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We want people to be free to publish their views, and free to decide who gets their money - absolutely. But we also want to be careful how we exercise those rights.

I think the idea that the only time censorship matters is when it is done by the government is a little silly. Free speech is something we work toward as a society. The First Amendment does not ensure free speech; it ensures the preconditions exist for free speech to be possible, i.e., the government cannot itself restrict free speech.

If every single person in the United States of America refuses to speak, associate with, or do business with someone who believes the world is flat, and consequently such believers cannot find a place to live, can't buy food, can't live a normal life, free speech does not exist, whether or not the government does anything.

Yes, there has to be a balance between the two extremes of total shunning and total acceptance. It has to be OK sometimes, for some people to refuse to associate with people solely on their views. The extremity of said views should probably be a factor. So, maybe, should be the relationship and power of the entities involved. But the absolutist position that there is no problem whatsoever with things like this happening is extremely dangerous: a self-censoring society is in practice no different from a tyrannical government - a democratic government is, after all, no more than one of many enforcement mechanisms of the people - and the principle of free speech and the spread of ideas is dead.

I don't agree with Breitbart's positions - which again, are fairly mainstream - but I don't want these tactics normalized and used against you and me, and end up in a world where everyone has to pick sides or face immediate financial consequences. And I think this is a people-problem, not necessarily an ad-network problem: I'm pretty sure they're only doing this because of pressure being put on them directly or indirectly by interested consumers.
> though I'm not familiar with the NYT, I assume it's a bit like The Guardian in the UK

Closest thing with the Graun would be the Duggan headline the PCC ruled misleading: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/23/pcc-guardian-m...
It's a reference to Trump's presidency, and how some people think it was brought on by left-leaning journalists.
Lord Moulton called it "the realm of manners" in between the domains of law and of free choice. Mark Steyn interpreted it recently: http://www.steynonline.com/7468/the-realm-of-manners
Better track record?

On what axis? This stuff isn't single-dimensional.

Yeah, Buzzfeed may produce a lot more stuff, and maybe also a lot of fake stuff. However how much of that is harmless fluff versus hate speech and incitement to violence?

Also, frankly, looking at buzzfeed, i question that even on the dimension of truth/lie they fare worse than breitbart, particularly when normalizing against the total post count.
Well I work at a company that has requirements and wants them done on deadlines. It's not evil. Tracking time against estimates is helpful so we can know if estimates are correct.
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IMO the economic system is actually a reinvention of nature. However, our rendition of nature does not actually follow nature, but is a monster created by systems that totally don't mirror nature -- i.e. hierarchical systems. If we want an actual functional economy we should model nature as closely as possible because we know it actually works. And it works without any management. Our system is a bastard child of natural economics and hierarchical structure. It's for this reason it needs constant management, usually to benefit those at top of the hierarchy who constantly break it and pass the bill to the people at the bottom.
This may be a stupid lay question, but to me the existence and usefulness ("realness") of quasiparticles suggests an obvious analogy to actual particles. In other words if we understand that quantum mechanics leads to quasiparticles as emergent phenomena within solids, shouldn't we consider that highly suggestive that real particles could best also be understood as simply emergent phenomena based on a more fundamental quantum reality?
I have some projects in Mithril - is it worth it port to Vue?
The logical conclusion is obvious. We as private citizens, companies, and whatever have you, can denounce Breitbart and refuse to patronize them in anyway. We can spread awareness about the practices they use, and the people they employ. I will continue to denounce them until they prove they're willing to amend corrections to their articles, admit their mistakes, hire journalists with some amount of integrity, and cease their love affair with yellow journalism.

To claim I am calling for censorship is really kind of a cheap shot and completely distracting to the actual issues being discussed.
No. People add so much unnecessary overhead and bullshit these days. All you need for static is a push from local to your host with SCP. A one-line script if you include some markdown to HTML, or just use Jekyll and straight SCP that.
Are you saying you can't run a PDF? :)
It's amazing how people can mock the idea of subverting elections as long as it's not their candidate who lost. Many similar concerns were raised during the election by people who hold very different political views than most HN readers, and yet these concerns were written off and publicly mocked. Now the shoe is on the other foot but nobody is willing to point out the partisan hypocrisy.

And yes, throwaway account because HN tends to get very uncivil about this subject.
Yep, I have a Masters degree in interaction design with a healthy curriculum in true UX, and I'm a far better interaction designer than programmer. Part of why I got into it was because you have the capacity to have a major impact on how applications work, and I was relieved that I didn't need to worry about fidelity down to the graphic design layer. Come to find out that almost all UX designers I've ever met - outside of my alma mater - are graphic designers, and I've just never been able to convince anyone to hire me for design.

Despite that, I've lucked into temporary design roles on some major projects end to end, have all the wireframes, the design thinking, the compromises and so on, and that helped not one bit.

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History suggests otherwise, and so does the SCOTUS and ACLU.

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/
I do this with Distelli, it's been great and works with my private npm, Consul, Vault, and other services, even on SmartOS (Joyent Triton).
Replying to myself to add an additional point: Lague's cave system doesn't try to avoid designs with back-tracking -- in fact because he joins the orphaned spaces to the main space, the resulting cave system has more dead-end caves in it.

But that said, during the creation process one could easily track these spaces-that-were-previously-orphaned, and could easily use that list to spawn specials in these rooms (e.g. make the dead-end caves into features instead of bugs, by placing goals/treasure/sub-bosses/etc in them)
Yes, but none of them were formed in a village where people were first martial arts experts, then tried hiring private security guards, and finally realized the wisdom of creating a state with taxation rights to finance a police force.
Yeah my first thought was this is a Dropbox project.
That would be more correctly termed as a conspiracy theory, which have existed forever. Has Breitbart or any other major independent news source covered this?
I'm a little to young to have really been coherent during the Golden Age of pinball, but I have a huge affinity for it and find restoring old pin's to be one of the most satisfying weekend projects. I just wish the market wasn't as inflated as it currently is, nowadays most desirable machines cost more than the truck it takes to move it!
From small companies, to big companies, to big companies that feel small
Literally no one is calling for censorship.
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The upgrade adapter isn't ready for primetime yet from what I gathered.

Can't speak for Vue, but Angular 2 is pretty nice, and the performance benefits are significant. There are some complexities, mainly around AoT compilation, but those are challenges that one would come across if one wanted that anyway.
I like the name. At least I remembered it easily enough that I was able to give the name to a coworker 1hr later. To me it sounds related to hashing passwords and to the DigitalOcean inspiration, which is enough to remember it. People will remember it, it's short, the domain name is available, the only drawback is the collision with Ha-ash the music band, and not being at the top of Google when searching for "haash". But that will change, right ;) ?
Most articles about Russia. E.g. currently most MSM (edit: mainstram media) are on a propaganda roll regarding Mosul (Iraq/US) vs. Aleppo (Syria/Russia) reporting.
Eh, I had a look earlier today and noticed they had a story on climate change.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/18/global-wa...

> Yet as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has noted, many of the recent climatological events and trends “can be explained by the natural variability of the climate system,” without excluding an indeterminate influence from atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. In the same report, the WMO said that, at this time, researchers have not yet been able to ascertain “the respective roles being played by climate variability and human-induced climate change.”

The report is six years old, the first quote is taken out of context, the second doesn't even exist in the paper, and here's the first paragraph of the paper's conclusion:

> Understanding the Earth’s climate and trends in temperature, precipitation and extreme events is of vital importance to human wellbeing and sustainable development. As the report The Global Climate 2001–2010 confirms, climate scientists can now link some natural oscillations to seasonal climate trends. They also understand the mechanisms by which humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global average temperatures.

Regardless of where you stand on climate change, this is a pretty gross abuse of the source.

Repeat this kind of thing across most articles, throw in some editorializing to push your opinion in "news" pieces (see paragraph 3/4 of article), add "PHD" to your byline even if your field has nothing to do with the material being covered...

Bad sources aren't about deliberately lying, they're about constructing an alternative, semi-plausible reality that meets idealogical goals. Frankly, I'd class most anti-AGW articles as provably fake based on the scientific consensus for the last twenty years, but who am I to judge.
I've been a long time React and Angular user, but is still sick to implement correctly enough SSR for my projects. And VueJS just did it elegantly ! I must say, thank all React + Angular folks as the pioneer for better CHANGES. This is THE time for us to change. Really.
I don't seem to understand Matrix/Riot.

It appears to be like IRC, but also integrates with Gitter, and IRC and has a identity federator called vector.im.
Here's the summary of his stance:

>When I express views like this, I’m sometimes called a reactionary. People say I want to go back to the 50s. And they’re right – but it’s the 650s BC I want to return to, because Sparta had the right idea about male love. You can spend all day wrestling and wanking each other off if you want to, chaps, but you still have to get married, have kids and go off to fight wars.

Sure it combines "outdated pseudo-science and philosophically iffy reasoning behind its pretext". But it's not fake news. It's just shitty news, like so much other shitty news out there. I'm not defending Breitbart, I'm just saying it is a press outlet and it should be allowed to exist as one. It shouldn't have to suffer from censorship. No media source should have to suffer from censorship. Fake news mills aren't media sources.

>It makes me want to just yank Milo by the neck and show him what irreparable damage he is doing to people (if I could); if he even has the morality to care.

Milo is a partisan asshole but he's not a total idiot. Instead of calling for his website to be blacklisted, why not present your opposing view and start a reasonable debate on the subject? You could probably even get him to agree with a lot of your points, and perhaps even empathize.

Healthy dialogues are critical in a democratic society. Censorship is the antithesis of everything our society stands for.

>To your point about other publications such as the Washington Post being on the other axis of bias, I have trouble understanding how you can simply say they're just on the other side. From everything I've seen from the Washington Post, they're nowhere near as advertently dishonest as Breitbart is, accidentally or otherwise.

I don't have any particular examples right now, but just as Breitbart will group together articles of alleged attacks by immigrants or minorities, I've often seen WaPo group together articles of alleged attacks against immigrants or minorities on their top bar. I think Breitbart is probably more biased on average, but they both spin things pretty heavily. Between Breitbart, Fox, Drudge, Huffington, NYT, NBC, WaPo, there is not a single source of objective and neutral news analysis out there. It's probably more fair to put Breitbart and Huffington Post at the same bias degrees than Breitbart and WaPo, but the point is that all these sources are pretty shitty and biased and calling for just one of them to be censored is quite silly.
They'll get around it on a technicality. Just like NSA did with the 4th Amendment. "Yeah, sure we capture US citizens' data, but we don't do it on US soil and use another moniker (GCHQ) so its ok. Not our fault AT&T routed your call outside of constitutional jurisdiction!".

I'm expecting something like, "Yeah, sure you can have your 1st amendment, you just have to give us the keys if we ask or you get charged with destroying evidence/obstruction of justice which together carry more time than almost whatever possible illegal activity your encrypted traffic could have been concealing.
It's not about dumb code. Actually both C++ and Scala can allow you unbelievably clever code which is also super difficult to understand by somebody uninvolved. Remember how some Haskell guys were complaining they aren't able to understand the code they wrote at the top of their game anymore?
Sorry yes I obviously missed that bit.
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Ask HN: Where do you host your non-static sites?
I was triggered by the similar static site post currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021722

Often clients insist on Wordpress or some other stack which means we cannot use static sites which we would normally prefer to do these days.

Sometimes we'll go as far as a full WPEngine install if the client doesn't mind paying. If the budget is tricky we'll run on a small DO box.

Curious to learn who everyone else is going to for non-static sites.
It would be nice to have some discussion of how vcspull compares to mr (http://myrepos.branchable.com/)
Why do we need a government at all? Why not live in anarchy?

Because we know what that looks like. It's called a "failed state", and there are too many of those now. See Somalia. In practice, it usually means rule by local warlords, which sucks.
Thanks a lot for the link! I was looking for a way to learn more about vue.js and this is a great chance.
Good thing his understanding isn't correct.
How would one exploit a seemingly random error to favor a specific candidate over the other?
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Thanks.

I'm on Verizon FIOS, and it is symmetrical, roughly. It speed tests about 158 down 162 up. How I got that fast was sorta an accident from moving, and rep handling it looked at the deals. I think it was maybe $10 more than the 50meg service I had before.

I see Google Fiber over there, but what I have is nice too, and deployed wider. I also see Comcast's "gigabit" service with it's paltry 35meg upload.
Typo in the "A built-in Q&A engine for community support" section..

publicaly -> publicly.
I've had good luck with RamNode and Digital Ocean of late. Depends on traffic, requirements, etc. millions of factors
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> Why do we need a government at all? Why not live in anarchy?

Are you a charismatic amoral-yet-benevolent despot with a knack for turning violent tuggs into loyal enforcers? Anarchy sounds so great, but keep in mind that other, less enlightened, despot wannabes are going to come after you and yours, so keep at all times enough resources for the defense of your turf.

Not really interested? I am not surprised.
> For instance, "a close friend impersonates me on HN" is pretty strongly outside my threat model.

You obviously haven't had the same kind of close friends that I've had.
The dark matter hypothesis has already been discussed here, and raattgift posted a good explanation for why it is very unlikely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003811
> It seems reasonable to argue that bail-outs for banks amid broad woes for workers led to a loss of confidence in the system.

Well that's one thing. We were told abolishing Glass-Steagall needed to be done because it was only something liberals who like big government wanted and was a 66 year old relic of the New Deal. Then the bankers come to the taxpayers 9 years later and demand to be bailed out because they're now "too big to fail" and if they're not handed a fortune of the taxpayers money quickly with little debate, the world economy would collapse.
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No one is arguing Breitbart should be prohibited from existing. Other people choosing not to subsidize or do business with them is not a ban.

Also, degree of ideological bias is not the same thing as degree of journalist integrity or factual falsity. A "news" outlet can have no particular ideological bias and be completely disconnected from the truth, or it can have a strong ideological bias and be completely reliable on facts and even have high integrity in presenting all relevant facts in the stories it covers (while, or even would assume, being quite selective in its selection of which stories to cover at all.)

So, saying Breitbart is no more biased than HuffPo is not an argument that they are no more fake than HuffPo.
I don't believe there should be a cap on anyone's education; male, female, or otherwise. I also don't think that Milo is qualified to define what the word "journalism" means any more than I am. I can write opinions on a blog or onto a piece of paper. That doesn't make my work "journalism." Neither does declaring that I'm a journalist or declaring that my work is journalism. Also, sexual orientation doesn't give Milo a free pass to write click-bait and pass it off as journalism. It also doesn't excuse him from saying misogynistic things. I will respect Milo's right to say what he wants. That's it.
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I am honestly not even sure what your point is anymore. Their data doesn't make their reports "truth." Them accurately reporting on a poll is what makes them truthful. "Poll's show Hillary's chance of winning at 80%" might be astoundingly wrong at the end of the day, that doesn't make their report about the poll a lie. Whether that poll reflects reality is a matter of statistical methodology, not journalistic integrity.
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I promised myself I wouldn't follow the Chalmerian rabbit down the consciousness rabbit hole for a while (one eventually gets tired of being dizzy no matter how fascinating the reason). Every time I swear to myself that I'll give it a rest for a few months, something like this pops up on HN and it starts all over again.

Here's as far as I got last time. I'm almost certainly wrong, but hey, when it comes to consciousness, we know so little that being able to pinpoint why someone is wrong is still progress.

- Time is real but not "absolute". The universe exists as a causally connected network of ever-present nows. We aren't "slices of the Minkowski spacetime" experiencing itself. That's a fantastic model of reality at certain scales, but it's not reality.

- Ensembles of causally connected physical systems evolving in the now are "ontoglogically real" in the sense that something about them actually exists above and beyond their parts.

- Certain evolving physical systems have "an interior". It feels like something to be the interior of such a system.

- We don't experience the world, we experience being the interior of a certain kind of evolving physical system whose job it is to create, process, and manipulate representations. "We" at any moment are the interior of the gestalt representation of that moment.

- Evolution selected and maximized interiority for a reason. It has a purpose. How it has a purpose I have no idea, and any solutions smack of dualism. However, the closest thing I have to a hypothesis that isn't completely crazy is that what we call "the physical" and "the mental" are simply two projections of some "actual" underlying structure that is something like a Hilbert space. If that's the case, then it's possible that putting the physical system into a certain state causes the interior of that system to "feel" something which, in turn, causes some kind of "pressure" on the physical again. I have no clue how this could work, but I do like the strategy of starting with the commonsensical but heretical idea that we wouldn't be conscious if evolution didn't find a use for that property, and then going from there.

Anybody else have any crazy thoughts so we can at least talk about why we're wrong about them?
Earlier this year I worked on a project which did exactly this. I find it much more difficult to get insight into the system with Celery & RabbitMQ than with other tools. I also found Celery's documentation to not be super awesome for my uses, and it took a lot of trial and error to get it running. YMMV of course.
The word tax comes from the Latin taxo but taxes go back even further than the Romans. Egyptian Pharaohs had tax collectors. Probably further, it's just that we know more about the Egyptians because they kept records. In fact their tax collectors were called scribes.

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/economy/taxation.htm
Hi, I'm an SGOS dev. I don't know what you mean by "mostly a patched Linux", but here's what Subgraph OS is so far -- and it's a young project: we have a kernel patched with grsec/PaX/RAP, but we have also developed our own application sandbox framework (namespaces + limited fs + seccomp bpf whitelisting), app firewall, event monitoring subsystem, usb disable on desktop lock (based on grsec), etc. Here's a walkthrough of our sandbox framework:

https://github.com/subgraph/oz/wiki/Oz-Technical-Details
I think taking Zuckerberg at face value here is incorrect.

I suspect when he's talking about misinformation, he's not really referring to shady erectile disfunction or supplement ads or anything else that's not true that isn't really meaningful in the big picture.

I suspect he's referring to news items that the corporate media will not touch with a 10 foot pole.

The elites don't care if the plebs line some billionaires pockets by clicking on a few fake penis enlargement ads: they do care about the masses getting a little too woke however.
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> Rather than waiting in line at a retail store, missing out online, or simply forgetting about a sale – Frenzy puts the hype of the best product releases in your pocket.

So I was attempting to decipher this sentence, which while apparently written in English, appears to be incomprehensible. I've identified the subject as "Frenzy" and the verb as "puts" and the object as "hype" but then I got a little lost and wandered off.

In all seriousness, learning how to present product in way that's free from content free superlatives and meaningless phrases will help greatly in communicating with customers.