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logicalmanon China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs

You really think Bruce Schneier, who has called Snowden a hero, is trying to discredit him in this article? That's not the tone I'm reading here.

logicalmanon Ask HN: How to negotiate startup salary?

Try www.offerletter.io

logicalmanon Ecuador becomes the first country to roll out its own digital durrency

Iceland already did something similar: http://www.auroracoin.org/

I would use it but then I couldn't make $0.10 donations to the impoverished every time I open a new tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-for-a-cause/gi...

logicalmanon Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning

Read this: http://ppaml.galois.com/wiki/attachment/wiki/SummerSchools/2...

logicalmanon Google: YouTube is so overloaded staff cannot filter content

It's much easier for a computer to recognize audio than video content. I'm sure in a couple of years, YouTube will automatically flag violent terrorist propaganda.

logicalmanon Ask HN: Should GitHub and StackOverflow cross-reference bugs?

Yeah, but that totally violates DRY principles.

logicalmanon Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence

Variables affect the world in long time frames. The influential Harvard study on human happiness[1] could only have been conducted over the course of a lifetime. Check out The Long Now[2] for a group of people evaluating variables at the 10,000 year time scale.

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/how-this-harvard-ps... [2]: http://longnow.org/

logicalmanon Take Away Harvard’s Nonprofit Status

This is a bad idea. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other well endowed schools spend more money per student than they receive from tuition. If they were for-profit institutions, they would be further incentivized to raise tuition.

logicalmanon Google News to shut down in Spain

Can they allow users in Spain to access Google News from a non-Spanish TLD but still serve those results in the Spanish language?

logicalmanon Hound: Review JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Ruby code for style guide violations

Style guide violations can introduce bugs when moving from one system to another. At best, they slow down communication when someone can't easily understand your code.

logicalmanon For Bono and U2, Apple iTunes Partnership Finally Hits a Wrong Note

It would have been amazing if they released the album for free but people had to download it. By making it mandatory, they showed they were very tone deaf and ruined the promotion.

logicalmanon Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government

Apple could just sell backdoored phones in China and encrypted phones in America.

logicalmanon Is Behavioral Economics the Past or the Future?

Here here. If anything, behavioral economics is becoming more legitimized with the advent of neuroeconomics.

logicalmanon Meteor hits 1.0

How did Meteor get to 1.0 when node.js is still at 0.10? I congratulate the Meteor team, but can anyone confirm it is actually stable?

logicalmanon Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agreement with Twitter

Who says no one has done that?

logicalmanon Hailo says Uber blocked potential investors

This doesn't seem strange at all. Uber doesn't need confidential information being transferred to their competitors...

logicalmanon American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

It's about living on your own, and setting your own day's structure. I agree with him about having students do one year of college before going straight into the real world.

logicalmanon 'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower

NSA has had whistleblowers before Snowdwen so this is not surprising.

logicalmanon Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps

For point 2, there is a white paper on using cryptocurrency to incentivize the development of Tor networks - http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/chacs/ghosh-torpath-torcoin-proo...

logicalmanon Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe

The censorship is frivolous but effective. I should have said "I don't think this policy is bad for the EU government."

logicalmanon Times Articles Removed from Google Results in Europe

I don't think this policy is bad for the EU. Google will remove articles faster than publications can notice and report on their removal. Most EU citizens will not care enough to use non-EU Google sites on a regular basis.

logicalmanon Yahoo Nears Investment in Snapchat

As someone who really respects and likes Snapchat, I had no idea the impact it was having on modern culture. I could not have come up with this experience.

logicalmanon IBM Watson API

Is BlueMix a Heroku competitor or compliment? I want to develop on the Watson API but I also want to use a stack I'm familiar with. Also, do you have range estimates for the price of accessing the Watson API?

logicalmanon [dead]

What he actually said: "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron."