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Just because it's a stereotypical "American Way", doesn't mean it's right. The negative reactions may come from the fact that rent-seeking is harmful to society. Moreover, this particular case is an abuse of public goodwill, and many of the commenters expressing negative sentiments probably fell for the hoax and were supporting this kid publicly.
Well "the outside world" includes stuff like Wikipedia, Gmail and services that people want to use and have access to, even in Chinese but hosted outside of China.
The interesting question is whether the dislike for HFR cinema is:

- Purely due to habit, with people having learned to associate LFR with high quality content (film) and HFR with low quality content (video). In this case, the problem will go away as soon as people get used to HFR (or die off).

- Due to the increased realism exposing sets, costumes etc. as fake. LFR may help filmmakers by providing a distraction that masks all the little flaws. In this case, the problem will go away (but only for new movies) as soon as filmmakers learn how to make things look good enough for HFR.

- Due to some intrinsic quality of LFR that is key to the magic of cinema. In this case, the problem will never go away.

Of course, people are immediately going to seize on one of these answers based on their personal preferences, but in reality we have no concrete evidence for any of them.
It's all in the heat level and seasoning of the cooking surface. It definitely isn't the ingredients or technique, as those would tend to increase COGS :-)
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curious of an example. Do you have one?
http://www.bj.cyberpolice.cn looks hilarious, I don't know why. Maybe the potted plants.
Ask HN: Should I use my old mailing list?
I was just cleaning out old files on my server when I happened across an old mailing list for my CGI scripts (remember when CGI scripts were a thing?!)

They are all legitimate sign-ups to receive updates from me, but I probably only ever sent out one or two messages. Otherwise it's been unused for over 5 years. To my shock I checked the data file and I have somewhere around 30k people who signed up.

Obviously a good percentage are probably dead emails now. But I was wondering whether I should just trash the file or keep it and perhaps send an email for a related service. My original scripts were all webmaster-related stuff and I do have newer things that I've released.

Just wondering what the wisdom of HN has to say about it?
Linux has many different communities, not all of whom share the same opinions (or level of snarkiness). Some Linux developers may feel as you suggest, or more charitably, perhaps they just want to conserve their limited development resources focusing on providing the most benefit to the most users. But I don't think that view has become universal or even a majority, and I still regularly see projects merging support for other platforms, especially other Free Software platforms. I've merged such patches myself, written portability libraries, and even gone out of my way to test software I've written on GNU/Hurd. I've also seen ideas from such platforms influence Linux, and vice versa.

I certainly hope nobody views Linux and its community as consisting entirely of the kinds of people whose snarky remarks make the news. We could do with far less of those people.

In my more idealistic moments, I wonder how much better we could do if we focused on making one kernel better rather than half a dozen. Then again, in those same moments, I also wonder how much better we could do if we focused on making one desktop environment or browser better, too. None of those seem likely to happen.
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Exactly this ^^^. In fact those that leave my company all end up as contractors.
Does it matter how objectively good it is when Google gets to just put it on top of the search results? Personal opinion's aside, I'm convinced that Europe will answer, "No." Google will be the next Microsoft of our time, trying to split the company in order to get their own products listed in their own Search. Perhaps we've already seen the groundwork being laid for just such a split with Alphabet?
It actually does to an extent (its an offline process I need to run again actually).

Have a look at this search https://searchcode.com/?q=jquery+mobile notice that after a bit next to each result the text "Show 100 matches" appears? These are the duplicated identified by the system (limited to 100 results but all dupes should be gone).

The matching is a little fuzzy as well to try and clear out minor revisions of the same file or simple whitespace replacements etc...
> If you truly believe that a parent could send their child into a situation where there is a high probability of a fatal or long term negative outcome for the child, then you do not know what being a parent is.

I pass such "parents" on the street every day. Begging is an organized operation in big cities in Poland, and there were reports that children are actually drugged or fed alcohol, so that they're asleep. Fatalities happen.

There's a lot of sad stuff going on in this world.
cant wait to get some openbsd vm's spun up! great work and thx!
I've had hit and miss results so far, sometimes it's great and then a bunch of times it ends up launching the app twice. Perhaps I'm either doing something wrong or I'm not hitting the right use when this works flawlessly. So far, however, hit and miss with little clear reason.
The list of blocked websites would be one such measure. It always starts with terrorists or some such and eventually filters down to local politics and whatnot.
There's thousands of choices, most have been in business since before AWS has existed, and almost all of them will give you much better (2x-16x) bang for your money (Even on a small order, you can (or could) negotiate SoftLayer's down by ~50%).

Ones that I'm personally familiar with:
Hivelocity in Florida
ReliableSite in NY
WebNX in LA
100TB (a SL reseller in some locations, and they own their own in others)
OVH (lower quality, lower price, great for various workloads, NA data center)
Hetzner (Germany)
He wouldn't. He would finish TAOCP. Frankly the math is more important than any chunk of hardware.

Even if he just got really bored and wanted hardware, I don't think he would have the knowledge to do it. It is one thing to know how to use all the tools, it is another thing altogether to know how to engineer high quality tools with nothing but sticks, stones, and no help.
The whole project is GPLv2.

https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/blob/master/LICENSE...

I don't have anything against GPL. It just closes a lot of doors for no real reason.
There's nothing much interesting at Pluto. And it won't ever be a stop-over for interstellar travel, because stopping doesn't make sense. Also, intergalactic travel won't happen any time soon.
I'd agree that drones, like the traditional toys you mention tend not to pose a safety risk unless they bump into you. Kites/frisbees/skateboards etc. typically don't carry cameras, however, whereas it's quite easy to equip a small drone with one. Isn't it conceivable that a small drone equipped with a camera could monitor a facility (prison/bank etc.) from above and uncover and exploit security flaws that exist in that facility?
I'm interested in hearing your take on the issue of drone regulation though as I see from your profile you are far more qualified to discuss it than I am. Edited the 'many' to 'some' in my earlier post. Source is the NYT article I posted.
wife studies sweatshops. China already feel way behind India. and most china companies already outsource labour to south east Africa.
I disagree. I do look at impressionistic paintings, and wish they looked good on large high-definition displays. I am not sure why you think a finer brush would destroy the impressionistic qualities of artwork. That seems like saying we've lost our appreciation for good lighting, because we use LED light bulbs instead of wax candles. Artists can easily canvas on 4k, 8k, or larger resolutions with modern tools, and achieve vistas that will outshine most previous artwork in fidelity.

I'm not trying to compare contemporary digital art to pre-modern paintings, because there would be no point. But we can compare the quality of the canvas medium, the fidelity of the work. I am certain anyone who has spent any amount of time creating a digital college, set of high quality wallpapers, etc, has noticed that pre-digital artwork is often vastly lacking in terms of resolution. This contrast is difficult to notice in a museum, where artwork is displayed alongside its peers; it is obvious when comparing it to digital styles of art.

There is nothing wrong with wishing for more detail. You can have impressionistic artwork in 16k resolution, and enjoy it too.
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Catching signals is a great way of catching nasty bugs in production code. I use them to be able to log information on the cause of an error before the code exits due to some sort of catastrophic bug (e.g. null pointer deference, etc). This also allows you to clean up to clean up temp files, etc. They are much nicer to use than the Windows equivalent.
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Independent doesn't sound like the same thing as undecidable.

Given a program P, it is undecidable whether that program will halt. There is an answer: P either halts or it doesn't. There is just no way to find out (in general).
Would 'Homebrew Computer from 74HC* series except eprom, RAM and UARTs' work better for you?
Signed up to try your site out. When I create my first blog, there's a typo, just so you know:

> Choose your new bolg's template
Yes, that's why I'm asking. There's surely tons of potential differences, in reliability, redundancy options, turnaround time for new boxes, selection of configurations (including recently released hardware and things like GPUs), networking options, backbone connectivity, software services, multiple data centers (so you only need to pay/deal with one vendor) etc.
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Elements in the US federal government are envious to be sure. They're probably in the process of figuring out how to pitch their own US National Freedomwall as protection from terrorists.
> If P=NP is independent, then we already know that a complete search for a polynomial algorithm for 3SAT will fail

A search for a provably polynomial algorithm will fail, but that doesn't mean that an unprovably polynomial time algorithm couldn't exist. We might come up with strong arguments for why a particular algorithm would be polynomial in practice. Still, I'd say "independent but false" is more likely than "independent but true."
Firefox to Remove Tab Groups and Complete Themes
I was actually thinking about this a while ago, but I couldn't figure out how to get around community-reported, site-specific element-blocking using CSS selectors (structural selectors, not id/class selectors, which can be easily defeated by randomization). You'd have to periodically change the placement of your ads and/or the layout of your site, and that's not really viable as a long term solution.
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"Few business models can afford a 30% tax. If you monetize externally to the device, this tax can be avoided."

What do you think the "tax" is when you sell something wholesale to a distributor that then sells it to a retailer?
More importantly, why doesn't OpenBSD have procfs? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the idea? Is there some more standard alternative that portable software should be using?
suspicions confirmed... https://www.littlebizzy.com/blog/matt-mullenweg-attack
As somebody who has had hands-on experience doing fire mitigation work. Calling the work 'labor intensive' is a severe understatement. Especially, in remote areas.

The problem partly has do to with the lack of zoning laws in forested regions. People build wherever they want, usually in locations that are extremely difficult to protect from wildfires.
Mentioned a few here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10615620
I made vcli based on pgcli. Any feedbacks are welcome :)
This punishes tax payers who didn't do it. To discourage abuse those that did this should be fired. We need personal accountability.
Low frame rate is the reason I can't take film seriously as an art form. It seems to me utterly bizarre that people would choose a frame rate that can't show realistic action scenes. Fight scenes have annoying foley sound effects partly to compensate for the frame rate making fast movement invisible. And camera work is severely limited - fast pans are near unwatchable. I've seen 60fps Showscan film and it's such a huge improvement I can't understand how people could still argue for 24fps. It can only be "baby duck effect", where people like something only because they grew up with it. Imagine if music wasn't considered musical unless you listened to it from a wax cylinder. Technology has moved on and we can do much better.

I realize that cost was an issue, but with digital production that's no longer the case. And yes, it's true that higher frame rate exposes flaws in sets and props, but that's no excuse to stick with low frame rate. The correct solution is to improve those sets/props. 60fps should be considered the bare minimum.
Given how infamous US intelligence agencies are for being infiltrated by foreign agents, it's almost certainly a strict superset.
It seems more like they are deployed behind load balancers, because load balancing is a specific job that it makes sense to do with a separate piece of software. Admittedly, that separate piece of software is often nginx, but there are other popular options, and I don't think very many people use Apache that way (though I could be wrong).
This analysis doesn't lead to any relavent conclusion at all. It just shows more vehicle accidents of any type than cycle accidents. It needs to at least be scaled by the ratio of bikes to other vehicles on that road. Without even any statistics, it could be meaningful if it also showed crashes elsewhere nearby too. Maybe severe bike accidents are actually more common just off that road than on it? We have no idea from this presentation.

Good on him for having a go though. This is what journalists should be doing to help inform people better than a policeman's bluster.
How much labor do you think is needed to provide water, food, shelter, clothing, electricity, household machines (even a 3d printer), computation, and entertainment for everyone?

The hours I put into a CRUD app last week are wasted labor as far as I'm concerned, but I need to pay rent to a landlord and the only people with money are people who want me to make them even more money.
If it was just about network speed, it would be cheaper to get the direct 10G cross-connection to Amazon's network than to pay the premium for the dedicated hardware.
Wouldn't you still see a virtualized network interface with random MAC address from the VM within the dedicated host where the software is running?

You could configure an Elastic Network Interface to have a fixed MAC address, but that would also work without dedicated hosts.
Didn't say anything about it being narcissistic. I only meant to say that people use Instagram to see photos, which is something that appeals to everyone, myself included.

People use Twitter, on the other hand, to convey ideas, often highly academic or controversial -- doesn't have the same mass appeal.
See also: http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/05/demysti...
How then do you explain the popularity of SF, where the cost of living is higher than in NY?
Random capitalization is like scare quotes -- it distracts from the message and focuses the reader on whatever underlying motive or mindset the writer might have.
I think that even a mechanical computer like Babbage's would be pretty far beyond what you could accomplish with the technology available 10K years ago - to make precision gears you'd need a machine shop, and to build that you'd need to be able to build the machines and tools, and to make those you'd need to be able to refine metals, etc. 10000 years ago was 5000 years before the Bronze Age and 3000 years before the Iron Age. It would be hard for one person to reconstruct all that technological infrastructure single-handedly (and as far as I know, Knuth knows a lot about CS but not a whole lot about metalworking). And to build any kind of electronics (e.g., vacuum tubes or relays) you'd have to be able to manufacture glass, wire, etc. Forget semiconductors...

(I assume that by "computer" you mean a device that can store a program in memory and execute it.)

This reminds me of an old quote from Mr. Spock on Star Trek:

"I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins." [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708455/quotes
If you want bare metal for performance, you're not going to get it on a tiny ARM chip
as a side note, I'd be curious to see what you store and how you organize it and use it for.
> I don't expect the scene to get to regular household users within the next 5 years.

I don't expect any 3D modeling software get to regular household. Did anyone really install Google Earth or something?
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>Satcom and HAM Radio

What is the punishment for being found owning/using that sort of equipment in China, if any?
I don't mean this to sound condescending, but you have a lot to learn about software licensing.

There are many software packages that are licensed to an individual peice of hardware. Tied to that are USB authentication dongles, and even parallel port dongles for some old school commercial software.
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The interactive graph part isn't loading for me due to some HTTPS error
Don't take this the wrong way, but I've been in the industry for a long time... and it amazes me that 180KB is considered not much...

If I told you I had a way to remove 180KB from every page load, you'd be all over it. :)
Flights are one of the very few areas I have found QR codes to be useful. I'm usually able to check-in on my phone during the drive to the airport, add it to Passbook, and by the time I'm at the TSA screening area the ticket has made it's way to my watch. I'm always a little wary of clunking my watch on the glass screen of the barcode reader, but haven't had a problem yet.

One time, on an American flight, the scanner at the gate was somewhat of a C shape and my watch + wrist wasn't able to fit inside of it, which was quickly resolved by pulling out my phone and sliding it into the scanner.

On another positive note, TSA agents love it and always accuse me of being James Bond. Makes the screening process much more fun.
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The "American Way" part was a joke.

But it wasn't a hoax dude. It actually happened. He got arrested for pretty much _no_ reason whatsoever.

There are two separate events

1. Ahmed was arrested for a pretty dumb thing and most likely because he was a brown kid it made it easier for them to assume it was a bomb or hoax bomb. Whatever they want to call it. I'd have to see how often "hoax bombs" were actually used to arrest someone before I say they racially profiled him for sure, but my gut feeling is that there isn't a high incidence of hoax bomb arrests.

2. Ahmed's family is suing for $15 million. Not Ahmed, who probably has little choice in the matter.

I am sure suing for so much money has brought bad publicity for them, but at the same time that issue is separate from the incident of him being arrested, which happened.

Using the term rent-seeking is a bit over the top unless you really believe this entire thing was staged.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512811

Several other posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Hello,%20I%27m%20Mr.%20Null.%2...
Perhaps sending a crew to Mars will be trivial by the time we have the technology and know-how to keep people alive, sustainably, on Mars in the first place.

We could maybe put a team on Mars in a few years, perhaps, but they'd have to find a way to turn around and come back almost immediately. And we wouldn't be able to follow up on that mission for decades. It would be a symbolic effort at best, and a PR nightmare at worst if anything went wrong. The risk/reward just seems so badly skewed in favor of risk right now.

Shame on us for the wishy-washy way we have handled our space program over the last few decades, sure. But we are not suddenly ready just because everything has been on an apparent pause for awhile. In the meantime, we should continue sending robots up there and perhaps launching supplies and equipment.
I can't speak for Comcast, but my FiOS boxes allow for you to turn off the initial launch/guide ad popups in your box settings. It's not the easiest of settings to find, but it's there (and enabled by default, of course). Call support (fast and helpful...not kidding) or search the online support area, which is how I figured it out and was easy to find the answer. The only persistent ad, I believe, is a single ad bar (annoying, but doesn't obstruct view) at the bottom of the channel guide, used mostly (from what I recall...I don't pay much attention to it) for promos of new on-demand releases. Love LOVE FiOS.
For anyone interested in Arctic Exploration, I highly recommend the book "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard [1]

It tells the story of Scott's 1910-1913 attempt to become the first to the South Pole.

I can honestly say this is the most extreme expedition I've ever read about. Simply mind blowing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1619491877/?tag=roadchoseme-20
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Agreed! My son would completely lose his shit if I showed him how to do this. I'm putting those globes on the xmas list.
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Heaviside was somewhat written out of history because he was considered a crank during his lifetime. His reputation is basically rehabilitated these days, but it's only physicists/mathematicians/engineers who have heard of him.
It's not much of a leap; both depend on trusting potentially attacker-controlled devices. If my sensor drone signs reports it sends back a remotely exploited drone could send back validly signed tampered data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10610766
I don't understand rants like this.... starting with a fairly timid quote which itself is not really ad hominem from Matt you get a full article of ad hominem and self-righteous vitriol from the author in response? High level of cognitive dissonance required here....
This explanation seems overly narrow. Some novel sensations are just funny to babies, like the sound of ripping paper [1], tickling their brain as it were. (Okay, I wouldn't be surprised if could devise a study to show that the sound of ripping paper alone doesn't make a baby laugh.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc
It depends on your comfort level with advertising and related ethical questions.

My suggestion is that if you do send anything:

1. Include a reminder of what they were initially interested in.

2. Ask permission to tell them more about your related offering.

3. Include links to an explainer page as well as to your new offer.

4. Have an "I do not wish to hear from you again." link.
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but the 180KB is not downloaded on every page load.
I was just referring to storage, like in a parking garage or something. Sorry if my run-on sentence made it a little obtuse :-)
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