skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every company that wants to continue to operate in the US has to comply with US government orders, that is just a fact of life. No one in the technology industry is super excited about going to jail or having their equipment seized

I understand this and it is not contrary to my point. I'm actually trying to point out that the companies Snowden mentions have been specifically mentioned by NSA slides/documents and I think this has colored his suggestions. He suggests moving to others - but ultimately anything he suggests will get subverted if enough interesting material gets stored there. Not that that in itself is a reason not to adopt new technologies.

> To sneak it by us...

They aren't sneaking it by you as a company. They cooperate with the corporation and its internal organizational model to create a solution that fulfills the requirements. Most employees, however, can be blissfully ignorant.

I think you overestimate your ability to know such things. I know plenty of Google employees that had no idea about Google's involvement, Facebook employees with no idea about Facebook's involvement, Apple employees with no idea about Apple's involvement and Microsoft employees with no idea about Microsoft involvement.

I also work at a large company, and would have thought I would have seen clear indications of PRISM (& other) activity. Unfortunately that is not the case.

Condolezza Rice (of all people) joined the board of Dropbox.

This is their full time job and their professional expertise. I'm sure that PRISM infrastructure (or beta versions) were accounted for in full.

Edit: It's not condusive to conversation to downvote something merely because you disagree with it. The downvote button (and upvote respectively) are for designating whether you believe something is irrelevant to (/contributes to) the topic.
Word. I really feel that a lot of people talking about this whole thing fail to practice what they preach.
Note that the weekend frontpage tends to be less tech related than the weekday frontpage--both because I think the actual news sources aren't publishing as much, and because of a general "it's the weekend and we're kicking back and taking a break from the hardcore technical articles" mood.

That doesn't mean the articles aren't still interesting--just that they tend to tackle more diverse topics.
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> The authors are overwhelmingly male (90%), and the titles are overwhelmingly old.

So what? I'm going now through the Vorkosigan Saga in internal chronological order (a couple more hours and I'll finish reading "Memory") and after Banks' Culture series and Simmons' Hyperion Cantos this is little more than properly edited average fan-fiction. Entertaining and enjoyable, but fundamentally flawed by Bujold's lack of depth and her much too transparent projections.

I conclusion, diversity can go out an air lock. Give me quality instead.
Ah, you're right. That seems to be the problem. I added &hl=en to the end of the URL and the timer showed up.
> A social network

Diaspora*

> and a search engine

DuckDuckGo
Presumably they do this because there are other widgets which require login and they haven't bothered to separate the two.
> I actually have nothing to hide.

FTFA

> When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.

Read TFA
"But it's hard for myself (the consumer) to leave a service (like dropbox) that makes my life easier."

That's nonsensical and a strawman. No one is telling you to stop using such services. Just use an alternative that respects your rights. That's all there is to it.
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"Collected" legally means looked at by a human.

I'm talking about sent to the NSA, processed by algorithms and stored. That's not 'collected'. It's a word game they play. My original assertion stands.

And be careful of "not under the PRISM program". The "not this program" has been shown to be false over and over (in spirit) as there are many related programs that do joint work on shared datasets.

Regarding Greenwald's reporting, can you link to something comprehensive (and trustworthy) about inaccuracies?
Yeah, I got the same vibe. Don't forget coming up with a world-changing solar energy breakthrough that nobody responds to simply because he doesn't have credentials. I mean, it's certainly possible. But what is the _likely_ scenario here?
Not of the same league as Borges or Wolfe, but there's also this, which is literary and layered and allusive but which also tells a story with real characters and big ideas: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...
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While I agree that attendance is a bad measure, knowing the Indian bureaucracy I welcome anything that makes it more accountable. Most of the organizations are filled with employees who have no interest / motivation in performing their duties, are unaccountable to their bosses or public and have no fear of loosing their job's for ANY reason.
Are they not compromised or more likely easily compromised considering they don't even have the resources to secure and legally fight against government interferences?
It's a first step. Preliminary studies like this are important: before investing a huge amount of money into proper studies, it's fiscally prudent to take smaller steps.

Instead of going straight for the generic criticism, you might ask "what's cool about this study?"
If it was something intended to be public there is no harm in Google having it (they will scrape it off the web anyway) as the NSA are welcome to publicly access the content.

Most people don't treat Dropbox/Google/Facebook (non-public) usage as being equivalent to CCing the government but maybe they should.
>" than man will ever fully know about"

The more this works, the more we'll be inclined to study it. We'll know eventually.
I get that as well that is why I say the NFL would have to force it. I played football in high school and did get my fair share, I can only imagine the speed increase at college and NFL.

Some indicator would help get past the problem of the helmet obscuring player sense. Assisting the player back to the feeling of not having a helmet while they do, in terms of peripheral vision sense, behind you and around you would be nice. If you don't have a helmet on and someone rushes up behind you in a game they are easier to see without a helmet. Just knowing someone is there is enough to prevent concussions. It is the blind shots where someone doesn't expect it that can really cause problems. Head on collisions usually aren't as bad because of both players awareness. If there is some way to inform the player of players around them within a range I think would help immensely and if it is very out of the way the players would deal, especially the previously concussed.

It could be some pretty cool tech, almost drone/neural network like combined with gaming elements connecting player helmets and pads (they do have some indicators tracking players on shoulder pads now - http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/nfl-shoulder-pad-sensors/). But I agree it would have to be forced on the player by the NFL only, no team or player would do it without the NFL forcing the changes. Awareness of players on the field is one of the biggest deterrents to concussions, anything the NFL can do to help that would be good for their case.
The main advantage to smart meters is it becomes possible to implement time-of-day pricing. That way you can run your dishwasher/laundry before bed and have it actually be cheaper than if you just turned it on during peak hours.
You mean the securities article? Of course it did. Common stock is a security. It is not a cash equivalent. Preferred stock is only a cash equivalent if it is within three months of its redemption date, at which point the market value will be very close to the value at maturity.
Absolutely, this is known as user ethnography and has been around for a long time. Here's a random article: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/06/ethnography-in-...
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I can't see the list, but agree Bester should be there. Another perennially under-rated author of the same era is Algis Budrys, whose "Rogue Moon" is one of the most perfectly integrated works of fiction I've ever read. James Blish descried it as something like "a fully complete work of art".

It is one of the best depictions of science as a human enterprise you will find, and makes the point that the universe makes sense to us only because we have actively gone out and made sense of it. What we take for granted (falling kills you, say) was discovered, and when we encounter something completely new we have to discover all the new ways it can kill us (or do other things), thereby recapitulating the process the first humans must have engaged in as they came to not just inhabit but be aware of the world and the rules that govern it.

One character's description of the mysterious structure on the Moon at the centre of the story could just as well apply to our own world: "It's like Alice in Wonderland, with teeth. There are rules..."
My favorite example is the burglar alarm where you just stick 'bugs' on each window in the house and it sends a packet if it gets set off. No "wiring" to cut.
Obviously it is a ratio of various factors, and the error bars are not reported. Would you rather see "200"?
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Right, this was me disagreeing with that quote from the article. I understand you think differently, thank you for sharing.
It doesn't really tell us anything, like all open-label studies (except perhaps whether or not the treatment is dangerous and whether it might provide a benefit). Also it doesn't really cost any more to do a small-scale placebo-controlled trial vs an open-label study.

Overall open-label studies just give false hope to people who don't understand science and the placebo effect (i.e. most people).
Another case of a link bait headline undermining the article.

And possibly submarine PR for a patent holder.
It is a bit weird that the headlines around this find are mostly being phrased like that. We studied both in school, and I had assumed they were both pretty well known.

I guess for a headline-writer, though, "Alexander the Great" has near-universal recognition, while "Philip of Macedon" doesn't have enough to assume that a general audience will have their eye caught by the headline. So it ends up with this slightly dumbed-down phrasing.
The author of the article does, since it's mentionned in it.
OP link is to reddit, but github is https://github.com/ccore/ccore
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An extreme outlier, but feed into Google "The house that math built". Very interesting story.
The dislike of face protection isn't that dissimilar to their complete dislike of helmets 20 years ago. The old pros made excuses, the younger player that grew up wearing them became pros that wear them, now they all do.

Cycling also had that same thing,I think it was Andre Kivilev's death that turned it around. I can't remember that last time I heard apro complain about helmets in cycling. PBR bull riders are also rapidly embracing helmets and face guards. The cultures of these sports can rapidly change, the players don't want to be maimed when it's all said and done.

The bigger issue, honestly, fans want to see violence and the leagues want to please the fans and make money. Media surrounding the nfl has sold videos of big hits, they used to have a segment on the Sunday pregame on ESPN called "jacked up." The nhl isn't terribly different with fighting, games that aren't mass broadcast are different, if the score becomes too far out of balance it can become a different sport altogether. Lots of talk about teamwork, the sacrifices, the incredible strategies and tactics (aspects of football are beautiful and fascinating) but ultimately it's not much more than gladiator fighting.
Don't use fake accounts to upvote and comment on your submission. (and why would you do that on this submission anyways? Counterintuitive Taco Bell growth hacking?)
I don't know about your general claim. CFLs are highly toxic under non-ideal real-world handling conditions, and governments love mandating those.
Heh, how very true. I completed a round of interviews with a large, older, well-known company. The recruiter got me interested by saying they could match my current (well above market rates) salary. Through a total of 10 hours (over 4 days, including an on-site where they flew me out from the west coast to the gulf coast), the response was a solid "the team loves you, they love the work you've done, and they want you to do it here. Your salary requirement is no problem at all". When it came time for the actual offer, I got "Gosh, gee-whiz, so, apparently your asking salary is about $40k more than our most-senior team member for that group, we can't have such salary disparity among the team. Would you take a $40k pay-cut to come work for us?" I would've laughed, if I wasn't so annoyed. It came off like a classic bait-and-switch, but I could easily believe that an HR droid saw the deal when it was 80% of the way through the process and put the kibosh on it.
Forgot one that was pretty good:

Robert Charles Wilson's Spin - http://www.amazon.com/Spin-Robert-Charles-Wilson/dp/07653482...
> Here I had 9 classes every single day. I was not pleased at all.

This is by far the worst thing in any school system... even in Germany, with 6 different subjects every day, it's hard because you shift your entire focus every 45min. Until you're in the correct focus, it needs ten minutes - and suddenly, a third of the lesson time is gone.

Best would be three or four 90-minute blocks to avoid the constant mind-shifting, separated by 15-min (or at midday 30-45min) breaks in order to relax, eat and socialize.
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Go ahead and list those alternatives for me. Please make sure they're immune to the power of USgov & NSA.

Below is my list of tech companies that are immune to the USgov/NSA:

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We all eat small amounts of shit all the time. That's how microflora colonize your gut in the first place. Furthermore, many of these organisms can not be cultured outside the body or freeze-dried and preserved in a shelf-stable yet still viable form. Shit is the only game in town.
You should read my earlier reply.

Stripe pays taxes that they collect. So does the NFL. Stripe pays taxes on its earnings. So does the NFL. Stripe does not pay taxes on the billed amount. Neither does the NFL.

If a Stripe merchant pays taxes on a $5,000 television, does that count as $5,000 worth of taxable income for Stripe? No, it does not. Stripe collects their service charge, which works out to be $145.30. That is Stripe's taxable income.

You're acting like the NFL is somehow responsible for paying taxes on the billions of dollars that it collects revenues on. It isn't, nor is Stripe. If it weren't tax exempt, it would only be responsible for the fees it keeps, which is equivalent to the Stripe service fees. The NFL member teams are responsible for paying the taxes on the billions, which they already do, and don't appear to be evading, or even attempting to evade at all.

As for whether or not the portion of money that the NFL league 'keeps' (they don't actually keep any, they act as a clearing house for the teams, and pay out 100% of earnings minus overhead, which they make 0 profits from), the IRS seems to have created a class of business that matches exactly the "entertainment sports league" definition, and they have made that category tax exempt.

So long as the 501c6 exists under the definition that it does, the NFL clearly qualifies to be one.

So, recapping from my earlier reply, the issue isn't one of whether or not the NFL is tax dodging. They aren't. Not even remotely. The issue is whether or not there should be such a thing as the 501C6. I, personally, am of the opinion that it needn't exist at all. But it does, and it's tax exempt, and that's not the NFL's fault.

To reduce it to absurdity: If the IRS created a category of person that is caucasian, wears Threadless T-Shirts, wears New Balance shoes, and that enjoys drinking Victory Golden Monkey Ale, then I clearly belong to that category.

If the IRS makes that category of person tax exempt, then I guess I can stop paying taxes.

The argument that most people seem to make is that I don't deserve to belong to this tax exempt category, which is wrong. I meet all the criteria. I wear Threadless shirts. I am caucasian. I really love Victory Golden Monkey Ale. Saying I don't belong in this category is the wrong argument.

The right argument is either:

- this special category should not exist, or

- this special category should not be tax exempt

FWIW, I'm not trying to defend the NFL. But, if you're going to condemn them, i means understanding what you're condemning. If they NFL collected 12 billion dollars last year, then they paid taxes on $12 billion dollars. The teams then each put aside a certain amount of money, collectively totaling around $200 million, to fund the NFL league. The money's already been taxed once, but the $200 million that the league "earned" through these payments is not, because it's allocated to a trade organization, which the IRS considers tax exempt.
Perhaps they might retaliate in kind by naming themselves after a French region, say Brittany.
The argument is more caused by disputes over history than by the name duplication (though there is some dumb arguing over just the name). What mostly inflames Greek opinion is the other set of claims that goes along with the name: for example, a number of historians from the Republic of Macedonia claim that the ancient Macedonian language was a Slavic language (rather than a Greek dialect), and that the people of the modern Republic of Macedonia are the modern cultural descendants of the ancient Macedonians. Whereas Greeks see the ancient Macedonians as part of their own ancient history, like the Ionians and Athenians and Minoans and other Greek peoples. Also a particularly important part of it due Macedonia's role in instigating the Hellenistic age. Third-party historians generally side with the Greek view (Slavic migration to the Balkans far postdates the ancient Macedonians). But the use of the name by the Republic of Macedonia, especially together with its use of ancient Macedonian symbols, and unorthodox historical claims made by some of its leading figures, does seem to have confused some laypeople, which annoys Greeks, who feel some of their history is being appropriated.

Purely geographically speaking, just about anyone vaguely in the region does have a claim to be in Macedonia, because it's been the name of a number of territories over the years [1]. The real dispute is more over cultural legacy than whether Skopje or Thessaloniki are more geographically "in" Macedonia.

[1] A decent concise summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia
The issue is that the public discourse over this topic conflates the human need for privacy with the argument of "I have nothing to hide".

These two things are not the same thing. Whether or not you have something to hide has no bearing on our basic need or basic right to privacy.

Additionally, no one can really say "I have nothing to hide" and be intellectually honest. The honest statement is "I have nothing to hide yet, that I know of."

Why? Two reasons: number one, we live in an environment of selective enforcement. We all, knowingly or not run afoul of the law every day be it copyright law or something else. The corpus of legal code we exist under in this country is far to large for anyone to say with confidence that they have 'nothing to hide'.

Secondly: While it may be true that you have nothing to hide right now, how can you know what options, behaviors, or possessions might run afoul of future administrations? History is replete with examples of regimes cleaning house when they come into power, and the digital paper trial we leave makes that all too easy. I'm sure you can counter that argument by saying that could never happen here in the US, but there are plenty of less severe areas where it would be easy to see this happening. What if the federal gov. changes its mind on looking the other way when states legalize a controlled substance and your digital paper trial makes it clear that you may have partaken in the past? There are any number of scenarios where activities and opinions that you deem to be perfectly acceptable now are things you may desire to keep private in the future.

The point is, to say you have nothing to hide presumes you can predict the future, and have complete knowledge of the law, which no one person can reasonably posses. We have a system of warrants for a reason, and it is to protect you, as a citizen from these sorts of situations. Do not be so quick to give that up.
This is really my point. There are probably better sources of truth than "some people I hang out with sometimes".

Those sources vary depending on the subject, but they probably won't be "someone I don't know, from the internet" either, unless he happens to have that specific expertise and you have a common need.

Website/app/resume: for me this just equates to "how is the business doing", and I don't ask friends; this is what data is for. There's a possible conflict of interest here with our CEO (my primary source of truth for financial status), because he wants to motivate the company (and hence generally add a positive spin); but he's also well-aware that transparency & trust are far more important than any temporarily gain from faked positivity.

Outfit: sure, appearances matter in life & work. But I have better sources of truth here as well than "ask a friend"; hello again CEO/founder, for one. We talk about what we're wearing if that's going to be relevant, and (more likely) how we're speaking on phone calls, and what can be better. Think he's honest? Well, he'd be a fool not to be.

But most of the time my wardrobe only matters to the extent that my wife feels I'm appropriately dressed if we're out in public, and she's perfectly capable of pointing it out if I've misjudged. It's just "oh hey, don't forget we're going out to dinner before we come back home tonight", and that works.
Every single Python project you stated simply proves my point. They are Python compilers of some sort. TXR, on the other hand, is a data processing language implemented in its own lisp which is implemented in C. In other words, TXR is an application of lisp, not just a compiler or interpreter like those Python projects you listed. So, all your examples are irrelevant.

TXR didn't need its own dialect of lisp. So, the question remains: why didn't Kaz use SBCL or CLISP? They're good enough for c.l.l. kooks like him to recommend to everyone else, but why're they not good enough for him to use?
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However what you choose to forget is that in USA there is also a town called Athens , actually I think there are two, and yet we Greeks have no issue with that either , why ?

In any case I agree with user comment this is not the topic of the thread I will respect that and I will let people who can think for themselves and can do their own thorough research draw their own conclusions on the matter.

Frankly the one thing that bothered me the most was the word "hate".