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You missed my point, sentience is a human concept, what happens when robots have indistinguishable sentient properties?

It's a messy philosophical argument, what about the vegetables they feel pain too! http://www.vegetablecruelty.com
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Then why would you need a party in the first place?
Yes, right now we are targeting Japanese learning English as we have experience in that market. If we are able to achieve product/market fit we definitely want to expand to other languages and countries. We are still working on fully localizing the app. Thanks for checking it out!
I find the "motivation to vote" problem a really interesting one from an economics perspective. The marginal effect of one vote in a federal election is statistically indistinguishable from zero. How do you motivate rational agents to undertake an action with nonzero costs for zero marginal benefit?

In real life, the reasons for voting are soft and squishy, and millions of people vote, so this problem does not immediately seem serious. But I wonder, if you imagine a hypothetical system where every person acted purely rationally, how could you create a political system where voting made sense on a personal level, rather than out of some nebulous sense of civic duty?

The most obvious answer is to make voting compulsory as Australia does. I wonder if there are any other solutions?
For what it's worth, this is quite a vulnerability in the internet's routing system. It's also the reason Youtube went offline after Pakistan was deliberately announcing the wrong routes a few years ago because it didn't agree with some videos being broadcasted by Youtube.

http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/industry-deve...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9878655-7.html
I do it because I don't like to leave my mind idle for too long, I find it best to keep the cogs spinning.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've considered doing a guest registration, but then decided to just put some sample questions on the front page that users can try out. Seems like we should possibly try out a guest registration.

Yes, if we can find some success in this market we plan to expand to other markets and languages.
This really only matters for pages designed to look "native", in which case as long as you don't have a tap area smaller than about 44x44 pixels (like Apple has always recommended) then you shouldn't really have a problem at all.

If it's a normal site then this shouldn't matter one bit because most people will be zooming into your pages anyway, unless you've disabled that (which you really shouldn't.)
The corollary is that even "wasted" votes (eg. for no-hoper third party candidates) matter. Mainstream politicians take those into account and adjust their policies accordingly. They do this because those votes for third parties dilute their own voting base, and they want to avoid splitting off even fractions of their own constituency.

Examples from the UK:

- The Conservatives are desperate to take on policies from UKIP and even the BNP, even though those two parties have no chance of gaining real power.

- The Green party has 1 MP and next to no chance everywhere else, but they have (or had, until the recession) a huge influence on politics.
If it was a duty, then voting would be compulsory (as it is here in Australia).

Edit: obligatory-link-to-blogger-I-host -- http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/11/06/the-dynamics-of-divis...
No, you're right, the version shown is the second processor edition.

The pick of the bunch is probably the Master 128 edition, as it sports colour AND double buffering, though it won't be as fast as the second processor edition on account of the missing processor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbhsXIL8a8

(I don't think there's a Master 128 second processor edition, sadly, but if there actually is, that one would be even better.)
I have experienced the same. There are two ways to look at it -

1. You had fun (which was your goal) and probably you learned something new which you can use in some other more serious projects. So, relax and let it be incomplete. If possible, release it as open source so that someone else can work on it.

2. Find motivation in the fact that by completing it you can make something that may be useful to someone else. You can also look it as an opportunity to practice some self-discipline of completing things you take charge of. It is hard to get in good habits and we should make efforts for it. After all everything isn't fun and fun isn't everything.

Personally I have done both but I want to take the second path and I am making an effort for that. I'm choosing side projects that 1) are interesting 2) will help me learn something new 3) may help me earn some bucks. For example, my current side project is a wordpress theme for building personal website/portfolios targeted for hacker/designers. It is fun and I can use it for my own site. It allows me to learn something new - wordpress theme development/underscores and practice design. It may help me earn some bucks. I will post about it on HN in couple of days once I complete the boring bit - documentation.
The point, if I understand correctly, is that WP is libre and nominally gratis, but it has become so complicated (and resource-heavy) since its conception as a blogging platform that it often costs real money to get it up and running satisfactorily. And there is a certain truth to that; it has, to an extent, become consultantware at industry scale, and often forces even "lightweight" personal sites onto more expensive hosting plans due to file loads, database hits and memory usage. There are "standard" plugins that can help a lot, but that's pretty much opaque to the typical non-technical end user, and it takes more than a passing knowledge of, say, HTML+CSS to style/theme a WP site. Free themes, which a user will often turn to after giving up on the idea of learning to write their own theme are often multiply base64-encoded (and just as often are ad-plagued and/or malware-harboring), and after being bitten once or twice, people resort to paying for themes or to have themes created for them. Not much, perhaps, but more than the "free" (gratis) software they thought they were buying into.
And nothing will change. At least not until someone does this with malicious intent - script kiddie A knocks out big site, or a censoring state decides that it should block a free speech site from the entire Internet.
Please take a moment before you vote to figure out what your long term interests are. Consider that the Supreme Court will probably get a new member or two in the next four years; they are appointed by the President. The President does not introduce laws, but he runs the department that interprets and enforces them.
The pricing page helped me make some sense of things, but I still don't have a good idea of what I get by subscribing to the service, which is probably the big thing that might deter me from digging deeper into the site, signing up, etc.

I agree with the reply above, in that I felt a little lost by the practice questions being the majority of the front page experience; the video might help, but collapsing things down so I can quickly get an idea of what the 'speaking' 'vocab', 'writing' and testing services are about might help me make more sense of the site, faster.

I'll come find you tomorrow at the meetup, in any case :)
Couldn't a rogue government easily take down the internet this way? Seems like if one guy in Indonesia can take out Google by accident, a government entity could do the same.
The language market has huge opportunities still to be found - I pay for a private language teacher because I like the custom attention, and I'd pay for a service that could enhance genuine learning. Good luck!
The counterpoint to this message was shared by a friend of mine on Facebook (he is a high-tech company manager) right after it was published. "Your Vote Doesn't Count:
Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day"

http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count

didn't convince me (I'll be voting today), but both the mathematics and the political science in this article are interesting for rationales for NOT voting.

Vote or not as you wish. As Winston Churchill said, "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

AFTER EDIT: Today's news includes an analysis of why voter turnout in the United States is only around 60 percent of persons eligible to be voters,

http://news.yahoo.com/why-40-americans-wont-vote-president-2...

a lower percentage than in some other democratic republics.

Thanks for the first comment received below this one, which points out that local elections can matter for voters as well as the presidential election. I have some very close races to vote in today in the state Legislature and on proposed amendments to the state constitution.
Anyone who hasn't seen it should read Peter Norvig's Election FAQ, particularly the section "Is it rational to vote?" [1]

Short version: "Yes. Voting for president is one of the most cost-effective actions any patriotic American can take."

Slightly longer version: "The value of not voting is that you save an hour of your time. The value of voting is the probability that your vote will decide the election (1 in 10 million if you live in a swing state) times the cost difference (potentially $6 trillion). That means the expected value of your vote is $600,000."

[1] http://norvig.com/election-faq-2012.html#rational
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Nice implementation. Much more useful than my phonetic plugin (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phonetic+hacker+news) at least :D
The reasons why people do not vote are many.

They do not include "I was unaware this was election day".
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It's still worse than ODT (which itself isn't exactly pretty), for no good reason. That's sad.
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't clear: I'm pursuing openness because I believe in openness, not because I'm based in the US. I am glad to learn about this potential legal ramification, however.
More specifically vote for Obama. For the love of America don't let the Republicans screw us all. Us international hners literally do not understand how the idiocy that is the Republican party continues to exist - we literally cannot understand it.

1 global financial crisis. 2 disastrous wars. 1 ruined economy.

Don't screw it up a second time.
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Evil routing has been employed a whole bunch of times going back decades, most visibly a couple of years ago when IIRC Iran (?) started advertising bad routes for a bunch of big sites, including Google
I don't think so. It doesn't support non-Webkit browsers, while jQM / SensaTouch and their friends do.
The moment people realize that the rogue network was being malicious, they'd stop trusting it - ignoring all announcements it might make. It might take a few hours for order to be restored, though.
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I'd definitely ask that question of some of your target audience; whether they'd prefer English or localized explanations, etc. If they're targeting TOEIC, or have passed it, I think it's okay to have some faith in them.

Of course, training wheels don't always hurt, either. :)
Why (almost) everyone should stay home on Election Day

The problem with that reasoning is that you're not just voting for the next president, but usually on a local ballot as well which is OFTEN very close. Government really is a local thing, although we often miss that, so I think every election is an important one.
Please understand that:

* I'm not a design guru

* I'm not your average user

* I'm not a Ruby person and won't be coming anyway.

* These were my first impressions. And second.

In short, don't rely on just my feedback, but I do think you need to re-visit the design. And thanks for the fast response, makes me feel valued. Appreciate that today.
If your controls are big enough that they look normal on an 7.9" iPad but not on a 9.7" inch iPad, they are probably too large.
It would be nice if someone can make a HN Poll - "Why you do side projects?"
“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)
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This is much better reason to hire a person than 10 resumes.)
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I have suggested a one-in-a-million chance to win one million dollars. Voters would receive a voting stub that was also a sweepstakes entry. Just take the number of voters, divide by a million, round up, and award that many $1 million prizes.

The cost of running an election is perhaps in the $2/voter range, so this would increase costs by 50%. Publicizing the names of the winners - "Bob Smith won $1 million - for voting!" - would go a long way toward increasing voter turnout, I expect.
For those of you that aren't aware of the "Erlang innards" meme of HN, check out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
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"Us international hners literally do not understand how the idiocy that is the Republican party continues to exist - we literally cannot understand it."

It's a grave mistake to think that all non-US persons believe that Obama would be the best president, or that the Republican party is an aberration.
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That's the point of CSS and media queries - to separate the style from the content. But in case you didn't read the article, you cannot in fact get the ppi value from the current version of Safari that is bundled with the iMac mini.
Not the first time, see here;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/china_bgp_interweb_s...
> When I figured out the problem, I contacted a colleague at Moratel to let him know what was going on. He was able to fix the problem...

I wonder how he contacted his colleague. In this case, I presume that routing to other networks were unaffected. But in the general case, with a future of everything over IP, what will network engineers use to communicate about faults?
There is plenty of value for people who can do both. Or at least most of one and a good amount of the other.

I have become a generalist at a company that definitely has distinct frontend and backend teams. I started as backend dev but started doing frontend work too. I have found myself in great demand due to my unique role at the company.

Since I know a lot about the entire tech stack, I can act as a routing agent for product managers and other non-developers. They ask me questions, and I can give them a pretty good answer. If they need something done, I can refer them to the specialist who wrote the code that needs changed.

When I am coding small tasks, I can write both sides of an API much faster than it would take two devs to negotiate the requirements. Communication is a time sink. Rather than writing emails or tasks requests, I can just write code and be done. There is a threshold though where it is better to split the work. There is only so much I can hold in my head at once. But even then, I find I am better at communicating because I know how both sides work.

Does the project have a nasty bug that needs tracking down? The generalist can lead an investigation the whole stack, asking specialists when needed. Last week I solved what our CTO referred to as "the ninja bug" that had plagued another team for months. The root problem was on the frontend (ios client), and I pushed an instant fix by updating our server code to compensate.

Lastly, some companies have skunkworks projects with very small teams. Being able to own both sides of a task means fewer people required to do it. I have become the goto guy for whipping up prototypes. I typically work directly with our CEO to create a proof of concept as fast and cheap as possible. When things look promising, we bring on more specialized devs and I lead the project.

You may not want to be exactly 50/50, but definitely be aware of how the other side lives. And dont be afraid to ask for a role change to broaden your skill set!
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Idiots are universal no doubt. Internationally, however, Obama is overwhelming preferred along with the Democratic party: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/us-election-interna...
Confluence might have been hit with an attack of hyperbole, but a recent BBC poll[1] somewhat corroborates his assertion: An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687
Microsoft's approach is "embrace, extend and extinguish", spread your FUD right.
Actually that's not right. Your rights are given by your duties. I don't think democracy is the best political solution, but it's practically the best we can hope for. But as far as we live in one, we must expose our opinion and vote. It's the only thing left. When you vote you are part of the society, you cast your decision with your co-citizens.

PS: I'm italian, we lost our faith in democracy a lot ago.
You are missing the point. It's not about UA detection, it's about feature detection.
I don't understand how the word "simple" can go together with "html, css, js"
In my experience, both firing someone and being fired are fraught exercises, and can generate a lot of heat on both sides of the relationship. I'm not going to leave Balanced just because they're clumsy at HR. If you think there are structural issues with regard to fraud prevention, that's a much more serious charge, and would need to be substantially substantiated, probably in a new thread.
I guess it's not a matter of unanimity.

Fact is, would voters be European people, Obama would easily win.[1]

[1] http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/01/if-europeans-could-vote-...
That article seems to grossly ridicule the motives of voters. Voters don't have to be either vanity freaks who think their vote will change the outcome or deluded armchair altruists. What if people simply vote because not only most others do, but because they want to weigh in their modest (even ill-informed) opinion. History shows it's the best way to figure out who should run an office.
When I ran into this problem, I ended up switching over to using the "datejs" library, located here "http://code.google.com/p/datejs/downloads/list. Date.js seems to handle Daylight Savings Time just fine; I don't know if it deals with Leap Seconds.
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"Duty" can refer to a moral obligation which I'm pretty sure is the sense DBM referred to.
To allow folks to read legible text. To ensure that elements aren't that small you tap on the wrong thing. To provide a reasonable user experience to your audience.

How exactly would you resolve the problem?
I wonder how many of those people could name a single policy of either party nevermind demonstrating that their choice is at all informed by anything other than what each person looks like or which pop stars support them.
Heh, supposing the politician isn't re-elected, do you think the reason for it is even knowable? There could be 50 other single-issue voters who voted them out for various different reasons, or a variety of other possibilities.
Your lack of understanding suggests inadequate sources of information. Similarly, an older version of yourself might have wondered how Reagan won 49 states when he was obviously a nuclear madman.

I don't think this thread will serve anyone well by devolving into a political argument.
The author (Tom Paseka) wrote near the conclusion that himself addressed the Google's issue, by contacting a Moratel's engineer. Do you have the same feeling when reading the article? It sounds weird that Google did not triggered a recovery procedure on its own.

Maybe I see bad things everywhere and you may call paranoïd, but could it be some sort of ("false") advertising on the side of cloudfare?
Got latest (production) FF here, and Music and Pong examples don't work.

Music shows Play button, which I click, it turns into Pause and then nothing happens.

Pong shows yellow/orange rectangle with what seems like a button, with its top edge striking through a (misplaced?) "Go" text. Nothing is clickable, left/right arrows have no effect.

(edit) I see it needs FF18, which I gather is a dev release. Perhaps you want to add compatible browser detection code? And complain accordingly.
That makes sense only if one of the outcomes is worth $6 trillion more than the other and you live in a swing state.
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Don't do this, any point of your test can throw this exception. A try/catch with an assert avoids false negatives and documents where you were expecting the exception to be thrown.
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Why don't you do just that, why wish for something when you have it within yourself to do it? :)
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Same could be said of most Americans.
The article isn't talking about UA detection, but rather feature detection. In particular, working out the devices ppi.
Have you been in a coma for 4 years? Have you not been keeping up?

Obama may be even worse than George Bush on civil liberties: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/...

Even the thought is terrifying.
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This is useful. I am tired of typing site:news.ycombinator.com into Google.
> Us international hners literally do not understand how the idiocy that is the Republican party continues to exist

As a fellow international HN'er who literally do understand this (and, by the way, don't recall having nominated you to speak on my behalf), let me explain this to you, very slowly:

The republican party exists because roughly half of the american population keeps voting for its candidates.
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Yeah, no.

Your vote is your submission of your mandate to be governed and your preference of who does it. Not voting is a legitimate protest, IMHO, for one that doesn't believe in representative democracy (I believe in direct democracy or demarchy) and certainly for one who would see a pox both the houses of the leading two parties.

I do vote, as a way to try to support change, but I understand and sympathise with those that don't for idealogical reasons.
You could always spice up your life, add a soupçon of adventure, a frisson of excitement by not bothering with reveiews at all. Just go out and find a place yourself. You'll end up interacting with your host city in a far more intimate way, discover something unusual and probably meet new or interesting people along the way. A far more enriching experience than following the app-wielding crowds.
[citation needed]

Of course there are people who do not know or forget that it is election day.
Hey, who said Obama would be the best president?

Most of us gosh-darned foreigners just think the alternative presented is frakking crazy.
I'm not a network engineer, but it seems like the kind of thing that might be very hard to detect when you're already inside or near to the google.com domain. Or maybe CloudFlare just got there first.

I don't think it's necessary to call BS on Cloudflare without any kind of evidence at all.