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The previous paragraph covers the issue of conflict between boomers and young generations, touching on the controlling forces of boomers conflicting with newer ideologies. So I think they meant to say that the x and y generations will remain in conflict with the boomers until the boomers grow too old to hold their power.

The problem I have with the invocation of post-materialism specifically to support this argument is that if post-materialism were manifest in the youngest generations, we'd have a lot of empowered voting and office-running youth overthrowing the boomer establishment. Post-materialists value freedom of speech and people collectively having power in political decisions more than they value material goods and even national order. Post-materialists would be fighting tooth and nail and leveraging every advantage they have against a corrupt, centralized material-obsessed authority.

A powerful post-materialist youth would leverage technology to empower their voices directly through the voting system and the lawmaking process. They would enable an open-source voting system with access to vote online and with publicly published by-vote data that associates votes to a generated unique key. When you voted, you would be given that key and then your association to that key would be destroyed. Thus, you'd be able to verify your vote was cast correctly and we could all verify voting data validity. The open-source voting system would ensure that there were no holes in this process.

A powerful post-materialist youth would reform lawmaking such that all bills had a single specific agenda with no riders (i.e., hidden pieces covering separate topics not covered in the abstract). They would ensure that every person could easily search for all the bills in consideration that covered topics they cared about and that the government actively marketed this data to the public.

A powerful post-materialist youth would have a crowd-sourced information platform for politics that tightly integrated with the searchable, taggable data. Think Reddit+Wikipedia for politics. With this there could be a wiki page for every issue and bill in discussion and a "subreddit" for every party and political action group to organize through.

A powerful post-materialist youth would develop these solutions and steamroll them into the status quo long before the boomers retired.

Maddox is highlighting that youth have not been exerting strong post-materialist influence in politics and joining a growing quorum of people saying, "Do more, care more, and you can actually shift ideologies and power structures to better align with your ideals."

The missing element to making this mainstream is a technology-focused social approach to reforming the voting system such that it is possible for the average working and school-going youth to develop and grow their understanding of the issues affecting all those that they care about by connecting them to those same people.
Given the utter insanity of what happened with this guy, I don't think anyone is in a position to judge what Iran gives a crap about or not.
Very cool. What do you use for search?
"I would wager that Kasseem Dean doesn't have a pristine criminal record either"

Why? How would you know?
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Today I'd consider going with a service, but first I'd see how https://github.com/LearnBoost/websocket.io looks. Most of our problems have been with abstractions in the socket.io client and scaling issues with server process chatter. The chatter shouldn't be necessary with websockets-only.
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Yeah, I agree. Not an incredibly insightful article. It assumes that there will be a rush to this new product - Apple is no different than any other company in this regard - it has to prove its offerings before the market, especially its new offerings. If its a good product, it may succeed, but I think its a bit early to predict the death, demise or success of anyone in this area before we see what consumer and competitor reaction is.
Why port? Just ssh to a terminal somewhere in your university. Pop open emacs/vim and typset with TeX. I did this with my netbook a couple times. Even let me print the paper.
When did I push indifference?

When you suggested I don't express dissent over a statement that suggests keeping the status quo. The alternatives are do nothing or just don't care. This is pushing a position of indifference.

As for your second and third points, here is one example, in the economist -- a big, well respected news org, that is crediting reddit as a major driving force in the Paul Ryan's stance change on SOPA, after reddit chose to focus on him in their SOPA fights:

http://www.economist.com/node/21543173

There are others, but you can do what I did just as well -- use Google.
Just had to share this:

Our stack is Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, SCSS, HAML, Coffee, Rails and NodeJS. I'm extremely happy with these choices.

Recently me and a friend did a small weekend project: www.bubblefap.com (nsfw) The design and code is a homage to ugliness. We only used PHP-ActiveRecord and that's it. and I had so much fun!

I just hacked away! I was cowboy coding, hacking away, and I didn't need to think about frameworks and architecture and integration with fog and hacking Rack to support flash uploads. Oh, good times :-)
Lending/sharing, persistence (particularly against accidental or intentional deletion), device-independent access, resale, marginalia / underlining / dog-earing / highlighting, proven archival format, physical mnemonic value (there's something about the reading pile by the side of the bed or book left for a quick 1-2 page read in the bathroom), freedom from DRM.

Electronic media offer benefits as well: searchability, ease of duplication, amenability to quantitative/qualitative analysis (one example: http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_book...), extremely compact storage.

Both formats have their benefits. I'd greatly dislike having hardcopy disappear entirely. I appreciate the utility of online media.

The biggest concern I have with the Amazonization of the book industry is that we're moving from a highly concentrated publisher-dominated model to an absolute monopoly at the retail/distributor point. I'm very, very leery of concentrations of control and influence.
Unless this has been changed since last time, there should be a big proviso. You can only get money if you live in the US. This should really be made clearer, earlier.
Do it client-side. Don't break the web.
I'd have to disagree with you on the build once, run everywhere philosophy. If you're talking about mobile apps, there's really no such thing. And textbooks (at least as Apple sees them) are a subset of mobile apps.

It takes specialized environment to make a device specific application and now text book. However, I have read that Apple is keen on ePub 3 standard so perhaps we'll see an export function to make an ePub 3 formatted book in the future. Right now, the iBook Author tool seems to have only PDF as the export function.
Right now? Just what we can get out of MongoDB. We need better search, and it should be coming soon. Vote it up! https://trello.com/card/board/better-search/4d5ea62fd76aa113...
Jon Stewart explains SOPA/PIPA
What a convenient morality you have. "I get to have what I want and have no obligation to anyone else." To bad it doesn't scale.
> it sets a dangerous precedent

Precedent is irrelevant because Iran is not under the rule of law. Iran can imprison or kill you if that's what they feel like. The exact reason (if they give one) is just a fig leaf, and your confession is likely to be the result of torture.

Legal logic does not apply.
"There's nothing textbook about them."

What an awful tagline - perhaps the age of Apple post jobs has begun.
Unless the books published by iBooks Author can be played on devices not made by Apple I don't see how this is a big deal. I know books can be exported to PDF but a PDF doesn't have the same capabilities as an iBook2 on an iPad.

I tried creating a document in iBooks Author and I'm disappointed. It doesn't allow one to embed a Youtube video. One can get around this by creating a Dashcode widget and using the widget to play a Youtube video but this seems like too much work. As a teacher, why would I go through all this trouble just to create a book than can only be properly viewed on Apple devices? I'm not requiring my students to by Apple products.

I must be missing something. What?
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I honestly never knew the difference. Thank you very much for that insight.
It's worthwhile to note that PDF export only outputs in a fairly useless landscape, two textbook pages per pdf page form. I have to think that this is done in this horrible way by design. Similar for your .epub "hack", I'm sure that will not be supported by Apple, ever.

On the other hand, the textbook makers currently have such a lock on school districts that I don't feel really bad about this. iPads will only get cheaper.. I'm almost positive kids will complain when they get the shitty scratched up hand-me-down iPad2 the school district has had for 5 years when iPad7 is available -- but I've had worse experiences with paper textbooks. :-)
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You can use backups for things other than restoring
For me, the physicality of the book, the object itself, serves as a reminder of the knowledge gained from reading it.

When I can easily browse my bookshelf in actual physical three dimensional space, it's easier for me to move backwards and forwards through thoughts and ideas that I have acquired from those books, thoughts that otherwise would get easily buried in digital layers of organization.

Don't get me wrong--I am pro e-book. I have many in my collection. While technology allows me to simplify many things and aggregate diverse objects to a single place, it doesn't solve or simplify how I organize books (and to me books represent hundreds of hours of invested time and education). To say that with an e-book everything is at my fingertips is somewhat misleading. The organization of a physical library still beats the organization of my books in Kindle or iBooks or any of the number of programs I've tried. And for a lot of my comics and art books, the dimensions of the paper itself is part of the final product.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, or maybe when I have touchscreen wallpaper I'll consider switching over to completely digital.
I find that the article lacks the details about the software in question. In the age of hypertext no links are to be found. The problem with it is we can't for sure show how ridiculous the accusations are without having access to that information.

Or is it unknown?
Almost identical!
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I didn't say that this article is manipulation, just that most people see such countries only through the news. I'm just saying that many countries with cruel laws have interesting and colorful cultures worth exploring from a tourist's point of view. If someone is not comfortable with that, ok, I just don't thing people should be discouraged by that because in the end, it's not the politics that suffer but natives (current example: outage of tourism in Syria, and a few years ago, in Nepal).

Persepolis was great, check out other modern Iranian and Iranian/Kurdish productions, there's a bunch of awesome cinema there, to mention the most known ones: About Elly, Separation, Time of drunken horses, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Women without men, and lots of other. If you want to read something lightweight where culture and regime meet, check Lipstick Jihad.

> I've never subscribed to the "citizens are actually good, it's the governments who are evil" argument, it just shifts the blame, e.g. "the Nazis did it" by reification: governments are made of people and they, more or less, are populistic, following the majority's wishes. There are many parts of the society in Iran that back the current regime, don't think that everybody's against it.

(Godwin's Law alert)

No doubt, but such events as nazis comming to power or the islamic revolution are subjects too complex to discuss here in a comment (at least I don't have the intention at the moment).
This isn't right - they gave money to people outside of US last two times.
Treaties are fine, and they certainly can affect local laws and should if they were made in good faith and are reasonably beneficial to both countries. The problem is that some treaties are not about solving problems but are rather an intentional collusion between the governmental representatives to push unwanted law on one or both countries. That's what I object to.

Say two countries have a particular copyright law, say 50 years in one and 60 years in another. So the two representatives, probably both receiving substantial funds from pro-copyright media conglomerates, get together and arrange a treaty that says they will extend copyright to 100 years. Well gee guys, we'll have to change our laws! Both countries missed out on reasonable legislative processes.
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Oy, really sorry about that. I guess we should take further discussion offline but I'm eager to understand what "like that" means. The word "gay" itself isn't offensive, I assume. I can't help but feel you must've taken it the wrong way. But even if so it was dumb of me to say something so easily misinterpretable.

Btw, the original version of the paragraph in question is included at the very end.
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great report here...
Show HN: Top songs and news from the last 60 years
Yes, I agree - Many public schools charge a 'book fee' each year, for textbooks. Just roll it into that - who cares if the textbooks are shared then, because each student is paying for it, regardless. And if it is in a non-proprietary format, that would alleviate the other concern of lock-in.

But one article mentioned that students could not resell the books - which implies DRM.

Outside of high school and into college, the publishers obviously want to prevent reselling/sharing of the books.
With https://github.com/LearnBoost/engine.io the abstractions are greatly simplified, which is what I'm announcing today.

The socket.io codebase has been shrunk dramatically, and it's as a result easier to scale/maintain.
What is the hipmunk for car insurance again?
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You're not alone. I like to think of him as 'Future japan prize winner Russ Cox'
The government of those countries sometimes cares about that, but they also feel the need to set an example to appease the strict islamic side every now and then.

Your government being up in arms about you may not prevent a bad outcome.
SmashingMagazine.com is a pretty good resource for designers as well.
I think the tablets and e-readers these days still suck. The interface is still rough around its virtual edges. I can't get into the "zone" if I'm reading a digital book - not yet. This may change in the future, as today is still the early childhood of this technology.

I'm also concerned about volatility. Paper books last for decades, or even more if properly cared for. I struggle to keep e-documents even a few years old. This is a fundamental problem and it needs a proper solution, quickly.

Finally, DRM gets in the way big time. Lending an e-book? Forget it. Finding one day that the content on your tablet was remotely deleted from the mothership? It's unlikely, but the reality is you're at the mercy of whoever made the tablet and they can certainly do so by invoking some obscure paragraph in the 200-page EULA that nobody ever reads. You're the "owner" of an e-book in name only; Amazon is the real big kahuna who calls all the shots.

We will inevitably move to electronic formats, no doubt. But this is the Stone Age of e-books - these are the stone tablets of e-content. We're still in a very very early stage.
I started typing a response, and then I realized that there is absolutely no point to this discussion. Are we really going to speculate on the financial situation of every school in the United States? We have no idea what the financial / licensing situation is, so all we are doing is just speculating.

Here is the main take-away from today's event: Apple made some cool tools to enable people to use really neat educational materials, and also simplifies the process of producing said material. Why are we going off on all these other tangents?
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How are you controlling the OhMiBod while also having a phone call? I'm a little rusty on iOS AudioSessions - were you able to route the phone call audio to the iPhone speaker, while sending control audio signals through the headphone port to the OhMiBod?
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Use things that are going to work great in two years.

This is one of those remarks that is obvious to someone who knows what it means but mysterious to someone who doesn't. So what does it really mean?

- Don't use a technology that, no matter how good, is just too niche for widespread adoption?

- Don't use a technology that we'll have trouble finding programmers to support?

- Look for stuff that will take better advantage of impending improvements in hardware and communications?

- Avoid frameworks for which support may wane?

- Avoid technology that we may have to support ourselves?

- Avoid anything proprietary whose owner may disappear?

- Make sure that whatever you choose, it will work well on mobile technologies, even as native apps?

- Choose technologies abstract enough to minimize our costs but not too abstract to be inefficient?

- Any combination of the above?

- What considerations have I missed?
Just created this page of #1 songs and news headlines from the last 60 years. Also, please check out the rest of the site...I appreciate any feedback.
You're right, and it's just as erroneous for an individual to argue that he has a right to payment every time someone shares a new copy of his creation.

Competing interests will often be in conflict, and that's what we're seeing in this debate. You can safely translate "a right to piracy" to "no moral obligation to respect copyright". Once the moral argument is dismissed, all that remains is pragmatic conflict resolution.

One side could be destroyed, a compromise could be found, or a protracted conflict could ensue. In any case, moral arguments from either side are mostly useless.
Doing this ONLY is python is a shame.
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You can have your opinion on laws, but not the right to defy them
This. All this effort into stopping single pieces of legislation could be better directed into fixing the political system. Everyone knows that senators can be bought, but we still play the game and protest the legislation instead of the process causing the legislation.

Why don't http://rootstrikers.org/ and Laurence Lessig get brought up in these discussions more?
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If it's the "Support our Troops ... end this war" variant.

And the SUV is a Prius. Or bicycle.
" As a teacher, why would I go through all this trouble just to create a book than can only be properly viewed on Apple devices? I'm not requiring my students to by Apple products."

You might create a book if you worked for a school district that as policy provides iPads to the students. That's the value proposition Apple is offering: schools spend a ton of money on buying textbooks and buying new editions every so often. If Apple can make it cheaper to use iPads, then the school benefits by switching to iPads.
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Price and delivery mechanism are an important part of the product. In fact, with digital piracy, they're arguably more important than the content: there's always demand for free stuff that can be stored indefinitely without any loss in quality or functionality, doesn't take up any physical space and doesn't require any effort to obtain. See the hundreds of posts on Reddit with screenshots of Steam sale aftermaths and the admission that they'll never be able to play most of it.

Free is magic. It's place on the supply/demand curve is far away from "one cent."

That said, I think that in general you are right. We just need more publishers to get brave and try experimenting with pennies-on-the-dollar sales and other stuff.
This really distills the car search information down to exactly what I want. Presented in such a way to where I get a feel for what the meta trends are, as well as the best/worst deals (or other anomalies). Very nicely presented!

Feature Requests:

- The ability to search for sub car models (Subaru Forester XT vs Subaru Forester), it looks like some higher end models might be filtered as worse deals at the moment.

- It would also be nice to have a free text field to search for other misc specific car features in the listings.
I wasn't suggesting that you don't express dissent. I was suggesting that you could tone it more constructively than sarcastically ranting.

The reason I'm asking (besides the burden of proof, naturally) is that I can't find any evidence on Google. Even the Economist article you link to says:

Whether or not for [Reddit's influence], Mr Ryan subsequently came down against the bill.

So it doesn't even confirm that Reddit was the reason. I'm not saying they weren't, but if they were then it's hardly evidence of "having wide reaching impact on the world pretty regularly".
Will they delete all their user data, shut down their service and present this as "Great News!"?
/checks.
Yes, yes they will.
The OhMiBod runs off audio signals, but it doesn't require both audio channels to operate so I send the audio signal from the app through one channel (i.e. the right speaker) while the phone conversation runs through both. To have a conversation that doesn't include the clicking sound I generate to pulse the vibrator, you just listen in on the left headphone.

Now, that means the conversation is also driving the vibration, but that can be fun too. :)
and perhaps #4: Apple patents basic methods needed to put educational materials on portable computers, thus keeping both away from the underprivileged of the world. ?
Also, compare the price of an iPad to the price of three or four high school textbooks, which I'm sure aren't cheap either.
I grew up in a house full of books, have been reading since I was a wee lad, but today, you would have to pry my Kindle out of my hands. I read more than ever, and enjoy being able to carry my library with me, whether it be non-fiction, sci fi, or essays (I love Singles).
A week or two ago, I was wondering how long it will be (or perhaps, have we already) before we've surpassed the usefulness of location-based politics.

That is, we have congressional representatives who are there to (ostensibly) represent their constituency, with that constituency being defined (gerrymandering aside) based on geographic location.

This is useful for things near me, like roads and schools, but not so useful for other things we may care about, like the internet.

A "reddit candidate" in New Mexico may win a few hundred (maybe a few thousand?) extra votes for being the "reddit candidate", but obviously they still need to mostly focus on things more important to their local community to win. There's a rather large population of people in the USA who care just as much about whether or not their internet is censored as they do about the nearest bit of highway construction, though.

What I'm getting at is this: how much does our geographic location still define us? A great deal, no doubt, but in a more connected world, it's becoming less and less important. I may have a great deal more in common with a couple of hundred thousand other people scattered around the USA than I do with the other people in my (geographically-defined) congressional district. As such, am I being fairly represented?