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So, we apply the 'American Fraternity Guy' definition to a word that has existed for longer than the USA as a country has and is used cross culturally to mean many different things (usually just 'friend' in my experience).

HN ought to be closed down if this kind of ridiculous rhetoric continually overtakes actual technical content. If it doesn't happen sooner or later everyone interested in actually discussing technical topics will move elsewhere.
Well, you have to establish such protection agency first. You start your business, run advertising, etc. People come to you and pay for your services. Most people don't want to rob and kill other people, they want peace and protection, and they pay you for such things.

Now, what incentive do you have to blindly protect every robber who payed you? If you try to prevent punishment of a robber, your current(as well as potential) customers won't view your services as desirable, and simply won't pay you. Then you go out of business.

I think Murray Rothbard makes a better argument(while dissecting many common objections similar to yours). I recommend the chapter "Police, Law, and the Courts" from his book "For a new liberty: the libertarian manifesto" : http://mises.org/document/1010/For-a-New-Liberty-The-Liberta...
Ignore the haters commenting on this post, being all self-sensitive at you simply making an observation based on how you see things, and nit-picking on an incorrect use of the word "most". I'm an engineer and I'm not offended, and I can definitely see your point. A lot of highly-paid people don't see, or refuse to analyse, the surrounding consequences of their wealth, as well as their own actions.
leave the downtown-core decrepit and crime-ridden?

In the case of San Francisco, this is most definitely not the case. Downtown office space (especially in fashionable areas) is in high demand, rents are high, vacancies low.

Of course, the city is small enough that once you get outside the relatively small historic downtown (the Financial District) and the new downtown (SOMA), there is older and less-featured office space. Even this is under high demand.

And of course there's the push of office space into traditionally industrial areas such as Mission Bay (UCSF, Salesforce.com). These are almost suburban in their single-use planning presently, though that might change.

Though reachable via CalTrain, BART service favors downtown SF and the near SOMA neighborhoods.

And as I've said, the bus protests themselves are really asinine.
HBO only produces a handful a year, and Netflix has actually got a pretty decent selection of stuff.
>The companies aren't in downtown

The employees live in the city.

>Based off of complaints from the tech community, it also seems to be a city with a lot of homelessness

None of that is caused by having Google in the area. This is a cultural and a government regulatory problem (municipal, and state and federal to lesser extent).

>The problem isn't that workers are living in the city, it's that they're not working there.

If you're an employee you spend money where you live, not where you work. It would be nice for San Fran if all engineers worked in San Fran as well, but you can't have everything. Plus it wouldn't be so nice for Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, etc. In fact, those municipalities have more to complain about since they can argue they are nothing more than commuter cities.

San Fran should count their blessings.
The amount if paperwork required to get married is quite small, compared to something like buying a car. The overall cost of getting married is small. The signal if one person in the relationship refuses to get married is probably strong. If both people refuse to get married it is a non issue, but I suspect that is still not the norm.
Because it's not untactful.

Perhaps if people didn't live in their little USA bubble they'd realise that the word 'bro' in most countries just means 'friend' or 'brother'. Even if it is inherently gendered there's nothing offensive about it.
I've been rattling my cage about this problem for a few years now. There's room and need for an "ORM/DBA" position in our industry. Most of the common production packages are both complex and flawed enough to justify a full time position, and yet I've seen so many companies lose hours of productivity floor-wide because the dev group's [N]Hibernate knowledge has been pressed beyond its limits.
That's a very abstract statement. What kind of dishes are we talking about? Also, I'm not talking collectivism here. As was pointed out by another user, I'm talking about a specific form of anarchy which is anarcho-capitalism or market-anarchism. In my opinion, it is only governments which usually don't give a crap about their citizens. Or at best, they do give a crap, but it's still much much worse than private businesses, because there is no feedback loop in the form of prices and business-customer relationship.
Indeed. There is no risk-free approach to being on the user's side in a case like this. Choose from:

1) get acquired and risk a possible shutdown by the acquirer;

2) don't get acquired and risk a possible shutdown by worsening economics, competition, etc. (most fledgling businesses are vulnerable compared to the security of Google)
Just because he won does not mean that he has the license to abuse his people and steal from them. That is a flawed argument. He also should not have been eligible to run in the first place. Apply it to your country, imagine if it's current leader told you that you could not oppose the government in any meaningful way, have him/her profiteer off his/her position, then tell me if you feel apathy.

Anecdotes like yours are useless as well: I am a Ukrainian American from the eastern-most part of Ukraine. I do not support Yanukovych and do care about the protests in that I support the rioters. People that leave Ukraine often are apathetic about the fate of their countries because it does not impact them directly. Even people that live there sometimes can display this behavior. It does not legitimize anything that Yanukovych is doing.

Lastly, if he is ousted it does not magically mean that Ukraine will be better off. Ukraine will take 100 years (IMO) to find its identity and grow enough to become a proper democracy. But ousting a corrupt president sends a pretty clear message to any future leader and it is progress.
Using your computer as little as possible?
I assume that most readers on Hacker News spent most of their daylight hours (at least Monday to Friday) in front of a computer. Do you try to avoid using your computer outside of working hours, and if so, how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube etc..
>Weirdly, it's the very people that are protesting the current influx of tech workers and rising rents that most viciously oppose new high-occupancy construction in the "true" SF neighborhoods because it would destroy their character, so it's a tough nut to crack.

That's really unfortunate, I'd hope that people would realize that you can have good-quality high-occupancy construction(see loads of places in Europe, Japan).

I don't necessarily know if it's a zero-sum game though. If higher quality mass transit were in place, the cost of living out of the city would be lessened (both in cost and stress).

I think it would be really cool if San Francisco built a subway line that went down south. It would convince people to not live exactly in the city center (because you'd have relatively easy access by subway), so could ease real estate preasures downtown, and would generally encourage a better spread of the population. It's not that people want to live downtown, but that they want to easily get downtown.
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> In essence, the way I understand it: Say you're running your homepage on "GNUpache", a hypothetical AGPL Apache clone. Then you must have a "download source" button somewhere on your homepage. (This button might point to the official distribution if the version you're running is entirely unpatched and only uses standard plugins. If you have any custom plugin, for example to integrate with your in-house authentication server, you must offer the code for that plugin as well.)

Well, I suppose if you don't want to include a "download source" button on your webpage but you are required to do so, then that violates your freedom of use.
Not entirely unrelated to the discussion, it's the usual time of year where I get furious about the large financial penalty that I pay the government for being single and without child.

I want to punch any public figure in the face who thinks "promoting marriage" is a good idea because "promoting marriage" is already a cultural institution signed into law.

I've already worked out the math: If I could manage a cheap enough birth or adoption, I would save a significant amount of money by having a crotchfruit. Of course the former requires a willing co-conspirator.

I used to work with a guy who made $14/hr and his wife didn't work and they had 7 kids. For years I couldn't understand how he could possibly make ends meet until I looked at the tax credits he was getting and understood that "economies of scale" kind of works for feeding and clothing children.

Edit: Rayiner, since it won't let me reply to you on a dead topic. Married people can and do cheat on their taxes all the time. I know at least a dozen married couples where both file as single and only one claims the dependents. As for social security, the future there is looking pretty grim and the intergenerational continuity concept breaks down (and already has) when an unusually large older generations' votes and financial means allow them to skew the balance in their favor. This idea that I'm selfish because I haven't had kids yet is one that makes me angry and the linked article actually touches on many of the reasons...to the effect of: "because you were born poor and haven't been able to become successful enough to be desirable to mate with, you deserve to continue to be poor."
This is an unpopularly conservative concept, but I think the mainstream view of social welfare ignores the importance of family structures in maintaining social order in poor societies. Its hard not to look around here in Wilmington and not see the gang prevalence as being connected to the power vacuum that results from crumbling family authority.

Also, I've begun to resent people who say single parenthood is just as good. Single parents shouldn't bear the social stigma they have in the past, but going as far to say that having one parent is just as good as two both ignores the empirical evidence and common sense. If I left my wife tomorrow, my daughter would have the same outcomes? Really?
Very cool.

How difficult would it be to create widgets that show application-level stats like number of visitors on site or conversion rates (e.g. calculated from google analytics).

I'm tired of having to loging to google analytics, lulu.com, and gumroad in three different tabs....
Yes, retroshare has unusable and confusing GUI, that's why I wrote "conceptually" :)
It smacks of 'protest chic'. Cool to wave signs somebody else made and get in the new for being all liberal.

If those guys were going to a factory job, they'd be ok neighbors. But because they're going to a better job, it's cool to make trouble for them.
>n the case of San Francisco, this is most definitely not the case. Downtown office space (especially in fashionable areas) is in high demand, rents are high, vacancies low.

That's not what I meant. In the last twenty years, "the downtown" has been rediscovered in most North American cities as a place that people want to work AND live in. Contrast this to the 1950-1990 period in which the thing to do was to live in suburban neighborhoods and commute to work.
ByteCoat v2.1 is here
Ease your work, use ByteCoat for positioning UIViews. I'll be glad for any feedback
Not sure this is really needed - Ruby on Fails is already so insecure, magic, badly designed and chock full of holes that owning a Rails site is a badge of shame not honour.
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And 1) comes with a payout. So no brainer.
Ask HN: International volunteering opportunities for hackers?
I'll be leaving my current job in a few months and I was thinking of spending a few weeks doing some volunteer work abroad, preferably South-East Asia. (I currently live in France.)

I was wondering if HN readers could suggest good organizations for that, and in particular, if there are opportunities that could make good use of my software engineering skill set. I know that many organizations will use volunteers as assistant English teachers (and I could certainly help with that, although I'm not a native speaker), but I'd be also interested in teaching programming if the opportunity arises.

I remember reading a story a few months ago one someone teaching CS in Thailand, and I think it was featured on Hacker News, but I couldn't find it.

Thanks.
you sure you don't want to make a go at turning this into a full blown product?
Imagine a more modern version of webmin. Very nice.
I agree - the protesters are revolting.
For a lot of people, getting married results in a tax penalty nor a benefit. As for not having kids, our society subsidizes you, not the other way around. In direct ways, kids will grow into adults that pay your social security and medical taxes that you draw on when old. Even without such programs, our economy is built on assumptions of intergenerational continuity. The Facebook stock in your 401k is priced assuming there will be continued generations of 13-25 year olds to sell advertising to. Finally, raising and educating a kid that contributes more to society than they consume is, for the time being until everything is automated, an act that generates a large positive externality to society.
Its supposed to be a free country. Sad when your rent goes up, but a free market allows that. I'm a little offended each time the self-styled old-guard want to 'protect the neighborhood' by which they mean 'keep my cheap rent'. How about you live where you can afford, like everybody else?
IRC is gender neutral.

You made a foolish assumption. Not everyone does that, or even cares in the slightest what a users gender/age/cultural background/disability/whatever is.

All you have done is reveal your own past personal prejudice. Congratulations on getting over that.
The dumb state of the smart home
THEY WANT SYRIA'S OIL AND GAS
I'm late to the party but I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't seen this reply yet:

How does everything you said NOT apply to the word "man"?

Or to the "master"/"slave" terminology?

I'm assuming you're not in favor of renaming man pages and master/slave terminology, so why is this different?
http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1061-...

> When darkness falls on Kyiv, unidentified groups of “people in civilian clothes” roam the city, hunting for the young people, especially those who wear the symbols of the Maidan or the European Union. They kidnap them and take them out into forests, where they are stripped and tortured in fiercely cold weather. For some strange reason the victims of such actions are overwhelmingly young artists: actors, painters, poets. One feels that some strange “death squadrons” have been released in the country with an assignment to wipe out all that is best in it.

And while the upvotes for the story climb, the story itself drops slowly but surely off the front page, because a killswitch has been toggled, because "HN is not for politics", not even a revolution with unprecedented live coverage on the internet. i.e. a new development.

When some guy in the tech scene -- not an engineer or hacker or anything, a marketing guy for a tech firm -- dies, the story being completely unrelated to technology, that's okay, the discussion may take it's course, going off a billion tangents because otherwise there would be nothing to talk about. He's "one of us", after all. Are those young people not also of us? Is one single frontpage slot, out of thirty, too much to ask, for people to discuss and share information?

Shameful.
Why people on the other side of the Earth don't fall off?
Notably absent from the list are the Bible and the Koran.
I understand the supply limitations, but we have the same problem, because we have a ton of traction towards higher-up professionals. The big difference lies within the political system. The housing/real estate market is completely free (and cutthroat) here too, but our more socialist oriented government interacts with it to help people in need.

Examples of that are "sponsored" apartments, that cities rent to their owners for regular price, and subside to people but with an adaptive price (much lower for lower income people, and a little higher for people who make more than average)

In more urgent cases, social services cooperate with people who own unused buildings, hotels during low season, etc, and pay a big price to keep people under a roof.

There's also a lot of work from associations to communicate with landlords and agencies, trying to help giving a fair chance and renting affordable places to people with regular income, students, etc, as many wealthy people are interested in cheap places too.

I feel like the people who control most of the market have a lot of political power, and they don't want a bunch of buildings popping out and lowering market pressure, making prices and their revenue drop. Money is not a definitive solution, but in the right hands it can help a lot. In turn it creates a nicer social climate, and things work out better for everyone.

A nicer social climate isn't in everyone's interest though, and a lot of people work very hard to make sure there is tension, because they profit from it, a lot.
"his family never communicated"

This is ridiculous. You're making baseless assumptions.

What I said was that we communicate visually where we never communicated before: we didn't communicate visually on a daily basis because we live on opposite coasts. We communicate in a lot of other ways, but we hadn't communicated in this specific visual way in a long time, because we simply don't get the chance to fly out and see each other face to face that often.

We get a stream of our daily lives, fleeting moments of emotion and faces and events, truly deep levels of communication, that we did not have before. Snapchat added that. We're in fact happy with our improved meaningful communication.

Phone conversations are great and we do that too, but they're planned and orchestrated in a way Snapchat isn't. Facebook covers another angle, but it's public and permanent. In the sense of pure functionality, Snapchat introduced something actually new, and it's valuable, and it's meaningful. That's my and my parents' experience. To quote my father verbatim: "We're getting to see a side of you and your life we haven't seen in ten years."

You do, in fact, have a judgmental bent, and worse: you don't know what the hell you're talking about. I'm trying to elucidate a value that you're blind to due to your bias for the negative social effects, and instead of trying to understand it, you're trying to tell me that I'm wrong and making assumptions to prove your point. You could have asked questions, probed me about my family relationships and this new interesting method of communication, started a discussion, and been productive; instead you fought for your opinion in a vacuum. Talk about pedantic and trite.

Believe me, I'm the first to be wary of new technology and the multitude of complex side-effects that it brings to society, and I recognize that a change in the modality of our conversation has many of those problems. But you have to see the truth of the whole thing: look for the positive effects as well as the negative, and surely if society values something you should look at why, and how, and which strings of the human mind it plucks. You gotta look harder at this one.
You know, that kind of stuff does not happen at all when people are not under oppression.

No population want to go over the police and fight. No big group of people want to kill their neighbours just beause they are in uniforms, neither want to die fighting them. Whatever place and culture they have.
Take a look at Dashing[0] by Shopify, it can be a base for what you want. There is already a Google Analytics plugin[1]. For Lulu.com, they are saying they are not accepting new developers[2] but if you have an API key, you may have luck building a widget for Dashing.

[0] http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets

[2] http://developer.lulu.com
meanwhile, in Ukraine...
A quick search for ARMv8 and AArch64 in the LLVM commits list shows that a considerable amount of work has been happening on this front. In fact: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-...

I would have a hard time saying there's "chilling effects" happening.
Isn't this functionality included with all modern platforms, due to the upstream wiretap and FBI key retrieval service?
No. The alternative is to provide a gpg signature of the shell script, and instruct new users to verify the signature, before running the script. The script can then embed signature checks for any downloads.

The point isn't to make sure "everything is secure", the point is to avoid terrible advice on the fourth line of the documentation.

Another (IMHO not as good) alternative is to simply distribute the script over ssl.

A third alternative is for the instructions to show how to first get the file, then check that it is the right file -- but that implies that the reader is qualified to audit the shell script. That's a lot easier said than done. A signature would go a long way to allow the person installing to simply trust the salt project -- without a signature or an ssl distribution point, it doesn't help to trust the salt project: you have no idea what is being piped into the root shell.

And it doesn't fill me with confidence when the project advocates doing this -- that leads me to not trust the rest of the code as much, either.

As other has pointed out -- distribution via apt etc is also good -- as indicated in the platform specific instructions -- but the documentation lists the apt-platforms among those where the script has been tested.
Christ, it's painful to read about these people with such stupid, lazy attitudes and opinions - yet somehow still able to muster the energy to go out and throw a huge tantrum and make a huge mess for other people. Instead of thinking constructively about how to make themselves genuinely more valuable to other humans, they just bitch and moan about what they believe themselves entitled to - conditions which were never contractually promised to them. Yeesh. Admirable in a way, I suppose, but still.

Still, this is a really interesting clash of interests - between the infrastructural needs of potentially the great city of the 21st century, and its cultural roots. You need a mix of both - you can't just turn SF into a grid of mega-skyscrapers, although that'd open the gates for great companies, and real progress - you need something of the old sense of city and style - but you can't just pretend the city can still function and thrive as a museum of genteel Victorians and arts and craft co-ops, while the future brews down in San Jose... You need capacity and character to build the launchpad of the future.