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When I ran a business in Texas, I generally did. There were occasions where I bought parts intended to resell them, but ended up with them stuck in one of the desktop or development machines...so, I probably cheated a little bit, but not much.

But, I was under the impression individuals were not legally obligated to pay sales tax on goods from out of state, but this article makes it sound like they are. So, I never paid on individual purchases during the 15 or so years I lived in Texas.
A government official who declined to be named said earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers.

So these cracker groups have finally woken the sleeping giant? And the bleary-eyed half-awake giant is swinging his arms around wildly, demolishing everything in reach? Maybe after some coffee and donuts they'll be a bit more delicate.
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The ability to focus afterwards is at the tradeoff of image size and quality, assuming they use a microlens array similar to the study located here: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/. However, this is cleverly marketed towards the social media crowd, which has little use for high resolution photos.
A. Yes, I'd imagine so, within reason. Makes for a less interesting demo, though - we've seen lots of images with large focal depth, and lots of images with a narrower depth of focus used to call out one thing, but we've never seen snapshots which you can refocus after they are taken.

This is seriously awesome.

B. This tech isn't going anywhere. If the camera succeeds they might license it. If the camera fails they will surely try to license it. Note also that the technique is apparently not wholly new so the key patents are already running down.

And your point about all those design choices that go into the camera cuts both ways. If they license this tech to a consumer electronics company that flubs the execution they will lose money, as the lousy execution will reflect badly on the tech and will prevent it from getting popular sooner. (The sooner every camera buyer wants this tech, the more profits there will be before the patents expire.) In a world consisting mainly of (a) Apple and (b) hardware companies that cannot design software to save their lives, keeping control of your own fate seems wise. The popularity of this technique among the general public will presumably depend crucially on the UI, both when taking the photo and when displaying it. Better to screw that up yourself than outsource the screwing up to someone else. ;)
There is also a "I don't cook" worst case scenario which occasionally hits people hard, social unrest. Try going to a restaurant when the streets are in full riot mode. I had a conversation with a guy who found himself in this exact situation. He spent three days hungry because it wasn't safe to go outside and he had no food in his house. This situation happens a lot and can happen suddenly, and has happened at least once almost everywhere.
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Apologies if I wasn't clear, I was referring to the above poster's comment about this technology being patented.
Unfortunately, I think the author is actually making himself comfortable. He is uncomfortable with his current state rather than his future state..
The fact that the preview is flash just shows that they arent serious.
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ESRs historical analysis is possibly one of the few things less compelling that the rest of achievements whether coding or writing. I couldn't bring myself to read his Oral Sex Guide, so perhaps I'm being unfair.

The year before, the Nazi Party couldn't round up more than about 45% of the vote; it's worth noting that these 90% numbers (both the later 1933 election after all the other parties were banned, and the referendum) came after the Nazis controlled pretty much everything. Reporting this as the logical and inevitable failure of the democratic process is like concluding the same thing when various pseudo-democracies around the world report 99% YES votes for their glorious leader ("we can do better"!).

The rest of it then meanders into the weeds of childish libertarian lunacy, standard territory for ESR.
The worst: my country (Colombia) doesn't belong to the list of approved countries to publish apps. :(
Re (1), the guy in the video gives a couple demonstrations of focusing everything in an image. It seems reasonable to assume it could be automated, if that's what you're asking.

And for what it's worth, the just-one-design thing has worked out pretty well for Apple.
Sure, there are companies who don't care about a day's downtime, having to restore from backups and their customers don't mind if they're offline for 24 hours. I'd like to think that our company and many of the startups on HN are not in that group. I'd also like to think that we give a damn if another startup gets taken offline like this.
Nobody said anything about imposing anarchy on anyone. The author is postulating that government in all common forms has consistently failed in it's (implied) responsibility to function without inflicting undue hardship on the governed and in lieu of acceptably functional structured alternatives, a switch to pure anarchism may be the only way for the people to avoid said hardships at the hands of government.

Personally I think ditching a couple hundred years of (largely arbitrary) legislation, not to mention taxation, is pretty appealing. Admittedly not everyone in our society is mature enough to cope with a world where nobody's "in charge" and there are some fairly thorny issues surrounding stuff like infrastructure and personal security but several sound proposals (on paper anyway) to deal with these complications have been put forward over the years.

Additional light reading on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnAnarchistFAQ
Except in unanimity, there is no "will of the people".

There are two parts to what states do: things that any individual can do, and things that only the state can do. Anarchy is just the limit of the observation that if one person doesn't have the right to do something, then two do not either.

Of course, this sidesteps a lot of questions, particularly about what "the right to do something" means and where it comes from.

In spite of the fact that Raymond is a hacker, I'm not sure that Hacker News is an appropriate venue for this discussion, though. :)
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> ...and how would that be better than the problems of democracy that he rails against?

I can't speak for the author, but the general idea is that because anarchy ("no rule") precludes the monopoly on violence that exists in state systems, there is better hope of some force countervailing the worst paroxysms of the majority. Think an extreme form of checks and balances.
FYI Ren Ng (the founder of this company) won the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation award for the research that turned into this product:
http://awards.acm.org/doctoral_dissertation/
So governments are dangerous and not to be blindly trusted. Agreed. That does not mean that we'll be better off with zero government. Human organizations do not scale beyond tens or hundreds without government. The root problem is the flawed nature of people, their "short-sightedness and moral blindness" as the author correctly points out.

Anyway, the author needs a lesson in logic and logical fallacy.

I myself am an anarchist at heart (in the vain of Tolstoy), but a realist in my brain.
And it was, at least in the beginning, self destructive. The original version engaged a breaking mechanism that basically destroyed itself. So a false positive caused by the wood being a little green/damp would cost $300 to get the saw back up and running. I think the new version rapidly drops the blade below the table surface instead of destroying itself.

Still, it fits sixtofour's #1 and #2, they invented a tech, tried to get it mandatory by law, so they could charge large license fees.

Edit: Besides, what IS licensing a patent if not leveraging a monopoly.
Many CFD and FEA techniques use formulas that exclude the first and/or last element. When compounded with the 0/1 issue of the original post, it explains why my CFD class was such a living hell. Off by one and two errors all over the place.
Also, if you look at their twitter stream, you'll see that tons of HTC users have phones that crash. The crashing phones are all different models too, so it seems like it's a reoccurring problem that nobody has bother to fix. Maybe HTC just builds crappy phones.

HTC's replies to the users having problems are not very reassuring. They just ask the user to contact htc.com/support and explain the issue.
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His argument is basically that all governments can become corrupted, so we should have no government. The first part of his argument is obviously true, but is far from sufficient justification for his conclusion. It completely ignores all the good things that come from government (social services, police, military defense). It also ignores that the lack of government can also become corrupted. In places like Somalis, where there was effectively no government, pseudo-governments form (like the various warlords, the Islamic Courts Union, and Al-Shabaab).
I'm personally a minarchist. From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minarchism):

> Minarchism (sometimes called minimal statism, small government, or limited-government libertarianism) is a libertarian political ideology which maintains that the state's only legitimate function is the protection of individuals from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud.
Show the bosses this chart: http://www.deadondemand.com/products/digitalshredder/

It describes how much money they will personally owe and how much prison time each of them could do when there is a breach.

note: I have no financial interest in the company linked. It is simply the most comprehensive chart I have seen.
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The backdoors in the two other plugins mentioned:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/399276

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/399286
I think that was a mistaken impression even then. Believe me, table-based layout on a large scale was not for the lazy, and early CSS was a minefield.

The big difference 15 years ago is that everything was so fresh, and so few people knew how to make anything good, that everyone was really forgiving. You could go really far with lousy design. And you had to, because designing something un-lousy was a lot more work.
Pretty sure Google would not just hand over a pile of resumes to the startup, that would be a flagrant breach of trust and probably law as well. What they might do is tell the original applicant something like: we don't have a position that is a good match for your particular skills, but we know of Startup XYZ that is looking, would you like to apply with them?
It is where it is because its new and not ready for prime time. It will probably be debugged for sometime before being placed in an obvious location. (This is of course a guess).
I'm not an optics expert, but couldn't this be used to generate 3d depth maps? By stepping through each field depth you could find the edges of objects (by how clear they were at each depth) and map those edges onto a mesh. Effectively, doing what the kinect does but without any of the infrared projections...
Lithium ion batteries, such as those in laptops, don't degrade based on charge/discharge cycles the way that older generations (NiCd, NiMH etc) did, but rather lose permanent capacity mostly as a function of time and temperature (although discharging below 20% or so exacerbates this).
I think things were far worse not so long ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Although it might be a stretch to compare them to a modern-day corporation, they were a private company and had territories, a (edit: govt. chartered) monopoly and even their own army. edit: In fact, the Tea act of 1773, that lead directly to the Boston Tea Party, was because the EIC was facing financial troubles after a famine in Bengal.

Maybe these things come and go in cycles.
Some corporations already negotiate at national levels. GE probably does all the time with the same leverage amazon has at a state level.
I'd like to point out that there are libraries (PyPEG, PyParsing, and PyMeta) which take EBNF-style descriptions of grammars and produce decently fast parsers, PEG-style. PyMeta's my personal favorite, since it both takes a straight text description, and also uses OMeta instead of ENBF, turning parse and lex into a single operation.

Of course, the downside is that formal grammars are often a bad fit for custom languages of the web, which tend to have incomplete/undecideable/context-dependent grammars. This would work for Markdown, though, since it does have a parseable grammar.
I would expand that:

The general level of reader commentary on newspaper websites is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.
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Exactly. If you take the official government away, those with the desire and intelligence will find power, and are likely to do terrible things with it. Democracy at least delays this a little, if you can say nothing better for it.
I am reminded of a quote from an article[1] by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. It's not a nuanced response by any means, but it illustrates the consequences of a total lack of government authority.

"I spent some time in Somalia in 1997, a country with no government, and encourage anarchists longing for the experience to check it out. Don't carry with you anything of value."

[1] http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2000/08/09/bowden
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If you dont keep redundant servers in other countries nowadays you never know when you're going to be left in the cold by some random government action.
"minarchist." I like that.
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The Khan Academy is truly an amazing startup. However, I think it is important to note that it is actually a 501(c)3 nonprofit. I'm sure Sal Khan has been approached by many VC's, but thankfully he has not gone for turning the concept into a for profit company. The technology, especially the "coach" dashboard, is very impressive and is already being used by teachers in classrooms around the classroom and country.
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SpiderMonkey and Mozilla as a whole have a mission-based commitment to implement draft standards, so to the extent that we have prototyped Proxies, WeakMaps, generators, let, and other extensions now approved for "ES.next", the module has influence. Upstream of it is the Ecma TC39 process, about which I spoke recently:

http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/txjs-talk

There are a number of influential people on the committee. It's a committee, the economics make this inevitable. But we have pretty good core group of people who work on the standard and try to serve JS as a programming language, not as a techno-political bargaining chip or mere means to a business-agenda end.
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Equivalent map for China's provinces:

http://www.economist.com/content/all_parities_china
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There are probably more browsers with Flash installed than that are fully HTML5 capable.
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I'm very surprised Linode was not more transparent with this problem. I use them for several of my sites and have always been very impressed by their customer service. We should have received some type of email to let us know this service has been down so long.
You could browse the web on a mobile phone before the iPhone too...

Windows Media was horrible from a end-user UX perspective (not well integrated into browsers, differences across OSes/browsers, version/codec issues) and required special server software.

RTMP streaming over Flash Communication Server was great on end-user UX but still required special server software.

Real Video/QuickTime sucked on both sides.

There's a world of difference between something being technically possible and being good enough to cause widespread adoption.

There were many streaming businesses that saw small scale success (like Broadcast.com) before Flash 7 was released. Just like there were some fairly successful business built selling Java games on flip phones.
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"Ruby on Rails adding Jquery, Coffeescript, SASS, and SCSS"

Eh? None of those things that you listed is for emulating state over HTTP. In any case, Rails is supposed to be a "tall" stack – it's supposed to be a highly opinionated framework.

If you want to attack stateful apps in browsers, aren't Sproutcore/Cappuccino better targets?
Also, a completely decentralized country is helpless in the face of an unfriendly organized one. Not sure how he missed that in his years of pondering.
This article is riddled with fallacies.

1) Because a government can implement a genocide, a region with no government won't be subject to genocide. (See historical territorial annexations.)

2) Because the Wiemar Republic's constitution was based on the U.S. constitution and fell victim to fascism, all nation's whose constitutions were based on the U.S. constitution may fall victim to fascism.

3) Winston Churchill's defines democracy [as]..eight times better than any other.

4) Because "democracy" is eight times better than any other government, and democracy is vulnerable to morph into fascism, any form of government may morph into fascism.

5) Similarly, because Nazi Germany was fascist and committed genocide, all fascist governments will commit genocide.

There may be arguments for anarchism, but this one isn't very solid.
Not having much experience with node.js, what makes it more natural than twisted ? I agree on twisted being unpythonic, but most of what I don't like in twisted seems rather fundamental to (explicit) async programming (callbacks everywhere, lack of meaningful stack traces, error handling extremely tedious).
Python doesn't need it; the savings from not double-evaluating things aren't there. Additionally, Python lore is to expand this idiom to an if statement, for explicitness, especially in polymorphic situations where you actually want to check for "<expr> is None" rather than "bool(<expr>)". Both of these examples are Railsy; equivalent Djangoy statements in form validation would have to deal with None:

if data["incoming"] is None:
data["incoming"] = "Default value"

...

if data["incoming"]:
data["incoming"] = data["incoming"].strip()

Because of Python's string immutability, there's no point to dodging the assignment; you're still going to incur new string creation anyway.
Unless you don't know the difference between a server and a rack, as the article suggests.
Then onto gingerbread or perhaps an cream sandwich.
In NY State at least there is a "use tax" which is not the same as sales tax, but it effectively is just sales tax on goods bought out of state.
Agree, if looked from a different perspective, you seem to be providing a public service by thoroughly exposing problems with HTC. That is certainly very valuable as a whole.
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Close enough? https://github.com/mislav/git-deploy
WRT #2 and #3, I know it's very hard; that's why it's particularly important to be able to take advantage of those few nodes that do have publicly routable addresses so that I'm not at the mercy of some bozo whose TURN server billing got screwed up.

With relationship to #4, yes, I know it's hard; that's why I think it should be a JavaScript library rather than written into the spec of the browser behavior. I don't recall where I said I wanted to do anything "by myself". I rather prefer to enable open-source collaboration and decouple the security protocol from the necessarily lumbering standards process.
This is what is most worrisome about India. The rich is getting richer and the middle class is improving but the poor on the whole has not moved a bit. With the rate the population grows the poor probably regressed. Its a shame because the outsourcing party is not going to last forever.
Interesting, you don't mention whether or not you replaced the SD card. Replacing it would be useful for two reasons:

1) If you have some sort of malware it will live in the SD card to keep from being killed by a factory reset.

2) If you have a bad SD card it can crash the system by doing something the system does not expect.
That’s definitely possible but low contrast regions without any edges to detect (e.g. a grey wall) are probably a problem.
Don't think HN does this, but I found this interesting considering your circumstances: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...
This is much more useful than a simple depth map, since it works with translucent and amorphous things like steam, and other things that are hard to model with meshes like motes of dust. Also, if you have a shiny object, focusing at one depth might show the surface of the object in focus, but focusing at a different depth would show the reflection in focus.
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He meant partying. It's called using the English language in a lively and interesting way.
Am I the only one who thought this was sarcasm? I mean, seriously:

> I don’t have things to hang on the walls. I rarely visit the kitchen. My apartment is a barren place. I dislike spending long hours there.

> I even stand all day to make sure I don’t get too sleepy in my comfortable chair.

> There was this guy at work that loved to talk, and he frequently came by my desk just to chat. I tried everything from asking him to leave to closing the door in his face. The motherfucker simply wouldn’t shut up. The solution was to kill him (explain to him that he’s distracting me). Unrelated note: There’s an opening for a front end engineer at Eventbrite.

It's pretty clear to me that entire thing is a joke (and not only the last thing I quoted).. no one can seriously be that detached from reality... right?
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