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I've got kind of a complicated picture to paint, so please bear with me...

1) Services can be bought with Bitcoin.

2) Github is awesome, but currently it's a totalitarian regime. Anyone with power can accept a Pull Request. There is no other form of government possible.

The thought occurred to me that for some kinds of projects, it might make sense to encode a form of government into the Source Code Repository / Source Code Review / Account system, itself. And possibly to have the entire thing - government, source code, data, and the running project itself - be self-hosting on a cloud server.

Self-hosting is the critical, and very interesting part to me. You pay your membership dues with BitCoin, and the service pays for its own hosting with BitCoin. And perhaps that's it - no one else has the keys to the BitCoin account, no possibility to profit off the service, it just pays for itself as long as it can, and then shuts down.

You could imagine a direct democracy, of everyone who pays their monthly membership fee. Or perhaps you gain voting privileges once you've been a paying member for 3 months in a row. All kinds of parameters could exist, and a single Community could possibly even modify their own laws, through something like a Constitutional law process. Maybe if the community is really successful, the governing body can start paying people with BitCoin to fix bugs, add features, create new art assets, etc.

There could be separate partitions of government. Like, picture an MMO RPG. Member for 3 months can vote on engine. Member for 12 months can vote on the content of the game itself, like where cities go, how much manna a spell costs, etc. Or maybe you get the right to vote, once you've completed an in-game quest!

As the code is modified, the service waits for all of the unit tests to pass before accepting a code change, waits for the government to approve of the changes, and then does something like restart the server at midnight.

And depending on the licensing, it may be possible for someone else to throw some BitCoin at a new server, and fork the whole Community, picking slightly different Constitutional and legal parameters. Over time, people end up with accounts on systems that have content and laws they like.

I've got a lot more thoughts about such a system, and I hope it comes to exist some day.
Interesting, thanks for the response and for the link.

> Underperformed is a fair reason, and formal stack ranking is a fair process (i.e. no discrimination).

Would you say that the legal definition of fair was that the outcome was non-discriminatory (for instance, not occurring on the basis of race, gender etc)? It seems to me that the system goes further than that, and is specifically designed to prevent employees from being fired because 'they didn't fit in', but rather for clear-cut performance reasons, and it would be trivial to argue that stack ranking was measuring the former, not the latter. i.e. you could argue, and it could well be the case, that your low ranking within a team was due to being outside a clique, or due to internal politics, and it didn't represent a fair measurement of performance.
That depends. Could it increase the possibility of discerning the existence of extraterrestrial life and of being able to study it in it's natural habitat if I don't?
From a pure SEO perspective...

Your meta descriptions aren't useful. You are just repeating the title. Adding some descriptive descriptions less then 140 characters in length with help. You appear to be using Wordpress so install SEO Ultimate to help with this.

Its hard to find content on your site. I thought you only had a few stories since it took me scrolling to the bottom and clicking left to find more. I guess the tags help with this but you are missing all of the extra links to find content. Your sitemap will help overcome this for Google, but not for users.

Your domain and title are at odds. Not sure what you are looking to target in terms of keywords, but assuming its "1 minute travel stories" you are going to find it hard to compete with http://giveme1minute.wordpress.com/ without getting http://1minutetravelstories.com/ or http://oneminutetravelstories.com/ etc....

Otherwise,

Move your subscription submit higher. I'm going to assume you want people to subscribe so make it prominent. I would do the same with the twitter link. I liked the stories so started looking for twitter so I could follow and get more of them and it wasn't obvious to find.

You need more content to get more traffic. No idea what your goals are but I would be using http://www.hittail.com/ (try it for a month for free) to work out what sort of keywords you should be targeting. This should land you on the first page of Google/Bing for those keywords.

The design isn't fantastic (may or may not be an issue) which made me think this was just someone's personal blog at first. Maybe you should look into spending $10 or so for a nicer looking theme. Nothing fancy, just something more modern and clean to appeal to your audience.

I say this as someone with a side project pulling in 4,000 unique's a day, and having targeted keywords to get No 1 on Google/Bing successfully quite a few times.

Looks like an interesting project. I added your feed to my newsblur and will follow what's going on so long as the content remains interesting.
Did the fake bomb scenario actually happen? I'd be interested in reading about that.
The rule of law is government's fundamental contribution to civilization. It may not be sufficient, but it's definitely necessary. In context, it's sacred.

Most government employees, particularly members of the military, directors of agencies (Alexander is both), cabinet secretaries, judges, members of Congress and the President, take an oath of office. The first or second thing in the oath is usually an affirmation to protect and defend the Constitution. In the President's oath, it's one of only two things: do your best at being President, and protect and defend the Constitution.

I swore that oath when I joined the Navy. I was only in for six years, I've been out more than thirty years, but I still consider myself bound to that oath. I've long been disenchanted by my government, but I still hope for the Constitution's health and longevity. It may be "just a goddam piece of paper," but it symbolizes our commitment to each other.

I'm tired of watching the NSA and the rest of the government treat the Constitution as just a piece of scrap paper.

Yes, decades in jail are appropriate for fundamental crimes of such depth and sweep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=oath%20o...
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You have a quick mind to spot that edge case! See footnote 2 of the article for how we handled it.
Which place is that? How does shady accounting help the business/owner survive? By evading taxes?
I think there's an important distinction to make between governance and government. One being the actions that govern things, the other being an institution with monopoly on violence and tax revenue.

I think this kid says it all best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jUxg81o8Q

So to me a government isn't just one person, nor is it a small collective. Any other form of socialism or large scale governance that isn't based on confederation in the loosest sense with small collectives respecting each others differences, simply has too much power IMO.
> things just sort of roll along from there

“They actually like deploying. So when you go visit them in Afghanistan, in the western Pacific, you don't get questions like, ‘Oh, shoot, what's sequester going to do to me?’ They know how to spell it, but that's about it. They want to know, ‘Hey, Commandant, you know, is this going to be the last deployment I'm going to get on, or am I going to actually be able to go to combat again or be able to go to WESTPAC (western pacific) again,” Amos said. “So our morale's pretty high right now, and I think it's going to stay high as long as we give them something to look forward to. The reorientation to the Pacific has just reenergized a lot of Marines as they think about Afghanistan: ‘My gosh, we're coming out of there in 2014. What's left?’ Well, we talk about Darwin, Australia. We talk about Japan. We talk about Guam. And their eyes light up.”

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2013/11/after-war-budget-cut...
> That is correct, Telegram does upload names and numbers

Ugh, this is such douchebag behavior for something that purports to be a "secure" app. Stop it immediately, please.
While I think halfing the price might be a little too much (for starting out), I think selling a year for 39.99 would probably be viable. Charging much less than 5 as a minimum payment doesn't sound very sustainable wrt expected churn, payment problems etc. I may very well be completely wrong, though.

Also, don't ignore the value of "choosing" the best customers -- those willing to pay, and willing to dedicate some resources (exemplified by paying a premium). If you build a good "community" of users, they will affect new users later -- by being an initial majority.
I haven't, and won't, 'name you names'. You could have given a nice technical explanation of what Carmack did without having to call the person 'delusional', saying they started with 'pessimisation' then further going on to belittle them by saying you'll 'explain with less words'. Even after they go further and say their programming was a goto spaghetti hell made in 2005 as he was learning to program, you keep trying to brow beat him with your decades of knowledge and experience.

Why are you angry at him? I thought the main point of the fine article wasn't just about the technical details, but also the fact that they wouldn't give up. Would you rather that he had seen his flickering game and just say 'Aw screw it, programming is crappy!' and walk away?

Or do you want a signed and printed statement of your 'absolute' rightness, a full retraction from him never to compare himself with Carmack again and pg to come into this thread and strike down his comment from the top and relegate it to the bottom of the page until he spends years learning what people knew 30 years ago?

Most of the people here understood what you were discussing. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, and I remember well those magazines you brought up.

But you were really rude the way you were discussing it, and quite frankly, you were calling him names, unless you think that delusional is a nice way to refer to someone.

And yes, my email is in my profile if you do want to email me privately and call me names.
It's NOT just porn they're blocking. "Extremist" sites, too.
Is it weird that I find the Technical writer/developer advocate position fun?
Interesting, your view of extraterrestial lifeforms is very similar to the approach of colonists in the 18th and 18th centuries - that the people/lifeforms being invaded were inferior to the colonists, and hence could be mistreated/mutilated/wiped out for the benefit of the invaders.

Thankfully, scientists are not of this mindset.
This looks really good Mr Gauberger, and a necessary addition to the arsenal, so thank you very much. I only have one question: you say that the client-side IPs are logged to check the smooth running of the system (or similar). Is that metadata persistent, that is ,potentially available to an attacker? or is it short-lived?
Sort of off-topic, but the big banner picture at the top has a lot of obvious Photoshop rubber-stamping in the bottom left around the edge of the crater. It's presumably covering up blank bits from the photo stitching, but I worry it'll inspire conspiracy types.

(For the record, I think it's easier to land a bunch of people on the moon than to fake it convincingly with 1960s special effects and then successfully cover it up for 45 years.)
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> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That the NSA doesn't need any form of oversight, and can be 100% trusted with the power to snoop on everybody belonging to any country

That's not at all what I'm trying to say. In fact I would argue very strong oversight is needed, but I'd also argue that very strong oversight is possible in the first place, which means that oversight (or not) is not the proper reason to argue about the very existence of the program in the first place.

In other words, the program(s) are either required or not. If they are required, determine the needed level of oversight and install it. If it's not required, then it's not required and discussions about oversight are simply redundant.
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Some people claim that there is an element of consideration to the GPL that makes it subject to regular contract law, but, yes, as far as I know as a non-lawyer, there's no caselaw either way.
> Unions have nothing to do with turning companies into world leaders.

No, but the fact that there are no unionized companies in the U.S. that are world leaders in their market segment wiggles its eyes suggestively at the idea that the problem might have something to do with unionization.
I agree, and while it's not quite ready for a show HN yet.. I've been working on a quick side-project that allows people to send a 'thank you' to (github) open source committers.

I just completely agree that trying to motivate people who give huge amounts of time with small amounts of cash isn't a great idea. That said, it's good that there's a place for it (gittip etc.) should people want to.

Anyway, if you want to give feedback http://github.com/thankadeveloper/thankadeveloper and http://thankadeveloper.herokuapp.com (in the process of polishing, domain etc.).

I'm not sure if I'll ever really get the culture change in encouraging more "thanks" in the world, but it has been a fun little project getting up to speed on rails4, octokit etc.
Maybe look at validity of the logic itself, instead of just wether you like where it leads.
The internal customer was as involved in the development as they need or want to be (usually not much, actually, with a few exceptions), but the target was usually a specific feature or capability requested by an end-user customer, so it was pretty easy to determine when the target was met. There'd be the odd wrangle over what had actually been agreed but it wasn't a major problem.

Generally speaking we kept each milestone small, ideally each dev would be hitting 1 or 2 milestones each week, not necessarily on the same project. I measured schedule time in quarter-day blocks and had a weekly 'schedule' that showed who was working on what each week. This meant our smallest schedule block was 2 hours... if it was a 5-min job we either did it for free or charged the customer 2 hours, which really helped reduce the mass of tiny jobs into manageable requests.

For new products we iterated a lot and involved the customer in specifying the next steps. There was one project that needed a lot of architecture up front, and that got a bit tricky as we had to spend a lot of time building with nothing to show for it, but usually we were able to do it in small sprints (this was before "Agile" hit our corner of the world!). This is pretty much a solved problem now.
The quote technique you're referring to is called a pull-quote, and they have been around for decades. They may have seen a resurgence on the web recently, I couldn't say, but they've been used in magazines as far as I can remember.

Like any typographic technique, they can be used poorly, but I thought their use was quite tasteful in this article. They take for granted the fat that many people skim and they help draw attention to key quotes or ideas; I think that's reasonable.

I didn't get the sense of "asymmetricality", but to each their own, I guess.

In any case, it felt like an improvement over most news sites and blogs.
People clean toilets without being paid... just not typically other people's toilets.
It's a fine dream. I've read about a few politics startup attempts but they disappeared off the face of the earth quickly (though I did see some guys asking for funding recently). It would be nice if some could share their stories, where they failed and what they did well.

Some people will always have more clout than others. Even here on Hacker News you have people with (I believe deservedly) more weight than others.
I'll try to add some additional color here. My background is that I work for Google (where the vast majority of our data is stored in what amounts to document databases, generally protobufs in a key-value store), I prototype in Python and Javascript, and I write production code in Java and C++.

Both document databases and dynamic typing are at their best when you don't understand your problem domain. They let you express what you do know about your problem domain concisely, and then fill in the blanks later on. So in a document database, when you find that you want to record a new bit of data - just add it as a field to newly-created XML/JSON documents, and only display it in the UI if it's present. Or pick a default value if you need to perform computations with it. Don't bother with data migrations, don't bother with schemas, don't bother trying to backfill previous data. Try out your idea and see if it works first, because chances are, it doesn't.

If you always work on projects where the requirements are handed to you, specs are complete, and the problem domain is understood, this will seem terribly irresponsible to you. And it is - if you understand your problem domain, you should capture as much of that knowledge in the software system you build to understand it.

But if you are working in startups, or in consumer web, where you absolutely have to be on the leading edge or die and the only opportunities that haven't been picked over yet are the ones that nobody understands - being able to try things out without having to flesh out all your assumptions is crucial. You will run circles around the people who spend time defining their data model and speccing out their objects. And then when consumer tastes change - which happens quite regularly - you can adapt to them immediately instead of throwing out all the work you did under the old assumptions.

The other bit of context I'll toss in is to get in the mindset of solving a problem that you don't know how to solve and assume that your first 10 solutions won't work. For example, if you're reading a CSV - everybody knows how to do that, dynamic typing doesn't really help there. If you're cloning Stack Overflow, you can probably figure out what your database schema should be. But what if you're trying to figure out a new way for people to socialize over mobile phones? Where do you start there? That's the use case for dynamic languages and document DBs. The problems where technology is a tool for understanding & manipulating vaguely-defined social behaviors.
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I think one thing most commentators are missing re: 64-bit in the 5S is that Apple is not putting the 64-bit processor in there for phones today, but for phones tomorrow. The 5S, as they state, is its "forward looking" platform. If you want a phone that optimizes things differently, look to the 5C. The 5S is there so the compiler, app developers, and the overall ecosystem move to 64-bit and get the kinks out earlier rather than later.
I learned about it watching this performance:

https://vimeo.com/23527768

I make his words mine:

"This is what space exploration should be. To sing space... not just measure it. To look deeper... not just farther"
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> In effect an attack that requires internal barriers to communication to prevent; is also an attack on the organizations overall cognitive ability.

It is indeed. That was one of the issues noted by the 9/11 Commission formed by Congress, was that the institutional silos prevented the right people from acting on the available intelligence leading up to the 9/11 attack.

Of course NSA had hardly decompartmentalized; Snowden was able to sysadmin himself through many of the compartments, which is a hard enough problem to solve, but that may mean NSA might look and decide they don't need to retract from other IC agencies.
I don't think they understand that without individual freedoms reigning supreme, we'll have monopolies, lack of innovation, taxes, etc. Oh, and don't forget tracking/passport/entry visas because of taxes. Oh and don't forget mandatory "collective" (but NOT state) schooling.

Taxes = Theft, Government = the Monopoly on Violence, and Capitalism (which is separate from the free market) = Wage Slavery and too much power. Your thoughts?
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Initially, the founders did not want political parties. But factions quickly formed anyway. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United...
Yes, but that doesn't say anything about companies.
Either way the market is going to be mostly uniform as long as publishers control a significant portion of it. You won't get less than anyone else if everyone can revoke at year 35, and you won't get more than anyone else if the standard contract is a lifetime irrevocable transfer.

On the surface, I like the argument that the value proposition is higher if it's a true permanent transfer, but there's no guarantee that more money would get passed on to the artist if the publisher could just increase its own margins.
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I believe that nginx will do the caching with valid=300s.

"DNS" does not let the client set the record TTL, and "DNS" in this case would be a round-trip request to the Google DNS servers listed in the config snippet - precisely what it was suggested be avoided.
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Agreed. But it doesn't look like our brothers/sisters in arms would afford us the same luxuries does it?

To me it sounds like THEY want the monopoly on force to be governed by a majority or consensus, which would then impose taxes, threaten opposition with force, and centralize power.... Sounds like a government to me...

I truly don't think anarcho-capitalism is an abomination. I've come to this stance FROM being a socialist because it's the only moral way of doing things. Thoughts?
> and two, you can use it for escape as well: Ctrl-[

Sadly, not (sanely) with a Norwegian keyboard layout. We "only" have one key left of z, namely "<" (and with shift ">") -- and not really any keys right of "l" and "p" -- right home-row is "jklø" followed by "æ", and "å" is right of "p".

Way out in the cold by the enter key we have "'" (shift for "*"), and the not-so-useful composing '"' (and "^~" with shift/alt-gr respectively).

If only we could stick to something like romaji'zed Japaneze, we'd have plenty of keys left over! ;-)