skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you post anti-Snowden comments around here, the mods shadow-ban you.

So instead I'll say this:

Whistle-blowing means you go up the chain of command FIRST and find someone who can fix the problem.

What Snowden did was steal information, run to the enemies of this country and reveal it under the guise of being a whistle-blower.

If we don't have a set of rules that we all consistently follow, there is no expectation of honesty or justice... and all command structures fall apart.

When that happens, you have an absence of social order into which void will fall the real tyrants.

Snowden is no hero. He should be returned to the United States to face trial and if convicted, the traitor's penalty.
I'm interested in seeing how this works. If it's a success, will it percolate up to the mothership?
I believe you're right and I didn't make my reasoning clear in my original post, but in the case of employee-provided healthcare insurance it is common (though not universal, YMMV especially based on company size) for the employer to cover some portion of the actual per-employee cost which means a lower out of pocket cost for the employee (though not the employer).

This is another aspect of our current system that has some negative side effects -- a lot of people don't realize what the actual overall cost of their healthcare insurance is. I currently pay $46 per two-week pay period for good single-person PPO coverage (of course the actual cost to the employer is significantly more), so $92 a month. That cost becomes my mental baseline for insurance, and then I go look at the cost of ACA plans which apparently average $328 and that seems insane, over 3x the cost!!! Thanks, Obama!!! (of course, it isn't really more, the overall cost of my prior coverage has just been obscured by the old system where my employer subsidized me).
The latter, almost uniformly. Over here employers cry about having a shortage of skilled workers to hire one day and the next either lament at how ungrateful and spoiled the ones they already employ seem to be when they balk at working another 60 hour week or negatively compare the ones who are efficient and have families to the 20-something single guy who happily toils away until midnight every day.

It's a ridiculous class system we have in this country, no doubt.
I didn't realize that minimum wage earners make enough to afford video games. I realize that minimum wage is not much money, but if a KFC worker tunnels her off-time into something other than personal growth, that's a different problem.
Most people in the UK self-identify as middle class now too actually.
What NSA documents reveal about 2014 in Search and Digital Marketing
> According to the laws of the free market, though, none of that is supposed to matter. All that is supposed to matter is how many people are capable of doing your job.

While by no means do I disagree with the article as a whole, this seems obviously false. Why would you not expect a higher wage for a more dangerous job, even if otherwise it doesn't have a higher skill or knowledge barrier to entry? I know I'd certainly want to make more money shoveling taconite into a blast furnace compared to taking fast-food orders. Given two such jobs at the same wage, I'd take the second one.
No,but the parent mentioned healthcare.
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Sapir%E...

This was the left's justification for Political Correctness.

It's entirely dubious science with a clear agenda behind it: make thoughtcrime illegal.
I had to give up on iTunes. I liked its default look from 10 years ago. Right around the time that Apple decided to crash-land iPhone synchronization functionality into iTunes they started changing the UI... seemed like they would make it look a little different every release. For a while it was easy enough to make it look like it used to, but a few releases ago I just threw my hands up and switched to beets + mpd.
it might be enough to make a 22 yr old in Mississippi upper class, but in no sense of the word is 100k upper class. Especially if you've got a family. I'd say upper class starts where you have enough money to live off the interest. Drs, lawyers, etc are upper middle. And industrial wage earners and most fresh college grads are lower middle. 100-200k earners would be middle middle. Aristocracy isn't really much of a thing. Yeah, there's plenty of "old money", but that falls into the upper class category. As stated in another comment, in the US, it's really the size of you bank account, not your name, or your accent, or where your from, or what school you went to, or what "estate" you live in that matters.
No, you are definitely not the upper class if you are making 100k. If you live somewhere like Bay Area or NYC you are not even upper-middle class. And usually to be considered upper class you have to have enough wealth to afford not to work at all.
Yeah, the only place I looked was the official NY state exchange.
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The physical analogy is completely inapplicable as you don't "enter" a webserver, you send it a request.

Putting things into a state wherein they get auto-served to any request is something akin to posting documents inside your front window for passerby on the sidewalk to see.

The whole thing's a fucking terrible analogy though, and every time I see it trotted out to support some "if I leave my doors unlocked" argument I die a little bit inside.
Just curious, why isn't BlackBerry a real alternative to surveillance tainted iOS and Android phones?
Ask HN: Trying to pin down both algorithm and problem it solves ...
OK, I don't expect this will make sense to anyone, but if there's any community that can help me, it'll be this one. Either that, or please feel free to suggest somewhere else I should be asking this question.

This is about some sort of string matching, or content matching, or other language processing requirement. The idea is to use several hash algorithms, and with each hash, compute the hash of each word, and then sort the results. This gives a sorted list of hashes.

You do that for each item in a selection of items, and perform some comparison between the lists of hashes. Then you do it again, but using a different hash.

I remember reading a paper about this, knowing that it was a problem I needed to solve. I remember being completely perplexed by the explanation, but last night it dawned on me what the paper might have been saying. So now I really, really want to work out, or re-discover, what the whole thing is about.

Does it sound familiar to anyone? Please? Clues?

Thanks for any help, and thanks for reading.

Edit: Think I've found it: MinHash. Magic terms are Locally Sensitive Hashing, and Jaccard Index. Right. Off to bed to sleep on it - we apologize for the inconvenience."
I've been hearing a meme going around recently that says that the middle class literally no longer exists.

Pointing people who buy into this idea to >100k workers will get you excuses about college debt, sky-high rent in select US cities, or flat out denial (I cannot count the number of times that Reddit has told me that I do not exist... I should stop going there but reading what some people actually believe can be illuminating.) When they claim that 100k is actually not middle-class but instead the new lower class, then pointing out that it is more than twice the median income in the US will get you objections along the line of "middle class doesn't mean 'less poor than dirt poor'". When asked about people who make two or three times more than 100k, you'll typically get a response along the lines of "people who are self-employed cannot be middle-class, because middle-class is suppose to be something that regular factory workers can obtain."

The "middle class does not exist" idea is not well thought out, and is frequently self-contradictory, but I think there are a few things perpetuating the idea. One aspect is that many people do not want to admit that they are middle class because realizing that they have it pretty good would throw a wrench into their whole "class warfare" thing, which they want to hang onto for fashion reasons. Similarly, it is essential to them that other people are not middle class, and if they self-identify as such then they are necessarily deluding themselves.
Sure, but a job being more difficult, more dangerous and more unpleasant should result in a lower supply of workers for that job. If two jobs pay the same, a worker will choose the less unpleasant one.
The real improvement is less horrific deaths of entire families in fiery twisted metallic doom.

But yea vroom vroom 200mph, etc.
Agreed. And also, wouldn't effectively raising the minimum wage to ~$20 and jacking up wages across the board cause the price of goods to increase enough such that a $20/hr wage is below the poverty line? That money has to come from somewhere, and I imagine most employers would elect to pass those costs on to the consumer.
Food industry is actually one of the easiest for consumers to change since a good percentage of the population in the US does have access to markets with lots of providers, right? I know it's like that in most (all?) European counties. You go to the supermarket and you decide which pockets you want to fill: the local producer or the guy from the other continent far far away.

It's easier in some counties. For example, while in London, I was able to buy a very good percentage of local food, even bio stuff. As I travelled through Europe last year, I was able to do the same in every country I went to. I was driving around and that certainly helped getting to the big supermarkets but I also went to smallers shops and, while not perfect, it was still possible to choose products based on its origin.
I need to get my hands on one of these. I used the Maemo OS on the N900 for a couple of years and must say I loved it(having a hardware keyboard was a plus) I've got to say I love the community around it. Just about 40000users left on that particular system yet some of the best support I've ever seen. The community is incredible.

If this OS, and phone, can get that same sort of support and community around it(and I don't see why not seeing that they're based on the same cores built by the same teams) I see great things in the future. Like booting Ubuntu, Jolla and Mozilla from the same phone.
Australian sharks are now on Twitter
I agree with you, but an argument can be made that if we stay the course, the outcome (through ecological damage, overproduction, loss of natural resources) might be worse than the relative short-term misery of revolution. Whether a post-revolution world will not make the same mistake is not a given, but at least things might be better in that regard.

That said, I personally would probably better of navigating the current system, but then I'm part of a relative minority that does okay currently.
I absolutely love work, and I've been bored out of my skull for the last week because everyone is on holiday over Christmas/New Years. I have organized my life so I am working on the most important and interesting problems I can find, with the best people, and we own the business together and no one is getting taken advantage of for the profit of others. In this scenario, there's pretty much nothing I'd rather be doing besides working.

At the same time, burnout is real. I tend to moderate myself on a daily basis, taking the time I need to get enough sleep, exercise, eat well, socialize, etc. Others follow a pattern of working too hard daily and then need whole weeks off to recover now and then. But looking at rest, whether daily or in chunks, as an investment in long term productivity, is the only thing that makes sense to me.
Employee wages are governed by supply and demand in a free market- ie, outside of government interference, unions, etc.

|According to the laws of the free market, though, none of that is supposed to matter.
I'm surprised this statement made it through editing. There is a lower supply of workers for dangerous jobs hence they are paid better (see any number of dangerous jobs).
> which (even with Obamacare in its current state) is going to cost you on average significantly more than an employer offered plan would

To be fair, that's part of why you charge more per hour when contracting than you'd be making as an employee. There's also taxes (that your employer covered but now you do), vacation time, etc. You want to charge an hourly rate as an independent contractor equal to at least what it cost your employer to have you on payroll, not what they actually payed you. The difference is significant.
This is a perfectly reasonable analogy.

Many on HN seem like to feign ignorance when it comes to intent. Have fun playing dumb in court when you try to bring out your strictly technical argument why you should have legally downloaded all of those credit card and social security numbers since you "could".
Rough answer; in the US you are part of the upper class if most of your income is derived from assets not wages.

It's not a precise answer; but as a functional definition it works.
I haven't used BTsync, so maybe its that. But I didn't get what this service does. I would suggest you to add some copy on the page that tells me "How does it compare to directly using BTSync?" or "What problem does it solve for a BTSync user"
Was that really the consensus among the legal community? Somehow I seriously doubt that anyone familiar with copyright law would assert that your copyright was invalidated by publishing on the web. A weak argument for fair use could be employed for crawling the text portions because only a small (often "insignificant") portion of the work is reproduced in human-readable form, but certainly is not applicable when one discusses crawling images.

Is robots.txt a legally-admissible copyright release? There's probably more room to debate that one, but it's not clear-cut. What does it cover? Is it applicable to all crawlers? Can you do a general license release like that without your work effectively becoming public domain? What's the difference between a crawler and a human reader subject to standard copyright terms? What licenses are implicitly granted in a typical robots.txt? It's not like robots.txt is a verbose document that lays all of this out, and all of it is a potential legal problem point.

Also, Google assumes permission by default and only doesn't scan if you explicitly DISALLOW it with robots.txt. This is the opposite of copyright, which reserves a monopoly to the rightsholder unless he explicitly ALLOWS a certain use. It's undeniable that Google is violating copyright law millions of times each and every day, and that said violation is fundamental to their business.

And does any of this negate the computer access laws that make a site's ToS legally binding, even to those who don't formally agree to them? Strictly interpreted, Google would still be behaving illegally even if the copyright element was taken away.

I agree that there were search engines before Google, and that they mostly were in the same problematic legal situation.
Comparing the run times of Python and Ruby using WolframAlpha
Are you by any chance thinking of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter?
This article could be summarized as: "Things were better for working people when this country had strong unions."

A response could be summarized as: "Times, they are a' changin'"

* There are 50% more people in the US than there were in 1965, the year used as an example in the article. Up to 316MM from 194MM [1]. This means more people competing for jobs, which weakens the power of unions. Many of those people are immigrants from countries where the US dollar goes a long way. It's hard to bargain when there are dozens of applicants lined up, many of which have at least a two year degree.

* Market consolidation happened. This means that workers can't easily move to another job if they don't like their wages. Consolidation also means more competition with big enemies and fiercer battles for margins. Small companies have room to negotiate. Big companies live and die by quarterly earnings reports, and lowering wages is always a convenient go to.

* Unions cause obvious financial problems. Most unions do far more good than harm. But there are multiple examples of cutting open the golden goose. Many unions have collectively bargained too well, nearly bankrupting their employers with poorly calculated pensions and benefits. Once a union fights hard to earn a concession they can almost never give it back, no matter how damaging it becomes.

Unions are not bad things. Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to get as much work out of employees for as little compensation as is practical. It's good to have that balanced by organizations who have a responsibility to their members to get as much from the corporation as is practical.

The lack of unions and organized labor isn't what's ailing the middle class of this country. Capitalism is a greedy optimization function. At the extremes it doesn't do "middle". Not to discuss a different topic, but ideas like basic income combined with increased automation could be like a collective bargaining for every citizen. By making work effectively optional, employers will lose some of their leverage and employees won't have to be on the defensive.

[1] http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table
As others have pointed out, Jolla is the "home team" in Finland. Jolla is made of up people formerly at Nokia. Wider success depends on shipping a great product, but it also depends on how much people who liked the Nokia Harmattan and Meego OS smartphones know that Jolla is the successor to those products. Before they were thrown off the "burning platform" they outsold Windows Phone-based products.
I am not a VC, so take this with a grain of salt...

I know some VCs who are happy to fund 50 year olds with track records and traction. That said, there is a lot of negativity here.

1 - By stating you age you are already implying defeat by age discrimination.

2 - You mention a lot of things that aren't your fault with the one that did "Really well." All of these things are probably true, but they do sound like excuses.

3 - Saying "I will not move to SV and I will not live on noodles" again oozes negativity. A VC will say, "Why will I suck it up if they won't?" There may be a much more positive way to say what you're trying to say.

4 - "Looking for a low impedance bank account" sounds a lot like "Looking for a sucker."

I may be completely be off base. You probably have great ideas, and are very committed. It's just not coming off that way. Again, this is coming from an observer, and not a VC. I sincerely hope you find a way to pull this off.
> Guess what. Someone with an army can come and take away your hammer as well

It is true but at least there is no legal cover and language that make me think that I "own" it while I really don't. They would have to march in, beat me up and take my hammer. It would be rather unambiguous what is happening. Land "ownership" doesn't work that way. There are enough legal ways for one to be deprived of the "owned" piece of land.

Property taxes, land ownership is veiling in "ownership" language but in reality to me it seems if you have to pay someone yearly "rent" for it then you don't really own it.

> The sense of entitlement is really that guy out in the suburbs who thinks it's his god given right to drive his SUV to the city every day on the straight or not so straight road

Alright, what if the road was a bike path? Would that make it better ;-)

The general argument is whether something that is a public good should trump the needs of land owners. And I was just pointing out there are a few hairy details the way I see it.
If they're replaceable, the later. That's why technical people get a lot of time off and "soft skill" people get less time off. Not saying it is right, but that's how companies look at it.

Also, business owners don't like government telling them how to run their business. If a company mismanages their talent and burn them out, that's the company's problem, not the government's problem.

I'm not heartless but I also wouldn't like the government telling me how to run my business. That many mandatory days off can crippling for smaller companies.
Nanofury Miner 2.0GH/s for under $90?
This guy in Australia is putting out a Nanofury based PCB that can achieve 2.2Gh/s and he's going to sell it for only $90USD.

I've gotten a sample for him and it works exactly as advertised for over 2 weeks now.

Impressive.
Now that undergraduate loans are exclusively financed by the Federal government, they've become a powerful policy lever: Want to greatly reduce your liability of $50,000 after four years of undergraduate education? Work in "public service" for ten years, making repayments at income-based levels and the rest of your debt is assumed by the taxpayer.[1]

It's not hard to imagine a whole bunch of "desirable" activities that could be incentivized in this way. I am somewhat uncomfortable with that.

[1] http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellatio...
Its enough if you're a kid still living at home under the age of 18 :) but you're right about anyone beyond that, I would hope they don't spend the money on video games!
Have done "Live to work". 60+ hour weeks, using vacations to recover from (near) burnout, etc.

Now doing "Work to live". Moved to a 4 day week. 3-day weekends. Any extra hours are my own choice (and rare). 27 vacation days a year[1] giving me 1 week off every ~3 months plus an extra week off around Christmas. Never get near burnout.

Shame it took me so long to realise that "Work to live" is much better than the former.

1. Pro-rated to my reduced hours though. This is the UK so I also get 8 bank-holidays a year.
I guess iCloud still ain't usable on platforms other than Mac OS X / iOS, which really limits its potential and appeal.
Yes - I recall Simon Peyton Jones (one of the Haskell designers) commented on this in a talk when he came to town. He said, "The biggest mistake we made was calling them Monads. That's a big scary word."

Re naming and specific APIs - there is a comment along these lines on this blog entry:

"As you may have noticed, I reused list concatenation as monoid addition, but this makes a lot of sense, as list concatenation satisfies all the monoid laws, and no other laws. A more accessible way of saying that a type is a monoid is to say that it is combinable, addable, appendable or summable."

http://tailcalled.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/translation-of-mo...

I reckon 'addable' is what you were getting at with "build a specific API and then give it a different name."
In order of decreasing mass:

eggs, chia seed, coconut oil, diatomaceous earth, Azomite, KCl, NaCl, pulverized vitamin pills, MgSO4, borax

It may still need a tiny bit of KI, methylsilanetriol, and betaine, but those are a bit harder to obtain. I tried to work out the ratios such that a 2200 kcal portion would come in above the minimum requirement and below the tolerable upper limit for all nutrients, where those amounts are known. Since commercial vitamin pills usually go on the USRDA values, it isn't exactly how I want it, but I have been using the color imparted to my urine by the massive excess of some of the B vitamins to determine if I need to drink more water or not.

I prepare the non-egg ingredients separately, and combine them before cooking. The result is similar to scrambled eggs, except somehow manages to have less flavor than eggs alone. Seasoning is essential for palatibility. Capsaicin and onion powder seem to work best.
Nice guess, but no - I know the Bloom filter, what it does, its limitations, its strengths, how it works, and how to implement it. It's one of the tools I have to hand already.

But I can see how that nearly matches by description, so it would be a good match. Thanks.
Bootstrap + Angular + RequireJS = Kickstrap 2.0 (Beta)
I think the post makes sense if you assume that "as a kid" implies housing conditions different to those of rent payers or people with mortgages.
This looked so much like an XKCD comic that I started looking through the archives to see what other interesting comics I had missed.