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Wikileaks engages in journalism. Saying that people can't donate money to Wikileaks or read the published cables on their website is as inane as saying they can't subscribe to the NYT because of the Pentagon Papers.

Equating an organization whose stated philosophical goal is promoting government transparency with clandestine intelligence services is ridiculous.
You know "Sequences and screen images simulated"?

Know why that is on most cell phone ads?

Because other manufacturers complained of deceptive practices in advertising when Apple would talk of how easy (and quick) it was to do something on the iPhone compared to other phones...
I have no doubts your system is a very powerful and scalable solution for pubsub, but I believe just the fact that it's not utilizing Websockets, the overhead is not acceptable for MMOs or other latency sensitive tasks. So you shouldn't advertise as such, people might actually believe you and try and build one. It'll blow up in their face when they realize they can't get the latency down to an acceptable level due to the 200-300 extra bytes per request and the delay of constantly opening new connections.
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Is this intentionally snide? You appear to be implying that nobody should try to solve problems, because we already know how to work around them.
The antidote for "salmon" and any other open standard is a compliance test suite.
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Simple logging could be part of a "Don't Break the Chain" motivational technique. http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
http://www.nokia.com/in-en/citylens/
Oh, that's really cool. Thanks
Many laptops with webcams built into them have an LED too
Other study shows that the effect is mediated through endocannabinoids not endorphins (But the effect is very real): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14625449
I agree with your characterization of the dangerous attitude of moral superiority by default.

If you start with the assumption that the US is generally a better world citizen than most other nations, it's a lot easier to turn a blind eye to the atrocities happening every day on the margin.
Not as far as I know, but please feel free to give it a try and report back.
I don't think anybody disputes that the person or persons who both were given access to the classified data and then gave it to someone who wasn't cleared to have it, should not be hunted down and punished.

A number of people don't think that a journalistic organization that then tells the world about the information rises to the level of treasonous behavior.

There is no evidence that Wikileaks seeks to 'overthrow' or otherwise 'impune the soverignty of' the United States or any other country whose dirty laundry their air, they are in the most classical of definitions the "messenger" here.

What sort of reasoning can you use to show that they deserve the moniker 'enemy' which doesn't apply to the New York Times or the Economist?
It's included, choose "Functional Programming" and move your mouse over Haskell, it is one of the influenced languages (blue edge).
That's true for phone calls for people that know how to do this. However:

1. Most people are unable to do this technically.

2. The fact that you do it may constitute prima facie evidence of being a person of interest.

3. The government is trying very hard to get the means to wiretap VoIP.

4. It doesn't address traffic analysis at all. I know you said you aren't concerned about this, but there are plenty of people who are, and the government is going like gangbusters (literally, I guess) toward this.
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It instantly reminded me of JQM's ajax loading too. I've had good experience with it, but the framework (JQM) feels quite heavy and definitely an overkill for something like this. If turbolinks provides just this functionality and with much lighter-weight (and hopefully similar browser-support as JQM) this could be quite a promising approach.
So another Twitter. I remember hearing something about an open application bus which was way more enticing to me.
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Campus Maps - http://www.getcampusmaps.com

It's the most accurate, easiest to use campus map app in existence. Just expanded to my second school, UVA with others planned soon!
The SEO complaint is wrong since most or all "one page apps" require authentication.
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> You basically said that US, in general, is a good guy and therefore it's justified in doing illegal, immoral things and then hunting down those who expose this behavior.

That's not what he said. He said the US is, on balance, less immoral than the dictatorial regimes he named. Yet those other regimes don't get the scrutiny the US does.
Also interesting from the article and not in the petition:

>Sold for a song at $36,000, the two-bedroom, single-story home is about the only rough spot on a street of clean and tidy homes.

[...]

>The Hankins now will be stuck with the cost of remediation, which one contractor said costs $5,000 to $8,000 or more

Seems to me that $41,000-43,000 is still a pretty good price for a two-bedroom home, about $10k down from the average in the area according to Trulia.

So the full story is that they explicitly bought a house as-is, found an $8000 problem with it, and decided to start a petition and move out.

I'd agree that there should be a better database of convicted meth distributors/manufacturers and the homes they used for their operations, but then why not push for that kind of regulation at the state level rather than within one company? Especially if the "most important" part of your petition is to make sure "that this doesn't happen to one more family".
Thoughts from YC alumni on running Songkick
I spoke to Ian Hogarth the CEO/Co-founder of songkick about the things that inspire him and some of the challenges that he faces building out Songkick.

He also jotted down an insightful piece of advice for anyone considering where to focus their talents
“Find something you love enough to spend 10 years on it. This is your market”
Of all the companies to require flash to view their video...
For anyone who's wondering:

Mode 7 was the SNES graphics mode that allowed for things like rotating and zooming a background layer - used for things like the track in Mario Kart and F-Zero, or the worldmap in Final Fantasy 6 (while you're in the airship). The Scroll Register was used for scrolling in Mode 7.

H-Blank is the horizontal blanking period (and associated interrupt) - a time period between the drawing of scanlines on the screen (there's also V-blank, between frames). Changes made during H-Blank could make for some interesting effects - it was used for things like the circle that closes around Mario at the end of a level of Super Mario World: The rectangle draw routine is used, but the size of the rectangle is changed between scanlines, creating a circle. I'd imagine this was used for some of the wavy distortion effects in games like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound as well.
If that is the case about the free apps biasing over paid ones due to downloads then how long until Apple at least offer the ability to search a free and a paid chart ala Android. Otherwise this change will only hurt them thru loss of people seeing the lovely paid applications.
We are donating to an open source project of your choice and a Steam game.
The relevant law(s) is(are) about disclosure of information, not the freedom of the press. Unless you want to challenge the constitutionality of government secrets. To illustrate in a related way, consider another example: Acessory to Murder. Which is a also a crime.
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Very cool. I tried to do something similar with FB checkins but for Snow Reports. Same problem. Using instagram to source the reports is an smart detour.
you know it's all respect with you & me, even though I think you wear a tinfoil hat

Oh absolutely. I'm in touch with with my inner tinfoil-hat-ness and am secretly less off the deep end than my tweets would make it appear. (at least that's what I tell myself :-)

and you think I'm a tool of the status quo), you believe this stuff because you only read about the NDAA from advocacy sources.

No, I know you're too smart for that. This is why I'm interested in how you came to your conclusion.

What specific people do you believe have been unjustly imprisoned for donating to Islamic charities?

This is probably what I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation_for_Relie... (note that I'm not saying this specific prosecution was just or unjust, only that it supports the theory that prosecutions are possible under a definition of "material support" which includes giving to what is ostensibly a charity).
Some information about computers from the early '50s is still classified — http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs/NSAgenSpecComputers_198... . That plus http://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf are interesting reads for anyone interested in the early development of computing.
Well mostly we are annoyed that they do not follow GPL and because of that we have kind of tried to get Nintendo to shut them down. I do not have the money for lawyer and anyway the guy in control of Pokemonium lives in US and I live in Finland.

The stupid thing is I kinda find it nice that they forked our code, but I dislike them for not following GPL.
Python syntax is just one aspect of Cobra. There is also nil-checking, contracts, and easy syntax for testing.
Why not just say that? At least I now understand what the product is.

Another gripe - where's the list of supported third parties? I use GoCardless - do you support that? No idea...
Excellent idea. There's a reference library here:

http://code.google.com/p/salmon-protocol/

...with the aim of providing "Tools and validators needed to help implementors interoperate." Anyone know if the tools exist yet?
That is false. WL offered to censor any paper the US government could argue would bring people in danger. The US government demanded that they cease all publication.

The issue is that the NYT doesn't publish the stuff we actually need to know. NYT publish what we needed to know 30 years ago.
Likewise, the stretch of "E 15th St." in Brooklyn is actually named "Marlborough Rd." on the ground in the stretch where #315 is located:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=315+E+15th+St,+Flatbush+-+Dit...

It does look like the city understands the alternate name, not that that'd help you when you're out looking at street signs:
http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp?submit=true&house_nbr=3...
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There was a rather significant court case regarding the pentagon papers and their publication.
Hm, I would have thought that PHP would have been larger/visible on the graph.
Grandparent has a point, and it's not quite as outlandish as you make it out to be.

Consider that a lot of Python developers write most of their code in Python, then rewrite critical parts in C to speed it up. Python is not a speed demon, and that becomes particularly problematic with tight loops or heavy math—but writing entire applications in C is error-prone and tedious.

Rust won't outright replace both of those, but it does offer a nice middle ground: it's safe, it has some higher-level constructs, it does away with some boilerplate, it builds fairly easily, and it still compiles essentially to machine code. Writing quick shell-like scripts or entire applications in a systems language is now a viable option for lazy jerks like me, even if it's not always the best one.
Here's one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...

It was very annoying to go track this down.
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> Wikileaks, at least with the initial major leak, does not redact or edit information to protect anyone.

Do you have a source on this? I don't recall all the leaks, but I do remember hearing that Wikileaks did a lot of work redacting and quantizing location information (I think for the cables).
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Yikes. I've been working on an iOS based competitor for the past three months. My concept is a bit different. I'm using photo data from public sharing sites and clustering geotag locations to determine scenic or popular points of interest. Users can then create custom walking tours to one or more of these locations.

I've only got a few days left of development, so I'll probably get it out before Niantic/Google's iOS launch. The good news is that Field Trip seems fairly well received so far so there's a demand for this type of thing.
I initially didn't think much of it, but in light of your response to his post I think he may have a valid point.
Is iOS 6 destroying app store discovery? That depends who you are.
Nice Link. Does anyone know if there are any YC companies focused primarily on emerging markets??? Or is that only once they reach scale (i.e. AirBnB)
I've worked at two game studios over the years and came away with one takeaway: there won't be a third unless it's my own. There are few more dysfunctional engineering environments on the planet, leading to continual burnout.

There is a long line of coders who grew up playing games that want to do that into adulthood, leading to a perverse supply/demand ratio that allows studios to treat their employees like crap under the auspices of "that's how the industry works". I wouldn't buy into it.
When there are enough NFC enabled phones out there to make this useful, the card owner will most likely have an NFC phone also. 2 NFC phones nearby will make this card a bit unnecessary.
> Things "expected of any military" might actually be crimes.

Good point, and that's absolutely the case. The question then to me is would anyone be shocked when those things happen anyways regardless of the law? Even if there was an uproar at such revelations, would anyone be held accountable for them? My answer is "no" and "likely not" respectively.
> What in particular is stopping experienced professional educators from shaping educational policy now?

Overwork, bureaucracy, an anti-teacher and anti-intellect culture to name a few.

> What are some of the policies that you expect would look different if your suggestion were implemented?

NCLB and RTTT would be eliminated. Equity of access to schooling which facilitates critical thinking would be made a paramount goal. Long story short -- educators would try to shape our system to model Finland's philosophies.
A streetview car with Bing and navteq branding drove past me last week in the uk.
So your argument is that the New York Times and Wikileaks have different journalistic standards.

That I can agree with.

I have seen the argument about potential harm raised a number of times, and I resonate with it and dislike it, just like I disliked Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War but she wasn't made an enemy of the state.

But I note that even The National Enquirer gets the same journalistic privileges and protections that the New York Times does, we do not yet set a 'minimum standards of practice' bar for qualification as being journalists.
The materials were initially redacted and Wikileaks did attempt to consult with the Department of State prior to publishing the materials and was stonewalled.

Given both this and the way these documents were published in a system accessed by several million individuals (including the allegedly mentally unstable), it seems a leap to argue that the fairest portion of blame if someone was hurt (who?) lies on anything except the Department of State for failing to adequately classify source materials, guard access to sensitive documents, and protect/extract imperiled sources when notified of danger to them in advance.
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I saw a preview of these docs a few weeks ago. They were very helpful.
From the homepage, "Pokemonium is an open source Pokemon MMORPG that is based off of the Pokenet server files. Coded in java this project is being developed by -DefaulT and the community of RaGEZONE. More to come later, for now enjoy this vast pokemon world online!"

At least you're getting attributed :p
For hovering over each language, it would make it much easier to select the smaller dots.
This seems like a timely article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-micro-apartments-201...
Everyone worries about their webcams but most laptops have built in mics and most of them don't have an LED for that at all...
That was one of the best product videos I've seen. Engaging, with enough hints to what it does to make you want to download it.
But "Freedom of the Press" is not a carte blanche allowance to print whatever you want, just as Freedom of Speech doesn't allow you to say whatever you want.

Prior restraint in the US has established that it is, in fact, "freedom of the reasonable press (as determined by the courts)", fortunately there needs to be a strong burden of proof that prior restraint is necessitated.
Playing devil's advocate here, but several of the men were actually armed. The controversy was not whether unarmed men were killed, but that two Reuters journalists who were among them were killed. Also, the NYTimes didn't break the story, the Washington Post did.
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The link to the story of ION Storm and the game Daikatana he mentions was a really interesting read as well. Talk about a complete mess of a company.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-01-14/news/stormy-weather...
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Does anyone know why nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established is set to such a high value? Five days seems like an awful long time.
"An urn contain balls of two colors, white and black. A ball is drawn at random, and then replaced with another ball of the same color." WAT
People who live in one country may travel to others. It's absurd to enforce the limitation at this level.

I'm getting really sick of apps in the Android store that are restricted by country when they're not legally obligated to be that way.
Now add in PGP key sigs (or the entire public key), website, SSL key sigs, bitcoin address, and other information I haven't thought of yet, oh, and wrap all of that inside a VCARD, it becomes quite large quite quickly.

I'm not saying for the basic info a VCARD QR Code won't work, but for more info it breaks down.
I am not interested in litigating the virtues of Wikileaks. Perhaps you & I can come to some limited agreement that there clearly are secrets held by the US military that should be disclosed, and that the citizens of the US deserve better oversight over the conduct of our armed conflicts. We probably agree broadly that our conflicts should be radically curtailed as well.

With all that said:

I am simply saying that the military has an extremely valid operational reason for drastically cracking down on servicemembers communicating with organizations like (and including) Wikileaks. The military cannot reasonably leave it up to random servicemembers to determine whether, what, and how things should be leaked. It employes over 1.2 million people.

What I'm arguing --- and I don't assume you agree, but here's my argument --- is that the alternative policy of saying "by all means it is just fine for servicemembers to collaborate with Wikileaks so long as that collaboration doesn't violate any of our other regulations" is so clearly fraught as to be unreasonable.
Here's their website:

https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/
I just want to clarify that kiba is criticizing the betabeat article, not the bitcoin devs.

Given that some core Bitcoin devs are also Linux kernel devs, they would not make the big mistake of saying that Linux is marginalized.
I think the problem with business like this is that there are few of the niches where it can exist sustainably (and thus be worth money). You either eat out small niche quickly, or big players come and eat you for breakfast, or you specialize so deeply that you turn into a consulting company ('job'). So most of the time, you have to be 'pg kind of startup' or go bust (while there are quite a few exceptions). In most markets big enough where a business can exist for a long time you either have to grow fast VC-style, or someone else will do it.
I'm as rabid an Apple fan as the next guy, but I really have no idea what they were thinking when they decided to revamp the App Store search results page. I've been thinking about it since I updated to iOS6 and haven't been able to come up with any benefits to this layout. They show a screenshot of the app, but I think most people, including myself, search for apps either by name or icon, not by screenshot - and that's what's taking up most of the space. All the other information - icon, name, author, rating, install button - could have been laid out in the conventional list-like format, would have saved space, shown more results, and forced the user to scroll less. And let's talk about the scrolling... Horizontal scrolling is a huge pain. People hate it on the web, and I imagine they hate it on mobile as much as I do. Scrolling vertically just makes sense especially when you're going through lists.

The only reason I can think of behind Apple's decision is that they're trying to cater to big companies and studios, so that when you search American Airlines, you can be sure that that first result, and the only result shown, is the official app. That's great for big companies with a recognizable name and brand, but terrible for people trying to compete in the games/social/etc spaces, where the apps are often named "motorcycle racer X" and are competing against 20 other similar ones.

Edit: Much of these criticisms apply to the categorical app pages as well.
There is a difference between reading a description of a video and seeing it.
It definitely doesn't make sense, but I think it's probably a result of a few folks eliding the "n't" on "couldn't" when speaking, then the phrase getting interpreted by the listener as a single phonic unit "could care less", which carries the semantic definition "couldn't care less".

It's just that the listener's brain understands the speaker based on the context without needing to deconstruct the clause and notice the elision, and so the gestalt phrase is what's remembered, and, later, recalled.
What happens to a senior government official that leaks military secrets to the New York Times ? (the 'yeah we did stuxnet' is the most recent one that comes to mind)

Iran is clearly an enemy, I am sure there is at least one person in an official capacity in Iran that reads the New York Times, there for leaking information about Stuxnet to the Times is equivalent to leaking it to Iran.

So the New York Times is an 'enemy of the US' ? I am too dense to figure out how you arrive at the conclusion that this is OK for Wikileaks and not then also required to put the Times on that list.
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What does "prima facie evidence of being a person of interest" even mean? You can be a person of interest simply by virtue of build and hair color.

The US Government hasn't restricted traffic analysis, and indeed nothing they have ever proposed W.R.T. encryption could have controlled traffic analysis.
Varnish caches the rendered html and stores it in disk for os to cache like mongodb with mmap.

Wordpress super cache plugin generates .html files from the pages and saves it in the disk for the os to cache.
You can create a fictional story to prove anything.