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by zwegner 13y ago
I thought HN detected duplicate submissions? Previous thread, 5 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022638
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by zwegner 13y ago
Snowden didn't leave the US to escape surveillance (as he's made clear, that doesn't really help). He left to escape a lifetime in prison.
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by zwegner 13y ago
Ugh, really? So is there no smartphone OS that you can be at-least-sort-of certain doesn't have a backdoor (leaving aside unintentional exploits)? My understanding was that even FFOS was built on top of an Android kernel...
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by zwegner 13y ago
It's amazing that the AP would so eagerly accept these anonymous government officials' stories after they were specifically targeted by the FBI, what was it, a month ago? Why grant these people anonymity, when all they're doi
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by zwegner 13y ago
So now that The Terrorists are changing it up, might as well dismantle the surveillance state, huh? What good does capturing all this data do if they're not going to get anything useful? The cognitive dissonance required to justify the
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by zwegner 13y ago
Funny that they don't mention that the Washington Post also published classified info, and that perhaps they "aided and abetted" Snowden, to some "extent"...
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by zwegner 13y ago
Classic Greenwald on twitter: "Anyone have interest in a criminal investigation to discover which "officials" leaked news of the sealed indictment? http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security&#x
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by zwegner 13y ago
This irritated me, as it makes me somewhat skeptical of the "we don't track" claim. However, I noticed that if you use their HTML version (i.e., use duckduckgo.com/html/<query> instead), that they don't d
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by zwegner 13y ago
That was a joke, as the article points out. As in, all the lights happened to be timed such that he was denied from moving.
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by zwegner 13y ago
Well, FWIW, Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke this story, has been a staunch supporter of WikiLeaks. See: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/4/29/glenn_greenwald_o...
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by zwegner 13y ago
Agreed, he's been the only political writer I've followed for years. His articles makes me depressed a lot of the time, but it's more because nobody seems to pay attention to him...
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by zwegner 13y ago
FTA: > Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed th
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by zwegner 13y ago
Another one: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/
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by zwegner 13y ago
While I agree with the spirit of your post, doubles can represent numbers far, far smaller than that. They can represent the probability of two people randomly choosing four atoms out of the entire universe, and each picking the same four a
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by zwegner 13y ago
(hey gcp!) Thanks for pointing that out, that sucks. I'm glad I'm not much of an overclocker. Also a shame that they don't seem to have plans for any chips with >4 cores, and they're still disabling hyperthreading on a lot of models. It
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by zwegner 13y ago
> It's like, given all code, what is the smallest language we can use to express it. Which is sequences of 0s and 1s. This should be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
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by zwegner 13y ago
There's a lot more information than just IP address they can use to distinguish you: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by zwegner 13y ago
If it involves studying human behaviors, it's probably not going to be science. I would prefer the holy wars over some manager telling me it's been "proven" that one side is correct.
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by zwegner 13y ago
WRT Scala, of course I don't know much about it, but it just seems way too complicated for its own good. It's like the C++ of functional programming. I don't really want to invest that much time in it just to become somewhat fluent, and the
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by zwegner 13y ago
I've thought about it--it's a rather small company, with generally smart people on the team. It might happen, but the problem is mostly political. I also need to learn more Clojure... (I've learned enough Scala to convince myself that I don
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by zwegner 13y ago
I personally agree with TFA. Being able to change your environment is really key--I write Java in my job and it's just awful for me. I definitely lose motivation from knowing there are better alternatives. He's not saying you lose anything,
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by zwegner 13y ago
> Also, look into innerchild / regression therapy. There's usually an underlying reason why our behaviours lead to procrastination. Good luck. I guess I've sort-of known this, though it's nice to hear someone else confirm it... I know
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by zwegner 13y ago
Cannabis certainly didn't help for me (though of course it's hard to isolate its effects amongst everything else). It made me more interested in doing things at first, but my mind would race much more, and I'd find it harder to actually do
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by zwegner 13y ago
Sounds a lot like me. I hear meditation can help. I'll do it tomorrow...
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by zwegner 13y ago
> I think for us the biggest thing is that often we don't know what approach will work best until we try Absolutely--and I think pretty much all software is like this. Engineering/optimization is, in a vague sense, all about how much sh
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by zwegner 13y ago
Aside from the NLP-related aspects, which are pretty interesting by themselves, I was glad to see this: > The biggest thing I learned. The thing I also hope my team has learned. Everyone else has hit the limits of what they can do becau
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by zwegner 13y ago
This sort of idea is really interesting to me, and the thought of it happening in Austin is quite tantalizing (I wouldn't have to move!). I find it pretty hard to function in typical management structures, though I work better with teams/so
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by zwegner 14y ago
> True || this_crashes(); That's not functional though--this_crashes() has side effects. I'm far from a Haskell expert, but I guess in practice you'd be returning some error type from that function, and it didn't matter whether it's ev
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by zwegner 14y ago
Agreed--I think functional programming comes a lot closer (or at least it can, in theory) to expressing programmer intentions. The compiler doesn't have to deal with side effects and all of their hairy consequences (escape analysis, aliasin
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by zwegner 14y ago
Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.

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