skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nacchio started selling stock earlier (see op cit) than that meeting. But its sort of beside the point. The information <he was hiding from the public> was information that long predated all of this. He was convicted of basically lying in the earlier SEC reports which is why he had <insider> information. It was harder to convict him on witholding material information, so they went after him (and won) for insider trading.

Unfortunately, his allegations about NSA are sort of irrelevant to wether or not he was guilty or not. His credibilty as a witness is shot not only by his conflict of interest (ie, he's trying to get out of jail) but also because he was convicted of a crime of fundamental dishonesty.

I don;t think there is much doubt that his general business tenure as CEO was sketchy at best in terms of integrity. That doesn;t make the NSA innocent, but it makes the Nacchio link much less interesting as a discussion piece. Nacchio is not any kind of hero figure or champion of integrity.
Add a third option on the ballot for re-doing election
with different candidates:

"Dont like either of these two (expletive) - come back with better ones".

If this option comes tops in the election, both parties pay a percentage towards the cost of next round. Can't say their donors would be very happy if this shit goes on for months. Oh my god, how will we function without a government? Well, its not like the government we chose is doing/gonna do all that better.

Atleast it'll slowdown most of the shitty laws that get passed with alarming efficiency.
You are right that MSFT has the "update". The bigger problem with Windows 8 computers is that similar things are in practice available to all the "third parties" who have hardware or kernel-driver components. And you have less control than before about them all. It's a broader problem than just Microsoft.

The new "you as the user can't control the kernel stuff, even with the debugger" concept is really about the user (you) giving up the control. The excuse is that you as the user aren't supposed to be able to copy movies. In practice, you have no more control of your own computer whereas the companies have real-time control even of the content by directly controlling your computer. Some routers already did such stuff. It is really worrying -- having the part of the "great firewall of China/whateverothercountry" on your own computer which you paid with your own money.
Re McMasters - I think the parent refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster and the change from daily location in Tal Afar to permanent location there.
Bloody hell we've got an interesting election on our hands. The Liberals and Abbott will triumph in the House of Reps and probably the Senate depending on preferences it seems. After that though, it's very interesting.
You and I are both in the HN bubble. We expect Google to kill products and Google doesn't expect us to "become part of the community." We are not the market. However, the general consumer, the one this is aimed at, loves Google. Their experience is with the search box and maybe Gmail both of which serve consumer needs perfectly. Consumers don't remember or know Reader and every other app Google killed so their reaction to this product will be different.
If a system has engineered access for government investigators, then that system is more vulnerable than systems which have no such access built in, because it really isn't "hacking" (cracking) if the system is built to allow access.
And another NSA approved frontend? >:-)
I'll keep bumping my open source, whole food, cheaper alternative as long as soylent remains popular. I've been using this as about 40% of my calories for about a year now and my blood panel numbers are great.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjA38cUd4BZBdGZ...
> We want high-grade ore

Always enjoy listening to criminals giving their pathetic excuses. Communism was a joke and so, unfortunately, is the Obama administration.
Zooming In on the Birth of a Star
Well, they can't use a placebo for that, you'll starve the placebo group.

You could provide a different meal replacement powder and compare the results (provided the subjects don't know which one looks like what)
I think you might be thinking of BUN.

For creatinine, there is peer-reviewed data demonstrating that in people without renal disease, increasing the protein in your diet tends to improve your eGFR, not decrease it (which is what happened here). So for him, it either fluctuated or was a marker of true kidney disease, but in any case this is not just a marker of adequate protein intake.
> 75%

Wow, they're so accurate. Perhaps 100% didn't sound so good?
I would suggest reading to the end of the article. What I wrote is not in contradiction to that, though I might note he asserted quite different defenses at trial.
I found the product interesting too.

This is a minor nitpick and/or question. The sample conversation shown on the iPhone screen is in blue which indicates it's an iMessage conversation. Not a big deal, but it was a red flag to me because it meant I wasn't looking at a real screenshot of the product in action, but rather I was looking at promo material and I'm not sure how much of the product actually exists right now vs how much is a concept that is still being built.
Interactive 3D music video in WebGL filmed using hacked Kinect cameras
it depends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
New tech like this needs early adopters, which is us.
>Why would I invest the time into learning how this works, trying to become part of the community etc when I can...

...just start my own consultancy and cut out the middleman completely?
Well, your definition above is that politics "refers to the organization of government". So you want to be non-political with respect to that, ie. don't care about Washington, etc.

Here is where the the problems arise:

1) Government is not just the one in Washington, but all kinds of government, ie. all kinds of collective decision making. You cannot avoid those. Any time you want to get to a decision some kind of government will emerge -- and as the decisions get more complicated or involve more people (and have to be enforced or else are nullified), it will have most of the regular government traits.

2) You cannot even avoid the regular government just because you prefer to be non political. If you want to do without "politics" (as defined in your definition) you still need to enter the political field (ie. you could face adverse action from Washington, you have to abide by their laws, etc). So even to be "non-political" you first have to abolish politics somehow, or you are still subject to them.
> These agencies are always willing to follow the letter of the law.

Only when they're not. Like one of the FBI's primary goals is to resist any law changes in favor of drug legalization.
No.
(Haven't we filled the whine-quota about Google for this month yet?)

Here's a more civil answer that does not convey what I think such whines should be treated with here.
No, I don't find it ironical. In fact, I think it's great precisely because they have bad customer support. It means they recognize such problems and do want to improve things (sure, maybe with profit in mind. What's wrong with that). Yes, helpouts does not change their customer support the slightest bit. But how much of an issue is it for non-tech people, compared to any other kind of expert help one may need, ? Look outside the tech bubble for a second.
I quite agree with kolya3's comment.

It's safe to say that part of the reason why Google has such a notoriously bad customer support is the scale at which they operate. And what do they do? They solve a much bigger problem with precisely this same scale. Isn't that at the very core of what Google does, is about, is?! For good and bad, Google == scale. So no, I don't find it ironical. I think it is exactly the kind of thing they should do.
It doesn't matter if this works or not, does not matter if it's killed in 6 months or not, it does not matter if the NSA sees that a guy showed you how to flip pizza dough in the air. It is precisely the kind of attitude they should have.

Last thing. I look at the comments in this thread and it's bitter negativity all the way down.
Can seriously none of you see any value in this?! None of you, members and readers of this community about STARTUPS see any business opportunity here?! A chance to create value and grow?! And no, just because it may get killed soon does not immediately mean such opportunity should be ignored. For a niche business leveraging Google's userbase even for a month can mean massive growth. If the service dies, so what, your new clients already know you exist and (hopefully) satisfied with your work.
"Suffice it to say that I would be very skeptical of anyone who claimed that more +1s led to a higher search ranking in Google's web results."

We can paraphrase that to: "Yes. I am saying that +1s make no difference in Google rankings."

The wonderful thing about the English language is that there are often many ways of saying the same thing.
I put some of our non-devs on git today for managing a complex and growing set of legal documents. They use SourceTree[1], which is a great GUI that Atlassian bought recently. All they needed to understand was 'add' (to index), 'commit', 'push' and 'pull', which took about 10 minutes to communicate on Skype.

[1] http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Average Income per Programming Language
I personally believe that "tig", a TUI for git, is easier to use than this.
It's possible that by vetting the initial users they can create a community that would self police any abuse.
Oh! I double-checked if I'm back in the past in Aug, 20013 and not in the real world where Google just announced Helpouts on Apr 1, 2014. I'm sorry but the name sounded such.
What do you mean by technology? I think it's basically hangouts with money exchange.

Very similar to how freelancing websites work
There's a pluggable no-login audio-version of this already present today: Mozilla's TowTruck: https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/
Ditto. Also switching between US for coding and my local layout and I think it's definitely worth it due to the ease of typing the slashes and brackets when coding.
> I work for Microsoft as a UX prototyper.

Please could you talk to the IE team about their progress bars explicitly lying to the user? I understand that giving immediate feedback is important as it can greatly increase perceived responsiveness, but that damn thing (on both desktop and Windows Phone 8) can climb to ~80% before even the first byte is received (it might even manage ~80% before the DNS lookup has returned though I've not tested to prove that). Have you every tried explaining to a non-technical user that their phone didn't "get nearly all the way then stopped" when loading a page? They simply don't believe "your web browsing software is lying to you, it didn't actually receive anything" and look at me as if I'm making things up to try hide that I simply don't understand the hinterwebs.

Of course the lie works: people think IE is more efficient than other browsers simply because on slow site and/or with slow connectivity the progress bar seems to initially push up faster than the one in FF/Chrome/other even though the actual page load time is the same.

I'm fine with little white lies to make the user feel more cared for (which is what fast "apparent response times" is all about: people personify technology so if you don't give the impression of immediate response they feel like some concious entity is actively ignoring them) but the IE progress bar takes that to an irritating extreme, to the point where it is detrimental to UX (I sometimes can't tell if the page is just loading slowly or nothing is transferring at all and I'm just going to get the "page not available" error in 20 seconds time).

It irritates me enough that it will be a factor in deciding what I buy when my current smartphone needs to be replaced (much as I like the Lumia 920; this, other Windows Phone annoyances, and comparative inexpensiveness, will make it difficult to justify not switching to Android next time).
The problem is not whether people here recognize the value in this. The problem is whether Google Management will see the value of this a year from now.
me too! "let's put more arrows behind fewer projects tra la la", so they shut down an rss service and then open up something like this.. a bit off.
Who’s Listening to Your Calls?
It takes a considerable amount of effort to learn vim. It takes twice as much to unlearn it.
It is even worse. The attempt to escape into OSS/Linux is a step in the right direction. But as long as we are dependent on mass consumer hardware then there is always a risk of being spied through hardware backdoors. In this case it doesn't matter which software we use. Even encryption is useless. It is NOT enough to avoid Windows 8 because the real problem is modern hardware that uses Trusted Computing chips.

Trusted Computing (TC) is way more dangerous than classical hardware backdoors. I consider TC an evil technology because it not only takes control away from the user but it even allows to inject faked evidence into computers which could make innocent people -- independent journalists, political activists etc. -- suspect to crime.

TC could also be used to delete evidence from computers of journalists who would have no power to keep it. TC allows to control people without letting them even know about it. TC is a huge danger for freedom of speech. It should be banned politcally and boycotted in business. My recommendation: Don't buy consumer hardware but use embedded Linux systems with bare bone technology.

If we want to be truly secure from being spied then we must do a complete restart with new hardware and software from scratch. There is no way around.

I am actually "glad" about the NSA scandal (thank you Snowden) because it woke people up and made them aware of the reality of global surveilliance, and about the huge threats of Trusted Computing. NSA should be controlled by the people of the United States but obviously it has become out of control. This single NSA case has silenced the mouth of the conspiracy mockers once and for all.
$4k/month before taxes.
Remembering the analysis on what google shuts down and what it doesn't: if it's social and linked to google+, the chances are very low.

IF it starts (and that's a big if), it allows to get revenue (as a percentage of the fee for the helpout) from a platform that will not be shut down (google+) and so it will not likely be shut down as well.
Nothing prevents you from buying a non-Windows, non-Mac laptop. It's not the year 2000 anymore when there were hardly any other options.
and we are the people that non-techies ask about which services to use.
"Riding a bike vs driving actually causes more pollution (because farms make lots of pollution) [unless you replace exercise you anyway do with bike riding]."

That is totally nonsense. You simply invented that nonsense.

Let's put some numbers in : My bike weights 15kg, my body 85. So I move around 100kg with my bike. My small Toyota weights naked 1500kg, so I am moving 1700kg around(including my weight and gas or fuel as we call it).

1700/100 = 17 times more weight.

I move around at 30km/h max speed with my bike, normally around 15 or so.
With my car it is over 80km/h.

The resistance f the air is proportional to the square of the velocity so we are using over 28 times more energy per kg(as velocity resistance surpasses rolling resistance by far).

So that's it :28x17 = 476 times more energy

So let's consider half of that because velocity resistance is going to be similar to rolling resistance somewhere in the middle, that's over 200 times more energy, but then you have to add the car shape that exposes way more than 5 times my surface on the bike to wind.

Farms don't make lots of pollution, and their pollution is natural, My grandpas had a farm. Dung is not the same kind of pollution than mercury or exotic organic compounds in the car's paint, or in the car's polymers, or in diesel exhaust.
Godaddy support is worst
Per·pet·u·all
Like it or not, your contact list in your smartphone is outdated.
per·pet·u·all will help you to get all your contacts updated. Always.
Where Should I Go to College?
Consumers often talk to early adopters, and they are less likely to try out and invest time in new products when those early adopters are lukewarm.

Don't forget that a Google has killed off a lot more than Reader. Some have been integrated into Google+, but not always and not always well.
>I mean, stopped eating aside from water for weeks, and it's really no big deal. The body is designed for that kind of privation. //

I've fasted for 2 days. I felt weak, dizzy and unwell on the second day (yes I had plenty of water). I was unable to do normal activities. It was a big deal.
The numbers I gave are adjusted for PPP, though using the world bank method rather than the OECD method given by ahh in his reply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
I think you are right when it comes to a product like Google docs - it's complicated enough that a consumer would look to the early adopters. However, this Helpouts product is simple enough for a consumer to understand that they dont need to ask their technically minded friends whether they should use it. All Google has to do to bring the users in is include a link to it on the search results page. "Were you looking advice on yoga? Click here to talk to a real person."
Great. Now we can finally convert heat radiation (300GHz-430THz) to DC using 1mm long antennas and graphene transistor rectifiers.
>No, I'm not. The problem is that you are dead set on your perceived "true meaning" of the word, and you cannot get past anyone using a different definition regardless of how explicit they are about it. My argument is not that the string of letters "politics" is bad, which would then require me to set a precise definition of the word to make my argument fit my other beliefs. My argument is that government is bad, and that participation in government, even with good intentions, is bad. "Politics" is the perfect word to use when referring to "participation in government," so I used that term. When people brought up a potential different definition of "politics," I immediately gave the definition I was using in my first claim. That should be the end of the semantic argument, but people persist, many ignoring my actual claim.

Well, if you have ANOTHER MEANING for the word, why do you feel the need to use the same word, and not another one, even a made-up one?

I'd say it's because, however you might want to define your own definitions, you cannot escape the overall reach of the terms.

You argue against semantics, but semantics is all you're doing: you're not putting forward a different description of politics (explaining how it will work, etc), you're just redifining the word to mean something else.

If we were allowed to do that, no discussion could ever take place. For one, now other persons in the discussion cannot use the same word in their argumentation, because you just redefined the term.

>My argument is that government is bad, and that participation in government, even with good intentions, is bad.

OK, that's something we can work with. How is that solved by prefering "anarchy" or "non politics"? Might as well say "I'm against gravity". You still are subject to government and it's laws. And the only way to change that is:

1) Go to some remote area and start a commune.
2) Convince people to abolish government (which necessitates entering into the political sphere).

>Again, in this paragraph, you are appealing to your perceived "true meaning" of the word "government," and until you provide that definition, you haven't really presented any ideas that can be intelligently discussed.

Notice how "his perceived true meaning" is actually the true dictionary meaning everybody agrees upon. You substituted your own definition, and now you act as he is using some weird meaning of his own.

It's vastly better to avoid redefining any term, and just DESCRIBE (with many words, instead of using a token redefined by you term) what you want to say.

That is 'I'm providing definitions and using those to construct actual ideas, rather than appealing to "true meanings"' is the worst thing you could possibly do in a coversation. Stop with the redefinitions, and work with descriptions and arguments.

>Those would be semantic arguments, and I seem to be one of few people in this thread not making semantic arguments.

On the contrary, you are the one person in this thread that fucked up semantics, by coming with your own definitions of words. That's semantics work per se.
Interestingly, based on the explanation at [1] round robin databases actually don't precisely solve the question as described in the article. It sacrifices precision for larger increments, and the author was looking for an exact algorithm.

1: http://jawnsy.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/round-robin-databases...
Isn't a felony supposed to be for serious crimes like assault?
Jolla’s first batch of Sailfish smartphones is fully booked
The bitterness isn't towards the product or the idea, it's toward Google, and for good reason considering their track record with side projects such as this. It's like hearing a drug addict tell you they've cleaned up for the 5th time. After a while you just keep a cautious distance.
Australian election politics sounds like a genuine labyrinth. And I thought the primary process in the US was difficult to wrap my head around. Compound this with what, according to bentoner's link [0], sounds like substantial internal conflict within the party, and I don't have high hopes for the success of the Wikileaks party in Australia this go 'round. Though honestly, it sounds like they're just discovering that a democratic, Kumbaya approach is anathema to actually getting anything done. It all works great when everyone agrees. When divisive decisions have to be made and stuck by? Not so much. Dr. Mathews appears to agree:

>He really ought not to have set up a party with internal democracy.

[0] http://danielmathews.info/blog/2013/08/statement-of-resignat...

EDIT:

Excerpt from Wikileaks party response

https://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/the-wikileaks-party-announ...

>If we are unsuccessful in having the AEC adjust the submitted preference nominations to meet the National Council’s directives, we will release a “how to vote below the line” card so all supporters and voters can follow our true preference nominations, or select their own, so any remaining errors on our GVTs will not be passed on to our voters.

If I'm understanding this right, the Australians have the privilege of instant run-off preferential voting, and still prefer to just vote party line? Could an Aussie please explain this phenomenon to me? Coming from the states, I'd be frothing at the mouth to have anything other than our absurd closed (depending on state) primary single-vote elections.