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Bradley Manning had nothing extremely damaging, yet has been treated very harshly. The spooks will prosecute you because in their mind, anything classified that is released is serious.

Honestly, some of what Snowden/Greenwald claim sounds like embellishment or bluster, and saying that Snowden has a dead-man's switch is a good way to get him assassinated by enemies of the US. It would be tragic if he is harmed because of bluffing.
Meh, these same tricks have always backfired.

Yes, they've been placing food/beverages at the back since years ago.

This also means that customers that are in a hurry to buy bread/food/milk/whatever are more likely to go to their local grocery store. As we, the customers, may be stupid enough to buy into their .99 tricks, but we aren't so stupid as to not notice that it took 3 hours to buy milk or bread, as many times you're really not in the mood to gape at useless shit. It's interesting though that local grocery stores are not so common in the U.S., compared to Europe. To get food, I only need to cross the street.

Also, setting the prices dynamically will not work in an online world. What if customers had a mobile app with which they could compare prices with other retailers just by scanning the bar code? Again, customers aren't so stupid - they may not notice that the price of individual items has gone up, but they do notice fluctuations in their monthly spending.
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I'd say hes giving a lesser example. Private tutors, the ability to acquire any scientific equipment you want, not having to worry about what your next meal is, not having to get a job at 14 to make ends meet in the family hurting your studies, private schools that do career tracks from 8 with career tracks per student rather than factory public school education, and like I said, more importantly than anything, the connections you get by being in the rich kids club from birth.

You get a stacked hand economically, culturally, and socially. We often focus on the economic part, but I think it is the other two that contribute way more to the status quo being limited upward movement from poorer classes to the wealthy / elite / prosperous.
Well, as I said, the goal is maximization of humanity's well-being (the two key ideas in this are: longevity and happiness). In order for the human race to survive in the long term we would have to strive for social sustainability as well as environmental sustainability.

As we're talking about social sustainability: to succeed in even small groups we work together as a team... no one man can, for example, make a computer. One man doesn't know how to process the sand, how to make a processor, and on top of all that create high-level programs with good UI. Ligltly implicit within team work is good human relationships... it sort of goes hand-in-hand I think.

Killing people, depriving them of freedom, etc. all strain humans' happiness and survivability.

If you are interested in exploring this in greater detail, I highly recommend giving Sam Harris' book, _The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values_, a read: http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Determine-Valu...
And this is why I love HN. I just came to the conclusion that I really should think about doing something like this and pondering if there was a way I could automate it as I wrote my comment(1). And here it is. Awesome.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6044279
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The best part of git-annex assistant is that the developer managed to deliver, or even over-deliver what he was pitching in Kickstarter campaign. There wasn't a single week in the whole year where he didn't do some real work on the project. You can check his development blog [1] for details.

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/
The question is not whether you can do good marketing (you surely can) but what counts as good marketing: identifying and exploiting dispositions to behave irrationally in your target. A very good and very smart marketer will do this very well. It will still be sleaze.
Looks cool, I would love to try it too
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I'd love an invite too. Email is in my profile
Wow. How low can you go? How corrupt can you get?
I guess you have a little error in your code. Maybe if you copied and pasted there was an error.

For example, if you have

let people :: [Person] people

instead of

let people :: [Person]
people = -- ...

that would give you that error.
This is probably a joke that i am not getting because this sounds like one of the more ridiculous things I have read on HN in a long time. Keeping track of time is remarkably helpful for farming, hunting and fishing. Not to mention how frequently counting days/moons/seasons comes up in spirituality. I would also have a hard time believing that the women from the "timeless culture" would be unaware of menstrual cycles or normal duration of pregnancies.

Measuring time was probably the second thing mankind measured after distance.[1]

[1] Recent bbc metrology documentary is the reference off the top of my head.
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As I understand it, HFS+ can silently corrupt your data; so, Time Machine could potentially propagate that "corrupt" data all the way through your backup disks (and possibly wipe out older, "correct" data!)

We need integrity checking both at file-system level and at backup-solution level. If I'm not mistaken, with Time Machine on an HFS+ volume, we don't have the former, and the latter is file-based and not block-based (making it not very efficient, space-wise).
Simple and refined, guaranteed to blow your mind...

The tao of regular expressions link is broken in the first chapter. Does anyone have a link?
Open-source that stuff already!
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But in the browser you're forced to use JS. On your server you can run anything you want, so I see no point to this.
But like I don't think consent is hard, and I don't rape people, and I'm not a feminist because I believe unhealthy relationships are equally bad for men (assuming I'm allowed to choose my identity which seems to be a tenet of modern sexual politics). It's obvious if someone wants to have sex with me, usually based only on their body language, and I respect it if they don't. But maybe I'm just one of the lucky and sensitive ones.

This was interesting:

http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-a-sex-negative-feminist
The Loch Lomond Re-advance was a relatively short period of colder weather than happened after the warming at the end of the last major ice age - this ended ~11,500 years ago.

During the Loch Lomond Re-advance there was a large ice sheet in Western Scotland and smaller ones elsewhere but the country was mainly ice free. Obviously, the conditions during this time were much colder than today so flora and fauna were quite different and it took quite a long time for the species we think of as being "natural" for Scotland to re-establish themselves.

So the landscape that these people would have been living in was still "recovering" from glaciation and may have been quite different to what we see today - which I find fascinating.

NB I had a copy of "Land of Mountain and Flood - The Geology and Landforms of Scotland" handy when I was reading HN over breakfast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

http://www.slideshare.net/aland/loch-lomond-readvance

[NB I am from the North East of Scotland and fascinated by geology and archeology - so I was pretty excited to see this on HN!]
Avid Spotify-user here (paying about $15 a month in Sweden). I just wish they can work it out so the artists get paid fairly - it shouldn't be that hard, should it?

On the topic of pirating as an alternative - it is just sooo nice not having to manage a bunch of MP3s. Playlists are just way more convenient.
How is this different to yeoman?
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Is he really attacking the book, though?

"I feel compelled to say something about not his work, but the New Scientist article. The article is at best in my opinion misleading."
Check out the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people , then.
By definition yes, but it's much more valuable if it can also help you understand.
AFAIK, I don't think Larry, Sergey, Eric, or Marissa (for example) have security clearances at all.
All good points, though awareness is distinct from formal recording. I was trying to get at the latter.
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Good article. One small thing that wasn't clear to me is

The feedback you get from engaging directly with your earliest users will be the best you ever get. When you're so big you have to resort to focus groups, you'll wish you could go over to your users' homes and offices and watch them use your stuff like you did when there were only a handful of them.

Why can't you do that once the company gets to a certain size? I don't have any experience with these things, so it's not clear to me. Surely there must be some better alternative than focus groups.
I don't think I was clear because it seems like you missed my question. The question is not whether science can determine human values. The question is how do we know that we should use science to determine human values? This is a moral judgment, but I don't believe science can tell us the answer.

Do you see what I mean? If the moral value that we should use moral absolutism based in science cannot be provided by moral absolutism based in science, then it isn't moral absolutism because at least one moral comes from outside science.
>It's also hard for me to conflate the ideas that new artists are being trampled by Music 2.0 with success stories like Karmin and Chance the Rapper, who put out free material (via YouTube and a free mixtape, respectively) and the massive coverage launched them into the national spotlight.

Those stories are BS though. Sure, a tiny minority might get on the spotlight thusly (a tiny minority is ever on the spotlight anyway, by definition).

That doesn't change the negatives for: those already on the spotlight, those not in the spotlight but with a decent-ish following.
Daniel Everett states that one of the strongest Pirahã values is no coercion; you simply don't tell other people what to do.

Now that sounds like a great society!
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Sorry, it was meant as constructive criticism. I guess I should have made that clear. Writing it out might help unsuspecting people like me figure out what it is all about. I could also imagine it to be beneficial for search engines.

My comment taught you that I had no idea what LSAT meant and that I thought it should be explained. Now look at yours for a moment.
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I had to check out brunch.io for a description of what an "application assembler" does. Linner would benefit from some text describing it's function!
It talks about France. France is a machine of expending money right now, better said, of wasting money.

I am living in France this Summer, a very rich and beautiful country with a hole in the pocket. French people love to life well, and someone else to pay the bills, the Germans, the rich, whoever but not them.

Mr Hollande only want to do one thing, to raise taxes. But there is never enough money when you don't expend wisely.
The moment you're trading in another country you must honor their laws and taxes. If the costs become too high and the margins too low you can always leave, or skip said country in the first place.
Android 5.0 should have a lesser energy-consumption :-)
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I would like to give a word of encouragement to anyone who, like me, thought this insight into Monads was all greek. Understanding any of the material in this tutorial is not a prerequisite to writing practical computer programs in Haskell.

You don't have to completely understand Monads in order to use them.

Just as you learn adding two numbers together in pre-school and learn about axioms of associativity and commutativity later, you should start by learning IO first and think about the more general ideas later.

Nevertheless, this was quite an interesting article. Maybe I'll try to put some thought into it and see if I can learn something that would help me level up my Haskell skills.
> what counts as good marketing: identifying and exploiting dispositions to behave irrationally in your target.

It sounds like you don't know much about marketing.
Oh, and also, the moment this became clear to me was when I read the original monad paper. How frustrating -- all this ink spilled on explaining monads and I just needed to read the original paper to see the real motivation.
If you were "trying to get at formal recording of time" why didn't you mention that in your comment? You only mentioned counting time and words for time.
That's contrived. I'm not paying anything for radio. $0/month. And the free versions of Rdio and Spotify have ads too.
Blimey, https://campaign.joeyh.name/blog/initial_goal_reached_in_sev...

Congratulations!
These things are always a tradeoff. The number of terrorists is a tiny fraction of the population, and the amount of damage which they cause is small compared to road accidents, tsunamis or common and preventable diseases. Is it really worth compromising everyone's communications because of such a low level threat? Collecting everything isn't even remotely proportionate to the scale of the problem, and it's counter-productive even in utilitarian terms.

The main issue is that it's not really about terrorists. The NSA recruiters admitted as much in the audio recording in which they attempted to define the term "adversary" to an audience which was smarter than they had bargained for. It's very clear that they consider everyone to be an adversary, whether or not they're engaged in terrorism or crime and regardless of their nationality.
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If you make a certain amount of money in a certain country, then you should pay that country's taxes. Pretty simple concept, no?

This whole "let's reroute all our profits from all the countries into this country where the taxes are close to zero" is utter BS. If you don't like its taxes, don't do business in that country. Simple. If the government thinks they're losing businesses with high taxes, then maybe they will lower them - or maybe not. It's their and their citizens' prerogative.
Awesome! A gittip.com for music.
This "only catch" seems like a big one though. I guess it will get better when/if the user base grows significantly.
Marketing correlates with sleaze. Don't accidentally fight a strawman.
and then watch some Dawkins so you don't forget what religions are all about ;)
I'd imagine you could create some "fair" kind of Spotify clone where half the money go to artists and half the money go to the service. The streaming know what music it plays, so it would be easy to bill. It just need someone to do that, and I'm not sure the general public cares about fairness.
I'm not sure why people are particularly surprised by this. Most of the large international companies that make most out of tax avoidance have large US bases. While the US economy does lose some to the schemes they use (like all the cash Apple has sat outside the US, to give a commonly quoted example) it loses less than the competing economies overall so agreeing to crack down on tax avoidance could result in a net loss. Even if it didn't, those companies can also afford to buy the best lobbyists in town who in turn can buy the relevant number of votes to threaten politicians who don't toe the line.
> Marketing correlates with sleaze.

Bullshit. Do you run a business? Do you aspire to? There are plenty of ways to let people know about what you are doing that are not sleazy.

Is patio11 sleazy? He's pretty good at marketing.
I'd much rather hear what Hacker News readers have to say about hosting providers that what Slashdot readers have to say. That's why I upvoted the conversation. That's how I learned about Hetzner in the first place, and I'm happy I got a server there. Don't need to upgrade yet, but it's nice to hear what sensible people think of their latest offerings.
> It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.

Isn't that what the textbook is for? I mean, writing math problems on the blackboard to show how to solve them is dynamic and animated in a way you don't get from a textbook, but you also won't get that from downloaded lecture slides.
What is it that we are checking out? The only mention of time is to a Der Speigel article that is 404ing.
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> The question is how do we know that we should use science to determine human values?

What else should we use? Because we've used religion before, that didn't work. So, I suppose when I say that science should be our moral compass, I really mean looking at existing evidence and data that tells us what is good for us and what isn't, how we should do certain things, how should we not do other things, and so on.

A stated long term goal is survival of humanity, that I'm just accepting on an a priori basis. And then science tells us that preserving the human race sort of comes down to working as a team and spending our time productively, happily, and judiciously -- here on earth and in worlds beyond this one. A natural consequence of that is education -- we should educate people so that they don't kill people unjustifiably. Some rule of law is important for self-preservation, so we can rest easy that we won't also end up getting killed over someone's twisted sense of morality.
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> "With that said, do you really want to buy a Microsoft product? Do you want to buy anything that gives easy access to snoops poking around at their leisure? If you'd think twice about this, then why would a foreign government rely on Microsoft Office with any confidence? Personally, if I were any foreign government or corporation, I'd stop using all Microsoft products immediately for fear of America spying on me. Nothing can be secret."

That's exactly what I'm hoping will happen. It may be the only way to actually roll back most of this shameless and abusive mass spying of everything and everyone. I'm not sure what else would stop it. Americans protesting it? I'm not holding my breath for that one, and even if they do, they'll only try to fix the spying internally, as they couldn't care less what they do to the world as long as the government keeps telling them "it's to keep them safe" (which obviously trumps everyone else' rights).
This is a financial disaster waiting to happen. Microsoft is oblivious if it is not doing something to divorce itself from the NSA.

Apple, on the other hand, could have come out smelling like a rose, but following the death of Steve Jobs, who apparently refused to play ball with the NSA, it stupidly jumped on board to join the PRISM club.

According to the Prism slides, it really looks so:

"Dates when Prism collection began for each provider

Microsoft 9/11/07
Yahoo 3/12/08
Google 1/14/09
Facebook 6/3/09
PalTalk 12/07/09
YouTube 9/24/10
Skype 2/6/11
AOL 3/31/11
Apple (added Oct 2012)"

Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011.

If it's true, it's one reason more to deeply admire him.

And can you just imagine how much more sales Apple would get now for not being on that list?
Seems to be down. Mirror?
List of links to data on payouts and more:

http://musically.com/2013/02/13/streaming-music-screwing-art...

(has info from artists, labels, economists, more.)
You should go back to where ever you come from or wherever it is better for you to live.

Sarkozy ruined France so yes now everbody needs to pay for it.

And the problem is not taxes,i'm happy to pay taxes. The problem is people like French liberals ( liberals are "right-wing" in France ) that gives hand outs to their friends or vote laws without financing their them , and then all they have left is blaming the poor,the homeless,the public workers,the artists or the muslims for France demise...

> French people love to life well, and someone else to pay the bills,

Whatever. Or maybe you prefer US way of life, where it is me/myself/I and there is next to 0 solidarity.
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>"If you quibble about what makes you and what doesn't make you a hacker, you're probably not a hacker"

have you ever been to a D&D game? rules lawyering is central to nerd social interactions.
At least he had good intentions, I wouldn't call it rude like Rentric did.
It seems like it would work better to have a two-problem quiz every week: one problem in what you supposedly just learned, and another on something from earlier in the course you might have forgotten. This seems like it would take only about twenty minutes per week and give the students much better information on their progress, so I wonder why it isn't widely adopted.
He should satisfy his OCD by playing Pokemon instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVp-zIONsrs
"Microsoft is oblivious if it is not doing something to divorce itself from the NSA"

No John, unfortunately it is not really an option to move 57,000 employees and a headquarters out of the United States. That is what would need to be done. None of the people making statements for these large corporations are lying voluntarily.
Still sticking to STEM, here are my thoughts on each of your points:

> Private tutors

Not sure about these, don't know much about them.

> the ability to acquire any scientific equipment you want

If you're studying math/CS, how much of these do you need? Maybe for Physics or Chemistry, but even then?...
When I was a kid, my parents bought me a cheapo Electronics kit and I learned a lot about circuits from that and a couple of books.

> not having to worry about what your next meal is, not having to get a job at 14 to make ends meet in the family hurting your studies

I don't know that many Romanian kids with that problem, so I expect it's even less common in the western world (disclaimer: I currently live in the US).
However, I do see a lot of kids skipping school, acting cool and picking on nerds (and this is a global problem IMHO, not limited to the US or Eastern Europe). That's not poverty, that's just bad attitude.

> private schools that do career tracks from 8 with career tracks per student rather than factory public school education

Not sure about these either, never had contact with private schools.

> more importantly than anything, the connections you get by being in the rich kids club from birth

I think these matter a lot more in the legal and financial worlds. In tech, with all the startup money being thrown around, it's not that hard to get funding for an idea.

> You get a stacked hand economically, culturally, and socially. We often focus on the economic part, but I think it is the other two that contribute way more to the status quo being limited upward movement from poorer classes to the wealthy / elite / prosperous.

I personally know a few people from poor families who became tech millionaires in a decade or less, by starting their own company or working pre-IPO at a startup. While these are only anecdotes, they show it's not impossible to become rich. You do have to pick a high-growth field.

I think there's still a lot of mobility in fields where personal contribution and talent still matter, like technology, science and art (for example, you can still be poor and later become a millionaire, see Justin Bieber and Psy for recent examples). It's much harder to do this in finance, law and politics; but then again, hasn't it always been so?