skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of the article is a fallacy of equivocation over the word "nothing".

"I have nothing to hide" is used as an argument meaning "I have nothing to hide for which I might be wanted by the authorities"; it does not literally mean "nothing at all".

"I have nothing to hide" is an argument used against the advocacy of tools for anonymity and cryptography, and in particular tools that use strong cryptography and are free of back doors.

The counter argument "you have your personal privacy to hide" to hide makes a strawman out of "I have nothing to hide" around the interpretation of the word "nothing".

The nothing-to-hide argument, in its strongest form, is specifically limited as an argument against the advocacy of tools that make governments nervous, not against fig leaves and coconuts. That part of it is plausible, in fact: basic privacy arguably does not need strong anonymity and crypto tools that are free of back doors.

You can be investigated by a government in ways that actually "respect" your privacy, so to speak. By this I mean that they get into into your accounts (using exploits or deliberately planted back doors), don't find what they're looking for, and then move on. Nothing private of yours has become public, and you don't even know.

I'm not saying I agree with any of this, just that you have to take the "I have nothing to hide" argument more seriously: the taunt "so open your e-mail to everyone" is not really an effective response.

Those who use the "I have nothing to hide" argument are statists and conformists; they really mean "I am willing to open all aspects of my life to the authorities in cooperation with any investigation", not "I'm willing to open my life to the public". (The tacit implication is "those who are not willing to unconditionally cooperate with the authorities to the extent that I am are not merely advocates of liberty: they likely have something to hide, whether it be links to terrorist organizations, child porn, or evidence of crime. Unlike me, the advocates of those tools and systems are not so confident that nothing will be found.")
I copied the quote from [1] however credible you find that source. (Though they provide references to several books at the end of their article.)

Also, Darwin:

"At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience, and industry." [2]

On a personal note, I entirely relate to the slow thinker. Most smart peers of mine are fast thinkers and I'll usually lose to them on puzzles and tricky math problems when it is a matter of speed, but then I'll solve problems that these same people give up on and claim too difficult if I can sit in a quiet room with my fists on my head.

I have a suspicion that fast thinking involves a developed ability to filter out (quickly) what seem like dead end avenues -- so the fast thinker can hone in on the promising avenues and get to a local maxima solution faster. But for some problems -- especially ones that require very non-traditional paths to solutions -- this filter fails and prunes away avenues that actually lead to a solution to that "impossible" problem or global maxima solution.

I realized a long time ago the danger in pruning away the "obvious" dead ends, so I think my slow thinking comes from a refusal to categorize anything as a dead end until it is provably so -- because of a worry I'll prune away the solution. A bunch of avenues will present and I'll need to consciously sort through them. So my filter is slow and requires me to retreat to that quiet room to go sort through all the possibilities. But then I'll come up with gold.

I have a theory that I'll put out here... that slow and fast thinking are developed tendencies not innate qualities. In my experience most of the smart people I know are fast thinkers. Which makes sense if this is developed, because there's an ego reward involved -- especially in our educational systems -- for developing that way. And the only reward for slow thinking is solving a hard problem, but as a kid in school, where's the external reward in that? And how often is the opportunity for solving really hard problems given? Basically what I'm saying is that I'd like to see more slow thinkers in the world. (I'm not kidding.)

[1] http://www.unmuseum.org/einstein.htm
[2] http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-questioning-mind-n...
Nope, I don't think that has anything to do with it. Harvard's policy is pretty similar to Princeton's described by hkmurakami. You can check out the calculations at [1], but the basic idea is that it's free up to 60k family income for Americans regardless of race then about 10% up to 180k income. This means that you can be making the median family income and still have an expected family contribution of $0 at Harvard. Obviously these sorts of levels of financial aid are only at the top few schools, but at places like Harvard and Princeton it really is independent of race.

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...
I bought a Fire tablet and I swore "never again" after that experience. I sold it on Craig's list and bought a Nexus 7. Couldn't be happier.

The fact that Amazon has a separate store really ticked me off. Lots of apps I was used to on my phone couldn't be used on the Fire. And, the fact that the Fire was based on Android 2.x and really never got better, well, that was really annoying, too.

So, when their phone was announced, even before I knew one thing about it, I was completely uninterested.
>I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have.

Companies intentionally market themselves to mislead in ways that are beneficial to them, in terms of image. One example is Hyundai, which walks the fine line of modeling its logo and style after Honda to draw off Honda's goodwill with customers (I think that this is quite smart).

I wonder how much Uber has invested in its PR status to keep this underdog image.
On a broader picture he predicted the Cloud revolution.
Exactly this. I have to explain this to people all the time. A free market is not the same as anarchy. Regulations are involved in making a market free by preventing non-governmental anti-competitive forces from distorting the market.
After hearing about the idea of a phone from Amazon, I really thought they'd do more. I like to buy things from Amazon (like many here probably do), and thought that the phone would be competitively priced. It wasn't in my mind; and with only one major US carrier (AT&T) that it's being sold under, the customer base is even smaller. I love the ability of my current unlocked Nexus 4 to switch to another carrier or MVNO. Call me spoiled on the Nexus devices...

How would I be sold on the Fire Phone, Amazon? Allow the phone to be unlocked and lower off-contract price. Then, I'd consider it. I like the phone's features, but if the value isn't there, then I'll pass.
I was unimpressed when the "feature" in the teaser videos turned out to just be a gimmicky 3D effect.

What really turns me off on the product is the currently airing commercial on the radio where this girl is excited about all the notifications on her phone letting her know which book or movie she should buy next.

If there are any owners here on HN, I'm really curious what about the phone was alluring in any way.
"When you outsource your marketing, you outsource your ethics and your reputation."
Relevant: http://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/
For folks who haven't seen the Hyperlapse technique before, here's a great example of the style done professionally blended with traditional timelapse:

https://vimeo.com/53043267
Maps that illustrate the global economy
Diet Cults vs. Science-Based Healthy Eating
This is about the silliest thing I've read in awhile. All right so he wants to do this dumb PR stunt where he films his life and he wants to raise money on Kickstarters. OK, I will just wait for him to raise the money, log in to his Kickstarter or his bank account, take all his money and voila I have won the game. I mean this is extraordinarily ridiculous and I don't know how this is making any intelligible point about society or how we shouldn't care about privacy.

So without privacy politicians would work to build a Utopia or something? This is not worth the time of The Atlantic, or what I thought that institution was about. The idea that people will act more ethically because of privacy is something out of a Dystopian novel, but he actually sees this as Utopian; this makes me wonder if this is a prank.

Let us wonder, if we give up all privacy, I imagine this applies to institutions. So, when Google gives me their Secret key, or wait, no one will ever use encryption because there will be no secrets, what stops someone from firing a nuclear weapon because of course we will not have secrets like the "launch codes." I realize in such a Utopia we won't need nuclear weapons but let's Utopia will start tomorrow, before we get rid of these weapons ... What's to stop some mentally ill person from using the free knowledge to destroy the world of all new-found anti-privacy advocates?

Oh, you may say "we won't share those secrets." OK, where does this end because I don't know see how you get Utopia without everyone following this silly idea. I mean, it may come as a surprise, but humans are (relatively) intelligent self-interested agents and will not always follow such noble ideals as no-privacy, particularly if they will have grey area sorts of cases, such as keep launch codes secret. It's just such a farce. I never thought anyone could make Zuckerberg seem like someone that has intelligent thoughts about privacy but here we are.
Tech Blooper: Outlook.com mobile site has “Hotmail” as the title, not “Outlook”
https://www.changedetection.com/
In my opinion, one big reason in the fall of statistics is the asymmetry in curriculum.

If you are in CS/Machine Learning, you will be forced/suggested to take a few statistics/probability courses, typically up to a regression course. These are good enough to get you started and familiar with statistical concepts and methodology.

However, if you come from a typical statistics program, programming/computing courses are almost always never required. Professors in probability theory/statistics often do not have great computing skill, they might know enough to get around in R/Mathlab, and teach you the basics in these tools, but a lot of times you are left in the dark in terms learning how to code.

If your career goal is an analyst, whose job is report oriented, you can get by by knowing just enough R (SAS, Matlab etc.) scripting. As your deliverables are generally fancy LaTex pdf (or presentations). But current job market pays and values more of a "data scientist", whatever that terms mean. This type of roles typically requires solid software engineering background, and requires you to be able to work with software developers and commit to the same codebase on a regular basis. The lack of programming/computing skills of a stats majored students will be a huge minus for this type of responsibilities.
It is a joke everywhere in the world.
1.Accept no privacy in exchange for access to all feeds

2.implement and roll out fail proof reporting tech

3.Restrict access to feeds

4.8.9.1 is what you'll see in the oblong mirror (bonus if you get to call the tech telescreen)
Very cool.. but what's the implication on the legal side? Many of the sites forbid "automated" scraping of their sites.(sure they can be all circumvented). On that note, what about sites like kimonolabs (http://www.kimonolabs.com), they also let you create an API on top of an existing webiste. I imagine it's done by scraping. Would love to hear some thoughts.
I didn't mean to imply I thought promises are the same as callback hell - they are completely different beasts, indeed. But I still greatly prefer the reactive system provided by Blaze and Meteor's overall setup. I've built reasonably complex apps with Meteor that have required no promise chaining, and no callback nesting. They're more readable, easier to maintain, and cause fewer bugs. One of the reasons why I greatly prefer Meteor now, because all of those things mean that I get to do more of what I enjoy: building cool stuff.

I'm not sure why you're claiming Backbone isn't an MVC framework. It was pretty much designed to be MVC or at least MVVM, and checking the Backbone website, it still says it pretty much in the first paragraph: models, collections, and views. That's fine, but I like Meteor because it doesn't need the MVC crutch to provide structure and elegance. Somehow, it gives me more power as a developer without also asking me to write the kind of boilerplate code normally associated with data binding, getter/setters, models, and things like event emitters.

If you still prefer Backbone, that's great! But I just wanted to explain to the OP that for me, Meteor is about getting rid of spaghetti code, not adding to it.
Yes. For example, to follow CS229's lecture notes, the following material should suffice.

- Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler

- Linear Algebra by Steven Levandosky

- Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus, and Manifolds by Ted Shifrin (you probably do not need the manifolds part)

Also, as paradoxical as it may sound, CS229 lecture notes themselves. The key here is to verify the details painstakingly. In math, we joke that whenever a book says something is "trivial" or "easy to verify" or "clear to show", it is a substantial exercise in disguise.
Reasonable question. I don't think I've made my motive for not sharing publicly very clear.

That you'd parse their identities is a secondary concern to me (as I don't think you could). I'm more concerned about their feelings, since they could easily find this post (as my real name is tied to this account).

While I think it's alright to anonymize and subsequently discuss my friends' lives in private, 1-to-1 discourse, I'm not ready to make their lives part of the public record with out their approval.

Does that make sense, enraged_camel?
> I don't. Absolute security is impossible

Yeah then why do you suddenly jump when I tell you the same thing? To the best of my knowledge I don't have any malware, and to the best of your knowledge you don't either. Seems pretty equal to me, yet somehow you freak out when I say the same thing as you do. I'm pretty sure I'm at least as certain as you are that my system doesn't have any malware, so if that's not enough of an assurance for you then it shouldn't be enough for you either.
The Ron Unz link I share below shows this is not an accurate picture. Plenty of high scoring "hicks" do apply to the ivy league but tend to be turned down. Participating in 4-H has been shown to have a large negative impact on your application! At elite colleges there is clearly a strong anti rural bias.
On the bright side, it's 1000 times more successful than the Kin ;-)
Our society currently theoretically condemns murder, I don't think that government is more harshly judged for the people it kills than the citizenry is. I don't see why in a society that condemns secrecy government would be held more accountable for secrets than its citizenry.
Really? I don't want to brow beat you but I really if you agree with this person, I can't help but think you need to wake up to reality. This is just utter nonsense.

Privacy/secrecy as it relates to identification or ownership is just one facet of the world. You realize people are not actually robots or play-things in a Dystopian novel right? People have complex lives, desires, strategies for achieving their goals, feelings, etc.
I'm reminded of an example of this - read the Lethal Car Decorating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_US_Special

If you can't get hold of the episode, they essentially paint pro-homosexuality slogans on the side of their vehicles and drive through an Alabama town.

It's scary to think that even in this day and age there are people who will react in such a fashion. And if you think this is bad, driving through the town... imagine living there as a gay man.

PS: I'm aware that Top Gear is an entertainment show and not everything may be exactly as it appears, but I believe this was legit in this case.
I don't have to hide my email password either: I use 2-factor auth.
Nice. There's http://feedity.com too.
Twitch is currently down
>* Hyperlapse is a much more useful and device-appropriate implementation of the same idea*

What same idea? These do entirely different things. Hyperlapse is a time-sped-up video with intelligent image stabilization, and timelapse is, well, a timelapse.

Not the same idea or feature at all. In fact even Apple themselves describe timelapse for what it is: a timelapse feature for static scenes: "Capture the experience of the sun setting, a city street bustling, or a flower blooming with the new Time-lapse mode in Camera".
The problem should not fall on colleges - if someone grew up poor and that held them back then sadly I think it is too late for them - colleges should not have to reach down. Assistance needs to begin way before poverty stricken kids apply for college!!!! That's why I think we need more programs like Head Start.

P.S. Teacher pay needs to increase while at the same time teachers must be tested for competency.
I think a lot depends on how the person says it too. If I had said "entrepreneur" when I just started out, and things were shaky, people would have had a different reaction.
hmm weird, i cannot reproduce the bug on os x. (3dev channel)

touch hello.txt; chmod 777 hello.txt; subl hello.txt; add something and save ; 777 still.
Probably you're right. My writing skills are not the best, but the real intention was to point out that this things happen
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happened to me once. i wonder what's the actual SSD failure rate at DO? Is it any higher than industry standard rate?
Perhaps acceptance of cash (even if it's an installment) can be construed as the start of a contract?

Also look how far the politically connected go to avoid taking cash from the "wrong donors" (e.g.: NRA contributing to a anti-gun activist).
Let the requirements gathering begin.
So what amazing sort of philosophical argument are you using to arrive at the value judgment that "privacy is bad?" I don't think it is good enough to just have this tacit idea "no privacy is inherently good but obviously we don't live in a Utopia;" I think that is a flawed concept entirely.

In fact, I think your position is entirely immoral. You want to find some kind of technology to force me to give up my privacy to you, and absent such a technology, you think it is unfortunate because that would be Utopia ... That's just hard to take seriously.
An entire book was written about it recently called Thinking Fast, and Slow.

It is a detailed 900 page exploration if a lifetime of research from the famous behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman on the topic
> but I believe this was carefully-edited-to-give-the-impression-they-wanted in this case, as-usual.

FTFY
I don't have one, but the only compelling feature it offered was advanced built-in OCR with an API.
I used to work for what I guess you could say is a "competitor" in this arena, and what you've done here is terrific; simple and to the point and the visualizations of group voting is easy to digest. I didn't even have to sign up to participate in the question in this thread about how to pronounce "pol.is".

Really well done. Good luck!
Perhaps, but it's undeniable that they were actually pelted with stones and chased when driving through the town. Editing can only do so much.
Hi a. I've followed you around HN for a while. I can count at least a dozen times where I've begun to write a comment about one of your comments. Really. So it's a strange honor to see you responding to me.

Anyway, you drive me mad, and I'd be very willing to have a public debate about pretty much anything with you, provided it was teleconferenced.

I've read the Unz article start to finish thrice as it was recommended to me by a dear friend, fellow semite (though he's mostly Mizrahi, and I'm largely Ashkenazi) and recent H grad. It's like a big turd taken after a visit to the cinema -- a pile of crap with kernels of truth in its midst.

I agree that our current college selection process is not ideal nor Pareto efficient, but I reject Unz's suggestions on how to reform them as well as the real nature of the problem.

If you'd like to have a long and serious debate on Unz, let's do it somewhere other than in this thread. How's a month from now? I need some time to prepare.

Edit: Somewhere to start: https://sites.google.com/site/nuritbaytch/ & http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/12/that-claim-that-harvard-a...
I'm not exactly a fan of the Fire tablets, but isn't the latest Fire OS based on AOSP 4.0?
Or it could be that those that eliminate privacy are those malevolent actors ... Just saying ...
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Question for the Americans: Does it really matter if you go to an "elite" college or a regular one? Where I'm from, about 8 universities offers roughly comparable Bc.S and Ph.D engineering programs. I'd guess that roughly 90% of the study material is the same. It's the same in many EU countries. No one, but an idiot, would claim that an engineer who studied in Luleå is more qualified than one who studied in Lund because of their choice of schools.

But in the US, if you graduated from (expensive) school X you are objectively more qualified than if you graduated from (cheaper) school Y?

Or if university programs are supposed to be equivalent across universities, cant you just lie and say you went to a brand-name university? Because it doesn't seem fair that someone who couldn't afford an expensive university should have his or her whole career retarded just because of that.
Most likely it would require some adaptation work. Gorillas was written for Microsoft's BASIC, which, even though it would be considered atrocious when compared to BBC BASIC, seems a tad more sophisticated than uBASIC.
Doesn't the second map (Economic centrer of gravity map) [0] depend on the projection you use? I.e. if you'd shift the map so that the Americas are in the middle of the picture, then wouldn't the "center of gravity" end up in the US?

[0] - http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/666632/mck...
I can definitely agree that the gen 1 kindle fire left a lot to be desired. The latest offerings are quite nice, though.

And, lets be honest, it isn't like the earlier versions of any android device are worth writing home about. Finally moved from a moto droidish era phone up to the moto g. It is truly impressive how far they have come.
That episode, entirely, is fake. The rednecks throwing things, all of it.

I'm not trying to be rude or spoil your Weltanschauung or something.
Well it seems like he has done his children a great service. By logging into his email, his children's classmates can discover than rather than taking care of them, he was worried with sleeping around with other people's wives and those kids, that are generally cruel enough, and through that plus any pictures (because there is no privacy) in their faces as well. I mean, it really sounds like a win-win. :)
Fire phone was a flop from the start. Substandard hardware and premium price tag do not mesh well together. Amazon thought that they could make software killer feature and sell phone trough massive advertising and sheer brand power. That is a tall order, and I am not surprised they failed.

However, if I learned anything about Amazon it is their tenacity. They will keep improving and pouring billions into Fire until it works, like they've done with their Cloud business. I think pulling HP Touchpad is not an option because they are too much invested in mobile strategy. So with all that said, while I am not surprised that first Fire phone flopped, I eventually expect Amazon to have at least limited success.
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