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Sorry, English is not my first language.

We do not have a downvote button. Major news is allowed here.

This is an active story that a lot of people is interested in, and this means that a lot of posts about it is upvoted.

Shouldn't the flag button only be about things that are not allowed? Not as a way to remove things you find not interesting?

The issue here is that the upvoting is democratic. One person flagging posts based on his opinions (and as you can see in this thread, your opinions are not the same as others, imagine that!) and them getting completely removed because of it is not democratic.

If you don't like things, don't upvote them. They get upvoted because others like them. How can this be so hard to understand?

Your opinion of the quality of the posts here is not what should decide what posts others read!
Agree. Maybe his fate won't be as "grim" if the world continues to pay attention and understand what is happening to him.
Hmm, so because part of the surface is a fractal, it can't be simply connected?

I'd be interested to learn whether a linear version (straight pipes instead of curved/broken torus ones) also has the same topological properties. It is clearly fractal, and clearly also homotopy identical to S^2, but obviously the two ends are no longer interlocking, and I wonder if this is as crucial to the result as both 'ends' being fractal clearly is.

In any case, cool! thanks :)
As a community, instead of solely upvoting news about snowden (which I believe we occasionally should), I think we need to write to attack the core of the problem: We (the HN community) obviously agree on how whistleblowers need to be treated and how any government authority should keep off of our privacy. Easy champs. Solely upvoting news is not fighting. Dare and write to your congressman. Give me a little bit of the old HN where it was not 80% about one man and which used to be awesome.
>“Ecuador puts its principles above its economic interests,” he said.

Something about this statement made me wonder: is Ecuador just collecting political fugitives so that it can cut some nice deal with the US in the future? This isn't a country with a stellar human rights record. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with them accumulating a stable of high profile asylum-seeking bargaining chips.
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I agree with the sentiment, minus Snowden. We should be talking about this issue. Snowden is at this point immaterial to the larger issues unless he leaks more details. Discussing himself distracts from his purposes. His movements and people's opinions about his movements (which dominated HN this weekend) are of no consequence to PRISM and the NSA.

The honest truth is we are no closer to discovering the truth about what the government does than we were on day one of the leak while entertaining ourselves with platitudes about how "America is now a place where people seek asylum from" and Bourne movie fantasies.
> So the question is how do we most efficiently provide them with the necessities of life?

the problem is this question begs the question - why do we need to provide for those who is unable to provide for themselves? The moral argument is that you must help your fellow human being, but i don't think you can use morals, when logic dictates that it may not be possible to do so.
For years I have been trying to spread the gosspel of bcfg2 because, while not perfect, I thought was a more complete system over Puppet or Chef. Bcfg2, however has some big warts of its own AND it never really caught on.

In the past few months I've been slowing converting to SaltStack and it really is everything I ever dreamed of for a CM system. Fast, easy, real-time. Lovin' it.
I, and many others I suspect, would just prefer to have a CHOICE - and some CONTROL of our own lives.

If you prefer the safety and protection of this New America, then you are welcome to it.

But if there were an Old America, an America ruled by the original words and meanings of the Constitution, an America where you could be proud of the goals and ideals of your government, yet humble and grateful that you and your family were part of it - THAT America is the one I would CHOOSE to live in, and the one I would defend with my life if called upon.
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Fitness relativism is not acceptable. It leads people to live unhealthy, and, in some cases, shorter lives.
Unlike tcpreplay, tcpcopy is mainly used for replaying network traffic to servers either offline or in real-time.

This tool is mature and has been already used in many famous companies such as taobao and Netease in China.

BTW, it is free.
This is pretty commonplace and how a lot of producers get started. Danja ghosted a TON of Timbaland's mid-2000s work (think Nelly Fertado, Justin Timberlake, etc.) and was able to land his own gig with Britney Spears shortly thereafter.
Were Mathematicians generally convinced that a proof did exist and it was just a matter of time? Or was there a not-insignificant belief that it could be false?
Interesting. I find the salt documentation excellent and haven't found any serious bug in it. Too bad it didn't work for you and that you gave up so soon.
It's encrypted but why do you do configuration management through anything else than LAN/VPN?
This is the most riveting real-life drama in history, and it's unfolding before our eyes. I want more stories on Snowden, not less (although my productivity will surely suffer).

Besides, half the stuff that gets voted up to front page is regurgitated anyway.
>You make that sound like conspiracy

I didn't get that impression at all. If that post wasn't "Just the facts, ma'am", what is?

He didn't say all other days, after all.
You can install "Selectivity for HN" Greasemonkey script to hide those stories. It reduced my front page to just about ~10 relevant posts.

It might help to flag those posts too, but if you try it they will most likely just remove flag privilege for you, since this Snowden thing seems to be a new fetish here on HN, similar to the time Steve Jobs died when you couldn't read anything else.

Btw, from the HN guide: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

These Snowden/NSA/PRISM articles are pretty much the definition of off-topic, and it seems that we can't fight them out of front page, since we can't downvote posts, and flagging them will just lead to removal of flag privilege.
Kerry really comes off as a crybaby here
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Don't care about virtual Karma. Really don't!
It's addictive, can destroy your mood and affect your life.
The same applies for "likes". See it as a kind of addiction, a sickness, something that is manipulative and ill-fated.

I don't say anything about your comments, your style, or your person! I'll let others do help you with that, because I'm not qualified for that.

Life is about making the life of other people better. Your life only becomes better this way. Well, you might think about Oil barons, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, PRISM etc., but the reality is that whatever they do makes someone's life better and people pay for it and in return their own life becomes better too.

One has to accept that even a million likes or karma points have a low potential of changing your life to the better. Many reading this will think that having million karma points will make you popular and that this has only upsides, but they aren't right.

If you "create" something instead of becoming popular for what you think, hate, like, adore etc. then you really make a difference in your life and especially in the life of other people.

We're speaking about a developer/manager career, no a political career, keep that in mind. (As a politician for example you're allowed to be a hypocrite as long as you can defend yourself with arguments.)

And if you notice that the time you invest in formulating arguments isn't respected, you're practically argueing in the wrong channel, with the wrong people or about the wrong topic.
Sounds like it wouldn't be too hard for 3NJ to implement if there is demand. Have you contacted them about this? I would also be interested.
I guess I do tend to use systems in unexpected ways, and I get some satisfaction
when this reveals a flaw. For example, I remember having fun while visiting my
sister and playing with a `shoot-em-up' game that my nephew showed me.

Since I'm kind of a pacifist, I tried shooting bullets at the wall, instead of
trying to kill the hidden attackers. Sure enough, I could spell my name on that
wall, by making bullet holes in an appropriate pattern. But later when I came back
to that same position, after wandering around further in the game, my name was gone!
I think that was a bug in the software.

I love this. Especially the fact that he wrote was probably doing the only thing he wanted to do in the game, and was foiled by the fact that the game programmers didn't dedicate extra memory to saving environmental damage throughout a level.
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>Science, by comparison, is young.

The age of literature makes it static; there is no hurry to participate. I can pursue literature leisurely (and with very little financial investment) over the course of my lifetime. Science, on the other hand, is more dynamic; if you want to contribute to the cutting edge you will likely need credentials to access the resources to do so. A degree in the sciences opens doors in ways that the humanities do not: the great works of literature are available to anyone at my local library, but only a very small group of experts gets to test their theories on the Large Hadron Collider. Studying the humanities in college therefore has a significant opportunity cost, to say nothing of the cost of tuition.

Computer science is a prominent exception, though. There is much more acceptance in that discipline for self-taught experts.
> “The bottom line is very simple,” Schumer said. “Allies are supposed to treat each other in decent ways, and Putin always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the United States, whether it is Syria, Iran and now, of course, with Snowden. That’s not how allies should treat one another, and I think it will have serious consequences for the United States-Russia relationship.”

And spying on so many of the citizens of so many allies is somehow perfectly ok?
I dont think its necessarily skills getting better, but more often than not, it's just seeing a solution differently after your mind took a break from the initial work on it. I've never written code that couldn't be made better and better over time.
What's wrong with exclude and exclude-from? Using git rm without file manager integration - can be a little thorny.
No, my point is that people are upvoting articles they find interesting, which might not be the same things that I find interesting, and I'm ok with this.

I find the personal stuff in a story like this quite interesting, btw.

Of course there's a lot of duplicates and posts with similar information in them, but is that such a big issue? I think people who are flagging posts because they think it's sort of the same as another article is basically abusing the system.
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I would rather ask "is tiobe really important". To that question I would answer "No."
So go out and fight. Upvoting these kind of smap on HN could hardly be called "fighting".
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It's up to us - the people - to make the story about illegal surveillance and privacy concerns. The media sure as hell won't address those issues for us.
We used the book for ECE 3020 - Mathematical foundations of computer Engineering at Gatech.

Lecture notes have been taken down, but here are our homework solutions: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~dblough/3020/solutions/hw_solut...
I think that #220 is currently the only story in the database tagged as "fantasy". Some of the genres (such as 'alt history' and 'western') have no tagged stories. I presume that this is due to the service having just launched--I'm sure that with enough exposure to self-published authors, this service will have a sizable chunk of content to work with by the end of the day.
"Lubuntu can comfortably run on as little as 256MB of RAM."

It can although I'd call it jogging rather than running. It can work on a P3 coppermine class laptop very nicely. However, a stock Lubuntu live CD does not come with LibreOffice.

Gnumeric is a nice spreadsheet, but Abiword normally does not have built in facilities for mathematical formulas, or for making drawings. There appears [1] to be no presentation application.

I hope the City are making some training materials available along with advice on installing LibreOffice. LO will jog on a 900MHz p3/256Mb one application at a time.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Setup#Applications

Edit: I should say on P4 upwards or a Centrino laptop with 512Mb it will fly, and run LO fine with multiple applications.
Jimmy needs to write something similar now, while the world and we Americans are paying attention.
If you're looking for more meat on the subject of starting off with Ember-data, Tom Brandt has an excellent post that still (mostly) applies to the latest builds.

http://twbrandt.github.io/2013/02/22/Ember-Data-Quick-Start-...
Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?

They will, as soon as I finish writing my "How I made $7 billion on an app built while sharing the screen with Snowden stories"
It isn't the quantity of Snowden stories that are the problem. It is the tenuous relationship with reality of many of the "stories" that have been posted that is the problem. This morning we had a story at #1 for quite a while that claimed Twitter was censoring #Snowden from trending in the United States. Instead of actually going to Twitter and seeing that this was a ridiculous claim, people just kept upvoting it because it sounded like something they should upvote. This is a phenomenon that all sites with voting systems on submissions have. People tend to go and satisfy their slacktivism itch by upvoting headlines that they agree with without actually reading the articles or really thinking about them.

To the moderators' credit, they deleted the Twitter "censorship" submission. I know they have deleted some other very low quality Snowden/NSA related articles as well.
But is it REALLY that different to a lot of office workers? Developers and startup types like to think that they are unique in having work hard for long periods of time, but they really aren't. Junior Lawyers work long hours, apprenticeship labourers work long hours, anyone involved in the creative process for digital agencies work long hours, teachers that are starting out work long hours. It's really no different to those careers, and they all seem to manage to exercise and have some form of social life just fine.

My first job was a startup, and the hours weren't much different to working in an agency (where I work now). I still manage to go to the gym three days a week, and I manage to get a run in every week.
Most of this is certainly not true for Europe as a whole and I doubt that it's true for any particular country.

In some european countries, owning a gun is nigh on compulsory, and even in countries where it's restricted, there's usually not much restriction on particular kinds of weapons, e.g. shotguns.

Using a bat to beat someone until they flee is allowed almost everywhere, using it to beat someone until they're dead or brain damaged is not.

You're perfectly allowed to use deadly force to defend yourself in all European countries I know about as long as a reasonable person would think it necessary.
Certificates make no difference in the threat scenario we were discussing: if I have enough access to your computer to pilfer passwords, I can snag your certificates at the same time.
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Yes, I probably want a more democratic economy. A more democratic everything, in fact.
Wait, how do you find out location after the bike was stolen? GSM?
> I don't seem to be able to flag anymore so I guess that was picked up as abuse, so unfortunately I can't flag anymore of these stories.

Same here, though I believe I lost my flagging ability after 2 or 3 Snowden stories. Definitely a heads up for anyone else who might think these types of stories hit the "Off-topic: Most stories about politics" part of the post guidelines.
Just the perks from listings on Authentic Jobs.
We're hiring designers/programmers/UXers at 99designs in Melbourne.

http://99designs.com.au/about/jobs

We're looking for a frontend engineer in particular at the moment, which might be a good fit. Let me know if you have any questions: dennis@99designs.com
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A couple of things:

1. Snowden's success at evading capture is important in the long term. It has an impact on the actions of future whistle blowers.

2. Until some new documents are leaked, it's good that the media is keeping the public's eye on the situation somehow.
It's standard sabre rattling. There's not a lot America could do to China or Russia to upset them, so it's pointless rattling of the political sabre to try and look tough on the big stage. Well, in my opinion anyway, unless Kerry means he's going to unleash a torrent of US cyberspooks to pwn their networks even more.
Because Congress and the President clearly care about how many upvotes some cause gets on Hacker News.... seriously voting something up on Hacker News isn't advocacy at all and I can guarantee that everyone on Hacker News is pretty much 400% more educated on this issue than the general public.

If your passionate about something and you feel it needs to change write your congressman a hand written letter. Go visit their local office. Remind them your the person who decides if their unemployed during the next election.

If your passionate enough that you need to upvote everything on a subject then spend 10-15 minutes a day and write a handwritten letter to one of your elected officials. Thats more likely to make a difference than upvoting on hacker news.
I was thinking about this.

I don't know if there's such a thing as "freelance editors" or "freelance typesetters" - but there's a need for these kind of services for self-published authors.

Some of the books I've read were okay, but could have been good with an editor and with nicer spell / grammar checking.

I don't know how that business could work?

Authors sometimes collaborate. Perhaps something like a author's co-op? They could pull in designers / artists for the covers and do cross-promotion too.
They just launched and only have ten submissions.
i believe that the post-capitalist utopia is on a disjointed line to the current world (i.e., there is no step, short of complete jump, that will bring us from here to there). The reason i have is that people either have a way to escape the poverty trap or they don't. I argue that most don't (the rare ones who do are exceptions). This way, the poor either eventually die out (not likely - welfare keeps the group of poor people limping on while not giving them any way out), or somehow, a truely altruistic person/group (the likes of Bill Gates, but much much more resourced) ends up being able to carry the entire burden of resource production for each and every single person ; ala the big jump i mentioned above.
Mass upvoting helps exactly nobody. It's slacktivism, not activism.

If you feel strongly about this cause, I would encourage you to stop mass upvoting, and get involved in the real world. Perhaps your action would merit its own post to HN, and something that would inspire others to join you in action. You might end up doing something amazing.
> If you prefer the safety and protection of this New America, then you are welcome to it.

He didn't write that, though, did he? He merely asserted that a very broad spying program was likely to have nabbed some actual bad guys. I don't get why people can't simultaneously believe that and also be against all the secret courts and lack of checks and balances, or indeed the spying itself.
>This isn't a country with a stellar human rights record.

The same could be said of the US. Surely you know this. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/opinion/americas-shameful-...

I assume when the US shelters human rights activists you will question its motives in a similar manner, no?

Also, cute how you jump to that reasoning first. Surely there is no other reason a sovereign nation would need a bargaining chip with the USA.
So this case is a big case. And it opens up a lot of interesting philosophical questions that are worth exploring. Try not to shout down anything you don't like as "Big government lie/smear campaigns". Conceptually, I believe we want journalists not to be carrying an agenda. Conceptually, I think we understand that bloggers and non journalists do carry an agenda. This helps us filter the information we are receiving.
What does it mean for journalism that it took an independent blogger to break it?
Does journalism need to look at itself and re-invent itself if it can't break these stories?
The fact that Greenwald so obviously and openly has an agenda that he pushes - how comfortable are we with the closed loop information source of Snowden to Greenwald? Do we trust Greenwald would easily present key facts that contradicted the current story if they came to light?
These (and more) are critical questions to ask.
And how can community decide on highly controversial topic if only upvotes are counted?
It's not strange if you follow the news.

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx/t1049546.shtml

China's new President has made it a high priority to improve relations with the US which is why many were surprised Snowden was let out of HK quite so easily.
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Though even though I am a dyslexic I recall in my classical studies class I was the only one who read all of Thucydides as well as several extra plays by Euripides and Xenophon "the march up country"
Wait he's flying to Moscow?

Joking aside if there is a story about his lunch on his way to Moscow, which also means he is flying to Moscow. That's important.

I'm indifferent about the situation because I don't live in US. But it still matters, you're just not interested in it. So you should do what he says and mentally filter it out. If this was 9/11 or something you felt more connected with (I'm not saying 9/11 is it, but I'm assuming your American and probably feel something for that date), you would not be saying this to begin with.
That xkcd post also allows for the condition of perpetual decline. That life has become faster paced and less open to concentration on production of communications and artistic works continuously over centuries.

I think there's probably a strong case to be made for that within some strata of society.
I don't need my rear lights to be "smart." I just need them to be as bright as possible. And yes, red.
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Super cool idea. I already write apps in js and HTML so this would be a natural extension for me. I never learned Java and just went straight into server side programming and markup. Something like this would be n interesting way to translate my skills to the desktop. Thanks for sharing!
What's the rationale for shifting programs right at 270 lbs? That seems somewhat arbitrary, at least more so than say 225 (2 45 lbs plates per side) or 315 (3 45s per side).
> I've just assumed [graphics drivers are included] with whatever apple provides.

That’s correct. When you buy a Mac, you don’t need to download extra drivers. Only if you buy a Mac Pro and later install a different (or additional) PCI graphics card, you may need to download drivers.