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Manning dumped a whole lot of private data concerning killers who are funded by billions of printed and confiscated money from you, who then kill much less powerful people overseas, making everyone angry up to the point to provoke more and more terrorism acts against (surprise!) you again.

So you've been:

1. Robbed via taxation.

2. Robbed via inflation.

3. Left without any voice via complex bureaucratic system and multi-level censorship (licenses, regulations, "chilling effect" threats etc).

4. Bombed by people being angry that your government bombed theirs.

5. If you try to speak about it out loud, you'd be kicked, threatened, laughed at etc. And if NSA collects info on you, they'll use all that info about your public activity to manipulate you if needed.

All that while you yourself had neither intentionally, nor accidentally hurt anyone around you or anywhere in the world.

I think Manning deserves zero torture while everyone who tries to punish what he uncovered deserve all the blame and blacklisting from civilized society: courts, senators, president, all of army and police. Everyone who professionally kicks asses of normal people to get paid for kicking even more asses.
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Strangely, it doesn't appear in the US trend list, nor in the worldwide one.
>Well, since I'm also an opponent of fiat currency, the government couldn't very well print any money :)

So you want the gold standard again? Hasn't being in the EU shown you the dangers of having a currency you can't adjust to respond to international conditions?

>I'd prefer a night-watchman state, with the government handling police, courts, the military and possibly other services relating to emergency rescue, the justice system or government administration.

And somehow you imagine that the megarich corporations aren't instantly going to (a) start using unregulated practices to set up all kinds of monopolies and (b) start spending money to turn the country to their favor resorting in the exact same place the US is right now?

>1. Donations, 2. Fees, 3. A small flat tax levied either as an income tax or a corporate tax.

Donations? Seriously, donations? The police, military and so on will be at the mercy of what people decide to give of their own free will? Why am I not surprised to see such a position from a self proclaimed Libertarian.

>Until such a time, I'll try to make the situation better where I happen to reside.

Turning Sweden even more over to corporations isn't going to make it better, you must be out of your mind.
I look at my code from college (our teacher required us to print out everything we coded and physically hand it in along with digital source) and that stuff was actually pretty good. Once I got a real job and learned web programming, my quality went down the toilet though. Now I'm trying to get my skills back.
Clearly the author loved his dog more than his research advisor who supported the author through finance and other things.Glad for him though that it worked out.
There are a lot of weak points in this article.

> And during my recent sojourns I’ve noticed one thing: the Chinese are here. There. And everywhere. The point was rammed home when I visited the Darling Hotel in Sydney, a lavish new casino complex where 95 per cent of the guests are Chinese.

Right, Australia is in China's back yard relative to the U.S. Actually, there are a lot of interesting touristy places you can easily access from China. Easily accessible from the U.S. is Canada, Mexico, islands off the East coast, South America and other U.S. states. Most of that list isn't as interesting as the same list I could come up with for China.

The U.S. has always been a relatively isolated big power. That's partly what helped become a super power in the first place. We haven't had much to worry about for invasions. We also have our different culture and places we like to visit. We only get two weeks of vacation per year anyways, we don't want to be spending half that short vacation time in the air. You will find us in easy to reach (for us) and relatively easy locations to figure out. That means we spend a lot of our vacation time in the U.S. and countries which have a lot of English speakers (that's the only language we speak!)

We have had our time of great growth. If we were to go through as much steel and other construction materials as China right now, our country would be a mess. It's already well enough industrialized. We need to shrink our suburbs and fix what we already have rather than building a bunch of new stuff.

As an American living in the Philippines, I don't believe in some sort of fall of the West and a rise of the East. Right now the Philippines Peso is falling like crazy because the Fed has signaled that QE is about to end. When the big economies of the West flood their markets with money, then big flows end up heading to emerging markets in Asia. The flow doesn't even have to be big, a drop in the bucket in the U.S. does a lot in an emerging economy.

And aren't we past the talk of an X century? What will the next century look like? We could be talking about the Mars century by then!
Hey! Like your idea... if Skype crashes I'll know where to go (as long as we choose obscure enough languages)
> We are continually being pushed into the territory that distinguishes us from machines: emotion, relationships, synthesis, abstraction, beauty, art, meaning, and more.

Our future depends on the humanization work: http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2013/02/our-future...

We still have the idea of a discrete education, that once we obtain a skill, we can be employable using that skill. Such specialization is not going to cut it going forward. We have to view learning as a life-long continuous endeavour of an experimentation of ideas.

Start by making university free. Pay people to study. Don't let young people go 30K+ in debt just to get a basic education. That load of debt starting out limits possibilities. Mostly limiting the ability to be creative or entrepreneurial but it can also hinder one's ability to be mobile and to travel and acquire new perspectives.
Correct. Twitter changed their algorithm to this in 2010 to solve the Justin Bieber problem.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/twitter-improves-trending-top...
Awesome!! They look really nice. Thanks!
Different implementation of a similar idea:

https://github.com/grimwire/grimwire

grimwire appears to be somewhat further along, although still in alpha. both are very cool projects/ideas.
It's funny how just about everything that comprises journistic 'ethics' is designed to make the megacorporations that own the media more profitable, and how every time the economics of the business change the code of ethics need to be 'updated'.
This is a problem with the media always. Media is entertainment. It's about human stories, not abstract concepts.
did you watch "the war on democracy"? You really should.
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
All so close, seeing the trees, but not the forest.

HN is pretty good at programming and startups, but even the shortest expedition into history gets even the most amateur historians all wound up and LOL.

The fundamental problem was regionalism and federalism vs states rights. Not talked about for obvious political reasons now a days because that would bring up obvious difficult questions... All the issues mentioned were trees in the forest being fought over as PR fodder for the bigger issue of the south wanted to be the south and didn't want some yankee telling them anything, even if the yankee was correct. Extreme stubbornness on both sides. Then the war of northern aggression started because the southerners told the northerners to F off and leave them alone too many times.

If you could have magically removed slavery and plantations from the history of the south and reinsert another set of trees like space alien contact and medieval era 3-d printers, the forest would remain and the civil war would have been fought more or less the same way over PLA vs ABS figurines of intellectually protected property of images of space aliens or something.

The Trees Just Don't Matter (compared to the forest)

To some extent I believe this comes from the HN population consisting of many unmarried people. Trust me, once you get married you can bicker over stuff that has nothing to do with the real issue all day if you want.
Presentation of opinion as fact, and selection of a set of facts that support your opinion, with an accompanying omission of those that don't, is controversial.
NDA is not that restricted this times in fact... They know that everybody who want to know got an Apple dev account.
> I don't fall into either of those groups...

I don't want to speak for you but, given your hackernewsers profile, I think you fall into the "technically-inclined folks" category.
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The same justification I use for buying books on programming: I am trying to make myself a better programmer and I'm willing to take a gamble on myself.

But book stores, unlike the company that produces mocl, won't give my money back if I find that the book didn't help me within the first 30 days.

So in this case, it's even a relatively safe gamble (assuming of course, that the company does in fact, honor the 30-day money-back thing).
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Personally, I'm not a big fan of how Apple likes to hide useful features all over the place in OS X hidden behind completely non-discoverable modifier key + mouse click options or double modifier key + another key.
Hey HN, I've been working on this for the past six months. It's a browser-based SVG editor that supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. I designed it to be more simple and accessible than the competition. It's for people like myself who find Illustrator too intimidating and/or excessive.

There are plenty of things in the pipeline like a text tool and a grid/guides system, but I'd love your feedback on the UI/stability as well as ideas for features or integrations with other products. Let me know what you think!
For those not interesting in watching a documentary about the incident, the summary is that McDonalds served a woman, Stella Liebeck, coffee which was approximately 85C. Most coffee shops, at least at the time, served coffee about 60C. After getting the drink from the drive-through, she spilled the entire coffee on herself while adding sugar and cream to it. She was the passenger in the car, and the incident happened with the car parked. She received third-degree burns and needed a skin graft. She eventually won a substantial sum from McDonalds in a civil lawsuit.

The coffee's temperature met McDonald's policy. They set it higher than their competitors because they assumed people would keep it in a cup holder and want it to be a more drinkable temperature when they arrived at their destination. Today, McDonald's has not changed their policy and still serves coffee at 80-90C, and places like Starbucks serve it at similar or higher temperatures. They are able to do this because of better packaging that's less likely to spill the entire drink even if it's dropped on your lap like Liebeck did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...

Personally, I don't think that it was a frivolous lawsuit. She did receive serious burns, more serious than I would expect someone to receive from spilled coffee.
Protecting a system against a malicious administrator is an incredibly difficult problem. You can bet if the NSA can be stung by it, then so can almost every other organization.
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Maybe he is clinging to the landing gear Bruce Willis style.

With all this mess, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up tomorrow to see "Snowden says 'screw it, take me back to Hong Kong.'"

Unless this is all some very well orchestrated smoke screen, it must be crazy stressful. Maybe he should just parachute out and take his time to figure out what to do in international waters.
>But quantum mechanics limits any combination of these two quantities to discrete multiples of Planck's constant, h.

This sounds wrong to me. My understanding of QM is that the underlying physics is actually continuous (as apposed to quantized), and it is only when we attempt to make measurements that we run into planks constant.
Well yes, I rather intended it to be insulting as I find the fact that in today's world of instant connections to information, the fact that people still see Libertarianism itself as legitimate as insane and insulting. Any movement that considers Ayn Rand anything other then the uninventive, unoriginal hack she was is worthy only of ridicule.

And I suspect any international "Libertarian" parties are actually american expats. The international community does have something comparable though: ancaps. I feel the same about them.
My take on it was David Gregory was assuming, in his line of questioning, that Snowden is already a convicted felon so Greenwald is potentially aiding & abetting. Greenwald began his answer by saying Gregory's assumption in his question was flawed - therefore he couldn't be aiding & abetting someone who wasn't convicted of any crime. So while he didn't directly say "No" - he did give a pretty convincing answer by dismissing Gregory's premise from the outset.
> "if he were to pull a Snowden in these countries, they’d jail him immediately."

This is the first time I've noticed this usage of "Snowden". Anyone noticed it earlier?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930600
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. In all those cases, both sides of the story have been told. Indeed, I've seen more articles concerned about the safety of bridges then of the people in the car. You make claims of overrated or underrated. Are astronauts overrated? Are nurses underrated? We seem to be so quick to suggest as such, but astronauts are the public face of Nasa. And the good that has come out of Nasa should not be forgotten.

Overrated and underrated are subjective terms. Without the so-called "overrated" stories, the underrated stories wouldn't be written.

Hell, we're commenting on a so-called overrated story.
Haha, oh goodness. It seems an apology is actually due. Sorry, pjbrunet-- I thought your remark quite mean-spirited on the first go. But I'm delighted to know my interpretation was incorrect!
At a very minimum, there are opportunity costs.

I can make my robot work for myself, to build myself a palace, or I can make my robot work for you, to build you a simple home.

A capitalist is only motivated to do the latter because they get something beneficial in return - if I already have a robot who can work for free, then you may have nothing much more to offer me: I would have to be really an unusually altruistic capitalist to bother to help you.

I understand the concept of a post-capitalist utopia, but we have to get through the intermediate stage first.
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Ask HN: Any good/creative sites I can submit my sitcom to?
Hi guys,
I've recently written and made a sitcom for a $1000. Took me a couple of years to do and I know that getting it on to TV will be an almost impossible task. But I wondered if anyone has had any experience of submitting something creative (moving footage of some form) onto any internet sites that aren't Vimeo and YouTube. I'm keen that people see it, and just wondered if anyone could give me some advice on who I can approach/use.

Here is the link in case you're interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Eu6EfnsgVUk or on mobile - http://vimeo.com/52326482

Thanks in advance.
err... I took the languages list from a wikipedia page, not sure if it includes ALL the obscure languages but I saw something about phoenician, so I'm going to assume we have most of them covered. Problem is finding two people that are interested in said obscure language.
Not just that. All that has being said by the US media, and all the oficial information released the Govermen is directed to US citzens, without really talking about the world wide implications of the problem.

I'm from Spain. Are we being spyed? Since we have seen too many times that non-american people (even not being in the US) do not "enjoy" the most basic rights in the US... what can we expect?
It's not "their money after all". They did not make it alone, they were supported by the community in countless ways. How do you propose the government be paid for? How do you propose we deal with people for which there is no work to do?

If you don't have some kind of solution for the poor then they'll simply kill these rich people and take everything they have. And since you don't want taxes to pay for the police, they'll be shooting in the same direction.
Basic income is leftist? If you have basic income you can do away with most of the wellfare that disincetvises people, with minimum wage that raises labor costs, perhaps even with retirement funds. Employment environment becomes so much clearer and unburdened. I'd argue that basic income is very libertarian as it liberates large amount of people from governemnt interference.
Is there a reason this is pointing to the URL http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html?year=2011 instead of just http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html ?
It seems the have the NDA but if they actually don't want you to talk about something then they specifically tell you. For example when they demoed Lion I think it was to Gruber and a few select journalists they must have used something beyond the standard NDA.
I like this idea. Reminds me of RefactorMyCode.com. The article below says it lives on, but it's dead. Still seems like it could be interesting. Stack Overflow meets Github.

http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/4/18/-refactormycode-lives...
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There's a WebRTC demo that does something like this. I can't seem to find the link, but it was linked from one of the official/reference implementation sites.
All relevant compilers on OS X allow you to mix and match C++ and Objective C. If you look at Apple stack traces, you will see plenty of C++ in there. I don't see how using a few "Objective" bits in your C++ code is any worse than using non-portable COM interfaces in C++ on Windows.
Well, it doesn't really matter if even if we can't supply a way to keep everyone busy right now. We'll have enough time on our hands to figure that out when the time comes around. ;)
I really think this is a fun way of learning new languages, without all the blablas and grammar. Although usefull, I'm kind of like a kid who wants something here and now. The only difficulty from my point of view is bringing enough people online at the same time, at least until it is popular enough. Maybe some promoting (aka posting the link with a small description) on university groups? Just a thought.
> This is the problem with the media today. Edward Snowden is not the story!

But it's not "the story." It's "a story."

> The story is that the governments are illegally bugging people.

Are you suggesting that this story hasn't been told at all? That the only story that's been told is Snowden's travel plans? Because I've read more stories about the governments illegal bugging than I have of Snowden's travel plans. I'll admit, I haven't counted up all the stories that have been published.
When I was 20, I looked back at realized 16-year-old me was a moron. At 24, I think the same thing about my 20-year-old self. I expect (and hope) that when I'm 28 I think I was an idiot at 24.
Australia also has compulsory voting:

> Countries with compulsory voting generally hold elections on a Saturday or Sunday as evidenced in nations such as Australia, to ensure that working people can fulfill their duty to cast their vote. Postal and pre-poll voting is provided to people who cannot vote on polling day, and mobile voting booths may also be taken to old age homes and hospitals to cater for immobilized citizens.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting

Notably, this results in election candidates adopting populist policies that more closely represent their constituents.
What should you open source in your company?
"I want it to be automatic across N end points."

I solved that problem, using unison, I guess near 15 years ago the unix way, not the windows way.

Its been awhile but with a little symlink fun you can make a little shell script that builds a partial mesh and syncs both the script itself, its list of possible mesh members (as opposed to the 3 or so I used) and all the other stuff, more or less silently run out of .bash_profile or .bashrc or whatever it was. There's already excellent tools in unix for scripting, automation, batch, etc, so no need to include them all into one tool.

The windows way, would be to put all those tools into one (buggy) executable with a gui and an installer that also installs browser toolbars or whatever.

I switched to git away from unison and never looked back. Eventually it got to be too big of a PITA to install 2 or 3 debian packages of different versions of unison all of which can only talk to certain other versions. So then my shell script had to detect which unison versions are installed on this node, and match up to the master list of other nodes and their versions, ... oh forget all this garbage just try this new subversion svn thing. And later, forget this whole script, just put everything important thats small in git and everything thats big in multiple AFS servers running on RAID.
> Vendors always had C++. It's agnostic.

All C++ compilers have vendor extensions.
allegorical counterexample, but here in New York my impression is that the biggest crush of tourists trying to get into a museum is the one at MoMA. This may have something to do with size; the other most popular museum is clearly the Met, which is so huge that it's rare, even in NY, to have it be truly jam packed.

Someone else already said it, but I do believe that that the biggest reason for the difference in quality between old art and new art is that old art has had the benefit of the filter of history; for the most part, the bad stuff got thrown out and good stuff survived. In geek's terms, you might say that the old stuff that remains is sturgeon's 10%, but that 90% of the new stuff is, in fact, crud.
My company did, I unplugged it and put it under my desk when it became apparent 99% of the people calling me were telemarketers and recruiters cold calling the entire directory.
somebody just mailed me to ask we do a spinoff but with programming languages :)
> lol. Sorry for ripping on cat people at the end. For the sake of my dog

Some of us forgive you, but just barely.

Regardless, thanks for the great article. I've often wondered myself how much taking care of our pets is just a displaced parenting instinct.
This article just shows how compromised the Washington Post is. This is the biggest news story of the year -- a deliberate subversion of the constitution -- and they are clutching their pearls because he is acting like it matters.
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Retaliation? Does not look like it. What proof is there that this has been a political move?
I need a Porsche.
I'm very aware of the reasons the North actually went to war. It was, incidentally, that southern stubbornness that lost the South the war since France would have almost certainly come in on their side (and from the Northern front where Grant couldn't have hoped to deal with them) had Robert E. Lee been half as smart as Lincoln and simply claimed they wanted to be a separate country.

But you can't ignore the slavery though. Without it, there would have been no wealth in the south worth going to war for (nor enough resources to support succession).
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We already now have a lot of jobs that simply aren't necessary. I mean look at all the bureaucracy… Haven't you ever looked at some buraeucrats' job and just thought "Wow, I could replace that guy with 200 lines of perl."?^^
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