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Morality is well and good, but in the real world we have to focus on what works. Finland works. Germany works. The United States doesn't work as well, and desperately needs to improve.

Moralizing sermons have never solved problems and never will; only actual reform work can do that. Why are you so opposed to getting your hands dirty with reforming our system?
I'm not a fan of Roberts, but so what?

Staffing the court is apparently part of his duty as Chief Justice, and as such does pose a conflict of interest with this case. Carrying out his job does not imply any point of view regarding the constitutionality or ethics of the spying program. He doesn't get to refuse to appoint judges as the law requires whatever his opinion. He only gets to judge things that are officially challenged in his court, and even then only after reviewing evidence and arguments from both sides.
And who's going to pay for administering that make-work junk? Me? Why? To satisfy your sense of morality?
Do you have a link? That is fascinating! Did it end up working?
I love big long articles on the main loop. It's one of those wonderful problems that seems like it ought to be easy but turns out to have lots of subtle (and important) complications.
One problem I read about is that a lot of Japanese young men aren't working, just sitting around at home all day (living with their parents). Not only are they not contributing to society, they're actually living off their parents.
This comes from a recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993441
Any chance the administration of nodes for this kind of technology could be crowdsourced to the people in the neighborhood as well, giving not only access but useful knowledge and a learning experience? I know when I was young I didn't need new or expensive technology to hack on - just needed something I had regular access to.
Ugh, not Tegra 3 - dual-core Snapdragon S4/400 or better, please. And LTE (HSPA+ and lesser standards are and 802.11b equivalent, at best).

But, thematically, you're absolutely right. We're very close to actually good $99 smartphones and tablets. And when that hits, we're going to see a phase transition.
Verizon and AT&T are currently working to change legislation so they can remove POTS completely. Don't expect it to be around for more than a decade except in some high-density urban areas for banking perhaps.
The idea here would also be to reduce the cost of network access to near zero, or am I missing something about where the costs come from maintaining the network?
I know that PG decided it. But it looks like you are supporting that decision and I don't understand why.
Thanks for the pointer, I'll keep this in mind if I consider applying for companies that prioritize hiring H1Bs.
I was hoping to see how to deal with Path finding and interpolation.

Do you run the pathfinding and set the position in each game tick, or does the pathfinding has it's own tick.
Thanks for the front page love, HN. Really wasn't expecting that. :)
Interesting, but did the INS really say that? Steve (Jobs') and Bill's lack of university degree never stopped Apple and Microsoft from hiring H-1B holders.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynmann" and "What Do You Care What People Think", both [obviously] by Richard Feynmann
"Uncle Tungsten" by Oliver Sacks, mostly about Sacks' early life
"The strangest man: The hidden life of Paul Dirac", by Graham Farmelo
"The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth" by Paul Hoffman
"Subtle is the lord: the science and the life of Albert Einstein" by Abraham Pais
"Thesiger", by Michael Asher, providing you think of Wilfred Thesiger as a scientist and not just an explorer
"Automated memory management works, but not all the time."

[citation needed]

"BTW, I think most of the brightest minds you mention use C or C++ on daily basis"

I doubt it. Most of the brightest minds I have met, at least in academia, use high-level languages: Python, OCaml, Lisp, Haskell, etc. They have more important things to worry about than whether or not it is safe to deallocate objects.
Absolutely agree on the 1&2 (books). Description of 3 is great wordsmithing! On 5 I rarely need a truck, just multiple taxi rides (no furniture/whitegoods, see 6). Actually once or twice I had some, but used a load-bearing Chinese peasant tricycle (oil begone!). On 7, I help people move when asked or it seems useful to offer, but personally do not deal well with other people 'assisting' due to the wont to dispose of useless things and be fully aware of what's packed in what going where. Moving should be a spiritual process, like a sort of postmodern ritual cleansing of objects. The reproductive stage of the malevolent, multidimensional quantum origami of things that leads to still more beautiful future generations or the long suspected as looming, but never acknowledged, sudden and outright genocide of its entire genotype.
Seems some dummy text was left in, or content encoding issues on multiple pages.
I'm an Apple guy, don't use any of Google's products, excluding YouTube on occasion, and Dear Sophie is a much better advertisement than Designed by Apple in California. Apple's ad comes off as forced and non-genuine to me.
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Yes we can. I respect and admire all three.
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> not a stretch to imagine that the NSA can do it

In what kind of numbers, though? I mean, from what I remember reading Stuxnet had this kind of crazy stuff in it (multiple zero-days if I recall), but also a clear target in Iran. Would they have the resources to do this to everybody? Is there any evidence of that? Certainly if there were it would be really fascinating to know more, but all we have is this movie plot scenario.

With what Snowden says it makes it sound like they do it to anyone out of sheer boredom. I think to understand the scope of this claim we need more details.
Did we really know then that they were tapping into backbones and recording all the bits?

It's possible 'we' did, but I just didn't notice it because I wasn't paying attention and the media didn't make too much of it.

I did hear about the immunity thing, but figured that was for individual requests for particular information for particular investigations; it honestly didn't occur to me that they'd record the entire internet, I naively thought that would obviously be unconstitutional and thus not done.

If "we" did know that before, then I guess the Snowden leak has been great PR, because I didn't know about it until now!
Hacking For Good
Weird, here's a Scribd link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/147627564/Red-Hook-Initiative-Tide...
They aren't exactly rocket scientists to begin with. Hell, the police in America have won the right to discriminate against candidates with high IQs...
So you understand my critique, and then proceed to bring up yet more unrelated subjects, referencing individuals at random who have nothing in common with the one we're discussing. I don't think you really understand my critique.
good points.

although I'm not sure I'm confident that there is a 'big one' coming 'the one that we will need to act on' (if what we've already gotten isn't it) -- we will see. I am curious to hear more about the RAT stuff.
Even this vague comment is more specific than what Snowden is offering. I'd imagine it also involves a non-zero amount of hurdles (physical access? kernel mode privileges so you can flash BIOS?) which can be mitigated against.

That's the weird thing about Snowden's claim. It makes them sound all-powerful. If it were really something concrete, there'd be more knowledge of scope, mitigations, etc. It's also hard to believe they are doing this on everyone, by default.
It was on hiatus for a couple of years: I left the game industry, moved across the country, and had a couple of kids. But I'm back to working on it now and I hope I can get it finished.
You know, guys, I don't think you're likely to reach any sort of consensus or learn anything from one another. So you may as well stop now.
People do sometimes like to display their pop spirituality by throwing stuff away when they move. There was a blog post on the front page a few days ago about it.

I don't really have a deep California buddhist-slash-Fight Club reason for it. I just bloody hate moving.

Anyhow, as the saying goes. Before Enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After Enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
The Writing of a Great Address
I think it is very interesting that so little attention is being called to what exactly his job was.
It seems that the administration doesn't want to talk about it and greenwald isn't yet ready to drop that shoe.

Network penetration?
If you can pick your enemies' locks, you can pick your employer's.
Science Is About Evidence, Not Consensus
Is this actually the case? Of course he didn't know the reason this cop was his "friend" and the cop didn't introduce himself as a cop, but after a few months you would think that his job would have come up once or twice. Did the cop lie when asked about it?

Regardless, it is more than enough reason to never be "friends" with a cop.
I didn't think it sounded like they did it 'out of sheer boredom', they do it to people they've targetted for investigation. In what numbers, whether targetting computers inside the US or not, etc. -- we do not know, Snowden has not yet released documents so far as I know.

The software to take over someone's computer like that exists, and can be used by script kiddies that don't even know what they're doing, to take over and 'own' many people's computers, complete control. Presumably the NSA knows about even more exploits than the easily available hacker-distributed software does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet...
I asked my Dad about Dirac, he never met him but he once wrote him asking for clarification of something in a book, and got a handwritten letter back. He doesn't actually remember what was in the letter, but he does remember that somebody borrowed the letter and never returned it. Pissed him off, so we're going to try to get it back.
Pretty much everyone I've run into who has used Slim seems to love it. Very nice indeed.
Australia - no, not really.
Internal security is often an afterthought. Even a neophyte hacker could find purchase in such fertile ground.
I wonder if anyone is considering or doing any kind of studies correlating the lack of investment in government (i.e. low taxes) and these kinds of problems with law enforcement? It seems like if we're investing less in government, which means less in police, fire, and the agencies that train and oversee them, we're not going to get the quality of service from our law enforcement officers that we're accustom to. Shorter training programs, fewer applicants due to lower pay, less oversite, higher workloads, etc.

I don't know if this is the case, but in a country where we barely get that A leads to B, we might want to start taking a hard look at A to B to C to D.
Don't be so quick to judge. He wrote a pretty good dissent on DNA collection.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-207_d18e.pdf

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-13/opinions/39952...
If you look at the smartphone:handset chart, North America was above everyone else for years, then Western Europe began catching up. Of course, the US has an oligopoly running the wireless market: Verizon, who also controls the local loop in much of the country has the most advanced network. Then AT&T has the next best data network, although their voice and other service leaves something to be desired. Sprint is next, and has very little LTE rolled out, even in major markets - even their 4G can be spotty. Then T-Mobile, which has barely been surviving.

This oligopoly funded a lot of the high-end smartphone development. Companies wanted people signed up to those two-year $100 a month or more plans, and with numbers like that, the cost of the phone is relatively low. It makes sense for the oligopoly to subsidize a high-end phone people will like, so they'll be more willing to take that two-year, $100+ a month plan. Smartphone models get better and better - I have a Galaxy S and sometimes use a Galaxy S4 - the improvement in the three years from the S to the S4 has been very dramatic. My Galaxy S feels so slow as molasses and dated in comparison. Even the GPS uplink seems to take forever on the S, relative to the S4.

Android activates 1.5 million devices a day. That daily activation rate has only been accelerating over the past few years. So far 900 million Android devices have been activated. Obviously the acceleration of the daily activation rate has to slow sooner or later.

Android is not yet mature by any means. Google's implementation of staged rollouts for Android is less than two months old. And they are very welcome from my end - I beta-test but was terrified of releasing an update to popular apps for a variety of reasons. Now I can roll it out to a small percentage - if there's a problem I can rollback the update, if it looks OK I can keep rolling out to more people until the update is all out. Google's app translation coordination service trial just kicked in on Friday.

While it's mentioned times are still good for app developers, one reason for that is tablets. Even if the smartphone market gets saturated, tablets still have room to grow. And tablets are just one of the possible Android form factors.
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As someone who has moved books across the country, 1 and 2 hit home. Well put - but I'll still take them (irrationally) on my next move.
Ask HN: I want to become a front-end developer. Any tips on how?
I'm interested in becoming a front-end developer as a career. I currently work in IT so am able to read and understand code, write my own HTML and CSS as well as some PHP but I'm not really sure what's required in the real world. I understand that jQuery is a good starting point but I'm not entirely sure where to even start on that topic. There are so many options and languages I could learn but the speed at which I can learn them all is obviously limited as I have a full time job, so I'm likely going to focus on one or two things at a time and build my own projects with them.

What should I learn to woo employers and how would be the best way to learn them? Going to classes? Online? From friends?
I always assumed that broadcasters added those blurry sidebars in on purpose from data in the middle section so that they weren't just displaying blank black bars on two-thirds of the screen.
I went around picking things up, then tried using those items on each of the interactive portions of the site.

The doorbell tone changes, and I was unable to open the door.

Climbed the ladder, clicked on the horseshoes and the disk on top of one of the building, which resulted in the alien entering the spacecraft and flying away.

The scene ends with a newspaper headline regarding Roswell.

Neat stuff...
margaret mead effectively founded "cultural anthropology" which basically means "research which makes people feel good". many people have followed her:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/science/10anthropology.htm...

this ties into funny looks for men in parks because men as a gender have been devalued into being potentially dangerous, rather than as a source of strength and value for communities.

challenging feminism is a little like investigations into wall street executives after the financial crisis, it just hasn't happened.

things are starting to turn - we have the internet now so we're much better informed...

either that or the USA economy continues its downward slide.. i really don't care either way.

the truth is that as the left becomes too strong, whether it is socialism, feminism or whatever, the economy gets destroyed. this is likely why rome collapsed, too.

the moral case is very important. so too is the economy.
So this was just a pre-interview not originally meant for publication; I assume we will be getting evidence and details on these things with documents yet to be released. This is just like a summary preview.

But I didn't see any implication in this interview that they were doing it on everyone, universally, by default. Rather, Snowden specifically says this is what happens to a targetted person, he some of the ways you become targetted are "because of a Facebook profile or because of your emails", presumably certain keywords or profile or whatever. Then he says the 'monitoring' which completely takes over your computer is done to 'targetted' people.

I too am very curious to learn: How many such targetted people with malware-monitored computers there are, how often this is done; is it done to computers in the US and/or to US citizens; what sorts of suspicion lead to this targetting; what warrants or court orders or other judicial oversight there are on individual monitoring cases; among other things.

I am now eagerly awaiting release of documentation or evidence on these issues.
prevailing winds probably about that fast, generating most of the groundspeed going east, and it sounds like maybe not even feasible to travel across the country east to west.
I think the ad is boring and crap and dear sophie was great, but apple has done dear sophie type ads too. Did you see the video (not an ad) Apple did of the uses ios devices are being put to that didn't make WWDC? People adjusting their own prosthetic limbs, doctors in the third world saving children. That was some stirring shit.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/12/apple-posts-ten-minute-m...

I have no idea what the heck Apple was trying to achieve text and black balls. I nearly nodded off when this got shown at the WWDC keynote (it was up there with the obligatory jony ive video — seriously who cares what he says, we can look at the product).
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Absolutely, BI would make minimum wage obsolete, allowing for a much more flexible labor market without people on the edge of starvation.
Who's in charge of deciding which jobs are "meant" for teens?
Hi! Wow, very nice to meet the author. Most of this was written after I'd already finished my game, but the Object Pool article was part of the inspiration for my memory pool class [1]. Thanks for everything you've written, it has helped more people than you probably know.

[1] https://github.com/karlgluck/Evidyon/blob/master/Source/comm...
You should probably read the article and the comment I referenced in full, then re-read my post in context before pouncing with your worldview.

Hint: The author specifically does feel betrayed. That's what the article is about.

It's also funny that you mentioned the Koch brothers-backed, corporate-sponsored, Fox News-pitched, astroturf Tea Party "movement", given the way that same media has covered this NSA issue like an episode of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" as they moved the focus to the Snowden chase vs. focusing on the actual NSA activity he uncovered. Such disinformation/redirection campaigns that fueled the woefully misled Tea Party folks are merely the flip side of the media campaign to mute responses here by shaping the narrative to one about a man vs. a nation. Ironically, this failure (or complicity) of the media is yet another threat to our democracy.

But, even with this concerted effort to placate the masses, there are many, many people who feel betrayed or who are concerned, irrespective of your scientific assessment of the pulse of America, which seems to be based solely on the turnout at a rally.
That population is going to grow with or without any help, based on the general trend of population growth worldwide. If we don't educate and give them a chance in our society, then we'll be facing a disenfranchised, volatile majority.

Also, I'm under the assumption that "leeches" basically just means poor people. I supposed if we had to be more specific, in America that means Hispanics. They are not exactly religious zealots, but are definitely making relatively larger families. That's just going to be the demographic reality in America.
It doesn't matter if its gone or not yet. The point is its clearly leaving. Wages are decreasing, prices for food, gas, school, health care, housing, taxes are all going up. More money is being amassed in the 1% and less in the 99% (this article is one example of why) and none of these trends show any signs of reversing.

Solution is simple too, just tax the rich more and redistribute that wealth where its needed. There's no reason to feel guilty about this, we fight their wars, work in their factories, guard their houses and build their roads, if they want to keep this the greatest country on earth they need to invest more in the middle class, like they used to [1].

[1] http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/08/pdf/middle_cl... - first chart
The entertainment and pro sports industries are so small that they hardly matter in terms of actual employment.
The early GPU Gems books might be of interest to you. They are full of stuff like frame timing subtleties and interesting ways to solve common game loop problems. These days, you can probably get them for less than $50 each, too.
you can see my link above to the NYtimes and the lack of research for the right in academia. there will be 10,000 papers supporting the left position to every 1 paper supporting the right position. they're just forced out of academia. this is a huge blind spot for society and is a little like how wall street wasn't prosecuted after the financial crisis.

that derek freeman was successful in what he did (and he was, mead was dropped from anthropology) was a minor miracle. if you want to learn more, watch this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOD-qNaiL0
happens in europe, here's an example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10401416
Louisville TV Station Promises Not To Hype Breaking News
Reading the paper, what do you think is 'massive overhype'? They demonstrate working devices on the 1-2 foot scale.

The regulatory question is certainly an interesting one. Is it 'interference' to reflect very modest amounts of an existing signal? Multipath is already a very real phenomenon; if these devices do not appreciably affect transmission, then are they truly interfering?

Put another way, are the regulations written from the point of view of effects (degraded transmission for the spectrum licensee), or in absolute terms (no communication at a given frequency?)
Apple should have aired a shorter version of something like that video, not Designed by Apple in California. I think it's a little telling of the state of things in the company that they didn't choose to go that route.

This ad in combination with terrible graphic design decisions in iOS 7 has really got me down on Apple lately, to be honest.
Until we get to macbook air levels of battery life (all day, heavy use) expect people to continue upgrades.

We may be hitting the power ceiling, but we're far off the battery life ceiling. (Ceiling as in consumer needs)

Remember, not too long ago, a cell phone that lasted all week was normal.
That's great to hear! I'm glad you got some use out of it. Feedback like this is the only thing that gives the book a chance of being finished. I'm generally terrible at staying focused on one thing but hearing stuff like this really helps.