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Why. Why must you do this. Why must you dismiss articles on hackneyed grounds and kill the chance for an interesting discussion about the nature and direction of social technologies.

I thought this article was very interesting, it brought to light several factual points, and several not-heard-before insights -- e.g., I thought this in particular was very true and interesting:

This is why social networks, like Google+ (where I
worked for one year), are struggling even more than
Facebook to get a foothold in the future of social
networking. They are betting on last year’s fashion

I'm surprised it wasn't Google that made an offer on Snapchat, since it's normally quite forward-looking. But then again, social has never been Google's forte has it.
I actually would argue we're about half way up, we can choose to continue to slide down the hill, or claw our way higher, and have the government have less access, or 'give up' and slide down the hill, hoping that the overlords are benevolent. I personally want to claw our way a little higher up the hill again.
The delusion of Social Networks
As an entrepreneur, who runs a logistics business, or for that matter, what you may call an 'offline business'. I have deleted my twitter/facebook/linkedin/Goolge+ accounts.

I was expecting, I am going to bankrupt or out of business. But 'surprisingly' nothing has happened.

I am not an old-fashioned guy, I am perhaps of the elite of 'early adopters' just to put emphasis. The kind of guy, who always keep OSX/iOS up to date, and would buy any App that appears here ;) just to summarize.

However to my astonishment, the old-fashioned way of getting things done and promoted is far more worthwhile than these stupid things. (social networks).

I am more able to put focus on my real job, and while still being better informed. There is no information overload. Previously even though I was following 100 blogs on twitter/facebook. But truth is, I would barely click any of the links. And I was being deluded, that since I am following all these cool websites, I will be better informed, and that information will help me somehow.

Now I have bookmarked few sites, and randomly check them 1 or 2 times a day. I get to read couple of articles too which are worth my time.

As for Social Networking, clearly Facebook is a failure, It's just a show off and you would never know if your friends are actually in good shape and conditions. Because everyone just would pretend, he is a billionaire and having the best ever time of their life. But sadly and mostly it's not true.

You can never know it, until you meet them in person or at least make a phone call, fuck skype too. I don't know but Skype does not convey true emotions for reasons unknown, Perhaps it's internet related service, and people still pretend the same way as the do on other internet services like Facebook.

Finally, I am feeling much better and relaxed and more focused on my work. end.
I agree we're on a slippery slope, but disagree that it's a slope of state encroachment. The precedents at issue here are decades old (the line of cases starts in the 1960's), and even the first time the 4th amendment status of phone calls came up in the 1920's, the Supreme Court determined that they were not protected because the phone company had access to them.

The government has not been invading previously protected spaces. The slope here is people broadcasting previously private information indiscriminately into the ether, to locations that the government always had access to.
I was just thinking today - we're about to start using "smart light-bulbs" in a few years. Lightbulbs with Internet connections, that can potentially record everything we say anywhere, even in real world (unless they are doing that already with idle cellphones).

If we don't stop this now, and don't make it explicitly illegal, and actually punish the people involved (otherwise they's no downside to continuing it), then it will get a lot worse in the future.

Also, how can US law be so asymmetrical? It's illegal to look into someone's mail, which just includes one single conversation, but it's not to look at someone's real-time conversations for a long time, which can include all sorts of topics, and then multiply that by millions of people.

If looking into just one mail conversation is illegal, how come mass surveillance isn't immediately seen as massively illegal?
But the clients are open sourced: http://telegram.org/source
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Organized labor had an overwhelmingly positive impact on Western workers that you also benefit from in terms of work hours, weekends, holidays, and so on. But because there are some cases where unions contributed in part to financial problems (which have quite a bit to do with government corruption and corporate greed as well), they are now an antiquated artifact of the past?

> Folks should just go work somewhere else.

This is really tone deaf to the realities of the people who must accept jobs like these, though.
Who cares about Facebook "era".
If you're an ambitious engineer thinking about joining a start-up, this is your chance to be smart about this.

RethinkDB team is the nicest possible group of people one can hope to work with in Bay Area. They have a great combination of often mutually exclusive things: hacker-friendly business model (no ads, tech for cash), aggressiveness and tech-savviness of founders, yet they're humble, honest and nice.

And the product works, well-liked, serving an exploding market, so the probability of failure is quite low by a typical start-up standards.

This is very rare. Make a move.
That's cute that you think there is an inherent existential threat imposed by the rest of the world that wasn't deliberately exacerbated by those interests who stand to profit from such conflict.
I think we're on the same page here; sorry for misunderstanding before. b^)

If NSA have failed as hard in securing their systems as they seem to have, it makes me think that in the past they've relied on the vetting process to screen out decent Americans like Snowden. I don't think that's enough to keep out determined nations with cosmopolitan citizens, so it's a good bet that Snowden was preceded, and will be followed, by spies of all stripes. If we don't really need an NSA capable of keeping secrets, we probably don't need an NSA at all.
At what altitude are these wind currents? What is the relationship between what we see and what one would feel generally close to the ground?
Seriously, why do people waste time writing these types of stories?

Because they believe them. Life is a journey of discovery (I know waaaay too pithy) and the more stuff you see, the more bigger pictures pop out of it. Its like backing away from a fractal. You see what is important, what was probably luck, and what was different. When pieces come together in your head it is pretty exciting, like figuring out a difficult proof, or creating a clever algorithm. You want to share some of that with those around you.

Our Author had one view of Facebook, and now has another. Their view evolved based on what they observed, and they feel much more confident in their current view, and so they share it.
It's funny that the article says "This enables server sent events" without actually referring to the HTML5 Server Sent Events API:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/

SSE is realtime server->client protocol that's fully compatible with HTTP and has lower handshake overhead (no Upgrade roundtrip, doesn't require HTTPS to go through proxies).
I wanted to give 3$ to Firefox but their form for submitting credit cards is weird and it needs my address for some reason?! Anyway the address was wrong and I can't be really bothered to try all the addresses I used in previous 4 years.

If GoG doesn't need my address why would Mozilla? And further more why should it complain about wrong address.
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I think we will learn MUCH quicker and MUCH more and about the history of Mars once we'll get serious about colonizing it, and not "exploring" it at the the crawling pace it's currently happening at.
Seems we're ont he same page. In discussions like this my comments are partly tinged with frustration about how much more we could be doing at relatively modest cost, though activities int he private sector and from countries like China and India are greatly encouraging. I want the space colonies I was promised, dammit.
So right now the model is similar to tip4commit, but by running their own service the model can be changed to whatever works best down the line.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882374

http://tip4commit.com/projects/230
I'm somewhat OK with big data being used in this case, these are cases that traditional police work cannot be used in. So long as our court system remains a strong protector of the innocent, big data in this case is used to generate a list of people to talk to, to interview, and often to rule out. I'm very leery of thoughtcrime and guilt by association, but its up to the courts to make sure we are protected, and that the rights of the innocents are protected.
You absolutely positively need to switch from a rounded font you are using (Bariol) to something less cute and cuddly. It has no place on any resume, leave alone a technical one.
I look forward to when StackOverflow integrates BitCoin.
Actually, you're _exactly_ what others say you are.

Ask 10 friends what they think of John and common threads will come up. That's John.

Ask John what he thinks of himself, and you'll get a much different (and more inaccurate) picture.

Candid photos taken by someone else are much more realistic than a selfie.
This is the fourth occasion that a federal court has found NSA actions to be unconstitutional. Apparently some people think that it is okay to play the NSA's game of pushing the limits and making tiny corrections whenever they get scolded. I do not.
I don't think it's a good idea to "network" over dinner. Not only are there too many opportunities for other people to get the wrong idea, but it just isn't healthy to blur the lines between your work life and your after hours life. Go home and have dinner with your family, fer Chrissake.
I was happy to read in the last paragraph that she chose to attend the dinner as she originally planned, and that it went without incident.

As for the rest of the article, it sounds like it's a manufactured issue based on a single anecdotal experience. I don't see any problems with a younger woman having dinner with an older gentleman in a business context (or in any context, for that matter), and I can't imagine many others would either. Heck, when I'm out to dinner somewhere I'm not really paying much attention to who's seated at the table next to me, mostly because I just don't care.
> Seriously, why do people waste time writing these types of stories?

Because no one remembers the misses, only hits.

> Where are those guys who predicated that Apple Stores were such a stupid idea? We need to start keeping score.

People are starting to keep score! Websites like http://www.pundittracker.com/ are starting to come out of the woodwork, and as more people help collect data (person X claimed Y would happen by Z date) we can start generating hit rates.

Author XXX is wrong 97.5% of the time!
The problem here is that you trust the organization to police itself, whereas it has little incentive to actually do so effectively.

The cases of caught individuals seem to have gone under-punished, as they sound worthy of prison time.

Also, even if the NSA polices against personal abuses, why would it police against systematic abuse for government's purposes against the constitution?

Self-policing does not work well, especially without elaborate mechanisms to enable it to work, and especially with a combination of secrecy and lack of oversight.
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To help overcome confirmation bias.

We need contrarian points-of-view, even if fundamentally wrong, to challenge and strengthen our own opinions.

I agree about keeping score, however; that allows us to assign value to the predictors.
I really find this interesting.

Taken at face value, US should go and bomb with these drones a whole lot of other people too. And no, they wouldn't be "jihadists". I'm sure there is many many people in the states that very much want to kill other U.S. citizens.
Because these laws are made a very long time ago and it takes time for them to catch up with reality.
Very relevant, there are entirely too few women in business and this is one of the reasons. It all falls under the umbrella of our perception of women as a society, and I think improving that is a good way to increase actual equality in the business world.

Perhaps this comment seems self-evident, but I very often talk with people who fail to see how stereotypes and perception (much more than actual behavior and potential) is the basis for social norms.
I believe that you are saying that the people, by using new methods to communicate, are encroaching in on government's "natural" right to scrape up everything it possibly can?

That's certainly an interesting way of looking at it. The government retains all the rights to collect anything it can, and it's up to the citizens to act in such a manner as to stop it.

Please correct me if I missed this. Fascinating 180-degree reversal of natural rights.
Again with the judgment! While it may be for you, for most people cycling is not an extreme activity. At least, not to the same extent as climbing a ladder or eating a hot dog (two "safe" activities that are actually more dangerous than cycling).
> ... for anyone with intelligence willing to seek them ...

As I said:

> Not everybody is fortune enough to be born into such an environment where he/she is able to get a reasonable education ...

And it is not even only about intelligence. If nobody showed you how to learn, you will not be able to just know how to do that on your own at the library or on your computer at home. You will not know where to start or who to ask for help. I also assume that this is why children of academics study at the university while working class children don't. Their parents don't know how to teach their children to learn.

And then there is this study too: "Study finds poverty reduces brain power" http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-poverty-brain-i...
I doubt the "forget" part is as strong as your description implies. Instead they are "in" on a heavily pre-vetted set of companies with very little work. And then begin on Day 2 (probably Day 1, actually) figuring out how involved to get, likely getting meaningfully involved in favorites.
It's at least a strong tradition, if not by design. But I believe it's actually by design. I wish I had time while at work to find a link for you, but I'll give it a shot when I get home in a few hours.
The government's position is that collecting the data isn't surveillance until a government employee actually looks at the data. E.g. the idea is that you collect a huge pool of data, and then get individual warrants to go spelunking in it.
No, it doesn't mean they're irrelevant, it just means your previous analogy is irrelevant.
On one hand, I agree with this: women should be treated as equals in business situations.

On the other hand, I believe this: it is perceived as inappropriate when an authoritative figure of one sex is seen in a semi-private setting with a subordinate of another sex.

Can of worms in this comment aside, that is the perception. This is particularly more prevalent when one or the other of these people is married.

Why in the world would this be true?

Because people have unfortunately abused situations like this far too often, or at least handled them in unwise ways far too often. To conform to one part of the story is, however illogically, perceived as an implied possibility for the second part of the story.

This has everything to do with media, but it also has everything to do with setting proper boundaries. I think it's certainly similar in situations where the woman is in authority. The thought is, if there is never a chance for inappropriate things to happen, they won't; secondly, good people make mistakes. This doesn't mean they absolutely will - but it's in the same category as "the only safe sex is no sex at all." Complete abstinence has become the cultural standard for this particular behavior, and perception is the judge.
The expenditure does not need to be justified to people like you or me; it is obvious to us that we should colonize Mars even if it is currently a dead sterile rock. Sadly however I have not yet become emperor (work in progress), and funding for space exploration often requires short-term tangible justifications. This becomes more true the more expensive it gets.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it is important that any life that may be on Mars is discovered so that we can use those results to push for more funding. Anything that could accelerate the process should be investigated.

If that is unsatisfactory for you, I'll point out again that it isn't just a matter of politics and funding. The discovery and study of non-Earth life would provide countless opportunities for the advance of biology. An advanced understanding of biology is essential to the core mission of colonizing and terraforming Mars, even if I am made emperor.
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If hundreds of thousands of letters stream in and out of the US every second then you bet your ASCIIs the government wouldn't waste time "modernizing" the law to be more "aligned with international norms."
Good question! It must be very dangerous, if local conditions are worse than any mile of the many "week-long 500 mile vacations" that Joe takes.
Pretty off-topic but: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24380282/vinod-k...

I'm not sure it was that popular or that Khosla declared it as his own.
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To put it mildly this is the first step in a long, long path.

District courts have the final say in the vast bulk of routine matters that never get appealed, and they can play an influential role in setting the presumptive factual record in high profile cases destined for appeal. But in a high profile case destined for appeal that largely turns on interpreting the Constitution, this court was mostly a gatekeeper. In other words, if the district court had ruled the other way, maybe that would have been the end of the story. Given that it ruled as it did, this will certainly be heard by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (possibly by one of the judges appointed by Obama now that the filibuster has been weakened), and then if the petitioner wins there, either by the full DC Court of Appeals en banc, or the Supreme Court, or first one then the other. If Smith v. Maryland is to be overturned, it will be the Supreme Court that does it, not a district court.

Still, I wish the plaintiffs the best of luck.

For further analysis keep on eye on fourth amendment guru Orin Kerr. His first post describing the opinion is already up: http://www.volokh.com/2013/12/16/judge-leon-enjoins-nsa-tele... and he says another with analysis will be coming soon.
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Nice, can't wait to try it out! Though in my case (single node installations) hot backup missing feature is a deal breaker, so I'll have to wait till RethinkDB supports it. The current workaround (replication, stop the slave, backup, start the slave) is just not good enough for me...
I'm not sure I understand how it could be considered a "limitation on personal freedom" since I believe termination requires action by the artist.
Actually Pac-Man was part of the second generation of videogame hardware where everything was "tile" based. The hardware generator was given a small RAM map of the playfield and then it would pull shapes from ROM and put them on-screen in a grid pattern. Less reliance on scanline timing and more logic could be done asychronously from the beam. The Nintendo NES would follow this design architecture later.

The Pac-Man Dossier is a great reference for this kind of stuff:

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
I'm confused about something. After they've implemented their final solution that lets tiles become corrupted before they're overwritten, what happens to the sound? The sound is now being written to the screen, where it will be promptly overwritten by the copy tiles routine. Wouldn't that cause audio corruption? Or did playback of the sound complete before the interrupt returned?
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Thank goodness we have the arbitrator of logic here, folks.

Your inability to follow inductive reasoning has stunted you intellectually and has impeded discussion between those of us who are able converse without posting "DOES NOT COMPUTE" without a follow up.
It is really fucked up that what we hope for is for jobs to be on the line, when we should be talking about decades in jail at the least.
Aren't YCVC investments safes (nee notes) which have recently been averaging around $5m caps? 4-5x still pretty good.
Agreed. Your answer is entirely sound. We are talking past each other here though.

We are talking about fundamentally different time scales here: I was thinking more asteroid hitting earth / nuclear MAD. Sooner or latter something scary is going to screw over earth. Given sufficient time its inevitable - earth is going to die...maybe tomorrow, maybe in a billion years. If it happens tomorrow...so be it. Nothing can be done about that. If it happens in 200 years & humanity didn't plan for it then I'd say humanity fcked up things in royal style.

Thats also why I don't care whether the US/russians/chinese make progress...they're all humanity in my book.

Terraforming - admittedly not happening right now. Forget terraforming. I just want to see progress. The above risks are real & we don't have an answer right now. Fine - so be it. Republicans & democrats arguing about debt ceilings and NASA budgets...that I have little patience for. As I said - Nike slogan. How exactly progress is achieve - I really don't care as long as it happens. Frankly I'm thankful that the Chinese are playing the space race. Their political structure and resource allocation seems uniquely well suited to said nike slogan approach.

During the Apollo era the US gov had both the political will & the public support. In short - they were invincible & the outcome was certain. If a nation like the US is collectively hell bent on putting a man on the moon...then a man shall walk on the moon. The US has lost that spirit & right now the Chinese are humanities best hope - yes the US has mars ambitions - it'll go nowhere. This I'm certain of - unless something drastic changes. Compare the __ emotional content __ of Kennedy's moon speech vs current NASA budget cuts. Forget budgets, technical ability etc...just emotional content. That is why I'm cheering for the Chinese - they have the will power and the resources. The US has politicians squabbling about budgets.
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Hopefully :)