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>Not everyone is going to agree with your civil disobedience actions

No, but those who don't support, say, MLK Jr., deserve to be shamed for their regressive attitude.

Practically speaking, the forces of regression are always louder and stronger than the voices for progress. But if we don't denounce and shame those regressive voices, then the voices for progress end up feeling so alone and unloved.

The truth about HN is that there are a lot of selfish, money-grubbing, right-wing people here who would happily shit all over Aaron because Aaron was a left-wing activist.

It's not okay to let these regressive, conservative figures steal the spotlight. If you don't support Aaron's actions, you don't deserve civility. You are beneath contempt and deserve to be spat on, insulted, publically humiliated, like any common racist, bigot, anti-abolitionist, or Ancieme Regime blue blood. Right-wingers simply deserve shame and mockery and if progressive people would hold the conservatives in our midst to standards of human decency, then those conservatives wouldn't be winning the day and our most powerful and successful left-wing activists like Aaron would be less likely to kill themselves.

Aaron literally sacrificed himself for the sake of the species and the response from HN was "fuck Aaron. What did he ever do to help MY bottom line?"

These right-wing assholes on HN should be shamed just like we used to shame racists, sexists, eugenicists, Nazis.
We are intentionally trying to avoid the $10-40/mo "privacy VPN" market. There is endless abuse and pain running it. I've run remailers, talked to FBI agents when they were potentially going to do bad things to me, etc., and am trying to avoid being in that position again. Setting a $100/mo floor pretty much puts us in the business/group range only, which has vastly less abuse.

Within that goal, we're looking at various pricing options, and additional bundled or a la carte services (DLP, logging, backup, etc.). $99/mo is just intended to communicate that if you want a single user VPN to use BitTorrent or IRC, you should look elsewhere. (I'll probably put up some Tor nodes again on separate networks to contribute to the "freedom of information" market)

The CloudFlare analogy is kind of a stretch, but the idea is that they do magic stuff to your front end customer traffic, and we do magic stuff to your back end internal user traffic. They're performance and security (mainly availability, some other security); we're manageability and security.

As for why you'd use a service vs. setting up a server and running it yourself, different users have different internal support costs for different things. I run my own services for some things. I use providers for others. Most businesses are generally happier buying a packaged service vs. paying someone to configure something custom and put it on a server and maintain it. It really depends on the environment.
There is a lot of couched language in that link while avoiding saying what they stand for but yet they are encouraging people to sign a petition while not really clarifying where they stand on the issues at times even dodging the question of what kind of reforms they support. I am a little skeptical and I think it is dubious to ask people to sign a vague promise when in all reality it will most likely be used to signal broad support of issues that they are not clearly articulating to the people they are asking to sign the promise.

Another of the group's founders, Tim Makris, acknowledged that eventually the organization probably would begin taking positions on proposed legislation or other changes.

I think it's pretty evident which way they lean and pretty unethical to obscure that. This is the worst part of the aftermath of these tragedies many of the people are used as pawns in peoples long running agendas.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-newtow...
No I disagree with your statement entirely. He was trying to download scientific and court documents that were paid for with taxpayer money that are supposed to be FREE to the public. The controlled distribution of these free documents to private companies is a scam by the US government to generate revenues for friends of the government. Yes the government was going to win their case because Aaron had to break the law in order to try and make these documents available. However, what he could have done, was brought action against the government and continued to violate the law in order to bring attention to it. But he was too young and too scared by the weight of the prosecutorial charges. They weren't going to get 30 years agains the poor kid for trying to right a government wrong. They were going to get house arrest and probation. Aaron should have stuck in there but having been falsely acused of a federal crime once in my life I know that the desire to commit suicide is strong.
Some arguments in favour of getters and setters are; that using a function allows for the addition of caching, addition of thread safety checks, changing to compute the variable rather than store it, addition of logging, mapping it to be generated from another variable, etc.
That one frustrated me. I was teaching a class and told everyone about that service as a way to send me anonymous feedback.

Then someone tried, and found that the service had been shut down. :-(
> 6-8 months is not "major" prison time by any reasonable definition of that term.

That sounds like plenty 'major' for me. Have you been in prison? I have been in 'lock-up' for about 6 hours for the terrible crime of driving a foreign car in the Netherlands. I can tell you I did not enjoy it one little bit and the prospect of doing that 6 to 8 months would change me in ways that I would prefer not to think about. Jail is not funny, and multiple months are horrible, forget about years.
I think that highlights a broader point that is touched on by the article. The Doom 3 code is not idiomatic C++ the way many would think of it but it does build its own consistent idioms and sticks with them wherever reasonable. It can do this through having a fairly small number of points where it touches the external world and ensuring that its idioms are compatible with that world.

If you're building a program in any language and it interacts heavily with a particular library then you'd better write something idiomatic to that library. If you're going to be using several libraries (including your language's standard lib) with different idioms then one of the most important design decisions you can make is how to bridge them, and where to make compromises.
1. Ed did not "fuck up". He posted his opinion. I don't -- and didn't -- agree with it, but that does not make him a bad person. And, by the way, you are right now committing the exact same sin as you are accusing him of, which makes you a hypocrite to boot. If there is any discussion worth having here, it is not about that specific comment, it is about the tone and personality of this site.

2. He sold a book of things that people found insightful. So what? I have a collection of Robert Fulghum's short works, what's the difference really?

3. You're being an asshole right now.

4. The people calling for Ed to publicly apologize are misguided, at best. The only reason that they are even aware of that comment is because it ended up on TechCrunch, and how many of those people are, themselves, guilty of the accusations that they would levy against another respected member here? Once again, the only productive thing that could come from all of this colossal stupidity would be for HN to collectively reconsider its tone and personality.

5. Part of the etiquette here is that if you are going to accuse someone of wrongdoing, you bloody well ought to at least put your name behind it. Whether you agree with that or not, those are the rules here. Using anonymous accounts to spew hatred towards other people is cowardly, at best.

6. My reply to fermule had nothing to do with his internet points, and everything to do with the fact that his comments are so stupid, so inciteful, that either they are the work of a troll or of a member that should know better, or someone from somewhere else on the internet that doesn't know better. What I find most abhorrent about HN at this moment is that fermule's comments currently have a net positive score, despite being almost perfectly identical to the kind of garbage that you'd expect to find on Reddit.
Did wrinkled fingers evolve for better grip?
You keep backsliding from your original stated intent to see the US Government "dead," which is plain enough. The key detail is that you have no vision whatsoever of what would be there instead. Would it be a US-scale Somalia? The Confederacy? You and your buddies running things? In the absence of any specifics it would be rational to assume the very worst. Even the Bolsheviks had specifics.
and what sentiment is that? Do you have any real, reliable metric since pg removed the display of karma? Dude, you are one of the people whose comments I bookmark. But this is horseshit. Ed has ensconced himself as some hacker-poet here. He's got quite a following. And the comment in question, the one this entire thread is about, was extremely callous. And all the more so since it assumed Aaron had a boatload of money that he didn't actually have. I think it was very easy for him to post that. I think its as easy for him as it is for you, who posts constantly, and often, especially these days, with a very noticeable derisive edge. Defend your friend by all means, but don't expect to be high handed and moral about it. The prevailing sentiment in this thread is the perfect echo for the current "HN sentiment".
This displays better:

‏(‏قول "مرحبا يا عالم!")‏)

You need to put a 0x200F (Unicode's right-to-left-mark) both before and after the text, so the neutrally-directed characters ( ) and " will inherit the directionality of the Arabic text, instead of the top-level left-to-right context.
I remember that about the gears, too. IIRC, the big ones were too expensive and the small ones' teeth broke.
As a fairly new programmer (< 1 year), I think the best thing for a beginner to do is to just pick a route and go with it. At the end of the day, both stack are going to have a lot of similarities. It all comes down to personal preference which will be determined after some time.

I started learning testing using rspec. Now I'm starting a new job where they use test unit for testing. The transition has not been too difficult because the difference between the two are too crazy.

If you pick one route and learn the basics, you shouldn't have too much trouble switching over to the other.
Thanks for the idea - just added here as well.
You're talking out of your butt.
Go search for "data oriented programming". Mike Acton wrote a few interesting presos on it, GameDevADay blog has a few others, too.

Yes, technically they have different motivations for going the way they go, but the end results tend to coincide neatly :)
Now his comment seems to have gone...
1) It is possible. A quick look at the tax code would show the 33% bracket starts at 178k for individuals, and $217k for couples. 178*2 > 217.

2) Married filing separately is not even remotely the same as filing as a single.
There are different different brackets for single vs married (http://www.mydollarplan.com/tax-brackets/). Filing separately uses the joint brackets divided by two.

If two people each make $500k (nowhere close to the average/median, but it illustrates the point). They would pay the 39.6% rate on anything over $400k if single, or 2 * 100k * .396 = $79.2k. If married filing jointly, they would pay 39.6% on anything over $450k, or 550k * .396 = $217.8k. If filing separately, they would pay the same $217.8k (2 * 275k * 39.6%).

Even looking at something like each making $150k, the marginal tax rate for singles is 28% and the rate for a married couple is 33%.
To all those replying to edw519 - please stop witch-hunting. First prosecutor, then MIT, then.. edw519? Its possible any of these parties made a mistake.. now that they can look back and reflect. But, even after reflection its very possible that each party made the best decision they could with the information at hand. Maybe I'm lucky, but I find 99%+ of people I meet in this world are well intentioned, and if I invest the empathy cycles I almost always can see their point of view and understand why they made the decision that they did.

Does your sympathy towards aaronsw merit that you throw empathy out the window? No. Do you actually understand the complex set of events that occurred and how these events relate to one another and the rest of the world? No. Surely, a solution to prevent such a terrible scenario from re-occuring is far removed from personal attacks:

- if you don't like how district attorney works - get moving on changing the law
- don't think prosecutor did their job? point out their job description vs their actions to the proper authority
- don't like how MIT managed case? reach out to the MIT beaurocracy and work with them to improve their process
- don't like edw519 *most upvoted* post on the Sept article? suggest policy changes that could prevent such a comment from appearing on HN
- etc

When you start with the point of view that we are all reasonable, and well intentioned.. the problem then becomes about process and culture, and you can actually start making progress.
This is so deranged that I can't tell if it's a parody of HN's reaction to this turn of events or a serious post.
I think the biggest complaint from men in divorces is not that they get screwed economically, but that the courts are heavily biased towards giving the mother the children. Sometimes "standard of living" isn't the most important factor in play - otherwise custody cases would be two parents trying to make the other one take the kids, instead of the other way around.

I haven't done the research to make the argument that their complaints are true, (though I think it is), but you are somewhat misrepresenting the complaint.

I've never been married, divorced, or had children, so if I am missing something obvious, please let me know.
It appears to swap out $stderr with a StringIO and StringIO isn't threadsafe and then doesn't wrap it in a lock. It's been tripping up people in the #jruby channel.

This is a gist from one earlier today: https://gist.github.com/be34c0a5666db0c83629
So good leaders aren't allowed to want to lead?
Top Strategies for Conversion Optimization
The Taliban doesn't have the resources. Qatar did have the resources to build al Jazeera, which is much in demand. I suppose the problem is that the Atlantic has rented itself out rather than being owned lock, stock and barrel.
Apparently not. Sad.
It's also sexist, but that's pretty much what you can expect from the tech community. Shameful.
No. Not federal felonies. Only state and under certain circumstances such as a person who is under 18.
Here is a similar piece of content, from GE, makers of nuclear weapons and microwave ovens and former owners of NBC (now Kabletown)

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/ideas-roundtable-workin...
The other interesting thing is that it seems to have -1 downvotes. Hax? Or a javascript bug?
Unfortunately, no (we've had endless pain with ipsec vpns on client devices which move between networks, and the other protocols supported suck).

We're currently using the Juniper SSL-VPN hardware/software to support iOS users.
Bizarrely, it isn't even written very well. It's basically:

Scientology Opened 12 new offices/churches.

Followed by 12 pictures, all pretty much staged the same way, with blanket text following each picture written the following way:

City, State: Date

David Miscavige dedicated the new Church of Scientology (City) in ceremonies attend by (nnn) Scientolgists, their guests and city and state dignitaries. The Church building, which used to be (XXX) is located near (YYY)

The entire "Sponsored Content" feels like it was programmatically generated.

I'd expect better out of a high-school english student.
I am not simply talking about this one incident.
Please consider writing a letter to the Editor (at this url: http://www.theatlantic.com/contact/). Here's what I wrote:

Hello,

I've been very disappointed by Atlantic's decision to run the Scientology promo article under sponsored content (http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/201...).

Despite the small label on top saying "Sponsored content" and a banner at the very bottom, which needs to be scrolled down to to be seen, I didn't feel that it had been immediately obvious that the content had been paid for and had not met the exacting standards of the Atlantic's editorial team. In fact, I had only realized that it was sponsored content once I scrolled down to the banner "sponsored by the Church of Scientology" at the very bottom.

I am afraid that continued publication of such sponsored content, especially in a subtly deceptive way like this, will invariably end up cheapening Atlantic's brand and marring your journalistic reputation. While I understand that running a magazine in the internet era is hard and subscriber revenue constitutes a smaller part of the total, I feel that the fact that this content is paid-for had absolutely not been made explicit enough and, as a subscriber, I feel that such blatant hijacking of Atlantic's identity betrays the trust of your readers and violates your journalistic duty to inform and enlighten.

Best regards,

Paul Milovanov
Honestly your version is worse. ?: is cryptic, you should not use it except in extremely simple cases.
Depends if it were dod as a whole or a specific branch. If it involved one branch it would probably be NCIS for navy and marines or the respective CIDs for air force or army. The dod angle had crossed my mind. You can not hold a position above l1 help desk at Georgia tech without top secret clearance. All due to the defense research conducted at GT.
Are you sure people weren't referring to Medium being similar to your Throwww?

http://medium.com
Thanks. I should've looked that quote up before posting.
Get rid of marriage from the law entirely. Marriage could be expressed in a standard contract that gives the sorts of rights the it currently carries. The state shouldn't have any say in who enters this sort of agreement.
Windows isn't Linux and Linux isn't Windows. Like another commenter said, Windows users don't typically hold Linux users in contempt, which makes this parody rather ironic.

What is more ironic is that they play up features of Linux like they're great (Live CD), or berate Windows for driver issues. Linux is infamous for lack of driver support.

My most recent experience: Attempting to install Ubuntu variant on my 3 year old Dell Studio laptop. I must boot onto the Live CD first to run the installer, but the Live CD freezes while loading because, I'm sure you guessed it, it doesn't have the proper drivers. Still running Windows, money well spent I guess.
Funny how the pictures all look and feel so similar.
Financial Planning App SigFig Crosses $50 Billion In Assets
Not really. Only for a crime like murder.
Twitter’s $1 Billion Target Helped by Turkey as IPO Nears
Stories like this destroy the one major advantage established media, such as the Atlantic, has over new media. A trusted brand.

These types of ads (branded content, in feed ads or social ads, whatever we're going to call them) are just another step in the battle to outwit a readers BS detection system.

If I can easily tune out flashing banner ads, I can easily scan pass sponsored posts.

Not worth blowing valuable trust on a short term gain is it?
There is a lesson to be learned here about using third-party vendors in sensitive parts of your business.

IF you're a news outlet and you're going to let people publish "sponsored stories" and promise them the ability to moderate comments, AND you use a third-party add-on from a comments vendor, THEN you should not be surprised when an employee of that third-party company is allowed to leave whatever comments they like — no matter what your agreement with your client says.

Of course, I'm not sure that if you're a news outlet it's a good idea to let people publish sponsored quasi-news content. Newspapers have been pushing the envelope on this in the last couple of decades — remember in 1999 the LA Times upset their own staff's sense of balance when they printed a 168-page supplement on the Staples Center and split ad revenue 50/50 with the Center (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec99/la_times_12-...).

But if you're gonna do this, you've really got to do it right!
There is a big difference between public and private information. Aaron does not need to give up his privacy to be justified in asking for help.
Ctrl-F confetti, the comment is now gone.
Thanks for your feedback! I agree that language itself is the real challenge. I had to deal with a lot of RTL/encoding issues, sure, but the real difficulty is how do you map engrained concepts from one culture to the next? I don't have any solid answers, and قلب is very much an experiment.

The REPL complains about 'letter unexpected' because the first thing it encounters is the ASCII 'Q', which is invalid outside of a string, and barfs.

I completely agree that Arabic linguistics aren't being utilized to their fullest. My Arabic is certainly not as strong as my English, unfortunately. This is a very preliminary release, and I'm excited to collaborate with others stronger in written Arabic for better word choice and semantics.
A friend of the author of QLB here, and I brought up the idea of a visual interpreter to parse the square kufic calligraphy. My understanding (limited as it is by my almost complete ignorance of Arabic) is that certain stackings of adjacent words would be ambiguous to the parser.
Pick a good leader who doesn't brown nose his way into leadership positions
The scariest part - from the article, elected government officials lend credibility:

The Church of Scientology opened its new National Affairs Office in Washington, D.C., in a ceremony led by David Miscavige. Joining him in this dedication were Members of U.S. Congress Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Danny Davis (D-IL); as well as Liz Gibson, Senior Program Manager, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
His comment is now gone ... it was by far the most up-voted and I'm a bit shocked that Disqus is in collusion with The Atlantic.
Not sure how much you care, but it may be worth hiding your nginx version[1]. It's just as easy as adding

server_tokens off;

to your http section of your nginx.conf

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#server_tokens
I don't disagree, but it is socially unacceptable to say such things about thugs in other religions, just Scientology - and they may be freely promoted in the press with equal quantities of distortion - this bothers me a great deal.
All of these are usually made by theoretical purists. Meanwhile, the people who write the code see that most variables don't need any of the above, most of the time.
The reverse perspective is the basis of the parody. There is a link the yellow box towards the beginning of the post.
Look, the bigger problem is spending 10 years in jail and coming back to a society that has called you a con artist in national newspapers after the DOJ gets to talk with the press. He went from being a respected and loved person who have a big career opportunity to being despised. I went through this and you know that it is almost impossible to find a girl to date after getting in this kind of trouble. They Google your name and say "Fraud" no way. He was facing 20 years in jail and feds do get sentences this long (probably would not have in this case) but Aaron was still a kid and doesn't understand that the government is not going to get 20 years on him. 20 years means no family, no children, probably no marriage, no work prospect, a life of shame. It's like having leprosy its awful.
Thanks. I've really enjoyed that discussion with you. And by the way, your comment mentioning several decades of experience was certainly appropriate.