Hacker News: subsystem

New comment by subsystem in "Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses"

subsystem — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:04:21 +0000

Press freedom generally trumps privacy, as it should.

New comment by subsystem in "Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem"

subsystem — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:06:45 +0000

More on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKKvnKQkkE

New comment by subsystem in "Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses"

subsystem — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:01:28 +0000

So why do you feel compelled to post when you know what you are saying is old news? You just adds to the noise and make it off putting for anyone else to post that actually knows about this event including your obvious point.

New comment by subsystem in "Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him"

subsystem — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:45:19 +0000

From what I've seen I agree with your first point. AirBnB is more like The Pirate Bay than YouTube.

New comment by subsystem in "PISA : Diligent Asia, indolent West "

subsystem — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:28:47 +0000

You can't really compare different data sets like that.

New comment by subsystem in "Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee (2002)"

subsystem — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:50:25 +0000

Well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr

New comment by subsystem in "As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work"

subsystem — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:26:36 +0000

> He uses the royal "we" to define a group (here, engineers) and then prescribes very broad goals for what "we" "ought" to do.

That is pretty much the definition of ethics [0].

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.h...

New comment by subsystem in "Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left"

subsystem — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:01:24 +0000

The concept of freedom can quickly become confusing, but I think the accepted terminology is that "freedom from" is negative freedom as in protections like universal healthcare. While "freedom to" is positive freedom as in expressions like absolute[-1] freedom of speech [0]. Where negative freedom is more left and positive freedom more right. You of course also have to account for the political y-axis (or similar concept [1]) i.e. the level of authoritarianism.

I think it's interesting that many of the concepts that the US prides itself on originally included negative freedom in a more prominent way than you see today [2][3][4].

[-1] Non-absolute freedom of speech can probably also be seen as a negative freedom.

[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Other_multi-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms

New comment by subsystem in "Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android"

subsystem — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:41:06 +0000

I don't know. In terms of excitement and creativity I think we're slowly catching up to the end of the 90s.

PISA 2012 Results

subsystem — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:29:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6840418

Points: 1

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Work and surveillance in a post-Snowden world

subsystem — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:30:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/work-surveillance-snowden-spying-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833795

Points: 2

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New comment by subsystem in "Spike Lee responds to 'stolen' poster designer"

subsystem — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:17:05 +0000

I guess he's a capitalist.

New comment by subsystem in "Lantern proxied sites lists – China"

subsystem — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:28:52 +0000

This should give some indication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_Th...

New comment by subsystem in "Dear Spike Lee"

subsystem — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:08:36 +0000

There's more than a semantic difference between moral and material interests. In fact most "internet hippies" I know wants strong moral protection for authors [0][1]. It's a fairly central concept in the copyright debate, not least since it's part of the universal declaration of human rights.

[0] http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-c... [1] http://the1709blog.blogspot.se/2012/05/pirate-party-plans-fo... [2] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/400/60/PDF/G0...

Mentoring for people visiting the Congress for the first time #30C3

subsystem — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://events.ccc.de/2013/11/25/chaospatinnen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807467

Points: 1

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The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage

subsystem — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:54:39 +0000

Article URL: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14948-8/the-matthew-effect/excerpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805173

Points: 1

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New comment by subsystem in "Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech"

subsystem — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:19:42 +0000

I don't think Elon Musk is a very good candidate for this year. Last year seemed more eventful for both Tesla and SpaceX.

New comment by subsystem in "How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties"

subsystem — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:30:03 +0000

I definitely think jurisdictional issues can be interesting from an intellectual point of view. Especially since the Internet has made many such concepts far less obvious. One could of course argue that discussions (especially outside of obscure technology) rarely reach a level where they become interesting.

The Meritocracy Myth

subsystem — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:52:49 +0000

Article URL: http://wellbeing.nd.edu/pdf/meritocracy_myth.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6797334

Points: 1

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New comment by subsystem in "Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy"

subsystem — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:28:49 +0000

Somewhat similar to the "American Dream".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...