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Living in LA and need to visit SF for the weekend? Get off your ass and walk there.

Umm...what? Are these moving sidewalks going to travel at 50mph?

The thing that bugs me most about cars, in addition to wasting gas, is that they're isolating devices. They prevent me from admiring scenery, meeting interesting people, and walking more often.

Suggestion: ride the train. You can talk to people, admire the scenery, and walk around.
Worth reading:

http://z6.invisionfree.com/ProjectATT/index.php?s=c670226f1b...

Edit:

yeah, broken link and the original appears to be gone. Too bad, it was a fairly level headed "calm down and let's see what's really going on" kind of post. Next best post is this:

http://z6.invisionfree.com/ProjectATT/index.php?showtopic=10...

Seems that access is restored for many people...

Edit 2:

What it used to say:

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Okay, let's stop and be rational here. And if your stupid ass is too lazy to read this, fuck off and go back to Habbo.

Here is what we know:

1) AT&T customers around the nation cannot access img.4chan.org;

2) AT&T claims that there is a security issue (no further details available to end-users) regarding img.4chan.org that they have contacted Moot about; and

3) Moot is aware of the problem (I emailed him, and I'm sure others have as well).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's all we know.

I am significantly older than most of you, and I have a law degree. I have significant public relations and marketing experience, and I have the wisdom to see that we should wait before jumping the gun here. Moot is probably shitting bricks right now with the amount of emails he's receiving.

This is essentially a he-said/she-said issue now, and AT&T may be full of shit about the "security issue." But before the hordes of 14-year old boys and their Skype accounts start sending massive amounts of pizzas to AT&T offices, let's wait and see what happens. I suggest we give AT&T the benefit of the doubt and wait to see if Moot responds (assuming there is a legitimate issue between AT&T and 4chan) and if the matter can be resolved that way.

If, after a few days, it is revealed that AT&T is truly "censoring" parts of its customer's Internet experience, then I suggest we work through the media. There are legitimate news outlets that would be interested in hearing about censorship, because the media has long been at odds with any sort of regulation of information.

However, as a personal favor, please stop with the First Amendment shit. You don't know what you're talking about, you sound like idiots, and anyone that knows a bit about the First Amendment is going to laugh when they read your posts... meaning our "cause" loses credibility. And let's face it, despite that censorship issues have the potential to reach much further than 4chan, when the public finds out what /b/ is all about, we're not going to be the media darlings we need to be.

So for the time being, plan. But plan wisely. Don't threaten. Don't physically damage equipment. DDOSs against a Tier1 ISP are about as useful as screen doors on a submarine. Do these things at your own peril, but realize for each retarded action you take in the name of a resistance, every time it fails or gets negative press, you are fucking things up for the rest of us.

Let cooler heads prevail. Think before you act.

BlackMagister

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Three days before the announcement of the iPhone, amid persistent rumors I posted on Digg that I "seriously doubted" that Apple was making a phone. Someone responded to my comment saying that Apple would not have been smart to let the rumor get out of control as it did as it could cause their stock to drop when they don't deliver. Since Apple (obviously) did deliver, I'm cautiously optimistic that the same reasoning can be applied to these persistent iTablet rumors.
Compete is frequently wrong. For example, techcrunch.com/advertise shows that TC gets over 3MM+ uniques.
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Here's a great video tutorial made by CamTwist explaining the basics to using it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMUTvI3NAo
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Not that black and white - note that telecommunications is often a government-granted (and mandated) monopoly. Some municipalities sign exclusivity deals with certain telecom providers, and certainly spectrum limitations and whatnot as granted by the government reinforces this.

Private companies engaging in censorship runs afoul of the law if the government has a hand in them being there.
This is a common misunderstanding -- probably committed more often by Americans than non-, though, so don't feel too badly. The fact of the matter is that private corporations (and that includes publicly traded such; ahh, the vagaries of English) are pretty much free to do whatever they want with the infrastructure they own, without running afoul of the Constitutional protections regarding free speech.

That's not to say they won't suffer some well-deserved ire if they "censor" something, but the actual First Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech..." (The elided bit in the middle of the quote is the part about religion, often called the Establishment Clause.) They're under no legal or other obligation to "not censor"; the Congress is.

That doesn't mean AT&T haven't run afoul of any of the other Safe Harbor provisions they're subject to under US law, but that's not remotely about freedom of speech. The gist there, AIUI, is that if you block one kind of content, there's an implication that you have the ability to block arbitrary kinds of content, and so you're suddenly obligated to. (Someone who knows how the various Safe Harbor provisions is encouraged to correct any misstatements in the preceding.)

EDIT: As potatolicious points out above, this isn't as black and white as all that; when government and industry climb into bed together, they tend to get their obligations and responsibilities all over one another.
I know I'll probably get downmodded for this as it's a bit tangential but I'm of the view Justin.tv should rename and rebrand itself. It sounds like someone's homepage and it's origins are based around the founder's personal video channel. It just doesn't sound like a site where people can share video themselves and doesn't reflect what it has really become.

Just my 2 cents anyway.
But as you suggest, karma limitations would mitigate security issues. Updates could also be reviewed and controlled by moderators.

I only suggest this because quite often you see websites (like the above) popping up on externally hosted servers, when they could potentially integrate into HN.
I don't see the market for this but more power to them if they release one and it's a success. I don't underestimate Apple's ability to "create a need".
Pretty cool! Any way to make it remember my sort order (just a cookie or something?). If I sort, then click a site (rather than open a new tab) and go back it will have forgotten my order. Not a big issue but could be nice, especially for those that might want the same sort order each time they visit.
You are talking about Open-Globalization. This is not possible, since countries are not all allies.

May be in the future, when a country have all power over the others; or all the countries have the same power.
Financial Times have confirmed what, exactly?

Much as I think an Apple Tablet would be cool, I'm struggling to think of many uses cases for it, beyond it 'being cool' (and I mean cool in the tech sense of the word, not in the slave to fashion sense)
Factually completely incorrect.

1. IISc was setup by Tatas, a private company, not by Indian Govt. Also IISc, then called Tata Institute of Science was established long before (around 50 years) British left India; nobody at that time had any clue that there was going to be Pakistan forked out of India, much less that it's going to have nukes.

2. Narayan Murthy didn't work in any of the organizations (IISc, DRDO, HAL) that you have mentioned. In fact he hadn't worked in Bangalore before Infosys was setup.

3. Patni, and TCS were there long before Infosys was founded. Narayan Murthy was working in Patni when he decided to start Infosys.
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That's only true if you learn unicycling purely by trying it until you get it. I've taught dozens of people how to unicycle, all of whom felt they were constantly making progress, all of whom could see the goal getting closer and closer.

I wonder if Seth actually unicycles, or if he simply picked this as a charicature of something difficult. Main lesson to learn - don't talk about something of which you're ignorant.

And even if he does unicycle, clearly he doesn't know how to teach it.
Upvoted as you, sir, are correct. I actually have serious problems with the current view of nations and citizenship.

To put a proper criticism of the current system together would take me pointing out premises and assumptions that people do not even know they have. I'd have to start by sharing some history going from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of WWII to talk about how the current notion of nations and borders developed.

Then I'd put my case together that I think there's some fundamental human rights that I reckon everyone should have, that no local government should have any jurisdiction over. One of those, of course, is full mobility like I put above, but also free speech, free assembly, and so on. Then I'd mention that localities could make local laws to handle things a bit different and specific to the particular place.

Finally, I'd take some guesses about how this would happen, where some set of armed group(s) or allied nations would declare a global constitution that all people had a right to, and a slow change would take place. Or perhaps decentralization of information makes enforcing borders effectively pointless. Or maybe warfare evolves even further away from conventional warfare as seems to be happening now.

Who knows? It's a complicated mess of a topic. I just think it'd be a really nice thing :)
I wonder how many people are running bots on HN to correct some 'perceived' shortcoming of the site.
but the problem is, majority of the organizations in India evaluate a student only by the degree/institute tag.
I hope the Zoho experiment is tried in all other companies as well.
There are several Forth compilers for the AVR. Forth has all the extensibility of Lisp, but can be very low level if it needs to be. It seems like the perfect match for microcontrollers.

http://amforth.sourceforge.net/
Is it available somewhere?
To the people saying they don't see the value or market in an Apple tablet, Apple may simply be hoping for a greater acceptance rate among Windows users.

The iPhone has been a great product for breaking down barriers between Windows users and Apple hardware. If the tablet can integrate both OSX and iPhone UI aspects then this will hopefully break down most usability and interface barriers, meaning people are less reluctant to buy a Mac.

It's just one theory...
> You can't say, is it the Bernoulli effect or is it the fact that the wing makes the air behind it go down. Those are both different ways of expressing the same thing. You can't have one without the other.

Actually, you can. It's fairly straight-forward to construct an example where you do get the Bernoulli effect and there is no downwash. What is true is that when you fly you have both, and both contribute.

What's more true is that there are many effects, each of which contributes, many of which are inter-dependent, and all of which are simple in isolation, and complex in interaction and action.
The music industry.

Some of the practices and licensing processes date back to before recorded music existed. Publishing, mechanical, and performance rights, as well as royalty organizations like ASCAP/BMI/etc., are all more than a little strange in a world with the Internet. And, I don't think I even need to explain why the major labels should go to hell.
The stock theory doesn't hold, Apple never denies (or confirms) rumors.
UNIX. Not everything is a stream of bytes.
It's not cheating (hey, this is hacker news right, and part of hacking is to 'bend the rules' a bit every now and then) and I think it is a fantastic idea.

There is nothing that pisses me off more than one human standing in front of another saying they can't go somewhere.

This planet belongs to none of us.

As long as somebody does no actual harm to it they should be free to go anywhere. Borders are one of the worst inventions ever and there ought to be a universal human right associated with your idea.
Some guys here in Delft reinvented the umbrella, making it wind-proof. It's actually pretty cool:
http://www.senzumbrellas.com/
why a magstripe, just a simple chip and a confirmation dialog on the reader would do the same trick. Set one card as the default for old style equipment and you're backwards compatible.
Want to go to the grocery store? Walk there in 5 minutes.

It's called a bicycle.

(It also makes it significantly easier to bring 50 pounds of groceries home; saving you from having walk there before every meal.)
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standardize those as well.
The fact that people like to read HN in different ways isn't due to shortcomings in HN -- it's simply an inevitable result of the fact that HN has a large and non-homogeneous readership, and thus any one way to view HN will not satisfy everybody.
Or perhaps less obtusely - "Universe && (semi)free will can't be represented by Turing Machines"
Don't worry too much about it, this will take care of itself soon enough. Give them enough rope and I'm sure they'll find a creative way to use it.
So, the lack of configurability would then count as a shortcoming ?

Maybe services like HN should be built up around an API where the default website is just one way to use the site.

Everybody that is capable of doing so can then roll their own.
I'm honestly surprised that there has been no attempt to form an open-worker policy among a group of more developed nations, similar to the one the EU has.
I think most people on Hacker News know that Robert Morris working for Y Combinator doesn't retroactively make breaking into people's machines a good thing.

I'm not sure why you think disliking these actions is self righteous - how would you feel if someone brought down your server for 'curiosity'?
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Past performance is no guarantee for the future... That goes for failed as well as successful predictions.
No one will refuse the idea of Open Borders; if the borders where opened in his face!
I do agree with you but there may be an unwanted consequence of this. (Please forgive me if what I'm going to say is completely clueless. I know next to nothing about India)

There is this widely reported emphasis of process and quality assurance methods in indian offshoring companies. To my ears this sounds incredibly bureaucratic and unnecessesary when you work with competent people.

Could it be that this overly convoluted QA process is required simply because individual engineers are not educated well enough, or rather because they never had the time to experiment for themselves, deepen their knowledge and develop their own interests and creativity?

Or is this a perception problem created by the big indian IT companies who see that whole QA methodology stuff as a way to appear reliable in the eyes of western executives?
Agreed, a tablet and an e-reader have so little in common today that they are in different spaces.

Tablets and laptops are probably closer.

- price

- battery life

- applications running on it

- networking options

- audience

Such a tablet would have to be very cheap and have an e-ink screen in order to have any chance to compete with an reader and I don't think either of those will be the case.
I cleaned it up a bit (removed names, etc) and uploaded it here: http://lexandera.com/public/hackernews.user.js

There's a configuration section at the top which you need to customize.
http://www.cabrillo.edu/~jwelch/bernoulli-coanda.html
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I can see where you're coming from, but we've built up a lot of brand equity in the Justin.tv name now, with tons of people coming to the site, links, etc.

For more and more people, it's just a name, like "Fox" or "Warner Brothers". Most people don't even know about the original Justin.tv show, or who Justin is.
It does if you consider it JustIn.tv.

There's nothing wrong with having a brand name that doesn't explicitly say what the company does (reminds me of the Forest Gump quote "We invested in some apple company"). Their site get millions of visitors per month; they'd lose staggering amounts of brand equity at this point by changing names. Besides, I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of its users don't know the origins of Justin.tv.
You are absolutely right, but it clearly shows that countries have too much control over their citizens.
Geek Cruise lecture "Why Airplanes Fly - A Modern Myth" (audio only, 3 parts):

http://podcast.geekcruises.com/index.php?search_string=airpl...
Ask HN: How to make the area "around" a site clickable?
Check out http://www.collegehumor.com/ and hover over the empty space in the gutters to the side of the main content. That whole space is clickable sending you off to the advertiser for that day. What are some good ways of making the entire area _around_ a site clickable? I'm playing around with a few but not seeing any one standout approach.
Wondering what Techcrunch will do now if that confirmation is true. Do you think there will still be a market if the early adopters might buy an Apple tablet?
According to this mailing group message it could very well be a security issue: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html

That makes a lot more sense than AT&T going out of its way to censor 4chan anyway.
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Is it really censorship though? This guy thinks it was probably ACK scan reports: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html
Here's where I read it: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg19609.html
Beat me to it by a minute :).
http://twitter.com/automeme/status/2866503271
Just like how all the ISPs are silently dropping e-mails that contain content that they don't agree with, right? Oh wait...
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I've made you a little demo, I think this is the most universal way to do it:

http://ww.com/mousedown.html

good luck!

Btw, such 'garbage clicks' are an excellent way to get rid of your advertisers.
It's called a bicycle

No, it's called elimination of zoning laws.
I'm always amazed at how many people work facing a wall. I'd hate that.
I'd reinvent money, by making it vanish completely. It causes so much damage to people and the planet.
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Exciting isn't it. I quit smoking because of that talk, or rather, as part of a series of life changes inspired by that talk.

Fingers crossed!
That's for broad match (e.g. youtube, youtube fights, download youtube videos, etc). Even still, exact match searches (i.e. just [youtube], no modifiers) are at 414 million per month, globally.

Also for further insight, here's a percentage breakout of traffic distribution by Google Ranking:

http://www.seobook.com/images/traffic-by-rank.jpg

Though the included universal search results and indented search results for YouTube SERPs make for an extra muddy analysis.
That's pretty neat for 529 lines of code!
Ha. Duly noted. Thanks for posting this, too. How would I set this js to apply only to the regions outside a site?
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This seems to be a problem with the suburbs. If you want to live within walking distance to the grocery store, move to somewhere within walking distance of the grocery store. I can walk to three (different chains), and take the L to one more. (I still take my bike, though, much easier!)
I'm just getting a bit bored of all the Apple tablet rumours. They've been circulating for years.
The U.S. Constitution. I'd explicitly list the underlying first principles for everything.

For example:

1. The law of noncontradiction - something can't be A and not A

2. Treat like things the same and different things differently

Those principles inform the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments.
Nice, I'll have to look at the source for that. Ray tracing has always struck me to be a problem well suited to functional languages.

If you can't see the site: looks like the <title> tag isn't being closed, preventing it from rendering in some browsers, including Opera.
How about Linux?
Anything he wants? There is a whole universe of things to do. So many books to read, so much music to listen to, so many things to learn and build and understand.

I just can't imagine being bored, not in a million lifetimes.
By coincidence I spent much of my weekend working through these tutorials (see the link bar on the right, work from the top). They are good. There are some minor differences with the SDK 3.0. For example, there is a setText method mentioned in an early part of the tutorial series which works but is deprecated.

It seems there was at one time a forum off this site but when I investigated over the weekend the links weren't working. I think it's useful to work at the same pace as other people on things like this.

So I have set up http://wecode.wikispaces.com/ in case any other people from hacker news would like to work through the tutorials and hopefully we can make notes about things such as changes resulting from deprecation, or cross link to extension topics from the tutorials. I'm at work at the moment and won't have time to work on this for a few hours, but may this evening.
Maybe services like HN should be built up around an API where the default website is just one way to use the site.

Many sites don't like that approach because it limits their ability to serve up advertising; but for a site like HN, that would make a great deal of sense -- it has certainly worked for twitter.
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I believe he means that he intends his consciousness, in some form, to dramatically outlast corporeal human existence as we know it. This simply requires some mechanism to upload one's consciousness, and then all you have to do is wait.
Honestly, it just never went anywhere. I'd pick it up today if I wasn't already seeing a lot of success bootstrapping an online retail store. It's often in the back of my mind, though.

In a roundabout way, I suppose monetization is the root problem -- I didn't (and still don't) have the time/money/connections necessary for a Twitter-style 'build it and the money will come' business plan.
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

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I was actually amused and found this comment<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724657<p>interesting and googled it to find this article.
Jacques my man, "let's wait and let things happen" is political suicide. People demand that solutions be legislated by their governments without considering feasibility or cost or secondary effects. Yeah, there'll be a mess later, but there'll be different politicians that have to deal with it so all is good.
The only way to know that you know is to test yourself. Find a college aerospace text & solve some problems. Personally I don't care about finding gaps in knowledge that I haven't tested.
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