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if you're in the ambulance, or think you might be, and are refused access to life-saving medicine, you will be terrified.

Terrorism is using force or the threat of force against a population to achieve political or economic goals. That is chapter and verse what Anon is doing with these threats.

There are (obviously) degrees of terrorism. Hitting buildings with planes isn't the same as sending a few letters with anthrax in them. But both are terrorism.
Regardless whether it's a design or engineering problem. It is pretty clear evidence there is tension between the teams (design and engineering). Which is the opposite of what Gruber is arguing.
How is this different from google hangout?
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Take a look at this short video: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/23/multi-touch-page-flippin...

It shows how skimming could actually work on an iPad, and it's fantastic.
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How was it effective?
1 -- I don't see what you're trying to imply, could you come out and say it?

2 -- Actually, the publishers do have a lot of power. The universities are stuck in a bad equilibrium (in the game theory sense) -- if any of them individually deviates (by not subscribing to popular/restrictive journals and not publishing in them), that university is going to be the one to get hurt.

The only way out for universities is if they all cooperate and decide to ditch the restrictive journals. There are movements toward this right now (against Elsevier, for instance), but it's very difficult to gain traction. You can't just pick up the red phone to every university president and say, "hey guys, stop publishing in these journals, I set up a whole different process over here!" The journals have the prestige, so they have the power for now.
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Interesting perspective. If the alternative to pursuing tools in this area is complete subjugation, perhaps some people are willing to bear the costs of risking going against that. What use is your life if it's not really yours? It's a position people at least ought to be able to choose for themselves.
You are missing the point. Identifying an expert and asking them to write the article is exactly what traditional encyclopedia's do, while wikipedia actively discourages this.
You can live just outside of Boston for pretty cheap. I'm currently in Framingham and moving to Somerville sometime this summer. Probably going to be around $2000/month (counting bills).
Do you guys realize that webOS apps are written in web languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript) so it would not be very difficult to port your app to webOS.

More than that, if you write it in webOS' Enyo framework and use Phonegap you could have your app ready for iOS, Android, webOS, Blackberry, Chrome Web App Store, and the MacOS app store very fast and easily.
That looks really amazing, i have also tried a couple of pictures and it works really well.

I was wondering if it would be possible to share a link with the picture attached allready, so you could show the theme to other people easily?
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I've done used this analogy in reverse. My roommate was also a CS PhD student, and I explained that when it comes to toilet paper, we can't afford to let cache misses go to disk.
AznHisoka>I dont' consider myself rational, I don't think it is just to discourage an idea because it is not perfect. You also don't need to reduce traffic, all you have to do is to make the article view count unreliable.

People can print what people like, but without compensation they won't benefit from the attention.

I read part of the Clay book. I am not interested in defining news to "make people think logically." Just the opposite, I expect people to think differently. I am interested reversing the tide of attention-seeking headlines which decreases focus on real news. If a reporter suggests a real news segment I am sure they will get shot down because the boss can see what articles make the most money, attention seeking articles. If the numbers are unreliable, the playing field becomes level since advertisers can no longer directly differentiate articles' popularity.

olalonde>An Alternative to Adsense income. One consequence might be sites offering services or products. Newspapers might need to start charging for their services. The New York Times has already done this.

In this scenario, attention seekers might be starved of cash, because who will pay for hyped news. From my experience there is a market for real gossip and real news, but no so much sensationalistic news.

The justification for this comes from the fact that news is nothing now.
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To me this evoked the image of a monk doing work in a monastery with a huge library. If you picture this monk as your CPU, and assume he works 12 hours every day, over a lifespan of 60 years, thats about the work a 1GHz CPU is capable of doing every second.
The conman hustle is not "the second oldest profession."

This is the second-oldest profession: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying
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Which browser/version/OS?
For those of you on Rubymine Release candidates or EAP, do not upgrade just yet if you like to use Watches and Expressions in Debug mode, there is a critical bug in 4.0

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/RUBY-10478?projectKey=RU...
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I had been using very similar technique in my blog (http://laktek.com), for excerpts and posts lists.

Actually, I believe all contents in a site should have a ranking and loaded depending on the context.
Have you looked into the new Enyo framework to deploy apps?
Excuse me if I'm totally off (I haven't actually used clojure, just evaluating it), but regarding the lacking libraries: isn't the fact that it runs in the JVM nullify this by having access to the rich java libraries?
You can't really expect Wikipedia to solve that when human beings cannot even reliably agree on "the truth" in many cases. History has always been written by the winners. Our written history is only a version of the truth. Wikipedia is not there to solve this human condition, it's just summarizing information that is most commonly recognized as factual. It's a collection of citations that are subjectively considered trustworthy.
Yes, I agree. This is a cool idea, but I think I would go crazy if this got any traction. I can see myself now constantly resizing my browser to see if I was missing any content.
it does recognize your RVM gemsets and switches between them on the fly
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On top of which, their status page is itself having issues. Latest update says:

"04:20 PM PST: Had to restart MySQL. InnoDB recovery happening now.

04:13 PM PST: Tracking down the source of the unicorns now"

Ouch... InnoDB recovery? Never a good sign.
Fair enough. You realize the 'nut' of this particular problem is capturing the 'free/busy' state. Capturing state requires a two things, a 'probe' (something which measures) and a 'policy' (something which looks at the measurements and produces a finding).

Fortunately, in your particular case, the challenge of creating a probe which can measure 'busyness' answers your question (which is effectively 'No' btw). Chat programs work because they limit the problem to 'are you currently in chat' and can probe for that but without instrumenting your friends you are stuck trying to infer their 'busyness', and many people that kind of probing is considered none of your 'business' (pun intended).

A limited (and its limited because it has to be proactive) conceptual idea is an app with a button that says 'bored' on your phone. When you press it, it would tell you how many of the friends you are 'following' have pressed that button in the last say 30 second, minute, or 10 minutes and offer to SMS that set. The downside is that it will not include folks who are doing something but they would rather be doing something else.
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, but others apparently didn't, or why else the downvote?
That's awesome and deserves a post of its own. I'd love to see a feature that let you preview some dummy site with the theme you generate.
"... Security experts agree that trying to protect communications on a non-smartphone is basically a lost cause... I think there's perhaps more anonymity in a $20 phone. ..."

Well they'd say that wouldn't they. Old school tradecraft: Using an 'output-feedback mode stream cipher' (Pontifex) and a cheap phone gives you a secure and anonymous, 1 to many messaging system. It was designed specifically for covert 'dead-drops' communication. There are a few caveats, but it's lo-tech & bruce reckons it works ~ http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html
It's not what you know, but who you know. Unfortunately.
Just append image_url parameter like this: http://www.lavishbootstrap.com/?image_url=http://farm2.stati...
Could it be that you use debugger so rarely because its so difficult and not user-friendly in command line mode?
I run my application in debug mode all the time so that i can stop it at any time and look at different values and states at all possible levels of execution stack
PDX used to be a non TSA Airport. And I think it won "best small airport in the US" for 5 years running. I didn't hate it.

At the end of last year, TSA took over.

The difference is dramatic. I fly through PDX at least 4 times a month. Average security wait time has more than tripled for me. They've installed scanners. But the big change is the way travelers are treated. As a woman waiting in line next time me on one trip put it, "these TSA guys act like they're Prison Guards - and we're convicts."

It's turned a not terrible experience into a truly awful one. It's turned PDX from one of the best US airports into just another shit show.

I know that I would absolutely fly to a less convenient airport if it were not TSA staffed.
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"Mobile" web site views drive me up the walls for very similar reasons.
Regarding the specific anecdote he gave: there was actually nowhere for him to sit down for dinner--so he never actually ate anything! (He did drink--or at least stand in line for such--though.) He would not have affected the "food consumed" post-hoc measurement.
A useful tool for examining responsive content across multiple displays, such as is demonstrated by this post, is http://www.benjaminkeen.com/misc/bricss/. It's a javascript bookmarklet that'll dynamically create multiple iframes, each set to the dimensions of popular device screens, and display them all on a single desktop browser window.

Great for side-by-side comparison and validation of media queries.
I'm shocked. I've never been happy with any keyboard, and so I've been keeping notes for the past couple years with every good keyboard idea I've seen, and by now I've got a pile of sketches at home that look extremely similar to this (matrix layout, control keys between hands, Dvorak, etc.). And someone on hackaday.com said "i’ve done some drawings quite similar, great to see people sharing the same ideas".

I feel like there's some latent shared understanding that the current keyboard designs are bad, and we all know how to do it right, but people are afraid to change anything now.

There are 3 or 4 other specific ideas I have which are not implemented in this design yet, but I think it's close enough (and sufficiently better than other keyboards) that if these were for sale, I'd buy a pair of them right now.
Excellent idea. Especially in regard to shortening the titles on navigation elements, buttons, and links. Longer, more descriptive labels when screen real-estate allows. Shorter, perhaps more cryptic but made-to-fit, labels when screen real estate is limited.
there is a critical bug filed against it, i hope they fix it soon
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In the end, we'll have so much extra markup and scripts to execute that the users get annoyed by slow downloads and choppy performance, instead of having to zoom interfaces :)
Yes, this is intensely annoying. I've stopped buying technical and reference books on Kindle because of this 'feature'.
Well, that's clearly the most important thing. When on HN I often go into startup business mode, apologies. Also, it was so polished, I just thought you'd have a long-term plan for it.

I guess finding related items is important for shop fronts, I think you just need a way of engaging them in the first place. I need to think, I'll go to that app to find the product I want. Going to that app, with a product in mind, to find what's related, doesn't seem all that engaging.

My point is, if you could find a reason I'd go to your app first (best reviews/price comparison/something else...), then your visualiser would be an awesome way to up sell further products.

Great project though, keep hacking! And thanks again for sharing your work!
I'm totally ok with it but I'd probably like a [+] expansion widget or ellipsis mark to indicate hidden content in those contexts.
Why are you using a cross-platform tool in a VM?
And to more directly address your first question, no, their goal wouldn't be to instil terror. That's never the goal, merely the method.

This is why the subject gets clouded, terrorists _goals_ are to achieve change. Their _method_ is to do this by insilling terror.
Besides being entertaining, some of these tactics could also be ethically and practically useful. How many times have you been made to feel uncomfortable being somewhere you had a right to be?

Maybe you really are meeting friends at an exclusive restaurant, but the host is eyeing you suspiciously as you walk in.

Maybe you left your conference badge at the hotel, but didn't realize it was required for the afterparty.

Maybe you were asked to speak at a meetup, but the doorperson is asking for $10 in pizza money even though you already ate.

Learning how to look and act like you own the place can save you confrontation, keep things running smoothly, and lead to the same kinds of awesome as in the article - without swindling any charities.
To be fair: the "I" differentiated it from the typical Unix style as implemented on MSDOS, which for obvious reasons sucked rocks. No editing while building, no pipes at all (and thus no log analysis in the traditional sense), etc...
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I have adopted the following policy about Wikipedia, and I think it reflects current state of affairs:

1. It is a decent repository for bare facts that can be easily verified elsewhere, but assembled there in convenient form. E.g. if you need to know the population of Nepal, Wikipedia article about Nepal is a good way to go, even though multiple other sources are available.

2. It is a decent source of links for more complex material - e.g., if you want to get a quick idea about what suprematism is, without knowing anything about it, and how to start researching the topic, you can use Wikipedia article, extract such keywords as "visual art", "Malevich", "russian avant-garde", etc. and take it from there if you're interested.

3. It is a somewhat useful, but a dangerous source about any concepts that are in any way controversial - you should verify all claims and read all links, but you can use it as an assembly of links and keywords, without assigning too much importance to any narrative.

4. It is absolutely useless for understanding any seriously controversial topic, as at best controversial articles would selectively present facts, reflecting biases of the writers, at worst - explicitly promote specific approach to the topic, which will be ruthlessly enforced by either the mob of opinionated editors or the wiki bureaucracy masterfully exploited by biased insiders.

To the defense of Wikipedia, some mainstream encyclopedic sources, especially ones published in non-free countries, suffer from even worse bias problems. I don't think there's a solution for this, except using one's own mind and take everything told to you with a grain of salt and check it when possible.
Obviously, the topic described in the article falls into the third or fourth category, and so expecting Wikipedia to have anything but bare facts (like dates when it happened, names of the participants, etc.) right would be a bet, and not a safe one. In most cases it'd be whatever the random Wikipedia "guardian" or anonymous mob of agenda-bearers wants it to be. Sometimes the experts make the fuss that hits some popular media and particular article gets better, but most would give up and decide not to waste their time.
They might be able to attack by doing something that takes more computation on the DNS servers part than a simple query. Still, DNS scales vary well for example Google's DNS servers Average 800,000 queries per second so I would not be surprised if they was ridiculous overkill at the root servers.

PS: I suspect this is most likely just someones random trolling of the internet.
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Trying to decide whether I'd trade in HDTV and digital media for a robot butler.

He seems to have had some oddly contradictory ideas about the pace of technology.
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There are situations in which I might want less textual detail, but they are never indicated by browser window size. Indeed, my iPhone, which has the smallest "window size", provides an excellent experience for reading large amounts of text (especially due to the Retina Display).
Yeah, it's a very interesting idea, but I don't want half the article if I'm browsing on a mobile device.

Besides, I thought the point of responsiveness was to REARRANGE data, not completely eliminate it. styling, yeah, go ahead and get rid of elements and color bars and what have you, shrink pictures, but please don't throw away words!
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Many of us live in primarily English speaking countries and this is the culture we're most familiar with. Without consciously thinking about it the products and value we create are generally aimed toward our crowd: people we run into every day at the office, on the street, on the English internet.

I think English is becoming less important as we approach a more global web; we want to participate in intimate global interactions, interactions of value. Methods of communicating beyond dictionary meanings, like with emotion and connotation, are key to a global humanity. We all know what a smiley is, and we all know what words like "positive" feel like. Combine that with Google Translate (which is pretty good for explicit translation) -- and then we have a usable global web.

What are some cool projects tackling these problems?
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I certainly wouldn't criticize anyone directly facing down a violent authoritarian regime. If, on the other hand, you're marketing to those people from the relative safety of a western computer keyboard...
This is truly relevant to all who strive for greatness.
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His point is that if he was doing it right, he would have announced it and launched it at the same time. He blew his biggest moment to capitalize on this idea. \
I used to agree with this, but my mind changed after seeing Brent Victor's presentation[1] on how code and result can be integrated. Even Smalltalk's ambient can't compare (which is understandable, as it is much older).

[1] http://vimeo.com/36579366
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So your argument is "there must be some deep conspiracy which I cannot explain yet I will suggest with ominous tones, so let's do nothing." Classic muddying the waters.
Unless you're from Bhutan, you're already facing down a violent authoritarian regime. It's all just a question of degrees. People in Iran may well look to North Korea and be thankful that at least they don't have it that bad.

Those of us behind the "relative safety of a western computer keyboard" may have more of an obligation to act than those under more strenuous restrictions. At least in our case we likely won't be hanged from a crane, as you say. Or at least our governments will have the good courtesy to have us shipped off to a friendly tinpot dictatorship first so we can be spared the humiliation of having such a thing done at home.

I don't think marketing really comes into it, all the circumvention tool vendors are quite direct and honest with the current state of their efforts and the extent upon which they can be relied. Also, they're not commercial efforts, and the creators stand to make no real direct economic gains from their adoption.
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That's probably the first time I see ASCII art encoded as PNG images.
Your problems with the exceptions is a problem with Java. As far as the libraries, Clojure can use any Java library natively.

Setting aside all that, how can you say it's a great language if in your experience it doesn't run reliably, has an immature library and troubleshooting is nearly impossible?
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WebkitGTK 1.6.3 on Linux. It's deep within a size recalculation callback, so my guess is that scrollbars appearing/disappearing cause a "feedback" loop where there is no stable size to choose for the given window size.
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What are the risks for each situation?

Users are hopeless at creating secure passwords. They are especially hopeless at creating secure passwords if you suddenly present them with a password creation screen.

Adding complexity generation does not help. If anything, it makes things worse. People use stupid weak passwords, often re-using them across different websites. They'll do simple substitutions of digits for vowels, or they'll use one word with a couple of digits stuck on the end.

Complexity validation gives a false sense of security.
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"Always been possible on desktop PCs"

Well, yes, but unlike on your iPhone you could actively do something against it. E.g. let outlook encrypt your address book, change the addressbook access permissions etc.
it was trivial to bar anyone/thing from accessing your address book without having to remove the software you want to use.

On the iphone, you can only chose to install an app or not, if you chose to install, you have to accept anything that comes with it.
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