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> I want to speak to an important question, though: why DO we continue?

The problem with your hypothesis is that you are making an assumption that what you do is good or even valuable to the human race or whether that is a valid reason to continue. I have several problems with that:

1. The whole idea that you can actually with your belief systems decipher what is good for all and then actually do it. History is littered with people who have terribly damaged the world; everyone of them (from the African dictators who slaughtered for freedom) probably thought they were doing good.

2. Why does humanity need to continue? Why of all the species that have come and gone and will keep doing that are we so special? Are we particularly nice to each other? God, no. Are we particularly more brutal than other species out there? I think probably not; more inventive, yes; but about the same in terms of brutality.

3. Does the Universe particularly care about whether you the snowflake exists or not? Probably not. It is unfeeling, uncaring and simply is.

Ultimately, life is absurd and finite. The finiteness everyone is aware of; even those who are too wrapped to be aware of the absurdity. There are a few options then why people continue:

1. The promise of an afterlife; sadly not convincing any more.

2. Reasoning like that of Camus - he says that the only way to deal with the absurd is to revolt against it; live in the moment, enjoying the pleasure and the pain of the fleeting. That is one way to approach this problem, but is it enough?
> If someone donates half their wealth to charity

They haven't yet have they.
I think this hurts his credibility somewhat. It's a better story to think he joined with no preconceived notions and the evidence turned him. Now it appears he had a conclusion and went to prove his assumptions to be true.
> the authors stated opinion on Karma is terrifying.

Man, people on this site overuse the word "terrifying."
Given that the project goal is to permit as many people as possible to find these beach entrances isn't it a bit odd to target a total of two platforms for the application? I'm surprised they aren't doing something this simple with the web.

Put another way, isn't accessibility a prime concern for a beach accessibility application?
Exactly. You will find what public footpaths (that's public rights of way for leftpondians) there are marked on British Ordnance Survey maps. I believe the Ordnance Survey is the definitive source for these claims.
Am thinking devoting our focus on such privacy-focused projects as :

Tent [ https://tent.io/ ] : the crypto-social network protocol

or

BitMessage [ https://github.com/Bitmessage ]: crypto-P2P message protocol

If more people can join these efforts (even as early adopters), it would do us all (the entire internet village) a great benefit in fighting back against the System.
Isn't there a free speech issue here? Can't they put up signs proclaiming whatever they want on their own property?. Yes, I am aware that there are some specific public-safety oriented exceptions, like impersonating police, but I don't see that here. Scumbag? Yes, but it absolutely should not be illegal.
If someone can't get over the Ansible startup costs, then they have no business managing a system... I can't speak for Salt (last time I tried to use it was in 2010, and it was atrocious then and I haven't gone back).
Canada and Mexico are encompassed by free trade agreements. I walked past a Canadian government poster right here in DC the other day gloating about being the #1 oil exporter to the U.S. I should hope that my overall point is not lost in the quibbling about whether invading Iraq for oil is the same as buying it from a willing seller next door.

As for OPEC, it is true that the U.S. imports a lot of oil... it is also true that it exports a lot of refined petroleum products, as I had hinted at but didn't make fully clear. The actual U.S. usage for oil can be mostly made up by domestic (incl. regional) production, the excess refining capacity goes to support giving Europe and other nations high-quality gasoline and other products.
Ask HN: What is the cost of fighting back?
When people get a letter of cease and decist or get sued by patent troll, most people give up because it is too expensive to fight back.

What are these things that are expensive? Are they just lawyers fees? Or is there more to it.
The best one I've heard of, from Ken Demarest:

Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."
Suicidal thoughts as a disease may not only be solely genetic, but may have something to do with lifestyle/environment, like other diseases. I wonder how many starving Africans actually have this disease.
demo video is here.
http://youtu.be/pw2LNNWyte0?t=32m
The code for this needs major cleanup.
"var $ = document; // shortcut" may kill jQuery and break your site.
This also declares the following global namespaces variables: cssId, head, and link.

The code is hosted on an untrusted amazon instance, so requires a bit of work to crawl the links and copy paste the source for self-hosting and security needs. Cool idea though. Put this on Github if you want code fixes.
I think it unfortunately makes it easier to be spun to hurt his credibility, but does not necessarily in reality. If, for example, from his previous jobs he knew this was happening, but had to get this particular job as a sysadmin to get the access necessary to actually obtain the documents to prove it, I view that action as honorable.
Back in the 70s a lot of alternative systems were coming available when oil prices were sky high due to an oil embargo. A lot of initiatives were started all over the world to become independent and to develop alternative sources of energy.
It's very unfortunate all that innovation was stopped soon after the oil price went back down again.

What it always seems to come down to : a threat followed by a political decision.
But as soon as the threat is gone, almost all innovation is being stopped.
And that's very unfortunate.

We've seen something similar when the US got the first human on the Moon.
There was a threat, a political decision, a lot of innovation and then the threat disappeared and the funding dried up.

I wasn't born yet in 1969 but I do remember reading about it as a kid.
And when I grew up I was wearing a sweater with the letters USA on it.
I wasn't the only one, far from it.

And here we are. Decades later.
There's another threat, imo.
All we need is a political decision.

If it comes, I'm gonna try and be the first one to say it's a smart decision.
> They were incredibly efficient with space

Not saying they were not, but compressed 64 color graphics/palettes and 6502 machine code would usually not take an enormous amount of space.
He's probably referring to America's program of "Extraordinary Rendition" which disappears people off the streets of cities around the World, and transports them to coöperating countries that are happy to torture prisoners. Supposedly such nations have included Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Libya. The number of people so disappeared, their nationality, and their ultimate fate is in unknown. There is no way for the American public to ascertain whether or not such abductions have happened on American soil because the program is secret, lacking any oversight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
Yes, but doesn't this just feel deliciously like "sticking it to the man?" These are public beaches that the most well-off among us would like to keep for themselves. Not only that, they use extremely underhanded tactics to do so.
The iPhone app is now live: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches/id5656361...
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The irony in your comment is kicking me in the face through the computer screen.
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I think you're missing the implicit "open source" in this statement. The OP mentioned "recompile Mesa" and getting buggy 4.x support. No open source driver supports 4.x yet. I'm aware that proprietary drivers are far ahead, see my other posts.
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You are taking as an assumption that the value of the future must be more than of the present. Our experience and concept of time cannot, necessarily, be extracted from the brain. Given, what we might call a tragic end for humanity, even if it is sometime in the near future, does not retroactively place a tragic value on the past.
if you're using EC2, why not just create an AMI and forget about configuration tools?
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N.B. If you click on "Share" at YouTube, it includes a box and a field with the time in the current video. If you check the box, it gives you a direct link to that time. (The format is just http://youtu.be/7FnXgprKgSE?t=9m13s, so you can also do it directly.)

I'd link to the time in question myself in the present case, except that I listened from 7:00 to 9:00 and didn't find the thing you mentioned.
to the author:

Please consider moving the JavaScript file to another place: using GitHub's gist service like this is considered as abusing the service (because gist was not designed for hosting you assets).
> Are there any Manning supporters who don't have to resort to misleading people or to outright lying?

I like to think of myself as one.
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I don't see anything inherently wrong in building a business around a civil service.

Your exclamation mark indicates that 30K is too much for an app like this, but I disagree because someone has to do the research to find each beach access point, identify false ones, organize the data into a database and build a app/web service around it.

For an average Silicon Valley salary, $30K is a quarter of a year's worth of salary. My guess is that more than three months of work was put into this.
Eh, we can do two things at once.

An "Occupy Malibu" protest needn't suck resources from cancer research. A few hundred (thousand) people are going to be visiting beaches in the general area of Malibu anyway. A concerted effort by beach-goers to find and use the most egregiously obstructed public beaches (for instance, using this app) could be both satisfying and low-cost.
Genuine question: Why would you have Windows servers joined in an AD domain? Or are you talking about pushing changes to workstations?
> it occurs over millennia and its only continuation is through the mind itself

Minds last no longer than brains, which is a human lifetime; how could it possibly occur over millennia?

> nothing supernatural other than reincarnation, if that qualifies) and that rebirth is true.

Rebirth and reincarnation are supernatural beliefs; they have no foundation in fact or evidence at all.

> but I think that karma is real

Based on what evidence?

> (not the loopy, Westernized kind

It's all equally loopy.
'Big security data' is not 'Big Data security'
For large values of "remarkably wealthy" -
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/mapping_15_of_tech_bil...
I've always been like this as well. I have all sorts of solitary things that I enjoy doing, and that time spent alone recharges me for the other parts of my life. But, when I'm alone too much, I get lonely and that makes me unhappy. But, when I'm trying to maintain a social life I don't get my alone time as much and that makes me unhappy.

Fortunately my wife is very similar, so it's a good fit on that level. It can just be really hard finding a balance while still being a good friend to my friends.
Yeah, this is mostly bullshit.

The people who hide away are the same as the people who want you to sign an NDA before they talk about their startup because it's just too revolutionary and cranks who invent new crypto algorithms in their basement.

DS design is extremely complex and requires the coordinated effort of a lot of really smart people to get right. Anyone building these systems in secret just has no idea how terrible they are at it.
Seems like some of these homeowners would pay $30k to not have this program, or for some control over the final product. I could imagine some rich guy paying $15k to keep his section of beach off the program.
Adding some kind of rotation mechanism to the panel would increase efficiency, and I'm sure the Pi or Arduino could handle this.
But how many of those involve lying on a beach all day long?
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ACM members once had a poll to resurrect a few classic CS books. That poll slowly became a "favourite CS books" list.
This is the list: http://t.co/LOli1BKFuL

Some splendid suggestions there.
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File radar bug reports requesting 4.3 support and copy the bug under openradar.

http://openradar.appspot.com/

The more people that request it the more resources they throw at things. So if they keep this yearly update schedule maybe mountain mavericks or whatever the hell they name the next release might have it.

I submitted a bug report to help things along. I don't find posting non useful replies on Hacker News to be very productive at getting change to occur. Apple is far from perfect, but they do pay attention to how many people complain about the same thing in their bug tracker.
What is the evidence of your claim?
There's a long path-not-taken on housing. Most things in our society have gotten a lot cheaper per unit service in the past hundred years or so, including many entirely new categories of services. Housing has stubbornly resisted change, with the result that an ever-larger portion of our culture's capital is tied up in providing housing. And housing hasn't gotten any more useful, either.

http://hexayurt.com gives some notion of how radical that shift could be when it arises. Industrial panels (of whatever kind) directly into owner-build housing. Free Hardware. You may laugh, but half the world lives in cinderblock-and-tin-roof shacks and worse.

Nobody said the innovation had to start here, or look like what we do now.
Have you developed a similar app and know the amount of work going into it? Have you commissioned a similar app and know the cost? Actually why don't you do it if you are confident it can be done in $3000?
Thanks for the feedback-just created a public repo where I'd love for people to help out.

https://github.com/zackliscio/prismbutton
Given sufficient time, would have gone away here too without a fight. Alas, slavery was just one factor in a confluence of issues leading to a bloody civil war. Popular historical depictions aside, the US Civil War wasn't just about slavery.
Absolutely what I thought. Now the case could be made that he cherry picked his leaks to cause maximum damage while hiding additional context and wildly misinterpreting things that he saw to fit his predrawn conclusions. This could explain why we only saw 4 PRISM slides.
England's treatment of India made the world a better place? Please do explain.
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That gets a lot more than the book PDFs... You could do something like this just to snag the chapters:

curl -O http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch[01-14].pdf

Still less than ideal since they aren't one file. But it's easy enough to merge together.
Kids might not be locked alone but they are definitely left all alone with their iPads in practically all families I have seen. The trend is especially true in the western world where the parents are too 'busy' and send their kids off to preschool way too early since they can't be bothered with parenting.
Having done this a dozen or more times... can you package your ami for your developers to use? Can you remake your image exactly the same way again as it was when you first imaged it should it be lost in the cloud (100% reliability isn't something AWS provides).

Provisioning tools let you create it, and incrementally update your image in a way that lets you redo it from scratch at any time.

That alone is the reason why I like the idea, not necessarily the resulting applications that have been created so far for the task.

Shell scripts could do the same and have for years if your only interested in from scratch setups.
It costs $30K for the time and effort to gather and organize the data. If it was that easy to find all beach access points and identify false signs, it would have already been done.

The cost of an app isn't just the amount of man-hours*salary required to program an app. I feel that this is a trap that inexperienced engineers fall into often. Once you start building a business, there are many, many aspects that are a time-drain, and if you charge your customer solely based on the amount of time you spend coding -- rather than the amount of time actually working on the business -- you are short-changing yourself.
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I hear you. It just feels like now you're accepting "proof" or not on global warning from a Greenpeace or Oilman lobbyist vs say an independent scientist. But that's the bigger problem here. Snowden is likely an incredibly narcissistic individual - if only because historically these folks are and he's showing similar traits - and it would be ideal to get him divorced from the story vs being such a central pillar.
Regarding Broad Beach... here is a PDF [1] with some good detail on beach access. There are 2 access points that are open to the public from Broad Beach Road. The PDF also has photos of all of the properties, and detail on what part of the beach is available to the public.

[1] http://www.coastal.ca.gov/access/BroadBeachCoastalAccess.pdf
"sticking it to the man?"

In the grand scheme of things, I'd argue that occupying a beach to stick it to the man isn't a great way to spend time.
Can't you see the Kafka-esque nature of such a condition?
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Do Ordinance Survey maps cover Southern California?
Interesting, thanks! But yes, it's apparently much more general (you have to implement everything apart from recording and displaying video, which EyeTap seems to be only about) and more intrusive than Glass.
I'm currently developing a game using Impact.js, and it's no picnic having to work within the limitations of the browser.
It appears the development is being done by an agency. Overhead, profit and all that...
Glad that Californians have this option. Beaches should be public on the East coast as well.
What does margin trading have to do with an ETF?
Which makes him even more of an authority on American human rights abuses!
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>Manning is in the military, UCMJ applies.

Can you show me what the UCMJ has about detention, and treatment of the detained?
It depends on your definition of "bug." If you mean a feature that causes an unintended result, then this probably doesn't qualify. But if you mean a feature that causes an incorrect result, then you could make an argument that this qualifies, although it seems abundantly obvious to me that this is a purposeful compromise to deal with technical limitations.
This is unfortunate for him, but it makes him an even greater hero. It also shows what you might be able to do with great commitment.
> iMessage proves that Google could engineer a system
> to protect users privacy

iMessage does not protect privacy, because Apple is capable of intercepting your messages messages and sending them to third parties. To be a private communications medium, it should be considered impossible for messages to be intercepted.

The only thing worse than a product that doesn't offer privacy is a product which claims to, but actually doesn't.

IMO, Apple's claim that iMessage is private is irresponsible because it endangers people who take that claim at face value.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he was partly motivated by the fame of Bradley Manning. I also wouldn't be surprised if more followed in his footsteps.
I believe that's a quote from another article that he seeks to refute. The article doesn't make sense, otherwise.
Yeah, well, [your preferred development stack] sucks because [subjective and/or political reason] that [anyone who agrees with me] knows is obviously true. Clearly, [vendor of your preferred development stack] should go spend many years rewriting everything so that my mind can continue living comfortably in the box it's in, safe from the pain of having to learn something different.
Question from an unfamiliar northeasterner: how public is the beach really if you have to flee the rising tide? Or are folks happy to pack it in after a few hours?
This article is written confusingly, but he's actually quoting some other person in that bit of text. He then proceeds to reply.
It's a marketing phrase actually -- it's a holistic approach to how a product is presented. It took me a long time to understand it in its entirety, but nearest equivalence here is "user experience", i.e. the drivers on Linux are quite mature, stable, and performant (with the implicit comparison usually to open source drivers or another platform such as Windows).
"Programming like this in SQL is a maintainability nightmare."

How does it compare to the application code required to do the same thing?
>Snowden is acting like he did something wrong. He should own it.

Easy for you to say. You're not the one facing an unwinnable trial and/or serious human rights violations.
This happens too with public land trails in the Rockies (near Boulder). The nearby landoweners remove signs, plant over trails, etc.
I agree with the article. Perfect forward secrecy (given master private key, still can't figure out derived session keys) is a wonderful property.

However, it's a bit over-reaching to say it can "block the NSA". It won't stop them from backdoor-ing your hardware/software (keyloggers, compromised random numbers, etc). It won't stop them from storing the encrypted communication until (for example) quantum computers make it possible to decrypt it (assuming RSA).
Because everything these days is a Kickstartr.

(Also, I hope developers don't sell themselves so cheap.)
As per the article: You are not in anyway immune to the same processes that you are complaining your parents are beholden to.

Your views and experiences are reinforcing your own beliefs that your parents are not accepting the "facts" you know. Seeing one side as "unreasonable" to logic while your view is "obvious" is exactly the type of behaviour the article is attempting to underline.

The article also answers your question directly.
Life is difficult. People feel their problems are insurmountable; "make an effort" feels like an American cheerleading thing. Sometimes, it is not really about the effort; if it was, you could get rid of therapists and SSRIs and tell people to run around the block a few times.

Also, everyone is dying. Your illness has made you more aware of it; how people accept death is the question.
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