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I tried that, and got no response.

There are only so many things you can do in a day: in order to make the most of that, you have give it to organizations that have their shit together.
CCITT Group 4 also known as Modified Modified Read is in no way something you'd be wanting to use now ever. I'm telling you why MMR sucks hard:

1. It's monochrome. No greyscale, no color. This works for text and lines, but nothing else. No big surprise, it was designed for Fax. But this makes CCITT G3 and G4 lossy.

2. It has no defined endianess. This adds another fault risk which you won't see coming as long as you're working on an isolated platform but can hit you in the nuts when you change hardware or software.

3. The data does not contain resolution or dimensional information, as well as no information about endianess
This means that you have to rely on a container providing these informations. It could be TIFF, it could be PDF, it could be something an intern coded during coffee break. This is good on one hand, but evil on the other. Software is sold, saying CCITT G4 compression (a standard, after all) is used, while the data can be embedded in proprietary containers.

4. It's a 2D compression, meaning the compression is applied on a matrix of binary pixel data. As the standard does not specify the dimensions, you depend on another image container like TIFF to provide information. Because G4 removed EOL markers, there is no way to reconstruct image dimensions from the compressed data alone.

5. It's not exactly fault tolerant. Transmission errors can influence larger areas of the image up to making the picture totally unreadable. Flipped bits are not too critical, missing bits are, due to the 2D compression.

There are many excellent, fault tolerant, standardized Image formats ready to use for document processing and archiving, CCITT G4 isn't exactly one of them.
I can confirm that the background is visible on the N4. It seems you might have found a bug in chrome for the galaxy nexus?
you can use a raspberry pi for it. there's a nice tor-proxy kit on adafruit.

personally i think a separate machine booted using the tails bootdisk and no write access to anything is probably the safest.
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And what happens when enough work becomes mechanized or automated and enough people are out of jobs that it doesn't matter how low the resulting price of the product is? I call this the Wal-Mart effect. The idea is that you don't have to pay higher wages, or provide better benefits, or otherwise ensure that the increases in productivity track with increasing real wages. Because everyone can just shop at Wal-Mart!

Ever-decreasing prices are not a panacea.
Agree. For JS, I started following http://www.echojs.com/. Which is not so popular, but pretty nice.

And http://sidebar.io/ for Design links. But we cannot post or comment there.
You understand Apple aren't the only developers of Clang right? It's their project, but there's nothing stopping anyone else (say Google, which are also huge contributors) from forking their own version of Apple decide to do something that would surely hurt them more than help them.
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(lots of stumbling going on here) I stumbled upon these composers when i saw a flyer for Reich's 18 Musicians in college. I went to the ticket office and asked what kind of music it was and the woman said "It's avant garde, you should go!". One of my goals is to learn to play all the 18 Musicians parts, except violin and vocals, probalby will take awhile.
It's Landis' fault that Armstrong doped? Or its his fault that he got caught and thereby exposed all the cheaters?
ugly? you know you're supposed to adapt css to your design, not the other way around, right?
>In fact, this site has been embarrassingly bad about the technical issues of surveillance, for reasons ranging from gullibility to capriciousness.

Poor analysis by some of the users (there are a lot of non-technical commenters on here) doesn't negate the higher degree of technical discussion that has indeed been present here. Just because opinion and fallacious arguments are present doesn't mean that good technical discussion isn't. Outside of dedicated infosec communities, I am not sure what online community has had more purely technical discussion on these issues over time. Feel free to list them though, because without sarcasm, I would be happy to know of them.
I don't think the complexity of the editing system has any meaningful impact on the quality of submissions. Most vandalism and content of poor quality that I've ever seen has simply been added to existing articles. Somebody does not need to be at all familiar with Wikipedia's editing system to insert a few sentences or paragraphs into an article that already exists.

There are many people out there, experts in their field, with valuable knowledge to contribute that may have a difficult time (or don't have the time/motivation for) learning how to properly format an article using the old editing system. I think the barrier to entry should be as low as possible to enable people like this to contribute as well. I don't really see why knowledge of a cryptic and proprietary text editing format should be used as a filter for people attempting to contribute information from fields that have no relation to it.
I've had this opinion for a long time now. I think that voting systems slowly lead towards bad content, over years. It doesn't matter what's special about a website.

This is because the users that should be upvoting/downvoting (ie. moderate/reasonable people who have no incentives of 'visibility' or the like) aren't. They just don't have an urge to upvote the things that should be.

It's exactly why political stories and comments pop up to the top very quickly. It's an "impulse buy" for a lot of people. They see it and think "well everyone should know this!" Think NSA scandal here.

I just don't see a site that heavily relies on what people upvote and downvote forever remaining "pristine" or, in HN's case, hacker-based. Sure, we're all hackers. But a lot of us care about the politics. And when people care about a topic, they're much more likely to go out of their way to upvote the things.

I'm guilty of this too. I don't vote often, and I spend a large amount of time on a lot of vote-driven sites.

The solution? I'm not sure. It's possible that there just isn't a solution. We might just need to keep moving from site to site, with new ideas on content aggregation each time. One day, we might find the perfect solution.

Until then, my feeling is that it's our responsibility as users and content viewers to upvote and downvote appropriately.
It shows, at a minimum, that 'simulating' is not a binary either-or proposition, and that the higher-level a simulation, the easier/more efficient the simulation can be, and so it is perfectly possible to have a high-level simulation of a 'big' thing which is easier to run than a low-level simulation of a 'small' thing - both of these points, as obvious as they may seem to you or me, are badly underappreciated by a lot of people.
Two parties aren't enough by any stretch, given how varied and multi-headed politics are. There are so many different facets and foci, that there's no way you can do a representative bipolar split across them all.

The other problem with systems that settle to two-party systems is that swing voters hold a disproportionate amount of power... which is ironic, given that the swing voters are usually not as politically interested as bloc supporters.
Human trafficking. Yes, this actually happens, both around the world and in America.

The argument I've heard is that a frictionless child pornography market effects an increased financial incentive to traffic children.
What did your colleagues make of your criticism?
You were explicitly talking about testing sentience (which does not require "moves around" or "communicates"). Sentience is simply a concept we have come up with to differentiate organisms. It wouldn't seem surprising to me if something more evolved used a different concept more appropriate to their physiology or philosophy. Hence I think you need to be careful if we are about to apply our concepts to classify something.
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> Crime is non-existent in these villages.

There's a pretty sizable number of Amish caught dealing drugs in Lancaster County. Although I think that's either decreased in recent years or it isn't the novelty that it was initially and there's no real media coverage of it anymore.
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The biggest problem is still how do we get there from here. I don't expect all the power structures that profit from inequality to go silently.
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Check out https://waffle.io/

Gives people who come to your repo a good idea of the progress of various issues, I've found it to be somewhat useful
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pg addresses this in his essay "Keep Your Identity Small". I think this is the root of the problem.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
> If Google can do a reasonable job binning email spam, we must assume the NSA can do a reasonable job ignoring even relatively sophisticated keyword spamming.

Indeed; however the recent Snowden leaks have given us a replacement - we know that the NSA stores indefinitely any encrypted messages. So, simply include inline a random message. Boom, you've permanently used up that much of their space for nothing.
Actually according to a bicycle magazine article I just read only 18% of all bike accidents involve cars. 70% are solo and 50 are of the falling over variety. From most recent bicycling magazine issue.
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>We have simply discussed the surveillance scandal enough.

Is there a clear solution to stopping it? No? Do we know the extent of what the NSA's doing? No? Then we haven't discussed it enough.

This is a historically unprecedented issue. In no period in history has any state has anything akin to this power. This issue is more important than your distaste at seeing content you're not interested in.
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Yeah I don't really think it has anything to do with healthcare. yummyfajitas pointed out the difference between 1950's health care and today, but that applies to just about everything. Compare a 1950's house to one of today. Compare the amount of stuff people have IN their house today. Everything is bigger, more elaborate.

I also think it is deeply engrained in our instincts that idleness is bad. If we don't keep reasonably busy in ways that result in feelings of accomplishment, we eventually become unhappy and depressed. We as a species are driven to work, as it has always been necessary for our survival.
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Reminds me more of the London tube stations than any of the NYC subway stations of today, likely due to a combination of respect and lack of bodily waste/trash.

I ride the NYC subway every day and am always surprised at how poorly the stations are treated. People throw wrappers on the tracks so calmly and confidently as if they were designated to collect waste. Puddles of urine are not uncommonly found. It baffles me. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
Send me some and I'll take em by the mountain bike locations all over seattle and have em tested for ya.
“Designers shouldn’t code” is the wrong answer to the right question
I'm not seeing this on my DO installation.
It seems like what you really want is for b to be a keyword-only argument. Python 3 provides this fwiw.
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Although, I did notice that my installation came setup using Google's free public DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) -- curious that digital ocean isn't running their own DNS servers. If google has an outage, thats a lot of customers who will be complaining to Digital Ocean when they have 0 control over it.
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This has been discussed before, in the context of network security. You can read about efficacy/bandwidth constraints, but basically to provide any strong security you need to spend an overwhelming amount of bandwidth on noise. You must always operate at peak bandwidth to everyone. It becomes prohibitively slow and expensive.
If you are an active Twitter and/or HN reader you are already reading everything that is posted on Slashdot about two days before it is actually posted there.
>I think there are two categories of tech: -Business Value Add -Hype / Marketing

It's harder to tell the difference than you think.

For an example, during the first dot-com, how about amazon? selling books online. Hurr hurr. what a great and revolutionary business plan. Hell, after the crash, for a while, I was selling books online, and writing software to automate warehouse operations. It's actually a really interesting space, if you ask me, but in 1997, well, to me it didn't look like a billion-dollar idea.

Turns out? it was one of those ideas (or implementations) that turned out to be a really good idea. It was not obvious that it was a good idea (or good implementation) at all, not until after the crash.

Or ebay. There was a sea of auction sites. A huge number of auction sites. It was not at all clear that ebay would continue on to be the marketplace of choice.

And for every amazon and ebay, there were a thousand imitators.

And what about Yahoo!? It sure looked like curated portals were the way to go. it looked like they would be the gateway to the internet. Nope.

AOL was in the same boat. It looked a lot like real value, but was, in fact, pyrite.

I think the biggest story is that the people who added the value that was most tangible? the telecoms who actually trenched in all the fiber? A huge number of those went bankrupt. And those are the companies, were I playing stocks at the time, I would have bought. Those companies seemed to be the 'real-estate' of the internet, as they owned the fiber in the ground. In a real sense, they owned they physical layer that the internet was built upon.
While I agree with you that all of those things are ridiculous (and I was vocal in arguing against them), is it fair to characterize the entire forum as being so easily swayed by ant-state sentiments?

During the two week "freak out", I saw a lot of linkbait about the NSA having massive conspiracies, but I saw relatively fewer actual comments where people were clearly being swayed by anti-government sentiment. For every comment I read that was outlandish, fallacious and clearly media spoon-fed, I have to say I can recall a thread of people saying, "No, that doesn't make sense, you're trying to disprove a negative", etc.

tl;dr - My point here is that I think the baseline intelligence of Hacker News is higher than we might think it is just by observing the front page, and that there are actually a lot more savvy people gaming the front page who are just driven by a relative few who act as the passionate, vocal majority.

That's just my opinion. I could be wrong. But I like to think there's a lot of under the radar intellectual activity, and people are just being really opportunistic for karma or some such.

As for legal acumen, I agree completely - I don't have nearly as much as, for example, 'rayiner. But that's exactly why we have people with niche expertise or domain knowledge. It's a real problem when people get frenzied and decide they know Constitution without having read it.

I haven't been here as long, but I believe that we have sampling bias from the hugely outspoken minority who know it's trendy to be anti-state.

EDIT: I want to submit my experience about the site being gameable - it's true it's easy to get the top comment for news stories that are heavily politically loaded, but I have to say it's easy to karma farm even if you're not anarchist/cynical/conspiracy mongering. I do not try to game the forum to get high comments, but I can still personally attest to having some top comments in the high 40s during the NSA scandal while being incredibly vocal against the "popular opinion" that Google was directly aiding the government. I probably had the top comment on at least half of those stories, arguing against the tone of the story profusely. I don't have a sockpuppet ring, so those numbers of people who upvoted me are to the best of my knowledge genuine. They may not have been as vocal in their agreement with me as the detractors who replied to my comments, but they certainly exist.

I guess I just want to try to dispel pessimism. I don't think all is lost regarding the political climate of Hacker News :)
That actually looks pretty promising - the biggest thing that I've seen that drives usage on GitHub is README badges.

It sounds silly, right? Just a badge? But look at Travis, Code Climate, Gemnasium, etc. You see those badges on a project and eventually you start adding them to your own projects and they spread across a site filled with highly qualified leads (developers for your developer-centric service).

The first code review tool to make a badge and get a handful of Ruby projects to use it is going to really take off.
You should always try your websites on smaller screens... I believe 1366x768 is the dominant screen resolution right now.

I can't scroll (why?) and the footer comes above the most important part of the UI.

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PRISM was "unlikely to happen" too. The ability to conduct surveillance through consumer devices, however, is something that already exists (cell phones [1]). Given that the NSA record private phone conversations en masse, as well as many other types of data, why would you assume it "silly fearmongering" to suggest that they'll continue to develop and improve their system's capabilities?

[1] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
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I love how you used song lyrics instead of Lipsum text. That's amazing, and I will be stealing this.
Sorry, I agree with a lot of your sentiments, but I have to nitpick.

I think it is our duty, as older members of this website, to fix this problem.

Is this a throwaway account is 1 hour a very long time?
You can tell google maps to save a set of directions for offline use. Same with scout which is the free app from telenav that all sprint customers get.
Is it the legal stories that are crowding out the technology, or is it the low quality content factories?

Here is a sampling of the worst of what I can see right now (sliding off the front page):
over 50 points - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/01/why-are...

over 50 points - http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/video-reveals-108-year-o...

over 10 points - http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/the-kindhearted-pe...

None of those belong on HN.

In any community, when the law threatens the existence or basic functionality of that communities interests, the law becomes the primary concern of everyone. Here, Python developers may not be interested in mobile UX design, VR hackers may not be interested in 40 year old PC hardware. However, they are all going to be concerned about legal issues that threaten their ability to operate and explore ideas -- be it laws that break and censor the internet, or laws that criminalize reverse engineering.

We have been under siege since the early 1990s. A few legal losses (in the United States) early on could have resulted in a very different internet than we have today. The level of education and understanding of the basic principles of information freedom and autonomy are poorly understand by many. If the community that builds the digital world turns its back on defending these principles, what we have will be taken away.
Dito. I rarely comment or upvote as I feel I'd contribute to the change in quality I'm seeing myself even though I have only been here for 2 years.
I've always wondered about the usability of a chording keyboard with a smart phone's edge (or an xPad) and four areas under the fingers.

(Four buttons is quite few combinations. You probably need the thumb too, with two-three alternative buttons for it.)

It would be easy to have a learning mode which give feedback about possible combinations, since it is on a screen.

My only (hobby) programming for mobile has been on iOS, where the system keyboard isn't easily replaced. There seems to be things like this in the Android store? Anyone know why this didn't work well enough to be popular?
The "anything that good hackers would find interesting" line is not a free pass. The NSA discussion is way past the point where it's interesting to most people. I, for one, despite my interest, don't want to read about the US government, security agencies and it's political system every day.

Maybe more political discussion is needed, but Hacker News is not the place for this to happen. Where is the line drawn? Should we discuss alarming health issues like sodium consumption, GMOs, sweeteners? The military industry? The lobby complex? Violence and misery in Africa? Are these less important than the Prism scandal?
Each Reddit post only goes on one subreddit, but if HN allows posts to have more than one tag, then it could be active in several sub-HNs, one for each tag.

This is the same difference as between traditional email folders and gmail tags.
If we have a reliable model for how synapses fire, we can simulate the brain. Whatever problems quantum mechanics impose on molecular simulation is not relevant, the same way that you don't need to simulate the nucleons on your molecules even if you need precise energy measurements.
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When people say things like this, I can only assume they've never actually read 1984.
They addressed that, if obliquely: "not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur". It sounds like they didn't want to turn it into a job.
Generally, the people doing brain simulations like to claim that they can use a massively reduced representation (little more than a graph model that pushes signals around with some constants) and yet, somehow, the simulation is inherently capable of reproducing something complex about thought. I'm not sure how they get to this conclusion, but it's a massive reductionism. It would be nice if it were true- it would mean that for a reasonable expenditure, we could build a machine that, basically, "thought" and had a "mind" and we could convince ourselves that it was "living" much like we think of other humans.

To date nobody has come up with a really compelling disproof that they are more or less correct- thought and mind seem to be best explained as "emergent behavior of a complex system".

Now, whether can we bootstrap a thinking mind by running complex simulations on computers remains to be seen. I'd like to believe there is some interesting physics going on in brains we can't simulate with straightforward physical models, but there really isn't any good evidence for that.
It's pretty slopping thinking to conflate reporting/analysis based on what public officials have said with inducing a deliberate panic by lying.
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So, is there actually somewhere some news? All I have seen ( I did not check too carefully) that some people claim that the script includes some 0days, but without any detail that would convince me that it is not trolling by 12 year olds...
(Obviously the Tor guys say something more reasonable, but actually they also just say that they are watching the news.)
Sometimes I wish comments were shorter so you could easily tell what's going on in a discussion.

The parent comment says X, the one below says the opposite, and then someone says X again. Do people click and write mainly to get karma? Should posting also cost karma?

The longer you write the easier it is to say something that's not true and harder for people to follow it accurately.

(I know I'm guilty of this.)
Doesn't work on Chrome 28 Win 7 1366 x 768 (can't scroll to see the bottom buttons).

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