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I'm sympathetic to this as I may know people who work at various DOD subsidiaries, and they are good people. That said, to deny there are no sociopathic power seekers in these organizations is just naive. Giving an absolute power that can so easily be abused to any organization is a terrible idea. Even if today they are lead by a metaphorical holy, righteous person, tommorow they may not be, and when such a change occurs it won't be announced like some cartoon villain holding a press conference declaring their evil plans for all to see. I agree that congress, at least certain members of it, those privy to this information, have no legitimate claim to ignorance and outrage (okay, maybe the former), but I see the bigger problem being a program like what is alleged is even allowed to be set up. They claim there is strict oversight/auditing of data, and while I have no doubts this is technically true, I highly doubt it is the story "on the ground", just based on my knowledge of human nature and large scale organizations.
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For those wondering whats in 3.10 - http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10
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Homakov go!
Don't we all make terrible choices both explicitly as well as implicitly? When faced with a choice between the moral rectitude and the livelihood of your family, it's very difficult to choose the former. At least this guy has courage to come clean and admit his wrongdoing.
I don't think it's unethical or rude, but Google Translate isn't perfect, and the translation will be incorrect sometimes. The worst you have to worry about is being made fun of a bit when Google Translate completely mangles a word or phrase ;-)
Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
I based my opinion on my personal experience in several large technology companies. In these companies contractors were treated like second class citizens - they got worst offices/desks, were not invited to offsites and were assigned the most boring work that nobody else wanted to do. In one company they were not allowed to take free drinks from the fridge (this one was ridiculous). They could not work for the company for more than 12 month without taking forced three month break so they were never assigned to work on important parts of projects. Essentially - if you have choices why will you agree to work as contractor in such situation? Most of them wanted to become FTE but only a few were capable of passing interview loop.

Outside of tech or in smaller companies situation can be completely different. I can easily believe that contractors can be more vastly more qualified than average IT employee at random retail/fast food/etc company.

Another exception are people working in consulting arms of Microsoft/Oracle/HP. I know that those guys know what they are doing and can easily charge $300+/hour. I never worked with them.
I find that pretty infuriating.

I'm reminded now of some years ago when I was in differential equations class and had trouble understanding my professor (his handwriting was terrible and incomprehensible, and his lesson structure very hard to follow). Khan's videos were an absolute blessing to me then.

In regards to the criticisms: as valid as they may be, don't assert that his offerings are not good -- it's better that they exist vs. not existing. We're at a more evolved state now with having had Khan's videos: now a new player can emerge who can produce better videos with the knowledge of what Khan's mistakes were.

I think it's actually a little bit irresponsible criticizing Khan's video like this in a public and confrontational way: it adds to the hysteria, now you'll have parents actively avoiding Khan's videos because of concerns of their pedagogical techniques. And that's not good: have you opened a standard calculus book these days? It's very hard to follow, don't these folks have some criticism for those (and their high prices, which often make it unaffordable for a lot of folks)? Video form of learning is still rather new, and Khan is a pioneer of it. Give it some more time to find its optimum form.
For those who do not know, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts" to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
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It's not substantive changes, but any change is enough to change compatibility. If you doubt me, go to the NIST website for SHA-3 standardization and check out the conference talks they linnk to.
It's possible some apathy towards this issue and a feeling that this is no immediate threat to them, because US hasn't really been under dangerous regimes before, are at play here, but I also think people like to be led and organized. I think organizations like ACLU and EFF should do a lot more grassroots organizing of the protests, and get people to say "Yes, I'm coming to the protest tomorrow".

Reading about the protest on a website won't guarantee many will go (and most will not). People need to be contacted by these civil liberties organizations and asked to come.
Wow, that's a useful comment. Thanks.
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Agreed. It's obvious now that losing Romero was a tremendous blow to the company, creatively.

(Was not obvious back when it happened though, at least not to me.)
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New-age pablum. Everything is art now?

> First, you need a foundation of knowledge and skills. You can't be Picasso if you can't handle brushes. Second, you need to use those skills to express something that is both deeply personal and that resonates with an audience.

This applies to all skill sets, not just art.

> Making art is not an artist's job. It is an artist's life. This is why it is exciting. But it also creates anxiety, and second-guessing. Putting your passion on display can be scary. How do you know what is your true passion? What if your work is ignored, derided or misunderstood?

OMG Fred from Accounting isn't expressing his inner angst the right way.

Puhleeze.

edit: I've been a professional artist, musician, and engineer for 30 years. IMO the author is mixing up a career with artistic expression.
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That's very nice, but realistically 99.9999% of people won't put this amount of effort into their email.
Distracting the NSA
You can 'go after' in any number of non-public ways.
I think it would be more effective to begin organizing a primary challenge to Nancy Pelosi. Residents of San Francisco have the unique ability to send a message to the minority leader, and therefore, the entire democratic party.

The leverage, or political return on effort, for challenging a house party leader is far greater than for any other elected official. (Senate leaders have far more constituents)
The "complex," which could not operate without the collusion of Congress, was in place prior to the first world war.

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

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

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2012/04/rudimentry-be...

USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler warned us about it in his book, War is a racket.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
I used to teach English as a foreign language for a little while. My students were kids 10-13 years old. The most difficult task was to teach them things they were previously taught incorrectly. For example, I was struggling the whole semester to convince them "pizza" is pronounced "peetsə" although there is no visible "t" in it. The reason: Their last teacher told them it was pronounced "peeza". No matter how much I tried, they always went back to their pronunciation and thought I was an idiot.

As people working in tech, we are familiar with the concept of unlearning. Sometimes to make things right, we have to unlearn what we have learned and start from scratch. Unlearning is something that comes with experience. It's very hard for children to unlearn. You have to be careful what you say to them, because they're going to believe it for a long time.

I think what the OP is worried about is if these videos are someone's first introduction to math, they will struggle in this subject for foreseeable future.
I have it on good word that Rand was pro health insurance.
We need people like them in every single country if we want to live in a world actually guided by public interest and not by the most powerful of the particular interests.
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Thanks! I'm working on fixing mobile rendering ASAP :)
>For the uninvolved citizen, they could visit the site and see that [something like] SOAP 2.0 is voted most important to watch. They could then cast their own disproving vote for the bill, which the site would track so that come election time a notice such as "Senator John votes in accordance with your votes 20% of the time."

Can I just point something out here? This doesn't want to be a website. It wants to be a piece of software. You don't want to create a website that records everybody's preferences and creates a big database for the NSA to suck up over the wire and discover everyone who doesn't like them.

So do it the other way. Have a piece of software that downloads the public information (what the bills are and how your reps voted) but keep all the data about the user's preferences on the local machine. If you want to do statistics and publish them, look into homomorphic encryption and do it P2P. You can get aggregate numbers that way without revealing any individual's preferences.
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Question for the practitioners: is there a hardware token like the yubikey neo, Openpgp card, gemalto.net etc that can do ECC signing or encryption? In some countries, fips140 hardware is required for legal filings, but I've only found RSA tokens.
well as Rafael Correa says "If you are poor, 90% of the chances are that you will die poor no matter how smart and efficient you are to society. And if you are rich,90% percent of the chances are that you will die rich, no matter how useless and stupid you are"... and like the article says .. "If you want to go back to the point where we decided to be socialist and try to undo it, you're going to have to kill most of the people on the planet who depend on the current system for sustenance"
What about "launching"? Once you have several thousand emails collected, start setting up dates all at once, avoiding the chicken and egg problem.
OP seems to be hovering around DH5/DH6. I don't see the problem.
Yes, people do need to be led. Civil libertarians have proven completely unable to lead in the last decade. Certainly, a bunch of people who think you can do it all on the internet won't be able to lead.

If you want to impact political change, you need to do it the way other groups do. I have teenagers coming to my door asking if I know about Jesus. Where are the young people going door to door to spread knowledge about NSA spying?
If you want to go back to the point where we decided to be socialist and try to undo it, you're going to have to kill most of the people on the planet who depend on the current system for sustenance. And like it or not, that probably includes you. It certainly includes most of the idiots running around preaching Ayn Rand these days.

This is my favorite part. So many people who claim, or seem to have taken inspiration from Rand would, in fact, be "bad guys" in Atlas Shrugged. A nice example is Paul Ryan, who has spent his entire life in politics instead of actually creating anything useful. There are also a number of nice examples of people who would almost certainly be "good guys", but who are Democrats in real life (not that a Democrat can't be selfish, but the GOP seems to have claimed Rand lately). Bill Gates is the most obvious example, right down to getting blind-sided by government regulators in the 90s (whether the regulators were right or wrong, legally speaking, is immaterial here BTW).
Good idea, provided you're not saying it's an either-or.
Really? Sugar scrubs are so soso very old. They predate the costemtics industry.

http://www.treehugger.com/organic-beauty/8-homemade-salt-and...
> Perhaps there should be a content-improvement suggestion box for this kind of things. With more teachers starting to use the khan videos and exercises, I am sure bugs will be found, but let's treat them as such.

We've been working on something just like this – keep your eyes peeled.
>I believe studies exist which demonstrate that suppressing deviant behavior results in it manifesting itself more violently, not less. I wish I had a specific source to cite.

If you search for sources on that, I think you will find that the evidence is pretty divided. I actually had taken this as fact for a long time, but when I looked for sources to back it up, I found that it's not nearly so clear cut.

What does seem to be the case is that making someone feel ashamed over things they can't control is psychologically damaging. For example, shame seems to be a very strong predictor of whether PTSD symptoms will emerge, both in sex crime victims and in war veterans.

This problem of shame causing psychological problems, I think, may be where the idea of sexual repression being harmful came from. Suppression of sexual urges without shame may be completely harmless, but that's not usually how it happens unless you're doing a controlled study.

As a society, we are completely dropping the ball in this respect. We make victims feel ashamed and broken, which is incredibly unfair, and likely exacerbates considerably the psychological harm that they have to deal with.

And I think we're probably doing a lot of harm by making people who have sexual attraction to children feel ashamed. Given two people who are attracted to children, one of whom is relatively stable and secure, and one of whom has huge mental health issues, which one do you think is more likely to hurt a child?

Moreover, if we teach people that having an urge is already wrong, then what is the moral incentive not to act on that urge? Instead, we should be teaching people that attraction toward children is actually pretty common, and that there's no reason to be ashamed of anything that happens inside your head, but that there are some urges and fantasies that you must not act on (or at least must not act out directly; there are some alternatives like role-play and simulated pornography).
"Her books provided wide-ranging parables of "parasites," "looters" and "moochers" using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes' labor. In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O'Connor (her husband was Frank O'Connor)."

http://www.alternet.org/story/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against...
I seriously hope you're trolling. Yes, the transition is harsh, but it's getting better. On your points

1) that's a problem with Archlinux then, not Python. It was dumb to set 3 as default that sound

2) `3to2` works pretty nice for porting code

3) So you have to put parenthesis because it's now a real function. That's so bad. Also you can do stuff like `map(print, myiterable)` which you could not before, what a pain!
I think the criticism would be valid as long as Khan's videos were damaging education... but they are improving people's understanding of math.

Khanacademy is being optimized for effective learning. But that takes effort, and it might never be perfect.
Yes! Put your money where your mouth is and raise money to oust Pelosi. The tech community is the "moneyed interests" here. They should be able to at least give her a big scare.
"Disease is socialist" but most cures come out of commercial drug companies cure them. Weird. I think the reader has a healthy aversion to Rand, but there is certainly a difference between great acts and mediocre ones.
Greg's original post on the topic said " the enterprise distros are off doing their thing with their multi-year upgrade cycles, there's no real need from the distros for a new longterm kernel release."
This, on the other hand, is aimed squarly at the CE "consumer electronics" area - see: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/consum....

To me the interesting thing is the juxtaposition of "Long Term Stable" with "expected to be stable in quality for the typical life-time of a product, i.e., 2-3 years."
This article is a partisan attempt to discredit Sal's great work. Pick one example where the content has a flaw and use it to claim that all of his content is therefore "useless". I don't know the author's motives. Is it an altruistic care about the children or a personal motive to protect his career and to defend the methods he uses to teach versus a new potential disruptive threat.

I'm really excited to see how the experiment in Africa of giving out thousands of tablets letting children self learn with limited teaching from a traditional teacher. Because of the number of students to teachers they are acting more as tutors in the case the children are stuck and can't figure it out with help from their peers.
Your submission was flagged because it's a textbook case of what the guidelines tell you not to submit.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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."

You even admit in this discussion that the phenomenon isn't new ('all of the concern of late about abuses by the intelligence community and the "War on Leakers"') and that it would be covered on TV news ('this piece has been picked up and heavily covered by major news outlets everywhere').

If you want to discuss this story, that's great, but HN isn't the place for it.
Here's their entry on the Amash amendment: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/113/hamdt101

I found it through their June 25th "Top 20" list, which shows no particular bias as far as I can tell: http://www.popvox.com/blog/2013/roundup-8-1-2013/

Their curated "Issue Spotlight: Firearms and Gun Control" looks honest to me: http://www.popvox.com/blog/2013/issue-spotlight-firearms-113...
I would feel utterly ridiculed and belittled if I was a whistleblower and I would be put among the previous awardees.

Why is the Nobel prize so prestigious?
It's probably more of a joke than any pretentiousness...
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It's time. No more secrets.

Security and privacy are driven by fear and vulnerability. Information and intelligence gives a party leverage, an advantage -- and these too are also driven by fear and vulnerability.

These are burdens we don't need anymore. Much of the concepts and frame around civilization is in relation to barbarism and keeping order, of Rule of Law trumping Rule of Power, of fairness and equality. These notions are at the end of life, and we need to be reaching for something better.
I'm calling bullshit. Maybe this gentlemen would have taken some job that paid less(i doubt it), but it's hard to believe that a programmer, of all people, would be blackballed industry wide for refusing to implement some spying mechanism. Give me a break. If anyone is in a position to rebel against this type of system it's those of us in software. We have a strong community of anti-establishment minded people, we have a very strong job market and we make much more than a living wage.
And many cures come from publicly funded research universities. And even those commercial drug companies benefit greatly from government subsidies, patents issued by the government, roads built by the government, and a population educated in public universities. It's disingenuous to pretend those "commercial" drug companies forged their own universe and created these products benevolently.
> All these people who are so great aren't really that much greater than the average schmuck on the subway. There really isn't that much range in the smartness or fitness of human beings.

Whelp, you've lost me. The difference in productivity and smartness---as measured by the consistent ability to impact the world---of people is enormous (the additional importance of luck notwithstanding). I'm not sure why you thought you were going to make progress on these deep philosophical issues with a 400 word blog post, but you're even more sunk if you throw in empirical claims that contradict both intuition and the data.
Because an engineering decision (probably US-centric) was made to do it in a quick, hackish way. I'd say "patches welcome" but I'm not sure how easy it is to contribute to AOSP.
This is a common smear spread by Rand's haters. She explained the principle in this article which the haters conveniently ignore;

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government_grants_and_scho...
No!

Tell Obama to forward his.
PRISM doesnt concern you at all?

If it doesnt, then I guess US providers are fine. Otherwise I would pick another country where the government cant simply tell your ISP to give them your data.
The existing medical regulatory regime administered by the FDA requires shedloads of clinical trial results to be filed before a medicine can receive a product license, allowing it to be prescribed or sold to the public. There's a good reason for this (the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster: http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/ProductRegulati... ) but the way the system works makes it prohibitively expensive to gain such regulatory approval for a new medicine, thus pricing non-profits, academia, and small companies out of the market and restricting new developments in pharmaceuticals to a small privileged elite not-quite-a-cartel of large corporations.

'Twas not ever thus. Indeed, as late as the late 1970s, small companies were still producing new and interesting pharmaceuticals.

Moreover, drugs aren't the only source of cures. Certainly surgical interventions don't generally come from commercial drug companies. And some categories of useful product don't come out of commercial drug companies at all -- their record on new antibiotic development in the past three decades is dismal to the point of near-criminality.
1. Can we agree that both full socialism and full rand style capitalism end in tears?

2. Token rebuttals.

a. Someone lives irresponsibly, I live responsibly. The sick that comes for us all devastates them early and I'm told "since we all get sick, they got sick much earlier due to all the crack and booze, they can't pay because they were grasshoppering it up while you worked, so now you pay". This is an extreme example, but I work in healthcare and I think I'm no stable ground saying that you can substitute cheeseburger for crack and get a majority. Is this how we want to set things up and call it just?

b. Snow comes. I get out my shovel and go help my neighbor. I don't think doing this flies in the face of Rand. I do it because it is right to do in my gut because I know I'm fit to do it and they aren't. I don't think Rand says not to shovel, I think she says it is MY CHOICE to shovel or not and I own that moral choice after I make it. There's still a right and a wrong choice.