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This is a fun conversation and I feel I may be too ignorant on the topic to hold any informed stance. But my feeling is the problematic issue has a lot less to do with the producers and a lot more with the consumers. As in, you're right — the intention may be there, but the result is misguided since the audience can't appreciate it. Well, I appreciated it at least.

(Banksy's original intent was not to produce camp — read his pamphlets and manifestos from the early 00s. Highly socio-political, black mirror stuff.)
Unfortunately this posturing is not because of any independence in Mozilla or any new revenue generating ability. Instead, they've just to switched to Yahoo/Bing's side now.
I often see language keywords and punctuation being emphasized, but I find emphasizing my own symbols more useful, since that is what defines my program, like nouns and verbs are the important parts of natural language. Reading code with emphasized punctuation makes me feel like I have the hiccups, pausing off-beat.

I also think emphasizing identifiers helps to see some of the structure of the code and makes it easier to notice if I misspell something.
I don't think, he is a hacker. People with poor technology skills also pirate whereas becoming a hacker, it is expected to have a decent amount of technology knowledge and skill-set.
Why isn't meat a sustainable source of protein?

And yes, I'm pretty much aware of current industrial farming processes and what that does to the environment, but maybe you're missing the forest from the trees, as in maybe it's industrial farming that we should get rid of. Plants and animals are basically engines storing and converting the sun's energy into nutrients and natural ecosystems are very much sustainable. Add fossil fuels in the equation, like what the industrial age did and you get the current clusterfuck. Our grandparents seemed to have no problem in raising their own livestock with sustainable practices. Surely we can do better than them, since we live in the information age and all that.

And for people worried about efficiency, cost and over-population, we are wasting about one third of the food we produce right now. And we spend much less of our income and time on acquiring food. There is room for taking a step back in terms of throughput and maybe focus on quality rather than quantity. Which might be a good idea given that even though the calories in our food is at an all times high, for the first time in history we're seeing overweight children suffering from malnutrition.

The real problem I'm having with your argument, as it's what vegans usually say, is that if you want cheap, you can't beat a combination of corn and soy grown through an industrial process, as these are the most efficient farmed plants we have. Whereas many fruits are very inefficient, consume a lot of water and are not sustainable at scale. Just saying, if you want efficiency, start eating corn.
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Coming from Europe, I found it weird in North America that I get asked for business cards all the time but it's been 15 years since I got asked for one in Europe.

The US Border is bizarre, I get asked for a card when I cross almost all the time - like it's some sort of equivalent of a passport that proves I'm really on business. They had a sense of humor failure when I offer to email them one, so I stopped doing that and just got some cards so I can give them, and whoever else asks, one.
For a big, modern, highly successful product written in Pascal (Delphi), see FL Studio. A high performance entry-level DAW, complete with a fully scalable vector based UI.

https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/

They even started porting in to OS X, which was problematic before as they had to wait for Pascal on OS X to get up to par -- it's now in beta stage (available for end-user testing), and should be released sometime around late next year.

Details here: https://support.image-line.com/knowledgebase/base.php?ans=11...

(The in-development OS X version is with fully NATIVE Pascal code, NOT to be confused with their earlier attempt to ship the PC version + WINE libraries).
Personally the shows suited my political views, but I definitely always saw how they could be much less fun to watch for other people.

An interesting quote from the same Sorkin interview [1] I mentioned before:

Question: 'Will’s take is that liberals don’t know how to win and conservatives are wrong and often ignorant. The left will like that version of fairness more than the right will.'

Sorkin's Answer: 'All I can say is this: First of all, my biggest concern always is, was it a good story, well told? I’m not thinking about the politics at all. But I don’t want to make the same mistake that I accuse the media of making, which is that they all better be equal accusations on all sides, that fairness is somehow a virtue in art. It’s not. Fairness and balance don’t have anything to do with art. This isn’t journalism, and it doesn’t have to live by those rules. It’s meant to have a subjective point of view and an authorial voice.'

[1] http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/aaron-sorkin-newsroom-intervi...
Hi, I'm from the same country as the guy - Czech Republic.

I really don't know if to punish people by such a humiliation is a good way to go. That movie is going to be played like one of those short movies you play in the theatre before the main movie. Soon, everybody here will know the man, imagine being him and walking on the street..

And because of the history of the BSA, the company that sue the guy, you cannot be sure, if this video is not just some promotion of the BSA itself, which, by the way, does not have a legal status in the Czech Republic. Company's scandals and campaigns (if your neighbour uses illegal software, tell us and we give you 100 000 CZK [approx. 4 000 EUR] ) in past give whole thing a kind of stinky feeling..
You can look at the length of a sentence as corresponding roughly to a cost benefit analysis pertaining to the given crime.

_You_ may be able to. But most people who commit crimes, don't. They're experiencing brief or not-so-brief lapses in their planning capability, and they're not looking more than five minutes into the future; Extra sentencing is useless as a deterrent to these people, because they're resistant to any consideration of sentencing. They're just not looking that far ahead. Organized crime is the exception to this rule.

Notably, they're not immune to the effects of a high arrest rate. If someone has a 90% chance of 1 year in jail, it is an inordinately more powerful deterrent than a 10% chance of 10 years in jail.

The cost being the cost to incarcerate the person, and the benefit being the person's inability to commit a similar crime for X number of years. So for really bad crimes that carry a really long sentence, the benefit to society of there not being a potential recurrence of the criminal's acts outweighs the cost of the incarceration.

This is a different consideration. This is "incapacitation" rather than "deterrence". It's explicitly giving up on the ability of a prisoner to make decisions, either before the crime or after the sentence; A criminal is thus destined to commit crimes, and 'taking them off the street' is the goal. That's basically how we've approached this for the last ~40 years of progressively expanding incarceration rates, unlike most of the other countries around the world. And that's a fairly inhumane, morally questionable view to take, not least the end of the racial persecution of minorities for being minorities dovetails precisely with the racial persecution of minorities for being criminal in some way, living in a place with high criminality or being tangentially involved in the drug war. Broken windows policing, where crimes may be invented, or activities criminalized, in order to get "at-risk" individuals into the system, where they are never permitted to fully leave.

We talk about lynching as some sort of widespread historical horror, but it only happened to 5000 or so individuals. There are over a million black men in prison, and a lot more than 5000 dead as a result of things like the drug war and racialized pushes for ever-expanding sentencing.

Why do I bring race into it? Because repeated waves of contentious race relations are the big sociological delta between our country, and most of the rest of the developed world. And overt or not, it's been central to how we've done any number of things differently, from the suburbs to the prisons to welfare to the healthcare system to our present political dysfunction.
I help run an general purpose applied computation R&D lab for a medium sized non-profit. In the last year we've worked in fields as far reaching as bioinformatics to cyber defense to finance.

In the meanwhile, we've helped develop faster disease detection assays to improving safety in transportation.

We get to play with lots of big computers, pitch new ideas, and can have immediate impact on people's lives.

I love this job, it's probably the best job I've ever had. I've even turned down some less appealing jobs at Google because of the range of cutting edge things I get to work on in a normal day and the Google positions weren't offering that. I've never been so engaged, on a daily basis. I'm long past my honeymoon with this job and can't see an end to it. Knowing that I'm helping people with my work makes it extra rewarding.

I've worked in similar applied R or D fields, did a stint at a couple software companies and worked as an analyst from time to time, working on some very hard problems. But nothing with this kind of positive impact potential.

Will I help change the world? Probably not, but I'm pretty sure I'm helping make it a better place.
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I love podcasts and listen to them all the time, but Hacker News is primarily about text. Could you post a transcript?
Why isn't the default panic like this?
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Announcing your gender is no [different ]than announcing that you're a student, that you're a teenager...

But if the very definition of a "user" is around anonymity then by declaring a personal information you kind of are attempting to make the conversation about you (which I presume is contrary to the whole point of 4chan?).

I honestly don't know whether 4chan would pass the acid test of "is declaring gender indeed treated the same as declaring ones shoe size". If it did though (a big if) - I'd have a problem demonizing the behaviour. I guess that's the GP's contention?

So, is it acceptable to have a culture based around attacking (with real hostility) non-conformity to community norms? Where does one draw the line for when you can be mean to people on the internet?

My personal line comes when hostility starts leaking out of your community - but I'm happy to hear the other points of view.
Interesting stuff, thanks for the link!
> while there is no such similar statement for a method that depends on the experimenter's personal beliefs

The posterior probability P(H|D) is exactly this kind of statement. You say "Based on the data, I am 78% sure that the coin is biased". I think this is both more direct and interpretable.
no, you misunderstand. Tits or GTFO is the jerky, but perfectly valid variant of "This community doesn't give half a shit what your gender is".

It's one thing if it just comes up, like someone asks you something male-specific and you reply "actually I don't know, because I'm a girl". It's completely different, and it's the case for which Tits or GTFO is reserved, when someone starts a thread with "Hi guyyyyyys, I'm a GIRL who..." No. I don't care. You can be a green-skinned 6-tittied hermaphrodite prostitute from the Vega cluster and I still won't care. This board is for discussing <insert board topic here> and we won't let you derail it or beg for special treatment just because you have a vagina. If you want it so much, here's your special treatment: Tits or GTFO.

Like it or not, women often get special treatment online at other forums (and this article itself presents such a case, though a negative one) and some do exploit it (holy shit a person exploits social prejudices, hold the phone). The 4chan userbase (for the most part) has decided they want none of it and unless it's relevant to the discussion, your personal details are unwanted and will garner hostile responses, ranging from "nobody cares", to "not your fucking blog", to "Tits or GTFO".

P.S. Go on /cgl/, a board with a majority female population, and start a thread with "Hey girls, wanna talk to a man?", see how it goes.
> Open source drivers are meaningless for gaming

Not in principle. See Intel drivers for example. They will not beat a desktop AMD or nVidia card, but I can play Mark of the Ninja and many other games here in my Ubuntu laptop without issues.

I can't play Portal 2 in the laptop with good framerates, but demanding games are not the only games in town.

Therefore, open source drivers matter.
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Just in the remote case you thought so, I am not the one you quoted in your second quote. I upvoted anyway.
> No, sir, we'll take today's latest SoC, wire a few extra devices wherever we can find some hole in the address map, put a castrated u-boot on it, and today's stable Linux tree, and here you go, here's your ``platform''. And people cheer.

today's stable Linux tree? Shit people still ship 2.6.x kernels these days because they don't want to invest the engineering resources to keep their vendor-specific customizations accumulated over YEARS in the same processor family up to date.
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excellent ELI5!
I've been involved in a fair variety of projects, but amongst my favorites would have to be:

- an experimental video codec based around contours, with some fairly tremendous potential. It works, but there's still a few years more work required to turn it into something commercially useful. (But, with no further funding for now, it's on hold)

- an embedded project, developing some audience response keypads and base stations. Nothing world-changing in the least, but a lot of fun. No OS involved, and everything had to fit into 256K of flash, with 64K RAM available. Designing the bootloader, a robust audio link, a scriptable accelerometer engine, and more, with plenty of hardware involvement - mm, that was good fun.

- the 3DO and Mac versions of The 11th Hour, sequel to The 7th Guest. What an amazing place to work that was.. arriving for my interview, the sense of enthusiasm was nigh palpable. Everyone knew they could be earning way more down in the Bay, but nobody left. Plus, coaxing 40-70fps video playback out of an 8MHz ARM6 core was quite gratifying. ^_^ (The result of some careful alterations to the datastream format, and a lot of assembly)
I'll be that guy. The chip is cool but still requires multiple components through usb to do something useful. What I want is a $5 hackable phone with battery, touch lcd, camera, wifi e.t.c

Great if it has a solar panel and gpio, so I can stick it anywhere and forget about it.
Sounds wonderful, yet the truth is that carpool lanes are a farce. Nobody carpools in Los Angeles. Or very few for that matter. The lanes remove a significant percentage of road capacity. They are also abused by single drivers, trucks, empty buses, etc. It's a complete joke. The net result is to reduce road capacity and aid in creating congestion due to the constriction they create.

I see it every day across hundreds of miles of roadway cris-crossing Los Angeles. I am willing to concede that there might be a magical place in the US where people wake up every morning and say "what a beautiful day, I think I will carpool with my neighbor because we both work for the same company".

Not in Los Angeles. That's just not the nature of this city. This isn't a "factory town" where there are three destinations for the bulk of the population and carpooling makes sense. If I go down my block the distribution of destinations is probably as random as you can get. And these destinations are random in vector form. In other words, direction and distance. Carpooling is actually impossible.

And then there's the question of infrastructure and schedules.

Also, people are too spread out.

There's on person I know I could consider carpooling with. Here's the issue: I would have to drive 15 miles out of my way every day to go pick him up. He would have to drive 30 miles out of his way to pick me up. Meet in the middle? No can do. There is no infrastructure to support that. You'd have to leave a car at some random parking lot illegally in order to do this. And this isn't a solution that scales. Oh yes, our schedules are very different, which means that 95% of the time we couldn't carpool even if we wanted to.

People have kids, family, responsibilities. Who wants to get a call from school to go pick up their kid who just threw up, be 50 miles away and not be able to respond because they carpooled with four other people.

The whole thing is one big joke perpetrated on us by stupid politicians. Who know what the payoff may have been. It's certainly not helping anyone at all, just like the high speed train they want to build (what a joke).
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How much of that difference is because of the driver and how much because of a bad port from the game developer?

Remember all the console to PC ports with really bad performance. Now add the lack of a financial incentive for Linux games.

To put this in perspective, there are more Windows XP users than Linux users in Steam stats.
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I would love to see someone sell these as preconfigured as minimal bandwidth tor exit nodes with wifi so they can be spread far and wide. Just connect to power, make sure it is connected to a wifi network and then leave it alone. Just make sure it advertises itself as such so that law enforcement knows that it is likely not owned by the owner of the Internet connection and therefore doesn't make sense to do anything other than find the device and disable it if that's what they want. It should have a similar disclaimer as the standard tor exit not notice, except it should say something like "this tor exit node is operating on a disposable computer and was placed clandestinely on this network without the consent of the owner" or something to that effect.

I know there are ethical implications here, but that doesn't mean that something like this shouldn't or won't exist eventually.
I wish more people understood this.

I like it frame it in a less politically correct way and simply ask people if they're up for debating whether or not pedophilia should be legal. If the answer is no, then they necessarily must agree that there are things for which a reasonable person can have a closed mind about and still remain reasonable.
Syntax highlighting works because colour components are preattentive i.e. your brain picks out hue, saturation, intensity/luminance differences in constant time. Size, proximity and orientation work too.

That's why some schemes work better than others: what you want to find quickly is key structural signals in the code. If you highlight comments strongly, say, it'll miss the point (unless your proof reading comments of course).

So, to your question, the value will depend on whether or not there are structural cues that it'd help sufficiently to highlight.

Interestingly we do do that to some extent already. For example, indenting and capitalising the start of sentences, indenting (and spacing) paragraphs, italics and bolding for emphasis. That sort of thing.

So using highlighting in the places we currently do could well improve what we already have. For example, colouring the first word in a paragraph or increasing the font of the sentence capital.

What would be fascinating to study would be if we could use it to help with word or sentence stress. I could imagine that, done carefully, this could help with learning languages.
> But if the very definition of a "user" is around anonymity then by declaring a personal information you kind of are attempting to make the conversation about you (which I presume is contrary to the whole point of 4chan?).

we don't see the same level of hatred around people using tripcodes.
This is excellent. I wish I had this when I first started learning go. Will definitely recommend to new learners of the language.
> But the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represented Microsoft, acknowledged that Jakub could not pay that sum.

If he were to put in reasonable effort into gaining the requisite number of views, and were to fall short of the goal, couldn't the same argument be made that acquiring 200,000 video views is not within his capabilities?
> Zero of these incidents that I've read about have tried to make any contact with people inside

I got swatted a year ago and they setup a perimeter outside, really just eight officers with assault rifles aimed at the front door, and had one knock and yell that it was the police and that I needed to come out immediately. Granted in my case the caller said I had heavy weapons and was planning some kind of mass killing rather than the classic hostage situation so maybe they took a different approach?
Ha! I used to work in field geophysics too. Same thing - got to know lots of interesting places.
I'm a mechatronics designer at a robotics startup. It's a junior 'jack-of-all-trades' position: mechanical design, testing and automation, and hardware troubleshooting. I'm still pretty new but I like the project and I like the variety of work.
By the way, if you get a bunch of these and want to have them communicate with other devices and themselves in a secure manner, I wrote a library to do just that:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/introducing-string-phone/

Feedback appreciated!
You may want to wait for the ESP32 https://twitter.com/EspressifSystem/status/66220572512541491...
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Any place where could I find this magazine, guys? Tried in Liverpool Street / Moorgate (WHSmith / Waterstone) with no luck.
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It's touched upon at the end of transportation, but only briefly.

'As for airplanes, people might just have to fly less [0]. This will require better tools for remote collaboration, or in Saul Griffith’s words, “Make video conferencing not suck.” [1]'

I've used video conferencing that doesn't suck and it was great. It was half a board room with a row of huge monitors down the 'centre' (far wall) and half a table against them.

It really felt like people were on the other side of the table and not on the other side of the planet. This also opens up augmented reality possibilities like tagging people with their names.

[0] http://www.withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/sep/21/infrastructure-and-...
This is neat, but I'd rather see a $10-$15 board with onboard WiFi.
How did you get this into kind of work? I've been working in dev for 20 years, web dev since 2000, and it's pretty depressing that doing good work just means extra profit for a shareholder :(
Psst. This is the "usual" anonymous 4chan account, made after anonymous was overtaken by a cumguzzling shitstain and had its password changed. Use this, don't suffer bad karma.
I'm wondering if a reliable caller ID that gives a rough geographical source of the call would prevent most swatting. A supposedly local emergency call that actually comes from a different country should be considered suspicious. Seems like there are some loopholes to be closed?
TVs are a very mainstream market, as opposed to TV sticks, and hence sells on features when placed against a competitor in a typical retail lineup.

For someone like Samsung there's probably corporate reasons beyond technological - they own the TV device, phone and tablet UI layers, so theoretically could deliver savings and seamless integration to a Samsung household.
The article is by Benoit Mandelbrot. For better or worse, the illustrations are linked but not embedded. They add considerably to the article.