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I choose to use my real name on many services, it really doesn't bother me because I feel that I should be able to stand behind my words wherever I say them. It's also a unique name and usually not taken.

I will admit there have been times I have been hesitant to say or post things, but more often than not it's fine. If there is something I don't want associated with me, I use an alternate account.
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As I mentioned already, it's certainly possible to complicate things to no end. But what exactly do you think you've accomplished with this message, besides prompting me to refute bullshit distractions?

>> Is it force for someone to own a gun?

Is it force for you to own shoes?

>> Is it force for someone to reveal that they're carrying a gun?

Is it force for someone to reveal they're not wearing a bra? No, it's not. Coercion requires an intent, a choice, and an action. Why are you flashing a gun? -Has someone just threatened to attack you? -Or have you just demanded money from someone?

>> Is it force for someone to draw a gun? Is it force for someone to fire a warning shot? Is it force for someone to point a gun?

Intent, intent, intent, etc.

>> Is it initiation for someone to attack a third party? Is it initiation for someone to attack a friend? Is it initiation for someone to attack you?

Of course. The one who attacks, ie. initiates, is the aggressor.

>> Is it force to covet your property?

Is it force to covet a woman?

>> Is it force to touch your property?

Is it force to touch a person?

>> Is it force to enter your property?

Is it force to enter Wal-Mart?

>> Is it force to illegitimately acquire your property?

I don't think so. But it depends on stuff.

>> Is it force to manipulate your property?

Is it force to open a door?

>> Is it force to develop your property's uses?

What do you even mean? .. Oh, but don't actually answer that. I have a feeling we're not about to get anywhere in this discussion.
When it comes to design, there is no such thing as universally bad or universally good.
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Wonder how much of the morale depletion can be traced to the fact that many of the surveillance systems put in place by the NSA will now be much less useful, given that the targets now know how to evade the NSA's wide net.

The targets are aware that they must have as minimal a virtual footprint as possible, must eschew almost all telephone use, etc. They will also push for their associates, friends, family to all have as little virtual presence and phone use as possible (not easy to do, but important for them!).

Once these measures are taken, the NSA's entire world, everything they've been working on for the past decade plus, will have been exploded.
The thread is back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662163
Can you cite sources for these claims? I've found it's very hard to find good scientific sources for the effects, but all of the research I've done on the topic suggests that you are grossly underestimating the effects.

Here is an example:
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abolition-Stanford-Nuclear-Serie...

And here is another terrifying account of the effects of a nuclear explosion:

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_...

And another good source which shows just how destructive a bomb would be on a major metropolitan area:

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
"It wouldn't be easy."

Nonsense. The mass of galaxies is reasonably well known. Put the numbers in and see how well they match reality. The numbers are uncertain? Then put on appropriate error bars and see if reality falls within them.
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Yes, why not . I think you can,

I got heart attack when I was in age 32 February 2009, I just lost my military (navy) government job due to disability in their term. I year later I stared to learn html, css and js. freelance at odesk just change my world.

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Nice list. But ugh no on the digital cutter unless it uses free and open source patterns.
France didn't sign, and went on with atmospheric testing until 1974, and the same is true of China (although they didn't start testing until 1964, so they weren't technically part of "all the nuclear powers at the time").
Thank you for posting that. He was able to put into words many of the things I had felt for years, but never spent the time to fully quantify.
Well.. A non-venture backed startup perhaps. I don't see startups as a David and Goliath situation if David's constantly using Goliath's money to fund his ventures. Even so I think it's a bit of a reach to compare this new party and startups. It's a much bigger deal to make a political victory based on defeating corruption than a social media app.
I know this will be unpopular here, but personally, I would like to see the Guardian prosecuted for its reckless reporting of stolen information in the same way that phone hacking was dealt with.

You can't just steal documents from governments and publish them without any consequences.

If your government is doing something bad, then it should be dealt with legally, and via the established checks and balances. Newspapers shouldn't be above the law.
Err? Did I miss something, or has the US actually been waging a war against terrorists for the past 12 years, where "terrorist" is euphemism for "extremist muslim nut job"?

As for nuclear storm, it's hardly meaningless FUD phrase. It's a tactic that basically stands for: "flatten the area". It's tried and tested, too. Think Dresden.

Else yeah. It depends on ignorant attitudes and behaviors. Of which one people in particular (the US) seems to have plenty.
Yup - I want to do this too..but I need a certain number of people in the same location to make it worthwhile. You can hack the urls to include the "location" parameter in the meantime though.
> india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century.

underground. [1] [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha
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It appears Selenic.com (Makers of the Mercurial VCS) is down and has been so for at least 20 hours.
In 1024 years time, an article will be posted on intergalactic HN comparing translations of the linux kernel source from ancient C to SaturnScript.

Luckily they pickled Torvalds' head in a jar (which he wasn't too pleased about, since he was stuck on the display cabinet between Zed Shaw and RMS, && Fabrice Bellard was at the end continuously spewing out *&£$script mangled with Haskell and BrainFuck for an entire millenium), so he was able to give some guidance.
Sure, nor am I saying it is.
It's explicit throughout the article that the author is referring to the White English.
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> The fourteenth amendment says exactly that, actually.

Depressingly, I actually checked. And I somehow kept skipping over the Fourteenth and reading the Fifteenth, even after I didn't believe it and double checked.

Welp, that kinda fractures my response. :P
As a socially-dependent, freedom-hating, hippie-loving liberal I pay good money for my cleaning service to clean my house, for my gardener to clean my yard and I pay good taxes for my government to pick up dog shit from the street. I have no problem with people wanting to live off of the land, hunt their own food and sleep in tents, but I kind of like the luxuries I have and work hard to keep.
Traditionally, housekeeping was taken to reflect on a man's resources but on a woman's character. A man with a dirty house is just broke, which is not that humiliating (if you don't have a family to provide for) in times like 1935 or 2013. Thankfully, that attitude is peeling away and it's only taken to reflect on a woman's resources, and nothing more. It isn't right to have cleanliness (or the lack thereof) interpreted differently for the genders.

What I find screwy and wrong is that cleaning services (which are necessary if two people are going to work career jobs, since career jobs rarely come in under 50 hpw including commute) and childcare come out of after-tax income. That is fucked up and probably a bit misogynistic. There are a lot of women who leave the workforce involuntarily because, after having a couple of kids, they can't afford to work. This is the kind of shit we get from a predominantly conservative political class which (a) isn't fully sold on women working, largely because (b) they, unlike most of us, don't need two people working.
This has right now 239 points and is 4 hours old, with 237 comments. How can this article not be Nr. 1 on HN right now?

It is time to assess your algorithms, Mr. Graham.
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"The Delivery Wars," are coming, where mini robots, jet-powered drones & the pizza delivery guy, are all racing to your frontdoor.
...when one parent asked, what Snowden's destination was, another said, "Gitmo?" with a smile that indicated that he thought Snowden belongs there. I find that reaction quite commonplace among Americans I know.

I find that reaction quite horrifying. It is appalling (although not surprising) to me that supposedly educated people are willing to support extrajudicial process and treatment amounting to torture because they don't agree with the way someone has acted. Even if they think a crime has been committed this sort of blasé Bush-style attitude that "you're with us or you're against us, and if you're against us you deserve everything we can dream up to do to you" contributes a lot to foreign disgust at the US attitude.
There are two reasons to believe that the market is better. One, market transactions are voluntary, so they are generally speaking "positive-sum games". Government transactions are not necessarily so (think Kelo vs. City of New London). Secondly. In order to wield economic power, you have to be willing to give some of it up. This is not necessarily true of political power. For these reasons, government tends to vectorize power in the upward direction; markets tend to flatten them out in the long run.

Again, it is worth also considering that the nordic countries, which have favorable income distributions, have had extremely low headline inflation rates over the last 50 years.

You make an false analogy: The government promises to use the money to help people (translation: to fill rich peoples' pockets). The market promises to use the money to increase efficiency (translation: to fill rich peoples' pockets)

But consider: Who is the market? It's everyone. Who is the government? A select few. So let's say indeed both systems are not "great" at delivering on their part of the bargain. Given that the market is everyone and the government is a select few, which one do you suppose will be a bigger failure at serving society's needs in a just fashion?
I don't actually have one, but I think the Silhouette allows you to convert stuff from Illustrator format. I think it also appears as a printer. So, you should be able to create cuttable content in Inkscape.

http://blog.concertkatie.com/2011/04/tutorial-for-creating-c...

http://enchantart.com/blog/?p=827
I know that the American People are heartly and cordial.
But killing and spying in the name of freedom isn't acceptable.

American people don't deserve agencies like the NSA or the CIA.

I hope that there are many freedom fighters like Snowden to come.

Get rid of this type of total surveillance!
(Btw: dear entrepreneurs, please respect our privacy.)

-- A european fellow who once respected and admired the US.
He's Chief Economist at Google, starting on line 49 he begins by outlining big data challenges unique to Google infrastrucutre
Kind of heavy-handed. The comments are almost exclusively against the article, which makes sense: People don't want to be demographically replaced. So they complain about it.

Reporters, being the morally superior people they always are, do their best with 3rd-rate satire to illustrate to nativists how evil and stupid such complaints are.
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It might be that the person you are responding to is making an effort to enforce a social more against defending spying that is clearly out of control. In which case the necessity of nastiness should be clear.

That said, we know that the US government has carried out propaganda operations "on the homefront" to normalize and legitimize illegal and unconstitutional behavior. And it's pretty obvious when an army of blog commenters and twitter handles are all pushing the same talking points at the same time and don't seem to be active outside of business hours on the east coast...
Dubar's number not remotely established as a factual 'functional limitation on how much we care about other people'.
...that's what "believing in it" means.
My favorite gift to receive is really just spending time with the gift giver, going out to a restaurant, maybe a show or to see a band, or a day out somewhere.

Hacker types also have a great interest in how things are made, if you can combine eating with a cooking class, or drinking with a trip to a brewery then that would work well.
If you look at history, a fair deal of truly massive reform comes only in response to the threat of revolution, as the incumbent elite seek to give up only enough ground to appease the masses and maintain control.

There's even economic models of this. I can't be bothered finding the citations though, apologies.
>> What happens when one person pays another to kill you? It's a free and voluntary exchange. And you're dead. Everyone is better off, right? Right?

I'm sensing a reluctance to process ideas here. Bad stuff is going to happen regardless of how our societies are organized. That doesn't mean it's alright to take someone's property by force, nor that voluntary, "market solutions" to real problems would not emerge.
I believe, imho, that the issue has exploded because AirBNB is a Silicon Valley backed company, and the worry is with explosive growth and scale. It's not a big problem when a miniscule amount of the apartment stock is tied up as short term rentals, but it can become a huge problem as that percentage grows.

The public and our representatives in government are more internet savvy too so these issues (or at least the stories) bubble to the top more quickly.

As a resident in NY and I can appreciate the ability AirBNB gives me to rent out my apartment easily (I haven't). But I also see that "The Man That Doesn't Exist" is "stealing" apartment stock for hotel use, which drives up my cost of living as a renter (on the flipside, his "theft" of the apartment would be beneficial to me if I was an owner, driving up the value of my property).
It's not like there's a shortage of people who want to go to new york and can spare the extra 15% though, is it? The city was packed to the rafters long before Air BnB came along to 'disrupt' everything.
The style of it is meant as a satire on similar articles directed at immigrant communities and the use of the word English is part and parcel of that satire. It is a rhetorical device to make a point, not an attempt to use accurate terminology. Also, it does include a fair amount of citations throughout the text.
They haven't stolen anything the government still has the information which is public domain.

Citizens have the right to know what the laws of their country are, if the government believes it has the right to snoop your phones calls then it must submit a request to change the law to parliament.
There's a lot to be said that the fourteenth wasn't included in either the original Constitution or the original bill of rights, so your point isn't entirely without merit, nor does it go unheard.

There's no person alive who could seriously suggest that the Constitution, either as originally written or as it currently exists, is a perfect document. Anybody suggesting otherwise should be immediately disregarded, IMO, but as I said, it prescribes its own medicine, so where it does fail, the remedy has, at least historically, been fairly straightforward.

It is precisely because it has been amended so well in the past, and that amendments like the federal marriage act have failed, that I hold so much faith in it is a document that can persist.

That said, I think it speaks well of the validity to the Constitution's "living document" mantra that it was indeed added when it needed to be.

It's also another point on original intent, because if you look at other documents of the era, it gives the impression that it was tacitly included, if not explicitly. My (entirely baseless) suspicion is that it was either accidentally omitted, or withheld due to the conflict of slavery its express declaration would have posed.
Other incentives are available. Public pressure, for example.
> [..] (for example USV, lobster.rs, reddit source code)

It's lobste.rs
Afghanistan's poppy production amounted to $4 billion in exports in 2007[0].

[0]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanist...
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Cute. 10 years ago I would appreciate this lambasting of the unfair criticism that minorities often receive.

But why does criticism of minorities tend to be sometimes unfair in the first place (not that all criticism is unfair)? I think it is because deep down, most people don't want multiculturalism, or even multiracial/ethnic societies.

I think it's time we stopped forcing immigration on people who don't want it. I'll finish with a quote from a prime minister of a particular country, on asylum seekers. As an experiment, I've modified the quote by changing the country in question, though of course the original quote is easy to look up:

"If we don't stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as an [English] and democratic state. This phenomenon is very grave and threatens the social fabric of society, our national security and our national identity."
> a painless and even fun process

This claim might be a little too optimistic. I'd like to challenge you (everyone) to associate a User object with an http.Request. Example code in Node.js/ExpressJS:

function auth(req, res, next) {
req.User = User("username");
next();
}

This is such a simple example of a useful piece of middleware, yet it is so difficult to implement in Go in a 'painless and fun' way.

I would prefer to avoid contention on a global mutex.

I would prefer to keep the compatibility with http.Handler and http.HandlerFunc.

Good luck!
What is the zoning like in Manhattan? I see intermingled residential/office/commercial spaces everywhere I go (heck, my last office was in the same building as apartments, with a store-turned-restaurant on the ground floor), so I didn't realize there were zoning restrictions in that sense.
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Threat of revolution to force systemic change, now that I can get behind.

Actual revolutions seem to involve many years of misery for everyone, and often end up in worse places than where they began.
You can't just steal documents from governments and publish them without any consequences.

Erm, why?

What's your reasoning here beyond "but the laaaaaaw"?

Do you even have any moral reasoning backing that?
booyaa00: I think it's also funny that some people are under the delusion that sites like this and reddit, are actually controlled by the 'voters', and that everyone has the same power.
They're not. They're controlled by editors who will place items where they want to.
For me, the worst part of hacker news is the silent banning if you are critical of any YC funded startup. Censorship is ugly, but it happens routinely. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807033

I appreciate the courage it takes to make an unpopular comment. That said, given your interpretation of HN (however accurate) you might express a little caution in calling for the censorship of a newspaper reporting extraordinary information.
What gives the rich the right to decide what belongs to others?
Most people are very bad at consistently using a pseudonym and it's been my experience that even an unskilled "snoop" can very easily tie a pseudonym to a real person. The same goes for nicknames and for other forms of identity obfuscation. Very few people do it right, it's great advice, but in practice, it doesn't work.

It's much better to control the content you create and manage the distribution of that content in the way you are most comfortable with.
>It's better to structure your economic views to encourage and expect rational behavior among fully-aware actors, even if this ideal is rarely approached in practice.

Why?
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She's probably right in thinking that policies and procedures exist for these things. She's woefully naive if she thinks the systems used to insure those policies and procedures are followed are up to the task, or that the executives and project managers who sign off on them give a shit whether they actually work or not (they don't--they get paid either way, and keep the gravy train rolling).

My experience with DoD contractors is that they are the worst sort of government contractors. They'll do anything to get extensions, add-ons, and other lucrative contracts while providing the absolute bare minimum necessary to meet the strict letter of existing ones.

As long as our government contracting system is run as a font of graft and corporate welfare, all the policies, procedures, and regulations in the world aren't going to stop the Snowdens and Private Mannings of the industry from having access to things they may not need to have access to.
Why do you feel their reporting is "reckless"? Do you believe that the Guardian's reporting has reduced GCHQ's ability to protect UK citizens? If so, do you have any evidence to support this belief?
> You can't just steal documents from governments and publish them without any consequences.

I'd draw the line:
You can steal documents and publish them, if they reveal that the government has acted against the laws, or unconstitutionally.

Basically if you're breaking the law to reveal that someone else has broken the law in order of magnitude worse way, then it's ok.
But if you give the note to the Bank of England, what will they give you? Gold! How much?

Most likely, the only thing you can get from the Bank of England is a TEN Pound credit on your next tax bill.