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Ask HN: Please stop tearing each other up.
I am beginning to believe that one of the unintended casualties of Aarons' passing is that HN is dying as well. I've never seen such a rift in the community as what is happening right now.

Can we please all stop this before there is no turning back? I understand the need to grieve, this is for sure not an easy time for any of us but the amount of hate-mongering that is happening right now is really beyond the pale. Please stop. Really.

edit: those flagging this: You really have to wonder what it is that you're trying to achieve here.
Yeah, but here's literally what you see as soon as you open that story (with adblock off):

http://cl.ly/image/0W1d2f3P0L25

That's pretty darn clear that it's a sponsored piece of content.
The Federal Prosecutor (1940)
Yep, as long as you get the active converter
The article misses the entire point of civil marriage in the first place, which is to provide incentives for a structure historically seen as positive for society, not to give individual people what they want. We provide (dis)incentives for all kinds of activities, of which marriage is one. Charitable giving and smoking are a couple other areas we try to nudge behavior with tax policy.

The authors are people in one sphere of society saying they don't like laws that incentivize behavior that is different from their own. But nevertheless, they are making a conscious choice (even with information about the additional economic costs etc.) to remain unmarried, which includes associated costs and everything else that comes with that choice.

In their case, we all win in one sense. Society gets some additional tax revenues to support social services, and the authors get something they prefer instead: singleness.

Not all of our preferred behaviors are given incentives by the government; only the ones considered compelling and in the public interest. Civil marriage primarily exists for the state; not really for you.

Note: Sure, there are good and interesting arguments about the social value of civil marriage, whether or not it should even exist, and if so, in what form. I'm not going there. I'm just pointing out that the authors are making a conscious economic decision and are disappointed that they pay an added price.
You said it yourself: "most Windows users".
The DOJ lobbied for these laws and they routinely lobby to make sentencing more severe. They make the recommendations and congress implements.
True, but you can stretch out Arabic symbols for perfect symmetry without a lot of stupid whitespace! Check it out http://twitpic.com/bnpjvy
Remembering the earlier thread through the fog of memory, I assumed he had the funds to pay it himself, and that was cause of much derision, ala "why is he asking for help? He's rich!" and things of that nature.
I know the world looks different when you're the server admin who has to deal with it, but how often does such a partition end up on a Windows server in the first place?
Where's the line with "sponsored content"? Does anyone have some examples of where it has been done well? Can it be done well?
I used the word extreme in the assembly language argument to indicate
that I understood you weren't actually advocating people program in
assembly. So I don't consider it a straw man. Rather, it was an
example of extremely flexible control flow. Sometimes this is what
you need. Sometimes you need to modify the stack so that a function
is called in a different way. Sometimes gotos can provide
significantly more efficient code. Sometimes vtables are too
expensive. Rails is at the opposite end of the spectrum, it is very
rigid. As a refutation to your argument against rigid code, a lot of
people consider Rails code to be debuggable and maintainable.
Personally, I like a middle ground and try to be aware of the costs
and benefits of making and using cookie cutters, an example of which
is chained ?:.

I was not asking questions to "destroy your argument", I was trying to
establish different contributors to rigidity / flexibility. It seemed
to me that in your argument you were dismissing rigidity - certainly
you weren't praising it - and I wanted to point out that in the use of
any control flow more complicated than test and branch you are in fact
relying on rigidity. If this is a "straw man" in your eyes, then so
be it. Having functions introduces rigidity! Even if-else enforces
some things. If anything, I was just actually interested in the
topic, because I hadn't really thought much about the tradeoffs of
rigid vs. flexible in those specific terms and I wanted to explore
them a bit.

What if I revealed myself to you, and then you were like, oh shit, I
better take what he says a little bit more seriously, wouldn't that
just be embarrassing? I don't want to do that to you.
I know you did not mean to offend me, but whenever I see this "married families raise better kids" line I take offense. I was raised by a single mother and a tight knit extended family (grandmother+grandfather+uncle). I was showered with love and parental affection/guidance. Moreover the house I grew up in was dramatically more peaceful and nurturing than it would have been had my parents stayed married.
Statistics that I've heard on that one. A significant majority of the time, children go with the mother. In a significant majority of cases where fathers contest custody, children go with the father. This is at least in part because the father usually has better finances, so can make a persuasive case that he'd be in a better position to be a caregiver.

That said, it is very common for men to threaten a custody dispute then back down with some other concessions. It is difficult to tell how often this is because he didn't think he'd win, or preferred the concession.

My source on this is the same book.

Disclaimer, I've been married over 20 years, 2 kids, never divorced.
> - don't like edw519 most upvoted post on the Sept article? suggest policy changes that could prevent such a comment from appearing on HN

Let's just eliminate the ability to vote on comments. Seems reasonable. Or pg could shut down the site. Then Ed couldn't make the comment in the first place, right?

Maybe Ed still thinks he was right and he feels compelled to backpedal because in hindsight his comments seem insensitive.

Or maybe your 99%+ statistic is wrong and wisdom of the crowds isn't all it's cracked up to be. If anything, the juxtaposition between this thread and the original thread shows the hypocrisy endemic to crowd driven discussion.
We are not "family".

We are the people who called him Paris Hilton and told him to man up. We are the people who consistently criticized him just because he was well known. We told him to shut up about ethics and get back to coding. We told him he wasn't any good at coding, either. We didn't treat him as badly as we could have, as we've treated some other people, but I think trying to recast ourselves as "family" is incredibly disrespectful of his actual family who lost their child.
No, I write the code normally, then I manually lay out the tile calligraphy and build the mosaics by hand. There's no way to automate the process that I know of. It's tricky to get everything to fit together and look right. I am a novice at this stuff, and master calligrapher Mamoun Sakkal's website has been a great help http://www.sakkal.com/instrctn/sq_kufi_alphabet.html.

The writeup could be more clear about how the mosaics are made, though. I'll update it.
Wow ... 12 new buildings!

It must really pay to start a religion and I guess in addition to emptying my congregant's pockets, there are some nice tax breaks for both the 503c and the reverends.

Can I interest anyone in an investment? I'll start the church of fleeciology and will take the first 12 people to wire one meeeeellion dollars into my Cayman Islands account as my board of trustees. Your share of the earnings will be 6%.

Our chuches won't have steeples, but there are plenty of sheeples that we can turn into paupers. There's no end to what a charismatic speaker can earn in today's market, so be the first to sign up now!
> We deploy desktop client software which is fully supported on Windows and Mac OSX, and works on Linux, FreeBSD, and most operating systems which support Java.

You have a desktop VPN client in Java. But, but... why? I'm not trolling. This is such an unconventional choice of language for a VPN software, most of which is written in C or C++. Java is pretty much like going with Perl or Ada.
This post is sponsored by ...
Awesome idea tagabek. Thanks for sharing
Converts. It took me a minute.
curious question: how do you get people to even click "ALLOW" when the popup says "do you want to allow this website to use localStorage"
To add to this, it might be useful to add why Ed was wrong. He wasn't wrong because he lacked empathy or because he was looking to be a bully. He was wrong because his mental model of how federal cases work was wrong.

He, much like my self, probably assumed that someone with millions of dollars could fund the litigation of a federal case, however, the nature of these prosecutions tend to freeze assets, alienate friends and business partners who could help fund a defense and generally make it impossible for justice to be done. I would have been wrong about this too.

We all get stuff wrong from time to time, and to be honest, I'm not sure where the line should be drawn. However, I firmly believe edw519's comments come from a place of experience, love, and support even if it might not be what we always want to hear.

My hope is that my comments when based in love and charity would not be subject to similar comments that edw519's comments have been. It's okay to disagree and edw519 might even disagree in someways with what he wrote.
There are rules to follow to make sure the letters remain readable, but its mostly a lot of staring at a grid and trying to make it all look right.
Agreed, and also the host header

proxy_set_header Host $host;
"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."

As I stated, it does by lessening strict gender roles.
This is HN. I don't think edw519 or any of the critics back then would change their mind as a result of the suicide, not because they don't care but because reacting to the suicide would be an emotional reaction and the critics made their opinions based on an unchanged set of facts. It's clear even back then that the core facts were known.
Ask HN: Where to work while studying as a mature age student?
I'm a 27 y/o from Newcastle, Australia and I am starting a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science this year, after working 5 years as a programmer for a local company.

Ideally, I would like to get a part-time/casual job while at uni that:

a) Is programming related
b) Pays relative to my skills (ie. not a straight out of high-school uni student)

Freelancing seems like an option, but I have never done any. Also, the impression that I get is that most freelancing jobs are web-development related, and creating UI's isn't my strong point.

Currently my day job mainly consists of working on the MS stack (C#) in (ASP.NET MVC, backend services, MSSQL, Powershell) and Javascript. I have worked heavily with Delphi, and in no particular order I have worked (personally and not on big projects) with Python, node.js, Java, and C++.

EDIT: I suppose what I'm asking is how should I approach the job market? I can't imagine there being specific jobs for "mature age students with x years experience", and expect my requirements to be somewhere in between what is typically listed.

If I have omitted anything deemed important I will be happy to provide it.

Thanks

Simon
I rented an 18-200mm Nikon lens for a week in England when we went away for Christmas. The process relatively pain free, it was posted in a very padded box, and I just posted it back when I was done. I think it was about 60 pounds all told.

I found it a great way to try a lens I'd always wanted but couldn't afford - good luck with your business.
I don't think Shirky is right.

In-person many-to-many communication is a known problem. It's called "meetings", or sometimes "Parliament" or "Congress".

The key technique used is to create a mutex on emitting sound.

There's a family of very sophisticated transactional protocols built around managing this mutex. It's called "Rules of Order".
Guess so. But I haven't tried it. I'll ask around.
Fantastic! Definitely useful for a lot of high-security use cases. We'll look at offering this to our customers as a guarantee for our highly confidential work.
This was not my experience at all. When my wife and I married and combined incomes we jumped a bracket, didn't qualify for IRA withholding, tuition credits (I was in night school at the time), or DC's first time home buyer's credit. Two people with career salaries are much better off (with respect to taxes) before marriage... yes, we gamed out filing jointly and separately - we got hosed either way.
MIT's Mission Statement
Damn hackers. They're all alike. :-)
You are misreading the title. The jstor liberator refers to a bit of javascript, and the documents are freed up one-by-one as people run the script, apparently limited to once per browser.

So it's not as if JSTOR suddenly saw the light of day and opened up their archive for download.
These are fantastic, and many apply to general engineering and design, including software systems. Thanks for sharing!

By the way, I believe a more up to date URL is: http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
I'm not so interested in automatic generation of calligraphy for this project, to be honest. I find something meditative about spending a lot of time sweating over laying out these algorithms. It mirrors the struggle I had (we all had, I imagine) while trying to understand them in the first place.
Perhaps for the same reason that the Secret Service raided (and nearly put out of business) Steve Jackson Games in 1990 because the author of their GURPS FRP module called "Cyberpunk" was a known "hacker".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._Un...
I'm not sure how you can say that "the article misses the entire point" when the third paragraph is entirely devoted to addressing it.
"The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges."

Hopefully Prof. Abelson's investigation starts with MIT's mission.
It's connotation was that Aaron was acting like a woman. The intended message was that he should shoulder sole responsibility for the costs, unlike (apparently) a woman. A) that's sexist and B) counter-productive. Collaboration and mutual support gets us further than we can get on our own: demonizing those traits as "feminine" just leads to lonely alienation.

Yet Another Way Patriarchy Hurts Men(tm)
This sly comment remains though. :)

"Such beautiful buildings! It's a shame that Shelley Miscavige couldn't join her husband at the gala openings!"
"Techcrunch publish an article singling out a single negative post (among many more) on HN from 120 days ago"

Looking at the post, it would seem that edw's opinion was the most popular in the hivemind (judging by the upvotes on his comment), so it's fair to single out that post which summarized the thoughts of the many people upvoting.

Unless people just arbitrarily upvoted him, which would have other ramifications ...
Haha ... I think you're probably correct, but I'll bet the writers who show up in the sidebar on the right need something a little stronger.
You can't tell passionate people to be quiet. HN isn't just people fighting each other, we're actually causing change in the world.
"most porn includes violence towards women"

A good friend's job is specifically to monitor internet purchases of all manner of things that break bank and payment processor Terms of Service. While there is quite a lot of distressing porn that includes violence towards women (simulated or otherwise), "most" is an exaggeration. Interestingly enough, most of the people who manually verify compliance seem to be women.
I think solving the problem of injustice in the legal system is not the "wrong thing." Really? While, yes, publicly funded research may need to be fixed and put in the public domain; it's not as if people that would use that research to do further research (i.e. scientists) don't already have access, albeit encumbered, to "save the world." However, people are definitely being treated unjustly -- seems like a higher priority
That will be fixed at some point in the future; it's java as a fallback after that. We have a way to do native OS on Android and iOS, and can potentially do the same thing on Mac/Windows.

Linux/FreeBSD/etc. are likely to remain java for a longer period.

I hate Java, myself.
Glad you like it! RTL was overcome by using the latest CodeMirror and this https://github.com/marijnh/CodeMirror/pull/1103
FactoryPal 0.2 for Scala 2.10.0 final released
Mission Impossible: Self-destructing messages for sensitive info
Marriage wasn't even in law until the late 1800's when they had to define it to outlaw polygamous Mormons.
If you want a mindfuck, go to sears.com. Product results include, by default, items from Amazon affiliates. These dinosaurs truly have no clue what parts of their businesses could still have value.
care to elaborate what made it a PCI compliance concern?
Response from LinkedIn Dev Rel: https://developer.linkedin.com/comment/20907#comment-20907
And if a pro-Scientology adverticle wasn't enough, every page has at the top "A Wonderful New Book About Scientology, By a Wonderful WriterJeffrey Goldberg". I'm sure this other article is totally not related to the sponsored content.
Exactly. Although @jorendorff on GitHub turned me on to a great Unicode feature that might help: https://github.com/nasser/---/pull/4
This was Mitt Romney's suggestion for gay marriage, but the truth is that there are all sorts of rights that can only be conferred by marriage. For example: you can't write a contract that says your business partner should pay less taxes, but marriage can. You can't write a contract that gives your business partner the right to a green card, but marriage can. There's literally hundreds more.

We are a species that likes to pair-bond; we consider it a greater hardship to separate members of a pair than members of a looser association like friendship. The legislation reflects that. Social engineering via tax breaks are a dumb idea, but deleting the concept of marriage from law entirely is impractical and probably undesirable.
> But you seem to have deleted everything you said about Aaron.

Uh? It's right here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484
Exactly. This is what I try to explain to people all the time when they bring up gay marriage. I argue that the state should be out of marriage - all marriage - it is a social contract.
This is unusually bad writing for the Atlantic. The article concludes: "Our lower-earning woman paid $484,368 for being single. Our higher-earning woman paid $1,022,096: more than a million dollars just for being single."

Breaking down those numbers, $381,600 (79%) and $763,200 (75%), respectively, of each person's additional cost comes from living arrangements--the fact that married women spend less on housing than unmarried women of the same income level.

They say: "We did consider that the discrepancy was in part due to the simple logistical fact that two people can split a rent or mortgage. However, other less obvious factors also come into play."

They wave their hands and point to discrimination against single people in finding housing, but then completely avoid trying to quantify those effects and just use the big number. No shit it's cheaper to split a household with someone than to live alone. That's one of the purposes of getting married.

The same is true for the "health spending" category. They again wave their hands about "discriminatory policies" but fail to actually point out a single policy that might explain higher healthcare expenditures by singles. They point out that married disabled people fare better, because they can combine their incomes, but that again reduces to the obvious argument that it's cheaper for people to couple up than to try and live alone.

The whole income tax calculation ignores the fact that around half of couples (I've seen figures from 40-60%) actually pay a tax penalty to get married. My wife regularly (half-)jokes that we should get a divorce to save money.
VERY poor choice. You would have to blind, deaf, and in coma to know this would not cause some type of backlash. I too enjoyed their content - unfortunately now have to reconsider before reading.
Canadian Prime Minister: $400M to Strengthen Canadian VC
And Reddit is probably on the case as well...
What rift are you speaking of?
Pin.net.au announces pricing
Almost all VC goes toward salaries.
Good to see Jeffrey Goldberg biting the hand that feeds him: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/a-wonder...
Isn't that a bit much?
Spoiler Alert: I'm Lebanese ;-)
Just - thank you.
Eh, overall I think tax-related stuff is the "least bad" way for the government to influence behavior, compared to criminalization and the use of force. (The assumption here being that a government with no way of exerting control over its populations behavior is impractical, though I know some disagree with that premise.)

(Referring to the idea of using taxes to influence behavior in general rather than the specific; in this case, I'm having trouble coming up with any realistic (for the modern UN) way more heavy-handed approaches could be applied.)
Twitter UK posts profit of £16,500 & directors face ban over missing accounts
Sculley gives Apple advice on how to adapt to emerging markets.
If this wasn't assigned to USSS to investigate it would simply be assigned to some other component of the DOJ.

To be sure, the SS isn't part of Justice, it's in the DHS, and part of Treasury before that. Maybe it could be seen as a problem that it's not under Justice.
Maybe this is just a brilliant move by someone at The Atlantic who wanted to demonstrate how bad of an idea sponsored content can be?
Yeah, but read the content of what is actually up on the site. It's patently transparent bullshit. "All we do is open buildings! Everything is wonderful in out world! Banner year!" It makes the church look even MORE cultish. The motives are obvious: they're getting hit thanks to the new Lawrence Wright book, so they respond with this utterly idiotic pap.
It's amazing that to me that they think ANYONE would actually buy this as a real article. I imagine the Atlantic thought the same. They're providing the noose for Scientology to hang itself. It's not journalism, per say, but there is a truth revealed by this article that is WAY beyond what the church wanted and The Atlantic provided the forum.
It looks like a Disney religion, really. Look at the balloons at the Tel Aviv opening. Look at the cute bow they have on each of the churches! I wonder if they have rides...
Yes ... I appreciated that one too. I'm sure they're monitoring HN since this place is such a bastion of scientists, so it might be disappearing shortly.
Oh the irony.

In July 2012, "CNN's Effusive Coverage of Kazakhstan Is Quietly Sponsored by Its Subject" - http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/cnn...

Edit: looks like their Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/) is attempting some damage control by tweeting about a "the truth about Scientology" book. Heh.
I've sent him an email.
> But to apply a security release, when you are on a maintained minor release (3.0, 3.1 or 3.2)? If you understand how bundler works, you are HIGHLY unlikely to have any troubles.

Right, but it DID happen. Updating the Rails version updated the versions of other gems too. I know what you're saying, but the reality was different.