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> "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people that were oppressing them." -- Assata Shakur

I think there are one or two examples in recent history. The LGBT movement has made a great deal of ground recently by appealing to peoples' sensibilities.

Now, in more extreme cases you aren't going to talk the oppressors out of anything. I doubt anybody has ever stopped a genocide with rational argument and appeal to the murderers' sensibilities.
You need left margin or left padding. It's really awkward without it. Also max-width on the content please.

edit: Thanks for the update. Looks really nice.
The Glass has non GPS functionality. I have no opinion on it's use as a nav system, having not used it.

No, there really isn't an assumption of innocence for some things. If I am driving with an open container (booze), I'm getting cited, regardless of whether the officer saw me take a sip. IOW, I argue that Glass has such a high degree of risk for distraction and abuse that I don't want them to be legal to use while driving.
Is this used in actual apps?
What differentiates this from, say, Macaw?
Engineers design roads around traffic speeds - a higher intended traffic speed has ramifications for how the road is designed and built.
> It's debatable that other countries are "above" it in moral terms

It's really not, since many of the releases of information about what the US is doing -- including the current one -- have other countries also neck deep in it. I mean, the actual spying in the article that this comment thread is attached to is done by the UK's GCHQ, NSA is just a consumer of the data.
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What do you mean by architecture astronaut?
Similarly on the Java side you've got JSF which is basically ASP.Net ported to Java. It was a dumb idea when ASP.Net did it, and it was still a dumb idea when it was ported to Java. Now we have the same dumb idea ported to Javascript. Also as you point out, Javascript.

Thanks but no thanks, give me a proper REST API on my server, and a good JS framework on my client, and I could really care less what language the server code is done in so long as it's easy to build the REST services I need in it.
Java 6.0 comes with JSR 223 ("scripting for the Java platform"). It's a framework for hosting scripting engines. 6.0+ is shipped with a JavaScript engine based on Mozilla's Rhino.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_%28JavaScript_engine%29
Good. Wearing Google Glass while driving should be banned. The people using cell phones while driving are bad enough.
You can build an AMD APU system extremely cheaply. A ZBox Nano A4-5000 (using the "Kabini" APU) is only $300 or so for a complete computer (RAM, Hard drive, etc. etc. included).

On the contrary, the AMD APUs are extreme value buys. Intel has superior CPUs, but you save a money with AMD APUs because you don't need to buy a graphics card anymore. AMD is beginning to do crazy stuff, like cache-to-cache direct transfers between CPU and GPU, because both are on the same die.

Intel has been improving its integrated graphics in response of course... but they aren't at the level of AMD's APU integration yet.

But to call this "price jacking" means that you completely don't understand the marketplace right now. AMD's Kabini and Temash chips are among the cheapest in the entire marketplace right now... and AMD's higher-end APUs (Codename: Richland) are sold at significant discounts in comparison to Intel chips.
Now that Kim has a job at Microsoft, a read through of the discussion of the original presentation without this context could be interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208
"Growing up with cats" is a disadvantage in this case - people don't really notice the 'default' environment that they're used to, your nose 'turns off' that specific smell and doesn't record it. My relatives who have cats (especially in the plural) are unable to distuinguish their own items that smell of cat from similar items that don't.

It's similar for smoking - nonsmokers can easily identify traces of smoke smell (like, this particular jacket was worn recently to a place where people smoked) that are not noticeable by the smoker itself.
I'm not sure who, but clearly one of us has not understood the purpose of the app under discussion here. My impression is this facilitates public, pseudo-anonymous conversation with anyone in a 1 mile radius of yourself.
The purpose of intelligence agencies is to spy on non-citizens, both in peacetime and in wartime. One might argue that traditionally they focused on public figures in the foreign states and that spying on average foreigners is new; I don't know if that's true, but seems plausible.

It would generally be a dereliction of duty for the NSA/CIA to not spy on non-Americans. The same holds true, modulo agency name and country, for any other country.

Now, if you want to make the argument that national borders should dissolve and that spying on foreigners should become history - or something like that - that's up to you. But spy agency gonna spy.
Why no FuelBand Android app? Quality first and scale second, says Nike
Well I actually meant if tuition wasn't too bad (unless that's what you were talking about) -- and you don't have to make excuses for living at home, cost benefits are super huge ;)

So I recently just graduated, and I worked (at internships during school AND summers, pretty much ~30 hrs a week), and I had plenty of free time, I just used it unwisely (generally).

I haven't worked in a startup, so I can't really give you the most accurate of time measurements, but if you're working on something you like, I'm pretty sure you won't even feel 50 hrs a week go by. Also, in a company that is fully aware that you are still in school shouldn't really be expecting 60 hours. And if they do, you can use that as leverage for more flexible working locations (like the ability to do most of your work from home/on-the-go). But generally it doesn't seem like any reasonable person would expect you to work 60 hours (as a new hire) while going to school. Doesn't seem healthy
Would you like me to give you some Ruby code that would emulate this functionality? I am fairly sure the size of the program would be less than 300 LOC, tops.

That is indeed a "little app". The 30-something line regex parser Pike wrote (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea...) ? Also a "little app".

There is no shame in solving a small problem, solving it well, and solving it concisely.

As far as being a "rehashing of other ideas"--how many hackathons have you been to on college campuses, and/or how many students doing mobile dev stuff have you chatted with, and/or how many people with a great idea for a local messaging app have you met?

This is not, will not, and never has been a novel idea. That doesn't make it worthless, that doesn't make it pointless, but it also doesn't make it new.

As for the "toy campus app": that's what this is...a toy application (small, concise, single-function) targeting primarily college kids (see the comparisons in this very thread to JuicyCampus).

I honestly don't understand why you're getting so defensive just because I'm not getting down on my hands and knees to praise the obvious genius and ingenuity and novelty that went into this (this is sarcasm, by the way).

I can respect it as a work on its own merits, but I will not afford it more than that.
Not sure that anyone wants to be updating the battery in something so simple every few months?
There are graphics cards that use two slots, just not two PCIE interfaces. Humongous cooling solutions on contemporary graphics cards usually extend over two slots:

http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/14-127-768-Z02?$S...
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html
Thanks for the notice, Sujan. I didn't realize the MongoDB library we are using wasn't suppressing those types of errors out in production. Fortunately, all the data stored there is just crawl data, as we are careful to silo sensitive data.
A computer can not paint like Leonardo Da Vinci.
He can not write like Shakespeare.
And he can not play music like Sviatlosav Richter.

A prush, pencil, and musical instrument that can not be used by humans is therefore useless.
We understand that, and have kept that in mind while building the backend. We match up content items with summarizers based on interests and expertise. Additonally, every summary also goes through an editor/proofreader before it is is published.
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I don't know about that. At least memes don't pretend to be anything else than they are. They are the unabashed verbal and visual equivalent of musical jingles, things designed to grab your attention and stick in your head, but nobody is suggesting that jingles are equivalent to Beethoven.

Corporate PowerPoint-talk is the spiritual heir of what Orwell is mocking in his rewrite of the Old Testament passage. An ever-growing wall of "strategic" abstractions and vaguely Latin buzzwords is used to hide the debilitating lack of meaning and power that plagues the days of almost every mid-level manager at any established company.
Google smartwatch: Will it be an 'iPhone moment' for wearables?
There were also something known as Citizen-Band radios, but that was a long time before all this computer nonsense.
I ran into the opposite problem with Bluetooth, although on not-so-recent hardware. A little while ago I wrote a bunch of shell scripts for Linux to active Motion [1] on my home computer and laptop whenever I (or rather, my Bluetooth-equipped phone) was away. It would then record any detected motion as video and pictures (uploaded offsite in real time in case the computers got stolen -- that, I thought, was a neat feature) and alert me. In practice the system ended up producing too many false alarms when it failed to detect my phone for up to several minutes when I was around and generally had a very unstable range.

[1] http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion
If it isn't necessary for the end user, it shouldn't be on the site.

Put it in http://humanstxt.org/

2c
On Chrome you can use an extension like iReader to format it nicely:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...

Yours does look a little nicer, though. You should make it an extension.
>> Back when PCs weren't very good and you had to make real choices about what processor, hard drive and so on to get, DELLs customization and modularity business flourished.

The cpu/memory/chipset remained integrated , due to performance reasons. But external bus performance was good enough to separate some functionality into external cards.
'Take a photo and upload it to my social network' is an entertainment device. Sure, you could construct an argument around professional photographers blah blah, but the camera is not professional quality, and from experience, there's no way to frame the photo properly. The glass is almost entirely an entertainment device in its current form.
What exactly remains to be developed? We have Mixmaster, Mixminion, Sphinx, etc....
Which in the long run is a far more elegant solution. Rather than "Kill All The Things!" (including your target), it's "Kill the Bad Guy!" - but you have to know who he was.
Totally agree. While getting our company off the ground, my co-founder and I regularly played basketball together a few nights a week. After a long day of the grind, it was a welcome change and I definitely think helped us in the midst of several difficult decisions/questions.

As icing on the cake, we also met what would become one of our first Angel investors while playing!
Surprised no one has mentioned http://thetempleapp.com/
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AMD makes GPU compute a reality with hQ
http://docs.meteor.com/#spiderable

Could this could be used if the browser does not support JS?
oops... yes. I'll stop posting on HN before I've eaten.
Lot's of people who text while driving think it's safe too. You can't take reckless drivers' own word for what's safe or not.
Which Ensure is formulated to replace food entirely? As far as I can tell, if I drank enough ensure to get 2400 calories, the other nutrients would be out of wack. As in, a given portion does not have the same DV% of each nutrient.

I'd never heard of Fortisip but from what I can tell it and ensure are both considerably more expensive than regular food, and actually more expensive than eating out.
Interesting that they compare the cost of roadways to the cost of light rail/subway, but don't mention what the potential cost-per-mile of a gondola system would be.
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As someone who's worn Glass, and who regularly wears thick-rimmed corrective glasses, I have to say that the frames of my glasses are a larger obstruction than Glass.

The screen on Glass actually rests outside of my normal field of view when wearing corrective glasses, it lies above where the lens would be, in an area where my vision is uncorrected and therefore useless for driving already. That's not a problem though because that area contains the sky and the roof of my car, two things mostly unimportant for driving.

Should I be cited for driving because my corrective glasses don't allow me to see with perfect clarity the area where my windshield joins with the roof? I think not.
We're using it in a big app right now and have been happy with it in general.
Nah. Because JavaScript.
There are plenty of easy to install unit-test packages. Laika, Chai, etc.
Only if you have a narrow view of "manned".

For almost all of human history, long treks were made without the expectation that those that started the journey would be the same ones to end it (think of the Israelites in the desert, early Americans heading west, or the proto-Native Americans who crossed the land bridge from Asia).
Show HN: mute.fm is gestureless Flutter
Flutter requires that you raise your hand in the air to control music. If you want to pause your music to watch a video, this can be automated by looking at process volumes (and you don't have to remember to resume it afterward.)

http://www.mute.fm/
I have a Kawai MP10 digital Piano and an old hand made analog Hofmann piano.
If I play for example just the last Chord (6 Notes) of Chopin Prelude op. 28/4 on the Hofmann the music goes deep through every nerve.
Nothing comparable happens on the Kawai even with very good speakers.
I thought this was going to an alternative to a physical lock, which seemed impossible, but on my way to click on the link it occurred to me you could setup the Mac so it sounded an alarm if moved, unless you unlocked it with your password. Which would be also be a cool idea. (Since I am at a cafe I guess my mind went more towards physical security.)
The military also have teams of cognitive scientists A/B testing different HUD apps. I remember seeing one paper where they were A/B testing different presentations of incoming enemy fighter craft. This stuff is tested by people who have very deep knowledge about perception and attention, and aren't just an app slapped together in spare time.

I remember from that testing that there were three ways the threat was categorised by distance: safe, lethal, very lethal - the middle one was very specifically not "kinda in danger" :)
I'm sure their intention was not to be used for nefarious purposes, but that doesn't mean NSA/FBI/Congress won't try to portray it as such.

But anyway, I'm starting to get the feeling this issue is taking too much attention from the protocol itself, which is the big news here. If they want to change it, great, if not that's fine, too. They just need to make sure the protocol is great, and can get other big e-mail providers to support it, or at least a ton of smaller ones.
2 things come to mind.

1) Customer Service at Scale - If I am a business owner people call up with questions that can most likely be answered by an faq and a search. Worst case they are checking on the status of an order or something that might require a dashboard/database lookup, but could easily be provided to a 3rd party. I would imagine providing a scalable way to outsource this process to business might be something to tackle. Checkout http://bootstrapped.fm/bootstrapped-episode-18-special-guest... might get some ideas - just think millions of customers and only 10 reps

2) Call Me Back - Rather then wait 25 minutes on hold for calling some company - have a service that calls in and press 0 and waits until someone live is on the phone then tell them to wait while I connect me and call me back

3) Mass Notify - When an emergency happens - why not have a simple solution for calling out or sending sms. When businesses are closed or sports games are cancelled, a simple way to send out a notification

Just some thoughts -

Big Players:
http://www.ringrevenue.com/
https://www.twilio.com/
It may be a functioning democracy to whatever degree, but is it still a constitutional republic?
"In Europe a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, while the people are merely a spectator of the conflict; in America he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him." Although it should be noted that people lived in much smaller towns two centuries ago. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/1_ch05.htm
It seems Schneier is saying less and less specific, fundamental issues and speaking more of abstract, high-level political and social concepts. He seems to have lost all power over his understanding of important breaking security issues and is left playing catch-up trying to understand what has already happened. My guess this is a result of the privatization/monitization/markets of zero-days, re-establishing control of technology by the classic economic systems, and taking it from engineers and experts.

That said, I don't think I'll bother reading anything else from Schneier's desk from this point forward. If he thinks that the "battle" is being fought on the edge of corporate networks, he's lost the trees for the forest. The real battle is happening for eyes and ears, on the streets, like it always has been. Less and less, some random person who happens to be the descendant of some king thinks the way the entire IT market needs to move so that "society" doesn't collapse, less and less is anyone listening to that person or believing he has any power. Real Time web of things or whatever you want to call it, nobody is buying it. If he thinks that people buying an iPod is signing allegiance to Apple's security forces, well he's wrong. If he thinks EULAs are going to be enforced in court, he's wrong. So considering those two flaws in the foundation of his world view, the rest of his rambling screed has been lost to the world of fiction.
A long, expensive treatment implies success? I would much rather my misdiagnosis cost 5 dollars than 5000.
This is true, to some extent. You're directly charging for materials related to the code. I gave you 2x as much $$ as I did Giles. I'm glad to do it, but his stated purpose wasn't to improve RailsApp, it was to take common general issues and refactor them. RailsApp just happened to be a convenient example.

Hopefully some of the hundreds of smart developers that can contribute will apply some of the code review to RailsApp.

It gets into murky waters though.

I'm assuming contributors don't get a cut of the monthly subscriptions to RailsApp Pro.

I think what you're doing is awesome, and love the approach you've taken.
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Those "modules" are proprietary form factors that you cannot buy and Apple won't support any modification other than adding RAM.
As others have said, we do not charge a subscription fee to consumers. We let lawyers offer free initial consultations and most do. You can choose to or to not work with the lawyers after that. All we do is make the whole discovery, communication and payments aspects much more efficient.
"In 63 BC as a quaestor in Spain, Julius Caesar is said to have broken down and wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, realizing that where Alexander had conquered most of the known world at thirty, Caesar at that age was merely seen as a dandy who had squandered his wife's fortunes as well as his own."
I'm not sure what we are talking about here. The US government is oppressing everyone... both Americans and non-Americans.

In theory, the American people are the only ones with the power to solve this problem. This responsibility is a burden. Before going to bat, I would rather encounter friendly encouragement than smug contempt.
Angular's declarative approach makes it easier to separate angular out if you choose to switch frameworks for whatever reason.

Personally, I've found backbone pretty disgusting, although perhaps better than vanilla js/jquery.
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Good point. Liked the assessment of where eye focus is, though I often notice that I position myself slightly to the left of my balanced laptop, perhaps because I use my right hand for more than 1/2 of the keyboard.
At least according to the wikipedia page, it looks like the Mozilla Foundation brings in $300M a year in revenue. I still wouldn't say that $6M a year is trivial for them, but it certainly isn't an impossible bridge to cross. Up until now the Mozilla party line has been that they don't want to pay the patent fees for reasons of principle.

So it looks to me like there was another option: bite the bullet, pay the licensing fee and distribute their own blessed binaries (they still couldn't grant a license to people building from source), then feel free to take whatever position on WebRTC they thought was best.
How are all of our elected officials "just finding out" about this stuff? Bullshit!

Our congressmen, senators, and POTUS are all "as surprised as you are!"(TM) about these allegations that keep coming out.

Obama doesn't know anything. Feinstein (who heads the Senate intelligence committee, and is briefed on the NSA's activity) knows nothing.

What's the difference between extreme incompetence and maliciously lying? I can't tell the difference.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/mmp/jimmy-carter.htm

Apparently the procedure is to position the USS Jimmy Carter over the cable, send out a remote vehicle to grab the cable and pull it up to the sub, splice in tapping equipment, and then drop the cable.

Intercontinental cables are less than one inch in diameter in deep water. If the sub plants the tap in deep water, it's extremely unlikely that anyone would ever discover it. There are a few cable repair ships that pull broken cables to the surface and fix them, but other than that... No one can reach it and no one will bother it.

The most interesting thing is actually getting the data back to the U.S. Do they run a separate cable alongside the existing cable? Getting SMALL bits of data back to the U.S. is easy, can just broadcast it. But LARGE amounts of data? Tricky.
Mozilla didn't have a choice. VP9/WebM is not happening. The primary reason is almost all inter frame content is acquired or transmitted as H.264. Mobile phones, prosumer cameras, network based encoding appliances, PVR's, cable/satellite tv. No one wants to re-encode. Plus there is a lot of baked in hardware support for H.264 encoding/decoding.
Respect The Javascript
Ask HN: Finishing is hard, how do you do it?
When i create something for someone else, 85% of the time, it gets done on time.

But:
I got tons of ideas on my spare time. I usually start time and get the basics done. Then my mind wonders off in 2 possible ways. I want to integrate marketing ideas (which grows the project a lot) or my mind is already wondering off to another project, so call it a continious loop for the moment.

How do you stick to one project, keep believing in it and finish it?

PS. For example, in our country (Belgium), we have 10 million people who speak 3 different languages. So probably every project of mine does globalization / localization :)
I'd better drop that, i know. But i believe that it's a requirement for releasing in Belgium.