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>> we still are leading the world in all sorts of things

Sure, the US is in a pretty nice spots on technological progress, agriculture and has a rather strong economy.

But I wouldn't say "we" (not everyone on HN is American!) are leading the world in all sort of things.

American democracy is far behind what happens in other countries (like Sweden), totally corrupted by the pressure of lobbying groups and a certain political microcosme. It's also hard to compare the levels of poverty of the US to most "advanced" European countries for instance... Let's not even talk about healthcare and education.
Here's a short documentary shot with microscopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kPQ0GY_W8
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It's interesting that it took less time to find a 10m by 4m piece of debris from a failed space launch that took place on the opposite side of the planet than to find an entire missing airliner with a last known GPS coordinates...
And yet, even with those caveats, I'm sure such a product would find a market in modern times.

cf Soylent.
I think it would be too easy to say that it was only the German government responsible for what happened. Below is a key quote:

What has happened? What has happened is quite simple. Those elements of the population which are both brutal and stupid (and these two qualities usually go together) have combined against the rest.

And another quote from Hannah Arendt:

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

The problem might be that the "mob" is getting stronger for various reasons and there is an active elite that is eager to exploit them for their own gain.
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Author here, based on what you are trying to listen, different antennas may be better than others.

I use a discone antenna at home, but the picture you see on the blog was made with a wire antenna not especially dedicated to sats (a 2m/70cm wire JPole) outdoor.
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I've never really heard of it being called the Scilly Isles. Only the Isles of Scilly.

Not many people even in the UK know it exists though (I only do because my ex girlfriend grew up there)
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Oh wow, I remember this from my school days! (and the Tamagotchi on which it is based, of course). Funny to see it still online. I remember 13-year-old me thinking it was hilarious at the time...

Thanks for the nostalgia trip, OP.
Wechat is way more than just a SMS replacement. You can pretty much run your life on it. In China, you can book hotels, buy train tickets, pretty much everything on it as well.

What I really like about it is you can create different circles of people (kinda of what Google+ tried to popularize and failed) and communicate with all of them at once. A lot of people are part of circles with their grade school friends, with all their relatives (distant cousins too), etc. etc.
Especially considering if true the statement of a Burger King district manager claims the police deleted surveillance footage one of their store cameras recorded.

Hopefully laws can be crafted which make it a felony for government employees destroying, modifying, or otherwise, privately collected crime video without a court order. They won't stop doing so until it automatically lands them in jail
This isn't from a failed launch. This is from CRS-4, about 18 months ago.
So many submissions of this story (unsurprisingly), from several different sources, each with its own slant. Very little discussion:

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611713

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637476

Others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10609781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623590

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623855

There may be more ...
I used Soylent on a super long backpacking trip where space and weight were huge considerations. It tasted awful but was incredibly effective from a dietary perspective.
An object is an interface, nothing precludes optimising representations either specifically (tagged pointers, unboxed values) or generally (collection strategies and JIT unboxing). The former being what C# does, its primitive types can still be interacted with as objects, you can even add new methods on `int`.
> The 'dark ages' witnessed the high mark of Western Christendom,

And quite a number of low marks in terms of industrial production, technical knowledge, public health, collective wealth, individual freedoms and so on. In fact, without the rising Arab civilization undertaking huge efforts to acquire and preserve what the Western countries were discarding as "unchristian", we would have lost even more knowledge than we did.

There are so many reasons the "dark" attribute stuck and survived for almost 700 years (it wasn't an Enlightenment construct but rather a Renaissance one, although technically coined even earlier). It might be too generic a term to survive the contemporary level of analytical debate of history, but ignoring it would be a disservice to the cause of science and progress.
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> I disagree that it isn't an inherently bad idea.

How else do you provide any drivers needed to get online? If you store them on the disk, malware or hardware failure will break it. If you use external media, it's an expense to OEMs and something the user will lose before they need it, not to mention the growing number of tablets & other devices which have very limited connectivity options.

I would be the first to say that Lenovo abused this and deserves all of the backlash they got but Microsoft created this mechanism to solve a real problem (“Get closer to an Apple-level experience”) which millions of people encounter at some point.

Unfortunately, when you cannot trust the hardware vendor the only answer is not to buy from them. There is no level of making the user experience worse or removing features which will prevent them from causing problems if they choose.
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Also, the sortitioned would be even more suspect than elected persons to being bought or to otherwise grabbing whatever post-term benefit they can get. Without any perspective for personal reelection, reelection of their dear party or election of designated-successor aides, they would not have anything to loose by obvious bad behavior. Pure sortition could therefore easily create a lottery ticket mentality, where a grab-what-you-can mindset would be expected and the idea of a bad person in office would shift to an egoist who does not share the benefits by securing lucrative posts for all their extended family.

But smaller sortition "modules" could still be put in place to augment or protect other mechanisms of democracy. A jury to add that witchhunt-spirit to the supreme court might not be the wisest idea, but something like randomized eligibility for the passive vote, maybe only in one of multiple houses, could probably help weaken oligarchic grip without severe disadvantage in other aspects.
Well, I must disagree and say it was the "Germans collectively", at least in a large part (37% of them voted for Hitler in his last real election), but in their defense, it was the Treaty of Versailles, imposed upon the nation at the end of WWI, that basically forced them into this position.

Remember, Hitler and the National Socialist's were voted into party thru democratic means, although to be sure, democracy was never really a part of the German zeitgeist back then.

All the major players knew the ToV was going to lead to another war, and it sowed the seed for the rise of some sort of militaristic, Fascist government.
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Best way would be taking online classes through Coursera, edX or Udacity.
All 3 offer best quality material to take you to CS graduate level.
What you need to know is what the curriculum of CS degrees at good universities contain.
In terms of specific knowledge and skills, you will need to take calculus and discrete math classes. The few classes in algorithm design and analysis, data structures. You may want to take few classes in compilers, networking and operating systems in order to better understand how the whole system works. Then few classes in programming languages (not a specific language but the theory of programming language). For further advancement you may want to take some more classes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, linear algebra, human computer interaction, computer vision, database systems, cryptography etc.
It requires proper amount of time to accomplish all.
And not all CS graduates are as skilled as you think. May be you are more skilled than some of them. So before starting it would be good to understand what you are trying to accomplish by getting CS skills. May be you are good to continue with your current skills?
BGP is far more flexible and less expensive, which is why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have used it. Further, the data structures used by BGP (NLRIs) are easily extensible for complex networks involving many dimensions for path selection.

Not sure about the value add of using a protocol that keeps state on the whole network, specifically when that is the task of a centralized controller. Also, OSPF has many quirks that prevent it from scaling well, and offers far less tuning when it comes to path selection.
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- Codeschool https://www.codeschool.com $75 off the 6 month subscription
- http://www.oreilly.com/, 50~60% off ebooks and videos

Cyber Monday:
- https://www.pluralsight.com/ Not sure what the deal will be
Why should anyone care what hardware a VM runs on?
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Tangentially related, but if anyone wants to follow a very funny Facebook page, they could do a lot worse than add the one for the Isles of Scilly Police: https://www.facebook.com/IslesofScillyPolice/
Please, it is stated two threads up. For those who commented on the subject but did not bother following the related news or reading Wikipedia :
They were mostly far-left / pro-Kurdish (some pro-PKK). These are probably reasons enough for ISIS to chose them as a target. HSBC bombings target was, well, people work at HSBC building.
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yep, but 100i/h for 1h vs 10i/h for 10h is the same amount of energy in the end. I didn't mean to say the metabolization is the same at all, and absolutely fibre makes a huge difference, but that's a different macro nutrient from the sugar (fructose/glucose) content.
I guess this makes it clear (if it wasn't clear enough) that Israel is the state.
I imagine more people in the UK know they exist than you perceive. Anyone who still watches the weather updates on the TV or listens to them on the radio instead of getting it from their phone will have heard mention of the...

Though... the more time goes on, the more I expect to hear "oh, they still broadcast the weather on TV? I thought they just did that during the war"... and by war, they're referring to the Gulf war... along with "Walkman/Discman? What's that?"
Well, with Obama (who was elected by the American people) attacking at least two souvereign countries (Lybia, Syria) will you hold the American population responsible?

More generally, if I vote today for X and tomorrow X turns out to be a murderer, will you hold it against me because I can only vote every 5 years?
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Mutually assured destruction doctrine is possibly very dangerous, too. Also: Biological weapons, destruction of rainforest ecosystems, ocean acidification, etc etc. Why these discussions don't consider opportunity costs of NOT developing AI as fast as possible?

Most people live in appalling, inhuman conditions:

$100 monthly income puts a person in the top 52.40% earners worldwide. [0]
$300 monthly income puts a person in the top 28.35% earners worldwide. [0]

Human intelligence is obviously suboptimal for solving global problems, perhaps AI will do better.

[0] http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Maybe I didn't quote enough :)

> A hundred years ago the philosophical radicals formed a school of intelligent
men
Assuming Wikipedia is up to date, we still have:
A (there is however a A+ langugae),H,I,L,N,O,P,U,V,X,Y and Z left
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"The government bombs another country every 1-2 years"

This is dumbing down history. The world would as we know it would not exist without all the US army involvement around the world in the last 100 years: notably WWI,WWII, the cold war, & many more.Some less glorious, indeed. But it's not "bombing every 1-2 years" but a mixture of defending freedom, sometimes financial interests, mistakes and more. But overall, there would not be a "free world" without the US power and the will to use it
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Isn't that Norway? How come you're getting pictures of Norway in Sydney?
How is a protest against "islam the religion as a whole" where people protest by wielding guns is acceptable?

The main theme is pretty clear here:
"Against the islamization of America"
And they're standing outside a mosque holding rifles.

The precise reason is written in the article:
"he was convinced that Irving’s mosque had established the country’s first Islamic court earlier in the year—a false rumor that started online but grew in popularity after Mayor Beth Van Duyne made it the focus of speeches to Tea Party groups.

“They shut the illegal court down,” Wright said, incorrectly. “And then, they threatened to kill the mayor.”"

A bunch of gun-wielding lunatics that think mosques are setting up secret courts.
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I agree with the practical uses of it: emergency rations, etc. But why would anyone voluntarily unnecessarily eat it is beyond my comprehension. But then, some people might not enjoy eating as much as I do :)
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Chris Hedges writes alot about this nowadays. His background as a war reporter for nyt gives him a bit of a radical perspective, but like much of modern social commentary, it makes me depressed reading too much of it.

Joe Bageant (RIP) is really good too, and he can be funny aswell. Hedges is never humorous.

We should add Chomsky to the list, although I can't stand reading his stuff. I'm sure it's good what he writes, but he is just too high-brow for me.
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I don't think your claim that "all the intelligensia spend almost all its brain power in obscure religious debates" is very realistic. For one thing, the concept of university is clearly a medieval invention.

Lots and lots of innovation was done during Middle Ages, as was interesting philosophy. Ancient Rome and Greece get the attention because they are the oldest stuff that is somewhat preserved, not because they would not have been surpassed in the following centuries.
Yeah, fair enough. Updated my comment to say "machine integers" :-)
What about Richard Dawkins ? (good science reputation, strong media presence)
It's a bit of a myth that mediaeval philosophers spent all of their time discussing obscure points of religious doctrine.
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We get these comments pretty regularly. Perhaps something could be done to avoid them - like the "Add Comment" page having some basic guidelines. A reminder of etiquette, the things that get downvoted, how to properly object (ie flag)?

It's a worthy sentiment but it's also a useless comment in that people who don't want to read the story should [and will largely have] just step over it whilst those who think it should appear here will read and so will naturally downvote such an objection.
Opportunist here, riding on the popularity of this post. See my recent post which is partly along the lines of thoughts expressed by Bertrand Russel:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611416
Summary - readers who think that vast majority of individuals are 'stupid' - please contact me. One of the failings of 'sane' intelligent people is that we do not band together.
Yes. It is called an analogy.
FWIW, I believe one good deed doesn't "neutralize" a bad one.
But the sugars in fruit are not all fructose, right? It's a mixture of a bunch of different kinds of sugar molecules. I'm not sure what the exact ratio is, afaik in apple and orange juice the sugars are at least 50% glucose--but I'm not sure where I read that and it might be way off.

Either way, apple juice and orange juice have about 10-12g carbs per 100g (according to the packaging, in NL). Coca Cola has (not sure) I think, about 11g/100g? So I treat it about the same and drink it rarely.

The only difference is, you can mix up most types of juice 50/50 with tap water and it'll taste good (and if you're thirsty, actually better IMO). Try that with Coca Cola and ... nope :)
> How is a protest against "islam the religion as a whole" where people protest by wielding guns is acceptable?

My argument was, it wasn't "against Muslims" as a whole but just against "islamization" by supporting the candidate of protesters, that makes a big difference. For example, Ataturk was effectively against islamization of Turkey, as its top political leader, and made it much more modern and more secular state, ending sharia courts in 1924. Which was a worthy goal for anybody who wasn't an islamist.
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>There is a large chunk of society who're easily swayed by purely emotional rhetoric based on in-groups and out-groups

I think this sentence is the biggest indicator of the problem. The Problem being not that there are large parts of society swayed by emotional rhetoric, but that to most people, the emotional swaying happens to others. It's never me who's swayed by emotions, it's always less rational people, and if only those people could get their shit together, like me, we'd be in a much better place.

You're just as swayed by emotion as those non nerds, you're just swayed on different values. Pretending like you're above it gets us nowhere, because it perpetuates an unhelpful me vs everyone else mentality. It's very satisfying to the ego but it just serves to further drive a wedge between you and everyone else.
I'm using the stable version. However, if I install on a new computer, I don't want to go with a year old version just to maintain compatibility with my other installs. And if I collaborate with someone else, it's unlikely they'll have the same version.
Could always tell when you were using a Flex or Air UI, they had a very distinctive clunkiness.
Are you implying that there's some sort of conspiracy and that global tidal currents are somehow in on it?
Yup, that's certainly another option. Haven't tried it, but I would say that the asynchronous nature of mutationobserver would make this blink the elements before animating them.
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Because their business is the hardware?
I'm guessing the ones during the Enlightenment? Rousseau, Kant, etc.
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I thought it tasted fine. Not the best thing I've ever eaten but comparable to most other supplement shakes.
There are people in the UK who don't know the Scilly Isles exist!?
The positive stories I've heard about Soylent revolve around convenience. Even for someone who loves to eat, Soylent can be practical for 50-70% of your meals which makes you enjoy the other 30-50% more. I assume Soylent is also cost-effective, but I have no idea.

I tried DIY Soylent (as the 'real' stuff wasn't available in Europe) but after one batch of disgusting sawdust I gave up. It was a shame as I could see the benefits.
I think it's simpler than that. Politics attract assholes and intelligent people avoid assholes.
Well it would help if the government agency which manages the SNAP program were held more accountable for their work. Enrollment tripled but costs quadrupled or more. Like all large assistance programs. Participation rates don't align very well with poverty or unemployment numbers on a state by state look, meaning the system is obviously throwing money away.

also the USDA's own site has some nice graphs on the subject, but I cannot find the questions being asked.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/foo...
It works as designed. WeChat is focusing on mobile phones. Everyone has a phone and it's always with him/her. PC and tablets become the extensions of the phone. There are WeChat clients for PC and Mac. But you still need the phone to login. It always reminds you that WeChat is a mobile app.
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I'm not merely talking out of my ass here - it's an open secret that Turkey has been complicit:

http://www.dw.com/en/is-supply-channels-through-turkey/av-18...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/isis-syria-turk...
Is Soylent really that much more space and weight efficient than existing[0] dehydrated meals? These dehydrated meals have the added advantage of not only tasting fairly decent (especially if you also bring a small selection of spices and dry herbs), but also lets you eat something different every day.

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Really how many works from Greece and Rome are still widely read today? The Aeneid, Odyssey are as obscure as Beowulf or Canterbury Tales in terms of who actually reads them certainly if your standard is the "normally educated man".
Plus writing off Augustine, Aquinas et al as having "obscure religious debates" is rather churlish. The morality developed during that period, combined with governmental changes formed the basis for the political / legal system which now governs most of the world. I'd much rather their debates happened rather than live under Greek, Roman or Chinese systems.
This is not necessarily true.

There has been several Lisp dialects (3-Lisp and T project) based on infinite tower of interpreters. You can build a language where the point where the rubber of abstraction hits the road of reality is nowhere to be found.
> people expecting [and relying on] the caloric intake of bread.

What fraction of consumers are we talking about here?
> (and the Tamagotchi on which it is based, of course).

Thanks for that, I thought I was in another Berenstain time loop for a second.
I may be missing something here, but isn't the fact that it's made of tree pulp going to hurt the environment?
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