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> Government exists for all animals. It is an immutable fact of the universe. Ants have government. Termites have government.

Wow. At least you're being original :p

> All we can do is decide what structure the government will take.

Actually, as long as we have rulers, we can't even do that. You may be aware of the US quickly turning into a nasty police state. Do you think the people being "governed" had a say in that?

The only possible solution is to have no rulers.
This is a bit disappointing to read.

I came in hoping to see "because I realize I am making an assumption as to my readers' willingness to be tracked across multiple web sites". Instead, I got "it doesn't work because nobody really uses them".
The trend toward keeping with what we have is often mistaken as zero progress when in reality it is more a trend towards massive evolution. If you can't look past the "iPhone app era" how do you expect new students to? Should all students be forced to have PhDs in AI/Distributed Computing/Quantum Mechanics?

The problem of kids leaving school wanting to write iPhone apps seems to have nothing to do with computing at all. It seems to have everything to do with "Get a career, make it rich, find a nice job, get married, have kids, retire", which for a large majority of the population is all that maters. So it isn't so much a computing problem as it is a societal problem. I imagine your rant could swap out a few words and be used as a rant against every single academic and industrial industry that exists today.

But, at the end of the day major companies with major dollars are building self driving cars, space ships, virtual reality. Oh and they are also buying companies that contain only talented people for millions of dollars to do research. The fact that the economic landscape is pumping out computing literate students seems to only be a good thing, regardless of their intentions.

And yeah, the web and most of its products still suck. But that has little to do with the technology. If you can't realize that then maybe you need to get a bit smarter.
for anyone who sees bitcoin as a 'wild west' environment, this sort of thing is obvious and just moves the bitcoin economy forward. problems found now are fixed, and won't be as big of a deal later.
> our projections of order finalization volume indicated that we would need the community’s full balance in hot storage.

As a bitcoin community leader, you have to stay informed with how other people got hacked in the past, and there are so many cases where all the bitcoins were foolishly kept out of air-gapped cold storage until an adventurous hacker plundered them. I guess history is doomed to repeat itself.
Ask HN: Encrypted UDP?
Is there any way to use UDP for private, authenticated messages? Suppose your use case is like statsd, where you can tolerate the occasional lost message, and you don't want to block on network activity--you just want to fire off the message and keep going--but you do want your messages encrypted, and you want to make sure the receiver can trust the message is from you. Someone else should not be able to replay your message and have the receiver accept it. An attacker should not be able to break the encryption after sniffing n messages. Is there any existing protocol that provides such a blend of features? I've seen DTLS, which is close, but has poor support on Windows and in scripting languages. Is there anything else out there? Thanks HN!
> And test those apps on say, a Chinese AOSP fork or Amazon's fork. How many of them will run without breaking?

API compatibility in Android is excellent. This is because you don't need to touch the bits that make the runtime. It's the same runtime, and the exact same bits that apps touch, in Mountain View as in the Two Chinese Guys Making Handsets factory. Most developers of widely used apps test on Kindle devices, at least, if not other Android-derived OSs.

Web apps face multiple implementations of a standard. That's going to be less the same.
Awesome, I never thought I'd see a link to Mother Earth News on HN. I suppose plenty of us are interested in DIY homesteading to various degrees, just that the occasion to link so rarely appears.

What the original article barely touched on, and this one ignores, are the industrial wheat varieties and chemical additives in industrial breads. It seems like people have demonstrated that artificially inducing quick rising in bread increases its gluten. The solution would seem to be to shame industrial bread and encourage traditional bread.

So why is no one advocating/advertising heritage grain, no-additive, slow-rise bread? I see a lot of "artisanal" breads in natural food stores, and some of them taste great, but how are consumers supposed to know they're buying the real deal.
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The last time there was a rant like this, I did an analysis using real-world data:

http://luigimontanez.com/2012/actually-social-media-buttons-...

The Nieman Journalism Lab followed up a few months ago:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/tweet-buttons-are-less-of-a...
Open source Flappy Bird clone for iOS
This does not invalidate my point. Even though it may not be true, many people think that running a drug dealing website is for the betterment of society. It's less likely for the owners to rip its customers off and be the "bad guy".
Not so. The payoff of a successful startup is so high that it's often a good bet even with a high chance of failure.
People who are raised with a shame or guilt model will read fingerpointing into what you say whether it is there or not.

Given the problems I have, if they did not live with me, I likely would have died already.
The divs in jup are closed with ']'

edit: ahh, see your point. ']' doesn't say what it's ending.

i've never had that be an issue with proper use of whitespace and newslines, but i see your point.
Why it is wise to be wise
Contrasting anecdote: Had to deal with them many times for a variety of issues as have friends and family. Never had an issue that wasn't solved on the spot or with a quick repair turnaround.

The Apple Store service in your area depends on your area. The real moral is to not hand someone a wallet with $8500 in cash inside of it for no reason. Whether or not it's a physical or digital wallet is irrelevant. This is incredibly irresponsible on the part of OP.
> OP definitely needs to sue the city, as well as the aggressors personally.

I upvoted this comment for that; it seems like a prudent step to take.

> the only good cop is a dead cop

And then I got here and wish I could undo. I don't understand why you would say such a thing. That's just not right.
Are you really talking about the Wait, Wait -- Don't Tell Me! guy, or do you mean Roy Blunt?

I'm just asking because when I was in high school I shook Roy Blunt's hand at some dumb "geography bee" or whatever. b^)
Curious to hear if you really "want to settle into the service" without having used/tested the product at all?

Asking for a discount during your trial is one thing, asking for a discount before trying the product is another :)
LOL @ "victimless-crime-contraband." What a joke. Where do you think the majority of drugs come from? Some hippie's backyard? See the world's stop producers of drugs and you'll find violent, broken countries many of whom are run by drug cartels.
I don't really see why this may be a bad thing, the open source community continues to grow just fine and code contributions and stuff still happen. When I first read the title thought he'd be talking about how it's impossible to make money off opesource but that wasn't the case
The only gluten my family ingest is Einkorn and in very limited quantities.
This is why bitcoin is a sham. The premise of perceived bitcoin value is based on the greater fool theory. What the hell were any of these people thinking?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
They could run Windows RT /s
If you're looking for a more flexible compilation/build pipeline, I'd suggest gulp[0]. I have a project that uses gulp-react (among other things) and it's blazing fast. Here's my gulpfile[1].

[0]: http://gulpjs.com

[1]: https://github.com/jjt/LUXTRUBUK/blob/master/gulpfile.js
Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231012
did DPR do well in the long run?
Left Leaning Red-Black Tree
I ask for discounts on yearly subscriptions, but I test the service first. Sometimes I need only a day to know if it's a right fit or not.
SO, I am completely ignorant on exactly how bitcoin works; but how the hell is it not possible to secure a bitcoin one owns.
I grew up in Louisiana. The police here are just plain awful. But as young adults we were always warned about dealing with and avoiding dealing with police in Mississippi. Police in the deep south are not the same as police in other places.
Yeah, that's "possible". But what about "likely"?
So again we find the problem is protocols that are designed for convenience and not security. Sure, network providers could filter out bogus routes, but that's a band-aid more than a fix; the protocol is still broken from a security perspective. Nobody would stand for using rsh with host-based authentication in today's age, but for other protocols it's fine? And public services for the internet at large are great, until they become tools for the public to abuse other people. These protocols either need to be fixed to prevent abuse, or switch to using tcp (which nobody wants - so fix the protocols!)
So, in the case we're discussing here (and directly applicable to my own situation BTW, but that's anecdotal), people will have the "choice" between, let's see... Comcast-TimeWarner and... Comcast-TimeWarner. Great choice, I'll take seven!

Or I could choose to not buy, therefore starving myself of the resources they provide. That's even better!
I have a small disagreement with the market cap/revenue argument: "its key point of failure is that the business model simply does not enable adequate funding of ongoing investments." Red Hat never intended to become as big as MS (they've repeatedly claimed their goal was to actually shrink the OS market by selling Linux cheaper) because they don't have to fund the entire development of Linux themselves.
Asking about checks.

(P.S. Your thoughts and response are always very thoughtful and appreciated).
So can I ask why you chose Medium?
> it's far less likely for a libertarian "legalize drugs" type of person to screw a bunch of people over.

Why? Does being libertarian somehow grant a +3 to morality?
> "taken 50% seriously" might be the best way to describe Ron Paul, since for every thought-provoking thing he says, you have to ignore some quite silly (to most people) thing

That's his big problem. For example, on the problem of health care affordability, he had a very interesting suggestion. Change the income tax deduction for medical expenses to an income tax credit. This was a shockingly progressive/left-wing suggestion. It is essentially proposing that, at least for people with income tax, that the government pays for your health care up to the amount of your income tax. Most people would still need to buy insurance, but they could get by with a high deductible policy to cover catastrophic situations. For most of their health care, the tax credit would be enough.

And in the same speech to Congress where he tossed out that idea, he blamed the high costs of health care on our focus on science-based medicine. We need, according to Paul, to make it easier for homeopaths and other quacks to practice, so the competition can drive the cost down.
Nice work, your page is really fast. I'll keep an eye on it.
The First Day of Steam Tags Is Both Funny and Sad
Everyone should try it in grade school to find out if it matches their natural interests and ability. We had logo in the 80s. Most kids were disinterested, but some were very interested and were identified early on.
They do a sorta softlock on the bootloader to maintain OS consistency and security, but you can override it by putting the machine into "developer mode".

Getting Windows up natively on Chromebooks is possibly possible depending upon the machine. ARM based Chromebooks are obviously a non-starter for running x86/x64 Windows. For Intel systems it can be made to work using coreboot firmware to boot into Windows but the install process tends to be fairly involved and non-user-friendly and device specific, sort of like building a hackintosh.
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How to add Facebook and Twitter sharing to an iOS app
That is very true, but there's still an enormous chasm for your average person between being mostly-law-abiding (I'm not counting things like jaywalking or going 5mph over the limit) and participating in drug sales, which could land you life in prison. Hell, I think drug laws are incredibly unjust in the US, and that the government is overstepping its bounds left and right. By no means should you infer from this that I'm not careful of the legality of my actions. I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that someone participating in a life-in-prison-risking drug enterprise would also be willing to make other illegal/immoral decisions - in fact I think it would be foolish and naive NOT to assume that as a default, despite the fact that it will of course not be true in every case.
Oh, it's not that exciting. Much of the book is on the corruption of science by funding pressures and sponsors, so it's more of a slow corrosive burn than action.
> I begged them to watch out for my recently broken right elbow.

They don't give a shit about your elbow nor should they. Everyone who gets put in cuffs complains about some current or former injury.

I'm not sure I buy every second of your recount. but there is a big difference between a good samaritan and a do-gooder. If the cops tell you it is time to leave the scene, it's 1 AM on a city street, you've been drinking, then it's time to leave.

Yes cops are generally assholes. The nice guys don't last out there.
I'll never negotiate on pre-defined tier pricing. On the "call us" for pricing, i will negotiate. If you make me go through a sales guy, i am going to play hardball.
SR1 was a criminal enterprise as well, and there's no indication DPR was stealing from his users

That reminds me of arguing along the lines of, I played Russian Roulette before, and I didn't lose. Therefore, I will not lose this time either.
> No because if there are bad charges on my card the bank absorbs them

The transaction is reversed and the money comes back from the merchant it was sent to, your bank doesn't absorb any loss. The only victims of credit card fraud are the stores, not the consumers, not the banks, and not the unauthorized user of the card. Nobody who should have actual liability is actually punished in any way, just innocent retailers, for the most part.
It's even more fun with skin in the game.
That's the attitude police departments prop up and justify every time they close ranks around officers who commit this kind of misconduct, instead of feeding the bad cops to the dogs and maintaining high standards of public service.

Is the attitude morally right? Immaterial.
Yes, and there are a lot of people who have been helped by astrologers. But I don't think this is a point anyone would want to make in a discussion of science, where explanations trump descriptions.
In straight-up primaries, Ron Paul did fairly poorly. In conventions and caucuses where his supporters could show up en masse and dominate the proceedings he tended to do better. For example, he came in fourth (~11% of the vote) in the Minnesota primary when all Republicans had to do was show up and vote. When it came time for the caucuses and conventions, his supporters showed up for multi-hour parliamentary stand-offs that resulted in him winning 91% of the delegates. There was plenty of bitterness all around after that.
Ironically, we're happy to give discount pricing for a year deal - because in that case the customer is investing up front and we're confident once they're using the product they'll realize significant ROI and stay.

But re negotiations, I agree with Steli here - the customer who asks for a discount before they've ever tried the product will typically become a problem customer (especially for a young company trying to get the initial 10-100 customers).
Good post. So much this. If your pricing doesn't make sense, you will eventually find out one way or another - but don't give out discounts solely for the purpose of bringing in new customers. Especially if they are not seeing the value of your product at its listed price point.
This will just lead to them wanting more. And I've often found that the users paying the least ask for the most.
All of what we are is biological accident.

Your notions about what makes for a human is something that lives in your head. Which is fine; the world is a complicated place, and we can't represent it in 3 pounds of meat without simplifying.

But the mistake many people make with gender (and a lot of other things) is to try to reverse the flow, demanding that the world correspond to the mental model.

As a non-gender example, I have friends who are ethnically complicated. Sometimes people will just ask them, "What are you?" Even strangers on the street. By which they mean, "I am uncomfortable because you don't conform to my notions of race. Please put yourself in one of my boxes." Those people always look like assholes.

When I arrived in San Francisco 15 years ago, I used to worry about what gender people were. I was uncomfortable that they didn't fit in the categories I had inherited. Was that person "really" a woman? Eventually I learned that gender was much more complicated than I expected.

But I also learned that other people don't have an obligation to fit neatly into my prejudices. Now my take is practical: unless I'm intending to have sex with somebody, what they have in their pants is none of my business. English, alas, makes ignoring gender entirely impossible. So sometimes I am forced to ask, "Hey, what pronoun would you like me to use for you?"
You'd be wrong. Plenty of people on the left say the same thing.
This! People aren't realizing that in a lot of countries, english classes in the normal school system are a joke. And there are many people that don't have the resources to go to college or private classes to learn this. I have some young friends in Mexico that don't even have assurance of their next meal and would like to learn some skills to help land a better job than washing cars, but they're stuck. It's a catch-22 and having programming information and curriculum in their native language would remove one more barrier to them getting out of that situation. It'd also help me teach them since I wouldn't have to translate so much.
I think this is a very crucial point. There are dynamic languages which can be implemented efficiently (e.g., Lisp), and with others it is difficult because of fundamental features of the language. Another example is monkey patching, e.g., replacing a method of an object at runtime. Restricting such language features and thereby speeding up the interpreter would have been an ideal selling point for Python 3, in my opinion, but of course it's too late now.
That's the problem with an audience like HN. We are not average internet users.

Oftentimes an ugly site with ads and popups everywhere will perform better than a beautiful, minimalist site. Sorry, but that's just reality.
Well, the hackers did move fast, from the Bitcoin discussions I've been following. That's why it's such a good excuse for the SR2 operators: because it's a real hack, it has a surface plausibility.
What prevents RedHat itself from transitioning to the open source platform model this article touts? They've put out OpenShift, which is a Heroku-style deployment clone, so they're at least making steps in this direction.
I think you forgot to turn on your optimizer. GCC will optimize that loop into something along the lines of

line.length+=400000000;

That is because it can predict the loop result during compile time.

For example, this is the entire program with your loop and a line to print the result (gcc 4.3.4/linux -O3),

mov $0x17d78401,%esi
mov $0x400654,%edi
xor %eax,%eax
jmpq 0x400430 <printf@plt>

In fact without the printf all you get is "reqz ret" (not counting .init overhead in the binary). That is because the compiler detects that line.length is not used and fails to even set it.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
struct lines
{
char *somedata;
int length;
} line;
int i;

line.length=0;

for (i=0;i<=400000000;++i)
{
++line.length;
}

printf("Line len %d\n",line.length);
}
I consider myself a "power user", relatively speaking, of the web...in that I know how to copy-paste URLs and titles into Twitter using all manner of computing devices. And I can even look up the author's Twitter account to ping them in the tweet. You laugh at that, but just yesterday I had a media professor tweet asking for my email address, even though it's listed several times on my blog and I can't direct-message her with that info until she follows me.

But I'm starting to find it inconvenient when social buttons aren't used. Maybe it's because I'm getting older...but partially because web developers are either moving too fast for me, or have no concept of graceful degradation. For example it is now impossible, from what I can tell, to provide a "right-click" tap on the New York Times website when you're on an iPad. That is, you can't hold to highlight text (which is helpful when tweeting the title of Tweet).

So call me a surrender monkey. Social buttons are the web-widget we deserve in the fractured development landscape.

Edit: I also have to dispute the OP's contention that the buttons are never used...blog posts of mine that get shared a lot almost always involve the Tweet button...It's easy to tell because I've configured the button to post the title and my name in a way that you wouldn't if you were manually creating the Tweet itself.
> but perhaps not as much as goes into modern bread.

People can handle food made from 100% gluten. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitan (fried with some soy sauce it's really delicious).
Ah, tech support invokes a selection bias though. ;)
Whatever happened to honor among thieves?
The History of Surveillance and the Black Community
Learn the lesson: police are never your friend, helping others WILL get you punished eventually - all good deeds are punished in the long run, police can and will do whatever they want to you with no repercussions. Keep your head down and enjoy your free country.
Try http://www.1701.io/ instead of http://1701.io/ ;-)
If you haven't already gone with the competition you described in (1), then there's a reason you're considering them and asking for a discount.
You can avoid the issue by not sending a large quantity of BTC all at once to a single address. For example, after buying from Coinbase, fan out your BTC in small increments to many addresses.

In Electrum, you can right-click on a receiving address with 0.1 coins in it, and choose to spend coins only from that address ("Send from").

Same principle as not carrying around a wallet full of $1000 bills.
I find that amusing, considering Austin TX is typically considered to be one of the most progressive regions in the state.

This isn't about Texas, or even Austin. It's about a corrupt police investigation and prosecution.
We don't know that, and there's good reason to think they're doing just that.
About as good as you're going to get is making something from Bootstrap. The reason there aren't a lot of free Dashboard templates is because they take a lot of work to create so the creators expect compensation for their effort.
That's totally different and not the use case I discuss in the post. It's fine to ask for a discount after you tried the product. Most of us do it :)