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The audio "loss" example sounds plausible in passing (and the diagram looks plausible) but is actually incorrect. The frequency and timing dimensions of analog audio below the Nyquist frequency is preserved perfectly by digital quantization, which in practice for CD/DVD usecase are the full spectrum of the human ear. This counterintuitive result is explored in some detail in [1].

It is true that the amplitude dimension (only) is quantized to (typically, 16 or 24) bits, which you could detect with a very good oscilloscope. However 24 bits is way smaller than any human ear can discern. Visually, it is like looking at two stacks of dollar bills that are 6,000 feet high and trying to discern which one has one extra bill.

I suppose that is technically "lossy", but the only thing we are "forgetting" is something no human could perceive, or remember.

[1] https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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You can also go the swimming pool, and no one will force you to swim (Queen Anne, Medgar Evers, Greenlake).
By taking your hard earned money away to fund such schemes (taxes, you know?)
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> like audio recording on browser which is not available on some still widely used web browsers

Like Safari, and it's a modern browser, so much for the "Steve Jobs Effect"...
Can someone do an executive summary or tl,dr please,

I honestly tried to read it but found it impenetrable.
million years ago == "recent past"?

To me, "recent past" means maybe 5 or 10 years ago tops.
While I have your attention, I'd like to register a concern about this bright line it sounds like you're trying to draw.

A tactic currently being employed by Trump is to claim that questions of fact or science are actual political questions. For example, his surrogates have said that NASA is "politicizing" climate science [1].

I'm concerned about this expansion of the boundaries of what are considered political questions into things that aren't because it has a chilling effect: Once something is deemed political, there are certain places where we can't talk about it. But for my part, I think a world where a politician can prevent us from having a (civil) discussion about e.g. climate change, or net neutrality, or the implications of tax cuts for the rich, or whatever, on HN merely by declaring it to be "political" is a pretty bad world. Not just because I like talking to smart people about science and technology, but because it prevents us from organizing to become a force for good.

The OP's point was, it seemed to me, about the facts of international law and a critique of the media. It certainly was inflamatory (as was my response), but if law and the media are off topic because they're political, well, doesn't it follow that net neutrality, Google/Facebook's responses to fake news, and so on, are also political? Do you want to cut off conversations about those topics too?

Maybe there are certain topics you'd want to rule out from HN because they inevitably lead to flamewars. Moreover maybe most or all of those topics are things politicians also disagree about (and thus are "political"). But perhaps the thing that you are against isn't "political" discussions per se, but rather flamewars on touchy subjects. Or, something like that?

I am afraid that over the next four years, things we used to think of as factual or scientific questions will be reframed as political questions, on which everyone is entitled to their opinion, and which we can't discuss in civilized places like HN. In fact I think we're already seeing this reframing.

Anyway, running an online community is hard, I don't pretend to know how to do that. Good luck, and I'll try to follow the rules, whatever you all decide.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear...
The heat kills the fungus which just happens to be collecting aluminum. Aluminum is most likely not a _cause_.
You are just replacing one leverage with another (employers with government). In most places, the employers own the government anyway as they provide the revenue.

I don't know what your first point means. Your last point, you are just repeating what you have read somewhere. Population increases do not change the aging population. The new people also age believe it or not.

Also stop being childish with your "wat" bullshit.
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On the dryer? Or after you take them out?
What's the point of making people do stupid ass jobs?

Now I'm all for spending money on the commons in ways the private sector is too petty to address, but do this for the results of the investment, not just for employment.

I'm more OK with adjusting UBI to cancel out fluctuations in infrastructure spending.
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I'd wager that management denying open access to hackers was more detrimental to Ms. Hamilton's exercises than the activities of said hackers. A good hacker would do root cause analysis instead of picking the most convenient victim to further some personal odyssey.
It would be interesting to see the Flex and Flash libraries ported to run directly in the browser. Syntactically, ActionScript is almost identical to TypeScript, so transpiling should be practical.
I consider myself pretty good at Python, and I would need to look that up. OK yeah whatever, one's a generator. Makes sense. Why would I need to memorize something like this in order to be "legit"? Clearly if I was gonna generate a fairly big range, I'd be like "I wonder what the memory implications for this are".
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Wow, everyone is complaining about the misleading headline rather than reading the piece.

Oh, and this is the most positive non-opinion piece I've seen on UBI in a major publication, people! How's that?
Some forms of secrecy are good, in certain contexts. A homosexual hiding his or her sexuality in Saudi Arabia, for instance. That is the sort of openness commensurate with the maturity of your society I was referring to.

Ideally, no one should have to hide anything about themselves. But we unfortunately aren't quite there yet.
I'd expect them to report accurately. You have to remember, the expected result of a startup is failure, so they're used to dealing with that. I don't see why this would be any different.
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> It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser?

I mean, I don't use graphical apps enough to care -- ssh/mosh is good enough for me TBH.

> The age of one computer per user ended a long time ago, and I'm worried how Wayland has been handwaving the normal use case.

But it isn't. Implementing "-X" functionality into Wayland wouldn't make any sense -- you want the window manager to implement the forwarding because the window manager knows about the window you want to forward.

The fact that X has this functionality is an accident of history. ssh -X is worse than VNC because at least VNC has some semblance of a sane protocol.
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Same here. Actually read it twice, with the pauses in different spots.
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There is a sauna in nearly every house in Finland, and if not, then municipal swimming halls offer an affordable alternative which everyone can afford. No need to join it with heavy exercise. Also, going to a sauna does not signal a socioeconomic status.
Speaking as a Pivotal Labs employee who has done a shitload of Angular 1 development, this is not true. I still like Angular personally, but enthusiasm is definitely way higher in the React direction unless the client demands we do something else.
>t just doesn't work geometrically

Yes it does! I UberPool to work quite a bit, and have not poofed out of existence by participating in a geometric contradiction. You are claiming that we should ban something that currently works; "it doesn't work" is nonsensical as a supporting argument.

>people happily stand in public transit for the dozens of minutes they have to spend there, and have satisfied with their experience.

In many places, people happily go without basic medical care, electricity, or indoor plumbing. All of these things are terribly expensive and somewhat environmentally damaging, people who lack them are still happy, so... let's ban electricity?
Look at the efforts San Antonio has been making over the last decade to help the homeless mentally ill. They've gone from having virtually no system in place to being on the vanguard:

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/the-desperate-and-the...
This is exactly why firms that build medical devices need to be fully transparent about what they're actually building in the eyes of the law, and what regulatory hurdles it must overcome before being being able to do the things people are likely to assume it can.
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> Throughout the world, action by labourists has resulted in reforms and workers' rights, such as the two-day weekend, minimum wage, paid holidays, and the achievement of the eight-hour day for many workers. There have been many important labour activists in modern history who have caused changes that were revolutionary at the time and are now regarded as basic. For example, Mary Harris Jones, better known as "Mother Jones", and the National Catholic Welfare Council were important in the campaign to end child labour in the United States during the early 20th century. .

a) two-day weekend

How is this a right? Some people want to work less; some want to work more. If it were forced by unions, forcing a two-day weekend stops people from working more.

b) paid holiday

Same; not everyone wants paid holidays as opposed to getting more money in their pockets.

c) minimum wage

The minimum wage stops less skilled people from working; this especially affects blacks and teenagers. I see the minimum wage as a negative effect of unions (nobody wants their job to be replaced by a cheaper worker).

d) Again, not everyone wants to work an 8-hour day. Poor people want to work more and other people want to work in different schedules (like a 3 day week).

It is not clear to me why a), b), and d) can't be achieved without unions if people wanted those 3.

I have no problem with people having a), b), and d) voluntarily and unions persuading people and employers for those causes; but I don't want workers to be forced to have those three (there's no free lunch--these worker "rights" come at the expense of the worker's salary).
No. Kill is to _only_ add bugfixes for X years and then commit to shutting it down, while creating a migration path (shumway, whatever) for existing code.

Windows XP is dead.

Windows 7 is dead.
I want a javascript framework that allows me to update a page incrementally, but also always works correctly and contains full content from the first server-side page load.

Are there any options for this? Are there even keywords I can search for that discuss this?

Sure, this files under "anything is possible", but honestly, I'd like a javascript framework that doesn't actively fight me also having static content. Any of these libraries that put their document derivation logic front and center are ipso facto refusing to compose well with a simple static first page load that renders fast and then gains progressive enhancement from the JS.
The US has tried massively increasing how much "free money" it gives people.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-...

Annual inflation-adjusted spending growth on various components of social welfare spending (1972 - 2011):

>Pensions and retirement: 4.4%

>Healthcare: 5.7%

>Welfare: 4.1%

Annual inflation-adjusted economic growth over the time frame:

>2.7%

By every broad-based objective measure, the scale of forcible income redistribution has massively increased in relative and absolute terms. The only thing the US has to show for it is slower productivity growth, lower wage growth, huge trade deficits, and I would argue, an explosion in single parenthood:

http://pinetreewatchdog.org/500-rise-in-single-parenthood-fu...

>You tax the companies profits but you use that money to grow the market.

You don't grow the market by giving people more currency to go shop with.

In a market based economy, the guy who buys the product is buying it with something of value that he is producing. Any trade is a two way street. Currency is an abstraction that obfuscates this fact. He might be giving you some units of currency, but really he's giving you whatever good/service he had to provide in order to get his hands on that currency. Without a productive act on his side, the money he's giving has no value to the economy at large. We are not better off just giving people currency to go shop with. The only value is in the actual production of goods/services, which people are incentivized to do when taxes are at their minimum, and they have to earn the currency they receive through trade.

In other words, economic growth is not enhanced by redistributing income from highly productive people to unproductive people to shop with.

The only process that increases the actual level of productivity is investment, which grows the capital stock (factories, gas stations, restaurants, kiosks, car dealerships, malls and IP) and forcible redistribution, by reducing income earned on investments, reduces the incentive to invest.
How accurate is that document?

Windows API is open (you can get documentation for it) but it's known that "in the real world" the API doesn't follow documentation, which causes problems for Wine.
Does anyone know who produced the bills? Last time they were printed by one British, one French and one German company. As there have been rumors Venezuela didn't pay up last time, are those the same companies this time? (Not many companies can print those in the amount needed)
The only promising replacement (Shumway) that could be suitable for legacy applications was discontinued by Mozilla.
So Swift 4 is coming in Late 2017. Will it break all previous code again?
You're missing the point entirely, it could be done in hardware (I'm sure they would be happy with a PR) - but Haiku can do stuff in software that other OSes simply can't; media is just one of the better demos. It follows very strongly from the BeOS demos from the mid 90s[1].

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ
The author is a poet/twine author/programmer at Columbia?

She's upset that some guys appeared immature back in the day towards a female programmer, and attempts to deconstruct the hacker manifesto and suggest a replacement that can be summarized as: "Be aware of your actions"....

Along the way she posits that because technology can't capture the analog infiniteness of our infinite universe due to it's digital nature that "Technology is forgetting". She uses examples like: loss in converting audio to digital, and compression loss of uneeded information to support this theory....
> Even your modified interpretation has dangerous side effects. We can probably modify the access to computers line to only over computing hardware you own, and that probably works, but the other two lines you comment on are often in opposition.

I wouldn't even make that modification. Illegally accessing computer hardware in pursuit of a higher or better purpose can be good, provided that purpose avoids harm to others.

Of course, people playing God with their own interpretations of when that standard is met can lead to disastrous results. But sometimes it's ok to break something or break into something to learn about it. It's a thin line, but it is there.

A Chinese hacker poking holes in the great firewall, for instance. I'd say that's a good thing, even though they do not own the hardware.

> f all information is free, then it's also free to access to authority. Authority can do a lot of things with information that few hackers would like: Read on what full transparency leads to in a place like Bridgewater. Once it's clear that we don't want authority to have free access to our information, it's clear that the 'all information should be free' line is not an idea, it's just hypocritical. What it really means is that hackers should have access to all the information they want, but they should be able to hide all the information they need from authority: Enough of that, and now you have a new authority, which happens to be the people that have access to the information.

Ya, I couldn't agree more. That's why I added the proviso that information wants to be free only in the ideal case. It is aspirational, not pragmatic. We want to live in a world where all information can be free, and we should all work towards that. That does not, however, mean going around 'liberating' information arbitrarily. And it also does not mean that, in even our most progressive societies, that we are ready for all information to be free.

> This breakdown on the hacker ethos builds two camps: One that finds privacy more important, and doesn't really want information to be free, and those that put the freedom of information first, and are happy to hand tremendous guns to authorities, whether they are governments or silicon valley corporations.

Ya, you have no argument from me there. I do not think all information should be free in the actual world that we live in. But I do think it's an interesting way of modeling an ideal world. Underneath all forms of necessary secrecy lie blights of some kind. Weapons are secret for war, sexual preferences can be secrets due to shame or even criminalization, etc. Sometimes that secrecy is justified by the faults of the world, and sometimes it is used to further the interests of an individual or group. In the latter case we should strive to reveal it, and in the former to address the justification for that secrecy.
I don't have the feeling that google finance is live and kicking. I think it's one of those product that will disappear soon. There are lots of broken feeds like:

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGLDI&ei=Tk1WWKnmH...

I reported some but they did nothing about it.
I've been interested in PG sharding for a few months. I mostly hear about this citus extension, but what about postgres-XL? Does any one has had any experience to compare against citus?
That's what I thought too, but my empirical testing shows it more effective to reduce smell of sweat than commercial deodorants (e.g. AXE) or no deodorant at all. Haven't found any scientifical studies on the exact subject.
Wow. I have to say that it is funny how you hear the legendary tales of computing history over and over again and then some little crucial minor details like "we sold the CEO's office on it" eventually slip out.

Ok, that was important at AT&T, but not really why Unix currently rules the universe. Due to anti-trust settlements and cheap licensing, and copyright foibles, Unix was the cheap midrange choice for students and non-enterprise users. After a lot of pain, Unix eventually evolved into an "open standard". And that eventually evolved into an "open source" standard with Linux (and BSD, MacOS, etc.) To quote DEC's Ken Olsen[1]:

> [UNIX is] great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it’s great for interchanging programs between different machines. ... It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They’ll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.

And that is why your cell phone runs Unix and not VMS.

[1] http://sinix.org/blog/?p=16
This is the same question pg asked about income inequality in general; if IPO'd founders or hedge-fund managers are mind-bogglingly-rich, why would that piss off anyone else? How does that hurt them?

And yet people are and would be pissed.
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It's weird at the very least how people care so much about the death of one person while 21,000 people die every day of hunger.
I too find myself disposed to think poorly of 'these sorts of articles' about gender and women in tech, etc..I think most of what is said about it is pretty silly on all sides. But this article was actually pretty good - it's worth a read, IMHO.
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Win 7 is going to be an even bigger die hard than Win XP.
Because people/companies rely on it?

This is the sad issue with Web based tech. On desktop, you can run most software from Windows 95 on natively on your modern Windows 10 computer.

Think about it.

That means that I wrote a small utility in 1996, you bought it in 1997, I went out of business in 1998, and you can run it in 2017 (that's 20 years later).

How much of Websites/games/utilities from the 90s/2000(!)s are dead because the #1 open language was found to have too many security holes (or more precisely, couldn't update properly) and no ones around to re-write them in HTML5.

----

How much of current HTML5 javascript will be "turned off" in a few years?

What if browsers (read - Google) decide that "eval is evil" and ban it in JS?
Yes that's only useful under the original assumption of the article: that a state level actor must use a nontrivial part of its budget to factor one prime. The back of the envelope calculations if they did classical factorization is that one or a few 1024bit primes were possible but 100 were not. Of course next year they will have twice the CPU time, or a better quantum computer, so it's a short term win.
Are you arguing against basic human nature? For the vast majority of people, if they don't have to work in order to earn, most people will choose not to work. So then who supports these folks? The people who put in actual graft. But the question is, for how long? Is this sustainable.

This is a mindset and it must be fought against vehemently. You want to help people? Advocate for the following:

- hard work as opposed to indolence

- savings culture as opposed to consumption of capital goods

- innovation/engagement as opposed to being dullards

- celebrating and rewarding achievement based on genuine merit as opposed to cuddling our young ones

- skill acquisition by reading books as opposed to watching TV and partying

You want a utopia but none of the sacrifice required to attain it. That's not going to work.
This is only when you view income in isolation. Negative Income Tax requires the person to work, while Basic Income doesn't. Moreover Negative Income Tax could support very unproductive jobs that the economy doesn't really need.
You'll have to move your car mid-meal or pay a small fee. Not quite the commercial it once was but not a dealbreaker for me either.

Restaurants could perhaps strike deals with Tesla to allow customers waived fees up to an hour or two?
Depending on how common, that could still leave you with a much lower risk than being scammed IRL. "Strong rep" isn't easy.
I absolutely respect women in the tech industry and have been lucky to have extremely knowledgable women as mentors and teachers at various times.

But hidden behind flowery language...this article had poor reasoning, a useless metaphor, and was disrespectful to the 'hacker' collective.

This author needs to go back to her academics, poetry, and twine games and let competent women working on difficult technology handle the hacker code.
Half of the items on this list - basically, anything not under "JavaScript & DOM Fundamentals" - will probably be invalid by April 2017. :P
Couldn't tell they end the trial and release open-source sorftware for the device that people can use at their own risk?