skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, actions against occupy-movements in the US generally didn't involve "repression of dissent" but rather "repression of wild camping where it is extremely inconvenient for everyone else".

Not everything they did was totally appropriate, but on the other hand it's really hard to dissolve such a camp without anyone getting hurt. The US certainly handled that better than Turkey.
"The system is best served by not being allowed to randomly put whomever in jail for whatever [1]."

They aren't randomly putting whomeever. They are putting a guy who admitted to a crime, and is in fact, guilty, in jail. And not even in jail. My only objection was to the trial, not a sentencing hearing. They are welcome to argue whatever factors/mitigations/excuses they want at that hearing.

You still haven't answered what the trial buys you there.

The rest is a discussion about why we have an adversarial system for the case where guilt is not objectively known.
I don't at all disagree with that part (though i agree both sides are blameworthy for various things and in various ways).

IE "Giving a good defence is supposed to ensure that when an accused is convicted they are convicted beyond a reasonable doubt."

But he admitted he did it, and actually did it. You objectively know they did it. The "reasonable doubt" standard is a subjective standard, which is standing in for the lack of objective knowledge. Here, we have that objective knowledge. So what exactly is the subjective standard buying you in that case, and why does that serve the end goal, rather than the current means, of the system.
I find your source to be extremely biased.

No one suggests that competition can not or does not exist in areas at times. What I offer is the idea that the emergent (in a completely deregulated environment) outcome is a monopoly (or cartel acting as a a de facto monopoly).

I suggest events such as the Lincoln County War, or any of a number of company towns from 1890s through 1920s of the United States.
As does your comment. Hell, so does mine. We're not in S-expressions anymore, Toto!
In a sanitized or controlled scenario, this makes sense. Passion and emotion, however, are impossible to strip from opinions in the context of the Snowden revelations that started all of this. Having the scab ripped off the NSA has altered the perspective of entire generations. Frankly I think the students handled themselves remarkably well.
I made this wizard for choosing a licence. Might help you.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/licences/
I totally agree.

It's tough being so intelligent and free-thinking. Most people are just ignorant sheeple, but not us here on HN and reddit.
The big assumption here of course is they had the choice.
Though highly appreciated nowadays, if you want to comply with the spirit of the open source licences and not just the letter.
Correction Matt, if you purchase them (as an employee) their cost is definitely not zero, therefore you can lose money.
Well that definitely justifies upvoting a speculative conspiracy theory to the front page of Hacker News.

Given that the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's 100% believable that the FBI would murder protesters.

I wish the sheeple could see the US for what it really is: literally Nazi Germany. People like us here on HN and reddit understand what's really going on, unlike the sheeple.
Thanks for the advise! I will definitely apply!
Well then thats your choice. But the more incidents we have where people who don't know this end up being caught by surprise the more I think people will care and want another option.
Who cares about shooting some homeless and some damn hippies?

Definitely not the US government which is literally worse than Nazi Germany.

Sheeple need to wake up.

Also lol: Engineer, coder, and all around cheerful human being.
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I cannot comprehend why that symbol is not on the keyboard. There are two words on the key, neither one of which is used on the screen. Insane.
Don't forget the founders, which likely had common. If current management has no desire to do right by early employees, common can be set to $0.
What, a good idea?
Cool to see. I'll definitely be using a few of these in my http://neocities.org site!
Would you know of someone who can write an in-depth review of HS?
Not ruby therefore instant awesome. Man! I really don't like ruby.
Zzzz. Advertising is an element of monopolistic competition between goods that are imperfect substitutes for each other. Perfect competition can exist only in markets for fungible products.

I mean, I'm no fan of advertising, but what does St. Noam expect - that manufacturers should abstain from advocacy of their own products? Of course bigger ones spend more money on advertising - but then they also invest more heavily in stock and production lines, and have a correspondingly greater need to recover their investment.

By this logic, musicians should be required to wear uniforms and perform in the dark, since all that visual spectacle is just an effort to undermine listeners' acoustic perceptions.
Using sshuttle[1] you don't even need to setup a VPN, just get a VPS and run a simple command on your client machine to connect.

[1] https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
> Of course writing is even better...

I don't think you can compare. There are things you can only pick up from learning from other people (or re-inventing everything yourself), and there are other skills you have to develop yourself.
I would think the number of people who care about google docs as a full replacement for locally installed software would have to be very small so you need to grow towards a larger audience.

Maybe you can also support office365, zoho, and any other web based alternative to some locally installed piece of software. That would potentially allow you to pull affiliate fees for driving new customers to software you support and/or get some promotion or marketing from those companies.
Why would that be any fun?
> They are truly the greatest country on the Earth

Evidence? The highest GDP? This clip of some US drama got some sharing recently - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwUphZ37Ww. Although, the reasoning is pretty awful in parts, the point about freedom rings true. Having everyone's comms recorded is freedom?

And equality, gay marriage is now legal in a whole 13 states? There are a number of countries in Europe that spank America's bottom on Equality.

Are we talking rights equality or wealth equality, or both? The wealth inequality in America is second to none, except maybe North Korea...

> I apologize on my Country's behalf and take the responsibility of this decision.

And the oscar for HN melodrama goes to...
That's Augeas. ( http://augeas.net/ ) It takes some getting used to (some files are much easier to manage with plain old sed), but it's quite a cool and useful tool. Puppet and Kickstart are good use cases.
But how can this be true?!

tptacek just told us [1]:

> nobody is going to shoot you and your friends in the head for marching around

and

> They won't even point firehoses at you, or sic dogs on you. You are freer than Americans have been at virtually any other point in our country's history

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5987208
Just FYI: the original title I gave the post was "How the Mac got its control key symbol."
I would say that any claim is bold if it is surprising or apparently important, and is not covered by multiple mainstream sources.

Examples are claims of majority (A majority of people are suffering from sickness A, B, or C), Or claims of superiority (My car is the fastest in the world).
They would. Your scenario is not uncommon. Seasoned vets in a secure position still raise the quality of the batch and rub off on the newbies.
Eh, I'm with you right down to the point in the article where they start talking about this company Craft International who trained law enforcement snipers, and oh by the way were also at the Boston Marathon carrying backpacks with "markings resembling what was seen on an exploded backpack image released by the FBI."

Insinuating something both totally unrelated and highly conspiratorial is not how good investigative journalism works, and unfortunately that sort of slant takes away from my ability to fairly judge the facts of the piece.

That said, to be clear, I do appreciate the research you put in, and thanks for being thoughtful in your upvotes - just thought I'd offer that part of the article as a counterpoint.
Should you want to reduce the field entering your body, how would you go about it? I learned about Faraday cages back in school, but you can't surround the laptop with one of those and still use it... I believe medical devices have shielding built-in, which I imagine is an earthed metal box, so earthing the metal laptop case?
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You know...I must say, although Assange has an aire about him that rubs me the wrong way sometimes, I must say I admire his conviction.

This man has been holed up in an Ecuadorean embassy in London for the past 2 years, roughly and the USGov't has tried to stifle donations to Wikileaks and he has stuck through all of that.

Now his stick-to-it-ive-ness is starting to pay off.

Congrats to him for a) Having the conviction of his beliefs, and b) To stick with his conviction, despite the great personal costs.

Hats off Assange. Hats off.
It's hard to know what to make of this as without the [DELETED] portions, as there's no evidence of government agencies being involved. I'm not sure why Occupy were not informed of such a plot though? Perhaps the FBI didn't think it was credible?

The part that worries me even more than the death threats was the classification of the Occupy movement as 'terrorist activity'. This opens them up to a whole catalogue of surveillance methods and methods of detention, and is a good illustration of terrorism powers being extended and misused for domestic dissent.

This misuse of the label 'terrorist' highlights the danger of employing extra-legal means to attack your enemies in other countries, it undermines the rule of law everywhere, and weakens the accountability of all law enforcement agencies. Assassination, torture, rendition, and detention without trial are all normalised now in the US for terrorists. The definition of an enemy for the state always includes some of its citizens, so you end up with scope creep where formerly completely illegal and unthinkable acts are considered normal, just because the word terrorism has been used in conjunction with a person or organisation.
Hes not stating anything of the sort, and you just built a ridiculous strawman.

He is simply warning of the nature of advertisement, and the moral hazard inherent to it. Being aware of stuff like this is real empowerment.
Well, yes, no, or no comment?

I recall you checking me on a similar point once upon a time.

Edit: for what it's worth, I agree with your observation that things aren't as bad as, say, they were with the Pinkertons breaking strikes up.
The documents don't say that the FBI was planning this. They say a third party was. The FBI redacted who that third party was. I'm wondering why there haven't beeny any arrests yet.
People Won’t Covet Your Comfort: More excuses will never build a better life
Ubuntu Mono, Consolas and Inconsolata are some of my favourites for Python Programming

Droid Sans Mono, Consolas for Java programming.
Ubuntu Mono, Consolas and Inconsolata are some of my favourites.
Ok, I agree that was somewhat melodramatic, but I meant it. I feel embarrassed.
You can read 3taps' antitrust claims submission here: https://3taps.com/papers/3taps_Amended_Counterclaim.pdf

The 'Nature of the Case' section at the beginning provides their allegations regarding craigslist's monopoly. IANAL so I don't feel qualified to discuss the legal merits, although reading the claims they at least sound worth investigating.
I didn't see a listing of Occupiers shot in the head. Could you link me to that, please?
It doesn't say it's a third party. We just don't know.
Well everyone that's not a sheeple knows that tptacek is a shill for the government.

Given that tptacek is a shill for the US government and the US is literally Nazi Germany, it's safe to ignore tptacek.

Please continue to make valuable contributions to this community, brymaster.
> I'm wondering why there haven't beeny any arrests yet.

Because making such a plan is protected by the First Amendment. Carrying it out is not.
Well, there are some millions of people who disagree with you. I include myself in them.

Not that it matters, I just wanted to state the contrary.

"Contrarywise, said Tweedledee"
Occupy Oakland, as memory serves. A vet no less.
It was a stupid joke on the fact that he misspelt "stares".
Is there a plan to fix:
"If the machine is acting as a master for any shards, the corresponding tables lose read and write availability (out-of-date reads remain possible as long as there are other replicas of the shards).
...
Currently, RethinkDB does not automatically declare machines dead after a timeout. This can be done by the user, either in the web UI, manually via the command line, or by scripting the command line tools."

http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/advanced-faq/#what-happens-whe...
>It sounds like this a huge issue for you so you have two choices:

>1. Go do your own startup. 2. Turn down the job and work somewhere else. 3. Go work for some mega-corp that pays you well.

man, that looks like 3 choices.
Ballast
I've thought about this approach, but wanted to wait until I have a proven concept. Google Docs has lots more users than zoho/office365.
I like the idea with affiliate fees. Thanks for the feedback!
Plus there needs to be a certain level of creative expression for copyright to apply, so even the sentence, "I have a room in a 2-bedroom apartment for rent in Williamsburg, going for $1500," would almost certainly not be copyrightable. (That said, some of the posts on craigslist are certainly creative, so copying the full contents of everything would likely violate copyrights, but as you say, that's not what Padmapper is doing. (Not to mention the copyrights on the individual posts belong to the users, not to craigslist, in any case.))
> created:	23 minutes ago

Yeah, nice try tptacek. Continue the psyops

:)
> the people

the sheeple
Use whatever you want as long as you get an experienced cryptographer to implement it. Even RC4 can be secure if used properly.
> Of course bigger ones spend more money on advertising - but then they also invest more heavily in stock and production lines, and have a correspondingly greater need to recover their investment.

Not sure I follow the logic here, but I don't know much about economics. Your logic seems to be... big companies that spend a lot of money need to make a lot of money to cover their expenses, so it's okay for them to be able to advertise more heavily than smaller companies, since they need to sell more stuff? Is that the argument?
Craigslist does not allow any app that automatically posts to craigslist, regardless of post quantity or frequency, so yes.
Using bootstrap no less, that mustv'e been hard?
"the people signing up for them are more often "bad guys" than tech professionals looking for privacy"

I think this is always a bad argument to make. By that same logic they'd be banning all torrent sites, too, and a lot of other stuff, possibly even Bitcoin.

I think these VPN's should sue Mastercard and Visa, just like Wikileaks did, and won. They can't just decide "who is the bad guy" and ban them.
This reminds me of the MPAA and the formation of the hollywood "production code". In the late twenties there was pressure from the american public to reign in what could be shown in movies. Hollywood was absolutely terrified of what might happen if the government listened and imposed regulation on their industry, so they adopted the code to make that unnecessary. Movies that didn't obey the code were locked out of theaters, so the code was obeyed. Hollywood, not Washington, decided what the code was. In the end, the code died without any pricey court challenges or lobbying. Hollywood just abandoned it when american society became more permissive.

The "Do Not Track" flag is similar to the late-twenties public outcry against the content of movies. The difference is, the ad industry totally failed to act on it. Instead, their tracking only grew more invasive. Now, they pay for their hubris. They didn't regulate themselves to meet public demand, so the public has demanded that regulations be imposed on them. There's no international government of the internet however, so in comes Mozilla. It's still a thoroughly democratic process however, since people can vote with their choice of browser and not opting out of the cookie tracker.

If the ad industry were to act fast and make a big show of respecting "Do not track" flags and find ways to enforce this policy amongst their peers, this might remove the allure of cookie white-lists. Honestly though, I have no idea how they'd manage to do that, let alone fast. If the ship hasn't sailed just yet, it's certainly cast off the last line.

Moral of the story: The public will get what it wants. If they want you restrained, either do it yourself of watch somebody else do it.
>> In a letter from VALITOR´s lawyers, VALITOR relates how it sought the opinions of MasterCard International and VISA on the proposed July 1 cut-off. In its response MasterCard made clear to VALITOR that it no longer desires to blockade WikiLeaks. VISA has not responded.

There goes, I read the article for you.
Sourcery (YC W13) conjures a full-stack Ruby on Rails craftsperson
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Actually, that is only true if craigslist asserts an exclusive copyright to the content, which except for a three-week period last summer, they do not.
Doesn't the Army have contingency plans for everything? I recall there was some hubbub a little while ago when people discovered the Army has contingency plans on invading Canada or something like that.
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I know just what you mean. I lived in China and felt the same kind of shame when the US government or other Americans did wrong, even though it had little to do with me. Chinese people understood immediately when I said the US government does what it wants, often against the will of ordinary people, or without their knowledge or consent, and that good people were working on the problems, but that it was very hard.
VPN's are unique in providing translation from a dynamic IPv4, to multiple static IPv4. Since most ISP's won't give out enough static IPv4 addresses, if you want to run private servers at home then a VPN is more or less the only way.

Dynamic DNS can be used for a singular server, through how reliable depend on the TTL and how accepting other DNS resolvers are in accepting low TTL's (which in practice some aren't). However, if you are behind NAT, VPN is truly the only option for home servers.
That's a nice theory, but there's a news article every fortnight these days about someone getting chucked in the slammer for a casual, jokey remark on twitter being interpreted as a "terrorist threat".
Ah, yes. Scott Olsen. Thank you.
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This was widely discussed in December 2012 when it was actually news.

Googling shows it is suddenly back, often with errors (e.g., InfoWars reports it as the FBI had a plan to kill OWS people).
Isn't this a case of biting the hand that feeds you?
I'm not sure Riak is a good example as it's another example of an extremely slow database.

There's also the angle that if it's to offer no performance benefit, perhaps a classic relational database will do it?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it.
How do emulators work
wow, this is amazing !!
What are "market rates"? As far add I know, most startups can't compete with Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Netflix on salary (plus bonus). If market salary is what big cos like Cisco and oracle are paying the I guess some startups pay market rate for a software engineer. But assuming I'm talented enough to join your startup, I don't think it'd very accurate to say I'm being paid market rate when I could get a lot more somewhere else.
Underscore/LoDash should be in this list. Man are they game-changer and code simplifiers.
Please knock it off. This isn't the right forum for undirected political raving.
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MyKitaab offers students to make an interactive notebook for themselves.. they can add content like photos , videos , text etc from any source and add it to their interactive notebook. They can highlight the main points and much more.
A word of advice: stay clear of Jeff Bonforte. Cronyism defines his career and nothing more.
I was actually referring to this[1], which of course was a complete sham.

[1] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2331951.stm
It is on my (UK layout) MBA and Bluetooth keyboard (although its also labelled as Alt and not Opt).

Control doesn't have a symbol on it though.
Freebase closed image upload due to copyright issues
I'm assuming that the people downvoting this need a "woosh". At least, I hope so.
No. Conspiring to commit murder is definitely not protected by the First Amendment. And even fantasizing openly, which should be protected as long as no attempt is made to act on the fantasy, has tended to get people locked up in recent years.
The Department provides an army of analysts and bureaucrats to support the Secretary, and its their responsibility that he doesn't make a fool of himself on the public stage by using incorrect or false data. It's well known that a lot of them did, in fact, push back on some of the absurdities contained in the initial documents provided by intelligence agencies [1], but when it became clear that most of the material was of that sort, they should have smelled a rat and should have told Powell the risk was too high. Your boss losing any credibility on the political and international stage is the worst possible scenario for any SD official.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/15/nation/na-powell15
You know that GCM and APN are built on XMPP right?
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Are you trying to say that it isn't protected by the First Amendment, or that law enforcement is selective?

Do remember that a police officer who threatened to kill the First Lady still has his job.
Yeah, tell that to Justin Carter.