skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen' is not only a fundamental document of the Revolution but also the first (Western?) document to define all rights of men to be universal

And it was published four years before the executions started in ernest. Even if it hadn't been: all revolutions cause birthing pains, but it is fallacious to argue the converse.
Lots of workers travel from Croton on Hudson or Long Island by train into Manhattan and take the subway from there; all of that is public transportation or at least publicly subsidized.
The LIRR goes out to Riverhead, Long Island from Penn Station, which is 75mi. Even Ronkonkoma to Penn is 50mi.
Good golly. And tech workers wonder why locals are angry at them. Next they'll start labeling Oakland as East San Francisco.
286 512KB RAM, 32MB HD, 1x2.5" floppy, 1x5.25" floppy
Drop it in a conversation and try :)
Especially if well-commented thanks to /x or if live-previewed in an editor like IntelliJ (though it still needs additional live-previewing if you ask me). As to the subject at hand... Yeah. I feel like I've woken up to the reality of what it means to talk to cops. I'd call if I had video evidence for insurance or something, but I'm not sure otherwise. I've never had anything turn out right when involving cops. Nothing bad either, but they didn't help as much as I expected. My problem (a theft) meant far more to me than to any detective. So I learned to protect my stuff better, make backups, keep things hidden. The world's a scary enough place without cops adding to it. Then again, maybe part of the problem is how arrests are performed. I'd try to fix it, but I'm worried about attracting attention ;-)
"You Want to Allow... What?" Introduction to bug bounty programs for developers
Every time I see anything related to this bullshit campaign it ruins my entire day. Such a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

People with no understanding of internet and/or privacy, pretending to care about privacy.
Yup. Next step is to extrapolate the saints, dogmas and heresies of the current church.
I think you can drop "essentially" from your statement and say "every society."

I would point you back to Aristotle's "Politics" actually where he comes up with a theory of government as follows (heavily paraphrasing):

1. Men and women come together to form the social basis of society, namely the procreative household. This is the vehicle by which culture is passed on, and it is the economic center of the society (pre-industrialization at least). Consequently the procreative household is the engine of both culture and society, and the goal of the economy is to nourish the household.

2. Households come together and address their common problems by forming organizations to do this. This is the basis of the polis.

(As an aside, Aristotle was not particularly hostile to same-sex sexual relationships, but saw marriage purely as a heterosexual institution due to the cross-generational imperatives. Also he had a very naive view of how gender power relationships actually worked in Greece.)

Now, viewed from this perspective (and it is pretty much the total basis for all pre-industrial society everywhere), you have government being a union of married child-raising households (since adoption is a replacement for procreation where that is not possible). Law then exists to address the common problems between households, both in terms of violent crime and contract issues, but also shared commons and infrastructure.

Now, this is very different to 20th and 21st century America and Europe. Government is not a union of isolated individuals, but if mini-state/businesses in the form of households. This sense of government formally passed from the US with the passage of the 19th Amendment but had been falling apart for a few decades prior under pressures from industrialization, and vestiges continue to be suppressed even today (one example is the argument over same-sex marriage, but another is the general hostility towards self-employment at the hands of Congress).

A government which is a union of households, which respects near-total autonomy of the household is far weaker than a government which subjects the household to scrutiny by CPS, undermines retiring with the kids with social security, requiring most kids to go to public schools, and so forth because the union-of-households government cannot interfere to form culture.

There are common problems that exist in a domain that a government must address. There is a social imperative to government. The real question is over the scope and nature of that government. Is government to be a social contract of individuals (but it's really a super-intrusive form of adherence contract since the individual can't really individually negotiate it)? Or is it a more limited institution in the service of households, not individuals?

I think when you look at it, that's the real choice (i.e. between a Lockean/Humean government and an Aristotelian one), not between a government and anarchy. People always invent government.
> What I hate is moving my mouse to the corner by accident during a DayZ fire fight and windows charms covering up my screen.

Turn off corner navigation.

> What I hate about Windows 8 is that it has two kinds of applications, from apparently two different universes and they can't interact, or if they can I can't figure it out. I just pretend one of them doesn't exist.

Metro and desktop applications can and do happily interact, I don't understand what you mean here.

> What I hate about Windows 8 is that I have to right click on start button

Why do you have to? You get a menu if you do but you don't have to, you used to get a menu if you right clicked the start button in Windows 7

> You drag your mouse into the top corner, then drag down to see all the open applications, this list also includes metro applications.

Just use Alt-Tab it works like it always has, you don't even need to see Metro

> The Windows 8 search thing is not even remotely as good as the old Windows 7 search

Here I have to respectfully disagree, IMHO the search in 8 is way better than in 7

Without wanting to make you even more angry and annoyed every one of the other issues seems to basically boil down to things have changed a bit and I don't like change.
Rebalancing shards in MongoDB sucks, especially if you have any kind of traffic. Which means that even if you start out with just a few shards you either need to keep up with growing your number of shards so that none of them are ever more than ~30% full or else you're in for a painful reshard experience.

At least this is what happened to me and my encounters with MongoDB (nee 10gen) were unsuccessful in speeding up our resharding.
Caltrain from SF to MV is significantly faster than taking public transit from Long Island or Croton on Hudson to Manhattan.
Your point about the traditional banking system is irrelevant since there's zero chance of successfully buying a kilo of coke with your Visa card.

So whether it's bricks of cash or shady darknet sites, the prohibition on drugs necessarily doesn't leave one with much recourse when transactions go wrong.
This is what I assumed the answer would be, and at this point it just becomes a difference in opinion. I personally do not believe that the methods you describe are generally acceptable options in the modern age. My phone number and address are much more important to me than the off chance of someone capturing my https traffic, breaking it, and inserting a fake public key. There is a point where the absolute security of exchanging public keys written on pieces of paper in a park are called for, but it's not for everyone or even most.
In 2001 the PC install base was less than a 10th of what it is today. Raw sales are kind of a terrible comparison. Relevant to MS's revenue, sure, but not a good means of comparison. The better comparison would be the relative market share. I haven't seen numbers, but I would guess that XP's market share was substantially better than W8's over the same duration, even if only considering PCs operating on Windows.
The revolution in Egypt has flashed up over a number of issues (i.e. the building of a mall).

This is what public discontent looks like when you have entrenched social problems and don't try and fix them. It will get worse if you don't take meaningful action that helps the lower and middle class.
This thread is now about zed shaw
Assignment is essentially similar to subtyping, if one says:

A := B

Then all values that could be bound to B could be bound to A also (so B <= A), but
if the other way was also taken (B = A), then

A := C

Would imply that B = C, which leads to all sorts of safety problems...so you don't do that. At the end of the day, to make HM work with assignment, you need something like ML's "value restriction" that prevents full unification between A and B.
The concept comes out of something akin to the sibling reply to my comment.

That there are legal concepts/ideas/etc. that would allow government to regulate something is usually a given, especially in our globalized world where you might buy something online made 3 states away (so that the Federal government is clearly in the lead).

The conceit is that just because government can get involved doesn't mean it's a good idea for government to get involved. In fact it's practically axiomatic here that the 'proper' level of government involvement in laws, regulation, etc. is the minimum needed to do the job and that government interaction beyond that level is actively harmful. Even the Democrats tend to toe this line, their disagreement generally comes at the level of "minimum needed" (e.g. there was a push for single-payer option before ObamaCare was finalized as that was felt to be the only way to really meet the goals intended).
Try looking at the bottom of page 25 (as marked in the PDF), under the heading APPENDIX.

The CPS, which the unemployment stats use, was redesigned in 1994; the last time it was changed was 1967.

If I really wanted to debate with you I would point out the birth/death rate adjustments... but you are acting rather trollish. plonk
Very apt username you have there
That was the first thing I thought of as well.

"It's sucking my will to live!"
It sounds like you're assuming that productivity and power are opposites. Four years ago or even two, Cassandra was much harder to develop against than MongoDB, but that's not the case today.
While I don't actually disagree with your conclusion (and am more than confident that you know more than me about social media), this data only supports the hypothesis that "people share content using social media buttons", right? It doesn't necessarily refute the idea that "people will share content just as much if it doesn't have social media buttons" -- that is, there's no proof that the subset of Twitter links you found wouldn't be shared manually if there was no tweet button.
Your second point is a keen observation-- the jobs are in suburban-looking places like Mountain View, but workers want to spend their nights and weekends in the city.

It would be like buses picking up workers from their residences in Manhattan and transporting them to their office in Trenton, NJ.
How to know if you are cut out to be a developer
Infamous scanner “patent troll” seeks sanctions—against the government
It's in everyone's interest for criminals to learn from their mistakes and become functioning members of society. How could they conceivably do so if they're eternally denied education, employment, or even shelter on the basis of their past deeds?

NB, this is argument applies even if you're trying to make the argument to a very pro-law-enforcement person who accepts the premises that only guilty people need to worry about the police and that the laws are perfect so everything that is a crime ought to be one.
> Only if I were disagreeing with some substantive point he made, which I'm not (I'm not agreeing, either). The substantive issue of my comment was his tone. I'm not disagreeing with him or trying to convince others that he's wrong

FTA: So if the worst thing you can say about something is to criticize its tone, you're not saying much. Is the author flippant, but correct? Better that than grave and wrong. And if the author is incorrect somewhere, say where.

> I'm just calling him out for being a jackass.

This is actually DH0, Name Calling.
If you're in that situation you have a choice.

Comply with what you're told and complain later or take a stand and face the consequences. They have tasers and guns and handcuffs and colleagues who will arrive on scene later and assume that you're guilty. Death is a real possibility.

http://www.popehat.com/2014/01/20/kelly-thomas/
The real problem with all these stories is that it's as if the police are above the law and not held accountable for abusing it. They should all be thrown in jail and have their badges removed. Nothing sickens me more than people who abuse their authority over innocent people (eg. child molesters. yes, I compared corrupt policemen to child molesters)
This is a phenomenal Easter egg:
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06346944
(A corporate Id number for the fictional space mineral extraction company is flashed on a screen in the movie - a search on that corporate Id in the UK database shows its in fact a real registered corporation!)
Agreed, something like 1 window has been broken on a tech bus, yet media reports often use plural, not singular, to describe the number of acts of violence by protestors.
As Marc Andreessen recently noted,

“They are attacking the demand for housing [whereas the discussion should be] around the supply of housing,” Andreessen said. “Market forces want the Valley to expand; if our politicians show leadership, we have decades of growth ahead of us.”
You think a video with 37,000,000 views is moderately popular? Looks like the most popular YouTube videos of the past 2 days all have under 6m views, so you're not even remotely accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/HCuSJLMmGCP94/videos?sort=p&...
Basically it's the principle of terrorism applied to buses. They are using it as a tool to advance a political agenda. Make the daily life of users unbearable so that it changes things. Needless to say, this kind of action should be outlawed.
No, not actually enough for me to hedge that they might have a point...
Cassandra 2.0 can handle 5TB per node easily, 10TB with some care. Best to scale out, not up.

That said, if someone else has already made the hardware choice for you, you can always run multiple C* nodes on a single machine. I know several production clusters that fit this description.
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It seems like some formal means of interfacing courts across borders would be interesting, and might be called for...
Oh, we already have Saint Jobs.
well you could probably post magnet links for torrents
The reason the NYTimes author (and others) compared 'The Day We Fight Back" to the SOPA protests is likely because 'The Day We Fight Back' used the success against SOPA as its primary example of what online protests can do. The campaign set SOPA as the benchmark, not The New York Times. Its website, before the current updated version, repeatedly evoked the defeat of SOPA as the measuring stick. It did so in the text on the site and the promotional video.

Even the name "The Day We Fight Back" implies that this is a fight that can be won in a day. Supporters later pointed out that this is a long war, not a fight for a day. But the initial promotion of this campaign did little to encourage people to take this fight and make it part of their lives for the foreseeable future. And the fact that supporters are justifying the legitimacy and effectiveness of this campaign by citing one-day numbers only furthers the notion that a single day can make a difference in what will inevitably be an ongoing battle for the rest of our lives.
Yes, you are correct. Unless browser extensions are used (and even then) the web is not a good platform for cryptography. The web is a platform for letting a potential attacker run untrusted code on your computer without all hell breaking loose, not for building trusted cryptography applications:

http://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto
"Organic power structures"
Society as Science
Couldn't they do that as things stand now? Your only protection is that they would not do so for fear of reprisal from the state. Perhaps it could be similarly effective to rely on fear of reprisal from other vigilante groups.
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Sadly, it seems that "good access to information" is the weak link in this chain, which can easily be broken by SEO, astroturfing, and the like.
no one travels 75 miles by subway - the longest single stretch is 31 miles inside the city. plenty of people do that by train and subway combined though.

the key difference between "classic" big city commuting and the google commute, is that the SF tech folks are doing a REVERSE commute out of a city center. the "classic" commute scenario is take a train from a low density area to a high density area, where you switch to bus/subway/cab/walk. subways work great for short haul, trains for long haul.

there is a "last mile" problem in the reverse commute that needs the google equivalent of the "johnny cab" to work. its a density and space problem that won't be easily solved, although google may be the first.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10bfo9_total-recall-homici...

i also would hardly say the MTA is incompetent - it's incredible how reliable the system is - 24x7 subways, reasonably clean cars, electronic clocks to let you know the next train time. even the trains out to the burbs work well.
In the United States mass transit isn't good enough anywhere. Even in NYC area where we have the best system in the country, I could ask for a lot more.
How could the right to vote possibly be a natural right?

Ignoring your second part. (But I'm guessing you'll focus on this rather than my first sentence.)
BTW, I am living in Indonesia now which is far less governed than the US. It is true that it is a one person one vote society for city/state/national elections but these are not actually where most of the real action happens. Neighborhood associations etc. are very much one household one vote (usually the man, but the votes are not secret, and usually the women end up having the real keys to the power there).

In short, as far as how people actually live, it is far less governed and far more Aristotelian than the US is. A few observations:

1. The poor have better nutrition in most of Indonesia than in most of the US. They also have, due to fewer formal protections on squatting, more secure housing since the only reason to tear down squatters' homes is actually building something new.

2. Police corruption protects the poor. if you are driving a car and strike a motorcyclist, that's a much bigger deal than hitting another car. Similarly evicting squatters from one's land so you can build something else requires paying off the cops fairly heavily.

3. That is not to say the poor have it easy here. Access to clean drinking water that is long-term safe after boiling is not common. But hey, given West Virginia, I suppose it's hard to complain.

4. Self-employment is the norm. 70% of the population is self-employed. Also income inequality is significantly better than in the US.

5. Indonesian material culture, even for the poor, is relatively luxurious by American standards (aside from things like big screen tv's). There are a lot fewer mass-produced goods and a lot more hand-made things. There's also a hands-on labor culture here which is very, very different from the big machine automation culture of the US.

6. Actual traffic laws in practice amount to "drive safely" and instead of banning this practice or that practice (texting etc), the rule is that police corruption protects the victim.

7. Police corruption is not without limits. If a police officer accepts a bribe in an unacceptable area (allowing illegal logging, for example), the officer will be prosecuted and likely jailed. There's a very hard line between corruption that everyone expects and indeed relies on for the regulation of society and corruption that is unacceptable and prosecuted.

But a big part of this is that Indonesia has a decentralized government to an extent that Americans would have trouble understanding. For example, metropolitan area of Jogjakarta is like a province or state, except that the treaty that brought the city into Indonesia specified that the Sultan would retain the hereditary position of Governor. So nobody gets to vote for the head of the executive branch of Jogjakarta DKI. Instead they have the Sultan who is well-loved by all there and has a very good reputation throughout Indonesia.
Buses are simply a visible point for an agenda.
For a slightly less tolerant review of the app's behavior (generally, and on Hemingway specifically) check out Mark Liberman's take here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416
Is XKCD great today?
I just see this as bigotry against people at or above upper-middle class.
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You are conflating several things and speaking rhetorically, not logically.

Here's what you want: "Vehicle operator runs a red light and is arrested"
It's rather the opposite, Hobbes's treatise explains why you didn't witness it throughout recorded history. Once a population group got large enough to have to worry about silly things like common property it ended up having leaders/warlords (either homegrown or due to conquest from abroad).

But even so, you certainly saw it in recorded history when government was weaker. "Highwayman" used to connote a very scary idea, something that is most relevant in modern history to those driving in convoys in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Another very good example was the actions of the FLN in French-run Algeria starting in the 1950s, where they actually more or less incited that "war of all against all", and did so from an organization that was not very centralized at all.
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> "Are they too delicate to take public transportation? I take public transportation all the time. I've lived here 50 years. I've taken public transit for maybe 45 of those 50 years. I've turned out just fine."

This is just as applicable to people with cars. Like, you know, almost everyone, including the poor. What in the world is wrong with not taking public transportation? It somehow makes you arrogant, conceited and evil? Seems like a futile attack on people at tech companies, all for the wrong reasons.

It's always disappointing when politics becomes about demonizing the other side. But not unexpected.

It goes on:

> Robles said the protests that he and his group are involved with aren't about the buses but about unaffordable rents and the wave of evictions of seniors and the disabled.

Well, that doesn't match his earlier quote! Evictions and unaffordable rents are one thing. Attacking people just because they're better-off and—the horror!—going to work without talking to their neighbors ("They don't want to talk, just to get on their bus and head to work.") is quite another. This attitude blows through the understandable and into the viciously anti-individualistic.

Seriously: evictions are one thing. But everybody deserves to be able to live and work in peace, without having to bow to the "community"! You should be under no obligation, social or otherwise, to enjoy the same things as your neighbors or even talk to them. And yet this is one of the main complaints I hear about techies. It's an absurd position and, doubtless, a double standard: it's not like many of the people they're trying to protect—ones who actually deserve some protection, at that—are all that much more social themselves.