skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without discussing the merits of this particular case (of which I have no knowledge aside from the article, and the facts might be, as cynicalkane claims, quite different), I'd like to say something about the premise of your argument from a more philosophical point of view.

Elected officials are representatives of the populace. "Government" is, then, is not some alien entity, but at least in principle, the voice of the people. The government is therefore not the taker of all things, but the giver of all things, and let me explain that:

The right to private property isn't a natural law, or even the natural form of human behavior. Human beings started out living in collective tribes. It's not that property was shared, but that there wasn't much property at all. Sure, I guess some men objected forcefully to others taking their women, but the transition from women to material property is certainly not an obvious one.

Only with the advent of agriculture humans started having anything resembling property at all, and it was their decision to allow property to be owned "privately". It was society, or "government" if you will, that created the notion of private property through a social contract in the first place.

So it is society, or government, that graciously allowed you to "own" anything, but that by no means implied that society could not place restriction on ownership. And if you didn't like the rules you were welcome to leave and spend your life away from society.

Sure, this arrangement is pretty much the only one that has worked so far, but there have been many revisions and will be many more. But the premise should not be that society infringes on private property, but that the meaning of private property is constantly re-created and negotiated by society.
Am I the only one who thought the headline was suggesting that the one giving the embarrassing interview was Greenwald and not the interviewer?
Also keep this in mind: http://thebuild.com/blog/2013/03/10/you-cannot-recover-from-...
Around 300 baht for a meal (presumably for two or more people) is hardly out of reach for anybody but the poorest in Bangkok.

I don't think anyone would call it a luxury food either. If you're (poor and) going to splurge on something you're not going to sit down at a pizza chain.

A related complaint: As flexible as this city's restaurant culture is, it's impossible to get a good pizza at any price.
"All prices include delivery and tipping (which is 0. we don't tip)."

Unless you live in a remote location. But I don't think that'll be a problem for most since Dominos is literally everywhere. (At least everywhere in Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir and Ankara)
That's the very reason this will lead to nowhere...

A good (e.g. not the crap from Domino's which is overpriced in CH anyway) italian Pizza Margherita made in a wood oven with a size of around 33cm costs CHF 17 (~$19) in Zurich.

It's the wood that makes it good.
The eminent domain plan simply lies about the value of a mortgage, saying it's worth less than not only best accounting practice but the market value required for their plan to work. Kelo doesn't apply because using a clearly unfair valuation in eminent domain is directly against the Constitution.
Draft for an AngularJS style guide
Open Source made me the man I am
I agree. Certain search terms relate to a single concept with a single authoritive source of information. A fireman searching for plans for a building on fire only really want a single answer (contrived example). Google is bad at domain specifics searches where you are looking for one answer. It is so easy to get trapped in obscure business listings, local news and press releases.

Google works well when there is no clear source of authority and the algorithm can make a judgement. Some searches have a definitive thing that you are looking for and the algorithm would need to know that source to give the right answers. We need more human input which can make search engines that give results that are shamelessly partial to particular sources of information (like patent searches).
Maribor, Slovenia - 6.5€ ~= 9 USD (Local pizzeria)
I wouldn't normally want to comment on that since it's not relevant to the original thread but what exactly do you mean "no birth right to it"? Like, I can't bequeath anything to my kids cause that would confer an "unfair" advantage on them? Or maybe we need a "fair" inheritance tax. Like 95% maybe? Somehow it is your political / worldview bias that's transparent in your post, not mine.

I said nothing about genetic overall superiority although it is plainly evident to anyone not blinded by PC that some peoples are genetically more likely to produce sublime music or advanced mathematical frameworks / complex works of art or advanced technology just like other peoples are genetically more likely to be stronger, better jumpers, runners, sturdier and so on. Environment certainly played a role but after many hundreds or even thousands of generations the genetic makeup of a people changes as well (as an aggregate statistical entity).

I've no doubt these genetic differences were non-existent when we were all together in the primordial soup but we've moved past that phase and these differences now exist. I am saying nothing about overall superiority and certainly nothing about rights of individuals.

If you make the extraordinary claim that the genetic makeup of a people played no role in the difference of achievements between cultures the onus is on you to prove a negative. Explain why we take it for granted that people of Samoan heritage are huge but it's somehow racist to argue that hey, that DNA thing may be affecting brain cells as well and not just bones / muscle tissue.
After so many years of betrayal, lies, manipulation and even downright illegal activities, it should be pretty obvious what the goal of anything Google does is: get to know as much private information as possible, by any means possible, and monetize it.

I could understand the confusion a up to a few years ago, but hell, these days they're barely hiding it anymore.

You're not sure where people get this stuff?

Maybe because when someone uses every tool they build to hit people over the head, at some point the logical conclusion may be that hitting people over the head is the goal of developing those tools, regardless of what the PR says?
Go Quit Your Job and Follow Your Passion.
The real worry is not Canonical misusing your data, but third-parties mis-using it. Even if Canoncial makes a mistake and goes down, in the mean time, your private information has been sent to third-parties, by default!

"Third-parties" includes Amazon, disgruntled employees, MITM, intruders, govt agencies, and so on.
Nope, changing the headline here would be great.
Cheap? That must be for food only :P
And it actually has been "improved" from back than as well. If I remember correctly, Microsoft used to prohibit OEM having lines of computers other than Windows to qualify as OEM.
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I bet that this is a preventive PR diversion for something else.

Google is anything but stupid. Given current post-Snowden climate they surely realize that something as obnoxiuos as built-in browser tracking is going to raise a storm of discontent. But they have decided to realize this information anyway. So they let this stew a little and suggest some alternative, probably as nasty, but it will look mild in comparison, and everyone will be happy. It's your good old anchoring - start with something completely obnoxious so that the thing that you actually want will look benign against it.
This is cool, Import.io started doing a similar thing too a few years ago: http://import.io/.
Wait a minut ... This is awesome!
I agree with the first point. ( an ISO website like isocpp.org )

But strongly oppose the second. Who is gonna develop and maintain such a fruitless project. You are not gonna be able optimize it as much as GCC. No one will use.

Here is a rant about C:

Many projects refuse code that contains single line comments // . This should give a nice hint how C language is treated.
On the other hand i have been writing C++11 exlusively since 2012.
C doesn't like change. Not a community a newcomer would like to be in.
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Now I just want pizza. :-(
The last time I checked Combinatorics was all "just fucking counting" and I am sure you will agree that it is not stupid.
Agreed, there's a price to pay for Scala's elegance (long compile times).

If Kotlin can deliver on the promise to compile _at least as fast_ as Java, it will find Java converts for sure.

> Kotlin gives you all of those features that would interest all but avid Haskellers.

Not so sure about that, Scala runs on the JVM, which is one of the reasons Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Big Companies have adopted the former and not the latter.

Will be interesting to see how things play out. For example, what will Kotlin provide in the way of a concurrency library like Scala's Akka? Are LINQ and F# style Type Providers possible in Kotlin given it's mandate for simplicity and compiler performance?

I suspect Java8 is going to be a thorn in Kotlin's side given that Java8 will likely already have been given a look at by Java world before Kotlin 1.0 comes on the scene.
That assumption would have been proven wrong ... lots, and lots of times. That's why there are so many great tools (cloudflare, plugins, ...) to take care of problems like that.
Wow, that was stunning. If those questions really were passed from the British Security Services then they just went out of their way to deliberately threaten his life.

Britain has possibly passed the point of no return. I speak with far too many Brits that see Greenwald and Snowden as the bad guys.

The British press is just too controlled to make a real difference in British politics (flipping between red and blue depending on who visits you before an election on your super yacht doesn't count).

It is this lack of a 4th estate (which Glen is referring to), that is the core if Britain's press issues.
I have grinded two 8" mirrors. The first one took three years (calendar time) and was a disaster. Lots of scratches on the mirror and astigmatism.

I didn't give up though. Built a second one, applying all tricks that I learnt during the first experience. It turned out very good and only took an year to make.

The linked page doesn't talk about the most painstaking part: the figuring and polishing of the mirror. A good reference is the Stellafane ATM site and books suggested by them.
Oh, Kirsty Wark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_Wark (see "Controversies" and "Interview Style"

Almost got fired for going on holiday with the Scottish First Minister ( http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/wark-kept-... ), which is about as far from impartial as you can get.

And her husband has his own email hacking crime history: http://journalisted.com/article/3dko
Not sure about "spreading" - it was the norm in crappy Polish software houses when I started there ten years ago.
FYI, isn't that exactly the power that Amazon customer service reps have? I'm pretty sure they can decide to arbitrarily give someone refunds, send them new merchandise, etc. Or rather, they can do so but probably within limited rules, not arbitrarily.

I agree that it takes a CEO both showing what to do, and empowering the people below him to do it.
The positive from this is that it adds such weight to Glenn Greenwald's integrity and ability.
> Journalism's role is to get at the truth and to distribute it as widely as possible.

I agree. I think the article agrees. Unfortunately the hyperbole distorts the article's message. There's a better description of the problem here -

> This is actually how most Newsnight interviews run: creating the theatre of conflict between journalist and interviewee that conceals the real issues rather than revealing them.

This is a problem with Today (BBC Radio 4 'flagship' news programme) too. They have to maintain "balance", which sometimes means they get to polarised interviewees and have a ding-dong interview. Great entertainment, but not great at getting to the truth.

The notorious example is Paxman, on Newsnight, asking the same question nine times. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00r2912) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI)

Here's a bit of discussion about it. (http://drmatthewashton.com/2011/03/11/great-mistakes-in-poli...)

It's a nice bit of ding dong, but Howard didn't threaten to over rule Derek Lewis. (Although Howard had asked a civil servant if he had the power to overrule Derek Lewis.)

And this bit of theatrics ignores the wider problem - Howard was a fucking terrifying idiot in charge of a monstrous party. When Ann fucking Widdecombe (handcuff to the beds prisoners giving birth) says "there is something of the night" about someone (Howard) you know something is scary.
Everyone's entitled to get out of their contract if the other party agrees to terminate it. Regardless of whether they knew he was a reporter or not, I wonder if they figured they'd already made a buck from this customer (he only had six months left or $200 to pay out) and perhaps they just have more to gain by keeping him happy by releasing him from his contract. Therefore increasing the chances that the customer will stay with them in the long run and perhaps even tell his friends about it.
Just check scalac source code. Also Scala losses a lot when mixed with Java legacy code (collection casting etc..)

For me the ultimate elegant stunt is how Kotlin introduced immutable collections into Java Collections Framework.
Question asked for cheese/tomato pizza. I have added tomato to the ingredients of the classic one.
> The real worry is not Canonical misusing your data, but third-parties mis-using it.

Nobody said otherwise. But, as I said: a) you have full control over the situation (easy options to fix the problem), b) Mark knows very well that he can't go further in privacy-related concessions - his credit is maxed out now.

Btw., as a reminder, have you already quit using all products and services provided by the NSA partner companies, such as: Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk, etc.? And do you encrypt 100% of your communication (email, chat, VOIP, VPN)? Because that's the real elephant in the room, as far as your privacy is concerned (and I'm not defending Canonical's Amazon search term deal).
> The British press is just too controlled to make a real difference in British politics (flipping between red and blue depending on who visits you before an election on your super yacht doesn't count).

And yet it was The Guardian (a UK paper) that played a huge part in breaking the Snowden story, and, IIRC, were one of the primary conduits for the Wikileaks information.
I did the same a few months ago. I hesitated to move because I was put off by Firefox's design but I found UX Nightly[1]. A few bugs here and there because it is a nightly build but overall smooth.

[1] https://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/
> Journalism's role is to get at the truth and to distribute it as widely as possible.

This is obviously not the case; otherwise mathematicians, social philosophers and scientists — and their publishers — would often be journalists. Instead, there's a huge amount of literature on journalism in society's context. You might start with Robert McChesney. [1]

And which "truth"? News useful for the mother struggling to feed her children, or for elite investors? Part of the system is determining what's covered — and what isn't.

And what's a "neo-anarchist's view of a journalist's role"? Rather, "interrogating the centres of power" is a mainstream, elite myth, probably not far from Lippman's. [2] Do you mean someone like Chomsky, who studied media? He points out that media mainly serves power; propaganda, given that news agencies are generally corporations in the business of selling eyeballs to other corporations. The problem isn't that the media should ask questions of the powerful, but that it cares what they say in the first place. (Acting as stenographers for whatever lies "official sources" offer for public consumption.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._McChesney

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism#Role
I think Kotlin and Java8 are in different category. For example Kotlin also compiles to JS and it has reasonable chance to become killer web language.
three things came out of this for me (I saw the Newsnight interview a few days ago)

- Kirsty Wark represents quite well an old guard. Whilst part of the Scottish political Establishment she has acted intelligently and well as a journalist over the years, but it seems that this affair is simply a paradigm shift too far. In that I think she represents most people and most journalists. The government spies on everything online has not had the implications sink in just yet for 98% of the population

- We have had some truly dumb Ministers for Security "The Russians have everything" - really, they can crack AES / whatever in one shot?

- Just how did Snowden protect the data on one or more USB sticks? I am guessing he created a new key, mailed that to Greenwald (snail mail?) and then wiped everything. no point in beating some guy up whilst shouting "tell me the 4096 bytes in order !"
Just because someone else is already doing it doesn't make it right.
Okay, thanks. Some of the references from the article are good, too.

It's more or less clear how to apply the principle when two individuals interact. People form groups, however, both explicitly and implicitly. If I am part of a group that violates another's rights, am I still not accountable if I am not actually the individual(s) who does the physical act?
An app to "Ananymously turn people down", sounds like the perfect app for my boss!
Loving it - HN rediscovering NetBSD. I'd encourage people to download the ISO and run it in VirtualBox. See - http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#http
Sweden: 70-120 SEK ~ 10-18 USD

Spain: €4-€15 ~ 5-20 USD
Since I don't really follow Hollywood I found out about this movie only yesterday. I haven't seen it yet, but watched the trailer. So apparently there's something about this movie that provokes poking holes in its portrayal of physics -- I immediately got very annoyed while watching the trailer.

First, they don't have their visors (those Sun protective, gold plated ones). I'm not sure, but I guess that's a big no-no on EVAs, having the Sun enter your field of vision so close to it (in Earth's orbit) would probably do some eye damage. Again, I'm not sure the visor is always mandatory but I don't remember seeing any photos of actual EVAs without it being down.

Second, Sandra Bullock rotating while attached to Canadarm... My impression was that the g force would be too high for her to stay conscious, or able to communicate. But it turns out intuition was wrong on that one: back of envelope calculation gives ~3 g (assuming 15 m length for the Canadarm [assuming it is the Shuttle Canadarm], but it was slightly retracted so it would be less, and a period of ~4 s) while still attached to the Shuttle, and ~1.5 g when the arm broke off (~3 m radius, 2-3 s period). So, that's OK. :)

Third, the abuse those suits were getting! That's just crazy. At that point I got so annoyed that I didn't bother to notice all the other stuff the article talks about.

Now I'm just bummed out that all this might have spoiled the movie for me (I tried not to read the plot section on Wikipedia, but got a glimpse of the ending as I was scrolling). Nerd rage is a horrible thing. :)
"On comparing languages, gcc vs 6g"

Yet again the fallacy that comparing implementations equals to comparing languages.

On the left corner the 6g compiler toolchain, which the authors admit that has yet to suffer lots of improvements in the optimizer.

On the right corner, the battle tested gcc optimizer, with circa 30 years of investment, aided by language extensions not part of any ANSI/ISO standard, that are not language specific.

Of course "C++" wins.

People, just spend time learning about compiler design instead of posting such benchmarks. And before someone accuses me of Go fanboy, I think my complaints about Go's design are well known by some here.
Are Bendable Phones on the Rise?
No. A "guided missile destroyer" is a type of ship that sends out guided missiles to hit targets, not the other way around.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer
I agree with adrock: take classes you think are interesting without a career in mind. Things will change way too much and way too quickly for you to plan a career around courses in college. The main thing you need to learn as an undergrad are thinking and communicating skills.

Also, here's a good video that might give you some ideas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tuEEnL61HM
Thanks, great set of feedback. A bunch of these need to find their ways into our issues list!
> Not so sure about that, Scala runs on the JVM, which is one of the reasons Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Big Companies have adopted the former and not the latter.

If you look at their code, they, like most Scala developers, hardly ever use features not found in Kotlin. None of them use the language for its Haskellesque powers.

> Agreed, there's a price to pay for Scala's elegance (long compile times).

I was referring to mental load and indescribable complexity that makes Haskell look like child play in comparison - not compilation time. This is the price Scala pays for power; I wouldn't in a million years call it elegant, but some people think it is.
Funny thing is my blog handled HN front page traffic without hiccup and I'm not developing a server distro or cloud orchestration tool.
Exactly. That severely overstates the revenue taken in as SR was in business for quite some time before BTC was worth much. SR started in early 2011 when 1 BTC was worth less than $1. Hosting alone would have taken many tens of thousands of dollars a month a today's exchange rates.
Site Optimization 101 :P
Yes, but just like Microsoft did in the 90s, they'll happily let people "pirate" them to reach a dominant position. Once they have >90% of the market, they can introduce Genuine Advantage.
Actually, you're wrong. According to this article (http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_minimum_wage_and_the_danis....) "The average full-time equivalent McDonald’s employee in Denmark makes about $45,000 a year in total compensation."

If you are on bistand (Danish unemployment benefit) you get about $22,894 per year (https://www.borger.dk/Sider/Kontanthjaelp.aspx). Obviously the figure is higher if you are on dagpenge (unemployment insurance), but this is not directly comparable to the dole since it is partly financed by workers through AKasse membership.

As regards Doven Robert, I'm well aware of his case, but one lazy punk with a talent for self-promotion is not representative of unemployed people in general. This is the intellectual habit that leads people to say, "but it was cold today, therefore there is no such thing as global warming!".
How would you say PowerShell DSC compares to *nix tools like Puppet or Ansible?
Likewise. I've since been pretty disappointed in Firefox's networking backend. Something in DNS resolution or page-fetching occasionally goes out to lunch and then ... no more loading webpages. I'm on 24.0. I should probably make some effort to actually track this down, but I don't even know where to begin.

Edit: doh! Maybe just network.dns.disableIPv6=true solved it...
$1000 a month in SF is living very modestly. His life doesn't sound like it was very enjoyable.
You know what language I wish could compile to Javascript? Visage (https://code.google.com/p/visage/), AKA JavaFX Script, AKA F3. Now that would be a killer client-side web language.
Google started rolling out Android 4.3.1
It's equivalent to puppet from a conceptual point of view. Puppet is better library-wise but its had longer to mature. Not much in it though.