skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not disagreeing with your point of view, but how is Tor different from anything else that can be used by criminals, which includes pretty much ... everything? By that analogy, and again I am not being dense, the use of any encryption can be justified as helping criminals?
The line of reasoning of this article can be applied to all things and by extrapolating out the logic it becomes evident how absurd the logic really is. Examples:

1) Mr. Gates did not create Microsoft... someone else built the garage he started in; OR his parents created him and therefore they created Microsoft (or an infinite number of other rationales)

2) The engine malfunctioning did not cause the airplane to crash, gravity caused the plane to crash
False dichotomy. When the government takes up to %50 of a poor person's income in taxes (both direct and indirect), the claim that not taking half their income would result in them dying in the street seems a bit silly.
i don't know exactly how this site works, and i'm not going to research it, but did you actually get downvoted for writing something mildly insightful/humorous?
How we got the .com for our startup
"Internal Server Error" is also an excuse?
I really don't understand what these companies try to accomplish by essentially lying to you and trying to defraud you of your value. Do they really think you'd sitck around for long under these terms after you find out inevitably how badly you're getting fucked?
Kind of similar how barbarians count in Terry Pratchett books. They only know three numbers: one, two and many. And counting is done like this: one, two, many, many one, many two, many many, many many one.....
also differentiating between the products/services traditional finance uses and the bitcoin ecosystem offers is a good idea.
If you did an article on bonobo or whatever music festival is popular with the kids these days, you'd probably mention the demographics attending.

And if people think paying $45 is a lot to attend a festival, then... well let's hope they never try and attend a more mainstream event
Many libertarians, including some as this festival, don't regard land property as absolute, or in some cases, even just at all. For example, some believe that they have a right to build and defend a home, but not a right to prevent people from reasonably traversing the land, so long as they don't disturb anything.

Come to the festival and ask these questions; you'll be surprised at the diversity and sophistication of the answers you'll get.
Efficiency. Actually let me back up, to me a property tax makes more sense for police and fire services. But for the rest, it's more efficient to just give money directly to families than to fund a government agency to do it for you. And issuing tax refunds wouldn't be necessary in a recession - after all, it's not really an economic stimulus, but removing the economic drain that taxes are in the first place.
That was my instinct, too. You would almost need to paginate any page that would normally need scrolling, just so the arrows could work.
It's difficult to judge that I guess. Maybe the legitimate uses of Tor are far more outreaching than the illegal things?
It should not do that. If it does, there's a bug. Can you tell me what page you're looking at?

EDIT: Oh, you mean the actual text inside the "a" tag? Yes, the plugin will change that in its current form. It would be pretty trivial to not have it do that. I will add that next. In the meantime, I don't think the link itself will be affected -- even now, you should be able to click on it and it will go to the right place.
Which update did you install and on which system?
Pixels are expensive
I agree. It was the first thing I tried to do.
Don't want to pay road tax? Don't have a car on the roads. Don't want to pay income tax? Don't have an income!
or does lower demand raise prices? And you focus on the fact that demand falls but ignore that supply increases. All economic 'law' says is that price and quantity for supply and demand are correlated - all other things being equal. But when other things change, they move the supply and demand curves and the equilibrium price will move. It's possible to have things change in the marketplace which cause the demand or supply curves to shift in a way which increases both the price of labor AND the quantity of labor exchanged in a market at the same time - meaning that wages would go up and unemployment down.

The open question for politicians is whether it's possible for them to enact policies which cause that. And the open question for economists is whether that would actually be a good thing.
Having emacs-like keybindings by default in all native text fields and text boxes (including this one) is a huge plus for OS X. In Linux, I had to write everything in emacs and copy/paste it into the field in question. Fine for emails, not so great for address bars, impossible for dmenu, etc.
I have used Divvy in the past, but now use Keyboard Maestro for window management. (http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/)

You do have to configure things and set them up a bit, but it can do SO much more than just window management.

Just throwing another option out there…For me, Keyboard Maestro is one of those must-have programs like Alfred or Hazel—totally changes how you do things.
Writeup of NYC Traffic Visualization
That's quite insightful to compare a 1986 network protocol to a 1986 planet, thank you for enlightening me.

Now I feel justified comparing a 1986 network protocol to a 1986 pizza. Would you take a bite?
In my view, there are three strata of businesses that a person can start:

1. Small business - Bakery, barber shop, golf store
2. Lifestyle startup - Unique product, smallish market, little chance of liquidity event
3. Venture - Startups with the potential for massive, fast growth

Every time I think about starting #1, I dismiss it immediately. I see it as merely the illusion of freedom.

A girl from my hometown opened a Pure Barre. Sure, she doesn't have a "boss", per se, but she's still working like a dog to send most of her money to the .1% -- the rent she pays in the shopping center, the utility bills, the franchise fees, the Gatorade she sells from the fridge, the fridge itself, etc... and probably makes <$30k for herself.

There are exceptions, but generally I think the same thing is true of restaurants, bars, computer repair shops and franchisees of all stripes.

Having experienced #2, first-hand, I can tell you that it's much harder to do than it sounds. I think the universe wants growth or death in all things. Hanging out -- safely -- in equilibrium between them is a rare feat.

If you aim at a market that's a bit too large, you're going to get crushed by the big boys. In fact, there are myriad examples of large corporations butting into small markets first discovered by startups because, heck, why not? The big corporation has the resources to inject itself into the small market on the off chance that there's actually something there. It's like buying insurance.

If you aim at a market that's too small, then you don't make any money and you're on your own to pull it off because no (worthwhile) investor should want to get into a small market with MAYBE a $5m buyout years down the road. Ditto good co-founders and employees. If you're able to get investors and rock-star help, you're probably in "venture" territory, not "lifestyle".

What happens with a lifestyle biz is you end up turning a small profit and living on the edge, fearing that something doesn't go horribly wrong. One lawsuit... one legislative change... you, the lifeblood of the company, have a medical emergency... and it all goes poof.

Worst of all, you're stuck. Because it's a middling market, it's difficult to find anybody who could run it in your stead (they're at Google, etc), so it's always and forever on you.

Again, there are many exceptions. Like the guy who runs The Chive or the guy who runs Fark. It's possible, just harder than it sounds. If you're going to take all the risk and invest your time, why would you knowingly aim small like that?

No, for my money, #3, swinging for the fences, is the only way to go. Anything short of that is setting yourself up for years of anxiety and frustration with little chance of making real money. I'd rather put my money on red or black and see how it turns out quickly.
That’s So Random: Why We Persist in Seeing Streaks
The only way out of this, as I see it, is making privacy the default. But this require some cooperation and motivation from the big guys at silicon valley.

Imagine if Chrome, Firefox, Safari, all of them had, just like the incognito mode, the private mode. Of course, as anonymity also depends on the behavior of the user online, other actions are needed to really ensure security and privacy. But making it the default will educate more people about the importance of privacy and, more importantly, make the point that privacy isn't only for criminals, terrorists and wrong-doers, but that "normal", law abiding citizens also should have the right to be private. And that is paramount for a democracy to work.
Ha! I hear you.. beach is good.... it was a truckload,not a boatload? :) I still have to work, but , you know.... I can do what I want when I want.. ok... I need to stop getting braggy.. sorry ...

Yeah, I think it was with the equity addition.... Once I did that, my delta went in the negative, and it would have beeen better to stay corporate ;)
Where Arduinos are Born: Touring a PCB Factory (2012)
I can live without semantic auto-complete, dabbrev works well enough for most simple cases. It's lack of syntax highlighting and signalling parse errors that bother me.

Macros in Racket are as awesome as they are because they are deeply integrated with DrRacket. Having s-exps based syntax helps, but that's not a prerequisite - DrRacket handles #langs which are not based on sexps too. It's one of Racket's goals to let you create your own language and make it work with syntax-highlighting and auto-completion (and more) automatically. That's what makes Racket absolutely awesome for experimenting with languages.

Sweet.js is young and it's possible it will get editor support with plugins later. For now, however, the lack of such support makes the experience worse than CoffeeScript or LiveScript or ClojureScript. Which is a shame, because extensibility granted by powerful macro system is very desirable in JS and would render many of compile-to-JS languages redundant, while allowing better composability.

In short I like sweet.js idea very much, I played with it a bit, but I unfortunately will have to wait for better tooling before using it in production.
I've been using slate, but I must admit the API for it is not that incredible (certain math operations are not very elegant) -- https://github.com/jigish/slate
"This webpage has a redirect loop". Interesting...
6 A/B Tests That Did Absolutely Nothing for Us
If the randomly selected inflation calculator I used is correct, the median family income today is about $6,785 in 1964 dollars. Quite sad.
EDIT: Correction. They must be using mean instead of median for their 'average' family income. A quick check shows the median 1964 family income was $6,569. So at least we're slightly up from that.
Source http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/HS-25.pdf
OH, and TOTALLY have the startup bug.. I got lucky with a ton of blessings on the first one... I know it doesn't happen often.. but apparently it happens
"This email client may be an extreme example, but the web is pretty unfriendly if you're not using firefox or a webkit based browser."

That this would be the case today would have been hard to believe only a few years ago. For quite long, the situation was the opposite.
I get how you could not agree with it but what's not to understand about "Leave me alone while I leave you alone" as a distilled worldview?
I have not seen the movie but it is laughable that almost without fail the voices for "equality" are those who are quite rich themselves. Just look at the cast for that movie.
“It’s great to be around people who understand. I don’t get how the left won’t just admit that income tax is theft. Who cares if it’s for a good cause?"

Can someone give me an example of a government where Libertarian principles have been successfully implemented? It doesn't have to be perfect (nothing with humans ever is) but at least something that is non-imaginary would be helpful in making their case.
Inferior OS?
Raise an issue in bug tracking. Name it the Zynga bug.
Nope, that would be the rather unique text mode of the BBC Micro, which allowed you to do things like double-height letters. AFAIK, only Ceefax and the BBC Micro supported that.

This is definitely based on the standard EGA/VGA text mode (originally 80x25 characters) used by DOS. Mode 0x10 IIRC.

This is also using the standard codepage 437, which includes the characters for single and double borders. You could also rewrite the symbol table to make custom characters, which is what Norton Utilities and others did.
Oh, and asking whether or not he wanted to pay for the road never came in to play, huh? You're essentially saying they're greedy, and don't want to pay something they are using. This couldn't be farther from the truth, and only works to further encourage those who are already blindly opinionated one way on the issue.

Ask any anarcho-capitalist or libertarian if they are willing to pay for usage of a private road. And most, if not all will say yes.
Doing business WA, CA and NM my consulting firm is paying about 4% of gross receipts to cover Accountants, Attorney and Advisors fees for handling state and federal "red tape". The process needs to be streamlined.
There's one data point. One with many special conditions. Calling this a failure of Free Enterprise is to ignore the conditions you are describing -- people weren't free! Violence, other strong-arm tactics, and lack of liability are the opposite of freedom. Of course Free Enterprise doesn't work when basic rights (life, liberty, property, speech, conscience) aren't protected.

And for a counter example, New York is very stingy with its medallions, which has created powerful special interest groups, and a system that serves drivers and passengers poorly in many respects.
RVM is pretty heavyweight. Why not something like chruby?
5 Lessons Learned After Self-Hosting Goes Haywire
From the: http://www.adobe.com/products/playpanel/faq.html

Q: I do not have a Facebook account. Can I use Playpanel?

A: To use Playpanel, you may use your Facebook account or your Adobe ID account.

Q: What are the system requirements for Playpanel?

A: Playpanel works best with Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (classic mode) operating systems.
I love this so much. Everything about the text mode of PCs (that is, what we used to call "IBM compatibles") is burnt into my brain at the deepest levels. Seeing this is like a jolt of electricity.

If you ask me to picture "what does a byte look like?", I am not going to think of binary or hex, I am going to instantly imagine the "extended ASCII" of code page 437.
Valleywag shouldn't be banned. It can be a bit gleeful about the Valley's moral meltdown, but it's the only outfit in "the tech press" that tells the truth. Everything else is payola.
How A Former Google Data Guy Could Change What We Eat For Breakfast
>... in a system where all violence is considered morally wrong (and so many things can be apparently considered violence).

You seem to be referring to the non-aggression principle. Libertarians believe that the initiation of force is immoral. This is not the same as "all force". Thus, self defense is moral to a libertarian, while aggression is not.

>If you can use violence to take away my access to land

You seem to be claiming a right to access any land anywhere at any time? Doesn't that conflict with government's belief that it owns the land?

>I don't see how that differs from the rest of us taking some of your income.

You also seem to see libertarians as land owners and "the rest of us" as taking income in compensation (for the land?)

Taking away someones' property is roughly equivalent. If you want to argue that nobody can own land, you can do that.

But that argument is orthogonal to libertarianism. There are libertarians who believe nobody can own land.
No such thing as road tax I'm afraid, it was removed in the 1930s. As a car user you pay Vehicle Excise Duty, which could go to the roads (but probably doesn't), based on the emissions of your vehicle.
By that argument, how can you justify reserving the section of earth (by force of arms if necessary) that your house resides on? Aren't you taking away others' access to that land?

Presumably they paid to reserve the land for a week, just like you can pay to reserve a house and the land it sits on for a period of time. I don't understand what is complicated or un-libertarian about that.
Nearly everything works in firefox. Most features exist in Chrome but are marked experimental and can be enabled by a command line flag (I think). If you're selling a continuous integration service to developers, you'll probably be perfectly fine using any of this in a year or two. If you're selling "how to use your email client" video lectures to the elderly, you might have to wait 10 years. There is no single "real world".
Load Test Validates Performance Benefits of CDN – 400% Improvement (CASE STUDY)
This is undeniably neat but I am curious if you "know what to do" because you have a lot of experience using applications that looked this way largely by necessity. I don't think the average computer user would favor this type of aesthetic on any level.

When I was growing up with computers, interfaces like this were on their way out. So to me it just looks clunky and messy. Other than inspiring nostalgia and impressing me with the amount of work that surely went into creating it, I don't think this theme has much real world application.

These themes that attempt to replicate the look and feel of a GUI are pretty gimmicky in nature (ever been to a terrible blog that tries to look like the OS X GUI or worse... one of the Windows GUIs?). This one just happens to be really high quality.
A Disappearing Planet: Visualization of current mass extinction event
Police, fire etc. are all instances of "insurance". The only difference is that some insurance is voluntary and some is forced upon you and you have to pay. The real question is: what is the moral basis for violently making people pay for certain services and pay voluntarily for others. Communists are at least consistent: everyone should be forced to pay for all services and all of them are provided by benevolent all-powerful Bureaucracy. Why should we have x% of communism and not 100% or 0%?
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Because the state has taken up ALL the arable land on the entire planet. There is no where for them to go. If you show me a place that is exempt from laws and people can willingly go to peacefully make their own state, then by all means, we'll show you a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist society.

Let me just say this again, because it needs to be said over and over again. All the arable and usable land has been taken over and controlled by the state. All.
...and parked it on land stolen from murdered Indians.
This is called Teletext[1] (or in german: Videotext). It still widely used i guess. Even me sometimes used it to get informations about the sheduled TV-Program if not cellphone/tablet is in reach ;)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
Same thing goes about instant messengers. I wish developers would stop producing junk like Whatsapp which AOL-izes the Web and would use standard, interoperable and federated protocols.
He's been active on Twitter lately: https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge
"If you can use violence to take away my access to land"

Of course there are countries, including parts of the UK, where you have a right to go pretty much where you want in terms of access to land (with some sensible restrictions - powered vehicles etc.) and civilization doesn't seem to have ended.

NB For a fascinating account of the extremely dubious history of land ownership in Scotland I can recommend "The Poor Had no Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Poor-Had-No-Lawyers/dp/178027114...
I'm not a libertarian in part due to my doubts about land property, but having read a little about their position, I have to say it's a little more nuanced than that.

Here's Rothbard on the issue: http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/eleven.asp
USA 1776-1915 - Went from 3rd world to 1st world, fastest time ever, despite a civil war and many other challenges.
India 1980-2000 - Not a libertarian country at all, but went from hard socialist to more moderate and doubled the average income of a billion people
China 1990-2010 - Again not a "perfect" country, but by allowing capitalism, which is another way of saying reducing regulation, produced a massive economic boom and a massive increase in prosperity.

You're correct to recognize that it is a scale of grey. Historically, countries that are more libertarian (e.g.: economic and social freedom) have better outcomes than countries that are more authoritarian.
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No, that's fine, I understand it as a philosophy and have some sympathy with the motivations behind it. I also think it would be a horrible thing to put into practice for a variety of reasons.

But the inconsistency strikes me as odd.
Same here, weird.
i don't know exactly how this site works, and i'm not going to research it

Then please try not to click on anything you are unsure of while you are visiting, you might unleash the killer robots and the insurance on them is atrocious.
Totally. It takes about 30-40 milliseconds on a typical news page, and that's after I added a pretty hacky series of brute-force regexps in a panic after I realized that I had been assuming that disrupt is always a transitive verb, but it's increasingly used intransitively these days, especially in the kinds of articles this plugin is meant for.

So the translation, ('We disrupted that industry' => 'We rained bullshit on that industry'), was rendering badly when the verb was used intransitively ('We can't disrupt on our own' => 'We can't rain bullshit on on our own').

The regexps I added have mostly taken care of the problem for the time being, as Chrome auto-updates its extensions in users' browsers. Now the latter sentence above renders 'We can't bullshit on our own.'

Once I reintegrate the new rules into the generalized verb creation function this weekend, it should be a little faster.
> array and generator comprehension: [a+b for (a in A) for (b in B)] (array comprehension), (x for (x of generateValues()) if (x.color === 'blue')) (generator expression).

Bit of an error here. The array comprehension uses "in" which will iterate over the indexes of A and B. While this is technically valid, no one would look at that and expect it to return the string concatenation of all the indexes of A and B :)
Maybe another way of saying "Staying Idiomatic" is "What made you great before won't this time."

I had to do a C++ project a while back and got my hands on "Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms" by James Coplien through a friend's recommendation. Best thing I ever did to really understand the soul of the language.

I am sure there is such "soul identifying" book for each language. What would those books be? If you know of one, reply here. I'd love to know them (Go, Haskell). Not just books that show you the syntax, but which show you the soul.
I cannot because I am under the impression that for the most part Libertarian philosophies haven't been implemented on a wide enough scale in any country to satisfy people who believe in them.

This may be part of the appeal to some people to see such a system attempted. And it is definitely a common reason used against such a system.

Ask yourself should we (as human beings) be against systems which have not been implemented yet? And if so how do new systems come into existence if we are?