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> government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, and in its worst state an intolerable one ... Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

I wish people took this more seriously and explored its philosophical implications. In a recent discussion with a couple of other HNers, I found a surprising amount of hostility toward my suggestion that the state and its laws are mere means to an end. But why not? What is there to romanticize, glorify, glamorize, sentimentalize, and eulogize about the fucking government? It's just a means to an end, like so many other things that we invented to make the harsh reality of life somewhat more tolerable. It's only raison d'etre is that, after years of experimentation, we have yet to find a less bad alternative as Churchill famously noted.

What Churchill didn't mention is that we've only been experimenting with governments for a few thousand years, with democracy for a few hundred years, and with universal suffrage for a few decades. In the grand scheme of things, we've only just started. So much for the End of History, Mr. Fukuyama!

When, after only so little experimentation, people cannot bear to admit that their current government might not be the best thing evaaaaar, it's a sign of a serious problem: confusion between means and ends. Developers who cannot bear to admit that their software has massive security holes tend not to produce secure software, and arguing with them often results in hilarious threads that we see here from time to time under headings like "How not to respond to a bug report". Similarly, people who equate any criticism of or harm to their country with the murder of their firstborn tend not to produce a good country. As Paine says in another part of the article:

> any prepossession in favor of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Implication: Don't get too emotionally attached to a government.

Another thing that I'd really want to emphasize is that Paine was not an anarchist. Neither am I. Just because people refuse to romanticize the government doesn't mean that they'd rather get rid of it. The definition of a necessary evil is that although it is evil, it is also necessary under present circumstances. Anarchists are stupid, they don't understand necessity. Sensible people do.

People who have common sense do not destroy things that are necessary. But they are always willing to ditch one and get another if the alternative turns out to be a better fit for the job and the benefits outweigh the cost of transition. 237 years ago, Paine ditched Britain in favor of a new country. Perhaps 23.7 or 237 or 2370 years from now, sensible Americans may need to ditch America for something else. Throw around big words like "treason" all you want, but at the most fundemantal level it's just common sense. Countries just tend to be more difficult and costly to switch than your mobile phone contract is.
Most inspiring speech ever !!
> Haskell also has features that require the developer declare something upfront (types and type derivation)

Generally not. Type inference does that for you.
The title made me assume this post would be about downshifting. But no, it's about "refreshing" your looks and furniture by throwing everything away and buying new stuff. Ehm, OK.
Anti-Corp
I gave it a shot! [0] Hopefully everything looks okay. The hardest part was finding an issue. Thanks again for your advice!

[0] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11193
I don't have any problem with the writer assuming the reader can intelligently apply the article to him or herself.
Spot on.

Another TV-free household here.

I had some of my daughter's friends over for a sleep over last year (ugh) and we had a 15-year old 26" Sony Trinitron CRT which I was ridiculed for by them as they all have massive plasma/LCD and 3D units.

For some strange reason I felt slightly guilty about this but after a discussion with the other half, we decided that this was the symptom of a problem with society rather than a problem with us and that it needed fixing.

Couple of days later, it went on the street with a sign taped on "Free TV". Within 10 minutes someone had taken it.

A year later, we all sleep better, we all communicate better and we are all a lot closer and we're also £150 a year better off (we have to pay TV license in the UK).

All it does is consume time and divide people.
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Ha! A true hacker answer :-)
You could use something like Mailvelope [0]. You still have to manually encrypt things, but the process is fairly straightforward.

[0]: http://www.mailvelope.com/
Of course, but with nowadays available information and possibilities to search, it is quite easy to find that it is already done. I mean, I don't think she invented it being sitting in some cave, without contact to outside world. She would at least need to have done some simple research, with the materials and etc... So some organic results would pop up.
1. Java.
2. The problem of binary compatibility is two folded:
a. What Scala considers major versions (usually minor changes)
b. An open source library community that jumps to beta Scala releases for minor updates
These two together create a nightmare to upgrade libraries or Scala versions
Counterexample: playing with your kids.

I think hard and worth doing are pretty loosely coupled. There are certainly lots of things that are hard and yet not really worth doing. And there are a good number that are worth doing and yet easy.
As a kid my parents would throw a yard sale once a year where we were encouraged to sell all of our old stuff. My parents would suggest low prices to make sure everything moved but ultimately it was up to us to set the prices and we got to keep all of the money. I always thought it was a lot of fun. I might hold on to a prized toy here and there but for the most part I enjoyed selling my old toys.

EDIT: I think the trick was letting us own the process. We helped place the ad in the paper (when we were old enough), we helped design the signs to hang up in the neighborhood, we helped hang them up, we chose which toys to sell, what to price them, we haggled with the buyers (very fun), and we spent the money after (or saved it if you were my brother).
Bed, couch, tv and kitchenware isnt exactly the model of decadence, even among the poor in Canada.
LaTeX-to-Internet
I moved many times. My golden rule is - when packing, give/throw away 50%, then by unpacking give/throw away another 50%. And try to move once in 5 years. Keeps you sane and fresh. Oh, and because of all that "training" i really can relaocate to anywhere (like another country) with just a backpack and smile on my face.
Oh come on. He missed a quotation mark so you don't address the question. Pedantic sir, Pedantic! /intentional
"...jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down" - unknown

(not sure who said this, if you know pls comment so this can be duly attributed.)
Charter Installation Tech Threatens Police
They'd get some tens of thousands of votes from 4chan, that's for sure.
Until you realise most of them can't vote from being underage and/or foreigners.
Oh nevermind.
I just googled "one's freedom in inversely proportional to the number of keys in the pocket" and found nothing.
You have just written a really powerful sentence.
I lived mostly traveling for the last 13 years and I have very little stuff. I constantly write/think/discuss about it and I rarely found such a great sentence. Congratulations.
An interesting solution if you have something to hide I suppose.

As has been stated time and again, most people don't. The danger lies in politicians, ceo's and other figures of authority who do and can be blackmailed. Rather than a few hackers setting up their own SMTP servers I think a more powerful solution lies in keeping focus on the actual problem, the out of control NSA program.
[offtopic] Cool, you work with kids? You are teaching them Pascal, too, right? And inline asm.
That's true, but selling everything you have just to buy more is not the best idea regardless of your social position.

If you move to a new city for example you could just rent an apartment that has most of the stuff you need for a fraction of the cost and effort of buying your own.
Ecuador renounces trade concessions: '"No" to Blackmail'
the alchemy of trying to turn inspiration into a product or service more valuable than the sum of its parts
> Normal people definitely don't want to... Life is too short to...

Ugh!

All you are saying is that if you aren't looking for a home made contraption, then a home made contraption isn't what you are looking for.
Oh, my mistake. I meant:

"exact details _for_ what you get paid for"

i.e "for what", so I'm not asking exact rates, but more concrete details of the job he has done. And this could be a hypothetical case. So, basically, did he implement some code, or told to implement with very specific details (e.g. at API/types level) to the senior engineers from the client company? Did he work on copywriting or similar? Did he help to determine exact price of the targeting product; etc...
How do you handle reboots? If all of your partitions are encrypted I would guess you use a serial console to enter in the encryption password to decrypt and mount the actual OS drive?
Do you really need to be taught art?

Firstly, it's subjective which means you can't necessarily be taught it and then be graded accordingly. Secondly, it's something which comes with only practice. Cramming it in a set time period in a degree/course utterly fails to consider the individual. Also, none of it is formal or deterministic. Art history perhaps, but that's not art.

My grandfather did terribly in art at school and was graded as an utter failure and his teacher told him he was totally hopeless. A few years later, driven by this, he made an absolute fortune selling his work and has illustrated many well known books as well. He's now dead, but in his last will and testament there was "fuck you Mr Brickett", directed at his art teacher :-)
After reading this, I can't help but think that once and for all, we need to free Brad Manning and stop the NSA.

The US is just really bad and the sheeple need to wake up and stop listening to the media who are telling them lies.

Only people like us on the internet know what's really going on.
small boot partition (basically enough to boot, get network, start ssh), all the actual data and /tmp on encrypted stores.
I always thought a big part of the reason people used gmail was for the snazzy web-based UI that was one of the first popular AJAX-based web applications.

I eagerly read the article to see what alternative to this feature the author was suggesting, so I was surprised to see he's reading the emails with a standalone client...in fact, it's an emacs plugin!
It looks like a clone of Helm (previously called Anything) for Emacs:

https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
How do you do that with a pure hardware machine with physical access without rebooting the machine? Even if you freeze the memory with liquid nitrogen and extract the data from it, that process results in the server needing rebooted afaik. Obviously I'm assuming there's no 0-day you can just enter in via the serial console or similar.
If only the mainstream media would stop parroting government lies, then I think we the people could rise up and stop the NSA. It's going to take intelligent people like us on the internet to finally stop Pax Americana from oppressing our freedoms.
...except your books.
Hopefully this can be clarified soon. If true, it could have extreme repercussions for the upcoming German elections.
This is exactly what they would say if they actually had found a way to break encryption.

Sad to see wired.com becoming another mouthpiece for the government like other mainstream media.
Does Rails 4 even supports Ruby 1.8.7?
Well, what you call an extra code to help to satisfy a compile, I call a part of a documentation which helps understanding the code, in addition with some static integrity checking :)
To update all packages use:

cpan upgrade /(.*)/
Agreed.

It makes even more sense when you consider the name of the program "prism" is an object that's capable of splitting light into it's colorful components, i.e. decoding the data streams into visible readable more colorful data streams. Each company is a color exposed by prism.

It's not an acronym. It's a play on words.
If it was a question, it was rhetorical - and irrelevant.
absolutely!

To the self study program, you might want to add a weekly 2hr Life drawing group, supported by any of the excellent anatomy books by Beverley Hale [ Art Students League ], Bridgeman or even Loomis.

http://redbubble.com/people/gord
Manage configuration files in python.
> That is like being shocked and horrified that animal control puts down stray dogs. People don't like to talk about it, a small number of people might be upset by it, but it is a necessary part of civilized society.

In Finland we don't have stray dogs. No animal control putting them down either. I guess we aren't a civilized society by your standards, assuming your claim is true.

Now that I have shown why your example is not true(or that you are an idiot for thinking Finland is not civilized society, your choice), I have to admit that I still can't think why foreign intelligence during peacetime would be "a necessary part of civilized society". I have never heard any arguments for this, so feel free to be the first. I'm waiting.
"location, location"

How I hate that....
Native Code Performance and Memory: The Elephant in the CPU
This is the exact reason I created this: https://privatemsg.matthew-dove.com/
Playing with kids is _hard_, but necessary.
London Now Has a Squad of Cops Wholly Dedicated to IP Crimes
How much time now gets spent on desktop/laptop/smartphone per day per family member?
Just curious if these numbers jump after the TV goes.
Why should they mention RapGenius? At Heroku, I expect it's very much back to business as usual.
I don't believe they can break most forms of crypto head on, but they can certainly exploit a lot of flaws (either errors in the implementation or flaws in either the infrastructure it runs on or physical/human factors).

It's an open question whether strong crypto used inappropriately makes people do things they wouldn't otherwise. If you know all comms are monitored, and don't ever say anything incriminating on the phone, you're better off than someone who has an unbreakable encrypted phone but is talking to an informant with a recorder on the other end.
Thanks. Yes, you can do it in Java (I did my own actually, with annotations), but...

1. copying is not innovating (sinatra was 2007)

2. it's hard to get into: http://www.sinatrarb.com/ has code above the fold; after hunting, the best code example I could find for JAX-RS was this http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/jersey-hello-world-...
Please, if you are rich, stop explaining the idea of freedom from stuff as if it’s a trick that even you have somehow mastered.

The only way to own very little and be safe is to be rich.

http://vruba.tumblr.com/post/45256059128/wealth-risk-and-stu...
*unless your parents are rich. People always seem to forget there are those with money to burn devoid of any material challenge. If you have practically infinite money, life is difficult. Art is something that transcends money and can help those more fortunate than all of us cope with not having any challenges in life.
Design student here.

I've never been to a US art school, I am on my way to my second year in an Israeli school (Shenkar).

Although I do not think it is justified by ANY means that any education costs as much as the author mentioned the RISD program costs ($200K+), I do know that art school for me has been a challenging and amazing experience, and here is why I would recommend it even if you do not want to be a designer, but just want to get your creative bearings rolling for a few years:

1. Assuming that you make it to a competitive program, you will most likely be with high quality people who are hard workers. Its been an absolute pleasure for me to kick it with some of the coolest and most creative people in Israel at my school.

2. Design is an enormous field, and although you can expose yourself to many things on the internet, what some schools are able to bring you (not necessarily all) is experience, expertise, a social life, hands on practice with your friends at school, critique by your teachers and classmates, the ability to see how you fare in contrast to others among many more things.

3. To branch off from that last point, since design is such an enormous field, you might think you want to do one thing, but after talking to so many teachers who are deep in the heart of the field you might switch. I was sure I would study to be a web designer/web dev, but all I want to do now is motion design.

4. This is your time to be creative. Do it within the most creatively inclined framework possible, with as many people who are like-minded as possible. There are not many opportunities for this kind of thing--if you go to design school you can mess around and be creative until you dont feel like it anymore, and then continue doing the real world as you did before.

I highly recommend you go to Art School.
Just dont spend a ton of money on it, be sure of the reasons you are doing it, and research the environment in which you will be studying for the next four years because you had better like it if youre going to be there for four years.
The way this is presented really isn't cool. If the Post has evidence to back their annotations, they should cite it or at least say it exists in other sources they have access to.

If the annotations are correct, they basically confirm the worst and most extreme interpretations people could come up with when this story broke. But there's no evidence presented in these slides, at all, to support the notes they've "helpfully" added. Where's this information coming from?
Very little. Kids and wife dont use computer at all. I use it for work and HN (currently HN whilst waiting for compiler!). We have one smartphone but it's rarely used unless commuting.
Actually Clojure and some other JVM hosted languages don't work on android as is because they rely on JVM while android uses bytecode converted from jvm to dalvik.

Edit: clojure works on android now but it needed additional porting efforts
You just need to ping your website every minute. Pingdom or the like works just fine.
This is what happens when you don't parrot the government lies (from a previous HN article):
http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett...

The espionage-industrial complex is on the order of a $50 billion/year industry. That kind of money buys a lot of ignoring american ideals.
$ pip install ocstyle
-bash: pip: command not found
1 bit + time == Morse code.

I'd say you can convey any data with just 1 bit - imagine Morse code but only with dots. Although, it would be tedious (if you want to do it by hand).

But if you think of it as series - then yes, that is a time.
If true, I find the stupidity of this move amazing. Now Chinese government officials can convincingly argue that the U.S. policies are really no different from Chinese ones and that all this talk about freedom is just state propaganda.
No problem, keep on learning! :-)
Can we make ourselves happier?
I think the point the author is trying to make that having to much emotional attachment to material objects, with side-effects like hoarding these items, or being upset when something happens to them can be potentially toxic for you.

Sorry, I just don't have the convenience of time, money and means of transport to afford the kind of leisure the author is advocating.
For one, I bought a house pretty much owning some electronics, couple guitars and amps, a full backpack, a garbage bag of cables and a couple full of clothes.
I pay regular visits to my local thrift store, and they have some really nice mint stuff (or easy to refurbish) for cheap. You can also get a lot of 'sets' of items/furniture if you like your possessions to "match".
People like the author sometimes basically dump their entire living room there.
Also you won't feel as bad for reselling it if you end up hating the stuff, as you didn't have that big money attached to it, which mitigates a good chunk of perceived emotional value.
Out of interest, what do you do when you want to watch a film?

The way I see it, you either go to the cinema, whereupon you pay some outrageous sum to see a limited range of new releases (most of which are appalling in comparison to the body of classic film that exists), watch it on some cramped computer screen, or go to a friend's house and use their television.

None of these options appeal to me, and it's one of the main reasons I haven't acted on the "throw away your television" mantra.
Parallella's hardware sources open-sourced
I thought most people would have as main reason to not mix their own stuff with the system Perl?!

And you want multiple Perls installed, anyway. Backward compatibility is a target in the Perl world, but stay safe... ("This is the versions at the job servers. This is what I do my hobbies with. Also, I need to keep a 5.8.8 Perl, to make certain so X works with that golden oldie.")
I can't speak for the more complex mathematics being discussed here, but I can say with some confidence that there are definitely more people making money on forex related fraud than on forex.
Sony Launches Giant Waterproof Xperia Z Ultra Smartphone
hmmmm, am I the only one who's totally annoyed by that URL path?
Seriously, what's the point in abbreviating to "/comsense.htm"?

I know that's not a big deal, but being a fan of ... well, I'd say "semantic URLs" this always hits me square in my face!
Why not use "/commonsense.htm" or "/common_sense.htm"?

And after looking at http://www.constitution.org/tp it gets even worse ("/amercrisis.htm" etc.)
buzzword bingo!
Physicists create tabletop antimatter gun
I use the forked version of the Android client and it works very well. I think I tried the mobile web site briefly but don't really care since I do my main reading in a web browser on a desktop/laptop, and the rest on tablets which work the same and then a tiny minority of the time on a small screened mobile device.
I've been experimenting with encrypting using bitcoin addresses, publishing keys with gravatar and sending encrypted messages as links as a way of trying to make all this stuff easier and more accessible. If you're interested in my proof of concept, it's http://kybernetikos.github.io/VisualSecrecy/
Seriously. Or call it: Sell everything and then buy it back again. This guy sounds like he's trying to impress people. "Look how Zen I am, you guys." He quotes Tyler Durden and then goes directly against that quote. Tyler Durden didn't say sell all your stuff and then go buy new stuff so you can finally start to be anti-consumerism and minimalistic. The most anti-consumeristic thing he could have done was pay for the truck and not expel resources so he could buy new things. It's like people who wake up and say, "I want to start buying ethical clothing" and then they go throw out their entire wardrobe to buy new clothes. The most ethical clothes are the clothes you have on right now.
How easily can a moving car be hacked?
Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System | Stanford EE380
Looks to me like Clojure on Android works just fine.

http://clojure-android.blogspot.com/2013/06/state-of-clojure...