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>Did Snowden break the law? In passing classified information to reporters, he did. The Espionage Act explicitly prohibits such actions. But this violation surely needs to be balanced against the public service that Snowden carried out in informing the American public about the extent to which their government had been spying on them.

I don't think you can say that someone broke real laws and then excuse it because public opinion or a subjective idea of public "service" somehow trumped the laws. The U.S. is a nation of laws. If something doesn't work as expected, laws are changed. The laws are either good or bad, but the nation runs because of these laws. You can debate the merits or lack thereof in what Snowden did, because that is a subjective opinion. You cannot debate the laws he broke. You cannot say "yeah, he broke the law, but...." because then, what is the value of law? It is possible to agree with Snowden's actions while still accepting that he broke laws. As soon as you excuse the law because it doesn't "feel" right, you walk a shaky path to anarchy.

I see I am downvoted for this, but ironically it is not because I disagree with Snowden. I support what he revealed. But this article is not proper logic, in my opinion.

I think it is interesting that Snowden himself prefers to be punished for breaking these laws, and spend his life in prison, rather than live out a life in another country. He accepts that he broke laws, why doesn't everyone else? Hillary's attitude on this is not "wrong" as the article claims. If you are running for president and think that you can excuse the Espionage Act, of all laws, that to me seems like the wrong attitude.
please don't post these asinine articles here. there is not even an attempt to furnish data to back up any of its claims, including: (a) are parents today more involved in student's lives? where's the data besides anecdotal? (b) are children today less prepared for life? where's the data? and (c) are these causal?
>>Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail"

What a terribly insulting thing to say. Arrogance at its peak.
you've entirely missed the point. the article is making a claim on an entire generation of students and using stanford merely as an anecdotal sample
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I don't see the problem TBH. It seems that hey should be forcing upgrades so people will finally stop complaining about IE and other outdated stuff.

Guess some can never be satisfied no matter what.
> Today's environment is extremely competitive and the margin for error is lower.

The margin for error is enormous, compared to previous generations. The probability that a mistake in life will lead you to die of starvation or cold is smaller than ever.

What I think is happening is that global communication is leading to increased status neurosis. Before, you could compare your kids to the neighbors'. Now you can compare them with everyone's kids, filtered through the lens of social media.
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One possible reason I can think of is that the immune system in the brain is somewhat different from the rest of the body; not quite on par with say the mammary glands, testes, or eyes. Obviously I am not a doctor etc, anti biotics etc can have reduced effect in body parts that have reduced or modified immune responses; maybe anti fungals are similar?
We should expect leaders to lead.

Here in Canada last year the majority of the public was (according to polls, 80ish %) on side with the government's very repressive Bill C-51. The only major political party to come out against it was the NDP and all the pundits predicted disaster for them. But they made the case and campaigned it and although the bill passed parliament, the NDP in fact had a major rise in the polls and public opinion swung the other direction and the bill became very unpopular.

IHMO the reason we have political parties is to represent polarities of interests and opinions and principles and in a functional democracy the leaders within them should be making the arguments and trying to lead the public so we can hash the debate out in the public sphere.

When everybody follows the polls we sink into a quagmire of mediocrity.
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I'm getting _so_ bored of having to click on every knowledge base article to see exactly what each of the updates do, in order to hide (week after week) the two or three that try and sneak Get Windows 10 in. I'm getting less and less likely to install _any_ updates.
Whereas unkind people are actively detrimental to society.
Lessig seems to be too in love with the idea to the point that he doesn't realize that the execution is what matters.

He would've been better off organizing people to get one or more of the legit Dem candidates to promise to work on this reform if elected.

This also assumes that the president has enough influence to get meaningful reform passed which isn't a reality with the current Congress.
No, it's supposed to be a dismissal.
Yep, this is what I meant by 'goroutine pools'. The select statements were on the sending side to ensure if the feed channel was full we wouldn't retain too much additional state. It works, but at that point its starting to look like an async event-loop with a thread-pool....
That means there is 81% of the public that a powerful orator and good debater can reach with a good argument.

It is very disappointing that Bernie Sanders at least did not try to reach that 81%.
More correctly: 'liary Clinton is wrong about everything.

And if she happens to be right, it's because polling said that was the right answer and she's lying to you to get elected.

And there seems to be more opinions saying BS won the debate "hands down" than saying HC did.
I agreed with most of Dean Lythcott-Haims' ideas except the following one:

> perhaps top-tier schools could agree to limit the number of such schools that each student may apply to, she said.

This would put financial aid candidates at a disadvantage, limiting any given HS senior's ability to collect scholarship offers and use them as leverage in getting the best possible deal at the best school they get into.
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UpWork has really worked out great for me. Sure there are people who want you to either work for free (require some code up front or as a test), or want you to work for low wages (usually it is around a tenth of what I'd normally charge) but these aren't problems: just politely inform them that you cannot do the work. No big deal!

I've gotten good connections on UpWork that have brought in real value for us.
Look at the investors in today's later rounds and the structures of the late-stage investments.

This has nothing to do with consumer demand. There was consumer demand for subprime mortgages too. What we're talking about is where the late-stage money is coming from and how the valuations are being manufactured.
What makes you employable today may or may not make you so in two or three decades. For example, if an increasingly large fraction of cognitive employment is taken over by technology it is possible that the skills related to direct human-to-human interactions become the best bet.

If this happens being kind may indeed make you more employable than being smart.

(Caveat: as I argued in another post, smart person still has an advantage: she can generally learn other skills including being kind easier than a not-so-smart person)
>Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista

This is a very American problem and the cause my (20's) generation's unhappiness.

No one is happy with just being a stable person.

Being a stable person is a great goal. Most people aren't.
Seems like a good and (EDIT: ethically) legitimate plan for the most part

#1. Create your own quasi-craft brands.

This seems reasonable. If the taste sucks, the brand won't do well. If it doesn't, using a different brand is legitimate.

#2. Snatch up craft brews that’ll sell out.

Again, a fair strategy.

#3. Defend macro brews, bash craft snobs.

I'm not for attacking anyone, but certainly people have been attacking drinkers of macro brews for ages. In the circles I move in, Bud drinkers are openly stereotyped as ignorant and racist.

#4. Control distribution.
#5. Merge and overwhelm the marketplace.

Vertical and horizontal integration for the sake of reducing competition is a bad thing, luckily we have laws to prevent this.
> I don't think you can say that someone broke real laws and then excuse it because public opinion or a subjective idea of public "service" somehow trumped the laws. The U.S. is a nation of laws. If something doesn't work as expected, laws are changed.

The usual process is the adversarial legal system in the US, which does allow a fair amount of leeway for changing laws. I think there are a class of bad laws that people think are very difficult to change by this head-on method, however.
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And the NDP has since fallen from those heights in the polling. We (privacy concerned techies) might care about single issues, but the public doesn't (at least not our kind of issues).
> Those parents got those kids into Stanford.

Correlation/causation fail.

The worst part of parents functioning this way is that they assume they are dictating results.
I agree. If you can come to grok CSS, HTML, and Javascript, there's no limit on the abstractions around those three concepts that you can pick up.

As an anecdote, I am not a front end developer. I try and shy away from it as much as possible; I don't have the design chops to make my own designs, and I dislike the chains of following someone else's design to the pixel. That said, I was able to pick up an abandoned sass/React/Flux/gulp/bower/lodash/... project built up by an intern and make it work in under a day.

Because I knew the basics, I could follow the execution path, consulting documentation where necessary, and figure out why things didn't work.

Learn the basics; it makes understanding the abstractions easier.
He's just laid out legislation to pass

Errr, as far as I know he hasn't entirely done that. From his web site, https://lessig2016.us/the-plan/ he has two specific "Equal Right to Vote" laws plus "In addition, we will enact automatic voter registration and turn election day into a national holiday." Then there's a Ranked Choice Voting item with specific language, but the third item is not specific, and as other discussions here have noted, here the devil is in the details:

CITIZEN FUNDED ELECTIONS

All citizens deserve an equal ability to choose our leaders.

The Citizen Equality Act will end pay-to-play politics by changing the way we fund campaigns by taking the best of Rep. Sarbanes’ Government by the People Act, and Represent.US’s “American Anti-Corruption Act.” That hybrid would give every voter a voucher to contribute to fund congressional and presidential campaigns; it would provide matching funds for small-dollar contributions to congressional and presidential campaigns. And it would add effective new limits to restrict the revolving door between government service and work as a lobbyist.
No remotely electable candidate will have a view that differs much from Hillary. And no, L Lessig is not a remotely electable candidate, outside of our little circles of like minded activists and writers.
And what about politicians who give money to corporations by limiting the scope of government (see: deregulating energy markets -> Enron buys up capacity and shuts it down -> rolling blackouts and $$ in their pockets as prices spiked)?

Regulations aren't the only cause of friction, perverse incentives, and exploitative business models. They're also pretty much the only tool we have against tragedies of the commons. Deciding which regulations are good and which are bad is inherently ideological, and the declaration that we should generally assume they're bad is so extreme that Adam Smith himself would disapprove.
Arab Spring happened 2010[1]... Snowden leaked the information to the Guardian in 2013[2]... 3 years later.

Its not possible for this to have caused Arab Spring unless you're including time travel in your conspiracy theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
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I think the submission here on HN has overdone it on the title.

It doesn't compute "flops" like a traditional computer. The relevant text from the article:

"The prototype achieves a processing speed equivalent to 320 Gflops and it is incredibly energy efficient as it uses low-powered, cost effective components."

I am as interested as anybody in switching out for photons instead of electrons/holes. But please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
Hope that rant made you feel better.
That's exactly how it works. The law does not exist in isolation as an axiomatic rule. The intent and circumstances of an action are all taken into account. Legalism is tyranny, plain and simple.

Also, you are allowed to say "Yeah, he broke the law, but we don't give a fuck." It's called jury nullification.

As soon as you excuse the law because it doesn't "feel" right, you walk a shaky path to anarchy.

The United States hasn't been walking to the path of anarchy, but quite the opposite. We actually need more anarchy.
Snowden took classified and sensitive information and went to 2 countries that are the major geopolitical rivals of the United States (and that probably care less about their citizens' privacy).

He claims (with no way to verify) that he did not give them any classified information. So Russia and China provided sanctuary to a member of the intelligence community without getting any classified information? Has, even the US done something like that for members ofRussia's or China's intelligence services? I find that very hard to believe.

If he had stayed in the United States, he would have had a trial. Even if convicted, I think he would have portrayed as an unequivocal patriot and with the intense pressure would have been pardoned by now. Now, he is seen as a traitor and not without cause.
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Yes, that issue has vanished from the public eye for now. It was always hard to make it a focus. But is an example of good effective leadership to do so.
Good luck. I've seen so many craft beers popping up around here in the Northeast over the past couple of years. I've met so many people that would never touch a domestic. Personally, I'll have a craft beer, but I'm not a beer snob about it.

In Philly, there's been a surge of popup beer gardens over the past few years that usually serve craft beers. I'm not sure about other cities, but I do know craft beers are exploding here.

http://www.visitphilly.com/articles/philadelphia/top-10-reas...
Is that what they're saying ?

My understanding of the case against antioxidants is that thefree radicals (etc.) are an essential cell signaling mechanism ... and the signal is "kill me, I'm a bad cell".

If you somehow disrupt or eliminate the signal, you allow bad, or inefficient, or perhaps cancerous cells to live longer than they would otherwise.

I'm paraphrasing directly from the excellent, excellent book _Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life_ by Nick Lane, which is highly skeptical of antioxidant supplementation and is a truly fascinating book.
FWIW we deploy python code as debian packages that we build with dh-virtualenv.

This bakes a whole virtualenv with all python dependencies (including compiled C libraries) into a .deb package. The packages tend to be big-ish (3MB to 15MB), but the target system only needs the right python version, nothing else.
Arab Spring occurred in 2010. Snowden released his information in 2013. How are they connected?
The article implies (but does not state) that these students struggle once they're in. Getting in to Stanford has only marginal value on its own, the majority of value is in graduating and receiving a degree. If parents are optimizing for success at step N-1 at the cost of success at step N, that is self-defeating.
As noted in the article, the observed issues with mental health problems would indicate that pushing toward such an "achievement" extreme carries with it significant baggage.
It enrages me that you got downvoted, because I've thought this for almost as long as I've had political thought. Corporations and lobbyists would stop buying politicians if the scope of power were limited.
The term "helicopter parent" is more than a generation old. Here are some examples:

1994 - "Helicopter parents" make excuses for their children, rescue them from the consequences of putting off their chores, ... - https://books.google.com/books?id=kXkT2dXGjtYC&q=helicopter+...

1991 - "'Those helicopter parent of mine' ... Translation: a nosy grownup who is always hovering around" - https://books.google.com/books?id=AfQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=hel...

Ahh, the Wikipedia entry traces the metaphor to the late 1960s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent .

Of course the underlying concept is even older. The grousers of yore just used different phrases. Here are Google Book Search snippets predating 1970 for search "expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter": https://www.google.com/search?q=expect+everything+to+be+hand...

This includes from a 1960 PTA magazine:

> 'I've known a lot of kids who were treated like little heroes. Afterward, they expected everything to be handed them on a silver platter— and it wasn't. They couldn't adjust.' "Beyond any doubt, the boys in Williamsport last week were treated as ...

A Boys' Life article from July 1937 at https://books.google.com/books?id=agt7vyGWtXoC&pg=PA14&dq=ex...

> We want to teach them not just to sit back and expect things to be handed to them on a silver platter but with confidence, based on their training, to go out and get what they want. We need to stiffen a moral flabbiness that has been affecting our youth.

Life Magazine, March 29, 1949 at https://books.google.com/books?id=b00EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=exp... :

> We have reared a bunch of weaklings in our young marrieds of today. Too much has been handed to them on a silver platter without their having had to work for it, and they lack the intestinal fortitude to meet life as a challenge.
A big part of the 'craft beer revolution' for me is supporting local businesses as many of my favorite brews are local to my sate or region. Also since macros have such a choke hold on distribution many of the best local crafts can only be had at taprooms or brew pubs which also plays nicely into 'supporting local' and they're fantastic social centers.

I don't think macros could ever really touch those aspects of the scene.
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What about people with bandwidth caps?
It's actually not a terribly uncommon code convention. I've seen a lot of C written with this style.

Personally, I don't see the value if your code fits in one screen width, but I'm certainly not going to refactor a code base away from this style if it's been in place for years.
> Stairway to Paradise: Between drags on her cigarette, one student says that she will be working for Goldman Sachs.

As someone who worked at Goldman and is college-aged, I think this says quite a lot about the piece in general. Working at Goldman is not some kind of prestigious, difficult to obtain position. If you're in investment banking, that's laughable. If you're in the SSG, then that's only more mildly impressive. I did two-weeks in London where a few of the interns were part of the Pitt club at Cambridge (albeit, not quite as storied a group, but Cambridge's version of the Bullingdon Club) and seemed to revel in this prestige despite having decidedly worse placements in every way than myself. Only one of the three members were hired back full-time.

If these kids went to work at interesting hedge funds in Mayfair then I'm inclined to suggest they have some powerful connections. But, by in large, these are 18-21 year olds with all the insecurities and lack of knowledge you'd expect. In the world of finance perhaps this club helps getting you an interview at an investment bank, that's about it. Once you see how these things work you become cognizant of the fact that stories like this are more based in what the members of the clubs want you to believe secretively, or rather a writer would like to suggest is some vast conspiracy to pontificate on his or her moral outrage, then having even the slightest basis in reality.

Now, I would grant that having this kind of network gives opportunities to become more involved in politics (similar to what Cameron himself did) at an early age. That's fair, I suppose, however this notion of these secretive groups, with members who have intellects and connections that the average chap can only dream of ever obtaining is laughable. I'd encourage folks not to be drawn into articles like this, similar to the film The Riot Club, that seek to create heroic tragedies and spark mock outrage. Things are always more dull then they appear and most things aren't intricate conspiracy theories, which unfortunately HN seems to have a predisposition towards chatting about.
Isn't 320 GFLOPs kinda slow? An NVIDIA GeForce GTX
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It's not just crying that men have a tough time doing.

I'd never had an American male friend I could talk about feelings with. I'm sure they exist, but they're rare.

In Denmark, I make dinner with male friends. Just two of us. Making dinner. And we talk about women, and about feelings.

One even lit a candle once, because that's cozier.

Sound gay? I thought so too.

That was my problem that I had to get over.
The best frontend developers I know are those that actually stick to frontend development. Imho its one of the most frustrating job in the field yet underappreciated and looked down upon.
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States are usually good testbeds for new ideas. Arizona has had "Clean Elections" with public money for 20 years and it works well.
Of course you can argue that other relevant factors should balance out and partially or fully reduce the consequences of breaking a law. This negotiation happens every day in courtrooms throughout the country. If what you said was true, we wouldn't need judges, lawyers, or juries. The judicial system would only consist of fact finders and a robotic judge that looked up penalties in a big dictionary.

The law isn't simply a if() statement.