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People risk their lives and their careers to submit this information.

This is exactly why it was deleted. Security of sources is more important than leaking the information. If the sources wanted the data published without regard for their own safety, they would have published it themselves.
Works great and looks brilliantly simple.

Old timer story: reminds me of the old MajorBBS direct /chat mode. At the time, the chaotic neutral people would "moof" the other person by sending a bunch of invisible characters (^H back then) and disconnecting the remote user as the FIFO buffer filled. I wonder if such a thing would be possible with the socket-like interface used here and in other apps.
Please explain where you see entitlement or a need for validation anywhere in there? It feels to me like you copied and pasted the wrong quote.
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And more importantly, the distribution in subsequent rounds. Especially the Polish and Russians are beast, but China is up there too.

(Ex-)communist countries are on top. I don't mean to imply anything with that, because I have no clue, just sayin'.
Source articles from Wikipedia and Stackoverflow! As long as you attribute it should be fine, and a good way to build some content.

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In which case surely he'd keep it in Europe?

Or is this Venezuela's gold rather than Chavez's personal gold? In any case, I'm sure that Chavez, like most dictators, has a crapload of money carefully squirreled away in foreign countries. Attempting to steal Venezuela's own gold and then sneak out with all he can carry doesn't sound useful.
Yes.

One thing I am unhappy about to this day is my experience with the career search arm of my alma mater.

It went like this...

Me, senior in college, on the job prowl. I walk in to the career services office, and they direct me to a window desk. The man sitting behind it has an immaculately put together suit. Boy, I think, this guy's a somewhat. No one else around here wears a suit.

I say, Hi, I'm looking for a job, what can you do for me.
Immaculately Dressed Gentleman (IDG) rises majestically and hands me a flyer for an alma-mater-branded subdomain of monster.com. "Go to this website, and create an account".

Shocked, I stare at IDG and mumble my thanks and confirm that yes, I did know how to create accounts and other Internetty things.
> "Best practices" are neither a hard science nor immutable
Yes. So what? Does it mean we don't have to study and apply them just because they are going to become obsolete eventually?

And I did read that text. In fact, I had read it earlier.
Related: if you want to complain that the guy's argument is nonsense, just complain that it's nonsense. There's no need to bring a perceived political orientation into it. The only thing your "tea party" comment does is adds a level of emotional polarization, much like his "socialism" comment before. Please keep such emotional baggage off of hacker news.
I have no problem with the idea that being able to copyright library APIs might affect other kinds of APIs. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916969 for a longer description of why I think the article is talking about how apple-y oranges are.
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The only issue stated about that is the possibility of deadlocks when done in an automatic way.

However, I claim that you can also do it in an automatic way and avoid deadlocks at the same time.
I'm surprised that there aren't any well known resellers of Limelight, Level3, and Akamai. With volume pricing, they are a fraction of the cost of S3 with the same level of redundancy. I've gotten quotes of $.04/GB and I've heard from peers that $.01/GB is possible at sufficient volume. Amazon's services have always seemed overpriced to me.
That's good and I'll definitely try Chrome. But, wouldn't it be great if the library/framework just took care of that? In fact, one of the frameworks -- Shining -- referred from the other post has a JavaScript plug-in that seems to do the resizing for different resolutions (although it's implemented in the ugliest way possible, IMO).
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2) http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2983-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...
I think the difference here is that there is not, in fact, unrestricted side-effects. Because the STM transaction scope is decided by the interpreter, not by the programmer, the interpreter can ensure the current STM transaction is committed immediately before any operation with side-effects, and a new transaction started immediately after. This loses some of the power of STM, certainly, but PyPy's only aiming to maintain internal consistency of interpreter data structures at this point, so this is good enough for them.
"Hacking" is like "terrorism"; it's not an end state. It's "spying" when it's done for "spying". It's an "act of war" when it's done to shut down the power grid.
The article is written from an American viewpoint, about the USA. The imbalance you perceive is in the culture and politics of the USA, not just the article.
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newfound respect. thanks very much for posting this.
Can't a guy look forward to seeing an old friend again?
One reason could be if you wished there was good resource on a topic.

For example, if you wanted to convince someone that they should develop for iOS instead of android, you could start an article on Listry titled "Reasons to develop for iOS". Then add a few reasons of your own to the article, and then other Listry users could add their reasons, everyone would vote on the best reasons, and then in the end you would have a good resource of all the best reasons to develop for iOS.

A reputation system would definitely be a good thing to have too. I was thinking about creating one, but decided to launch early, and then improve the site over time.
There's also the middle ground of the mysql api that has long been claimed as being under the gpl (but never tested in court as far as I know). There is a real danger here that could affect emulators, compatability layers, really any interoperability in place of proprietary systems and would be a real step backwards. But, we are not the audience of the article and web apis are easier to explain to non-developers.
Why so many fail when trying to move to the cloud?
IIRC Rackspace's CloudFiles uses Akamai (having moved off Limelight a while back).
The geek.com article adds little if nothing to the original, available at:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/slip-up-in-chines...

The above also has links to the original video in Chinese.
> Wikileaks former spokesman ‘destroyed' secret Bank of America hard drive after being given an offer he couldn't refuse

FTFY
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It has very much. I played with LEGO my entire childhood, and I can see it becoming useful for building things in a creative way - but without having to think much becuase I think it's so obvious how it can be solved. With this in mind it's important to try to build things in other ways of course, and that was _why's point - but only if you think it's fun though. In short - as mentioned in many comments now: Try to do things that you find enjoyful, then this play might become very valuable for you or for others in one or many ways.
The link points to the defaced main page. If you're unfamiliar with nic.ly, you might be interested to know that it's the domain register for the .ly TLD.

At present, it's just a defacement. bit.ly and others still work. Additionally, sites below the main page like http://www.nic.ly/regulations.php still work.
This is wonderful. Thanks.
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I would prefer that Contacts where not an API and just a user created/chosen web app. Why is there a need for a Contact API?

On a separate note, should someone be starting up a OMA push proxy for SSE? I have a feeling that between Chrome getting an Android port, the Moz/Chrome WebRTC and Moz's Web APIs, that Server Side Events are going to become "a thing" and OMA push proxy would be a useful service.
These are the common arguments I also believed, but I dug into them for a book project and found they are pretty shallow.

The HTML5 spec is such a mess when it comes to the new "semantic" elements that they are nigh on useless for anything. They're so broad (e.g. check out how broad the definition of "article" is) it's like calling a knife, a spoon, a plate, and table all a "fork" -- too broad to be useful. Div's are fine. They're all ignored equally by machines.

Screen readers also pay zero to no attention to these tags -- heading tags are, however, very much used, but HTML5 intends to supersede that in a completely botched way too. It's not pretty. Also, you would imagine strong and em were useful as opposed to b and i. It turns out most screen readers ignore all of them entirely.

Re the parent comment - as for the usefulness of true separation between presentation and content, I find it very promising for A/B testing layout, and therefore a worthy goal, but CSS really needs an actual layout system.
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Interestingly India has so many people in qualifiers but none in the finals, now I don't know what that says about India!
First read from each edge would be two reads. One to get the data from the central S3 repo, one to serve to the end user. But, that's not double... after the first read for each edge the additional read is no longer needed.
Thanks :). I see what you are talking about, it's because the main page is long enough to have a scrollbar, and then when you choose a category, there isn't enough content to need to show a scrollbar, right?
The web is not print.
Ah? No. The exact point of Wikileaks is to be a place where leakers can leak information to the public, in a technical sustainable manner (think protection of DDOS).
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The website doesn't help me find how to buy their product... Google shouldn't have to be a part of my journey (I can't find it for sale).
The mechanism for how you access an API is not important. I see no meaningful difference between including a file and accessing classes and methods, and communicating with a Twitter server and using their RESTful interface. It's also a copyright claim, not a patent claim.

The fundamental problem I see with the Twitter example is that Oracle is not, as far as I know, claiming that programs that use their Java API (classes and methods) are in copyright violation. They are claiming that implementing that API is a copyright violation. The only way to make an analogy with Twitter would be for someone to set up a similar service that implements the same API to communicate with it - that is, you could point your application to this new, Twitter-like service and everything would still work.
It's probably technically feasible to use this ink as an antenna for an implanted RFID chip, they're not much larger than a grain of sand after all, but do you REALLY want to do that?

Once you have your key of identification implanted you just created a seriously disturbing incentive for someone (without a reader to clone your RFID) to do you grievous harm when they simply want to steal your stuff.

It probably won't happen to you or many other people but it's enough of a concern that I'll put up with the occasional misplaced key instead.

tl;dr I'd love to hack your tattoo and get in your front door.
This blog is just a re-post of what's on the mailing list and does not add anything worthwhile. Here is the original source:
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-August/01...
Use your templating system on top of deck, deck itself has no need whatsoever for markdown.
why people still think it's ok to have secrets in a government?

is it the many movies where the hero help the gov to hide some alien invasion to prevent panic that causes people to think this is right?
The real page layout for tomorrow will be the CSS Template Layout Module imo, which has now been rolled into the CSS3 CSS Grid Layout module that should ship with IE10. (Yup, IE10 will be the first browser with a proper CSS layout system.) http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid-align/

In the mean time, the slightly older Template Layout Module is available as a jQuery plugin that would make an excellent basis for a truly semantic, separate, and A/B test-able grid system: http://code.google.com/p/css-template-layout/
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"When we allowed 20% of the population to assume ownership of 80% of the wealth, forcing everyone else to scramble for scraps"

Allowed? I suppose you mean we didn't tax them at 90% to "redistribute" it.

"the loudest complaints about "socialists" and "redistribution" seem to come from people who need it the most, but don't recognize it."

Or the people that have nothing and would rather have the government give it to them than try and earn it themselves. We do need some social nets, but if those social nets are too large, we create a system of people that feel entitled propped up by the people that are actually working. When that system starts to collapse, there are riots in the streets because there are too many people relying on it.

"The American public, IMO, needn't look much further than a mirror to see the cause of their woes."

There are many countries in Europe that are struggling just as hard (if not harder) than the US. They had all of these social nets that you speak of. What happened?
Funny; I used a Palm III then a Psion 5 for several years in the past. Both were resistive touch screens, both were accurate, I didn't lose either stylus. In fact, I found the resistive screen more accurate than my current capacitative on my phone, because I quickly realised I could use the end of a fingernail as a very precise makeshift stylus - which is obviously out with capacitative.

Is there a specific reason these are that much worse than 12-13 year old devices?
So I am guessing US would accept and forgive a retaliatory attack by Iran, since US "declared an act of war" on them and attacked first?
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No, no chance.
I've never had this problem. They've made it so easy that you only ever have to talk to someone once. The rest of the time it's all online and is automatically deposited into your bank account.

It may have been a problem because your ex-employer disputed it.
I like the idea. I don’t think your question is wrong. However, you might consider stating your question more precisely. That way HN can give you more precise answers. Do you have a technical related issue? Or do you want HN to comment on the usability etc…?

What comes to mind immediately is that might consider to not open the site to all users for a simple reason: quality content. If you cannot provide sufficient people who offer jobs or hire, people might quickly get frustrated with your service. As you already planned: start with one area you can learn in and master that, Maybe you manage to create buzz in the region. You probably know Taskrabbit already. They do it right: one region after the other: http://www.taskrabbit.com.
I know there was an "insurance file" released on July 29 2010, but am not aware of any later release[1]. They may not of had the BofA data at that point. The first mention of the data that might "bring down a bank" came on Nov. 29, 2010 [2].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Insurance_file

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/business/03wikileaks-bank....
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From this being the top comment, it seems everyone agrees. I'll add it to my to-do list :)
Here we are trying to keep the level of discourse at Hacker News from descending to that of Reddit and you have to go and bring it down to the level of Slashdot.

(My apologies for feeding the troll.)
That's a nice test - but from what I can see it is storing a single value in localStorage that gets larger and larger.

I wonder if the behaviour is different if you have multiple smaller documents?
It's a national development fund controlled by the president, not his personal bank account. It is suggested by analysts that Chavez uses the money as his way to "buy elections"

So it's a fund controlled by the president in a government where he does not have to respond to anyone. Would you mind explaining how is that not his personal bank account?
The logical counter-response would be to encourage the sort of unrest present in the "Jasmine Revolution". This would present China with the same sort of dilemma...they might suspect (or even know) that we were stirring up trouble, but would probably be reluctant to go to war over it.
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Just Googling is horrible way to learn how to program. Sure you may find an answer relatively quickly, but down the road when you come up against more difficult problems and can't find the answer, what then?

You don't learn by just Googling, you learn by working through the problem which reinforces concepts that you've read. Using Google is like if you were to go through school just copying answers -- you'd learn absolutely nothing!
It this a custom-made hook or are you using ikiwki? I use exactly the same setup with ikiwiki and yours sounds so familiar.
Is there a higher-resolution version of this infographic? It's practically unreadable on my iPad.
I don't understand: "Standard lexing and parsing techniques are so easy to write so general, and so adaptable there's no reason to use regular expressions".

Isn't using the lex family of generators pretty 'standard' in terms of writing lexers? Aren't they generally considered fast and in most cases better than hand-written code?

Aren't bad regular expressions just a consequence of someone not properly learning regular expressions? Couldn't the same argument be applied to every programming language?

Also: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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Is that a cue for Russian reversal jokes (I can't think of a good one) or just a dumb attempt to equate Google with totalitarianism?
Guilt by association?
The only criticism I've had from her is that she doesn't know what to do with what she's learned

This is something we try to do with Rails Girls (http://railsgirls.com).

We don't try to teach girls (or people) to program that much, but make them realize that they could build something and give them the first experience of creating or developing something.

Like how you go from idea to concept, from mockups to implementation and from application to actually shipping it.

(We're planning organizing events in the US and around the world)
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So what in the video "proves" it's a live situation? Probably half the countries in the world have some giddy geeks in bunkers demoing their their own LOIC clones.
I would love to see the data sets that support the lifts - those little "up 3.49 / down 3.38" can get notoriously tricky in terms of statistical relevancy using GWO or otherwise.

Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns.

Sometimes the sheer "newness" can skew the data as folks sitting on the fence (returning visitors) push the convo data up.

All that said, I'm a fan of the new look and feel, fun to watch 37signals influence turn the market - expect to see lots of similar looking stuff in the future.
If that's true (which I'm sure it is), then I'm surprised that CloudFiles pricing structure isn't more competitive. I'm sure they must be getting a huge volume discount. And their automated provisioning process is the same regardless of the size of the customer. Maybe they just have fat margins on that particular product.
How in the world could it have shipped with that turned on?
I agree. This is also evidenced by the way they dribble out their leaks in the most politically damaging (for the US government, particularly) way possible, accompanied by press releases and interviews. If they are about freedom of information, why don't they release all of it, immediately, and free of editorial comment from Assange?
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Terry Jones wrote about the "Web 2.0 Address Book" last October (http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/getting-closer-to-the-web-2...). It was an interesting concept that I've been following since. But it seems there needs to be a clear case for everybody to share their data in order for this idea to work. Wouldn't FluidDB be subject to the tragedy of the commons, with nobody curating the data and maintaining its quality? Or can it truly be the "wikipedia of data"?
It's a hard drive on a pedestal. "Toggle Info" is clickable, and brings up the message:

"5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte" (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here: http://www.art404.com/5million1terrabyte.pdf.

Interestingly, there don't appear to be any music or video files on the disk. It's stuff like Adobe, Autocad, and Rosetta Stone software, games, font collections, and book collections. "Fiction Books 2003-201", "Science Text Book Collection", "Fiction Library", and "Osprey Book Collection" accounts for a little over 4 million of the total.

Makes me wonder how little space would be required to rack up 5 million dollars worth of copyright infringements if DVD rips or MP3s were included on the device.
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I wonder how much Bank of America paid?

It would be really interesting to see bank transactions for that Domscheit-Berg guy. I hope Wikileaks can get them...
The reason is that GP is used to the iPhone and feels devices that don't behave like it are inferior.