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That sounds like an argument for better ad blocking, not an argument for less rich web APIs. Avoiding new web APIs because ads might use them seems like avoiding new OS APIs because malware might use them; better not to run the ads/malware in the first place.
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I guess it's not (yet) integrated with the Starbucks POS backend. ;)
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"Marijuana has been decriminalized in California since 2010."

Specifically, the possession of less than 1 oz of marijuana has been decriminalized. Possession of a larger quantity, or sale or intent to distribute, has not been.

"The proposition to legalize the drug failed to pass."

Prop 19 was not a full legalization; it was more like a major decriminalization. Possession of up to 1 oz would have been legalized, but many of the "gotcha" side-penalties (employers retain rights to drug screen and consider cannabis in the system a firable offense; legal penalties for possession above 1 oz; etc.) would have remained in place. I think it's fair to say that, had it passed, Prop 19 would have been a really big step toward legalization. But let's not split hairs.

"There was no such "cracking down" in Amsterdam."

Not only has the sale of marijuana to tourists been outlawed, but "coffee shops" are being forced to reorganize as membership-only clubs, with caps on membership at around 1,000-1,500 per shop. There is also a growing movement, with vocal sponsors in the Dutch parliament, to ban "coffee shops" altogether.

"And I would hardly call what happened in the Netherlands "cracking down."

Again, hair spliting over semantics here. The fact is that the Netherlands is moving in a more conservative direction w/r/t marijuana policy. However you want to define "cracking down," the present directionality is from X to Y, where X is a more liberal policy, and Y is a more restrictive policy.

I see your point that policy in the Netherlands is not necessarily germane to policy in the US. I think that's a fair one.
Yes, but the absolutely most qualified person for a whole bunch of things is disproportionately often white and male. And even if we as a society wake up tomorrow magically not racist or sexist at all, that will be the case for the foreseeable future simply because white men have disproportionate amounts of money and connections.

Hiring through AA is _intentionally_ suboptimal. The whole point is to give members of disadvantaged communities access to opportunities they are less qualified for in the hope that they, and by extensions their communities, will over time become _less_ _disadvantaged_.

There are more important things in this universe than efficiency.
I could see this being useful for LEOs and guys clearing caves and bunkers... In situations like those, being able to look around a corner without exposing yourself to hostile fire is a great advantage.

In the case of firefighting, it would be a lot less useful. We're not worried about poking our head around a corner. No one is shooting at us. How is this better than looking around the corner myself with a thermal imaging camera?

In many ways it's worse... Modern TICs have lots of useful features like giving you the temperature at a certain point on the screen. Using a TIC is also more complicated than simply looking at the picture. A single static image doesn't do me much good. I want to see how the heat is moving through the room, looking for signs of impending flashover, etc. The heat signature of a victim lying on the floor can be surprisingly difficult to distinguish from something like a smoldering blanket if you don't have a dynamic image to look at for a couple seconds.

The one use I do see for this is hinted at in the video (where it warns the operator of the carbon monoxide level). This _could_ be useful in HazMat situations (pack the thing with sensors for various hazardous materials). However... if you're close enough to throw the thing into a suspect HazMat condition, you're close enough that you need to be wearing the appropriate personal protective equipment... so why not use the handheld sensor you already have, instead of buying this (presumably) expensive remote sensor?
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So a state promoting their own monitored search engines by rendering a competitor unusable is a good thing?
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This reminds me of the tiny (4mm) cameras in Vernor Vinge's The Peace War. Excerpt: "The picture jerked every few seconds, as if the camera were held by a drunkard" ...

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See: http://www.hamilton.edu/documents/An-Analysis-of-the-Accurac...
If everyone only submits the original article to HN, all discussion is consolidated into one thread. If ten people each submit a different republication of the same article, discussion is fragmented. It's not a value judgment, it just makes using the site easier.
I think the point is that if there were only two teams in the league it also wouldn't work in sports.
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If we could get enough bits to work with quantum entanglement then sure. But regardless to get information out of a quantum entanglement you have to send a basis of measurement before you can decode the data so you are still bound by the speed of light.
Wow 6 replies here and nobody has specifically called out latency.

I have a verizon LTE device that I tether with from time to time, and the ping times I get to my home server are insane, usually around 20ms. When I tether on my HSPA galaxy nexus, ping times are usually around 100+ms.

Now this could be verizon vs t-mobile and not LTE vs HSPA (or some mix). Verizon is the only/main LTE-supporting provider right now, so LTE and Verizon are conflated in my mind, for better or for worse.
shantanubala did a good job talking about some of your points, so I don't have any thing particular to add. However, the fact that you see something wrong with providing help in finding employment for native people speaks volumes about how you feel about native peoples with regard to how they interact in US society. You call decisions that include race as a factor as discrimination, but that ignores the long legacy and reality of discriminatory policies and social norms in the US as they relate to people of color.

> I'm beginning to think race discussions are becoming the new religious discussions. People are incapable of discussing it without moralizing, preaching, or talking down.

That you yourself took a position to defend normative ideas that actively perpetuate real, actual violence and harm is a sign you yourself, whether you realize it or not, have taken a position of talking down and over the actual experiences of people of color. The reason why people take race discussion seriously is because for people of color these things are not just discussions, but the real existence they face every single day.
This all sounds great! I hope you'll be able to offer fine-grained sizes (e.g. something in between S and M) and fits (e.g. something in between normal and slim-fit) and maybe even different colar widths and neckline sizes.
but it is about the DE. when GTK was transitioned to the GNOME foundation the Gimp folks essentially let them take it in any direction that benefits the GNOME community. GTK is standalone only in that it has bits that others can use, but it doesn't exist so others can use it. Should they be aware of other who might want to use it, yes. Should they make design decision that hurt their primary purpose so that GTK can be more useful to others ? That's a good question , I tend to side on no.
Even serious paedophiles do have the right to political speech though. The problem is that online identity covers both.
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It's great to see the interest in made-in-the-USA physical products. I work for a small family-owned US manufacturer. We make neoprene medical and athletic devices, with a focus on custom, and we've been around for 30 years with steady growth. We definitely serve a niche. As some have already pointed out, that is likely where upstart US manufacturers will have success. I believe there are markets for people doing one thing really well and building a reputation in that space.
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That is pretty much why, I'd expect. Though Mozilla apparently have plans to integrate it in Firefox, at which point you could probably start using it in HTML5 apps in the wild!
Good that this came in just when I was playing with the Fullscreen API. It is the Firefox's implementation of this that's bothering me.

Figured out that we have to put up with a hack to avoid the default "background:black" that Firefox applies to the element being pulled to full_screen mode. But what is worse is that Firefox kills y-scrolling completely for pages longer than screen-height.

In effect one can't have full_page rendering (like on iPad or in normal state of browsers) of the website in full_screen mode of Firefox. That's seriously crippling.

How do we tackle this? Is there any enlightened soul who got this done already? Or I am hitting the wall, right now?
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I think because some class of people wonder if a $5 app would better perform. I think it's hard for 53 to succeed that way however, because you have a finite number of users.

By making features an in-app purchase, they effectively monetize users going from version 1 to version 2, and so on. If you used the up-front payment model, new versions of the app would have to be a different app to continually monetize it, which would have a number of it's own problems.
Nope, this is pretty substantial evidence that they never attempted to hide the court-mandated statement (again, not an apology).

The website is now identical to apple.com in that it also shows the iPad image in conjunction with the iPad mini image. Some other European websites also switched over, like apple.it. The iPad image is apparently not vertically responsive, while the iPad mini image is.

This should bury this stupid story. Apparently there are enough conspiracy nuts out there. Why do people believe crazy stuff like that?
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Instead we discriminate against the poor white guy from the ghetto growing up with a single mom? Brilliant. That guy had none of the supposed white male advantages. Hire/accept people based on their merits. If you want to take into account overcoming adversity that's fine with me. But picking someone based on the color of their skin, be it white, black, or other, is wrong, and it's racist.
I'm not really sure how affirmative would be a passive policy vs. a reactive one, would you be able to elaborate on that?

Also, use of the legal system to remedy institutional and societal problems has really only been effective to introduce marginal change in the face of existing problems, so its not an overall solution to the problem, just a small part.

> I do agree with him though, you don't repay racisms of the past and present with more racism in the opposite direction.

This would of course assume that it is possible to be institutionally racist against the predominant white culture in the US, which is not possible. In that sense, a policy such as affirmative action is not racist and instead is a policy that combats racism.
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They make casual wear as well. See http://www.holdenouterwear.com/store/mens/shop-by-category/t...

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Plus Everlane still produces in low cost countries...
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Video games, more specifically, 3D video games.

You could query the API, if they've got <50% battery left, adjust the draw distance to decrease rendering for longer play.

It's very niche, but along with video games, i'm sure some novel hacker will find a use for it!
It makes sense in combination with the fullscreen API for example, which hides the native indicator.
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There's no way I'm going to trust a single ball thrown into a room to give me a complete picture of where any victims might be...

In a residential setting (where the _vast_ majority of fire related injury and deaths occur, both civilian and firefighter), rooms are small enough that searching them isn't likely to be any slower than tossing the ball in and evaluating the image. Additionally, victims (especially children) like to hide (under beds, in closets, etc). I suspect this camera would have a tough time spotting them

A single static image of a room isn't going to terribly useful. Assuming you're using infrared sensors (if you're not, it's entirely useless), it can be surprisingly difficult to distinguish the heat signature of a victim from other objects in the room if you don't have a dynamic image you can look at for a few seconds.
That's pretty much what I was trying to say with, "What is the point of even asking a question that you're sure you already know the answer to?"

I guess you were trying for a rhetorical question, but I think that requires either:

1. The answer to be obvious to everybody, both asker and audience. E.g. "Do we really want to destroy all life?"

2. The question to be a lead-in to a discussion or argument. E.g. "Is it better to have more blue cars available for consumers to buy? I think so, and here's why."

You didn't do #2, so it looked like #1, but in context that's horribly dismissive.
The title should be "There are plenty of reasons not to use encryption, but here's something that kinda works."
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antr, the first pledge level is for a single polo. Granted, it is a bit more expensive than we'll sell via fromholden.com in the future, but we need to cover initial costs; we hope the bring all prices down in the long run. That said, if you'd like some other package put together, I'd be more than happy to accomodate!
As an American, this:

> there are currently ten parties represented in parliament, four to six of which are major contenders.

makes me insane with jealousy. What is it that enables this number of parties to remain viable? My first guess would be that the voting system is not first-past-the-post, but I can't find that info after a cursory Wikipedia search.
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I achieved a 56mbps lte download on AT&T in Houston. Average has ranged from 10-30 though
Small addition: PvdA (one of the two parties in the new government) is the labor party. The 'socialist party' spoken of in the article is the SP, which still did well in the polls when the article was written, fell out of favor.
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Is there a privacy vulnerability with prefetching?
I can imagine timing it and making inferences about whether it's been cached and therefore previously visited.
> Probably something new would have to be invented as there is no mechanism to send messages to the browser in plain html.

Web components. At least their usage is plain HTML and could do what you want internally with the JS API.
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> Racism only requires using race as a classification upon which you base your actions.

This completely flies in the face of the history of racism and racism systems in the US. The most raw and visceral forms of slavery and de-facto slavery in the US are most certainly based on power imbalance. Being disproportionately affected by laws and economic policy drafted by mostly white political bodies is a power imbalance. Direct, physical actions by police forces and governments against communities of color is a power imbalance. All of these things are institutional problems regarding race the US faces today and all come back to fundamental power imbalance.

> And you can act to counteract an institutional imbalance caused by racism without furthering racism.

Absolutely true, and policies such as affirmative action do not further racism but rather attempt to fix a small aspect of it.

> Focus on something else.

This is a total derailment. Institutional oppressions are highly linked to racism, to ignore it is to dismiss the criticisms and voices of people of color point this power imbalance out.
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Is Tomboy still a C# bridgehead or has it been rewritten?
Kubelka-Munk is fantastic for modeling the behavior of real world pigments as they're applied in thin layers on a canvas. However, since we were not trying to simulate the act of using physical watercolor, oil paints, etc., it was not only overkill but actually produced unintuitive results.

Our problem is more abstract. We want to appeal to the user's notions of how pigments blend together, but in such a way that the operation is predictable and can be hand tuned to avoid unpleasant cases. Ultimately, the mixing behavior that we released is inspired by the physical world, but is tuned by our designers to produce what they consider pleasing results.
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Because outside of the US, '3G' typically includes HSPA+ (and usually means anything shy of LTE). It's only in the US that carriers have started making the '4G' claim about HSPA+.
Who is the CEO? I thought Tikhon was, but he is gone from the team page https://parse.com/about/team
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Because games are not appearing in the list, and when I open "Check compatibiltiy", the games are here but with [UNKNOWN SUPPORT] labels ... :(
Couldn't you just store your config files in Dropbox and make symlinks? For example, my .vimrc is a symlink to Dropbox/.vimrc
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> Hey, author here. I'm going to transgress my no-HN rule this one time because I did in fact look at HN Pickup very closely and I already have a follow-up post planned in which I was going to mention

I would have thought by posting you would have already broken that rule:)
I wonder what the final prices will be, because $30 for a polo is not a 90% reduction in price. Having said that, I would not buy a polo for over 25 dollars, and would try and get a discounted american apparel polo, or even a thrift store. Best of luck to him though, looks like he has almost already met his goal on his kickstarer campaign.
As someone who is red-green colorblind, I cannot tell the difference between the middle and right circles when I mouseover them. And the leftmost circle is green to me (I have a feeling that it should be red)
Fair, although I am not sure that the author was suggesting that this is all about personal karma. Rather, he seemed to be focusing on the best way to get one's content to the front of the page, in order to maximize exposure to readers.

There may be any number of reasons someone would want to do this, karma accumulation being only one of them. Product launches, Kickstarter campaigns, advice being sought or offered, etc., are equally valid and perhaps more likely motives.

Furthermore, I don't think it's fair to infer that the author advocates "gaming the system," or at least not the exclusion of writing good content. Rather, I inferred that he took writing good content as a given, and focused on the oft-pondered problem of how to break out that good content in a crowded news market.

All of that being said, your point #1 is extremely important. People should focus on quality first. It may be possible to game some spammy content to the top of the pile. Eventually, though, this strategy will do the poster more harm than good, whatever his intentions may be.
Remember, outside of the US LTE is essentially a non-feature, so there are lots of people who don't actually care. Then there are the people who could use LTE, but find their current network fast enough.

I live in a place with no LTE, but honestly if it were to degrade battery life I'd rather live without it: faster network is always nice, but the current one is fast enough.
The "virality" of an app is so important and yet overlooked by many first time consumer app creators. Even if you make an absolutely beautiful app, chances are most people won't share from it if you don't focus on that 100%. I am literally redoing flows in my app to get this done now.

I think DrawChat is a beautiful example of how all the flows in the app are focused on getting you to share the content, and close the user feedback loop.
LTE is seriously fast, seriously low latency and makes the experience of using the internet (which is pretty much everything a phone does) much better. A slow connection is frustrating, a high latency connection makes me just not bother, but try LTE and you'll see what all the fuss is about.

Use case is everything you currently do, but faster.
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I wouldn't assume that — a Cocoa application process is an insane amount of overhead for a simple arithmetic expression evaluator, so who'd bother using it? Assuming Spotlight uses the same underlying evaluator, it's a safe bet that it's implemented as a library shared between the Spotlight search UI and the app. To be even more specific, on 10.8 at least, both Calculator.app and Search.bundle link to a private framework called Calculate, which may be relevant.
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Yep. Founders, to save yourself potential headaches in the future, do a USPTO trademark search before settling on a name:

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A lot of people don't believe that Americans of today should be liable for the actions of Americans then.

It seems like there's two lines of discussion around this topic. One, as you've pointed out, is whether people should be liable for the actions of past Americans (ie, whether something like affirmative action should exist in the first place). The second is whether affirmative action is the best way to remedy the mistakes of the past. It seems (to me) like a lot of people disagree more on the second point.
great article Tom! I definitely agree. Thxs!
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