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>I trust you've read the charges against Bradley Manning and can cite where the UCMJ or the US Code sections listed say that releasing classified information to the public does not constitute espionage or is otherwise not an offense?

Manning was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. Manning clearly isn't a spy, so he shouldn't be charged based on those laws. Non-espionage activity shouldn't be judged based on espionage laws.

The military law is constructed to be purposefully vague (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_article_(military_law)). Anyone can be charged based on anything, so appealing to the technicality that Manning's case is not explicitly excluded does not matter. Disobeying in general is already illegal.
As Ian Clarke (original designer of Freenet) put it:

"It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws."

And I would add that the whole world would crawl to a halt and descend into total chaos if everyone followed every law in the books. Too many laws are plain incoherent, inconsistent and impossible to follow.
Also please excuse the 5 second loading time.. it's still a prototype.
There's really something to this. The original symbols needed to be universally understood because they were intended to be used on signs, which are obviously a static medium. The web and apps can be tailored to the observer's language preference. Maybe a universal symbol isn't necessary here.
That's correct. We were using local time and the World IPv6 Launch Day is using UTC time. We're going to update the CloudFlare page to also use UTC.
Email is not great. My biggest problem with email is that it's unreliable. There have been so many times where I'd send an email and have it never even reach its destination. I'm not talking about a legitimate message being marked as spam and tucked away in some folder, but not even delivered and my email server isn't notified of this shenanigans (I'm looking at you, mac.com and gmail.com). This is I'm sure because some server down the chain messed up somewhere.

How can you track this down? There is no way to even know if your email made it to a person's inbox (like a kind of forced "received receipt" -- I don't care if they read it yet).
I'll take China's criticism of human rights in the United States as something other than the "tu quoque" fallacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

the day that China has a free and fair national election for the national leadership, covered by an uncensored independent press. In 1989,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/tiananmen-square-an...

it looked like China was close to achieving that kind of political reform, and if it had, the world today would be a much better place. Until the reformers in China finish their difficult task of overcoming a repressive regime, the press in the United States will continue to report criticisms of the United States from all comers, and the net flow of immigration with respect to almost all other countries in the world will continue to be into rather than out of the United States.
and Amnesty International and the UN in general does not include ordinary criminals as human rights voilations.
I think you're being a bit naive in assuming that when the massive and sustained unemployment (by today's definition) happens, wealthy people will be in a position to "save" their neighbors by throwing a few bucks their way.

If we don't deal with this situation before it happens (and, IMO, this shift has already started though it'll be decades before it takes full shape) there will be bloody revolution to the point of societal collapse. Having a bank account with a lot of zeros in it won't count for much by then.
Good god, are you living under a rock? Read up on your recent US history - people are being imprisoned overseas, American citizens are being assassinated by order of the President...
Boring. IBM can do much more, fggggt. lol
http://maqetta.org/
it seems lightweight even if the minified version is 40kb.
No difference. USA, China - the same tyranny.
I'm currently having issues with em-http-request, resque and resque-retry. It's still sometimes dropping work before the retry limit and not behaving nicely with the retry timespans. Also the async http request is not using the timeout value, randomly...

It only happens with big traffic, like 0.01% just fails in a wrong way. It's not much, but still it's our and our customer's money. I hope our get together to solve this problem helps tomorrow.
Oh and there was me thinking that this was an attempt to produce an alternate replacement for ipv6 that is designed with migration in mind rather than the ivory tower OSI style standard it became.
Kickstarter's biggest problem is going to be this sort of sentiment. A great many people just do not get that Kickstarter is not some sort of eBay.
Perhaps the most damning thing about math education is its focus on the what, not the why. For example, the quadratic formula: it is introduced and students are told that if you have an equation "of the form" ax^2+bx+c=0, you can "find x" by plugging in the numbers. Never are you given an explanation of where the quadratic formula comes from, never are you given an explanation of why you would want to solve a quadratic.

This is not entirely the education's fault.

When I was taking algebra in 7th grade, the teacher did derive the quadratic formula for us. We studied completing the square first, and then he did it with generic symbols for A, B, and C. I thought it was WAY cool. I never memorized it; instead, for the next two years, any time I needed it, I simply re-derived it. You could find the derivation on the back of just about every math test I took in high school.

None of my classmates took that route, though. Every last one of them memorized the thing.

I was the sort of person who automatically thought the why of something was much cooler than the what, but I don't think most people are that way. I don't doubt math education could inspire an interest in the why, but I'm not optimistic that it will inspire everyone. At the very least, I think that would take more than merely presenting it.

I don't know. Maybe tests have pounded the natural curiosity out of kids, maybe it's just cynicism. But it's certainly my perception that the vast majority of them care more about the what.
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this is so noob
I did two years ago. Sold my iMac and switched to Linux. I think it didn't have that much influence on Apple, but I feel good about it, I get my stuff done, and that's what counts.
I think we're starting to approach a time period where lamenting over filesizes over 10KB should be a thing of the past.

I have a fairly typical internet connection, and I can download 40 MEGABYTES in about 8 seconds.
I've thought about writing this post so many times.

E-mail is not broken, but we'll continually try to convince ourselves that our inabilities to be collaborative and communicate properly is because we're not given the right medium to do so. This is bullshit. People who are terrible at communication will continue to be terrible at communication regardless of what tool they use.

The hammer isn't broken, the carpenter is. Fix the carpenter.

EDIT: I should add - I see many tools that try to replace e-mail aren't largely trying to fix the problems with communication, but rather they are trying to assign accountability. This is great for bosses (or "controllers"), but not necessarily great for everyone. I've simplified this too much and could go into way more detail if I had the time.
He mentioned Github in the context of getting talent from other parts of the country (#4). Perhaps he edited it based on your comment...
"The best US industry could turn out in 1941"

The US wasn't in the war in 1941. So there's zero head start time.
Hypocrisy is an outcome of propaganda. Western views on morality demand justification for actions which others would be punished severely for. Yet, behind history, the "good guys" are just as ruthless and brutal as the "bad guys."
Indian looking for a job in USA (non IT/Software)
Hi, I'm from India. I've been following Ycombinator for aound 2 yrs and I'm glad to say that it's one of the best non-ad based site for like minded peoples.

Here comes the tough part, for around 6 yrs I've been working in a company which works for US & UK based clients (Recruiters), we normally do backoffice work for them, this process is called Rrecruitment Process Outsourcing. For quite some time I'm planning to move to USA for jobs. The thing is I'm not an IT guy and we still work on XP with P4 processor, I don't hold any degree in Software Engineering or any Computer Networking.

My LinkedIn profile - http://in.linkedin.com/pub/gordon-freeman/32/a92/665

The only advantage I believe I had is that I'm well versed with their culture, work ethics and understand georgraphically much better then a common American citizen. :)

I want to know what are the options for me, is there even a possibility that I can get a work over there (considering my job profile)? if yes then what/which steps should I follow if not then what should I do to get the oppurtunities.

The name which is mentioned in my LinkedIn profile is pseudo name.

Thanks
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in what sense was Usenet built out of email? only thing that comes to mind is re-using some of the syntax of RFC 822.
yeah yeah,email is the original great killer app of the internet. But as far as collaboration, it is full of problems and for the average user just causes problems and confusion and makes people bend over backwards to try and keep up. All the new developments are about taking it to a new level...beyond the original idea. Meaning less silos, easier many-to-many and one-to-many etc...
a classic well-actually (see http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html)
now? It's been going on forever.

Occasionally, a company manages to get the race off the number tracks - e.g. AMD, whose lower-frequency processors were way better higher-frequency than Intel's Pentium 4 processors of the time.

But in general, companies compete on (numerical) price or on (numerical) specs, and almost always have.
Selecting a word, making it "bold", looking at the code, seeing <b> word.. </b>.

Shouldn't it be <strong></strong> ?
i don't see the point in the libraries tbh.

i find it much simpler to just use request and hit the couch rest endpoints myself.

Also used the couchdb backend for backbone : https://github.com/developmentseed/backbone-couch
It requires that your baseband support IPv6 and that you have the T-Mobile APN in Android configured to IPv6-only (it will tunnel IPv4 over IPv6).
By default, the JVM initialises arrays as appropriate for their type. Presumably this was an array of String, so the initialisation values are nulls, not zeros. Arrays of boolean are initialised to false, etc.
I've been experiencing the same problem for over a week. Major torrent sites have been blocked over here also. I'm from Mumbai.
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you're right but if you working with a module loader (like require.js or yepnope.js) it affects actually.
It differs from GPL in that it is "viral" also when served through the web, so it could mean that your whole web application must either be AGPL, or you must buy an exception from the developer.

AGPL is a new license, and so there are few examples of how it affects things in practice. Many developers (especially ones building open source under less-strict license) prefer to keep their distance.
A direct link to the prototype: http://www.shopobot.com/shop

big queries here.. takes a bit to load.
Were you or the network library reusing buffer objects (to avoid reallocating them), so the random data was leftover from an early socket read? I'm surprised the JVM would allocate a new buffer object with non-zero data.
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Have been using it for a while now. The latest version is pretty stable. Ability to resize images inside the editor is pretty cool.
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Here's a screenshot taken with the latest dev version of Chrome on Windows 7: http://i.imgur.com/aciAY.jpg

I assume the layout breaks on my setup because I have set the default browser font size to 18px and you're using em's (which are relative to the base font) to define all your font sizes.

Using relative font sizing isn't necessarily bad, but you should make sure that the whole layout is flexible enough. For example, you have set a static pixel height for the speech bubble and "full stack" containers. With a slightly different font setup that can cause the text to overflow (as can be seen in the screenshot above).

Great work this far, I'll bet you can make this a lot better by reading all the feedback in these comments.
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Most impressive... I wonder how it looks from the air.

It's 74 times as powerful as this one I spotted while flying into Albuquerque several years back.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=34.962827,-106.509635&spn=0.0...
I'm pretty sure that is this one:
http://energy.sandia.gov/?page_id=1267
From the title I was hoping this would talk a little more about the model used. At 45 minutes runtime, I'm guessing it's something more interesting than a basic linear model.
Nearly one million iOS devices jailbroken in a single weekend
I disagree. The size of the typical webpage is growing at faster rate than people are upgrading to faster internet connections. The average webpage is now > 1MB. It matters because adding even a tenth of a second to your load time can cost you in pageviews and revenue.
If your code was used by some company you may use that fact on the interview or to promote your project further, but if you are using GPL you are risking the chance to do so.
You are correct, there is no evidence either way. So one way to look at it is to consider what would have to be true for it to be installed by the 'fab' without the knowledge of the guy who designed the chip, vs installed by the chip designer.

Given what I know of silicon chip manufacturing, and the verification that goes on during, after, and while, manufacturing. I assert it would be extraordinarily difficult for a fab operator (like TSMC) to insert a back door without the designer/manufacturer knowing it.

I also brought up that in my experience adding back doors was certainly done to aid in testability. Sometimes those aids are done in a way that they cannot be used by third parties (bond-out chips) and sometimes they could be (JTAG access) but are obscured in some way.

Backdoor access in the firmware however, is a much easier threat to actualize as it doesn't involve silicon hacking per se. So that is a more credible threat. And I mentioned that we've seen counterfeit versions of 'name brand' products already which would be a fairly straight forward threat.
I think it was more at a conceptual level rather than technical. It's like sending a e-mail to a public mailing list that anyone can view, join or reply to.
This is such a bad idea. China? Russia? Those two countries should have a say in running the Internet proportional to their citizens' right to free speech. So China would have no say whatsoever and Russia's voice would only be marginal.
Student archives the graphics of 80s and early 90s home computer systems
Basic thermodynamics: converting heat into work is inefficient. A photovoltaic can go straight from the energy of the photons (admittedly restricted to a particular band that they were designed for) with less loss.
It's a $1 billion dollar market. If our startup captures just 1% of this tiny market, we'll be rich!

Most artists and musicians I know make nearly nothing from their work.
Possibly hydro- and oleophobic mirrors plus elbow grease.
Thank you, but I'm sticking with https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5
What specifically do you need the MBA to do for you? Have you tried doing it yourself? What stopped you from being successful?
Also, your "continue to work non-stop" line will not exactly have people beating down your doors.
Interesting - the text with regard to the licensing changed between my first and subsequent visit - now clearly licensed as you say.
Not really; they just did OO with C structs and function pointers, this is actually how it used to be done in high- performance code like computer graphics before C++ got fast enough. And the " obfuscation" was passing the -O flag to the compiler...
NO. I want to scream. NO. I just began working at a company that uses "distribution groups" (mailing lists) as a "social network". It's awful as it's not threaded, it's not archived, it's not searchable. It's terrible.
Yes, he does. I wrote my comment to emphasize the other side of the coin, not to fill some gap that wasn't covered in the article. It must be kind of mistake here (I've read the posting guidelines but I'm still a newbie, thus more prone to errors), so I propose to finish the discussion.
Yup, using ems for the body font is the problem here, rookie mistake for sure. Thanks for pointing it out, should be fixed now.
Listserv had an SMS-oriented design? It automatically made every user their own independent channel that other users could choose to subscribe to?

I don't use Twitter, but saying it's just email/listserv is rather silly. Also, it's only a mutli-billion dollar business by investment; it doesn't generate even 1bn in revenue.
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Github is increasingly often being used as a generic content storage than a code repository. I wonder how that affects Github infrastructure and business model.
I'd suggest https://github.com/jejacks0n/mercury if you're using Rails.

Full disclosure, I'm the primary author.
Presentation matters, spelling matters, basic grammar matters. People will not take you seriously if every other sentence is less well constructed than if someone were dictating to the computer in speech form.

Seriously, every other sentence has fundamental mistakes. Writing skills matter, hugely. Downvotez ahoy! (Pressing the down arrow improves your English skills for sure!)
Yep, it turned out to be a great tool for motivating me to finally bite the bullet and switch to KDE. If their goal is to move as many people as possible to alternate desktop environments, then gnome3 is proving wildly successful.
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Adobe offshores their "mature" but profitable products to Adobe's Bangalore offices they can milk the cash cow with minimal maintenance costs. Examples include Director, Cold Fusion, the Flash authoring tool, and (I think) Flex Builder and Fireworks.
Email has a lot of warts besides its obvious graces, especially when you look at the back-end of how emails are actually stored and transferred and authenticated. So I think we as programmers are naturally drawn to the idea of developing the email-killer. The central problem with the dreamers seems to be that they're not dreaming deeply enough.

Email is a communications multitool which leverages the whole human subconscious to effect its various uses: a human is supposed to know whether this is a "your boss demands that you do this" email or a "your friend wants you to look at her cute cat" email or "your uncle is ranting about fluoride in the water again" email. Most email killers do not and cannot eliminate this mental overhead. Graham only says "other people should be able to add to my todo list" -- he's not killing email, he's considering an email-aware todo list. That's very common. Skype is not an email killer precisely because it doesn't dream big enough: it is a realtime messaging protocol which hit it big because it worked with video. Trello is not an email killer precisely because it's for organizing groups. RSS is not an email killer because it only solves the limited problem of keeping aware of new content.

Email does all of these tasks -- poorly, but it does them. If you want to really kill email, you need to offer the core functionality effortlessly. Email II would understand "circles" of friends automatically, so that there is only an "inbox" for those people who are contacting you for the very first time. Like syndication, Email II would host the content on the publisher's web server to be downloaded whenever the client wants -- this has spam-deterrent effects, since the network doesn't take responsibility for the content. It would hopefully allow us to unify mailing lists. We can protect privacy with automatic cryptography; "chris::example.com" can stand for a public key which is stored on the example.com machines. The email killer needs to be good at segmenting messages so that we can say "This is the text of my invitation to a wedding, but it also comes with a standard-appointment-form where I describe where and when it is, so that it can be rapidly added to your 'upcoming dates' in the relevant social circle." (Since this must merge with dates and todo-lists, presumably example.com contains its own list of stuff which chris::example.com has stored for his own use.)

And I want to at this point admit defeat: because I think even those ideas are not daring enough. The email killer is probably going to have to do even more than all of that, and my own imagination becomes limited.
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I'm quite sure those aren't the only things at Microsoft that are compelling and productive. However, being good doesn't preclude being simultaneously on a downward slope. You have to be riding on the right wave, or better yet creating the right wave yourself, to succeed. And I see Microsoft floating steadily on their surfboard while several waves simply pass by.
Last time someone submitted a draft of a blog post I accidentally published on my private blog titled "I'm doing HTTP wrong" about a talk I gave at PyGrunn 2012.

I since pulled that and rewrote it to better show what our infrastructure is actually like.

I'm more than happy to answer questions about that :-)
It's been years since I've actually encountered this problem. Most of the time the person was lazy, forgetful, or lying to me.
The reasons why we won't be having self-driving cars anytime soon is that car product development cycles are very long. Even if car makers were working with Google now to put this into cars, it could be five years before you'd see anything in dealerships.

And before that they probably need to become street-legal in major countries, convice manufacturers to trust Google etc.
Funny, the stories about apples and oranges made me actually hate numbers -- they seemed stupid, boring, and I never saw the point (I still don't). Recently I had a reconciliation with numbers, but I still try not to deal with them in my math research as long as it is possible.
I appreciate it. Too often the simplest aphorisms are the ones we forget first. The Art of War is a classic book that offers mostly simple and intuitive advice, yet is popular because that advice stands the test of time and is too often forgotten by people who need it.
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I logged on to say exactly this. If for a product, the benefit is overwhelmed by the cost, then the user is irrational to use such a product. Email is _difficult_ to share things appropriately. A hybrid client, like gmail, is IMHO much better.
It looks like the post is from 2009:

"That was in 2004. Five years ago."
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Assuming fairly dense formats (no .wavs or .bmp images), large files necessarily mean more than small files, so they draw more attention to themselves. "Why is /foo/bar using 300MB of disk?" is a much more likely avenue of inquiry than "Why is /foo/bar using 50KB of disk?".
Zed wrote this a few years ago. None of my business, but I am curious if the dual license business model for Lamson before he extended the licensing options to include BSD.

I would like to see high profile developers like Zed and Chris Granger fund more projects using services like Kickstarter (as Chris did for Light Table). People who do useful work deserve to be paid for it, and this is one good approach for well known developers.