skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the state is an organisational structure and thus that it is "composed of people" is no more an innate hedge against corruption than any other organisational structure. That plenty of the people which make the machine are otherwise good is precisely the problem; evil people will do evil things, but evil people are rare.

A much larger problem is when otherwise good people can be convinced that evil is good, and are wholesale conscripted into the commissioning thereof. Look at the statist lawyer pack currently continuously stating that this is just business as usual in this case. They're absolutely right, but that they can accept that state of affairs purely because it is done under color of law should be telling.

Any organisational structure given unlimited power and no direct oversight by market forces will historically trend toward this kind of behaviour, that is why I believe as I do that it is an innate characteristic of a state. The ability to write your own rules and modify them at will and without effective limit to power, coupled with the ability to levy compulsory fees on your "customers" is put simply a recipe for disaster. Democracy is a laughable hedge on that of power, the subversion of which on a daily basis ought to be evidence enough that this is true.

I am aware of the traditional refrain that the solution is better educated voters and less money in politics and a whole raft of other prescriptions, but I am similarly aware that they never come to pass and all attempts are made to keep the violent, psychopathic machine chugging along as it was before with nary a sideways glance for other possibilities.

The reaction from the subjects when this is pointed out to them is disappointing, but telling. I apologise if I sound overly shrill on the topic, it's not my intent, I am simply tired of seeing this pattern repeated over and over again only to have people utterly unwilling to examine the real root of the problem.
Walmart on Github
I love how they captured the confetti in mid-air in each and every photograph. There's nothing scientology does that isn't choreographed and there's nothing scientology does that isn't bullshit.
SSL VPN to clients, ipsec tunnels to Amazon AWS and other providers. This seemed to be the best overall performance/reliability on the networks we used.
The word "startup" means you're looking at a company that hasn't found its business model (which can scale) yet - at least that's how I interpret it. Important to clarify this first.

As a startup, money should only be spent on making sure that the product and vision are geared towards solving a problem that a lot of people have. If your product isn't solving a problem, then you can spend more of your cash on trying to figure that out in iterations. If a company is iterating in this customer discovery phase then their burn rate should be fairly low.

Once you're convinced that your product resonates with your intended customers (i.e. people have paid you, signed up, or some other KPI has sufficient momentum) then you can start to spend to accelerate marketing and sales in order to "fill the sales funnel". This spending is usually through hires, paid clicks, other advertising and PR.

Spending to accelerate marketing and sales prior to ensuring that your product solves an important problem for a lot of people is a great way to blow through your $1m or more.

In summary, great founders spend their seed money making sure that they have their product aligned with a bit/important problem, then once that is found they spend to accelerate marketing and sales.
I always thought a community based, crowd-sourced effort to translate technical terms is a good idea. I will be happy to team up on this if anybody is interested.
Finding the first 1,000 triangle numbers in J
This again?

Every so often, the Church of Scientology goes up against the Internet.

Every so often, the Church of Scientology gets its ass handed to it.

This has been going on since 'the Internet' meant 'Usenet' for most people on the Internet.

Heh. Maybe this time will be especially amusing.
Finally the true story of scientology is being told!
>Sponsor Content is created by The Atlantic’s Promotions Department in partnership with our advertisers. The Atlantic editorial team is not involved in the creation of this content. Email advertising@theatlantic.com to learn more.

So if the Taliban wanted to pay for content they would be fine with that too.
In next year's recap they can talk about the big recruiting breakthroughs they made by writing enormous checks to struggling media outfits which allowed them to trick readers into thinking puff pieces were real content.
You do get some choice in how to file. I'd much rather the tax code applied equally to everyone - single, married, children or childless. The goal should be for the tax return to be less than a page long and so dead simple that billions of dollars are not spent each year just on filling them out.
Someone ought to write an adblock-like extension that incorporates jwz's HERP DERP filter to arbitrary URLs, starting with http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/*
It was 80 IQ points and Alan Kay said it.
18 U.S.C. 3056 may be instructive here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3056
I'm guessing you use a 5s digit like Roman numerals and the abacus do.
I'm not quite sure if it's 'sellout' or if it's just the church having key people at The Atlantic to make this happen, sort of like how the church had infiltrated key government organizations around the world.
So they're essentially letting Scientology use The Atlantic's "brand" to trick people into reading this? (Yes, I know it says Sponsored Post)

This, on top of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108929 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-... makes me pretty weary of trusting anything I read on TheAtlantic ever again
1) I don't believe this is possible on a joint return
2) If indeed it is possible, what's stopping you from filing as "married filing separately"?
That industry is getting rather desperate for money these days.
Man that link looks so suspicious! lol. At 13 though?! wow! thats pretty impressive.
CNET's Greg Sandoval resigns over editorial interference by CBS
I understand that this is "sponsoderd content" AKA an ad.

I have seen "sponsored pages" in newspapers for many years about a lot of crap, is there a reason to consider this one worse than the average?

(Yes, scientology is evil but they are not forbidden from making ads I reckon?)

edit: the "sponsored" bit is right on top of the page, as it is in dead-tree-form newspapers too.
Give it a rest yourself. He publicly heaped scorn on Aaron collecting money to defend himself. Not really a stretch to say he contributed to someones isolation. And saying "he pulled the fucking trigger" is grotesque.
> Every so often, the Church of Scientology gets its ass handed to it.

They get a few wins too.

(http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html)
I am confused on how you think the information should be used to change ones opinion and future actions. Do you think there should be zero influence?

> but that doesn't make you correct.

My aim was not to be 100% correct about Arron, but rather to on average be more correct with similar cases.
But that's the thing.

rspec: @micropost.should respond_to(:context)
testunit: assert @micropost.respond_to?(:context)

rspec: @micropost.should be_valid
testunit: assert @micropost.valid?

rspec: @micropost.should_not be_valid
testunit: refute @micropost.valid?

The testunit It's Just Ruby examples end up looking like the syntactic sugar!
So are you suggesting the credit only be given to couples that have kids? Your observation doesn't change the imbalance argued in the article.
CNN does this too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-busi...
It's really good.

Though I wrote the damn thing, so I'm probably biased.
Yep, will never read anything from the atlantic again, just added it to my host file.
No, I'm not saying he needs to be "careful," I'm saying he needs to be just, and I think else everyone does too (including those who upvote unjust remarks). It's certainly not just him I'm talking about, and if it were only him who engaged in immoral behavior like this, then Aaron never would have been in the spot he was in in the first place. We live in a sick, depraved culture, and Ed's remarks are just one among millions.
> makes me pretty weary of trusting anything I read on TheAtlantic ever again

I agree.

It's a shame. Sometimes they have great content. I'd be happy to pay for that content. I even post links to that content in various places. But the sleazy way they submit posts everwhere, and this, and etc, all make me much less likely to pay them anything.
Good then, It's not just me.
4) You need to Specify the complete path to the desired folder (it must be empty)

On Linux, you just specify it as a mount point at install time, and it gets populated (or it uses its existing content if you don't elect for format it). Technically, you could do it after install by copying the existing files over to the new drive, and then changing the mount options.

So, out of curiosity, how would you do that on Windows for folders like C:\Users?
If this was such a great way of doing things, why don't we programmers (who of course have everything all figured out) already do this in our code? Have a harvester that regularly walks your VCS and deletes any function older than 1 year. Sound like fun?

Keep the legal system straightforward

Being explicit is not the way to achieve that. Explicit handling of corner cases is always confusing when there are many, even more so when you are speaking in legaleese. "Reasonable Person" codified explicitly would take pages and pages and pages. You think that would be more understandable to the layman than, "What a Reasonable Person would do"?

If Real Life and People could be so easily codified, heuristics would be a completely useless field.

Eliminate plea bargaining. Reduce the power of prosecutors, and reduce the power of the police

What does that have to do with this line of discussion?
Nice site!

Consider using the site's name consistently. The logo is "alias", the home page refers to "Alias.sh", and the About page refers to "alias.sh".
Your subscription model doesn't make sense to me. For the cost of a year ($1188) you could pay someone to setup your own VPN using open source software and not be limited to 5 users. A simple user license scheme seems to be more applicable.

I also don't get the comparison to CloudFlare. CF is a proxy service that optimizes and protects your site from attacks. A VPN provides a secure connection between computers. The only thing that's the same is that they're both security related.

Edit: After re-reading the article, looking at the site, and comments I realized I've misunderstood the service. The TC article made it sound like you were just selling VPN software. Now I understand that you're acting as an intermediary server, allowing clients to connect without setting up their own. It's an interesting idea but my first question still stands. Why not pay someone to setup a server for you?
wasn't The Atlantic a reputable magazine?
Show HN: Send slightly-personalized emails from csv
An insidious evil, thought defeated, but quietly gathering strength.
I had that thought too, but they sort of addressed that. Per capita, child rearing costs single women more than married women. That's because married women get to split costs with husbands.

If you look at divorce statistics, for all that men feel that they get screwed, after a divorce the ex-husband usually has a significantly better standard of living, and the ex-wife and kids wind up worse off. (My source for that is _The Price of Motherhood_ which is a fascinating book, but was not exactly the most comfortable book for my wife to have found while pregnant with our first.)

Thus if you add in children, marriage becomes an even better relative deal for women.

(Note that all figures that they offer are aimed at women, and not men.)
Journalism, that is.
This is disgusting and unethical. I didn't notice the "sponsor content" bar at the top and had to go all the way to the bottom to see the disclaimer.
Literally addressed in the first sentence of the article. Please read the article before commenting.
The WebSpeech API Enables Voice Recognition and Speech Synthesis in the Browser
What punishment would Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have faced for their illegal phone activities, if today's laws were in place then? Seems that Ortiz could have gone after them for more than even 35 years.
everpix is the best fucking thing on the planet.
> Harping on straw "Feminists" won't improve our situation.

Mentioning they exist is not the same as harping on them.

And this points out an asymmetry: Whenever a man focuses on the male perspective of gender equality, people drag out the 'MRA' stereotype. While the stereotypical MRA exists, that stereotype is no more relevant to the issue than the stereotypical straw feminist is relevant to the female perspective of gender equality. Yet, online, in the real world outside of the academy, that MRA stereotype is in constant use.

> Destroying systems of entrenched privilege may not be viewed as beneficial by all men that cling to these systems

And this is an example. It states that gender equality from the female perspective is automatically equivalent to "Destroying systems of entrenched privilege", which is a courtesy not given to the male perspective on the same concepts.

This asymmetry is divisive and serves to perpetuate the pointless hatred that keeps equality from being realized.
Very true. For another example of their half-hearted strategy, see the release of the Venue Pro, a device for Windows Phone 7 with a form factor really standing apart[1]. It got good press, shipped in few countries with confusing release dates and (from what I've seen) barely any marketing, and was eventually canned fourteen months later.

[1] http://www.gizmodo.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dellwp7home...
The current top comment by Matt Mullen is being upvoted at a rate of about 3 votes/second!

He appears to work at discus - did he use admin powers to comment on the article?

edit: "Tom Cruise • a few seconds ago
I paid you for this?! Thats not nearly enough confetti"
I think any forum with upvote/downvote needs to have this, so cool to watch.
Carl Malamud is the person behind resource.org. aaronsw downloaded several million documents breaking PACER's TOS, but no action was taken. The archive and 'firehose' feeds on resource.org are mainly thanks to a long-running lobbying campaign by Malamud and others. The PACER system is semi-free to access but part of why it has overhead costs is that it's integrated with ECF, which attorneys use to file documents in Federal court. The cost structure is a legacy of its heritage as a document retrieval system used in brick & mortar court offices where the per-page cost was tied to the paper and printing overhead. Copyright has never been an issue in regards to PACER.
I found this book to be very helpful as well. The chapter on testing was outstanding too.
I don't know understand why its going down? The downvotes should be displayed separately and should not affect the upvotes, unless the upvotes are getting deleted (by somebody or by the upvoters themselves)
By the way, can anyone even document the validity of this COS bullcrap? From what I understand they are either barely growing or shrinking from their peak.
Agreed. The government should not be in the business of social engineering to increase tax revenues. That aspect of governance should be entirely reactive, not proactive. The government should be a subservient entity, not a manipulative one.
I'm curious too. I would love to see someone make nearly an exact clone of Express (the sinatra inspired lib for Node) but for Go.

Basically something that supports the concept of:

- Arbitrary middleware as long as you adhere to a specific signature.

- Proper caching at the http request/response level for dynamic templates.

- Keep the router separate so you can plugin Pat or the Gorilla Muxer (both of them are much different IMO).

- Add some niceties like setting proper headers for certain popular responses (json or templates, etc.) or easily distinguishing if the request is an XHR or not so you can either render a template or json with a quick boolean check.

- Implement Gorilla's session handler or some other solution and expose it in a really clean way that's also easy to plugin different session adapters (app memory, redis, etc.).

- Some functionality of what "res.locals" does in Express.

I honestly feel like part of the reason why Node is so popular is because of Express. tj did a tremendous job making a very out of the way but ridiculously useful web library.
"Aaron knew what he was doing"

...and at the time, I said the same thing I am saying now: Aaron Swartz was doing the right thing and should be praised for being brave enough to try to use access to a university to make human knowledge available to others. When universities are in the business of punishing people who spread knowledge, there is a serious problem with society, and Aaron knew that -- and unlike most people, he went out and tried to do something about it.

I was angry when the prosecutor tacked the extra charges on. I am just as angry today.
Federal criminal charges don't get thrown out. That is very rare. The way the laws are written the feds were going to win. Aaron was trying to do something that should be legal, but the feds were going to get their win. The problem is that what they report to the press and what they actually win on at court can vary widely, so Aaron was going to be ruined and he was going to serve hard time in prison. He shouldn't have killed himself though. He could have had a prosperous life after prison, but his public reputation was destroyed forever.
> 3. Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time.

> 7. At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.

Some of these adages are universal.
edw519 is one of those people who thinks it is his duty to order everyone around. Unfortunately, this kind of anal character gets a lot of upvotes on HN.
You have to wonder what it says about a group that they aren't afraid that their potential converts would find it weird that they need to pay for people to say how awesome they are.

Edit: fixed typo
When you run sponsored content, you're tying your brand to the brand of the advertiser who you are promoting. This usually isn't a problem, since most outfits will choose to run advertising deals with well-respected brands, and both brands become stronger (and wealthier) because of the association.

In this case, I can't imagine any outcome except for significant brand damage to The Atlantic. They had better have been cut an absolutely toe-curlingly-large check, because I expect they're going to pay for this in credibility loss pretty heavily.
Copy 2TB JSF partition over network sounds like something I wouldn't want to do... An easier solution is to just get a Live Linux distro, and another 2TB NTFS partition, and copy over the data... if you have another 2TB drive.
I could not find your iOS client on the App Store. Does it use one of the standard VPN types supported by iOS?
The comments are quite amusing. The "church" is apparently sending its minions en masse to post mindless applaud.
I too am a fan of PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar [1]), in particular I like that it is pretty easy to write a PEG parser, whereas there is a lot more work and housekeeping (IMHO) in implementing an LALR[2] parser.

I find it interesting that the parser generators are so closely bound up with code generation. I like the model where you can specify at runtime: when this non-terminal is parsed, execute that function.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser
The true story of scientology has already been told. A mediocre sci-fi author realized he could make a lot of money by inventing a bullshit story [1] and then proceeded to recruit a bunch of brownshirts [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055604

And frankly, I think it's high time to kick them the fuck out of Berlin, at the very least. We tried radiating the cancer; it's time to reach for the scalpel.
Taxes generate government revenue as a side-effect of their purpose as a social engineering tool, not the other way around. Not sure why people get that backwards so often.
beta signup fails - http://www.cryptoseal.com/beta/thanks

This webpage has a redirect loop
The webpage at http://www.cryptoseal.com/beta/thanks has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
A few minutes ago his comment had over 600 upvotes. Now it's teetering around 300.. it appears the moderators are also removing upvotes?
PACER is free if you use less than $10.00 per year. If everyone used RECAP, there would be no need to access any document more than once.
oh huh. Well that seems a worse decision than naming a social network "Diaspora".
Or am I the only one for whom that word conjures images of rotting potatoes, burning Jewish temples, and Africans being crammed into the cargo holds of ships?
It has worked well for me so far. Of course it always does until it no longer works so this is just another instance of survivor bias. Unfortunately for poor Aaron it did not work out well for him.
> ...haml isn't threadsafe.

Could you elaborate on this, please?
Love it: "Tell me, what would you do if I was totally finished one evening and I just sat on your lap and asked you to scratch my back for me?"
So all it takes is a famous person killing themselves over prosecution and an insanely massive outcry from the internet. Seems easy enough. /s
You can cause the same thing to happen to any comment by rapidly clicking the upvote button. This seems to cause the upvote count to drift upward, even though you would expect it to just oscillate between two values. I've just taken parkermoseyondown's comment from 0 to 40 upvotes.

Edit: This seems to be a UI issue. After reloading his comment is sitting at only 1 upvote.
I've been looking for something like this for our product (SaaS database client, shameless plug: http://www.jackdb.com/) as security during network transit is obviously a big deal. At the moment there's is no explicit SSL/SSH tunnel so it relies on the underlying driver to handle.

Being able to plug into something like this would be useful if it can automate/offload the client side VPN setup and simplify things for a client adding a new connection.
Single data point: I've been on the fence for cancelling them, but I'm calling them to do so tomorrow.
This is TERRIBLE. I really like The Atlantic, but this is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.

An ExxonMobile/BP ad or something would draw ire, but this feels like a wholesale sellout of their credibility, not to mention sanity.
They are allowed to run ads, but media should allow ads based on ethical decisions - lots of countries treat Scientology as a criminal organization (Germany: "It views it as an abusive business masquerading as a religion and believes that it pursues political goals that conflict with the values enshrined in the German constitution" Source [1], another example from Belgium: [2] )

Running a sponsored article for Scientology is, to me, akin to running an article about the great employment opportunities at Mexico's Zetas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_in_Germany

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/belgium-prosecutes-...