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>Democracy is continually threatened all over the world

Not really. Maybe democracy of one place, but when the Russian revolution happened democracies everywhere were afraid it would happen to them so they responded to Russia. That's what I'm talking about.

>I would classify that as primitivism, despite the presence of agriculture.

Perhaps, but the point is that it's conceptually possible to have relatively large groups of people without government.

Personally I consider primitivism a non-idea because of the simple fact that primitivism can't support the amount of people we have today. If we forgo agriculture it is estimated the world can support about 500 million people. Who's going to select the 6.5 billion that have to die?

>I used to have moral problems with this too, but ultimately it doesn't matter--I'd rather limit myself to making small changes on the real world we have to generate better results.

I've done the same. I just entertain the idea that we don't have the best possible system and to get the best system may mean starting over at some point.
About Face 1 and 2 where seminal works, the editing in them was poorly done but the content was some of the best available at the time. This thread got me looking at books again and I realized that 3 is the latest work. So I picked up a copy to see how it is. I duly expect it to be as good, here is to hoping that the editing is better in 3.
5 Prey Animals Deadlier Than Their Predators
These are the creatures you need to worry about the most.
Today is John Lennon 70th birthday
Literate programming is useful, but not when the commentary is "the function createMeAFoo creates me a foo".
Second thoughts about Chinas growth rate and their leadership
After reading several articles on HN praising the Chinese system and their leaders I think this article from William Easterly can contribute to the discussion.
I lowered the prices of the books that are just previews / bonus chapters instead of the full price of the book...
Too bad you weren't able to use your superior intelligence to learn BJJ (there was no way to know which martial arts worked when I was growing up). If he got you down and suddenly his arm was broken and he didn't even see how it happened I bet he would have left you alone.
That's a terrible choice for a Picard speech for this topic. What happens in "The Drumhead" is much more applicable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ZZyJCqkg4#t=3m43

But watch the entire clip for context.
Yeah, but I'd argue the solution isn't to nice up the regulatory system, but to step outside of it. Clinics like Qliance in Seattle provide direct primary care (cash only, no insurance) largely because it's much nicer for both the doctor and the patient, because you can circumvent the bureaucratic nonsense and admin busywork.

http://qliance.com/

The founder, Dr. Garrison Bliss, does a great job summarizing his approach in this talk: http://www.tvw.org/media/mediaplayer.cfm?EvId=2008030136C...
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Wellgrow is always dedicated to providing manufacturing China product sourcing Agent services to the clients from all over the world to help them employ the best sourcing practice in China.
>I'm not US citizen, don't live in the US and have no particular connections or interests in the US. I just wanted to let you know that the reactions to this incident where it seem defending peoples own right has priority over defending peoples security gives an impression of selfishness and short sighting.

Eh, a lot of Americans feel like personal rights should be a higher priority than security. A very famous and admired American once said

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

So yeah, I guess that is selfish, but it is also a very American value; when you get down to it, we are a selfish people, and to some extent we are proud of that selfishness and independence.

I strongly disagree that it is short sighted. The thing is, governments have a way of getting out of hand if the citizenry doesn't keep it in check. I think that long term our distrust of our government will serve us well. In general, I think in any organization, listening to the dissenting voices is good for the health and long term viability of the organization.

Edit: Yeah, we probably are a little bit different than the rest of the world in this regard; part of that, i think, is that it's been so long since any other country posed anything like a credible threat to us. We have to worry about our government like everyone else does, but unlike everyone else, there's really no realistic chance of anyone else posing anything like a credible threat to our safety.
The problem with our schools is that there's no way for us ordinary people to fix the problem at large. Government administrators--local, federal, and state--don't let anyone get near it. School boards hardly get anything done.

As programmers, it seems logical to us that if there's something wrong, we can fork the code and submit patches to the repo. Unfortunately, the barriers to entry to running your own school are high; credibility requires accreditation, proper teaching talent, financing.

Most of the time, I don't have a problem with the school. I have a problem with the teacher, for either being unqualified, or just being a bad teacher. I can't submit a pull request like I can in Github to rectify the issue with my own fork. In other words, we're stuck with each other. Even if a teacher is very qualified, the teaching style may be incompatible with a particular student. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with the student or teacher, it's just that neither work together effectively. And it's difficult to move a student to another teacher's class if spaces/funds/instructors are scarce.

School administrators aren't educators today. They're bureaucrats. It's no longer about the education, but how they can optimize business processes. Teachers, as frontline personnel, are fully aware of the problems with education. Talking to a language teacher trying to bring Chinese into a district made me realize that it's very political; teachers teaching German feel threatened, others who have been affected by cuts, such as the music department, feel insulted.

School is a highly subjective issue. Some students weren't cut out to be students. Students ahead of the curve are impeded by the traditional curriculum. No Child Left Behind under the guise of making a "difference" forces schools to play games with its students. Instead, schools don't teach anymore, but teach students to prepare for the metrics that will give them funding (attendance/grade fixing/"standardized" testing).

I'd like to fix the problem when I see it. But unlike software, having forks or different tags and branches are impossible in the teaching world due to the many reasons above.
Yes its subjective. There will always be a difference in view between what is cute and what is not cute (and also what I think is cute today may also not hold true tomorrow!).
Now you've taken all the romance out of it. I was expecting wild conspiracy theories.
At College they used 386s and 486s running DOS and Windows 3.1. At home I used an Amiga 1200. The two are not exactly compatible. I would routinely be given assignments, have to write them in QuickBasic for class and would have to spend half a day at college instead of at home. I didn't have a Microsoft Basic variant (other than GW-BASIC which wasn't quite compatible) and used AMOS instead to test the algorithm, then rewrite in QuickBasic. I tried submitting work in C but my lecturer would refuse to accept them as we hadn't covered that module yet.

In the end I wrote an AMOS -> QuickBasic converter in C, first for DICE C on Amiga, then tweaked for Turbo C on the PC. I could then do the rest of my coursework at home on my Amiga, instead of the grubby old slow 386s.
For me, Facebook has shown me not to feel bad about losing track of people. I have most of them on Facebook now and no matter what I say no one even responds.
A police state looks like: instead of putting a tracking device on his car, they would ram down his door, shoot his dog, and arrest everyone in the house instead of just tracking a vehicle.

Oh, WAIT... they do that now and then in the US, but you have to be someone REALLY dangerous, like a pot dealer.
I would find it quite tempting to destroy it, but I guess that satisfaction wouldn't be worth the opportunity cost.
Rights have to have priority over security, for without rights, there is no security. The rights are, despite there being debate about how to interpret them (that's what the judicial branch is for), spelled out, whereas anything can be done in the name of security, including attempts to take away rights.
Tell that to weev. (Raided by the FBI over the ATT iPad/goatse thing, and then prosecuted over small quantities of drugs found in his apartment)
If there's money in it, people will do it.

Hence, by allowing inventors to secure a temporary patent monopoly, you greatly magnify the profit potential, encouraging risk and speculation that might not otherwise be worth the time and capital.

Patents are more likely to be harmful because they limit competition and lack of competition hurts customers with higher prices for existing stuff and less possibility to build on stuff that has been done before.

Nonsense. You're talking about turning everything into a commodity, which by definition means everything trends towards being the same. Sure, it drives prices down, but it makes improving the product a sucker's game.

Suppose your company can make 10,000 widgets a month. My company can make 7,500 widgets a month, but they're twice as good as your widgets because we invested more in widget R&D, and we are able to ask a higher price for them. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to patent my improved widget, and you're smart enough to realize that my widgets are better, so you copy them. Now you're making the same widgets I am, but more of them. Damn, looks like investing in R&D was dumb.
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Or you could install Ganglia for free.
I'm sure it will happen one day, but it's quite a big challenge and you're up against all those bad habits build over the last 20 years. For example, developers really like customization. It's quite hard to provide a hosted environment that is fully customizable.

Also, parenthesis mismatch in paragraph 3.
Apparently the bug is on display in the "People's History Museum" of the CPGB:

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0505cpgb.html

Can't see any reference to where this is located on the CPGB website:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/
Imagine the combined security vulnerabilities! A never-ending stream of patches!
However, in that case there was a warrant by the Federal Court of Justice authorizing the tracking.
How can you say people might be pirating it, if you say that wpplugins.com requires that plugins are released under GPL?

In fact, I am wondering how this works. Are plugin authors providing support as an value added service?

Otherwise, what is to stop someone crazy enough to buy all the relevant plugins and release them on their own site(pay or free) ?
Call me a cynic but I think they did. His comment is right, the "war on terror" is and always has been bullshit. The people who benefit from convincing the public that there is some imminent terrorist threat would probably love to shut people up who point out why there isn't.
and if they're all off doing web stuff

Obviously not the case.

The fixed number could be going up for both. At once, there could be more web start-ups and so-called serious start-ups than previous years.
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No, designers should not be expecting to form guilds or a cast and be treated like one. They're not a special kind of workers.

That is, assuming they do want to be treated like workers and not as artists. You hire workers, you don't hire artists, right? It'd be pretty derogatory for the real artist..
This looks dreadful. Why would I want yet another box and remote connected to my TV, especially when it looks as cumbersome as this to use?

Who is this actually aimed at?!
Sure, that's why I suggested a multi. If you want to get the vitamins naturally I'd suggest some cabbage and the occasional egg to get your C and B12. Actually, eggs and cabbage will pretty much cover all your nutritional needs but aren't the cheapest way to bulk macronutrients. Still, 50 cents worth of cabbage and eggs a day would be enough to cover your vitamin and mineral needs.

I wouldn't eat that diet, personally. I'm a paleo guy and value quality veggies and meat. I'm on a student budget and I invest most of it in food. If I were raising a family of 6 on my current wage though, I think rice/beans/eggs/cabbage/fish oil would be a pretty solid, reasonable diet on the cheap, throwing in as much extra meat and veggies as I could afford.
> Obviously not the case.

I agree, I was just stating what "zero-sum thinking is".
And the street addresses (all German) don't actually exist - I tried a sample -, street names and cities seem to have been combined randomly.
Even something like Connectjs (http://github.com/senchalabs/connect), which isn't even a would get you a lot of the way there. They have a lot of middleware bundled with it, and a lot of people since have written stuff to work with it.
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If commits were an issue before this, they should really have considered using git or something. You shouldn't aim for fewer commits, but less expensive commits, i.e. nothing goes over a network. Plus you can squash later if you really need to.

Anyway, VMs are cool but has anyone tried developing with NixOS? It seems even more suited for the tasks they want since it has rollbacks and so on: http://nixos.org/
I strongly disagree about posting on reddit. If needed they can shut you and your lawyer up but they can't make potentially millions of people un-see something.
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Review a new website, student freelance marketplace
We created a freelance marketplace exclusively for students. www.orangeslyce.com. I'd love to hear the HN feedback on the design and functionality (or anything else for that matter).
A lot of the comments in this thread seem to imply that brand specialists will always deliver a quality logo. I can think of one recent example where that wasn't the case: the London 2010 Olympics logo. It cost £400,000 and was negatively received by the public and many industry professionals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Logo
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Very awesome list.

I'd also add a few others:

- Generally, larger companies can't move as quickly as you can so don't be too scared when they say "We can just have a team do this in the next few years." Politics, headcount, a bulky codebase and sheer inertia make it really hard for them to quickly copy you unless they were already headed that way before you popped up.

- When speaking w/ potential acquirees understand that they see dozens of companies a month. They are in no rush and can 'pass on the deal this time' all day long. Assume its not going to happen and never jeopardize your business for talks.

- There is never a 'final offer'. If they want you and talks fall through, they'll be back in a few months.

- Always keep it professional even if talks get heated. Any possibility of a deal can be destroyed if you are a dick. No matter how badly they want you, it raises serious questions about whether the acquisition is the right fit. I have heard of talks breaking down right at signing b/c the CEO didn't like the vibe from the startup CEO.

- Cliche, I know, but the best strategy for being acquired is to not need to be acquired.
Here's a slightly different featured CSS Gradient Generator that also generates a fallback background PNG for those browsers that need it, as well as being updated for IE9. http://www.shanetomlinson.com/static/css_gradient_generator/
There are plenty of super bright people who've got their PHDs and are working for organizations doing the above things.

It's just that people don't typically do startups in those areas, because you need massive investment to even get started, let alone succeed. Tesla for example has had $783 million in investment http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tesla-motors
Is the Sony controller-keyboard-remote-thing IR, or RF? It might be tricky to type and point it in the right direction if it's IR.

Other than that I don't see the problem with it, all the complaints seem to be the typical new-Apple-fan snobbery (like the fact that making things out of plastic is now apparently déclassé even though my favourite Apple designs, from eMate through to the new Apple TV, via UFO Airport and dalmatian iMac, are all made of plastic).

I'd probably have bought something like that controller for my XBMC setup if it had been available at the time. My many Apple remotes weren't really up to the job so I had to buy one with a few more buttons.
I just happened to be researching this. While I haven't done it myself, the consensus seems to be that the prepaid AT&T "Go Phone" is the best solution for low cost data in the US without a contract. The data itself is very expensive by global standards ($20/100MB) but the entry cost is very low presuming you already have a compatible GSM device. But if you're mostly playing around in Silicon Valley, you can probably arrange to have most of your data delivered by unmetered WiFi.

This link has good information:
http://forum.brighthand.com/smartphones/268235-payg-dataplan...

This is iPhone specific, but might help too:
http://theappleblog.com/2010/07/26/how-to-give-your-old-ipho...
Also social networks are helping people raise money for charities (sponsored runs etc.) by connecting to their friends easier.
Even so, 140 Characters is still only enough to give you the chapter titles of the Joshua Bloch book Effective Java Programming.

My advice, buy the book, read the titles, then read the chapters (translates beyond Java imo).
School Essay – Thing You Should Know
The writing of a school essay can encompass a large domain of essays. A school essay can encompass any element of school and life or any topic which is interesting. It can be written in any essay type and with proper information will be one which will receive a good grade.
Prediction: In six months, if this movie is remembered at all, we'll all realize that it's actually a pretty stupid movie.
There is no security threat. It's almost all nonsense. 9/11 was a legitimate terrorist attack just like the previous world trade center bombing was but there is no global terrorist network and there never was. It was just a tool to get more control of society. Look at what laws have changed since 9/11. Have you ever noticed these things get passed by people saying "don't worry, it's just to fight terrorism" but it's always actually used against citizens for non-terrorist activity?

If there really is some global terrorist network I think it's safe to say at this point that they're so hopelessly incompetent as to not be worth worrying about. There are countless vulnerabilities in the US [1], why would terrorists be so stupid as to only attack our hardest point? Criminals don't act that way. A mugger doesn't walk past 100 old ladies with gold jewelry to rob the most dangerous looking person he can find.

[1] For example, US sea ports. They check every hundredth container if that (Walmart wont tolerate delays on shipping).
After the huge success that was force joining of groups ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767368 ), Facebook could introduce force-friending. Applied to: small countries neighboring large and powerful ones, citizens of autocratic states (Big Brother IS your friend!)
CAPL: consistency, availability, partition tolerance, latency

Paxos sacrifices latency
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"Sony is expected to launch a line of Google TV-powered Bravia HDTVs sometime this month"

Sounds like you won't need an extra box if you have a new tv. As far as the remote -- I'm guessing they're going for "one remote to rule them all," with GTV driving all the other boxes you might have.
I would report it online and then "lose" it on a Greyhound or something.
This seems to be a large difference in people's work flows. Some of us like to remember things like what branch we're in, the file system structure of our project so we can edit in vim without needing NERDtree or some other IDE that organizes stuff, we like to know our libraries so we don't need auto-completion, and then there's the opposite people. For myself, I think the remember-for-me tools have their place, and I'm a fan of Flex's Flash Builder IDE even though I use vim for everything else, so I won't begrudge someone for choosing not to remember something. That's what doc is for.

On the other hand, in this case I frequently just use 'git status' which reports my branch anyway among other info I want to double-check just in case I somehow forgot, and this is really just a neat shell trick rather than being really useful, like the one that prints a green ':)' when the last command succeeded and a red ':(' when it failed...
Leads360

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StrongMail - email server & deliverability

FogBugz - bug tracking

ScrewTurn Wiki - (free) internal wiki for dev team (we're a .NET shop; YMMV)

ZenDesk - support help info/knowledge base

RightNow - support ticketing and chat

Google Analytics - for broad technical analysis of our users

Leads360 - we (well, our sales ppl) use our own product for CRM/lead management
This would be the final end of the desktop application. Adobe is the last remaining large independent maker of mass-market desktop applications. Everyone else has been crushed between the web, Microsoft and open source.
NEVER have a "conversation" with law enforcement if they are questioning you about ANYTHING, regardless how casual it seems.

In court, law enforcement is allowed to testify to whatever they "recall" during conversations with you. And you won't be able to challenge it whatsoever. You are testifying against yourself when you do this, even if you are 1000% innocent - they might "recall" differently. And then you are screwed.

Everything from "do you know how fast you were going" to something much more extreme like this case.
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http://circonus.com/ - SaaS Nagios and Ganglia replacement
Just add the following lines in your .bashrc:

export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=yes
export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=yes
> Here’s a problem: Many Americans can’t afford medical care.

> Here’s another problem: Many Americans can’t afford a decent education, and many parts of our public school system suck.

> Here’s another, even more pressing problem: Many Americans are homeless. Many can’t afford to eat.

I agree with the whole article, but this stuck to me. (except the "American" part... European here). It's a problem, a big problem waiting to be solved. And I found I'm itching to give it a shot.

Like somebody else already said in this thread, this kind of problems can usually be approached only with a ton of money and prior experience - but on the other hand, there should be much less competition then in writing the next killer Android app.
This is quite bright! I'm not sure what the pricing page is all about, despite its title. It seems a little hazy who pays who, how much and when
Recursion is a vital part of software development.