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I wonder how those reporters feel signing up for a 12 hour flight to Cuba now for nothing. I have to confess I chuckled with the "they locked the doors and he's not on the flight!" tweet. Rountrip to Cuba for nothing.
It should be pointed out that due to the way Australia's preferential voting system works [1] candidates that don't actually stand a chance of winning have a lot of power at election time.

When voting, all candidates are numbered in order of your preference. If your first candidate doesn't secure a majority of votes, their votes are removed, and then allocated to the voters second preference and so on, until a winner is found.

Candidates also hand out 'how to vote' cards [2] that show how the candidate suggests you allocate your preferences.

If a smaller candidate or party is getting decent support before the election, the other parties will then try to make deals with that candidate to secure their second preferences.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Australia#P...

[2] http://www.prsa.org.au/htv_cards.htm
Still can't play Left4 Dead 2.
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Because PS3 has shaders. Sony decided to support those shaders by an agreement with NVidia to use Cg, instead of adapting GLSL to their tooling.

Later on, it was asked at one GDC event if developers cared about GLSL, but since almost everyone that cares about performance on the PS3 uses Libgcm anyway, the update never happened.
Avoiding HN's duplicate filter maybe?
As a Briton, I never thought I'd see a New Statesman link on the Hacker News front page - especially not to see that people are defending it in the comments! (It's the leftest of left wing magazines, save the SWP rags, even a wooly liberal like me finds it a bit much.)

There must be fewer Americans on here in the middle of the night or something...
> 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?

Being in the EU has shown me the dangers of government meddling in the market.

> 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.

Yes, because it's far better to steal the money instead of it being given freely. I'm more than willing to pay a decent amount money for everyone to have access to those services. Aren't you?
Lie to my claims?

Some of your assertions were simply untrue - if you want people to take you seriously, don't try to distort the truth. If the documents above were common knowledge they would not be stamped 'TOP SECRET/NOFORN', he released more than the powerpoint slides, etc.

Because nothing you just linked proves that he has anything substantive which actually proves wrongdoing, overreach, or the NSA going beyond mission parameters.

To take just this one example, I consider tracking the domestic phone records of all Americans daily to be a huge infringement of the NSA's stated mission and the privacy of hundreds of millions of Americans, which you so blithely dimiss as 'public knowledge'. YMMV on that, but frankly your arguments that this is nothing of consequence are absurd given the reaction of the US President, Congress, the NSA, Foreign governments, and journalists around the world to these leaks - clearly they are important and clearly the revelations have shocked many people.
At the very least you should avoid third party companies. I suspect in many European countries like France or Germany such leak would be less likely because their government are less prone to trust third parties.
These people don't seem to be very pragmatic or legal cyclists:

> 0-5mph is red, 5-10 is yellow, 10-15 is green

Everyone should know that red is the only acceptable color for rear-facing bike lights. Green is absurd. Green tells cars to GO.
I don't understand why this is supposed to be so controversial

Because humans in general have an extreme bias towards believing things they want to believe and not believing things they don't. It is very rare to find someone who truly reports things neutrally and even rarer in a situation where stringent neutrality is not fostered.

I guess other people are free to read whatever they want, but I very rarely read opinion pieces or news from people who I know are firmly on one side or another. They are not usually honestly investigating the facts and more likely trying to sway people to their position. Whilst that is understandable as they are human, and they are not necessarily incorrect, it is not what I want from my news.
Well done, you've completely missed the point of literature. One reads to experience another self. Anyhing else is a waste of time.
Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
The movements through the world of this individual "don't amount to a hill of beans".

Is he on a plane, isn't he, will Country X extradite him, won't they, does his old girlfriend still pole dance, doesn't she, what is Wikileaks' stance on him, is he allowed to trend on Twitter, etc.

The great majority of these stories seem mainly fodder for news companies to gain revenue while people voraciously seek more information about a quickly diminishing story. The documents were released, the hearings have been held, there are some lawsuits pending.

But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim. And while we can discuss myriad elements 'til we're blue in the face, fifteen front-page stories a day aren't going to help us understand the issues any better, nor are they coverage of some important event.

Let's stop turning HN into a tabloid news service and get back to the deeply interesting stories.

"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter."
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Well, that's quite a stretch. I don't see where Snowden fits in. Plus, the rating agencies are already under heavy scrutiny over the housing market crisis.
I spend about 1 hour a week at the bookstore, usually taking random books and reading the first page(s).

I also try to discover new books on Amazon from time to time by going over their selections and recommendations but I end up reading the same circle of authors.

I think your idea is brilliant by matching my IRL process.
I wish you a lot of success.

EDIT: about the website itself it's nicely done, minimalist and easy. I'd change the "Choose a genre" button to a dropdown. Also I'd have the top navigation (the exploration/submit buttons) merged with the right one with the menu following the scroll. This would be a a good incentive to navigate around (easier and faster too).
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The rationale is justified. Not everyone is bullish on Hong Kong. They could've been inclined to do this already and this pushed them over but this isn't purely a political play.
>There are people who are sitting in jail right now who have pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks that were prevented.

I remain skeptical that we were saved from anything, at least in this case. Are there others? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/12/newburgh-four-fb...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Fort_Dix_attack_plot
Why make our own system when the DSD and ASIO can just listen in thanks to the US?
Are there graphics drivers to install? I've just assumed in stuck with whatever apple provides. does nvidia publish third party osx drivers?
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>There are people who are sitting in jail right now who have pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks that were prevented.

Well that proves it doesn't it! Except that those people were entrapped by the US government. Talked into doing attacks they'd have never actually done sans government involvement and suggestion.

The actual terrorist attacks that have been tried either worked or failed because the terrorist was incompetent. In any case, terrorism is such a minuscule cause of death or injury that there is no reason to even consider it. Just ignore it like the gnat that it is.
Funny how the prominent left politicians (not citizens) are coming out and showing who they really are: Neocons.

The only thing 'deeply troubling' is that both sides are labeling a whistleblower as a 'leaker' and 'traitor' when all he's done is expose that U.S. citizens info is collected without warrants, a likely constitutional violation.
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My gf says tret instead of treated, and it drives me mad.
I like this. It presents a snippet from a book, you can choose to read a longer snippet and then choose to get the book name and details.
That's an interesting point, but I think it's difficult for journalists to demonstrate the transparency required for them to be both biased and trustworthy. Factually supporting your view doesn't mean as much when you're the one presenting and interpreting the facts. The Washington Post article has an applicable quote, “Do we know if he’s pulling his punches or has his fingers on the scale because some information that should he should be reporting doesn’t fit [with his cause]?”
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I thought about something similar. But instead of running web apps, the idea would be to use HTML and JS to build a full desktop environment - except that some DIVs would actually show the windows of native apps. Instead of "desktop themes", you'd have CSS. Want a tiling window manager? Just add the javascript to move the divs the way you want.

It wouldn't need to be a full browser (even though it could). The approach could be similar to what QT already does with CSS.

I have searched but my Google-fu skills were not enough. Is there something similar already?
I don't know if people are down voting because they don't get the reference, or because it's irrelevant, but this is what he's talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead_2#Australian_ban

Leaving those who actually played the game scratching their heads.
>all you need is to bring down a high enough percentage of nodes, which will effectively take down the network through capacity constraints

On a fully distributed network, that's pretty hard to do. DDOS works by having tons of nodes to attack with. That won't work very well when your target has as many or more nodes than you do.

Taking down a centralized target is vastly easier.

>Combine this with auto-updating clients and you've got a crashing software bug that brings down the whole network.

Only if I can't role my client back nor turn off auto-update.
How about, you can make fun of religion while working at mcdonalds, get yelled at for it, and improve your life and outlook. From a systems analysis perspective for that one small task its a more efficient vehicle/tool than education. It is a pretty simple and straightforward lesson that doesn't need to be needlessly complicated.

I can get insights from literature... and other things. I can also DO other things. Lit as the only source of insight is inaccurate, misleading, and inefficient. Don't confuse this with the logical opposite and assume I'm saying there's no insight in lit... I love to read, especially the "good stuff". I just acknowledge there's a whole world out there.
The possible weaknesses I'm aware of:

1) The "Universe" we talk about when we observe the limits is "the visible universe for us" and not "the whole infinite universe" we're part of.

2) Even if the universe is 13.7 billion years old, we can observe more at the moment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

"According to calculations, the comoving distance (current proper distance) to particles from the CMBR, which represent the radius of the visible universe, is about 14.0 billion parsecs (about 45.7 billion light years), while the comoving distance to the edge of the observable universe is about 14.3 billion parsecs (about 46.6 billion light years),[1] about 2% larger."
Only as much as the NYT has become a subtle propaganda mouthpiece for the Mil/Ind complex.
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I suspect (although this is just speculation) that the authority is based on the fact that the Bitcoin Foundation is transmitting a lot of money to and from citizens of California. If, indeed, the Bitcoin Foundation were responsible for all bitcoin transactions (including those in California) then the legal authority would be clear. Perhaps California officials are simply mistaken and ill-informed about how bitcoin functions.
Selecting facts and presenting opinions while pretending not to have them is worse.
Second. I'd also like to point out that I am a cat person and also feel bad about not being able to spend more time with my cats while I'm in the lab all day!
Usually I sample mid-stream, as it were; about 60% in to the book I'll read a couple of pages.
Exactly. Americans have too much an Individual focus, not enough Systematic focus. It is to our extreme disadvantage.
They were not "supported by the community", they used other's people work to get rich but they paid each of those people fair amount of money, called "salary". that's all they owe society: paying their workers their salary.

I also never told I don't want to pay the police, in fact it is one of three things that are worth paying taxes for: police and courts to provide internal safety and justice, and army to protect from external enemies (other countries, terrorists etc.)

Also, unemployment is an artificial problem that only exists in fundamentally sick, socialist economies. In capitalism there's always more work to do that workforce available. You can only break this by introducing high employment costs. If you tax work at the same level as luxury goods (and all taxes average worker has to pay add up to about 50% of his gross income) then work itself becomes "luxury". And if you pay people for doing nothing large part of them will have no motivation to find any meaningful job.
The author is overlooking one major flaw in his discussion: security (and possibly also reliability). His implication is that they can run internal servers more securely than Google and Salesforce. While government collection of encrypted emails is problematic, securing your own server and making it reliable is an entirely different issue. Unless they have an absolutely top notch security team they'd be better off on someone else's servers.
Neocons! Another one of those words.

But words have meanings. Would you mind explaining how exactly they are neocons, other than you feel they are somewhat sinister?
Hands on with the blackberry tools & the z10
But hey if you can't attack the message attacking the messenger works pretty effectively too right?
The reason we have a corporatocracy now is due to the opposite of libertarianism: cronyism / crony-capitalism. When you have huge bureaucracy, you get a situation where corporations have to bribe (aka, lobby) for special rights, favors and bailouts. In a libertarian economy, a company would have to stand on it's ability to solve a marketplace demand.

Are you against voluntary society?
As a side note, I love the footnote:

"3NJ uses cookies to function. For some insane reason EU law requires me to tell you this. By continuing I assume your permission to do so. Complete info on what they're used for is here. This banner will only appear once."
uhh, I have been wrong about many things when it comes to web images - this is going back a long way. First, I always used JPG. Then, I discovered PNG, which I thought was vector (because I created Bezier curves in my editor, and when I exported them the quality was retained exactly). I can't remember what other formats I've tried in between (EPS and PS were involved somewhere, but they're not web friendly). I've never succeeded in creating a vector image that I can use on the web with a normal editor - although I have heard of SVG before. Maybe I'll look up how to export to it next time I need to solve this problem.
I believe he means it would be impossible to squish it to a thickness of 0.5 neutrons.
>Being in the EU has shown me the dangers of government meddling in the market.

Oh ffs. What place has shown you the joys of a completely laissez faire market? I'd be interested to hear about it since no such thing actually exists at any reasonably large scale. It was tried in Chile once and failed so hard that Friedman's own "Chicago boys" had to back it off.

>I'm more than willing to pay a decent amount money for everyone to have access to those services. Aren't you?

Well, no actually. I'm not willing to spend a dollar on those services until I know those getting more value out of them (i.e. the rich) are paying their fair share. In reality, they'll probably be paying nothing so I will join them.
Glenn Greenwald has never really been a journalist, he has been a blogger and op-ed writer from the beginning. Of course he has taken a side--that's his job. The fact that he so clearly takes sides is why he was able to break this story in the first place.

Anyway, great journalists throughout history have taken sides. One of the most celebrated moments in U.S. journalism was Edward R. Murrow's "reporting" on Joe McCarthy--which took sides against McCarthy and helped bring him down.
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For what it's worth, we are about to start a sprint to rebuild the customer-facing side of a Rails application using EmberJS. I will more than likely post a walkthrough of the experience. We have worked a lot with both Backbone and Ember. They are very different tools and I don't think it's fair to compare them directly, but I am definitely a big fan of Ember. I even have a t-shirt!

If you are interested, blog.chriswinn.com is where I will end up posting the Ember walkthrough - probably in the next few weeks.
Agreed. At the very least, it would be helpful to know the specific applications of the languages in projects that use more than one.
I suggested canvas because that's how I've generated programmatic images from my own "vector" formats (scientific datafiles,) and rendered them at arbitrary zoom.

Generating the relevant shapes and lines for a simple logo would be easy this way, although probably would require a larger download vs. a vector image, since the canvas method would need to load extra javascript to duplicate the SVG support built in to the browser.

I'm not saying it is necessarily a better idea, just that I've had more success with canvas drawing methods than trying to actually make a vector image.
Didn't the financial crisis teach you that we can't be kept out of it?
In the French sense, perhaps. In French, "con" means idiot, so...
Hopefully they use the 12 hours to discuss and write about the actual issue, instead of the person that reported it.
It seems like this is going to be heavily biased away from traditionally published books if the authors/publishers have to upload the chapter. I'd actually prefer they were using Amazon to pull in mainstream books.
This is the most hilarious turn of events so far.
Actually, it's pretty easy to get a few places of accuracy purely by hand using the first couple of terms of the right series, and a few double (and triple) angle formulas.
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Dude's gotta fall in line with Obama as ambassador. This is a bad example.
My issue isn't with what they want, but rather how little thought they've put into the consequences of their actions.
In Switzerland there will probably be a voting about introducing a basic income. At least if the initiators manage to get 100'000 signatures for their initiative until October (so far they have about 90'000 valid signatures).
Let's just say that if I had to choose between "real journalists" that take the side of government no matter what, and "amateur bloggers" that try to stand up to government abuses, I'll take the latter, every single time.

The "real journalists" from the mainstream media are a disgrace to their profession these days. Thank god for bloggers who do the real journalists' jobs.

Plus, it's time to focus on what really matters - the act of journalism. Whoever is doing it doesn't really matter.
Dogs focus their energies on pleasure and curiosity. Being around them can really change your point of view on things. I'm very glad to be able to work from home and spend that extra time with my 13 year old dog.
This is VERY clean code :) Luckily, I do not have any of my code from that age available :)
You are mixing things up. Ayn Rand is more associated with the right-conservative movement. Libertarianism (with a lower-case l) is simply the belief in a voluntary society - one without coercion. The problem with most peoples political beliefs is they are ego-centric and are based the individual thinking their way is correct and they are so certain of it, they're willing to force others to comply via the barrel of a gun (or proxy gun - aka, military, police, etc) using property confiscation (non-voluntary taxes) as the primary means.

Ask yourself, are you so certain of your position that you are willing to shoot or imprison me even if I'm causing you no harm? This is the modus operandi for both the left and right.

You have some reading to do. Start here: https://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp
Ah, the smear begins.

If you don't toe the line on the Washington Consensus you're not a 'journalist', you're an 'activist'.

Hint: 'objectively' reporting on only the approved message coming out of the government isn't objective at all. I'd take this as yet another warning sign (if more were needed) that mainstream newspaper journalism in America is deeply unhealthy; who needs the likes of Pravda, Izvestia, or TASS if the nominally 'free' press is happy to bend over and distribute your propaganda voluntarily?
> A frustrated Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he was troubled by the apparent refusal of fellow world powers China and Russia to respond to espionage charges the United States had filed against Snowden, who leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs.

This is kind of a strange statement. On what grounds could/would China or Russia "respond to espionage charges" in the absence of extradition treaties with the US?

Its also somewhat strange the US would expect any other country, especially these two, to care deeply about leaks against it that expose massive US/British spying against basically the whole world.