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Very interesting, thanks...anyone know how one might get their organization included within the ranks of the YouTube live streamers? We're using a mix of Ustream and Brightcove right now.
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The U.S. can't assume that a white male from a friendly European nation is any less likely to be a terrorist though, as that would be discriminatory against Muslims and quite a few other ethnicities.

Kind of a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't thing, I fear.
Because he'll make concessions and strategy choices which are not in line with what I want.
Hi Matthew,

So, first, it's not the mark of failure for their to only be a high or low-level version of some capability in the platform; at least not immediately. The issue arises when, having exposed one or the other, we [users|vendors|spec-authors] think the job is done.

It's like saying you've got a map of a continent having mapped either the outer shoreline or the inland lakes. It's a nonsensical thought, but it's where we tend to leave things today.

Your brought up AppCache -- which, as it happens, is a topic near and dear to my heart as I'm currently trying to engineer its low-level explanation: https://github.com/slightlyoff/NavigationController.

AppCache had relatively well-known, overwhelming deficiencies early in life...yet instead of attempting to peel the onion and explain the layers below the manifest format, the spec process rewarded piling into the clown-car of declarative configuration. It's the natural thing to do, after all.

What we're after here is _connecting_ the high and low levels. Creating a fully descriptive map that has texture, color, and major features marked and named.

We must always start somewhere, but we must also be anxious to know and describe what we can sense but can't yet explain. And that requires a sense of urgent investigation.

And THAT is what is missing today.

Regards
Exactly. The only reason that I use private messaging on Facebook is when I don't want to spam my friends. I do not use private messaging out of concern for privacy.
They have so much data they can "predict" a lot more about you.
It's precisely where we're going. I thought I had to get my ears checked when I heard Obama talking about having 100% security at the expense of privacy and convenience. A nation demanding 100% security is a police state in the simplest sense.
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Here's a cynical interpretation: Hong Kong makes zero sense given that they are a) within Chinese sphere of influence and b) frequently extradites to the US. He's go other sensitive documents he may sell to the Chinese in exchange for money and sanctuary. So maybe that was the plan all along. Everyone focuses on the NSA wire-tapping scandal (which, honestly, I think everyone assumed was happening for years), and he gets a payout and some cover.

Too cynical?
Can someone explain the importance of local times needing to be the same? Who cares if I go to work at 3, while you start at 5. Do we think it will force a creep of the work day's starting and stopping time? Some of us already stay up (or get up) to deal with other parts of the world. Is it that we need to compare our bedtimes with others?

I actually wouldn't mind this. None of our relatives live in the same area as us and anything that requires coordination (e.g., planning to video-chat), requires specifying a time zone.
And also, Manning wasn't denied a lawyer, even in his first confinement facility.

I remember this vividly because Manning's own lawyer was the one who admitted that Manning had joked about killing himself before being placed on prevention-of-suicide status...
Yeah, you are misinterpreting. See my other comment.
Low-level API design problems are usually of the form "this API is hard to use". For example, XHR. This is (a) work-around-able, as any developer who's used XHR successfully knows, (b) fixable, as witnessed by the numerous libraries that are better versions of XHR.

High-level API design problems are often of the form "there's no way to make this do what I need". That's what Yehuda's blog post about AppCache points out, and the result is either building something less good, or not building things on the web at all. That's much much worse.
Actually it would be interesting to know whether they aborted it. I guess it was "too much use of 24/60/60 format" problem.

I do though think that after we get used to SUT, our lifes will be much easier.
It says the NSA Utah data center is designed to store data on the yottabyte scale. My mouth literally dropped open when I read that.
Yep. It's good practice to disallow . files because one time you may forget you put one there.
Maybe everyone else doesn't work in the tech context, because E3 seem to be doing their own thing too. I'm pretty sure I remember Son and Nintendo streaming there though. In a more general context, Felix Baumgartner's jump, Coachella 2013, Al Jazaeera, IOC streamed the Olympics, Barack Obama used it, it just seems to be becoming the standard for live streaming.

I can see why they wouldn't, but it's a shame.
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The vast majority of CCTV in the UK is privately owned, not networked and most of it is not watched live, or ever unless something actually happens. The police often ignores CCTV because figuring out who controls which cameras and whether or not they were working, and if so how to get the footage can be too time consuming to be worth it.

So while I can't say I like the amount of CCTV here, it's a lot less sinister than portrayed.

Now, some parts of central London is very well covered by live, monitored CCTV, though.
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If it used Greenwich as 0 and there had been more users back then, it would have caught on.
Jews have lived in that region for thousands of years. It's not like there were none there and they all were bussed in.
I have a friend who argues with me regarding creativity. He believes wholeheartedly in the "muse visit", this magical time when everything lines up right with the world and creativity leaps from one's mind like Athena, fully formed and ready to go to battle. Of course, he's never created anything in his life.

People who have never done much writing or art see creativity as some sort of mystic angel, a divine power that visits on a whim. But in reality, discipline almost always comes before motivation. The great writers and artists would write early in the morning or late into the night every single day.

Creating something every day doesn't mean "create something fantastic every day". It doesn't even mean to complete something every day. But by attempting it every day, you form the routine that seems to be required to create truly great stuff.
You are right. I actually like that approach as well, but that system had at least two major drawbacks:

- being pushed like a marketing thingy for a specific company
- not resembling hours/minutes

I guess the latter point was crucial for it not being adapted. Or it was also too early (early internet time)
Uh, no to "decades without trial". And, for that matter, to "solitary confinement" as a routine, since we simply don't have that number of empty jail (not prison) cells anyways.

It's funny how you mention having a jail cell with no one to bother you as worse than a labor camp though. I think those who have survived gulags or Nazi labor camps might disagree with you on that.
I agree with you, but I'd also like to point out that, despite the ridiculous censorship and corruption in China and Russia, it's not like the DPRK where everyone is mind-controlled (exaggeration) and there's no real dissidence. I might even say that the "culture of dissidence" in Russia and China is more healthy than the typical Westerner is aware of (simple language barriers, etc), and has improved over time.

On the other hand, yes, the USA is much better right now. However, one can say that the important distinction is that, while China in particular seems to have improved over the last 20 years, the USA has gotten worse (w.r.t. freedoms). But of course, this is up for debate.
I think part of the aversion to a one government world is that it makes it impossible to vote with your feet. With the current model, if things get really bad in your country, you can always leave and find a different government.
You know, you are on to something there.

What we really have in this country is literally a "right to bear arms". You have no right to fire or wield or use your arms.

I can think of no situation where you could fire upon an agent of the government that would not end badly for you, unless there was a total dissolution of Federal and probably State government. Even acting in self defense, even against a corrupt agent of the government, I can't imagine it ending any way but badly for you. You can't shoot the government a little to make a small change. Either you completely overthrow the government, so that there is no one left to hang you, or you go to jail in the best case, and be executed lawfully or gunned down in the street in the worst case.
I'm not sure that YouTube would be the best choice due to the Google connection, but I do wish they would let people on non-Apple hardware watch. It just furthers my view of them as overly insular and disdainful of Windows/Linux users.
Not worth it. The risk from totalitarian regimes is far greater than the risk from terrorism. Governments have more resources, by far. Even if we assume that PRISM is being used completely above-the-board the potential for abuse is still large enough to warrant reconsideration.
The poor helpless Europeans, laboring under the yoke of their North American oppressors. Exactly what method is being used to relieve you of your responsibility for your own country?
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He was clearly using sense 6, meaning "forcefully"
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I was in your shoes about 6 months ago (experienced non-web developer, looking to expand my skill-set) and went with Rails. I took the Michael Hartl tutorial (highly recommend it), viewed some Railscasts and haven't looked back. I'm hoping to do a Show HN with my first side project rather shortly (I realize 6 months is a long time, but with a family and a job, I'm happy if I get 5 hours a week to work on it).

If I had to do it again, I wouldn't change my choice of technology. You can debate forever which technology is "best", but one cannot debate that the support system for learning Rails is tremendous.
Its unlikely we will ever changing our system of measuring time until we find ourselves living on other planets, at which point the standard clock will feel inadequate and require a more universal solution. In terms of earth though there simply isn't enough of a catalyst to make the change.
I don't think that many countries have anything to fear about Russia, even if they do spy on them. I think they have quite a bit to fear if US spies on them and their leaders. I'd be shocked if all that spying wasn't used to blackmail other country leaders in some way.
> [Israel has] been aggressively expanding its borders to the expense of the local Palestinian population for the past 65 years.

There are thirty times as many ‘Palestinians’ in Israel than there were 65 years a go. Meanwhile, Israel is now about half the size as it was in 1948. It’s tiny: the size of New Jersey.
That isn't the key property here - the same sort of effect would be seen if we all just agreed to settle on UTC, for instance, instead of having local timezones.

The proposal is also decimalising time: 1 day is 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds instead of 24/60/60.
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I doubt your choice of browser matters in that regard.
If I'm ignorant, feel free to enlighten me.

"Clown" was not a good choice for word, but the author's claim that Israel is comparable to 1984 is a joke and his referrals to traffic cameras etc are ridiculous. I'm not trying to discredit him personally, his own writing does that.

What particularly irks me is that he took the opportunist route of posting it in English, knowing there's always an eager audience for any hyperbole on Israel.

(Edit: I can see why my original comment was taken as ad hominem, and apologize. Also I want to thank you for your post on setting up Heroku with Flask/pgSql which helped me a few months ago. It sucks that the first time we have any interaction is this argument. Sorry.)
Major problem would be counting days. You know that 3 nights equal three days. But if day changes during your afternoon nap, that can lead to some unexpected complications. Eg the natural day would be out of sync with official day.
No worries, we're all that guy sometimes.

+1 for emoji support in HN comments. (Also ironic...mostly.)
While my wife and I donate quite a bit to charities like the Heifer Project, Oxfam, and Habitat for Humanity, we give very little money to EFF, FSF, and the ACLU.

I am rethinking that. I am starting to think that a few hundred dollars a year to the EFF, FSF, and the ACLU might be a great investment.

I used to be highly communicative with my elected Congress Critters, but for the most part, I have lost faith and now believe that most politicians care much less about us than lobbying $$.
I'm not sure why the proposal uses "simple seconds", "simple hours" etc. We didn't call them "metric inches" or "metric yards" but rather centimeters and meters. A new naming system will be important otherwise some people are going to be really peeved to learn their "8 hour work day" is a lot longer now.
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>> All those things I listed are well-documented.

So are many of the positive events powertower mentioned.

Either way, you don't even live in your own native country let alone the US, you don't have a dog in this hunt.

Oh, and if you think Spain is a good example of a decent place to live; look up those bull runs. Barbaric.
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Forgive my ignorance, but I don't have a physics or engineering background. Given it's a well understood phenomenon, is there some way of generating mathematically what the patterns will be for a given plate shape and frequency?
Why can't I use Firefox or Chrome to view this?
That mock-up screen shot looks awful!
Wondering if this actually happens when we are listening to music? ;)
We have a product coming out soon that's fully open source, self hostable (but also offered as a service), client-encrypted, and backed by Tent.
Ever since the government started doing things that I disapprove of, I also stopped enjoying the things I like.
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The Netflix prize results show that recommending movies that an individual viewer is likely to enjoy is, in certain cases, a hard problem. That doesn't say much about the difficulty of predicting a movie's aggregate popularity over a large population.
I don't think the idea was to color the US government as "evil" - but rather that the criticism that these are "exceptions" is off base.

In all but one of the examples cited, this was acknowledged, deliberate policy of the government at many levels. Extraordinary rendition, imprisonment without charge, torture, drone strikes, all were known, approved of, and carried out with the assistance of many levels of the central government.

The only example there that can be reasonably cited as an aberration of the norm is the judge taking payoffs for heavy sentences - that's an example of one piece of the machine going rogue.

Sure, the US has done good during all this time as well, but the atrocities cited are not "exceptions", they are a core part of the American government of the past decade.
That's a very good point - getting up is always relative to the daylight AND culture. That's also why messing around with summer time just makes things worse (and many countries stopped utilising it).

It's also way easier with one time format to communicate:

john: "let's meet tomorrow virtually, I'll be reachable from 4-7 SUT"
marry: "great, I stand up at 5:90 SUT, let's meet at 6:15 SUT"

It also visualises the differences between regions better and does not force people to think in local time:

Instead of getting up at 8 local time, you stand up whatever time makes sense, not locking down to the "usual 8 o'clock" rythm.
How would your browser choice affect that?
Microsoft is standardising its Web stack on the .NET equivalent of Rack : OWIN. An open specification for web applications.

Hoping to see more and more innovation in this space from the open source community (like ServiceStack, Nancy and others)
Somehow, the article is polluted with islamophobic/racist comments.

But being a foreigner living in the Netherlands, I can say that most of what is said here is true (I would put a few nuances for some points but well, everybody has a different view on things :) )
Why is that?

I don't know a lot about re-writing a code base in a different language, but I doubt the time/effort required for the re-write is the only consideration. You're not just replacing the source, you're replacing the entire development process. Tools, processes, talent, stack.
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Better use Chrome instead. I only trust Google with my personal web browsing history.
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I'm afraid I still don't understand what you're getting at.

> What we're after here is _connecting_ the high and low levels. Creating a fully descriptive map that has texture, color, and major features marked and named.

A low level AppCache API doesn't exist though. So there is no connection to happen, right? I realize people wish AppCache had been designed differently. I wish Touch Events had been designed differently. The web is littered with mistakes, I don't think a manifesto is going to prevent them from occurring.

What is the essence of this manifesto? I read it as favoring low level APIs. Ideally we could have both but there aren't the resources to make that practical.
You are right, you'd have to use a new second definition. That's why I am referring to "simple seconds" (you can debate the name...) in the article.

I guess it's easy to find another molecule/atom to relate the time to - there are many around.
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It wasn't anything new when Orwell wrote it, either. It's a failure mode of democracy.
You may not have had that feeling but you were obviously under surveillance, even before you entered.
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But it did lead to an insanely long battle that continued well after the official war was over in not one but two countries. The governments had given up fighting, but the civilians with guns kept US forces under constant attack for ten years.
> America doesn't have a school shooting problem because all human societies develop shooting problems, it has them because America specifically squeezes its youth in ways that makes them more violent.

That's actually a good point you're making against yourself, because I went to a public school from grades 4-12, and spent 5 years in state college. Not once was a gun fired. And most people will say the same.

What you listed are again exceptions...

America has 300MM people, 400MM guns, some crazy violent demographics, yet the "school shooting" incidence in the last 40 years can be counted on two hands. And from what I've heard, have been steadily decreasing.

Even if they were 10x the rate, they would still be exceptions to the rule.
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I think that the vast majority of tech companies need to seriously consider relocating outside US jurisdiction, in a similar manner to which they have already off-shored their finances.
But i mean it's curious he did this right as the Chinese PM was visiting Obama, no?
Won't using UTC globally be enough?

Converting to decimal time will render most current time-aware devices obsolete, from wrist watches to microwaves to airport terminal software.

Also, scientific calculations rely on metric time[1], and need not to deal with minutes/hours.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
That's actually only correct if you think locally - your night does not actually match with your neighbour's timezone night.

but yes, it means some people will sleep during "day" while some will sleep during "night". It may be appropriate to think about their definitions when using SUT as time base.
Right. Much worse to have identity cards (e.g. SS card) than to actually, you know, massively spy on all your citizens and anyone else you can.
The exact same comment could be a response to a description of China. The US should hold itself to a higher standard than one where comparisons are with China.
This article was doomed the moment it was conceived. You cannot recreate art or art assets based on an oral description.

Of course the markup looks awful, you can't describe the Mona Lisa over the phone to your editor as "a portrait of a woman with long brown hair, sort of smiling" and capture anything worth telling. Nor can you describe the new iOS7 icons as "kinda the same, with duller colours and flat design".

Don't waste your time.
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"Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later."

Give me a break.
Interested in seeing the interface.
Has this been attempted in a zero-gravity environment (or even water)? Would that completely obliterate the results of the test, as the sand wouldn't be on a solid surface? I'm curious what the results would be.
A lot of cypherpunk type people (who are generally pro 2a/guns to a great degree) believe anonymous and secure communication through cryptography is more of a 2A issue than a 1A or 4A issue.

A "CALEA 3", key escrow requirement, ban on the Internet, etc would cross my red line. Banning all guns would, too, although unclear exactly where the line is (a total handgun ban probably wouldn't be enough). Obviously legal and political challenges first.
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>>Every country has different rights for citizens and non-citizens.
And in some they are almost entirely equal if not better. (Social security, but it's a bit over the top here :/)
Well they can't vote of course, but that's about it.
This is assuming the Government doesn't force Dropbox to install a keylogger on their client to get users TrueCrypt passphrases and possibly keyfiles.
That - is there real zinger. More striking than the definition itself.
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This misunderstands what happens inside implementations. There ARE low-level bits "down there", but they aren't spec'd. That what the Navigation Controller is: a spec for the low-level bits.

As a part of that process (and Web Components before it), the goal isn't to throw out what has come before (we don't get that luxury out here on successful, non-proprietary platforms), but to re-cast it in the light of a lower-level thing that explains it.

You can go the other way too. Noodle on this to get a sense for it: how much of the <audio> element can be implemented with some JS and the Web Audio spec? Since those connections make sense, why isn't <audio> spec'd in terms of Web Audio, such that you can plug in/out the bits you need when you need something slightly different?
As a math person, I look at this and think "Fourier series".

I encountered the ideas in both Classical Mechanics 1 (third year physics course where I took it) and Differential Equations (third year math course where I took it).

It is still a nice visualization.