skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having the information is one thing, but provided you had the information and are able to mentally process it, you absolutely are "entitled" as anyone to make such decisions. All nations (worth a damn) derive their legitimacy from the people, people just like you. If you can't do it, you can't expect anyone else to.

That's very general and maybe not very helpful here, but I still wanted to make the point, because I think it's very tragic that we are so eager to hand off our opinions to "experts". I can accept teachers, so that ideally when they're done with me, I'm an "expert", too. But I don't trust those who would just remain as experts hovering in some vague place above you. From what I learned about life so far, those are all hacks.

And if these things are too complicated for regular citizens to understand, then they need to be made less complicated, or we need better citizens. Democracy in an industrialized world is no trivial task.

Basically, I can't know everything about everything. At some point, I have to trust others.

Yes, of course. But you still use indicators for that, yes? If you visited a new doctor, and you heard loud screams, you would slip out again. If a friend recommends a dentist and you're currently looking for a good one, you'll give the recommended one a try first, that sort of thing. I've seen doctors do shit (to others) that made me not EVER trust one blindly. I am usually lucky with mine, but I do pay attention to them, I do second-guess them, I measure up their character, how peaceful and concentrated they are, versus just loud and constantly on the move, etc. At the end of the day, nobody but my own immune system, family and friends truly care about my well-being, to the point they'd loose sleep over it.
And yet people seem to think Pandora's business model is fine and it's the artist's fault. could it be that Pandora's extremely limited number of listeners-per-play means that it's not a very effective promotional tool?
Bein' right is not a bulletproof vest, Freddy. - Cop Land
White House: Snowden's "true motive" is to "injure national security"
It's often dismissed as cheesy, but it's the most important career advice there is: find your passion. Ninety nine people out of 100 never have a great answer to the question, "Where do you want to be in 10 years?" Instead, they treat their careers in ad hoc fashion, hopping opportunistically from job to job.

The best way to succeed is to have a very clear answer to that cheesy question. Such a clear answer that you're almost burned by its intensity. Such a clear answer that it guides your every move. This clarity of vision will allow you to weather temporary failures and setbacks, and it'll provide you a roadmap for the climb up the mountain.

This is what separates the brilliant-and-hard-working from the brilliant-and-hard-working-and-uber-successful. The world is full of brilliant, hard working people who never get a "lucky break." The secret is that the "lucky break" is often the result of many years of directed effort. So keep that in mind as you go along. If you want to achieve tremendous success in any field, there's a buildup period of at least 5 years, and often more than a decade. It really pays to pick your path early, and to stick to it.

Obviously, some folks have taken more circuitous paths to success, and that's totally cool. But ask most of the majorly successful people in any profession what got them there, and they will tell you they focused relentlessly on it. Ambition isn't enough; ambition needs direction.

Find the ladder you want to climb, and start climbing it -- because most ladders are pretty damned tall, and hopping between them gets tougher the older you get.

I say this having learned it the hard way. I traded what I want to do for what I "should" do for many years, and now I'm trying to catch back up to my vision. I still have time, but I wish I'd been honest with myself at 19.
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MR. CARNEY: Let me say this about that question, which is that Mr. Snowden’s claim that he is focused on supporting transparency, freedom of the press, and protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the protectors he has potentially chosen -- China, Russia, Ecuador, as we’ve seen.

His failure to criticize these regimes suggest that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the United States -- not to advance Internet freedom and free speech.

I think that with regards to the first part of your question, I’ve made the point that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information -- the kind of information that has already been disclosed -- has an enormous negative impact and there are ongoing damage assessments being done. But, certainly, it would be our assumption that any information -- any further classified information that he has that has not yet been divulged publicly would be compromised, or has been compromised.
> It's "for the benefit of the public" which can be hard to assess

I think that is what the OP is exhorting you to access for yourself.
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I think I am seeing the outline of a decent propaganda technique here. If you want to make anything seem infeasible, just write it into fiction.

Government assassinations? Won't happen because it happens in the movies. High end German automobile catches fire after hitting a tree at 80+mph? Doesn't happen because that is what happens in the movies (Remember the Michael Hastings conversation on HN a few days ago? Assertions that cars don't actually catch fire were running rampant.) Marry your highschool sweetheart and enjoy each others company for the rest of your lives? Won't happen, because that is what happens in the movies. Bad guy gets shot in the arm but keeps shooting a few more times at the good guy? Won't happen, because that is what happens in the movies. (Countless examples of this happening, though tell my mother this and she'll tell you Hollywood is making it up.)
Do you think that it would have been good for a "whistleblower" to send information about the invasion of Normandy to the Axis leadership?

That's kind of the point. When was the last time that actually applied? Cold war, at most.

When was the last time military action by the US meant anything other than pounding peasants into (further) submission? The strategy is outlined, it's for full spectrum dominance. Not defense, conquest. For that reason I think a more apt comparison would be to compare it to someone who gave out secrets about axis operations.
Very interested in critiques of both website and, perhaps more importantly, content.
unfortunately, i think you are both wrong. the actual number is 18,750.

That being said, nowhere close to that many people pay pandora, and the monthly subscription is $3, and not $10.
I have no problem with Pandora's payout they are radio without direct access to tunes. I have couple of tracks on Spotify, and although I wish they did pay me more, I don't think they're too far off either. Spotify pay me about $0.004/play.

I also have a premium Spotify account @ $9.99/month. Now I probably listen to more music than most people, as I assume other premium subscribers do. Doing a back of the napkin calculation I listen to an average of 30 songs per day, so maybe 900 plays a month so you could say Spotify charge me $0.01/play. 40% payout isn't bad, maybe it should be 50% or 75%, who knows what Spotify's infrastructure costs them. Either way in the old days (> ten years ago) artists were getting no where near 40%.

I've only bought two albums this year, Boards of Canada and Flying Lotus, they were both not immediately on Spotify. This is probably the best course. Release on MP3, CD, Vinyl, for the first couple of months for the hardcore fans then release to the streamers.

The OP probably has his record label still taking a huge chunk of his payout. Cut out the middle man, self publish. Streaming is only going to grow, streaming profit will eventually go up.

Self-plug! @spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/2ASb9HnDamAwrsJQ9gKtqp
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Yeah. We actually have a pretty sensible system in Australia.

When I first heard that some parts of the US have elected electoral officials ... well, I boggled.
I was in the Stanford bookstore a few days ago and noticed their summer softback text for their summer Comp Sci 101 course was $132. It was about Java and basic computer principles together. It resembled a standard softback beginning Java reference book but with some exercises added to each chapter. Aho and Jeff have done a fine service offering their more meaty textook online gratis. (You dont even want to know what hardback texts cost- over $200.)
I used to think that buying SUN would have been a smart move for Apple. SUN were pretty much the Apple of enterprise, propriety OS, CPUs, hardware, software. While there was little user synergy, the $5.6 Bn Oracle payed now seems cheap for the access to SUN's IP & patents. They had a talented CPU and OS design team and expertise in building data centers, which Apple is now catching up with.
Sorry, I didn't take the time to sugar-coat my comment. One lesson I've taken from Web 2.0 over the last decade is that users do not care. So why should I care about them more than they care about themselves? We'll see if PRISM changes that, but I suspect it won't.

WebRTC makes P2P a lot easier, especially since it doesn't require installing software. I think getting peer connectivity is 10% of the problem. Video conferencing is pretty much a best case for P2P; general apps are much harder. Things like data sync and handing churn are very complex and not needed in client-server architectures.
I just visited yesterday, and it's a beautiful place to go. Most New Yorkers probably don't even know it exists, yet it's super easy to get to from Midtown and Downtown Manhattan, as well as Brooklyn.
It would be easier and more explicit to add "None of the Above" to the ballot.
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Lua can be great. I've worked with it extensively on a personal project, where I've embedded it in a C++ app. However, there are some things that you will hate:

* Trying to correctly do "inheritance"
* Having to write all of your batteries for common ops
* Array indices begin at 1!
* Poor debugging support

Aside from those thing, Lua is great. It's crazy fast and easy to embed.
Devil's Advocate here.

Most Silicon Valley startups don't need top talent. They're marketing experiments with a small bit of technology and a lot of painful support work (due to massive, accumulating technical debt) that can only be done out of VC-istan dues-paying as young people take on pager duty for the job they think will get them investor connections in 6 months so they can do their own gigs (ha!)

They need some flashy talent (young, clueless Ivy/Stanford grads) so they can tell investors that they bought a bunch of Ivy stock on the cheap. They don't need top talent.

On the other hand, hungry talent (in a world where most people will never buy a house) and prestige-seeking talent and clueless/young talent are useful to them, especially if it congeals in one metropolitan area (such as Silicon Valley).

The Valley's more than good enough for most of these firms. They complain about the "talent shortage". There isn't one. They're just complaining about paying more for talent than they think it should cost, and "what they think it should cost" is Dickensian.

Of course, there are companies out there (if few) that demand extremely high levels of talent, but at that rarefied level, you're either (a) going to be small enough that you can do it within one location, or (b) going to ignore location outright, as OP suggests.
(I think) this is a case were lay intuition assumes objects are piece-wise differentiable, but the formal math definitions don't.

That is, most people think of physical objects, where there is a minimum "planck length", and no fractal-ish structures with infinitely fine-scale structure.

It is still abstractly interesting that even 2-D fractals satisfy the Jordan Curve therorem, whie 3-D faractals do not
satisfy the 3-D version of the conjecture.
I don't think the goal would be getting everyone to pay attention, because if it is, you're absolutely correct.

But if you look at it as a way to spread awareness to web admins, to be confronted with the question "how come we don't have the bestest type of icon", it's not so bad.

A related example: I have recently been wondering how widespread DNSSEC is.

I installed the DNSSEC validator chrome plugin, and now (almost) every website on the planet shows me a sad "no DNSSEC" icon. I can't help but feel that part of the low deployment of DNSSEC is because almost nobody, including web admins, gets any feedback about DNSSEC. (I am aware that there are other costs and risks to deployment.)
A public company is not required to disclose its individual donations except insofar as they would be material to making an investment decision. The bar for that is tremendously high for a company like Apple or Sony relative to the size of any such donation.
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What's the pledge ritual? Seems like something reinforced via the education system? Please enlighten those of us outside the US.
While I agree the comment didn't add much, I think your reply was perhaps also a touch rude. Then again, my comment isn't adding much either.

And to tomn's credit, the lyric is a bit more relevant than just some random line: The root poster thought Pink Floyd was a person not a band. Apparently that's a common enough misapprehension that they mentioned it in a song... thence the quoted lyric.
Just use /dev/zero, no need to waste more energy than needed. The NSA is unable to tell the difference if the cipher is good enough.
Computer Science has come of age when textbooks from 20 years ago are about as relevant as they are today. That means there are now timeless principles in the discipline. Most of the computer languages used in mY MIT classes 40 years ago are not around today.
I've met and had the opportunity to learn from top people at Microsoft Research in Santa Barbara. I guarantee you Sam Altman isn't fit to tie their shoelaces. No disrespect to him and not saying he couldn't get there, but they're just in a totally different ballpark and level of problem solving and execution. They're solving problems people don't even realize they're going to have yet.
Apple doesn't make many public donations as a matter of policy. Steve Jobs was famously against publicly declared donations – he thought it was hypocritical, stole credit from the recipients and diminished the concept of selfless giving.

http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/steve-jobs-secret...
Artists should be paid to create art.

That would be create. Unfortunately, artists actually get paid based on sales, not creativity.
As others said, once you have sufficient terminology, the proof is simple.

For the Ruffini theorem, http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/286927/why-cant-ther... states:

"The reason five is special is that the group A5 of all even permutations of 5 letters is the smallest non-abelian simple group".

An example from computer science that some may understand better: A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.

Both are short statements that one cannot grasp without prior knowledge, but that become simple once one has 'some' prior knowledge.

And in some sense, it is turtles all the way down. Even the statement 1+1=2, when studied deeply enough, requires huge amounts of prior knowledge (about 380 pages, and that excludes the definition of 'addition' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica#Quotation...) :-))

Some say that there are three kinds of theorems: false, trivial and not yet trivial.
I am the sort of experienced full-stack hacker many Valley companies would love to have on their team. However, I like smaller cities, commuting exclusively by bicycle, having an enormous garden, eating locally grown food, easy access to amazing outdoor adventures, and mild winters. You'll probably never find me in the Valley or in the Boston or New York area. The bay area is too populous and northeast winters are terrible.

No amount of money can change those things. Quality of life is worth more to me than high salaries.

I do, however, like interesting work and brilliant coworkers. I mostly work with local businesses that are doing interesting non-high-tech stuff, like mass-custom lean manufacturing, but it would be great to have more options for working with people who know programming at least as well as I do.

Working locally with people does seem to beat the isolation of remote work, however. It probably makes sense for a company focused on collaboration tools to have a team that relies on collaboration tools to function.
What idiotic logic. Because he is hiding in countries with imperfect track records on the issues he is bringing up about the U.S., and has not openly criticized the regimes of those countries, that somehow, by their logic, renders moot any claims he has about opposing similar things in the U.S.
That's funny, considering people are saying that Pandora and radio are exactly the same.
> an easier donation model for music. one that gives 99% of the money to the author/perfotmer

So it’s fine for record companies and distributors to get stiffed? Hosting, payment processing, and marketing are not free.
Right, same reason that the Banach-Tarski paradox is intuitively baffling. It relies on fractal-structures that require uncountably-infinite fine detail.
this is an interesting stance on a forum dominated by software developers. we make something once, copy it millions of times for free, and continue selling it as long as people are interested in buying it. It just happens that music generally has a longer lifespan than software.

I for one really like making something of value for people and continuing to get paid for it as long as people get value out of it.
This is one of the reasons I hate Nietzche.
I'd imagine internationalized gamed would be a big one, although I'm not a games programmer or a lua user myself.
If the mesh routers were cheap enough it would just come down to making lots of them and distributing them all over your local area. As a result, they wouldn't need to be that powerful. Attaching them to balloons is somewhat optional. Perhaps even better, hand them out for free to neighbours that can plug them in as well.

Linksys WRT54G from 2004-2005 used to be $60-70, and powerful enough to be flashed with better firmware. It's almost 10 years later (and sadly wrt54g has been heavily watered down). Perhaps we need a kickstarter to get cheap mesh network routers using 2004 tech, get costs down to $5/router somehow.
It is amazing how our institutions enroll their new members into their private agenda with intent to promote the longevity of the institution, in the long term, and their immediate survival, in the short term. In some strange way, we feed off our young and consume them, rather than nourish them. Sad
This is just microeconomics: entertainment goods are poor substitutes for each other, and bands like Pink Floyd have monopolies on their own music. When you're in the mood for Pink Floyd, nothing else will do. Similarly, there are many TV shows, but only one Game of Thrones. Many movies, but only one The Godfather.

Bridge engineers and architects are good economic substitutes for each other. You can put out an RFP and get competitive bids back.
If you are going to create an internet-based business that will support more than a few people (both users and employees with their families) you need money. Lots of it.

The user side is simple: As the user base grows your infrastructure requirements grow as well. And, at certain milestones these needs grow in large capex bursts. Flexible services such as AWS have made scaling far cheaper, more linear and less expensive, but it it still very expensive once you cross certain business-dependent thresholds. Hardware is hardware, whether you own it or not.

Of course, the team will scale based on other parameters. More engineers, more designers, customer service, accounting, operations, whatever. More people. Not working for peanuts of feel good hippie thoughts but for money. They need it to live, rent or buy a place to live, feed themselves and their families, save, invest, have fun, etc.

Given that internet culture quickly --from the very early days-- levitated to free and add-supported free most internet users only want to pay for their connectivity. Nobody wants to pay for anything on the internet. That's just a fact. Pick any service, say LinkeIn, far more free users than paid users. It's like that across the board.

Hell, it's even like that in mobile. Unless you get lucky it's nearly impossible to make money with paid apps. Make them free and then sell them something from within the app or support it with ads.

I stand by my original sentiment: The internet would collapse tomorrow if advertising was banned. That doesn't mean I prefer it that way. I am simply reflecting reality.
Any idea if this means there's a potential to play PS4 games on a standard linux box?
Zilch. Cryptographic security depends on good key management practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
My take is the Streisand effect is this his best shield and his strategy spins on it. "Booz, Endgame, etc" are burning night oil, Russia, Beijing, Mossad also, on how to best take advantage with some possibly horrible false flag options as well. I believe all these experienced ``spy craft'' agencies are capable of imagining their own strategic desirable outcomes far greater than you or I, some dangerous, high-risk "ops" of unforeseen consequences not necessarily desirable for Edward.
Every morning, every child is forced to stand up, place their hand over their heart, face the flag, and recite the words "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Exactly. This is a typical "business method" patent.
“Contract terms and conditions vary between agencies; contracts to NASA and the military may differ significantly from civilian agency contracts. Civilian agencies and NASA are guided by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...
it's strict (so not as weird as lazy haskell), statically typed (with inference, so little extra typing) and reasonably fast. so it's faster than ruby, safer than c, has more compile-time checking than erlang or javascript.

it's a functional language, but it supports side-effects and classes. it used to be pretty much unique. it's closely related to F#.

more generally, it's a rather nice, general programming language. but it's not so popular, so doesn't have the range of libraries available to, say, python or java. but it does have all these: http://ocaml-batteries-team.github.io/batteries-included/hdo...

maybe i'm not answering the question exactly enough, but the problem is it really is a pretty nice, general language you could use for a lot of tasks. so nothing obviously jumps out to me as being "the [one] kind of task for ocaml".
It's easy to not be profitable, though. Just pay large-enough salaries or invest in future growth what otherwise would've been profit.
No dimensionality limits but I wouldn't use this for truly high-dimensional problems like text analysis and inverted indexes (1000s of dimensions). It might work but I wasn't really thinking about those kinds of use cases when building this.