 100K.

That's true in business school cases but few other places. Budgets matter whether they are 10K or 10KKK.
Another factor I forgot about is career goals. If you love programming and that's your chosen profession that you intend to practice, it's great.

If you career goal is to move up through the organization though, missing the chance encounters with people in the hallway or not being seen is a liability that may negatively affect you. I've noticed in my career that being in the right place at the right time means something.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770011
If I had the nerve I would join them.

Bad-taste jokes and troublemaking.

Badly written manifestos.

But I think there are some in the groups who have their heart in the right place and want to do the right thing. And, illegal or not, I've yet to see any other form of western activism that is as disruptive as leaking/hacking.