skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A poor person should vote for issues that help them specifically and directly.

Why? Your vote doesn't matter. The probability of your vote affecting the outcome is so small it can't be represented with a double precision floating point [1].

So why shouldn't the poor do the same thing everyone else does, namely vote for the guy who makes them feel good?

(Incidentally, the idea that the poor vote R is statistical artifact caused by state level aggregation. http://www.tino.us/2012/11/republicans-may-be-many-things-bu... )

[1] I'm looking at state/federal elections here. Your vote might matter in, e.g., your local school board election.
Arguing by your logical suppositions, i claim that what would happen is that jobs that is required for society to function, but nobody wants to do, but is not automate-able (does toilet cleaning count? it might be automate-able...) would mean either an increase in the cost of performing that job, or it doesn't get performed at all at any cost because the benefit doesnt outweight the cost of getting it done.

THis could mean one of two things - if the job is really really essential, then the BI income will eventually not be able to cover the cost of that job (because people would be using their share of BI to cover it). If the job isn't really that essential, then it will end up being undone, much to the detriment of society perhaps.

My basic argument for BI's probable failure (i'd very much like to be proven/convinced otherwise tho), is that the resources invested in the infrastructure to replace labour must make some sort of return on investment (especially if it is made by private individuals). In this case, taxing these automation investments will either make it not worthwhile, or that the owners of these investments will just raise the price of the goods created to counteract the tax, thus raising inflation rate, and doesn't really do any good. The only way it will work is if the investment into automation doesn't "earn" much profit, and produces goods almost at cost. I doubt that would happen at all.
Well, it will probably make him more money and power but working on something immoral and evil makes you immoral and evil. Fuck this guy.
It can be a one-liner, but you'll need more language. That is, you'll need terms that encode mathematical truths that currently can only be expressed as several pages.

Think of this - I can use the number two and refer to it with just a single character - 2. However, properly stating all its properties and what it is starting from just the axioms of set theory, I'll need quite a lot of pages.
Yeah, I'm a libertarian also. Most people think the way people understand taxes is a.) screw the poor, it's mine b.) screw the rich, you don't deserve it.

But there's an entirely different philosophy out there. Taxes, which are non-voluntary by nature, are theft and therefore unethical. It's hard for many to conceptualize, but you can actually help the poor and those causes you care about and be anti-tax. It's not like we're a bunch greedy bastards. We just think voluntary society and government is the more ethical path.
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It is a story. It's not the story.
Or just use Arch, you won't have to compile anything and still get the latest and greatest.
As predicted, the topic is now the Snowden manhunt, rather than the spying. Snowden needs to release more details to keep the fires burning.
> Shoving Nextstep under programmer's throats is really a weird strategy.

No, it is like any vendor that makes developers stick with their own technology. This has been happening in commercial software since the dawn of computing.
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> If you can point to even one single state that has successfully done so, it would be of immense help to this discussion.

http://www.heritage.org/index/ will be helpfull

> This way you reintroduce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage#Census_suffrage.

Yes, and that's the point, because it immediately cures main deficency of the democracy: decisions about country's major issuess would be made by people who are smart, successfull and have experience leading big organizations or companies, instead of being made by every idiot that happens to be of the legal age.
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> My takeaway from the piece, however, was that teaching the ability to communicate (writing), is in decline.

Isn't it another case of us idealizing the past? Like the "declinie of morality/society" which actually is like it always has been? I used to think that writing and reading skills are maybe really in decline, right until I saw this xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/1227/

As for today I don't know really of any social decline that really is.
I'm not denying that this is interesting information, but it seems a little foolish to post, given that Mavericks is:

1. Only in developer preview and subject to change (for better and for worse).

2. Under NDA.
When I was younger my family got burglarized, and, while it was definitely unpleasant and enough "expensive" - we weren't insured - psychologically it wasn't so shocking. Of course, the subjective experience is, by definition, subjective.
Firm: Facebook's shadow profiles are 'frightening' dossiers on everyone
urlparse is okay but it has issues in the sense that it only supports URIs and not IRIs. werkzeug.urls provides full unicode support.
Are you using some kind of framework? I don't think there is a way in plain HTTP+HTML to pass URLs to child frames in a frameset.
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Possibly helped by 20% of the Australian electorate taking the newly formed Wikileaks Party seriously, and there being a Federal Election in 90 days [1].

[1] http://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/roy-morgan-research/2013/0...
Possibly. It has been stated numerous times that he has advisers from Wikileaks on the plane, and they may have suggested this solution. I am confident that they also suggested him not to take the flight he was scheduled for.
How is this at all relevant when they're so far outdated?
> Second, if the universe were squashed flat, it would form a sheet about one neutron thick

Is this a tautology or does 'squished flat' mean something other than 'squished flat'?
Could I help do freelance work? Feel free to email me at ryan@ryandrake.com. Currently doing General Assembly's Web Development Immersive out of Fishburners!
Facebook vs. NSA: which is worse?
The mega-rich will _never_ want to contribute any significant amount of their money (gained from the output of their automated robots and factories/greenhouses) towards feeding those who are not working, unless forced to. They might pay lip service, and donate to some charity/feed the poor program, but they don't do it due to the goodness of their hearts - they do it due to the need to look to be charitable (i.e., marketing/PR reasons). Its a business cost. I bet if you asked them to make these donations completely anonymously, and never admit to having made them to anyone, most would not comply (and note, not like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqncCjxGqGw).
Your last paragraph couldn't be more further than the truth. Comparing libertarians to KKK members in not just insane, it's insulting.

Libertarianism is a political philosophy more akin to classical liberalism than any modern movement today. Don't confuse the Libertarian party with the libertarian movement. Also, there are many libertarian organizations in the US and world wide.

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

http://www.isil.org/aim/index.php/en/freedom-network
The only problem I can think of is that the URL becomes a bit longer than necessary, so you might hit IE's URL length limit a bit earlier.
We came back because the weather. When I saw the clouds comming toward us, i started to smile :D
Play angry ball game
This is a simple fun game just like Angry Birds. You are now Play Angry ball game, and you are a big ball and you roll over everything in the city. Where the goal is to simply destroy everything. For only $1 or more, your name will appear on the list of credits. The larger the donation the larger your name appears.
I was comparing a fully qualified "engineer" CENG which has a similar lengthy post first degree CPD element here not self taught programmers.

Take say a senior civil engineer who may design large (ie over a £billion) projects most will make less than the average GP does.

Your attitude is why we are paid so badly compared to SV
Stop Saying You Have “No Competition”. It Sounds Ridiculous.
> Indeed. Hopefully it can also, finally, be the stab in the back of DirectX.

There are plenty of reasons developers go to DirectX, support and tooling being two of them.

On the game consoles, outside Microsoft, regardless what is spread around, game consoles don't support OpenGL, just variations thereof or similar APIs.

For example the PS3 has OpenGL ES 1.0 combined with Cg, not GLSL. In the end most developers use Libcgm anyway.

As for the other consoles they are also other type of APIs.

In the end, the best approach is to have an API agnostic middlelayer and be independent of the underlying API.
Any attempt to justify time spent in pursuit of an English Lit degree inevitably sounds smug/condescending. You have to say general things like it teaches you how to write and think and appreciate the breadth of human experience - but then you are implying that everybody else must be lacking in those areas, which sounds terrible.
How much did the system cost?
U.S. as libertarian paradise? HAHAHAHAHA!!
Launching JSON Version of IPGP Geolocation API
This was one of the feature that made me get my first Mac back in 2002. You could easily tell apps that didn't use OS standard controls (e.g., Firefox) because they didn't support the dictionary lookup.

At the time it was ctrl+cmd+D while hovering over a word with the mouse cursor (you can still trigger it this way now).
Angry ball game online
This is a simple fun game just like Angry Birds. You are now Play Angry ball game, and you are a big ball and you roll over everything in the city. Where the goal is to simply destroy everything. For only $1 or more, your name will appear on the list of credits. The larger the donation the larger your name appears.
He will probably make a fortune by selling the story to Hollywood.
This is amazing. Thank you so much.
On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than a reporter?
I think you're misreading that. It's whether the action has the effect of prejudicing the United States or benefiting a foreign government regardless of intent.
Considering they claimed one of their sources was within wikileaks, it's likely it's part of a wikileaks/Snowden plan to obfuscate his real travel plans.
The Tabarrok Curve on Patent Strength
Facebook's working on 'Reader' that might actually make money
>Now, redistribution is already, prima facie, one of the absolute best things a government can do. Simply put, rich people don't need money, and poor people do. All else being equal, taking some money from rich people and giving it to poor people is therefore the absolute best way to improve worldwide welfare we know of.

This is the most bullshit paragraph I have read all year.
Who's smart enough to buy generic?
SF more dangeros than back home :-) Given that my Indian co worker at Reed Elsevier commented that his family had had more than one property take over by "gangsters" not totally sure I buy that.

India is quiet a violent country even the sectarian violence in Northern Irland pales in comparison to the recent Muslim / Hindu violence.
Original forum thread: http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread/t-523822.html

First comment: This is hardly new information.

Anyway, nice to see trance making the HackerNews headlines! I just realized 1997 when I first met Assange was about the time Ecuador! came out. Hehehe.
The proof is a one liner, if you take enough of the background theorems as given. The reason the proof is so long is that Wiles had to prove and build upon a bunch of other theorems to get to a point where proving FLT was possible.

If for example you simply accept everything up to and including the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture as true, then the proof of FLT gets pretty close to one line.
Anti-Piracy Group Admits Streaming Movies Isn’t Illegal
The claim that governments are not stopping terrorists is ridiculous. There are people who are sitting in jail right now who have pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks that were prevented. No, you can never stop all terrorist attacks, but that is a poor reason to not bother preventing others. You are free to argue that current surveillance practices did not actually help prevent these attacks, or that additional regulation and oversight is necessary, or that you'd rather have the terrorist attacks than any surveillance, or that terrorist attacks are really the fault of some U.S. policy that should be corrected, or whatever else you want, but whatever you argue you really should not just avoid reality and invent your own.
I suppose he means that if, simplifying, you consider the universe to be one big 3-dimensional ball, it would be squished "vertically" into a 2-dimensional circle with the same diameter as the ball.
> After you've mastered the pseudointellectual bemused sneer, English class is your oyster. My sister refused to be cynical, grappled with the texts and worked out some genuinely beautiful prose, and barely passed.

There is something to it. I got really great grades for my writing during school years, and the best works were usually either overly-honest-offtopics (that is, I believed I had more important real-life point to make), or cleverly disguised cynical criticisms of the whole idea of literature classes (I had a friend who was very cynical and direct in his writing, as he plainly didn't care; while he didn't get good grades for it, I remember his writings as the most interesting and fun to read). Things got easier for me when I learned how to bullshit my way out of any writing assignment (a surprisingly useful skill for university as well).
I attempted to use jitsi with ddg's xmpp server, however the video and audio would never work between us. It was always one or the other. I hope the kinks are worked out as I would like to stop using Skype asap.
> You think taxes are unethical? Then how does the government pay for itself? Would you rather they just printed the money they need? That would also be a tax; a flat tax.

> And if you don't believe the government should exist then that's anarchist, not libertarian. Though if you want anarchism then you can't have a barter system.

Well, since I'm also an opponent of fiat currency, the government couldn't very well print any money :)

I'd prefer a night-watchman state, with the government handling police, courts, the military and possibly other services relating to emergency rescue, the justice system or government administration.

I would prefer the following for funding the (very small) government in ranking order: 1. Donations, 2. Fees, 3. A small flat tax levied either as an income tax or a corporate tax.

And yes, the third option isn't a very good option.

> By "very small" you mean "fringe". Like the BNP in the UK no doubt.

Indeed. I can't speak about the BNP, since I don't know anything about it, but the classic liberal party of Sweden only got a few hundred votes last election.

> If you truly have "US Libertarian" parties in Sweden, then how about instead of ruining your country you just move the US so you can enjoy what a Libertarian paradise is actually like.

I'll do that once the US stops being a collectivist surveillance state corrupted by cronyism, and actually starts respecting the principles set forth in its constitution again. (Not to mention when it actually starts allowing immigrants again.)

Until such a time, I'll try to make the situation better where I happen to reside.
Rss import (opml) doesn't work, and add a single rss feed doesn't work either.

Maybe, I'll wait two or three weeks and try it again. For now, I'm using TheOldReader and Feedly at the same time, waiting to make my opinion.
Thing is, DJing and producing dance tracks are entirely different crafts. Somehow, when DJs playing other people's records achieved stardom, people started expecting them to release their own tracks, too. Some were good at it, but some weren't, so they hired someone else to help.

It isn't a very big problem, really, in my opinion. Most dance music fans can pick out the good from the bad anytime. An artist who consistently produces good records (acts like deadmau5, laurent garnier, and, yes, skrillex, come to mind, but there's a gazillion more) probably has control over what goes on in the studio. Ibiza deejays who have a dance chart hit or two, well, not so sure.

In fact, the amazement is a good thing. It means we expect dance producers to be original, the real thing. In other genres, most notably pop, we all expect the writing and composing and arrangement and everything else except the singing to have been done by anonymous, behind-the-scenes people.

As an example I was more amazed to discover that Take That actually write their own songs, than to find out that Afrojack hired a studio guy.

ps. As an interesting aside, great reading material is "The Manual" by the KLF[1]. Written in 1988, a big part of it is about how to get hired studio engineers and programmers to basically produce your hit record for you, without any necessary talent from your side. You just sit there and encourage them.

[1] http://www.kirps.com/web/main/resources/music/themanual/
Yikes, Moldovan domains are pricey!
True, but less chance of being taken out.
No censoring? So what about child abuse images?
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister:

I will give a press conference at 7 pm. in Melia hotel, Hanoi.

https://twitter.com/RicardoPatinoEC/statuses/349055771419480...

Vietnam! The plot thickens!

I feel an urge to stick bits of string onto a map with push pins.

EDIT: btw 7pm in vietnam is basically now.
"its Prismlike scheme"
No.

With the exception of the handful of Members on relevant intelligence committees, most Members of Congress were not aware of the massive scope of this program, or even that it existed in its current form.

Access to this type of information by a private citizen would require a hell of a lot more access than writing a big check to a Representative can get you.
And they shouldn't be forced, because it's their money after all. Just because they are richer than you that doesn't mean they owe you anything. Also, you contradict yourself by first saing that rich "never want to contribute" and later giving example of people actualy doing this for "marketing/PR reasons". Those reasons may be selfish, but still people like Bill Gates donate literaly billions of dollars to help others.
It actually overflies the US mainland today:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150

But on other days it goes nowhere near it:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130620/1...
78 Tools for Writing and Previewing Markdown
There's nothing in your list that makes Python less suitable for web development than [insert favorite language]. Many of the issues you describe (I agree with most but not all) are either irrelevant for web application development (e.g. the GIL, I/O bound code such as web applications do not suffer from it at all, especially not when using something like gevent), easily avoided or worked around (unicode strings: either use Python 3, or a web framework that defaults to always unicode + do static source analysis for non-unicode string literals), already have pretty good solutions (package management: always use virtualenv and pip), or a matter of style/taste (dict vs Dict, functional aspects, etc).

I could make my own list of reasons why I think Java sucks for web development, but someone who's proficient in Java web application development will disagree with those just the same. Every language has its faults, and Python is no exception. Personally I simply hate writing Java code, of all the languages I've used, it's by far the least enjoyable to write and maintain.
America’s supremacy is finished. Why don’t we understand this?
> people are always drawn to the human aspect of a story

It's not just that. Snowden is staying in the news because his story has had developments. If it keeps "NSA" in the headlines for another week or so, I am more than happy to have The Guardian report on every move he makes.
Here is shot of real bird: http://goo.gl/Ir5HL
2013: The state of the startups
Build a killer startup. Or whatever.
This would create strong incentives to make these things automateable.
How to download document files from webserver using Servlet
Weirdly I've ended up spending a lot less money during the times of my life I've been in situations that allowed me to work 3-4 days a week.

Partly in that I didn't have to pay other folk to do stuff I'm happy to do myself when I have the time... the other factor is that the absence of free time brings out an annoying tendency in me to try and make up for it by spending money on stuff I really don't need!
Ask HN: Advice for consultants/freelancers, rather than start-ups
I've found a lot of interesting advice on HN specifically geared towards start-ups (e.g. assembling a pitch deck and venture capital deal structures.)

I'm wonder if the community can recommend any resources (books, blogs, forums) that have advice geared more towards consultants/freelancers (dev. shops, design firms, social media/online advertising agencies). Somewhere with topics like how to do sales of services (rather than products), contracts, hiring/outsourcing, accounting, etc.—all of the things I imagine they teach in business school.

Thanks!
Which time zone? It's 7 PM in Hanoi.

(reply to edit: it's 7 AM in Ecuador)
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Perhaps individually your vote is unlikely to affect any particular outcome. But think about the consequences if every voter adopts this belief.
I do not think that Apple is taking it's own NDA seriously. It may just be there to be on the safe side. When Lion came out I had a look at some of the new API it had - while it still was under NDA. I had a couple of problems with the new API so I posted a request for help on G+. Some of Apple's own employees responded to my request.

This does not show that Apple as a company does not really care if you are publishing a very short comparison of one tiny tiny aspect of something that is still under NDA but I doubt they do.

NDAs are overrated in general.
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>And it's been a couple years since. //

It was bought by MS in 2011. It's literally the last couple of years that people are concerned about. It's recent changes that have moved from distributed to central routing.

From the OP article (apparently by Skype [past] principal architect):

>"[...] people who were concerned about privacy -- including many of us in the security industry -- used Skype for secure communications.

>Both eBay and Silverlake maintained this architecture, as well as the Luxembourg HQ.

>Since being acquired by Microsoft, however, the service has been re-architected to run through MSFT-owned servers, rendering encryption functionally meaningless and making it just as easy as POTS to monitor.

>None of this -- neither the $7.5B acquisition itself, nor the decision to move to a datacenter model -- make strategic or business sense for Microsoft as far as I can tell." //
Snowden is 'not on plane' to Cuba