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Jay Rosen on Greenwald's style of reporting:

>The professional stance that proscribes all political commitments and discourages journalists from having a clear view or taking a firm position on matters in dispute (you can call it objectivity, if you like, or viewlessness, which I like better) is one way of doing good work. A very different professional stance, where the conclusions that you come to by staring at the facts and thinking through the issues serve to identify your journalism… this is another way of doing good work.

>They are both valid. They are both standard. (And “traditional.”) They are both major league. Greenwald operates in the second fashion, but the language we have for this style — calling him a blogger or an advocate, hoping that these shorthands convey what’s different about him — is not very illuminating. “Blurring the line between opinion pieces and straight reporting…” is not very illuminating.

"Politics: none", the first kind of journalism, is a form of persuasion that tries to signal credibility by refraining from taking a view so far as is possible. "Politics: some" is a form of persuasion where you are transparent about your commitments and your judgments of the facts. These both have their advantages, neither is more inherently "journalistic" than the other.

http://pressthink.org/2013/06/politics-some-politics-none-tw...
I think it's becoming fairly clear here that there are two groups of people, each composing about 10% of the electorate.

The first group views terrorism as a magic trump card. Whatever we do to stop terrorism is worth the price we pay. (These folks also tend to believe in other issues as trumping everything else) Most of these folks are plugged into the establishment in some way -- military, legislative, security, and now reporters. For these guys, Snowden is the enemy. The story here is all about him and how we're going to "get him"

The other group of people are technically-inclined folks and, well, libertarian-type weirdos (And I say that as a little-l libertarian). We view the enemy as the ideology that enough is never enough: the enemy is the thought that we should continue collecting and collating data on each American citizen (and the rest of the world) until we have perfect knowledge about everybody. For them, the story is the disaster the first group has created out of the country. Snowden is just an example, a very small piece of a very big story.

80% of folks, however, could care less, as long as Farmville keeps working. What we're seeing in the press is this battle between insiders like Gregory and outsiders like Greenwald for control over the narrative. Is this going to be just another "bad guy on the run" story? Or will it actually have an impact on public opinion?

Short run, I'm not optimistic the 80% are going to see the minutely-studied drones that BigCorp and BigGov are turning them into. But these things have a way of building on each other. The smart move for government here, if it wants to remain legitimate, is to make some major concessions right now while keeping important capabilities intact. It's not an "us or them" posture. But that seems to be what we're going to get.

I just wish the focus would get off of Snowden and Greenwald. Just like Assange before them, once the story becomes about the person and not the issue, the narrative (argument) is lost.
You're entirely right, of course, and I agree. I was indulging in a bit of Skrillex-bashing.
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It may tap the cables, but if you encrypt then they're going to struggle to get at anything. Ultimately if they want access to your data they need a warrant.
Trending in San Francisco...
In my top 10, I have #Snowden, Cuba, Russia, Hong Kong, and Moscow. So for me Snowden is dominating as he currently has half of the trends. People are a little too quick to jump on the conspiracy theory bandwagon.
The best explanation I can give that will probably resonate with HN folks is I did a big data import this morning... was it a one-liner because "vlm@something:~$ submit.pbs.job.sh" is one line, or is it a ten or so lines of batch submission stuff, or is it one line running a perl script that rips apart one file format, cleans the data a bit, and shoves it into a DB or is it the one line of perl code, or one line of C, or one assembly line, or one byte/word machine language opcode, or one microcode operation, or one transistor?

So someone Very familiar with the system is happy with one line of interactive shell running a trusted and well understood script. But if its weird, someone might demand to see the PBS batch script contents, or the innards of the perl, of if life and safety aerospace depended on it maybe they'd demand a down to the transistor formal proof of correctness (good luck with any non-trivial problem)

Or put another way I could teach you the equation for the current flow thru a MOS transistor vs gate voltage, maybe even run a simple lab until you're happy, and then say, well, there you go, and thats why my batch script works, and I have an elegant proof of how it works, beginning with this transistor equation, but the margin of my HN comment is too narrow to contain it, so...
Ping-pong tables, ha!!

Part of the reason I won't take a higher paying job in an office environment is the satisfaction I get working from home and having my dog(s) by my side. Being able to step out of the house for fresh air and take them on a walk is worth it's weight in gold.
Yeah, this is a bit of a problem. I was thinking of adding a "suggested time" in the hopes that the few people visiting are at least online at the same time. I also added that notification by email if nobody found thing but I don't really see it as being the right solution.
Sure thing. I just thought I would dump this hear for anyone who happened to be reading this thread because I found that documentary pretty informative.
Another example of this is how Justin Bieber isn't constantly trending, but if he uses a new hashtag that tag will trend.
> The unfortunate truth is that lobbying DC is the most effective way to enact this kind of change.

As a non-US citizen I can't.
Regarding the litter box situation, I prefer dogs. They let you know when they have to go so you don't have to scoop foul-smelling poop and stink up the apartment.
We've been here before (McCarthyism)
He confirmed that Snowden is in Russia. Maybe he wants to get asylum first before he leaves for Ecuador.
To be fair to news organizations, the only thing that has changed since yesterday is that Snowden is no longer in the HK. It's hard to get people to read a story without news.
As Camus said: "le goût de la vérité n'empêche pas la prise de parti" - (the taste for truth does not stop you from having an opinion). I don't understand why this is supposed to be so controversial: newspapers have had opinions for centuries!
If ~all the goods are produced automatically we are all parasites living off of the labor of the machines, if you really want to use that word. The way I think about it it's simply taking away the necessity to labor for your survival.

I guess most people will spend a very large chunk of their newly won time socializing and I don't see anything wrong with that. If everyone can celebrate each and every day of their lives, I'm strongly in favor of it. :)
Not directly topical, but I'd recommend changing the typography/whitespace usage of the landing page; it took me a few times where I needed to re-focus to read what it said.
There's target=frame (never used in practice), but that's only one level down.
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Sadly, you sound very much like what I'd expect from a red state. I bet you also think Obama is very left wing, don't you?

>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)

If you're not going to educate yourself, there's not much point in bothering with this. The stats are in, trickle down never worked [1]. And trickle down was continued through Clinton (somehow you don't realize he was more conservative than a lot of so-called republicans) on to the present time.

>or our "libertarianism" AKA classical liberalism at least debatable points vs akin to the KKK....

Of course libertarianism has some debatable points. But luckily, those points also belong to legitimate political movements as well (minus the naivety inherent in an-cap/libertarianism).

>I mean, is there any room in your world view for religion, e.g. "Man does not live by bread alone"

Sure.

> non-economic principles that are worth dying for???

As a matter of fact there are, though I would phrase it as "worth risking your life for" since simply dying is extremely unlikely to help anything.

>Any non-economic reason why anyone would volunteer for the military?

Sure. For example, if an imperialist, evil world power claimed my country was "terrorists friendly", "has weapons of mass destruction" or some such nonsense I would volunteer for the military to try and help push back these scum from our lands.

But blind patriotism? No. I don't believe someone "died for my freedoms" simply because they joined the military and died. For me to believe they died for my freedoms, my freedoms would have to be in danger from something they actually fought.

[1] Starting point, not that you'll care: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#Criticis...
I did this for a while. Now I freelance more or less full time.

Contrary to popular advice I billed per hour.

Don't do any contracting work at your job and you should be fine legally. Don't tell anybody you are working on the side though. Raises eyebrows you don't need raised.

Best tip: Find businesses that actually need a problem to be solved and not somebody that just has a budget.

They'll appreciate you more, pay faster and generally love all over you if you let them.

Companies with budgets to spend but no pressing problems to solve are a real pain.
Color me skeptical, but it doesn't appear that there's anything that's outside the scope of what a big check to a congressperson can get you these days. I do hope you're right, though.
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I'm sorry, why would it be his responsibility to prove that he is innocent?
Love that "Twinkies" is also trending haha.
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Same here in .nl
I'm just starting to use OpenGL, but doesn't OpenGL ES 1.0 use a fixed pipeline? So why would it support GLSL?
I'm just speculating, but I'd imagine it's easier to "wash" bitcoins then it would be to wash other currency.
> who have pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks that were prevented

The fact that them pleading guilty played a major part in their conviction should tell you a lot about how much effort was put into getting them to plead guilty, if you catch my drift.
There they go again "expecting" counties to do just what they want with Snowden. We've lost so much credibility with the world and now our own people, how can they keep this tone of "expecting" going on? Really? If I had the power to shove people out of office once elected I'd be down at the voting booths doing just that.
I don't have a copy of the book in front of me, but I seem to recall Simon Singh's book talked about simple, but flawed attempted proof that was found in the 19th century, that might have been what Fermat found.
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More likely Fermat was just mistaken. There have been numerous flawed proofs over the years --- most likely Fermat stumbled on one of those, realized the error (hence, never published), but never bothered to correct the note he'd left in the margins on of one his books.
There are some in the UK (and some of them write for the Telegraph) who have yet to realise Britain's supremacy is over (as the article notes, that was over a century ago).
Maybe a good way to resonate the situation with HN would be you wanna store the number 2. Well, if you only know and are permitted to use classic IEEE 754 floating point then this is going to be a really long story. But once someone "invents" binary integers and its widely accepted that you're "allowed" to assume everyone understands them, then to store the number 2, you just squirt out a 8-bit binary integer word 00000010 and call it good.

And that's how "lets store the number 2" goes from 1000 pages and ten hours of lecture to explain to CS grads, to some 5 minute Kahn academy video that any goof off the street can more or less understand.

There is no proof that any simpler explanation exists. Its quite possible no one will ever teach the proof of FLT to grade school kids. But if it ever happens it'll be like the analogy above.
It's trivial to block at country level.
To be fair to the OP, he asked a question whether it is trending or not.
Ooh, OK, you've tickled my interest. Can you provide an explanation (or a link to something similar) with the disproof of the 3D version?
Most of the crappy screenshot services are expensive or filled with spammy ads because the bandwidth and processing power to serve the screenshots is not cheap. Wont the same thing happen with your service too if it becomes popular? TANSTAAFL
Same topic will not trend after it has been trending for a while. Or else, #bieber will trend forever. After a while it might trend again.
Now trending for me in Montreal, so I changed locations. New York, Providence, New Haven and Phoenix. Also trending for US as a whole.

The algo for Twitter isn't straightforward, and may even have human checks to prevent gaming.
Terrible idea..
Also, Twitter trends aren't based on volume. It's more about change in volume.
Yes you write the story to suit the papers owners political leanings - even the Guardian bashes the BBC (the parent company owns a few low quality commercial radio stations).

Let alone what Murdoch and the DMG et all get up to
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Unbelievable the downvote, it doesn't change the fact that Blog post has absolutely no references or names.
Right. Good anedocte about how many HNers upvote without even thinking.
Once it wouldn't have been.

These days you get judged in public long before you reach a court.
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Except, you can view this in another light.

Yes, there's a 1-2 year timescale - but after those 1-2 years we won't necessarily see a SCOTUS judgment. There's nothing to stop complete martial law being imposed in the interim due to a non-specific threat (perhaps Ed Snowden and his super-secret cell of ninja-jihadist-nuclear-biological-ultra-weaponised mega-terrorists), at which point your constitution, its amendments, and all immediate hope go clean out of the window.

Then again, if a second civil war does end up playing out, it'll at least make for some interesting history.

Which people will hopefully learn from, but won't.
The 24h limit kind of backed me into the lazy corner of using a default bootstrap but I agree.
This is a very superficial interpretation of the idea of karma. What you're describing is just someone rationalizing being a judgmental asshole.

Karma is about "paying it forward", not in an attempt to gain the favor of the universe, but because it is the morally correct thing to do.

If you believe in karma, you believe that the machinations of the universe will reward and punish justly, but you don't participate in the process directly. Individuals don't get to meter out "karmic retribution" to people they perceive to be unworthy.
I don't fall into either of those groups and I care deeply. I would never ever call myself a libertarian, but I am deeply disturbed by the direction the world is going in. As the world becomes more extreme, the middle chooses a side. That is the way it has always been. The only question is, have oppressive powers finally "beaten" the game? If not, will they ever? That is yet to be seen.
I imagine that small enclaves and communes with DIY aesthetics would start to spring up everywhere.

Look at the Raspberry Pi - only today a tutorial on creating a basic Pi command-line OS was front page of Hacker News. And yet we all have access to highly sophisticated operating systems with slick GUIs.

Discovery and exploration is its own reward. It doesn't matter if someone or something else has already discovered it.
Of course. If Libertarians ever got their paradise it would quickly devolve to exactly what you have now: a Corporatocracy.
I always feel like browser inconsistencies are a bit like print, every print shop seems to have different requirements about colours, gutter, trim, quiet areas etc so even in the real world consistency is not guaranteed. I find if you use something like SASS with Compass/Bourbon you don't need to think about vendor prefixes.
I realized that while reading David McKay's book. It's quite interesting and free if you like this stuff.
I like that they point out that alternative to basic income isn't business as usual but rather all out communist-like revolution like the last time.
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I've been wanting to hack on a few projects that involve small amounts of electrical knowledge, but am not sure where to get the bare minimum information to avoid killing myself or others. What is the best way to get practical background knowledge about this type of electrical project?
"PROOF SNOWDEN SHOULD BE TRENDING"
No, the question is "Is Snowden not being allowed to trend on Twitter"? Leading question. Also, within the post itself "Why is Snowden not trending" (grammar corrected by me) and the title "Proof Snowden should be trending" in all caps no less.

It's pretty clear the idea is to imply there's a conspiracy. Everything is a conspiracy.
We're talking about a language, not just a tech. Vendors always had C++. It's agnostic. Apple and its coolness. I doubt people would use Cocoa without nextstep.

And honestly, right clicking with mac, what a nightmare, always bringing the throbber. When I think about it, apple delivers the software that works with the hardware, but the soft is just cool, it's not really nice to work with. Most features comes from unix anyway. While microsoft was hardware agnostic and allowed the computer industry to grow, Apple just comes in with apparatus and just want people to forget the pain of what allowed the computer industry to grow by delivering both soft and hardware.

You can't make programmers learn a language which works in so many different ways, and expect to create a monopoly on such apps. Or maybe it will take time for crowds to forgets C++ and use cocoa.
That's a strawman unless you can produce data that relates the reproduction rate to the standard of living. If you can do that then apparently what you're saying is that a country needs to enforce low standards (or at least wildly differing) standards of living in order to ensure survival.
I.e. absent major changes your argument has been refuted; Many say the example your argument and other's like it provide are object lessons in what not to do.
This is great! I just got a raspberry pi and was looking into running a browser as a kiosk and making a file manager that works with a gamepad as the only input device.

Also reminds me of a cruddy file browser I was working on for servers with php: http://selfsamegames.com/selfsame/

I'll probably be in touch ;)
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I think BI will be a necessity, but it will be an ugly discussion. The rich will want the poor to self-sterilize after N (0? 1?) children before it's allowed. I know what people in that set talk about when no one else is listening, and they will be able to get behind paying poor people not to reproduce.

I think that is the only way to get the current elite ("the 1 percent") behind basic income; tie it to voluntarily sterilization.

Right now, society's really fucking barbaric. If you don't have health insurance and get sick, you die in a lot of pain and spend your last hours in some ER. If you're unemployed for 6+ months, you can't get a job unless you hire a guy like me to consult you on how to re-work your story and arrange references, and even then it's dicey because there's only so much that can be done. This isn't civilization; it's the decaying remnant of one. It either improves dramatically (which I wouldn't rule out) or it falls further because right now it even turns good people into vultures[0].

[0] Actually, I dislike this metaphor. Vultures are good citizens; but you know what I mean.
Already here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932055
I think that's exactly what's going on here. Snowden has been a popular topic on Twitter for days now, so it's likely that those other terms have had bigger volume changes recently.
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I understand that, and I want to jump on board the 'our representatives should have control' train and believe that we're voting for people in power to make these decisions, but I just don't think it's realistic. The President and Congress are simply limited by the finite amount of time they have, and it's about time that we realize that the size of the United States as a population and as a governing body has outgrown the framework designed just a few centuries ago.

Sure, we could expect that someone from the NSA would brief the President or congress on the happenings of surveillance. It seems like a huge priority. But I lean towards Hanlon's Razor and thus towards believing that there are multiple layers of people between the people who make these decisions and the President--layers of people who are balancing their job security (after all, who would hire someone fired from the NSA for overstepping the 4th amendment) and their job description (after all, who do we blame when terrorist attack?). It's simply the stupidity of the system rather that malicious individuals within it.
It is a useful response because it allows for the solution to these sorts of things to occur: continued discussion of the need to enlighten oneself, and be aware of the lies of the world as they are told. An apology is not the last step, merely the first, in amending the situation .. and thus a continued dialog is of use.
Bubbles are a bad thing - not sure if they are just a bad thing sometimes, or all of the time.
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Can I suggest a portfolio link? Nobody in a position to hire has any evidence of her competency otherwise, and thus has no reason to take the effort to contact her.
I grew up on Detroit techno and Chicago house. Its sad to see all electronic music get lumped into "edm."

This is an observation from where I stand: EDM as a trend looks to the underground dance music-sphere and plucks ideas. Right now Deep/Minimal House has begun to enter the EDM world. All things considered this is an established sound that has been around for a long time. Now, its "new" and "innovative." Of course, it only counts as new if a current "EDM" dj is producing the track.

I have no moral judgement. But, it is an interesting trend. Dance music evolves fast! EDM has sped up the process, they take a popular trend, only a few year old, re-shape to please the masses, and create a movement to backlash to.

Right now techno is huge, in the dance music world. I expect EDM to jump on it not too long from now.
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