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> Take the regulatory arbitrage away and AirBnB isn't a technical startup or a market disruptor; it's just another VRBO site with pretty CSS.

Apparently a lot of people are attracted to AirBnB for this very reason. This shows how badly regulations affect so many different kinds of markets.
This is all fine and dandy, but what really needs to happen is for these Tech Giants to come together and not ask the government for a reform, but to tell the government that a reform needs to take place. What, does the President not think that people don't like surveyed illegally, or even know what he's doing is illegal? Obama isn't sorry for what the NSA is doing, he's sorry what they are doing got out.
Why do you care how someone achieves a positive result? If we're all being nice to each other because of the fear of punishment, I think the system is working as intended! If I'm not being killed, I'm happy!
Is there an canonical opinionated configuration of Emacs where each component works relatively well with all others? I love Emacs but I don't want to spend 100 hours on research and tinkering to have something modern.
Hi,

I'm actually a building a network for teen/high school development at http://teen2geek.com, and one of the things that is part of the initiative is a social news application not too different from HN to discuss teen and high school development. I would love to have you on board, whether it be as a user, or as an open-source contributor considering you are in high school :) We already have a group of high schoolers working on this, and I would love to have you on the core team if you're interested (email in profile).

To answer your question, Telesc.pe is gaining popularity, although I'm refraining from using it in favor of Lamer News, simply because Telescope is not as established and runs on Meteor, which isn't even 1.0 and does not heed to progressive enhancement principles.

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I recently finished my PhD on quantum effects in biology (my focus was on photosynthesis). This article and the many others like it are full of poorly substantiated hype.

Yes, quantum mechanics is important to some biological processes. But (1) many physicists in this field have blatantly ignored vital chemical and biological details when constructing their models and (2) it's not entirely clear who should be "surprised" by this sort of quantum entanglement, which is not that different from standard notions of chemical bonds.

Also note that this news piece is actually from 2010, and the preprint article it refers to (http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4053) was never published in a peer-reviewed journal -- presumably because the authors couldn't get it past peer review.
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> My point is that if giving the government more power was going to solve all of our problems, it should have by now.

Nobody's responding to you because, most likely, if you're going to have silly notions like this, then what's the point? You've already chosen a side, presenting rational for that decision based on arguments that nobody is making.

Binary thinking does not make for even the slightest bit interesting of a debate.
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Here's a question. We all know that if you're interrogated by the police, we don't want to say anything without a lawyer present, regardless of our total innocence. So, say the cops show up at your house and arrest you. What's the best way to find a good criminal lawyer in this situation? If I learned anything from watching The Practice it's that the good lawyers aren't the ones who advertise in the phone book. Normally to find a professional of any sort I would look for personal recommendations and/or do some Google research, but that would be difficult from an interrogation room. Should we all find good local criminal lawyers now, on the off chance we're ever suspected of a crime?
> After all, government is prevented by the rule of law from arbitrarily throw you in jail.

This statement is factually incorrect. The government is allowed to hold you for however long they want, without trial, as long as they call you "terrorist". www.ndaa2012.us
Please provide your definition of "justice". Libertarians are averse to coercion, but they do not assume the results of liberty-enhancing policies will always favor their priorities. For example, I like the opera, but I do not think the government should be coercing the citizenry into subsidizing La Traviata.
Long ago I had bought a copy of "On Lisp", read pg's essays, and tried to get into Common Lisp. The issue I had at the time was the lack of a 'batteries included' lisp. At the time I ended up moving to Python instead.

Recently, I've started using Clojure and think it'll rapidly become my go-to language (actually wrote about why just yesterday[1]).

TL;DR is that I went looking for a faster alternative to Ruby, tried Go, ended up happy with Clojure for being dynamic, fast and functional.

In the past I suppose the least common language I ended up with was TCL, about 9-10 years ago. The reason was that I wanted to develop a GUI application, but my attempts to learn GTK or Qt or Swing natively proved too complicated for me at the time. There was in fact a great TCL wrapper for GTK that turned out to be really easy to use.

I ended up using TCL for several years and still have a fond memory of it. The coolest feature I remembered was being able to package up TCL into native, distributable packages - Starpacks[2] - complete with libraries, interpreter and app code in a single binary. Around 2000, this was amazing to me, and I was stunned more people weren't using it. I suspect one of the main things holding TCL back was in fact their lagging GUI support at the time. Mention TCL and people would wince at their memories of using Tk GUI apps.

[1] https://hackworth.be/arriving-at-clojure/

[2] http://wiki.tcl.tk/3663
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Snowden didn't do this for publicity or to be grand-standed, he did it because he believed it was right. I think he would agree that he is not the issue people should be discussing. Instead, it should be how to fix the problems he brought to light.
Awesome; I see http://www.indysci.org/projectmarilyn/ from your profile. Looks like your fundraising starts tomorrow? I hope everything goes well. What you're embarking on has probably not been tried before and will be very interesting, so please keep us posted.
I don't think it's irrelevant at all. People throw out the statistic that X% of Americans go bankrupt because of medical problems inferring it's because we don't have single-payer healthcare.

The statistic about Canada backs up the idea that isn't true.
The og: tags point to a misspelled hostname (reformgovernmentsurviellance.com) -- but it now seems to redirect to the correct one.
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I use multiple Firefox profiles.

Primary has all the privacy-enhancing extensions turned on and tuned, so random browsing will not accrue to me.

When I hit a wall (rarely) and after consideration, decide that I really want to bypass it (even more rare), I create a new profile, do the dirty deed, and then destroy the profile.

Chrome profiles are leaky in confidence-damping ways, and the options for privacy extensions are fewer. Use Firefox.
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These companies want the conversation to be about surveillance, not Snowden. Had Snowden been mentioned in the letter, it would have set off a distracting debate. They probably appreciate what he did, but publicly thanking Snowden isn't going to help them achieve their goals.
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Bernstein is a journalist writing to a jourlanist (Rusbridger) about journalism. That's his place, and why he is worth paying attention to in this instance.

It is the place of intelligence contractors to speak up and defend Snowden's actions in his role as a defense contractor.
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They have a lot to gain. Many analysts are saying that surveillance, or the perception of complicity with it, is going to lose international customers and have other negative effects on business partnerships.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/how-nsa-mass-surveilla...

I agree that for the most part, geeks at these companies are as opposed to surveillance as people outside - probably even more so. However, usually, it's business impact that turns private opinion into official corporate policy.
The praise may be misplaced but it was well timed because an editor is being pressured by the Government.

Also, your comment focuses on a bit of soap opera (who should be praised) at a time when the story is "Government threatens journalism". You do know that is a propaganda technique? The establishment has people paid to do that - you don't have to do their work for free.
A website is a good start, but a live press conference attended by all the CEOs and members of mainstream media would be far, far better.

For most people, if it doesn't happen on TV, it doesn't happen at all.
I'll try my hand at a "plain english" explanation of an O(n^2) algorithm.

It's a function which takes a list of numbers as inputs. You give it a list of two numbers. It executes four operations before terminating.

You give it a list of three numbers. It executes nine operations before terminating.

You give it a list of four numbers. It executes sixteen operations before terminating.

You see how the time required grows as n^2 with respect to the input? That's an O(n^2) algorithm, and that's why such an algorithm can be bad. A list of 1,000,000 numbers would require a trillion operations.

The way this can happen is if you write a double-for loop:

for x in input:
for y in input:
...

So, there you go. You probably won't get any plainer of an explanation without becoming oversimplified and losing meaning.
Maybe, I am naive, but I'd like to believe that if Snowden had been captured, he would become a martyr and people would be on the streets now. Eventually the movement would grow strong enough that the big companies would join in.
Supply some data please.

The only "data" you've attempted to provide so far was off by a factor of around 7.
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I'll definitely think about it. I suspect shipping my thesis will happen first :).
Assuming that it actually effects a particle at a distance, it is odd. But I simply see it as a oddity of the collapse of the wave function, which is no more surprising than finding just one photon in a double slit experiment even when the detectors are space like separated.
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I thought about another very reliable system; deep under the sea the NSA has a big switch that is splitting deep underwater communication lines;

Now this one has to work 24/7 in a hostile environment; has to be hidden; has to deal with enormous quantities of data and it costs a lot to replace/repair so it must be very reliable.

What is driving technological progress? Instead of a space program, we now have political control of the Internet as driving forces. I guess that's what they mean when they say that civilization is turning inwards ;-)

Yes, in many areas the NSA and Google are pushing the envelope; long term data storage; map reduce of large data sets; AI, you name it, they have it.
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Personally, I prefer to aim at fixing the problems with using real names. I was the one who mentioned the irony in this Slashdot submission for example: http://slashdot.org/submission/1778830/google-is-gagging-use...
No, I agree with you quite a lot.

It amazes me how much time startups in Canada devote to getting grants. But, when you lack private investors like SV, and the government is a willing partner (with lots of strings attached), this is what happens.
I had that "mature" goal at 24, since noone was hiring. Now I'm 33 and happily employed. There are pros and cons to both.
And that's in pre-tax money, isn't it?
I guess it's nice when companies are politically active on behalf of things that serve both my interests and theirs. But I wish the U.S. government was responsive to the demands of its actual citizens and not these private entities, whose views regarding privacy law are so often antagonistic to my own.
Yes, I've found using ido that way together with gtags to be particularly slick.
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In the nineties (and even later) I read a lot of cyberpunk set in near-future dystopias where government power had crumbled and evil megacorps ruled the world, usually at the expense of personal liberty and privacy (the two are closely related).

Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments that have gotten too powerful (albeit mostly because it would improve sales)! That's... unexpected.
It doesn't hurt to have jacked up the taxes to astronomical levels to raise funds and then use those funds to make substantial public infrastructure (Highways, Rail etc.), manufacturing (Tanks, Planes and Ships) and education (engineering, management science, logistics and planning) investments with that money resulting in an economy with a massive manufacturing base, the logistics and infrastructure to support it and the people to run it -- followed by huge numbers of men returning back home needing jobs (and getting free or heavily subsidized education if they wanted it as it was needed by this new industrial machine). It was virtually a second industrial revolution, but now instead of tanks, cars were churned out.

It's no mistake that other countries (Germany, Japan) that made similar investments came to dominate the economies of their respective regions. It's only now as other countries (China, South Korea, etc.) make the same style of public investments that they're realizing the tremendous economic gains.
Regardless of your opinion on the leaks, this marks something really interesting in the course of history.

Communications is one of the few services that governments co-opt indirectly. Lockheed Martin knows it's building war jets. But here, the signatories didn't set out to build government surveillance engines, it was required of them after it became clear how useful they could be. Their response could set the tone for future actions in years to come.

It's interesting that other communications groups (e.g. cellphone co's) have not reacted in the same way, Qwest aside. You don't have to believe that each CEO is doing this on principle if you're cynically inclined, but it seems clear at least that many of their employees are in favor of it. I'm curious if it's a internet/tech/silicon valley thing, or something else.
I remember reading stories a few years ago about how facebook employees used to spy on love interests. I'm sure there are better access controls in place these days, though.
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The author of this answer, cletus, is also a member of this community and has quite a high karma.

See his content here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cletus
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https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Its been around for a looooong time.
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Interesting. Dr Steinberg actually did his design thesis at UQ and there's a 1999 article saying it'd be built there, but by the looks of it he then jumped over to QUT and built it there instead. I certainly don't remember it existing at UQ when I was there in ~2005.
Yeah, but with the number of 9s you see you realize that asteroids are NOT taken into account. For example, Amazon advertises 99.999999999% durability for a given year for S3 objects. This is just stupid. An extinction-level event (asteroid, global thermonuclear war, black hole) could easily wipe out ALL data on S3. We know that mass extinctions have occurred about once every 100 million years. That means that if we expect a 10^-8 chance of a mass extinction event in a given year, Amazon would need a 99% chance of surviving a mass extinction in order to meet average durability ratings for S3.

After a certain number of 9s you just have to smile, nod, and truncate the number.
>What planet are you on?

>The antigovernment herds...

Your tone is quite disrespectful. Is this really necessary?

To answer your question, the article makes constant reference to academic work, and while this work is nominally descriptive, it is clear from the nature of the studies that they are part of a program to influence people's actions. I mention government as well because there is no sharp distinction between government policy and academic research, and I wanted to address a broader point in my comment. Both academia and government policy serve a similar high level purpose of furthering certain social goals. If I claim that certain goals are outside of what the government should be interested in, then this applies equally to academic research and government policy.
An interesting way to share a private repo is with a sync tool such as dropbox or btsync. In short, you create a bare repository locally, add that as a remote, and then share the bare repo.

Detailed instructions about halfway through this blog post: http://stevenjewel.com/2013/09/cloudless/
> That's good. You're sensing that something is wrong.

Please stop coercing him using appeals to emotion and false authority. It's paternalistic and condescending.
I knew making corporations hurt over their cooperation with NSA willingly or unwillingly (by not having proper security) is going to play a major part in turning this around, although it's still early days, so I'm cautiously optimistic right now, but also very skeptical at the same time, because I'm not going to believe the first time the government says "That's it everyone - we reformed the NSA. You can all relax now". It's going to take serious reforms and transparency to make me believe it's truly "over".
Hopefully this game will be good. I've been looking for a decent spacey game like Freelancer, but so far nothing seems remotely close to it. The Discovery mod in particular added a dimension that most modern games lack.
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This places them in direct conflict with Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is sponsoring a rival bill that would enshrine the right of security agencies to collect bulk data.

Feinstein, who represents California, has been accused by critics of being a cheerleader for Washington's intelligence committee but now faces opposition from her state's largest industry.

This is a start. Representavtives need to represent...+1 for stepping up and being heard.
First off, I can tell you've never read Nock and have no intention to do so. I'm disappointed by this level of discourse.

Secondly, why do you assume that the only two institutions in the world are the government and the market? That itself is emblematic of the erosion of the social fabric in America.
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Great!

While we're at it, though:

- The clause "deploying the latest encryption technology" should actually be prefaced by "by", to balance the "by pushing back..."

- "We urge the US" could be made stronger by actually spelling out the full name: "We urge the United States..."

Nice site, otherwise.
This one is so much deeper.

Everyone thinks Seinfeld was just a funny guy, but he worked harder than any other human alive at being funny.

Worked out pretty well for him.
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Maybe it's because corporations care about their users more than the government does? After all, they make money from selling their products, not from coercion.
I've always been amused/bothered/interested/concerned by how these things always look and feel so intuitive, and it's always "easy" to talk about them, to make a list- the following through is always the hard bit.

I think rather than focusing on these principles (which are valid, and true), maybe we ought to get meta and focus on what helps us focus on these principles- modifying our environment, surrounding ourselves with peers and influences that reinforce such reflection, etc.
I have seen endless confusion with anything even remotely iconic. People swiping in the "obviously" opposite direction and getting frustrated, never swiping in the right direction. Telling people to "swipe" ends up going nowhere.

We have no iconography. We have no language. It must be representative to actually get people to understand what you want them to do. Iconography can come later, when people actually understand that swiping is a thing you do with your finger. This is at least pretty clear.
I think his point was that they're all doing it for selfish reasons, not for some "principles". The principles are the public agenda, but they're really doing it because they're starting to lose business overseas - fast. So now they've taken on this "principled" crusade against the government.

I don't really mind it as long as it really works, and it's the outcome I wanted to see anyway, but I think it should be seen for what it really is. If this was really about principles, they would've done something about it years ago, not after they see their financials or relationships overseas drop because of it.
So, he rents out an apartment for 500 a night, while an average hotel room is 281 -- or 244 ex 15% tax. His 500 with added tax is 575. Essentially this is in the same price range? Am I missing something?

So, he makes an extra profit dodging taxes (as he did by dodging VAT by smuggling ipads). Well, surely it isn't news that crime does pay, as long as you can avoid getting caught?
Interesting... although his explanation of TSP complexity is unfortunately incorrect (or misstated). The complexity he is describing is specifically for the naive brute force search [1] algorithm for finding the shortest path for TSP. And a 200 city TSP is quite solvable, and often times even by a mobile device like an iPhone 5 [2]! Indeed, no need for all the time in the universe -- lucky for companies like UPS who utilize TSP variants regularly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Orders_of_common...

[2] http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/iphone/
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