skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an obvious enhancement of the Jordan Curve Theorem, which is to say that the interior is effectively a disk, and the exterior is effectively a plane with a hole. There is then an obvious 3D version, with a (topological) sphere separating space into a topological ball[0] and a topological R^3 with a hole. This enhanced version, although natural and obvious, is false.

I use this as an example of why "obvious" things aren't always true, need proving, and understanding their proofs can lead to useful insights.

[0] Edit: corrected "sphere" to "ball"
...and nobody gives a shit about Bradley Manning anymore, the nerdrage industry has already moved on.

the "real" story should be how seemingly easy it is to get into NSA systems. billions of dollars in security and they failed to notice what this guy was accessing/downloading. assume for every Snowden there are at least 5 real spies in it for the money.
"In five minutes, press briefing on visit to Vietnam and the case Snowden, from Hanoi, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" - @RicardoPatinoEC
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That's not entirely true. There are nonrenewable material and energy costs that went into making said robot. It may be a sunk cost, but it's not zero.
For people who want to understand the link between compression and artificial intelligence: The Hutter Prize pages have some nice descriptions.

(http://prize.hutter1.net/index.htm)

It would be interesting to see if enwiki8 can be compressed further.

(http://mattmahoney.net/dc/textdata.html)

Matt Mahoney has a lot of great information about compression!

The compression curiosities page has some nice gimmicks. A file that compresses well in with one software, but hardly at all with another; a tiny compressed file (115 bytes) that expands to 5 MB; compressed files decompressing to themselves.

(http://www.maximumcompression.com/compression_fun.php)
While frivolous lawsuits are certainly a problem, I think everyone citing the McDonald's coffee example should watch the documentary Hot Coffee. It puts that incident in a new perspective.
Yeah sorry I got confused, busy trying to find a paper map and some pins, and a maybe load of little aeroplanes and CIA figurines and one of those poker-chip-shoving thingies.

If you look at the above-linked twitter feed, he's talking about it being 5 minutes from now. Imminent basically.
I've occasionally caught myself wondering whether there is a completely different proof that could have been discovered using 17th century mathematics. Or is it the case that the maths used by Andrew Wiles would have been understandable to Fermat?

Namely, I'm wondering if Fermat was actually lying and he just got lucky that a proof was eventually found.
On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald just gotten smeared?
I hate to be "that guy", but wouldn't this be more appropriate for Reddit?
In total about £600 (this was 2 years ago); £250 for the panel, £120 for the battery, £150 for the inverter (Ebay, 2nd hand) and the rest on sundries like cable & connectors (also Ebay in most cases). I used http://www.midsummerenergy.co.uk/ for a lot of the bits.

Note you can now get a 135W panel for £190, which is some indication of the falling cost over the last 24 months - the 50W Kyocera panel is now £80!
Manning basically dumped a whole lot of private data, rather than reveal one specific and very "unamerican" program. He's probably getting treated worse than he ought to, but I don't know if I really see him as a whistleblower in the same way I see Snowden.
So in other words, they don't really care about someone with PRISM access "misusing" their authority, all they care about is someone with PRISM access becoming a whistleblower. Suprise, suprise...
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Surely the primary difference between Greenwald and journalists who came before him is the existence of social media.

Previously, investigative journalists would privately muse that they were doing a public service. Now they can say as much on twitter. I would be shocked if it were any other way.

This article belongs in an opinion section.

EDIT: I see it's in the "style" section, whatever that means.
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I'm a United States citizen that usually roots for my country. In this case our government is so obviously wrong that it is not surprising to me in the least that other countries are not bending to our will. The Whitehouse petition to pardon Snowden surpassed 100,000 signatures in no time. Why is our government not realizing that this is a big issue and they need to stop what they're doing?
I always wonder - is there a reason to use HTTP verbs?

It seems to me using POST to request information is better than using GET - instead of putting a url in the GET request, put it in the body of the POST (plus anything else you want).

I thing a decent JSON-based approach might be easier than bare http, which lacks things that might be needed.
I don't know about international laws regarding flights passing other countries airspace. But if the US would force down a Russian civilian airplane, to perform an arrest after the request to perform this arrest on Russian soil was denied, I guess that would cause some major diplomatic trouble between the US and Russia. I doubt it would be solved by summoning the ambassador.
That wouldn't be a bad thing, actually. The choice of building material has implications far beyond what you'd imagine.
Is it poor form to be asking for job opportunities outside of the monthly hiring thread? This is coming from someone who started a "Would you hire me?" thread. Genuinely interested if this is something that is looked down upon.
If other people litter, why shouldn't I? If other people forgo vaccinations, why shouldn't I? If other people are just following orders, why shouldn't I?
> "A controversial "data retention" scheme that would have allowed Australians' internet and telephone activities to be stored for up to two years...

... in fact, the proposed scheme would have been mandatory.

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Hous...
BBC may have a live stream up once he starts talking:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23032328

Edit: It's live
You can't make this stuff up. Now journalists are complaining that this "blogger" (as the NYTimes called him) has blown open a huge story that was under their noses the whole time.
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Fermat definitely couldn't have understood Wiles' proof in terms of the mathematics of his time, since it relies on a lot of theory that wasn't available then.

It's technically possible that there's a proof that only requires the mathematics of that period, but since no one has found it yet it seems unlikely.
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65 million people voted less than a year ago for the guy who could order the NSA to stop or modify any of these programs immediately. Say what you like about the current occupant of the Oval Office, but he's not a rigid ideologue: Democratic voices and the resulting political forces can get him to move, and if by some chance they can't, there's a Congressional election in a year and a Presidential in three.
Vietnam! The plot thickens!

I doubt Vietnam is relevant here. This visit was announced a week ago:

http://talkvietnam.com/2013/06/top-ecuador-diplomat-to-visit...

"Vietnam will be Patino’s second stopover during his Asian tour. Besides Vietnam, he will visit the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore."
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When I was talking about "voting with money" i didn't mean any political vote. I just meant that if you are in capitalist market and all services are provided by private companies then you have power over that companies because you can decide not to buy their products or services. That's something that gives you a freedom of choice. Lobby money, political campaign money and other things you mentioned can only matter if government rules most of fields in our lives. If you limit goverment's powers to minimum then bribing politicians has just no incentive to a person giving a bribe.
I grew up in and retired to a reddest of Red State America, spent a dozen year in the very Blue State Boston area and a dozen in the D.C. area, which was sort of mixed but plenty Blue State, and I have to say that this "What's the Matter with Kansas" false consciousness thesis is presumptuous bunk.

It basically labels our different concerns, or different weighting of various concerns, as illegitimate. In your case, a lot of this seems to reduce to the economic man world view ... and even then, since you don't consider things like "trickle down economics" (sure seemed to work better for us in the '80s than what's been tried after Clinton) or our "libertarianism" AKA classical liberalism at least debatable points vs akin to the KKK....

I mean, is there any room in your world view for religion, e.g. "Man does not live by bread alone", or, say, non-economic principles that are worth dying for??? Any non-economic reason why anyone would volunteer for the military?
Actually I'm totally amazed when thinking about the possibilities we might get with supportive AIs and implants to boost our neural power.

And even if we're not needed for research it doesn't take the joy out of doing it anyways; Learning is pretty much self-rewarding. Plus there will always be enough projects to keep yourself busy, even if it's "just" organizing the next rave, party or other social event. But before that happens we will have plenty of new frontiers to conquer.
Not lying, but probably thought quickly of a proof that later was revealed to not be a correct one (not sure Fermat got to this point)
I read yesterday that sources within the airport/airline confirmed that his name was on the passenger list. Also the cabin staff has a printed passenger-seat list, no doubt that in a plane full of journalists at least one of them will get a glimpse on it.
I just didn't see how karma fit in to the story.

That said, anyone who is a friend of animals is a friend of mine.
I'm not opposed to capitalism, btw, I just feel it should serve everyone, not just the few.
Then that wouldn't be capitalism. Sounds like you want some sort of democratic economy.

I personally am against capitalism, I think we don't even need money in the long run. I'm pretty sure we could obsolete it within the next few decades. Just distribute goods according to need…
I read the book as a kid (I'm guessing 15), and while I probably understood little of it, I read the whole thing. It was definitely inspiring to learn Wiles' slow persistence/progress, and the never-would've-guessed kind of connections that come up in maths.
Yeas, I find it difficult to believe that it'll get easier, but then again, calculating the sine for an arbitrary number was once impossible, later very difficult (and only in the realm of 'pros') and today it's a couple of button presses away.
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Is Snowden not Being Allowed to Trend on Twitter?
There is a ton.

Here on HN look for bdunn, orangethirty, maybe michaelochurch

Start with the first two and their blogs, Brennan is probably most focused on the area (doubleyourfreelancingrate.com gives you a hint)

Its generally not too complicated to say, its hard to actually implement:

1. build up a buffer of cash. Don't spend too much

2. build up a reputation or valid authority on a particular subject. (Do not Bullshit here. But you do not have to be a world leader either - just genuine). Choose something like HTML5 video codecs or PHP templating or something you are more than unusually interested in.

This is called content marketing as well - you write your blog and your self-published book and become an "authority" on a small area.

3. Keep your networks fresh - get in touch with all those LinkedIn contacts from the job two years ago. They will be people willing to push work your way, but only if you have a defined offering that makes sense for them. Keep in touch and do not ask anything - the idea is not to turn up after two years with cap in hand.

4. Offering - what is it you do? Don't say write software cos that's not an offering, thats a cardboard sign with "will code for cash" on it. Find a Niche. Industry? How is your knowledge of the automotive industry? Business Process ? Are you interested in CRM and web site optimisation? How about accounts packages in car factories?

5. Really find your offering. GO back and think again.

6. Test out the offer. Adwords might help.

7. Find (local) businesses who meet your criteria. Arrange meetups, webinars and other things and promote those.
(Something about cross promotion here)

8. Talk to a lot of recruitment agencies about jobs you dont want cos the above is taking a long time.

9. Realise that selling consultancy and selling products are pretty much the same thing - a clear offering with a good set of marketing to pull people into the point where they say yes.
People like John Gruber, who have close relationships to Apple and are - in theory - also under the same NDA openly talk about betas and previews on their blogs, podcasts and so on.

(Just saying this to support what you said)
Good comment. Reminds me of the paper Avoid News:

"Take the following event. A car drives over a bridge, and the bridge collapses. What does the news media focus on? On the car. On the person in the car. Where he came from. Where he planned to go. How he experienced the crash (if he survived). What kind of person he is (was). But – that is all completely irrelevant. What’s relevant? The structural stability of the bridge. That’s the underlying risk that has been lurking and could lurk in other bridges. That is the lesson to be learned from this event."

Also:

"Terrorism is overrated. Chronic stress is underrated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is underrated. Astronauts are overrated. Nurses are underrated. Britney Spears is overrated. IPCC reports are underrated. Airplane crashes are overrated. Resistance to antibiotics is underrated."
You're correct. Some plots have been stopped. And how they were stopped is important. And that's something the media should be talking about as well as chasing Snowden.

As an aside if I was inventing my own reality it would be a lot nicer than the front page of the Guardian today. While the right-hand story is Snowden the left-hand story is exactly why his leak is so important.
Agreed, surprised this whole aspect isn't discussed much, much more.

There's obviously a massive difference between "can code proficiently" and "can code proficiently in an interview situation" and I would guess that a significant amount of even fizz-buzz fails are due to this, let alone complex algorithmic stuff.

When you're an interviewer doing many sessions it soon becomes very routine, to the point of tedium. Being an interviewee is on the other hand hugely stressful for a lot of people, and that just isn't conducive to good "on the spot" analytical thinking. And interviewers in their comfort zones completely forget this and don't factor it into performance (done so myself).
With Big Data, the government doesn’t need to know the “why” behind anything
My point is that flak jackets don't kill people, and automatic weapons don't unless they go off. Stun grenades might if they cause a heart attack, but so could the pressure of a police investigation.
So could a speeding police car.

You presented the issue as 1-5 people a year being killed. If you agree it isn't significant then what is the problem? Because it isn't that it causes deaths.

If you're going to tackle perceived problems with American policing there seem to be far better areas to address than "I don't like paramilitary raids that don't actually have statistically meaningful adverse outcomes".
I agree; if he didn't write it down (and test it), it was probably a simple one that was subtly wrong.
I believe the first bittorrent client was written in python. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
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I like the idea and could use the product, so I hope you continue working on it after the 24h. Of course, the tricky part will be getting enough traction that people can use the site as soon as they discover it. When I tried it, there was only one other person "searching" and apparently not my language combination.
Is it possible that the decline also has to do with the decline in quality of humanities teaching? My undergrad writing "teacher" was a terrible grad student, intent on pushing a social agenda on the class. I certainly wasn't going to take any more than I had to. My "intensive writing" teacher has a very extreme political agenda attached to a geography class. I sucked it up, but vowed never to venture into his department either.

I don't think it's pure practicality that's holding English back. Many CEOs are English and History majors. It's the quality of the teaching.
This is probably just an attempt to generate controversy.
"That which I tell you three times is true." Repetition causes ideas to stick around; this article re-iterates several well-known facts (using more than a few weasel words), and yet the nature of the leak, and Snowden's motives, are beneath mentioning.
Never figured out how to do this in Finder - its search bar behaviour has always seemed really weird to me. I now use Path Finder, which does this kind of filtering and others.
The Uffizi also has The Birth of Venus and Primavera, the Allegory of Spring, both of which are immortal masterpieces. And quite a few other things....
I think that's largely because mathematics abstracts more than is obvious. My favourite example is Hilbert's basis theorem, which looks like it's not even a question until you realise how general the notion of "space" that it applies to.
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Isn't it easy to say where things "should be" when you're not responsible for getting them there.
Because of the way application bundles work, you do not strictly have to move them to the /Applications folder on the hdd.

I first started using computers on a Mac SE, I found the whole setup.exe thing to put things on the disk for DOS and more especially Windows, to be odd. I was used to just running applications from the floppy disk it sat on.
If so then this is the first censorship of its kind in the US in the modern era (as far as I remember).
Another thing to factor in: for whatever reasons, you aren't reproducing. Per Wikipedia, your fertility rate is 1.42 to 1.44 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de...), which is perilously close to the "lowest low" of 1.3 from which societies don't recover from, and certainly isn't even close to the 2.1 needed for steady state replacement.

I.e. absent serious change, your society is doomed, you'll die out in due course; many say the example your and other counties like you provide are object lessons in what not to do.
Another interesting group, these guys seem to be doing more on the hardware side of things and have some infrastructure and organization set up:

http://thefnf.org
#snowden is trending for me:

http://i.imgur.com/ISYwKLD.png

Sites like Facebook and Twitter don't treat all users alike when it shows them what is trending.
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That's a good point, for some reason it didn't occur to me that he might simply have been wrong...
Yes, Yes, Yes.

OSS needs marketing, and the big ones recently have almost all sprung from world famous companies (twitter bootstrap, facebook and phabricator etc etc). It will become harder and harder to get noticed, but this is truly a open competitive market, and the best becomes top dog in most cases.

CEOs who spout support for the Free Market - beware, this is what it looks like. :-)
Unless they've changed in recent years, Roy Morgan research is utterly worthless. I had a friend who worked there and he brought home one of their questionnaires. It was full of the most leading, biased questions you could hope to write. I'd sooner trust a guess from a random stranger in a pub than Roy Morgan's cooked books.
Possibly for the same reason Wikileaks weren't trending when they were all over the media - http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/09/twitter-trends-...
Other reporters, in thrall to the consensus of the ruling classes, are experiencing cognitive dissonance when faced with someone this effective and yet so heedless of the red lines.
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My point wasn't about what actually happened in the McDonald's coffee incident but rather how many people perceived it.
Well given Greenwald seems to concede that it would be a crime for him to "aid and abet" Snowden in his activities that means there is a line between journalist and "something else".

Given Greenwald is a lawyer surely a sensible response to the original question of whether he has broken the law is an explanation as to why he has not. Rather than a series of "you're a journalist, you shouldn't ask me that", "why don't we all arrest Congress for lying?" and "Obama is trying to criminalise investigative journalists".

His being a lawyer is supposed to be a big part of what makes him a good journalist. Given an opportunity to explain what aiding and abetting means in law, and why he hasn't done it, he decided to have a huff. Which is rather unlawerly.
Confirmed, I had to drop the default "tailored trends" setting & switch back to United States trends to get back #snowden in the list.
> Then any changes you make to its folder will automatically be committed to git

The _changes_ are tracked (addition, removals, etc.) not the content.
Starting a business? Not so fast...
Whats the matter with building a Toll-Free Bridge once and forgetting about the problem forever?

http://cocoadev.com/wiki/HowToCreateTollFreeBridgedClass
Ok well how much conventional economic activity does 50MW create? That 12s of US gas consumption might theoretically generate say 29% of US GDP for 12s, which comes to $16,000,000 (29% is transportation as a proportion of US energy consumption, US GDP ~ 1.4E+13).

Does that 50MW generate $16M worth of bitcoins per day? In any event, I strongly suspect currency production is one of the overall economies more energy efficient activities given that most currency is created electronically by banks based on a fairly simple set of calculations.
well I'm just sad for ogre3d. why only expose it via cocoa ?
> Bitcoin is not something that's self-evidently harmless

Actually, it should be.
Trending for me as well in Berlin
I get 'Edward Snowden' as a tailored trend in the UAE as well
There is a lot invested in these programs: time, money, careers, political capital, probably even some level of genuine belief in their efficacy/righteousness. I'd actually be more concerned if they started walking it back and dangling out some "bad apples" for the cameras. The fact that they're sticking to their guns means there's a fighting chance for the whole apparatus to be crushed by a finally-outraged-and-united public.

> it is not surprising to me in the least that other countries are not bending to our will

While the level of spying is still technically nebulous for U.S. citizens, the leaks describe extremely clearly that all non-Americans are fair game. That the home of some of the largest internet companies has been pro-actively snooping on every single world citizen is not going un-noticed.
Having a job is a privilege. just think of all the people who need one but don't have one.
They'll get at least 2 nights:

And worse (or, really, better?): Thanks to travel regulation
in Cuba, they'll have to stay there three days before they'll
be allowed to fly back.

http://gawker.com/snowden-snow-job-leaker-fools-reporters-on...