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Wide area audio broadcast over wifi
I want to find a solution to broadcast voice over WiFi for the people in a march. Since Android and IPhone is the most popular devices among the people in the march, it would be great if i can find a solution for audio broadcast over wifi with limited budget.

I know that people in occupy movement use different app on their cell, but it is not suitable in a march in my city. As the authority in my country may temporarily shutdown the data over mobile network to disable the app.

If i can develop an app to gather the broadcast message (SSID) from a powerful wifi AP with a long-length directional antenna, I should able to deliver message among the people in the march. Is it a possible solution?

Also, is it possible to modify the AP to allow any device to join the AP without further acknowledgment and broadcast message to all devices in that network?

Any idea or opinion is welcome. Many Thanks.
AIG considers suing government for bailing it out
U.S. State Dept Releases 108 Volumes of “Foreign Relations of U.S.” as eBooks
I love playing with OSes and HPUX was one of the ones I didn't get to play with (not to mention Irix and AIX).
Unless there are confounding factors also correlated with the h*geneity scale.
I was notified today that GM also came out with there API today. Seems a bit odd that they would both release the exact same feature on the same day. I wonder how similar their SDK's will be. http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/...
Right clicking on the back button will also perform this function.
It being from reason should be a heads up to watch for bias anyway. Glad it was posted, taken with grain of salt and all that.
Fuck the police, kill your television, and Like us on Facebook.
I'm not speaking about the courts: I'm talking about what we want as a society.

Do we want to allow skeevy men to follow around 12 year olds in malls with a video camera? Do we want celebrities to have virtually no expectation of privacy when they go to the grocery store? Do we want anti-abortion protestors recording people walking in public spaces, posting their pictures online, and linking them to their names? Do we want anti-Walmart organizers to be able to take pictures of people leaving Walmart and harassing them in a guilt-shaming campaign?

It's obviously a Tough Issue. But I see no reason I should be expected to give up all my expectations of privacy. Just because it's physically possible to take pictures doesn't mean you should be able to take pictures, just like being able to do SQLI on a public facing website doesn't entitle you to do SQLI on a public facing website.
Let me guess, there's zero chance that the Stop & Frisk policy will result in you or anyone you know getting arbitrarily harassed by cops? You want it to happen to them but not to you.
true, but the idea coming out of the idea finding process that you describe in your post would have been slightly more awesome.

...but only slightly, and i'm still eager to read follow-ups on this experiment!
This is a classic example of the animism fallacy.

Lightning flash, terrifying thundercrack. The Invisible Skygod is mad!

All bunkum, of course. But it fits how humans usually think about the world: that every event has agency, has some directing cause which involves intelligence.

The idea that the world we see emerged from a massive, incomprehensible complex system? Bah. Can't be. I see the lightning and hear the thundercrack.

Must be the invisible trillionaires.

Incidentally, the only thing in this article that resembles classic marketing is the title. Straight out of the copywriting handbook.
Heroku runs whatever version you say in your Gemfile. You must update your apps yourself; There is nothing Heroku can do to update your app for you.
Boil the Frog
I love that loading it on my iPhone 5 causes me to get a screen admonishing me to load it on a bigger screen to watch. So much for "Generation M".
Happiness, health and stability are not core objectives of our society. The production of wealth, as measured by GDP, or by the stock markets, or consumer spending, is our yardstick of success.

I hope that in the remainder of the century we can can transition to better forms of society where the health and happiness of the general population is more important than the efficiency of our economic structures.
Don't be embarrassed of those posts. It is what we all think about so many shitty websites every single fucking day. Although I will say that blackatlas.com has turned out better than expected.
BEING POOR IN AMERICA EARNS YOU POOR MEDICAL CARE
Yes, they are legally obligated to share their modifications with their customers. No arguments here.

> Code properly distributed as such inevitably would make it back out into the wider open source community; this is the design of the GPL

The design of the GPL is to protect the users rights to use, access and modify the software in perpetuity. There is no provision in the license that modifiers have to share modified works with the author specifically - they just have to make it accessible to the people they are distributing it to.

Being the author of a GPL work and wanting access to those changes because you are merely curious or want those changes to be merged into the original work, the unfortunate reality is that the GPL will do squat for you in that regard.
Should you switch to UglifyJS2?
Yeesh. This is my home state. The Minnesota Supreme Court, given a chance to rule on this case, would slap those deputies hard for those ridiculous and illegal arguments. (I have warrant for saying this, as I was a judicial clerk for that court a bit more than two decades ago.) It's embarrassing that the deputies over in that other county don't understand Minnesota or federal law.

The article notes, "Henderson works as a welder and does not qualify for a public defender. He is representing himself in court." It would not surprise me to find that he obtains some pro bono representation from a Minnesota lawyer for a case like this.
Databases typically don't scale horizontally with so much ease. Scaling high "write" data stores is not a trivial problem. But I feel your pain.
NYC's stop and frisk hasn't been heard in any higher court that I know of.

I don't really think they're distinct from Terry stops. Terry has two prongs: the seizure must be justified by a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity; a frisk must be justified by a reasonable suspicion that the suspect is armed and dangerous.

Now, they might not be valid Terry stops. If they frisk as a matter of course, that's not valid. It seems in the Bronx they're playing fast and loose with the "reasonable suspicion of criminal activity" prong. In a city, anyone walking down the sidewalk may be "about to commit a trespass" by walking into a private building. My argument would be that this by itself isn't a basis for a reasonable suspicion.
I'm not 100% positive on the specifics, but I've never seen it used. I suspect its not possible.

(context: I make https://circleci.com - a continuous integration company for web apps, often Rails. We occasionally get support requests that allow/ask us to look at Gemfiles, so I've seen an above average number of Gemfiles. However, I more often see the stdout of the `bundle install` command, which shows GitHub being accessed).
Why do I have to sign in with Facebook to see the page? Do you have an alternate link?
Valve is building a Linux-based Steam Box
There doesn't have to be a "compromise." The 4th amendment isn't a hard-and-fast rule. That's the whole reason for the "unreasonable" wiggle-word in the text. It should be possible to create rules that allow policing to stop gang violence and also comply with the requirements of the 4th amendment.
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It's a shame the government didn't break up these financial giants when they had the chance. Now they are powerful again and don't care what the government thinks, and they'll continue to lobby against new regulation, and repeat the same mistakes. Then the American citizens will have to bail them out again. And they know this.
"These commuters .. travel long distances together in the same direction like schools of fish"

Sounds like what they need is a train, tram or bus.
Michael Nodianos of Steubenville ‘Rape’ Video Drops Out of OSU, Citing Threats
I haven't read the whole lecture yet, but you kind of flipped my whole argument on its head. Well done.

I still think it's helpful from time to time to think a bit deeper about the details of what's actually happening below the top couple layers of abstraction, though :)
It should definitely be stored at a temperature lower than that, but I have a hard time imagining it going bad because it was outside the ideal temp window for a few days.
I don't see Kickstater or its surrogate crowdfunding tool going truly mainstream until after someone devises a legal mechanism to hold projects accountable for taking the money and running.
This really isn't news. Most jurisdictions actively don't want citizens recording cops.

This is a good point. The cops use 1st amendment loophole to film people with CC tv, though. It seems a bit ironic the "thug out" to intimidate people from filming <them>, which is generally legal on the same grounds. But I agree that this is a practice seems widespread. Almosts like legal intimidation a "best practice" taught in law enforcement circles.
I wouldn't want to work for a company that restricts access to StackOverflow, or MSDN for that matter.
I think they are right, that is where all information based media needs to head. It is a bygone concept to keep charging per unit for something infinite and have it funded by people trying to make money off the sales. Makes much more sense for people to put money into what they want and directly fund it.
Just use rhodecode as a backup and don't worry anymore
1. Plug the camera into a computer.
2. Use any of the any free undelete app available and undelete the video from the camera.
3. Profit?
I think the important difference between virtualenv and lein is not the implementation detail of whether it is a zipped file or whatever, but in how you use them.

If you run a python program with virtualenv who decides weather to use python2.5 python2.7 or python3? Is it the author of the program? No, typically it is the user of the program who decides by symlinking /usr/bin/python

If you run a clojure program "lein run" who decides weather to use clojure1.3 clojure1.4 or clojure1.5. It is the author of the clojure program who decides by specifying in the project.clj file.

What I am saying is, I really prefer what seems to be the idomatic way of running clojure programs. This is totally possible with any programming language, but other jvm languages seem want to emulate the /usr/bin/runtime strategy. For instance the idomatic way to run a groovy script is to point /usr/bin/groovy --> ~/groovy-2.0/bin/groovy

and

$>groovy myscript.groovy
Not necessarily a project but a good way to learn is using 4clojure:

http://www.4clojure.com/
"""You could also conceivably have a scale that's connected to the same network, and if you're getting a bit tubby your refrigerator might tell you to eat a salad instead of a burger."""

And you call that progress ? I already have to deal with my car screaming at me when I don't put my safety belt right away, now I cannot even eat what I want.
Will 2013 be the year copyright reformers hit back?
Oh, I am abundantly familiar with the good points of federally funded healthcare. I have never* had to deal with health insurance as a consumer, though I paid insurance claims for five years. My father and ex husband were both career military and are both military retirees. I have been a military dependent my entire life. Given the length of my marriage, as long as I don't remarry, I am entitled to free medical coverage for life.

But: I nearly died twelve years ago. I am clear my excellent medical coverage, which helped me get good dental care, helped poison me. I have spent the last twelve years getting well instead of politely dying from my genetic disorder like the world would like me to do. I used to have an extremely good friend in Canada and I am abundantly familiar with the fact that Canadians who live along the border sometimes drive to the U.S. and pay out of pocket in order to get around the sometimes months long waiting lists common in Canada, and there is a complex relationship between the American system and the funding of drug research globally. As I understand it, in general terms, the U.S. takes the brunt of the costs of new drugs and pays crazy high brand name prices for a decade to cover the sunk cost of research and then after we have covered this essential cost, it becomes a generic and is marketed globally at much more reasonable prices. So it is possible that drug research could come to a virtual standstill if the American system changed.

Furthermore, military members, military retirees, and government employees operate under a very different system from general civilians. There isn't just one American system. And military service is, from what I gather, far more common in the U.S. than in many other countries.

So as I said initially: I am conflicted. I think it is far more complex than most people realize. But having worked for an insurance company, I am inclined to believe that if the world decided "health insurance" (edit: of the "major medical" variety) was the Darth Vader of our galaxy and should be hunted down and made extinct, most likely the world would be a better place. So I return to my original question: Anyone have any thoughts on how to accomplish that in the U.S.?

Thanks for replying and have an upvote.

* Except briefly when my husband was a recruiter and we were stationed somewhere without a base, but it was still different from what civilians live with.
Silk Tricky
> Seeing all the bashing of your anti OO comment, I must leave a note of appreciation.

Thanks, much appreciated.
I have never been asked a single question at Swiss immigration (at Geneva airport), but its been 5 years since I lived there. It was just wait in the foreigner line for about 5 minutes, get through.
We use rhodecode to mirror our hg and git stuff it auto pulls stuff also.
> you will prefer to manually specify required libraries and maintain a closer understanding of control flow at all times.

Manually specifying the libraries creates the problem in the first place -- it's a very difficult problem when your dependencies have dependencies and so on. You have code that depends on resource A but doesn't use resource A on every request; how do you manage something like that manually in a huge project?

> Sure, you will have slightly longer interpreting time

If you have a large framework almost everything depends on everything else. So you end up loading and interpreting 100% of your framework on every request. Even worse, you load it all at the start of the request! If you code only uses a small fraction, lets say 20%, of the framework and only loads and interprets it on demand that will make a difference.

> While I'm all for low-hanging performance fruit, this particular approach ('autoload') costs too much and delivers too little to be generally praiseworthy, whilst harming simplcity.

I don't much care about the performance considerations but I find autoloading far simpler than manually specifying every dependency. In fact, most modern languages don't bother with that either -- going back to C/C++ from Java/C# gives the same sort of pain. I'm not sure why you think it "costs too much" given it's likely to cost less in performance and code written. Performance was not the main concern for the addition of autoloading.
$AAPL took a beating due to poor stock levels of the iPhone 5. Two months after release you need to write software and tap into an API to have a shot at buying a Nexus 4? A similar failure.
So we went from "genuinely curious" to "I'm going to debate you until you decide to feel things differently."

Like I said, where I live broadcast isn't an option without an expensive antenna. I have a cheap ($25) antenna and I get exactly one of three channels depending on how I orient it. The other options are cable without internet, which chafes badly, and satellite. The lesser evil I lived with for years was no TV at all. I prefer Hulu to nothing, but not to the other two options, and the question I was responding to above is "how can we do better than Hulu and Netflix?" not "how can I convince strangers to man-up and love shitty options?"
Well, on just about every profile I tried there was Rails, JQuery or such front and center, on both sides ("Popular repos" and "Contributed to"). I still can't make out a pattern, it looks like a fairly random mix between the repos by the user and forked repos that they never contributed anything to.

Perhaps it'd become understandable if github displayed the actual metrics that lead to the ranking (commits#, issues, etc.).

Until then these new profiles remain sourceforgesque to me...
Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear RFID Tracker Loses Lawsuit
But am I protected if I'm currently using a fixed version of Rails? (3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, or 2.3.15)
I know a woman who moved from the US to the Netherlands in part because she has severe asthma. There are periods when she cannot work for a month or three, and in the US she'd have trouble keeping her job during those, and then she'd have trouble paying for necessary healthcare. In the Netherlands paying for treatment is a non-issue.

The US economy lost a smart woman with good skills both as a programmer and a project manager because of this. Her contribution to the economy easily outweighs the cost of her health care...
What's wrong with WMP? :)
I'm an out of college CS grad that just hasn't been hired yet, but I didn't work some soul crushing service job in the meantime. I get what you are saying, though. Christmas was kind of awkward, I ended up spending more in a month than I did the rest of the year just to appease relations.

I've done freelance IT and did some community service since I graduated, but nothing making real buck. My total income in 2012 was like $6,000.
I don't think you've worked with many 'enterprise' level software products. Enterprise basically means has a salesforce willing to slog through an RFP.
Have you seen the Nokia Transit app? I don't use it, so I'm not sure. But from the last time I've played with a demo of it, it seems it might be helpful to you. I think it only runs on Windows Phone though (no website).
Maybe that's why the article starts with "A key part of ...".
perhaps there maybe a way to somehow sync-up github w/ bitbucket to act as a single master origin. so we can use either or and they'll be synchronized automatically. or some company that can just act as a mirror to github would be great.
Right. Which is why the only sane way to deal with traffic is to ramp up the tolls until the utilization falls below 90% or whatever the threshold is. I don't care if the rush hour toll on the Bay Bridge is $50. It will cost less, overall, than having thousands of people stuck in traffic for hours.
I first thought of Dr Philip Nitschke's 'Euthanasia Kit' when I read the headline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nitschke#Exit_bag_and_Co...
Some people actually buy into this kind of nonsense.

Example: http://regmedia.co.uk/2005/11/28/kpmg.mp3
(a) I am baffled by what you thought this comment could have accomplished, and (b) you clearly didn't read it all the way through, because he doesn't want it to happen to anyone, nor does he support the way it's actually being executed on the ground in NYC.
The Verge's photo / blog coverage to get a sense of how weird this is: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ce...
What exactly is this story doing on Hacker News? What possible connection does it have to the site? It just occurred to me that I've stopped asking this question lately, the site has been so swamped with political effluvia.

Flagged. We need to get better at flagging this crap off the site.
"Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals."

That's the only way in which it beats those things, in particular keyboards. In most other aspects (e.g., usability) it falls far, far short.
Concrete supporting example, deodorants: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advert...
The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power
I've forced myself to use different writing styles when trying to be anonymous. I've no clue if I succeeded, but I'm relatively sure that I wasn't as clearly myself. Every time, I've wondered what it would take to write an anonymizing tool that would strip identifying patterns from the sentences.

Of course, modifying word choice seems trivial in comparison to analyzing how a person lays out an entire paper or communicates the steps of their thought process.
I agree! Anyone who ends up using Clojure more than a little bit will figure out how to use them, I'm sure.

But rlwrap is still a very useful tool because it works with every REPL. It will always be there, for those first sessions when you start learning a new language, or when you just need to answer some question about a language you rarely use, or when you write your own interpreter and don't want to also write read-line or an Emacs inferior-foo-mode.
Correlated with thousands of redeploys for the Rails security issue?
> one could also consider that the same could probably be achieved with less lines of code, arguably looser coupling, greater re-usability and increased conceptual clarity by not writing that code within an OO model at all.

OO is all about loose coupling, greater re-usability, and conceptual clarity. That is literally the point of it all. You can fume about the abuse of OO but the exception is not the rule. It's quite unlikely that, in general, plain old procedural code is better for coupling, re-usability, or clarity unless your problems are boringly simple.
I think Niten's point is that some Tesla customer would request the GPL code and decide to make an open distribution of it, as would be their right (but not their obligation). It seems overwhelmingly likely to happen.
Same here. I'll often buy a substandard book from the "21 days" or "24 Hours" series, even with all their lack of editing and inferior writing, over other books. Why? Because the exercises they usually have help me retain more that a better book.
It's already implemented. Medicare is accepted almost nation-wide, there's no system to build. The main opposition isn't logistical, it's ideological.

With the enshrinement of private insurance as a legal mandate, this will never change. That's a padlock on the coffin of universal healthcare.
Reactionary boomers in Marin county have been slow-rolling the regional rail plan (SMART) for decades. Don't hold your breath.

If SMART ever comes into any kind of decent service it should relieve a significant demand among north bay-to-sf weekday commuters. Note, however, that SMART service to Larkspur Ferry is "planned" and "phase 2" which means probably not in my lifetime.
i hope there is a special ring of hell for these guys.
It ought to be flatly illegal to visually advertise through an in-car app. An ad is designed to engage attention; visually engaging a driver is the last thing we want on the road. It's beyond stupid.

YOU ARE PASSING A GAS STATION. PLEASE STOP AND BUY IT.

YOU ARE PASSING A SANDWICH SHOP. PLEASE SWERVE LEFT AND BUY SANDWICH.

5 POINTS IF YOU CHANGE TO THE FAR RIGHT LANE!
Stephen Hawking Joins Anti-Robot Apocalypse Think Tank
Mozilla Delays PDF.js
Did they pull this off before JRuby?
well, lot of open-source projects depend on github as source of their code distribution. github is like the new sourceforge these days.
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It's a nice break from the usual "How I funded my startup by ignoring my family" type posts.

I'm certainly interested in Stop and Frisk updates.
You can check out Outgrow.me, a marketplace I created for successfully funded Kickstarter projects. While I haven't featured every project, I'm working on it!