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There have been a number of photo exhibits showing exactly that. I assure you, things are worse than you imagine.

http://petapixel.com/2013/02/19/cramped-apartments-in-hong-k...
No matter how much power We The People imbue in our representatives, even when they perfectly reflect the will of their constituents, inevitably there are intangible powers that overwhelm them: old boy networks, corporate benefactors, "special interests", etc. There are simply too many parties who benefit from existing abuses of power, with an opposing party that will seize the slightest PR advantage mercilessly, and media networks that require their millions in kickbacks in order to legitimize you, making it unwise to upset your donors.

On the one hand, we need democratic processes to peacefully resolve unresolvable conflicts: to find workable middle grounds on issues of disagreement. But on the other, we also need collective solidarity in preserving the system as a whole: law and order, transparency, corruption, etc. We got so good at competitive democracy as a culture (due in no small part to First Past The Post), that we've forgotten how to engage in the cooperative democracy that allowed a Constitution to be drafted in the first place, despite all the vehement disagreements at the time.

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if an adversarial political system is doomed to failure, and if we wouldn't be better off if anyone would wanted to participate in the political process was able, at least in some capacity.
I suspect we might attain sufficient dream/sensation implants (dreams planted by suggestion maybe?) before robots pass the uncanny valley. One benefit of the former is privacy; kinda hard to hide a life-size robot from the cleaner, friends, etc. Much easier to secrete simulation files and combine them with your Rift/similar.

At first, I think we'll see 360 degree films or animations for the Rift using professional actors. Then the same, but pirate versions with non-porn actors (models and movie stars) and the publicity will be driven by uproar by the actresses in question, Streisand Effect-style. From there, I think it's inevitable that we'll have design-your-own based on motion capture with tweakable body shape and uploadable face images. Some of this might be raw in the early days, but the keenest put up with glacial modems and low-res pictures for years.

With time, AI-driven 3D models will become the norm. Porn actors will lend their brand to "signature styles" and moves encoded in software. The next two steps from the 360 degree experiences will be repeated here, but with live-tweaking of modes (nice, naughty, language preferences, etc).

I think a purely physical experience with a hardware robot is decades away.

For personal physical sensations other than DIY, I think we're more likely to see tactile gloves and some sort of codpiece?! I just hope someone comes up with a more marketable term than that!
The standard head shakes of disapproval. Comments like "she should just go through the scanner like everyone else" or "look at her trying to create a problem".
After the first couple walked by and had such a reaction, I just ignored it. But then when it repeatedly happened, I wondered why so many people were bothered enough by her decision that they have to stop and make a snarky comment about it.
Maybe when we stop seeing everyone as potential 'terrorists' that should be undressed to prove they don't carry anything dangerous to the rest of us.

Also, there are really a lots of crazy zombies walking around
(Google Street View) https://maps.google.de/maps?ll=22.335737,114.14855&spn=0.002...
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Yes. But keep in mind that minimum wages is $3.75/hour with no paid breaks.

Also, that's your connection speed to the ISP's network. As soon as your traffic leaves HK, you're more likely looking at < 10 Mbps
Offline version could be to wear a certain pin to indicate one is a member of the "opt-out movement"

http://www.pinmart.com/stock-pins-awareness.aspx
Frowns and interrogative looks I guess. When someone does not act as the norm in situations you are expected to, people just reacts negatively, since reacting positively requires to question yourself and make a decision whether you endorse or not a behavior different than yours.

It's way more easier to dismiss self questioning and jump to the disapproval of non conform behavior, the one that everyone has already decided to follow (willfully or not).
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Not totally about lisp, but carries a lot of principles used in lisp (recursive types, closures), and uses scheme : http://htdp.org/

Exercises includes sorting, search in binary trees etc etc

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ is almost the same but with more math/physic background (uses numerical oriented exercises very early). You'll have to write recursive subset, n-queens, matrix-composition functions.
> Then US citizens wonder why everyone else hates them.

I do wonder why people from countries with corrupt governments that commit terrible atrocities that they have no control over hate me because I come from a country whose government commits terrible atrocities that I have no control over, yes.
Title is absurd PR wishful thinking -- Canva's installed base is near zero, as this same article says towards the end:

"Canva will be rolled out to limited users in the U.S. and Australia starting from today."
This is largely an artifact of survivorship bias.

If you compare MS to it's peers:

GE: $372B -> $239B

MS: $326B -> $239B

Exxon: $299B -> $403B

Wal-Mart: $273B -> $247B

Citigroup: $255B -> $134B

Pfizer: $249B -> $207B

Intel: $203B -> $108B

BP: $200B -> $130B

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/ft500
Funny you mention OTR. I started to write that and thought of this and next comment down. Why not show a no configuration technology that could be packaged/advertised a little better and be really useful instead?
Well, I don't think so, since I lived in multiple cities, the order is totally messed up.

Also for e.g. in Amman, public transportation, might cost 0.40 JD, but they don't get anywhere, and in most of times, walking is much faster that taking the bus.

Also there is no such thing as unlimited data plans there too.

So at least for the middle east, I don't think it's accurate.
Actually, we rented a Real Doll mannequin 12 years ago and was quite real in every aspect. After a interviewing the creator, he was talking about models with mechanical parts, with servos and other stuff to make the real doll alive. I don't know if he reached the goal, but keep in mind is really easy to do such and wouldn't be bad for those who enjoyed the doll as a sexual partner.
Did anyone else find it really hard to read the text in this article? I don't like the contrast...
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I keep on reading the sentence, over and over again.
I guess that refusing the scan turns the encounter from random into 'suspicious person', giving them "reasonable grounds" to do all sorts of interrogation.
Hence the reference that not all clients provide an interface to SMP, including very popular ones.
I would suggest, for anybody considering attending a hackathon to not let this totally discourage you.

Not all hackathons are equal. My first was at Launch Fest 2013. It was a great experience and I think the judging was as fair as could be expected. There were a lot of talented people who honestly hacked awesome projects together in such a short time. You can see the 5 finalist starting at 23:30 in http://youtu.be/HPSnsxN4lEs

Also, consider http://openhack.github.io
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The difference between "bottom 5%" and "bottom 5% IN EACH GROUP" boils down to whether the "bell curve" is imposed on a per-small-team level, or a per-department level, or across the entire company. The last is not really practical, but it have seen companies who have imposed the "normal distribution" (which might or might not be a formal bell curve) across a department of 500 engineers. The argument then becomes, "in a department of 500 engineers", it's likely that at least 5 are duds.

My point remains, though, that what people are recoiling with horror is not "stack ranking", but "stack ranking as it is done at Microsoft", which includes a whole host of implementation details that make a huge difference to how it affects company culture.
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30 votes on a hacker news post is hardly "high ranking" and if someone argued based on the quality and content of this blog post, I'd laugh all the way into making all his/her commits come from pull requests.
I wonder how many password leaks would have been a "non-issue", if we had adopted the habit of adding also fixed salt to the passwords 15 years ago?

The point in using fixed salt would be that quite often the password leaks seem to be result of SQL injection attacks and therefore the attacker only gains access to the database. Not the source code. The password hashes from database would be much harder to crack if we were also using a fixed salt string that was only stored in code.

Technically adding this kind of extra salt would be trivial on all platforms. I can't figure out any negative side effects related to it (Obviously it is not replacement to better password hashing schemes).
Rust has let mut, let and static which seem to correspond fairly closely to var, let and const.
What could nikatwork have changed about the original comment in order to make the intended meaning more clear here?
$30/mo is nowhere near cheap - go check plans eg over here in Europe, where you can easily pay €7.50/mo or less, data plan included.
I'm not sure that I qualify as 'sane,' but I do it to block tracking/breadcrumb JS. I don't want to pay extra cash for a flight because airlines know that I've been looking extensively over the last few hours.
Ugh, the community is barely alive and it's an unwieldy collection of non-orthogonal constructs. Generics and a few whiz-bang features doesn't paper over the sins upon sins. I see this project cutting back features or dying under the weight of crushing unmaintainability. (sad.)
"Plus if Adblock is actually successful and the online advertising industry collapses, then they will be putting themselves out of business."

Even worse. Some of these companies (not adblock) are asking protection money from big advertisers to be whitelisted. Mafia style.
We also used cheerio and node.js and built an click & extract interface around it: http://www.site2mobile.com/.
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herpes, aid tests, warts, and if they had all their
vaccines right before the fun begins.
Nurses in the UK are all graduates, why wouldn't they count as middle-class.
I appreciate the hard work that went into this, but we still have to be careful as this is a very tricky measure.

E.G. Colombo, Sri Lanka :

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...

"Colombo" is actually pretty big and diverse.

Depending on which area and even street you turn into, which collection of shops you go to, the price will vary wildly. You can see this especially with regard to Bread (66.14 - 165.00), Tomato (60.00 - 150.00) etc...

I'm sure this will be very helpful in areas where this is not the case, but I don't think it's applicable where finer granularity is really needed. Good way to gauge this is to see how wide the green bar is and how different the prices. If you see a swath of wide green bars, then you know you need finer granularity or the chart isn't applicable due to the volatility in price.
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The terrorists have won.

I don't think the terrorists won, they just provided the push. The commercial interests and their lobbyists have won. And by that, I mean they continue to win.
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I am not saying Ballmer is not to blame btw, just that the company was way ahead of the curve in understanding what the market wanted and where it was going. So it isn't a matter of "they missed opportunities" so much as "they couldn't take advantage of important opportunities no matter how hard they tried."
It shouldn't be surprising that the historical shift from violence to public opinion incentivizes propaganda, just as capitalism incentivizes advertising. And any country where the propaganda isn't working? No problem: ship them some viol... er, democracy!
I do like how they imply men are those who would first take advantage of robots for this purpose. I guess as a society the idea of female self stimulation is a no no in the press? Battery operated boyfriends are just a few extra limbs from being robotic are they not? Its certainly easier to recreate a penis than a vagina.

I think the real issue is, will anatomically correct robots become human enough to fall in love with. People certainly don't need them to be human enough to get their jollies
I think the opposite should be done. I think every single person should opt-out.
Well all new nurses as of last year are graduates - the rest of them are a mix of graduates and non-graduates.

Anyway - I doubt many nurses were privately educated, they aren't well paid and are unlikely to come from families with their own money.

And almost 50% of young people are graduates - they can't all be middle class.

Basically I think Americans think of this as middle class http://bite-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07..., where in the UK we think of this as middle class http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/11/middleton-pa....

I'm not saying we're richer or posher than Americans - just that our definition of middle class is different.
bad study. they don't account for the mental toll induced by lack of sleep. source: myself.
Thank you very much for this owncloud-ready image!
Unfortunately, this confirmed that OwnCloud has a problem with accentuated characters and Mac OS X (and that my custom installations of OwnCloud where not at fault).

Any upload from a Mac of a file or folder with German or French accents hangs (doesn't matter if done thru web drag'n drop or client software). The file is actually uploaded if one leaves enough time. But one need to kill the process (e.g. force quit the page), as OwnCloud doesn't recognize the end of the process.

As per what I have read, it seems Mac OS has a different handling of UTF-8 (the rest is too technical for me).

I am sure this image will be very helpful for many people (it took literally 1 minute to setup, instead of an hour for a complicated install from scratch).
But for someone dealing with non English language and Mac OS X, it seems OwnCloud still has a problem unfortunately. To me, this is still a no go unfortunately (either for me as a private person, or as a potential solution for my SMB).
Yeah, I left too. I've lived in a couple parts of Europe and then Japan since leaving. All of them feel more "free" than post-Bush (I guess I really mean post-Bin Laden) USA; people enjoy more civil rights, and (more pragmatically) more freedom from idiotic hassle in the name of... whatever kind of fuckery it is that keeps the prison lobby, the TSA, and the general industrial-fearmongering complex in business and free of logical constraints.

But, leaving is not really a simple solution, at all. It is both complex and unsatisfying. Thankfully, my wife and kid are with me (and btw, compared to Japan, the USA seems like a completely insane place to raise a kid) but I still have family there, not to mention friends, business interests, tax obligations, etc.

I feel like my country is occupied by an enemy force, and that feeling is hammered home every single time I fly home, within minutes of deplaning.
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Yes, it's a good way for them to bombard people who aren't sufficiently annoyed by ads to actually look for ways to block them with messages telling them they should be. They already "empowered" people to choose an ad-free internet by building the app; people that want it download it. Why exactly isn't it equally obnoxious and irritating for AdBlock to follow everyone else round the internet trying to change their behaviour? Or is their rationale that advertising serves the legitimate purpose of informing users about choices they may not realize they have?

Either way, I'm baffled by the whole exercise, and I have Adblock installed on my primary browser.

Still, the Kickstarter campaign is a great guerilla ad for the Scouter app...
Many enterprise sales markets are as free as can be but you frequently see the exact equivalent of $500 bags of saline. The similarity in both cases is not the freedom of the market, it's that the purchaser and the consumer are not the same person.
The advantages for PDF is printing. You can't just set correctly page margins and other things with plain HTML.
Oddly the BBC has a lot of exceptions to this, based on the past few weeks of "question as headline".
A workaround to this would be self serving the ads, in combination with dynamically named tags / divs etc.

Obfuscating would complicate things, but at least it'd be a workaround.

It's crazy that buySellAds hasn't taken advantage of this.
For the security experts in the audience, which of these statements are untrue?

1. bcrypt is preferable to salted sha1, md5, rot13, plain text, etc...

2. Because of the "cargo cult" effect, bcrypt is more accessible (more platforms, nicer wrappers, etc...) than scrypt or other "better" options.
Even if you pay in cash the NSA will get those tapes and know he was at Home Depot. :P
I don't think airport security and avoiding bombs on planes is an entirely "commercial" interest.
Because it's not enough to be stupid, others must be as stupid as they are.

They just, must...
Why can't they just accept it and stop being a nuisance?...
They are not linked to you or your passport or ID.
So there is no 'you' or your 'body' that they can collect over time.
Is the radiation worse than a long-distance flight?
The terrorist won a long time ago. In particular in the US and England.

Other countries (ironically) did not have such problems with terrorists, or how we call this people in germany: "citizens", "taxpayers", "neighbors"... ;)
(dead people doing it with other dead people)
I completely agree. If I could reinvent adblock I would create it so only false ads would have been blocked. By that I mean false download buttons, fake iphone winnings, insert your phone number for iq test, etc...
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I might be alone, but I think I'd refund every app I purchased if I could within 48 hours. Even 24 would be too short for me.

I'd be able to pick up new games every week for my weekly commute and never have to pay for them.
There are meatier technical presentations around about the formal bounds, but I always recommend Manuel Serrano's early work, which is much more accessible than more modern presentations (my own included):

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=315891.315934

A good survey of many of the tricks used in practice (and the formal techniques, as well) is available in Jan Midtgaard's tome, which was finally published in the last year or so:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2187671.2187672
If a lot of able-bodied people start doing this then the TSA may start giving people who actually can't raise their arms a hard time.
Greetings,

> I don't care about their bills

[sarcasm] How farsighted. Oh how very farsighted. [sarcasm off]

So you really do not care about their service being shut down, because it could not pay for itself? I mean, people working there to produce content, hardware to run the service, bandwidth, and so on...
I just watched the two side-by-side (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/10/4412350/apple-new-mac-pro-...) They're exactly the same aside from a 3 second full-product shot at the end of the WWDC one that's omitted from the new Cinema one.
Selling expensive equipment to the government is a commercial interest. Increasing responsibilities/work of the TSA (arguably) is a commercial interest as well.
OK, thanks. I didn't realize Server 2003 was Valentine. It was excellent. I think I remember him from Windows Me, which was never as bad as it was painted. (A clean install worked well.)
"Literally; Al Qaeda, and an substantial proportion of all muslims everywhere"

Non-sequitur. No matter how true it may be for Al Qaeda, for which people may feel they have seen evidence, you provide absolutely no backing for your assertion that a "substantial proportion of all muslims everywhere" agree with what you assert Al Qaeda feel.
That's supposedly how the internet grew as rapidly as it did, yes. I don't buy it for sexy robots though.

In order for a robot to be sexier than a blow-up doll they would likely need a level of sophistication that would make them 1) expensive and 2) able to do more valuable tasks.

Also, given human nature, someone who could afford a sexy robot could get laid with a human. I don't mean a prostitute either.

The real revolution will be robots that can cook, clean and drive (supposing we need drivers by then). Take a look at what a properly trained butler will cost you per year. If you could make a butler robot that costs 100k with a 10 year service life then you'll probably reshape human society.
I agree with the general spirit of your post, however:

Amsterdam Schipol has (a lot of) scanning machines as well.

Germany has more freedom in certain areas and less freedom in others. (you can't take your empty bottles to the recycling bins on Sunday for example)
This is the type of crap that pushes a non-muslim over the edge.
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It's not your site, you cannot decide what it does. I mean really, blocking regular ads won't get us anywhere.

It's like receiving free news every morning, but you have ordered a kid who delivers them to cut out ads.
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Although I've been alarmed by many of the abused of power reported recently, I'm not sure about this one. It may well be illegal, but the article doesn't make the case that any actual harm has occurred. After all, what we are talking about here is a bunch of cops "sitting round eating kebabs and buying pastries".

"That’s when Berdecia realized that, in the hunt for terrorists, his detectives gravitated toward the best food."

"the Demographics Unit never built a single case"

It sounds more like a waste of money than an abuse of power.

On the other hand, what it does do is show how easily law enforcement officers can use nebulous suspicions to justify what they want to do. In this case, they label people as suspicious in order to justify getting a nice meal. Others do so in order to go on a power trip.