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Mutual interest in cooperation happens in the shadow of the law.

At the present time, yes, there's a high correlation. But 15,000 years ago, there were no laws, yet humans still engaged in mutual cooperation. Mutual cooperation is prior to law; laws are just the way we currently try to facilitate mutual cooperation.

I cooperate with you, but only because I know that if you don't hold up your end of the bargain or act anti-socially, I can call the other monkeys to put you in your place.

This is one possible reason, but it's not the only one. If both of us can realize greater gains from mutual cooperation and trade than we can from each being isolated individuals, then we have an incentive to mutually cooperate even without any other enforcement mechanism. The reason the other enforcement mechanisms are there is that, as you say, we evolved from creatures that were not intelligent enough to consciously apprehend the incentives for mutual cooperation, so we evolved unconscious mechanisms for doing so. That's what all those tribal instincts are: calling the other monkeys to put an anti-social monkey in his place happens in the absence of laws too.
the comments for this item have gone way off topic and just to be clear if you look at bitcoincharts recording of trading history for this exchange you will see that no more than $3000 changed hands via the exchange. That means that the total amount lost is well under that.
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No matter how much you make, going to Starbucks for a latte every single day seems innocuous. I get a grande vanilla or a grande gingerbread (during the holidays). I think it's about $3.75. It becomes a habit, I get one 25 out of 30 days. That's $100 a month, which translates to $1,200 a year which translates to $7,200 over 5 years - which is more than most people will even put away into savings over that same time.
actually there are a couple of VC Banks that do this (again generally further stage companies). I know http://www.triplepointcapital.com/ does this (they invested in our startup, but for equity).
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IMO the reason developers are "hard" to manage has nothing to do with the fact that they're in demand - fortunately most developers aren't that fickle.

There are numerous reasons why developers are difficult to manage. One of the main reasons is because by and large they are introverts. They therefore don't communicate well with other people at all times.

Also - let's face it - the work developers do isn't always easy to understand and quantify; as opposed to say building a house where the inputs/outputs are clearly visible. I can't imagine being a non-techie and trying to manage a team of developers would be at all fun.

Source: I own and run a software development company and have employed and contracted with dozens of developers.
Your statement is nearly self-refuting, since I myself go no further than using scare quotes, as do many others.

We do this because it's 100% a political and legal term, and of course propaganda. One good definition coming from a politician's mouth would be "any scary looking gun I think I can get banned". If you expect the gun owning community to embrace it, well, you're already disappointed. And by definition it can't be a precise term, unless we're talking about "an assault weapon as defined by [this specific law]."

We talk about "assault rifles", but even then there's a lack of precision. The original Nazi StG 44 is one, but the Swiss StG 57 is a battle rifle, in fact, it's so heavy at 12.5 pounds that with its standard 24 round magazine it's just about a machine rifle. StG is for Sturmgewehr, literally storm rifle in German.

There's also a lack of precision in that many, including myself, call semi-auto versions of them assault rifles, even though by the strict definition they can't be since one of the points of using an intermediate power round is to allow (more) controllable full auto firing, military ones are "selective fire" (although there's a common trend to max that out at 3 round bursts for greater control and conserving ammo).

The extremes in the gun community for naming them run from the NSSF's "modern sporting rifle" (they're the lobbying etc. group for manufacturers, distributors, retailers and range operators) to just recently, when Obama's threatened executive actions were unspecified, "Regime Change Rifles" from about the most rabid without being bat-shit crazy* of the "3 percenters".

* I.e. about as rabid as RMS but less "crazy".
You can do deduplication on chunks of the file.
AFAIK, this is what cyphertite[1] does. Split each file in 256KB chunks, store their checksum and match those against a db do avoid resending / copying the same data over and over again.

I haven't tested cyphertite, but I've been meaning too. I mean, Ryan McBride is involved in the project as well as other OpenBSD devs. I'm hoping it has the same level of polish as OpenBSD.

[1] https://www.cyphertite.com/
I think this is a common misconception with poker. Responding well to bluffing is easy; it's described mathematically by Game Theory. Psychology and "reading" betting patterns is only important if your goal is to maximally exploit your opponent. Solving chess is "simply" the game of finding a game-theoretic solution (computationally, however, this is beyond current computing power; much like "solving" chess is from move 1). For more than 2 players, however, GTO solutions may not exist.
I think the discussion about civil disobedience is largely a straw man to steer the conversation in a certain direction.

The point of his actions in this case (if as described in the blog post, which hasn't been concluded) was to directly change the way the data was distributed and therefore better described as a 'direct action'.

For a description of 'direct action', see the third paragraph of the first page in this book: http://books.google.se/books?id=W15vhV6EiSQC&pg=PA1
No.

You cannot overcome Might by convincing it to be Right. Not reliably.

You overcome Might with Might. If you are Right, that actually increases your strength. But you still have to win. You still have to fight. That means strategy and preparation and readiness for loss.

Anyone thinking anything else isn't thinking, they're dreaming. They're going lose, and the higher the stakes the more they'll get hurt.
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As there's lots of misunderstanding in this thread, just wanted to explicitly +1 this. It's being downvoted, however it is entirely correct.
More awareness and potential for backlash from the public absolutely will change something.
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Python and Ruby have somewhat comparable syntaxes, but Objective-C and Ruby are much more comparable in overall language design. If you feel the need to compare similar languages, it may be a better choice as a starting point. Or Smalltalk, but I suspect it wouldn't resonate quite as well, as much fewer people are familiar with it.
>More than 50% of voters voted for Democrats in Congress (even when you discard seats where there was only one party on the ballot, still over 50% voted that way), and a large majority in polls want Congress to become less partisan.

The problem with your argument is that people voted based on how the election system is currently setup. If the system were setup differently, then people might have voted differently. It's the same issue when people say that there is a problem when a presidential candidate won the "popular vote" but not the electoral vote. Had the election actually been based on the popular vote, the voting might have been different. If you live in a state that is definitely going to one candidate or another, you might not bother voting under the electoral vote system, but you might have in the popular vote system. The "popular vote" results don't take into account these people and is not necessarily a reflection of what the popular vote would have been in a popular vote system.

Similarly, let's suppose you have a state that's definitely going Republican in the presidential election no matter what. You get lower turnout and the state chooses a Republican president and congressmen, but the country chooses a Democratic president. Because the turnout was low in the Republican state, but perhaps higher in the swing states that ultimately voted Democrat, when you look at total voters, it appears that percentage-wise, more than 50% of voters preferred Democrats. When looking at the percentages you can't ignore that many people intelligently chose not to vote in that state because their vote didn't matter. Had they known their vote would matter, the turnout and percentages may have been different.

In other words, it's not so simple to say that "More than 50% of voters voted for Democrats in Congress" because you're not taking into account all of the people who had opinions about who they wanted to win, but rationally chose not to vote in their particular area because the outcome of the race was certain in the way the election system was setup.
The app looks excellent; the best design for an Android HN app I have seen to date. Unlike others, I haven't experienced any crashing issues.

I only have one small piece of input: A night-mode (white on black) for the main menu and comments would be an excellent addition.
"How I did it"... that is begging for a story. Got one?
I know from personal experience that the US Attorney's Office always states in their press releases the maximum penalty possible that the defendant is facing. Each charge has a maximum number of years and they state the number of possible consecutive years possible.

Had Aaron Swartz been found guilty, there is no way he was going to face the maximum penalty. There is a high probability that the penalties associated with the charges would have been run concurrently.

Once found guilty, US Probation writes a Pre-Sentencing Report which calculates the time the defendant is facing. This calculation is based upon numerous details, including but not limited to actual damages, criminal history, and offense level with points that range from from 1 to 43.

If a defendant agrees with the government that he or she is guilty and pleads accordingly, he or she will generally get fewer points for offense level. If a defendant contests the charges and exercises his or her constitutional right to have his or her case heard by a jury and is found guilty, US Probation will increase the number of points. (Imagine that. The government gives you more prison time for exercising your right to a trial under the Constitution). The more points calculated, the more time a defendant is facing.

Good time is applied to a sentence by the federal prison. An inmate is supposed to do 85% of their time if he or she has no infractions, but since the federal prison system has an interest in keeping people imprisoned, the bureaucracy has found a way to deliberately mis-read the good time statute and apply it in a way so that a defendant actually does 86.2% of their time. A sentence of one year or less will not have good time applied. Anything above one year and the good time calculation is applied.

The biggest risk in taking a case to trial are the members of the jury. The government educational system has done a great job of dumbing people down so that they follow the government's bidding. ie., "If he's on trial, he must be guilty." Few people actually think for themselves and question what is told to them by an authority figure.
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Emacs lets you easily write plugins in python? It's been a while since I used it, but I remember an awful lot of parens any time I wanted to customize something.
To quote amirmc:

"Tethering is permitted on £10 goodybag and will work on all smartphones with an inbuilt tethering feature, except for the iPhone." [1].

Not sure what the deal is with iPhone (I'm on their £12 option). All the other plans expressly say "Tethering is not permitted ..."

[1] http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-goodybag
I know how it works. The Congress that we get reflects the gerrymandering of Congressional districts that has been done state by state. The average of people elected to Congress is not biased Republican because voters in Vermont and West Virginia are not balancing out, but because states like Florida and Ohio have districts drawn such that each district is clearly one side or another, with the number of Republican districts significantly exceeding their popular support across the state.

The national result of those gerrymanders is to give Republicans a non-representative edge, and to give the extremists of both parties a much bigger impact than they would otherwise have. And this is not just "how it has always been". This is a trend that is intensifying over time. That is, Congress does not represent the people very well, and represents us less well now than it did a generation ago.

See http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/as-swing... for more on this exact topic.

PS You picked a poor example. The only court case in which the third amendment was at direct issue is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey in which it was found that the law was so obscure that bureaucrats could not be faulted for having violated it. Any future violation can also be defended on the same grounds, so it is effectively null and void.
After watching some shows / series produced in Britain I can say for sure I like your kind of humour way better than most of the stuff you can see in TV at prime time (in Germany)
I just did this two weeks ago in mint. It's crazy to see how packing your own lunch and skipping coffee every morning can add up to hundreds of extra dollars saved every month.
Thanks for the reply. So, to clarify, raised capital goes into the pockets of the founders? There is not typically a contract involved that requires company registration (i.e. incorporated), or suggestion on where to put the money?

Thanks again!
thanks for the link, interesting.
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1997 called.
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Ruby makes a number of tradeoffs in favor of "expressibility" at the expense of readability (without a _high_ degree of ruby proficiency) and ability to reason about programs. You can disagree with these tradeoffs, but they're not mistakes. It also has some things which might be designed differently if the language started from scratch (e.g. string encoding), but I would still say its a stretch to call these mistakes.

Ruby also has a number of things which make it "hard" (some would say impossible) to create fully equivalent alternative implementations. This is suboptimal, but it is what it is; at this point the level of change required to make it amiable to alternative implementation would be...prohibitive.

I do agree, however, that the inline rescue with no ability to limit to anything other than StandardError was a mistake...I've just seen way too many cases where _far_ more than reasonable got caught. That said, I'm not sure there would be any great way to add matching on the inline rescue to the grammar -- I think it would have to be removed.
those circumstances are extremely unlikely

Yeah well, lots of things were unlikely here, and yet.
All non-open source code in chrome should be in plugins (or otherwise separate DLL's), not chrome's main binary.
If you know of a case where this isn't true, please let me know.

You wouldn't be able to compile bit-identical releases due to FDO, but otherwise ...
If you are intrigued by the thought of changing your financial behavior, I can heartily recommend the following as followups to this article:

1) "Your Money or Your Life" (http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relations...) - Don't recall if this was mentioned in any of the recommended book threads, but it's definitely a good one. Gets you thinking about what your job really costs and what your time is worth to you.

2) http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - Truly rethink the value proposition of, well, just about everything in your life. Did you know you can afford another $15,900 worth of house for every mile you live closer to work?
Why small is beautiful in business.
The market is global, LNG is a commodity like any other. Unless a producer has a particular contract it will be sold to a broker who will sell it to a consumer. All that LNG is likely being sold on the open market.
Can HNers recommend a good personal finance management software solution?
I'd like something that connects to my bank account and allows me to keep track of incoming vs outgoing money.
Ideally, I'd like to tag every outgoing dollar as belonging to one of several labels, things like "groceries", "rent", etc.
I'm sure something like this must exist - anyone have a decent recommendation?
The Office Manager interacts with pretty much everyone in the company... they're a pretty important part of any company. I prefer to call the role "Support", rather than "Admin" or something similarly distant.
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This is basically false.
As I've said, at least on desktop platforms, if you were to remove the extra shipped plugins from Chrome, you should end up with something you can build from chromium source
Something else grandpa did to fuck us over! Fucking asshole.
> The few ranchers who lived here produced wheat, alfalfa, oats and corn.

I think "farm" is technically more accurate. Ranchers are the ones with cows or other animals.
You would be correct. Gasoline comes from Oil using a process called cracking which separates out the heavier components from the lighter ones used to fuel cars. Natural gas (not from oil) has prices that are still extremely low in North America.

It's still a tragic waste showing gluttonous consumption. If North America were to switch cars/homes over to natural gas then they would solve two problems, 1. Reduce emissions from Oil use 2. Not be so damn wasteful.
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Huh? Either I'm missing something or your logic is in error. To briefly restate: let P = the amount of punishment imposed; let D = the minimum amount of punishment sufficient to deter; let R = the "reasonable limit" on the amount of punishment.

#1 says: not P > D.

#2 says: P <= R.

#3 says: P >= D.

There are no logical implications between any pair of the above.

#1 and #3 combined force P = D. But that is incompatible with #2 if D > R. To put it back into English: if the only amount of punishment that will deter is greater than the "reasonable limit", there is no way to satisfy all the principles.
I'm talking about the flares you see at oil refineries, not drilling sites. Those are pressure relief valves and are essential safety equipment.

The flares you see on a day-to-day basis are just pilot flames which are always kept lit in the event a flare is required during an emergency such as an over-pressurization.
Wow! Seriously congrats! I expected it to be just another weather balloon launch but by correcting the rotation issues you made the project not only more challenging but more enjoyable to read and view! (I also love your blog)

Will you be doing more future projects like this?
For the web content (or another Chrome app) to break into the SSH client, it would need arbitrary unsandboxed code execution

Respectfully, I think you might be limiting the attack space here in a fashion that attackers are not restricted to doing. For example, there appear to me to be opportunities for side channel attacks which do not require the bad guys to totally break your sandbox model for them to be able to guess at what another Chrome process is doing. Given that they'll have a local vantage point to do the timing measurements, and consequently very high precision, it's at least possible that they can guess things about the operation of the SSH process. If the guess the right things, they don't need to cause the SSH process to execute any code at all. (If memory serves me, that's previously been used to time OpenSSL's encryption/decryption itself, but there's probably other vectors if that isn't an option these days, like timing I/O operations with sufficient precision to guess what they were.)

There's an interesting question on whether moving the SSH into a Chrome process makes it more vulnerable vis-a-vis other Chrome processes to timing attacks than it would be just by being on the same box with a Chrome process. I would not trust myself to say "That is definitely more of a risk" with the level of research I've done, but I think it is highly unlikely that it gets less risky.
I'm making a tricky point. I certainly don't mean we should concede someone's opinion. We can and should disagree and argue and seek to persuade.

But there is a huge difference between "you are wrong because x, y and z", and "you simply shouldn't think that in the first place."
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I hope that this is the restart of the under $200 PC era. I also hope that young boys and girls are provided real tools to program these things out of the box. Thinking about it, a new version of BASIC might not be such a bad thing, but that might just be nostalgia for my Atari 400 8-bit BASIC cartridge.
The additional code for Chrome should be separated into plugins or otherwise dynamically loaded things.
Again, if someone knows of cases where this is not true, let me know.
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Let me get this straight.
You've hired a Zen master so that your team can encourage people to meditate in order not to lose the money they've gambled? You seriously think you can inspire true meditation in someone by making them worry about the money they'll lose if they don't "meditate?" What's wrong with you? More importantly, what's wrong with the obviously fraudulent Zen master that's helping you do this?

First of all, meditation shouldn't have anything to do with a financial worry/financial incentive. This is one of the most dishonest things I've seen on HN. It's a cheap way to make money off the unsuspecting, naive crowd that's never had the patience or discipline to try meditation and has money to waste. Your website isn't even technically innovative; it makes money by encouraging people to give you their money, and you get to keep it if they don't achieve deeply personal goals that involve detachment, peace and personal discovery. How are you helping? How is taking money hostage contributing to the spirit of true meditation?

If you want to make money, go beyond an HTML page that laughs in the face of meditation and make something actually useful, like a real product.

I'm saying this as someone who did specialized research in Zen buddhism in an academic environment for one year.
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Why does it need permission to read my identify? Sorry, uninstalled.