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Downvoting is a way to express oneself without or in addition to a written comment. More importantly, it is a way to control the culture of the site. If you end up with a negative score it means both: 1) people thought you should be downmodded, and 2) not enough people disagreed with the first set of people.

I say all that to express how irrelevant it is in a larger context unless you are a Karma Whore (I will likely get downmodded now.) Express yourself. Period. Most downmodded comments contribute to conversation I think. And that is really the point of commenting, not to whore yourself out for more points.
I'm not sure what you mean by "visible on a Mac network" and why that is necessary . . . won't an IP address and maybe a domain name do ?

If you were doing this with Linux, you should install a common linux distribution (to make sure it won't have security problems out of the box) and then go through and turn off anything that doesn't need to be on, and check it using nmap to see what ports are still open. If you want to educate yourself and go further then download metasploit and see if you can break into it.

Install vsftpd as the ftp server, and make sure it does not allow anonymous login, and make sure the passwords are long and random. If you have ssh on it, which you probably should because you should encourage your people to use scp instead of ftp (graphical tools exist for the mac), make sure you install denyhosts or something similar to keep out the brute-forcing attacks. Try not to have commonly guessable usernames, such as "tom" or "joe" and disallow root login.

But if you have a Mac, can't you install or turn on the Mac's ssh or ftp server and do the same ? That might be simpler.

You might also google for "The Perfect Ubuntu Server" -- there is a series of howto's on how to set up the "perfect" server in various linux distributions.
Well she is kind of cute (in a MILF way). I guess if nothing works out, she can still make a career out of sucking cocks.
C++ has many flaws. Let's have a C++ bashing party, hooray. However, a discussion of the merits of C++ boils down to C++ vs C as far as getting things done in the real world and in the domains where C++ and C are applicable. C is absolutely horrible. I cannot imagine why anyone would start a new program or module to a higher level language in C rather than C++. It's like choosing BASIC over a modern scripting language.
When I think about a new idea, or am working on a visual, putting together some slides I get a weird feeling - a cocktail of anxiety, excitement and adrenaline.

9/10 it keeps me awake too.
Karma does not affect what I write at all. I accept that sometimes I'm full of shit and move on. I'm counting on the HN community to kindly point it out to me if I miss it.
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Apologies for the double (now triple) post. Stupid slow browser.
How about banning an IP of a user if the account reaches less than -3 karma?
Money doesn't have to mean making a quick buck. My current project won't change the world, but it will provide a sizable income stream that my co-founders and I can live off of and use to fund larger future projects.
I wish I could give you more karma on this comment. This sounds just like me and it is hilarious. I also find that people say "You know what I mean" to which I answer "yes". They interpret this as "yes and I agree", but what I really mean is "yes, I hear the words coming out of your mouth, and I believe I understand their meaning".
I link being positive with persistence.

Ignorance is a deliberate state and has nothing to do with it.
I recommend this organization too. I would recommend to anyone to attend one of those 10-day courses.

They assume you have no background knowledge whatsoever about meditation, and they teach you everything you need to know. The course is very intensive and hard, but it's really really rewarding. It's a life-changing experience.

I attended this course a few years ago, and while I don't meditate regularly, I do meditate sometimes for 30 minutes. I do it when I feel stressed, or overworked, or when I feel my urges are controlling me. It works great against these things. I feel like this meditation is a sort of super-powerful weapon that I can pull out when life gets tough.

As I said, highly recommended.
Why can't you have a very brief trial where you explain the definition of assault and present the uncontroversial evidence of the assault, and that's that?

Not trying to argue. Just don't see why that wouldn't work. the jury should just be like "well, it's a crime, and he did it" instead of saying it's common so we'll ignore it.
Then watch the commenters divide into two camps:

1. "X affected me. The world is scary and random."

2. "X did not affect me. You should have voted for Ron Paul."
To be my own boss and hopefully move away from my current position working on someone else's dream.
I think the fact that there are so many obvious asses out there proves what you're saying - it's a hard problem.
That's not true, except in a reductio ad adsurdum sense. Presidents administer laws, hire and fire staff, spend money, withhold money, declare wars, veto laws, etc. In the absurdly literal sense they do execute these actions by exercising their vocal chords to speak and triggering their fingers to write, but this is totally different from being a journalist writer and speaker.

It is also true that not all speech is equally tolerable, in both the moral and legal sense. The Supreme Court ruled long ago, for example, that yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not an instance of protected speech.
I think your anecdote is made up, embellished or an end case not representative at all of whatever moderate Muslim country you refer to.

Since you presented this 'example,' as an example I mentioned the above. It was not a criticism of you but a criticism of the fact that this example is not being treated as such. To me that is strong indication of an unhealthy bias here.
There is a great tradition of elitism and disdain for banality among intellectuals. Think of impressionists circle in the early XXs century, most of these guys' paintings are fetching millions today, but during their lifetime they were poor bastards most of the time. Influential - yes, popular - not. At least not immediately.

It is almost by definition that any fresh and promising idea meets hostility from the masses. But the thinking minority is always ecstatic about it. Good ideas and views are like a breath of fresh air.

HN has been a refuge for new and controversial ideas from the start. Which is understandable, given that pg himself created quite a stir with his view on 'hackers' as artists and on lisp as an abstract essence of any programming language (making it a superweapon in right hands). So people escaped from reddit and digg and came to HN to share controversial or complicated ideas. At that time karma points were a badge of honour.

But then of course in came the masses and HN has changed. Now arguments don't win on their merit. Banalities are repeated ad nauseam and the winner is the one who can capture the crowd's lowest common denominator. HN is not that much about ideas anymore. It is more about commercial promotion and quite a lot about entertainment.

In this environment positive karma should make you worried. I actually quite enjoy getting negative karma nowadays. Of course there is a huge risk of being labeled a 'troll'. It has happened a couple of times. Which I think is as honorable as being labeled a dissident in communist Russia or a non-believer in fundamentalist Iran. Just make sure you are 'trolling' by challenging a consensus while having sound arguments and facts at hand. <sigh> But not many people cannot even read your arguments after they fade to gray under merciless and mindless downvoting.
The current code does ban accounts that get below a certain threshold. I try to be more careful about banning ips, since they're not identical with individuals. Usually I like banning an ip to require a decision by a human. But I'm writing code right now to rate-limit comments by new accounts, which will minimize the amount of damage someone can do before humans notice.
Seconded. In my experience, meditation can lead you into some wonderful states of consciousness, but its effects on stress reduction are relatively minor compared to other options e.g. getting enough sleep, exercising, eating a healthy diet, removing causes of unnecessary stress.
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This actually has some useful advice, particularly the second point.

I remember when PB Wiki was getting off the ground, they offered free shirts & a free premium account to anyone who presented their product at an event, which seemed much less promotional at the time because it was right when wikis were getting their first small boom of mainstream attention.
a hacker in what language? Ruby? Python? PHP?

explain the idea in a sentence, and does the hacker get equity?
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I voted two. And no polls can't have mutually exclusive options.
First off, thanks for the response.

To answer your question and maybe clarify things a bit more - the owners want to be able to simply drag and drop large media files that have been sent by clients onto their local machines (Mac desktop Pro setups with Final Cut Studio 2), where they can then edit the clips, if possible. Our current hosting provider for our website only allows for FTP of files no larger than 20 mb at a time, and when you work with video, you have gigs upon gigs of files - so most companies would simply mail over hard drives, but obviously this is a major hassle. Thus the need for a new solution.

Of course, if you're suggesting that I might be able to accomplish this with mac software, out of the box, I would consider that...
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You're right. Most journalism is template articles (said as a former journalist).
Writing freelance from San Francisco is pretty satisfying for me when I have clients in New York. I can at least get a lot of the busywork of answering email out of the way by 9 AM.
here's the fucked up thing about Arrington. I'm not surprised this happened to him; I think everybody should pay attention to the fact that this happened; and I think it will happen again, because when he speculated about the spitter, he assumed it was some entrepreneur. it never occurred to the guy that anybody but a slighted entrepreneur would want to spit on him, when in reality many more people do. but that's not the fucked up thing. the fucked up thing is that with all of that information, I was AFRAID to post my opinion about this, because what if Arrington discovers who I work for and takes revenge by ignoring our products. think about how fucked up that is. the guy doesn't know very much. his posts often have huge technical inaccuracies and other bad information. and I'm scared to OFFEND him in a random comment on Hacker News, because he might retaliate for me expressing my honest opinion, and my company might get fucked because of his whims. so he has all this influence, and pretty much every time he discusses tech that I know details of, he gets shit wrong. that's what's fucked up about Arrington. I guarantee you there are people reading this whose opinions on the subject we will never know. and that's probably why he got spat in the face. somebody who could normally have just said what was on their mind didn't have that option, got wound up all tight, and went a little bit crazy.

but Kathy Sierra, some misogynists went a little bit crazy. we can't tolerate this kind of thing, no matter how much this particular target deserved it, because it creates a dangerous atmosphere. so although I think anybody who is upset that this happened is a fucking idiot, and anybody who was surprised is probably too stupid to spell their own name, we need a way to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and part of it involves tuning out idiots like Arrington instead of letting them amass all this ridiculous inappropriate influence in the tech world.
I could make a better cheeseburger than McDonald's but I'm damn well not gonna get billions and billions served.
> I more-or-less agree that "culture is always brainwash." The logical follow-up is not, "Let's therefore accept all cultures that don't immediately, viscerally violate our sense of right and wrong"; it's, "Wow, culture is fundamentally really messed up!

What I am saying is the following: A common argument that comes up is usually. (a) Woman are forced to wear hijab. It is demeaning & cruel & oppresses women. (b) I choose to wear it. I find it dignified & liberating. (a) You are brainwashed.

All I am saying that (a) does not have a convincing argument. It is not (if you read up the thread) comparable to US rural slavery because they people being oppressed (if they are) by their own culture. Brainwashed is no argument at all in this case because it is applicable to any element of culture & can be used to argue virtually any point (you are brainwashed not to wear hijab, pray, respect your husband, etc). Accepting that argument in principle necessitates accepting an argument giving equal weight to the counter-argument.

> So criticize all of them! The problem here is that you're working off the premise that our own cultural norms are somehow above critique, which is simply untrue.

I am certainly not doing that. I am saying watch what you argue. "Islamic/Arabic cultures are oppressive" is a popular argument to make these days.

Many of the aspects of these societies, practices, traditions & laws are indeed oppressive. Many of these countries are military dictatorships or monarchies. A lot of the arguments are indeed correct & needed. But (and this is a big but) we cannot let this degrade (we have, but lets pretend) into an area where anything is admissible. Look at the defence that the argument in this thread got. The argument was almost "Muslims think women can't swim." And if we look at the context, it was in response to an article that said a woman found it interesting & (within her context) useful to wear these garments. "It smells like a defence of veils.""She mentions veils without enough of a groan" "Well i knew a muslim & he beat hist wife with a baloon"

HN is supposed to be a quarter of a step ahead of the pack. But this is a soft version of Bin Laden like clerics telling stories of Americans sodomising each-other in the streets.

Dress codes are sometimes highly symbolic. But if this is your reason for addressing them, don't you think you should let symbolic concepts be pursued within the context of their own cultures? Otherwise they are an element of culture that gets left alone because it does not much harm or good. It is pretty arbitrary, it is not in itself important & it exists everywhere.
> I more-or-less agree that "culture is always brainwash." The logical follow-up is not, "Let's therefore accept all cultures that don't immediately, viscerally violate our sense of right and wrong"; it's, "Wow, culture is fundamentally really messed up!

What I am saying is the following: A common argument that comes up is usually. (a) Woman are forced to wear hijab. It is demeaning & cruel & oppresses women. (b) I choose to wear it. I find it dignified & liberating. (a) You are brainwashed.

All I am saying that (a) does not have a convincing argument. It is not (if you read up the thread) comparable to US rural slavery because they are being oppressed (if they are) by their own culture in which they are active participants. Brainwashed is no argument at all in this case because it is applicable to any element of culture & can be used to argue virtually any point (you are brainwashed not to wear hijab, pray, respect your husband, etc). Accepting that argument in principle necessitates accepting an argument giving equal weight to the counter-argument.

> So criticize all of them! The problem here is that you're working off the premise that our own cultural norms are somehow above critique, which is simply untrue.

I am certainly not doing that. I am saying watch what you argue. "Islamic/Arabic cultures are oppressive" is a popular argument to make these days.

Many of the aspects of these societies, practices, traditions & laws are indeed oppressive. Many of these countries are military dictatorships or monarchies. A lot of the arguments are indeed correct & needed. But (and this is a big but) we cannot let this degrade (we have, but lets pretend) into an area where anything is admissible. Look at the defence that the argument in this thread got. The argument was almost "Muslims think women can't swim." And if we look at the context, it was in response to an article that said a woman found it interesting & (within her context) useful to wear these garments. "It smells like a defence of veils.""She mentions veils without enough of a groan" "Well i knew a muslim & he beat hist wife with a baloon"

HN is supposed to be a quarter of a step ahead of the pack. But this is a soft version of Bin Laden like clerics telling stories of Americans sodomising each-other in the streets.

Dress codes are sometimes highly symbolic. But if this is your reason for addressing them, don't you think you should let symbolic concepts be pursued within the context of their own cultures? Otherwise they are an element of culture that gets left alone because it does not much harm or good. It is pretty arbitrary, it is not in itself important & it exists everywhere. We would not be seriously debating why bikinis are not allowed at work.
So you're saying this is a bad job posting because Craigslist must die?
No, it's not their job. Police respond to things, but they are basically not allowed to be proactive, barring a riot. There's a ton of reasons for this, including that without an actual law broken tailing this guy could be construed as police harassment, would likely involve a violation of some Constitutional right or other, and, of course, the real reason, that they simply don't have time for that sort of thing.

When you set policy for things like police, you get tradeoffs. Protect one person's rights, and you'll block actions the police could have taken to stop another. This isn't intended as political commentary and I don't have any particular thing in mind; think of it as an engineering view of law enforcement. You Can't Have It All. (And Certainly Not For Free.)
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There can be a fine line between something you disagree with and something that is jarringly stupid. "The world is flat" and "The world is a sphere" are both wrong, but they both are also reasonable approximations at some level.

Under some interpretations of US law, a 22 year old taking nude photo's of them self could be prosecuted for creating child porn if they look 16.

I think if you asked a thousand people off the street:

Is that accurate? Is that moral? Is that a travesty of justice? Is that reasonable?

You would get yes, no, and sort of to all of those questions and it's not really a "major" hot topic.
Sometimes I get really annoyed that I can't automate all the boring parts of my life in the same way I can do (and I always do) in a computer.

From the top of my head: dishes, picking clothes, paying bills and banking in general (I would be willing to pay $100/month for a bank that provided me a good API instead of forcing me to use their crappy stupid websites), organizing physical stuff (why the fuck can't I have "garbage collection" for what is in my room?) and dealing with my car (I have to fill it in with gas every time).
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Your right. On the message as a whole. Middles Eastern countries are not generally very culturally isolated.
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> Will you buy a computer that will be cheaper tomorrow?

This is how consumer electronics works, and yes, people buy plenty.

> As more and more people decide they don't need new cars, new houses, new clothes

New cars and clothes? Well, they probably don't need these things. Overproduction is not a good thing - excess clothes sit unused in a closet, and a frivolous new car means an old car goes to the junkyard (circuitously).

> clean water, electricity, etc

One can do without these just as easily regardless of inflation (especially since you can't really store them), and yet people still buy them. Demand comes from widespread wealth, when the benefits of these things outweigh the relative cost. This independent wealth (and thus true progress) are encouraged by a monetary policy which rewards savings, not by one which induces spending for the illusion of temporary wealth.
8% is an off-the-wall royalty. I mean, if you write a book, an entire book, you're only going to get a 15% royalty. 8% is too high by at least an order of magnitude.
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Yes indeed. I think your comment was too brief. A statement without justification is not particularly interesting to me, and I imagine others felt the same and downmodded you.
The person doing the voting.
I noticed that, too -- it really looks like they want a single individual who can both make high-level technical decisions and implement + support a bunch of infrastructure at the same time.

I would call that person a co-founder, not a CIO, and a particularly over-burdened one, at that.
Psh. People who've got something to say will say it regardless of how important it is. They won't think rules matter. The braindead people might start being nicer, though, which makes the Internet more fun for me. (Kind communities, ones where there's no moderation but only smart people appear, are so wonderful. The Truthandbeautybombs forum for webcomics is a joy to read.)

1) Anonymity hurts in most situations. I think it's good that we CAN have it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's rarely used for good.

2) I think it's more polite to make fun of people you do know. There's more a chance of you knowing that your insults are justified, then, and it's more fun.

3) I get your point, and also thank you for the kind compliment, but I think the idea is to be mean when mean is deserved, to be nice in other instances, and to try to make sure that you're never mean for stupid reasons.
"And presidents -well- many folks have logical reasons to want them dead."

Ironically, many of the successful assassins either did not, or had nothing like a logical reason.

* Booth's assassination of Lincoln is... complicated but had to do with the Civil War. Call it rational-ish.

* Garfield was assassinated by a nutcase who thought Garfield owed him after the assassin's few hundred printed pamphlets putatively got him elected. Not rational.

* McKinley's assassin had a head full of anarchism. Call it rational if you like, but it certainly wasn't because of anything about McKinley himself.

* Kennedy's assassin's motives are unclear, but it looks like he generally just hated the US and wanted to take down Kennedy and thereby become a "great man".

I'm not arguing with anything you said, just find it interesting that of all the people who, like you say, may have some reason to want to pull this off, it's the crazies who succeed. Call it HN's goal of "interesting things".
The level to receive down-vote ability is around 50, I believe.
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That should come in handy if you don't already know about it. :)
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Two years ago I owned my car and had a roommate so when I was unemployed for 6 months and it was no big deal.

Now my apartment is 1515$ a month an my car payment is 500$ a month. There is no way in hell I could pay that while making 20k / year. If your making X and drop down to 1/4 X then all those obligations that seemed reasonable at the time are just not possible.