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What makes you think those words weren't carefully chosen?

The words you chose were "ignorance" and "trolling". This was name calling and an ad hominem attack, not a mutually respectful discussion. Moreover, it is apparent to me that you were trying to argue with me without a clear understanding of my position.

I am sure there is more to Obama than just incompetence, and it has been painful to me to watch Americans fall for him so thoroughly in the recent years. But when you use the word "evil", you are in danger of losing the sight of the political landscape in the country. And, at the same time, losing the perspective on what the true evil is.

Example from my personal biography. I now live in the United States, came here 20 years ago from Russia, so before then I lived in the Soviet Union. USSR during the time of Brezhnev (which is the USSR I remember) was certainly worse in the aspects that were mentioned (liberties, personal rights, and so on; plus a totalitarian ideology, which is non-existent in the US). Even so, it was not an embodiment of evil. Before that, Stalin's times were much worse, and certainly closer to the absolute evil, but even that pales in comparison to Nazi Germany. Which, luckily, was destroyed well before I was born, so no personal memories. Was it evil? Perhaps, but it's a long way from Brezhnev's USSR which is a long way from the modern USA.

You, if you are a native born American, could go back to your (or your parents') history, comparing the USA of 2011 with the USA of 1960s, 1950s, WWII, and so on. Those were not evil times, and still the situation has noticeably improved since then.

I am not saying we should not be vigilant. I am saying we should not make every political disagreement into a battle field. People with whom we disagree are not necessarily monsters, maybe they simply have a different opinion or calculate odds differently. There is often, more often than not, room for compromises. They are people too.

Edit: I apologize for verbosity. Just thought you deserved an honest explanation.
Google do already provide a set of one-time passwords for those using two-factor auth. I've already added them to a document on my phone for precisely that purpose.
Once it's been canceled in either branch it's dead.

They both need to pass it for it to become law so PIPA doesn't matter anymore except maybe symbolically.
I didnt spell it out, but I'm working on a solution, see my comment lower on this page.
There should be a way for the people to veto a law in a referendum, like in Switzerland. That way politicians would be more cautious passing laws which they know that the public probably won't like and probably will veto.

The current US system only provides "checks and balances" between political parties, so when one party cracks up (meaning, gets bought by special interests and turns against the people) we only can pray that the other party will come to the rescue. But when both parties agree and team up against the people, i.e. when there is a political market failure like in the case of SOPA (or ACTA), theres no way for the voters to defend themselves.

It is not another law that is needed, but a general possibility to override unpopular laws.
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Done that, no biggie there.

What's most important about her was not her professional certification. When others younger than her got certified, instead of seeing competition, she saw company. Of the grants she received, she donated a computer lab to a girls school. She was very mature and articulate. I may disagree with her tastes in programming languages and operating systems, but I can recognize a great person when I see one.
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Sadly, we're reaching the limits of the karma system.

I'm working on an upgrade, details (or lack thereof) can be found lower on the page.
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I'll definitely do that. Thanks for the tip.
Note that the primary reason why the current state of copyright law in Singapore is overwhelmingly skewed in favour of the copyright cartel is due to the free trade agreement signed with the USA. They are obliged by the treaty to put in places laws which are draconian by US standards.
What a scum bag, especially after the phone hacking scandal and having a newspaper close down here in the UK and no doubt countless other invasions of privacy. I'd say that is much more serious than piracy!
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The browsers don't do it because it violates normal people's expectations of what encryption does. If you are a man-in-the-middle, you provide your own self-signed cert; if the browser accepts self-signed certs, then the user sees an "encrypted" connection, but the encrypted data goes to the man-in-the-middle! Sure, you went through the motions of encryption, but the data is plaintext to the attacker. Self-signed certs could work together with some other kind of infrastructure, something like Perspectives, but leaving everything else as it is, self-signed certs don't provide anything to the normal user.
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Then let's talk about items that were once physical.

He owns some music. He owns some movies. He owns lots of documents. et cetera.
See also:
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Thank you, i have followed your advised, have already reached out for a couple of people through email, and going to see what kinda of social events/workshops are coming up in my area. Once again thanks!
Not as funny as you might think -- if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class. In India, lots of paid inane chores are common, like carrying one's luggage from the taxi to the airport, even if it's a small backpack.
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Curious that he doesn't mention "big bank balance" which makes life a lot more comfortable for him.

He needs food? He buys food. He needs emergency accommodation? (Because his friend's house burns down or some such) He can buy that accommodation for the nights he needs it.

Having just become homeless[1] myself (not through choice) I've whittled down my possessions to something that's easy to carry. Following his rules (stuff that'd be annoying to buy again) I have a computer; a games console; an mp3 player; some headphones; a kindle; one pair trousers.

I have more clothes, but they're easy to replace. The Kindle is odd - one item, with many books on it. But they are easy to replace. Personally, I think that's a flaw in his method.

By a more reasonable counting system I have money (not much, but much more than other people in similar situations in my country, and very very much more than people in other countries); I have the gadgets (and associated chargers / headphones / cases / bags / media / software); I have clothes.

[1] As I've mentioned it, take a look at this website.

(http://gloshomeseeker.co.uk)

It's aimed at people needing "social housing". (I don't; I have no idea why I was given that URL, maybe it's just the script they follow.) IT IS AN APPALLING WEBSITE, AND A DREADFUL FORM. From the broken security mixing secure and insecure stuff, to the weird form flow.
Well you would hope most people would take whatever Rupert Murdoch says with a grain of salt considering the sort of publications his company runs. A man like him doesn't care about the truth.
If you are extremely thoughtful to the point that you never get any work done, then this is also a bad thing.
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Yeah, it already does that. I just had a few different languages shown in the preview. I initially wanted to allow users to pick sample code from different languages to show up in the preview box, but ran out of time for the contest.

Vim handles the color and style of text by looking at what scope it's classified under, and then following rules that match that scope. I found this video to be really helpful when learning how things worked: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/creating-colorschemes-for-vim/
His definition of "I count my things as resellable items I would be pissed if someone took." would appear to cover email addresses and blog accounts etc. Maybe not much resale value, but anyone would be 'pissed' if their email account was taken.
"It makes me think that the karma system itself might be fatally flawed
for its lack of scalability."

The motivation to be part of an online community should be the enjoyment
at the discussions and not the number of points.

I hate the points, and I hate it, that I look after them. I think that
just the presence of a karma system has a bad effect on the quality
of the comments. You're getting what you ask for.

It's symptomatic how often I read 'Please don't downvote me' or
'I hate to say this, but' in the last time.
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You never know. What if your post leads to a tantalizing but cryptic offer of a solution?

Okay, I'm done seeding responses, time to sleep like the dead.
> more intelligent species like humans, dolphins or dogs

or pigs
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Interesting- in spirit, though I suppose the danger in having a "standard" response is that by using it consistently in that particular context you're shifting its meaning over time to something like "You're being lame. Did you know that?". Probably better than "standard response" as a phrase, would be a standard response being calm socratic irony- a response that requires some thought and substance on the part of the writer, rather than just a quick "can you elaborate" boxed one liner that becomes a cargo cult.
It's really interesting what you say about automated tests. I completely agree that tests are generally non-existent in libraries, which is a shame as they often document how a library is supposed to be used when they do exist, as well as preventing bugs.
This is just a leadership commitment in the Republican House, the U.S. Senate (controlled by Democrats, and where overall support for SOPA/PIPA seems stronger) could still take up the bill. There are ways to pass legislation that circumvent a direct House vote.

It is good news, but I'd wait to see what Senators say this week.
Those comments are lamentable. However one of those you mention was made by an extremely active 4 year old account. The other was made by a relatively young one.

These are examples of 'bad' comments, rather than just 'noise'. However I think they both have the same immediate cause - community acceptance. For some reason the posts with little content are being rewarded. Discussions on how to change this (via the voting system or otherwise) have happened many times but I think more needs to be done.

As to why the community accepted such a negative comment I have no idea - and fixing this may be much harder.
Pratical approach: How about adding a link to the Guidelines from the "new comment" page? And maybe putting the most important part right next to the submit / reply button, like "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation" or "If you have nothing of value to say, don't say anything"?
If he can group things together like his 'toiletry kit', then I'll do the same with my clothes (though I have toiletries, too). Aside from my clothes, I have 10 books, a laptop and a cell phone. If we're going off of things I'd be pissed if someone stole then that'd be my MBA and all of my clothes...so I guess I kind of own two things.

I've lived like this for 10 years.
Like crcsmnky [1], I've been reading HN for a while now but have contributed little. The extant comments from domain adepts generally precludes my ability to add anything constructive to these discussions.

I too have noticed a shift in the timbre here lately. The degradation of civil and apropos discourse is marked. Criticism based on logic and rhetoric (ad hominem, straw-man, etcetera) has lost some ground to internet-acronyms (IANAL, IIRC, and such) Since culling sources takes work, this warrants addressing for risk of losing this relevance.

I've been thinking about this problem recently in the face of web searches that yield forum discussions. I'm begun to avoid forum results, due to endless threads that lack a solution to the specific problem (even sometimes incorrectly marked [Solved]).

Curated Q&A sites [2] address this successfully by putting the correct answer above the fold. But community discussions don't have a correct answer, so the problem here is not quite the same. I don't have a solution, but even revising sort order might do. I'd hazard to suggest an additional degree of community-based voting and editing should be added.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469618

[2] http://www.question2answer.org/

[edit] formatting
If he didn't have friends or family willing to give him a place to stay then he would have to increase the number of things that he owned.

Which isn't a bad thing.

Certain objects are worthwhile owning. I'm particularly fond of robots which decrease my need to do menial labour.

My washing machine and dishwasher saves me at least 30 minutes a day.
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This works on Ubuntu 11.10. There is a lot of quality content on ITunes and using Ubuntu as my main OS meant I couldn't access it. But this is awesome! I can finally download those lecture videos. Thank you!
I don't understand this post at all. If I read the comments on the thread about Arfa, I see mostly positive, interesting and insightful comments. A few comments were bad and were downvoted.

In any thread, it would be surprising to get no bad comments at all. They'll always be there and you can do nothing but ignore them, even when they get upvoted. Just keeping adding your own insightful comments, ignore the other ones and I wonder whether things will deteriorate much further.
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It's just a HackersNewsism, stuff that doesn't contribute to the discussion, one liners or troll comments all get downvoted.

Your comment didn't add anything to the discussion and could be replaced by the 'Upvote' button.
The Ruby community is exemplary in this regard, something I totally took for granted.
I know I'm getting downvoted for making a "douchebaggy" statement but not including the cost of a general purpose computer and not including the cost for a professional photo editing tool is something totally different.

I was just kind of upset about reading the "cost" of his photography experiment/hobby and not even thinking about including the cost of the photo editing software. Especially when it comes to photoshop which is probably one of the most pirated pieces of software due to its price.

I unfortunately know too many hobby photographers who would not even think of paying for this essential tool they probably have been using for many years.
(making this into a separate comment since it's a different, related idea)

How about having a "flag" link for comments with a drop-down list of points from the guidelines that the comment violates?

It would reduce the noise from other replying to the comment stating why they think it's inappropriate, and would still let the commenter know what they did wrong while burrying the comment.
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> If you're passionate about computing and software engineering, you'll have a natural interest in how things work under the hood.

When I was 12, I learned 6502 assembly language. The computer I had did not have a C compiler, only BASIC or assembler (you could also enter hex into memory locations, which was hardcore). Learning assembly is actually a LOT easier than people make out. Assembly is basically mnemonics for the underlying machine code, plus named locations. Assembly has everything a language needs for Turing completeness. Assign, Add, Subtract, Compare, Branch. And THAT is how the computer works 'under the hood'. C is one level of abstraction above that, and while it's true that a LOT of software has been historically written in C, before C came along, most software was written in assembler or BASIC (which is older than C, for the historians).

> Learning C is almost mandatory if you want to see how deep the rabbit hole is.

Not really. I know what is going on 'down there', regardless of which language was used to compile the machine code. What is REALLY useful is to have really succinct, powerful, high-level abstractions to build software quickly and with as little code as possible.

> Knowing it will certainly help when exploring the intricacies of processors and operating systems.

If that's what you want to do, then fine. I'm too much of a utilitarian for that kind of exploration. I want to build stuff.

I think if you want to understand what's going on 'down there' in the 'rabbit hole', learn assembly language. There are only seven to ten basic instructions and you can learn them in a couple of days. You can build anything you want in assembly language, if you have an eternity to do it in.
Good idea, I should probably include something anyway to explain what the package contains. I could make a combined candy explanation + referral pamphlet and include that.
I don't think that forming part of an online discussion is a bad use of time per se. In fact if done well it can be enlightening and stimulating to people beside yourself. It is in pursuit of this standard of excellent conversation that people join certain communities (like HN). If the standard falls they will leave. Many comments are not worth making, but that does not mean that we shouldn't strive to write comments that are.
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Technically a bill originating in any branch can be approved and then sent to the other branch for debate, amendment and approval, followed by reconciliation if it now differs from the version originally approved.

I don't see why you couldn't have a situation where PIPA supporters lay low for a news cycle or two, then get PIPA approved and sent to the House when nobody is watching. PIPA is even more generically-worded than SOPA, so it will be more difficult to fight it on the basis that "it will break the internet".

There is clearly a lot of money riding on this bill, and it's election year.
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I used to have a blog on my personal domain (not saying it was incredibly insightful), and I got tired of updating wordpress. One day the wordpress update failed, and I just took down the blog and now it is gone.

My livejournal blog however, which I set up over 10 years ago (and haven't updated in 7 years) is still there in it's embarassing completeness.
Joel's post was useful. I managed to avoid buying that $1000+ label printer they use. Instead I have a script that makes a PDF of labels and then I go to the convenience store, discreetly replace the paper in the common expensive looking copy machine with labels and print with that. Prints 300 labels in under 5 minutes this way.
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I definitely agree.

I always get yelled at by my parents because I do a lot of computer programming instead of studying.

There's minimal encouragement in this society and I've seen parents pushing kids to get into CS because it pays. Environment has lot to do in making a "genius". And maybe that's why we have crappy programmers here, in India, and the deviants are pulled into the stereotype.

Assuming Pakistan is similar to India, this girl programming at such a young age is definitely a great deal. I don't think people in the first world nations understand this.
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I wish they'd just wrapped it up as elastic mongo like they did with mysql, oracle and memcache.
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I think the author is singling out IP-Law when his problem is with our legal system in general. For better or worse our modern legal system is built around overly strict limits that are, by design, rarely enforced.

To give an example consider the freeway. Where I live most cars drive 70 to 75 mph without causing a safety risk and I know it's CHP policy to ignore anyone driving less than 10 miles over the limit. But they could pull over all those people because the official speed limit is 65 mph. So they've established a speed limit that's stricter than it needs to be and have encouraged the breaking of that limit. This allows them to pull over virtually anyone they want for any cause they feel like.

This is true throughout our legal system. There's actually a recently published book called "3 Felonies a Day: How The Feds Target the Innocent" that makes this case quite well. The premise being every American inadvertently commits 3 felonies a day just by living a normal life.

So while the blog post is right to point out the illogical nature of IP-Law he should understand it was written that way by design to allow for easier prosecution.

(prosecution might not be the right word since IP issues are civil but you get the point)
The risk there is that the media just ignores it (or worse, casts the internet as "failing to understand Congress, because it is shelved", or something like that).

Which leaves the big protest flopped - and after the election fracas no one will remember it.

I think this was a very smart move by the bill proponents. And, unfortunately, a protest now risks playing into their hands.
Actually, that was pretty good feedback :)
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