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Compare this with the treatment of Paula Deen by her sponsors, who are dropping her products left and right, because of her speech years ago. She is being labeled a racist, and of course nobody wants to be associated with a racist, do they?

In this case, the video gamer is being labeled a terrorist because of his speech. It's almost a preemptive charge. Better to charge and try him for terrorist threats now than have him actually harm anyone sometime down the line.

Of course there is a vast difference between corporations' political correctness and the criminal justice system, but both instances show the importance and interpretation of speech.
I suppose bangs save a user input step (since I have to search from the location bar then Tab + Enter to select a Google result), but I would gladly trade that for the additional mental steps of deciding which service to search and what the bang shortcut is for that service.
Changing data in undesired ways is something I'd call a bug, not a surprise.
Apple was my first association as well when I read that sentence.
I got a kick out of the Criticisms section. It looks like he's got a lot of stuff to work out but overall, a great experience.
I'm curious. When do you have to use the mouse?
While I don't understand why someone would do this myself, in turn I also find it interesting that this may signal strong product anticipation. How many products had people making fakes to show off pre-launch?
Good points, especially about how prosecutors may absolve themselves of responsibility by telling themselves that they are advocates for that state. Thanks for your comments - you've given me a lot to think about today!!
> Developers marry their editors. They spend years learning every aspect of them. They customize their configuration. They install and develop plugins and extensions. If an editor becomes abandonware, the users of that editor have wasted an immense amount of time. All of their knowledge and work surrounding their editor becomes useless. They're forced to start over with something else.

This is like saying you won't marry that beautiful girl because she can die tomorrow and you will not know what to do with her dresses. Isn't more logical to enjoy beautiful girls and pleasant software while they are here?
Scott Adams (Dilbert fame) actually had a few interesting things to say about it.

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_paula_deen_context/
I'm not as old as you guys (I was born in 1993!), but I still remember some of these old feelings going on the internet as a young person. And I agree that surfing Tor is the closest I've come in a long time to re-creating that unknown excitement that "the web" once held for us. (I had about 30 minutes of computer time a day until I was in my mid-teens, so the internet remained novel for me for a long time).

Part of it is HOW you explore the onion network: via links, often subtle, from other sites. There's no Google or Reddit to aggregate all the content; you need to know where to look. That's exciting and fun (although stumbling on illegal content isn't ):...). Feels almost like a game, with the whole idea of discovering hidden content in dark corners.

I think what happened to the internet in the past decade or so could be described as gentrification. The "discovery" period began to fade, and we started cleaning up, resulting in the "suburban internet," as posted above. I feel like oftentimes this can be compared to the process of gentrifying a sleazy area in a city: early adopters move in and make interesting things, causing more people to come and try to participate. As more people move in, the early adopters are crowded/priced out, and the things that made the place interesting begin to fade out in favor of more bland/easily accessible things... Just some food for thought.
20 - as in before life starts to throw serious time sinks at you, wives, children, mortgages, high stress jobs etc etc.

At 20, I just did whatever the hell I wanted, bummed around Europe before figuring out where to do my masters. Responsibility was not paramount on my mind. Maybe 20 something's today are different, but not the ones I know, it's still all about having fun, learning new stuff and exploring the possibilities.

I fail to see how anyone could not have understood what the comment meant.
Time travelers from 2007, apparently.
You can't monitor children 24/7, especially not teenagers, and cutting them off from the internet in this day and age would only stunt them socially and intellectually.

I count myself very lucky that as a teenager I was allowed to have my own computer and internet connection. For all the valid worries about what trouble I might have gotten myself into, I instead grew up to be the most successful member of my family with a career in IT.

We can't let fears of isolated incidents like these drive all of our decisions, or we'll just end up with the parental equivalent of the TSA.
Pardon me then, I had taken it that you built large systems using Heroku as a platform not actually working for Heroku. You probably do have some incredible problems to solve. I was asking the question because I find the whole platform as a service category to be a very interesting realm of where technology has gone. As such, I've been curious about folks who are using Heroku for some really big things and why they chose to do so over using their own servers. Particularly from the perspective of administrators in charge of keeping said systems up and running.
This looks great, nice work.

For the dev/prod parity use case, where do you usually draw the line between Packer and Vagrant?
I'm currently building boxes with Veewee with all dependencies pre-installed and distributing this to the team. Vagrant could easily deal with this, installing dependencies when the VM is launched using provisioners.

Does anyone have any preferences/reasons to go one way or another?
Great stuff! I hope this means we'll see a bunch of identical prepackaged Vagrant boxes for all these platforms soon.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with it, but there is the concept that "even the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
Those are more likely your own projections and hangups. It's ok though. For example, there is no "safe" place to meditate, though some places are more stimulating and dynamic than others.

There's enough literature out there that you can give vipassana a try on your own. It may be harder to be honest about yourself, but you don't have to meditate in a group or at a retreat.
He hasn't been convicted; I assume he has clean record so far; he doesn't have materials in his home about wanting to kill children and eat their still beating hearts; but US taxpayer money is spent keeping him in jail until it gets to trial?

When I get FU money I'm going to hire designers to make "Never talk without your lawyer" posters and get that message across.

I agree that someone making a credible terrorist threat needs some form of punishment and rehabilitation. I don't think the sentence about beating hearts was a credible threat, but I don't have all the information.

It is weird to me that most young people are seen as "evil", not "stupid". Often the reaction should be to just tell them not to be stupid and explain the havoc they've caused. We shouldn't be locking them up.
It is quite important to realize before taking angel money that angels are like VCs in one important respect - they need a liquid exit of some kind within a few years, generally via an acquisition. This may not be what you had in mind for your future if you want to build a lasting standalone company. Have a conversation with prospective angels at some point and discuss this scenario. Ways you could make it work for them in the absence of a liquid exit are via dividend payments when your company is sufficiently cash flow positive, or by buying some/all of their share outright when you can afford to do that.

Once angels are ok with that, they'll be less likely to give you colored advice which may be oriented (even if just subconciously) towards getting your company sold pronto.
So glad I grew up in the early days of the internet.

Could easily see myself making a comment like that as a joke (almost certain I did many times).
>One person in a nation of 300 million was jailed for speech.

More accurately, this article is about one person in a nation of 300 million who was jailed for speech, which gives us no grounds for assuming that either a large or small number of people are being prosecuted for things like this, other than the number is greater than one. It's a systematic problem that portions of the system feel free to jail for pretty innocuous speech.

How about Cameron D'Ambrosio last month, or the unknown number that were not "notable enough"? D'Ambrosio only got out of jail because the grand jury refused to indict, not because prosecutors weren't willing to prosecute.
I sincerely wish we had had the foresight to explore this further. Early "homesteaders" of GeoCities would select their URL based on a loose ontology of (neighbor)"hoods" and (sub)"burbs" (a fashion oriented page might be hosted at /FashionAvenue/Catwalk/1493). While this certainly made scaling the backend easy, it also created a sense of community (keeping an eye on your "neighbors", the mad rush to get a site with a hot address (/1000) when a new burb would open).

The need to provide a simple path for all of Yahoo!'s users led to the now familiar "/username", but I'm not entirely certain it was for the better.

( I recall one conversation where we considered providing the ability to tag derelict homesteads with virtual spray paint )
I don't understand this critique. Just because there is a large community of people on the Internet who say horrible and stupid things doesn't mean that those things are excusable. The better argument is to say that having poor taste and being socially inept are not criminal offenses, except in extreme circumstances (shouting "fire" in a theater)
This is a minor thing, but the carousel of supported services (Zendesk, Google, etc.) at the bottom of the page would be much better served at the top (ideally above the fold.) As it stands, you barely get the scrolling effect.
I read something about how English was simplified as a result of the Viking invasion of England in the middle ages. It sounds like koineization. English might be weird, but it seems to be weird in a way that makes it highly exportable, like a successful product.
This is at least the second case that I'm aware of this happening in recent months. There was another one [0] earlier this month about a kid in MA that is in jail for essentially the same thing.

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/teen-jailed-for-ter...
Remember, on the web content is king. The problem with most social media is that its a lot of crap content, that no one would preserve. Would you even want a historical dump of your facebook wall history?

Facebook is designed so you will create current-related content to drive relevant ads for what you want now. It removes the effort to thinking and proofing even something like a Xanga or Live Journal.

Even with the rise of "easy" CMS systems like drupal or joomla, there is still a large hurdle to entry.

Neocities fills that gap for those who don't want to worry about what is going on under the web page, and is going one step past the pendulum swing of jekyll, pelican, etc.

This seems like a path in the right direction to allow people to put stuff out in public which may be niche and may not be just word-content like on a free blog system like blogger.
Natural convergence. You can reach many of the same places with say, the Trappist practice of contemplation. I've seen people who have similar experiences on entheogens, though the specific content might be wildly different.
> This is like saying you won't marry that beautiful girl because she can die tomorrow and you will not know what to do with her dresses. Isn't more logical to enjoy beautiful girls and pleasant software while they are here?

Yeah, because it's fair to make an analogy between a Girl and a Text Editor. A text editor is a tool, I want the hammer to be there for me tomorrow, you can't assure that with a closed source editor (After Text Mate I swore I wasn't going to make the same mistake again, ever.)
http://☁.neocities.org/

Hah! (where have I seen that demo before?)
Thanks for the detailed answer.

In what scenario can this be used?
Glad for the speed improvements but the UI seems to be getting worse. For example, the minimap now only shows your viewport view on hover making it mostly useless as an orientation tool. I emailed the developer about this issue many weeks ago and never received a reply, so I have no idea if he also views this as a problem (not encouraging).
That belief that it is difficult or that you need help are themselves arising objects.

It is helpful to get help -- someone holding space for you can be very helpful -- but ultimately, this is between you and you.
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Eventually, you also learn how to give yourself encouragement. You learn that the universe itself is giving you encouragement. And you eventually learn that the need for encouragement is itself an arising object that passes in time.
Nice find. I've run into some inexplicable garbage collection issues where canvas elements in an early version of flot ended up never getting released. I could figure out no way to clear these, but I remember the flot code made heavy use of closures. I should go revisit the code and see if this might explain it. I ended up simply hanging on to the elements and reusing them, had to patch flot to achieve this.
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a lot of sports
Exercise - I try to lift, run, or some combination of the two at least three times a week. It really helps to clear my mind, especially after a stressful project.

Read/Write - It took me longer than it should have to realize how critical the ability to write well is.

Games - Chess, poker. These are more just hobbies for fun, but I think both rely on some really useful principles in life, such as the importance of a plan, decision making with limited information, etc.
The concept of "terrorism" has horrible semantics and needs to be excised from all laws. Its legal existence leads to absurd abuses and behaviors, and utterly confused policy.
".....Obama administration’s disturbing “Insider Threat” program, which supposedly views all leaks akin to aiding the enemy. This program, and its dangerous culture, has bled into agencies that don't even deal with classified information, including the Department of Education, Department of Agriculture and Peace Corp.

".....Numerous government officials have said on background that Edward Snowden's passport has been revoked, but no one will confirm it on the record.” Why couldn't they say anything officially? ....Because it was prohibited by the the Privacy Act.

Without having to introduce a misinterpretation of "Godel Incompleteness" are not there simpler things related in computer science that tells us there are examples of such rationalizations painted into a corner, surfacing tautology quandries becoming 'undecideable', and so, by extending throughout the "...Department of Education, Department of Agriculture and Peace Corp,..." hierarchies, the whole machine can no longer fly?

Was Yossarian, and Joseph Heller's story more than fiction?
Do we need to add Heller to these new Orwell-Huxley reading lists?
There's probably a lot of stuff that didn't make the 1.5 cut.
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Law enforcement is clearly not familiar with Poe's law.
Sorry, I should have quoted more.

> Yes, Goenka does make some counterintuitive claims about the underlying nature of the universe, but the basis for those claims are phenomenological experiences that people have had while meditating; they come from the same set of experiences that you yourself will have if you stick with it.

To rephrase the question - do you think that these experiences are convergent, in that anyone with enough discipline to meditate for long enough will have them, or do you think that these experiences are the result of Goenka's guidance?

To further the question, are you saying that the "counterintuitive claims" are something at which (again given enough practice/discipline) we all would arrive, or just that we would all share something similar to the experiences that they were born from?
That strategy is very risky in the real world: do you really think they're going to say “Oh no, we don't have HD video of him typing in the comment – call the whole thing off!” or simply look at all of the evidence, consider how plausible it is that an attacker chose that moment to closely mimic his style for an entire conversation just to frame him with an in-character comment, and then use the stronger end of the sentencing scale for lying to the court and making a lame attempt to avoid responsibility?

They appear to be trying a more realistic strategy: admit making the statement, show remorse but reject the premise that this was anything other than constitutionally protected speed or that it constituted a realistic threat. That seems far more likely to work, particularly given the age of the suspect.
> exercise their own judgment

Right. As long as they use that judgement to avoid reading classified information. ;-)

> Army is taking proactive steps

As far as I understand (and please note that I'm not an expert) they have always blocked certain kinds of sites. That Guardian is added is not really surprising, but the indirect refusal to own up to it is whacky.
Thanks for this. When I'm around military people and conversations like this come up, often there is an attitude of "you couldn't understand, civilian" (not unlike your #8), and the truth is I don't.

Soldiers have had their mindset irreparably altered and they tend to ally with the institution, even if they don't agree with it - even when their free of it. They have given up most any control they have over themselves or their situation and it pervades their worldview. There are good reasons for this and it makes sense that anything that could possibly chip away at that foundation should be tightly controlled.
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Isn't this article pretty much fear mongering? There's no way the NSA has a reasonably powerful quantum computer and the proper algorithms to do anything. However, the question still remains once these devices are feasible and popular: how can they use it to process the data they've already collected?
Had the idea in October 2004, did a breadth-first search for a business model for almost 9 years, and now finally ... convergence.

Just thought the HN community would like to know.
This reminds me of an anecdote I heard, or maybe read, or confabulated. A police officer had shot an adolescent who was in the street with a toy gun that had been painted black. Somehow a police officer in Japan was asked about this situation, an his response was that, in Japan, the police would assume that, because it was a child holding it, the gun was a toy.
Request URL: http://neocities.org/create

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My create-account form and session cookie over HTTP? Not a fan. Grab a cert from startssl or similar!
> I can only think of three or four times in the last ten years where I've actually had to go back through previous versions of code

Then, with all due respect, you work on some pretty trivial code and/or throwaway projects without long lifetimes. No one who has ever faced a serious regression in a large system would ever say something like this.
> Should any parent let their child use any IT system that creates a permanent record that they are not in charge of.

This is the same as thinking that not telling your children about sex or alcohol will keep them from experimenting. It's much better to have a respectful, grownup conversation where you explain the risks and how to reduce them.
"whiny" means to complain in a childish way. Complaining about not being followed on twitter by investors is childish, especially when the author should be doing the adult thing and own up to the company's employees what's going on and what their options are. They put a lot of faith in the founder and with that comes the responsibility to treat them fairly.
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To answer your question:

I have done it for 10-20 minutes. I have done it for 30 minutes. And 40. And 45. And 1 hour and half.

It is difficult every time. No one said this is easy.

Over time, I have learned to be able to observe the ... discomfort and "difficulty" as an arising object, and allow that to pass by.

I started from having extreme difficulty sitting for 1 minute.

As for "easier to accept" -- that is not acceptance. Acceptance is acceptance. There is no easy or hard about it. Thinking that something is "easier to accept" is a subtle form of aversion.

Finally, what you talk about with "focus" and "flow of focus" -- that is concentration, that is samadhi. Vipassana is insight, and while it uses a minimum level of concentration, you're not trying to hold a particular focus. You're observing the fundamental nature of reality.
Any way I could patch the program to stop it from deleting the data after it is uploaded?

Among other things I would like to set up an ElasticSearch cluster for my own feeds.

Is the WARC format defined somewhere? I haven't looked at any other ArchiveTeam projects so I'm not informed if this format is used elsewhere.
Well, that's precisely how it works for some software. Try buying the Cisco AnyConnect client for example. http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/model/tsd_software_an...
And yet somehow even after learning all that, you still manage to get frustrated and have difficult experiences!
> ... generational wealth inequality expand.

People automatically assume economic inequality is bad, though here's an argument for its merits: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

I'm more concerned about the wealth floor in a society going down, which is at odds with the general trend over the past centuries of it going up, even if not at the same rate as the wealth ceiling.
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Radley Balko has written at length about this subject. For example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/the-power-of-the-pr...
Not in 4 decades from now, depending on how much progress we do on the relevant fields (such as neuroscience).
When "threats" like this get you in jail, it is time to admit we are in the USSR and not elsewhere.

Read Soljenitsin; you have this for real. Not just a novel like 1984, the very real thing, like being afraid of making a joke, of criticizing nr. 1.
We've done a few of them here. Notably:

* http://cbgb.io/

* http://dustin.github.io/2012/09/09/seriesly.html

* https://github.com/couchbaselabs/sync_gateway

cbgb is an API compatible Couchbase implementation in go. We use it in place of couchbase when we need something tiny to play around with.

seriesly is a time series database for storing and aggregating sample data and doing things like this: http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/seriesly/

sync_gateway is how our mobile team synchronizes data across all your phones and tablets and your central DB.
As a person just outside the 2% (yes, I failed those entrance exams) and yet currently residing in Silicon Valley, I disagree. I would much rather preserve the sanctity of those few colleges.

I'd rather have other universities collaborate/compete with the IITs. Not very different from how CMU is competing with IVY league universities here.