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Nor should he or she. The future of journalism may well belong to a lot of small, targeted publications (combined with some very productive individuals) serving effectively small paying audiences, but incidentally reaching a lot of other people through social distribution. In such a scenario, global coverage would be provided by specialists in the global news beat -- be they publications, or individuals choosing to specialize in that area.

No one journalist or publication will cover everything. The economics of trying to do that just don't work anymore.
>if I can get the kids to ratchet it down by pointing to the elf, I'll take what I can get.

hey, you're only doing your parental duty of developing super-ego of your children :)
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I've been using FullContact for over a year and I've been disappointed since then. Very clunky UI, lots of manual work to do. History on contacts that I don't care about and cannot get rid of. The inability to unmerge if you merge by mistake (often due to the slow web UI). After all these years, there's still no good solution that merges and cleans up your contacts! I'm really disappointed! How can we expect great things like AI and be afraid of AI destroying the humanity, when we can't even make contact management work right!
just a note - NDAs are not enforceable. trade secrets are. sign the nda if it gets you payed. im seeing a lot of "ideas" being wrapped up into an nda and thus a development contract - when none of the trade secrets, working knowledge, or prototypes have been developed yet. your in the green, just do it.
phpBB (the software) wasn't compromised in this situation. An admin's account credentials were.
Well with incremental the developer would put what is 'required' into the manifest for install-time prompt and incremental the rest.

You can't expect a developer to allow you to deny any permission, the whole app would be a giant if-statement spaghetti accounting for all of the permission combinations and workarounds.
The elf on the shelf is nothing compared to Krampus. Our culture gets off pretty easy, if you ask me.

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

(As satirized on an episode of The Office, and as Christoph Waltz recently discussed on Jimmy Kimmel.)

"Krampus is represented as a beast-like creature, generally demonic in appearance. The creature has roots in Germanic folklore. Traditionally young men dress up as the Krampus in Austria, Romania, southern Bavaria, South Tyrol, northern Friuli, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia during the first week of December, particularly on the evening of 5 December (the eve of Saint Nicholas Day on many church calendars), and roam the streets frightening children with rusty chains and bells."

I'm sure that makes for a very merry Christmas! :)
Funny. I had never heard of them either until my sister was offered an internship and I looked them up. Seems they have an enormous network of thousands of websites that, when added together, is bigger than Twitter in terms of page views. It's insane that I could spend so much time on the internet and know nothing about them. I guess it's just not targeted to me.
A base 60 system is very practical: 3 * 4 * 5 = 60 so you can divide into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, etc all very simply. And of course, 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 gives you 360, and even more useful even divisions.

Our ancestors were not idiots.
Going metric isn't economical in the US as it has been elsewhere. You can't expect all the individual businesses to do something that isn't in their interest, and in general, when you've got this big a country with a single measuring system, it's not going to be in an individual business's interest to retool. This was not the case in most other places, where there was a lot more pressure to standardize because you might have a few different measuring systems within a few hundred mile radius.
Until somebody invents a quantum computer with a sufficiently large number of Qbits. Then they can completely destroy the blockchain.

Alternatively, wait a few hundred years until you need several hundred terabytes to store the blockchain, which is required for transactions. That's going to be a problem.

Or you could switch to Bitcoin before realizing that currencies which deflate in value are a terrible idea.

(For the record, I support cryptocurrency. I just think Bitcoin has too many issues to be viable long-term. Nice proof of concept, but it needs to be refined).
I actually research this kind of thing a lot, Pen and paper is surely great, and passing it physically, and being offline are certainly its benefits.

https://collusionapp.com/ tries to solve the quick sketches and the sharing, which is the winnable battle, the fact that pen and paper is tangible can be won with tablets, but my company tried that, we made a pen and I thought it was good, but it didn't really stick. That might have been for a variety of confusing reasons though.

One thing though is that we are definitely getting closer, and I can at least attest that both hand writing and typing have their place, and the digital and real life hand writing also have their own special places.
> I think you're wrong about that.

Well it depends where. In US you are probably right. But! The pun works there as well. The Elf is just a pointer (or a type) to God. You know first teach them about the Elf then once that is internalized teach them about God.

The ultimate effect is to induce self-sensorship. I think that is critical. This is not unlike the Panapticon effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ) described by Bentham and then expounded and implemented, one can say, by a surveilance society. Before that religion and God served as that mechanism -- induce self-sensorship and behavior control by positing an omniscient and ever vigilant God. Once you've convinced the person they are being watched. You don't have to actaully watch them.
Can I point out that there's no need to link to a specific subforum when the same message is on the homepage?
Much easier to get FAA approval, and less propellant is required compared to reversing course completely to land near the launch site on land.

Launch trajectory is always over water for US launches, so if the rocket fails there are fewer people to hit below.
Late commenting here, but smart contracts haven't been mentioned and they are better than existing contracts because they enforce themselves. Here's an article that explains well and also links to Szabo's original.

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/10468/daos-scary-part-1-self-enfo...
I personally find the act of handwriting something helps me recall it later. I barely even read-back my handwritten notes because they become irrelevant almost the moment I write them down.
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With a paper notebook and a pen, it's easier to record different kinds of information, such as data tables, different kinds of graphics, rough sketches, detailed drawings such as dimensioned mechanical drawings, mathematical expressions, small amounts of source code in addition to text.

Now you can do all these things on a computer, but you will either need to switch between several different apps, or have one very large, complex and likely costly app.
When I was in school I found that I rarely read my notes after class, not even when studying for exams. However the act of writing notes helps me follow lectures.
The odds approach 1.7%.

http://www.i-technology.net/2013/11/the-myth-of-cdn.html

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I type rather quickly (fast enough that I can type faster than I can compose), but still prefer pen and paper when reasoning.

It's because the pen and paper mixes diagramming, text, and non-linear note taking in a completely different way.

There's just no good typing analog to drawing a box around something, and then an arrow to another boxed item with some notes next to the line about the relationship. There's no good typing analog to writing notes off to the side, and then notes on those notes, and arrows between them. (There are okay mouse analogs, but constantly shifting my hands from keyboard to mouse is fairly annoying; much more so than just writing.)

It's not that I can get a computer to do those things with various editors, but rather, that typing in the instructions to do them is fundamentally mentally different than actually doing the motions of the boxes and arrows by hand. (My pet theory is that my brain is using information about the tactile movements to store relationship information in a way that it doesn't understand for digital documents, but I am not a psychologist.)

This difference has nothing to do with typing speed, but rather, the nature of the input device you're using.
Will CC0 and CC-BY data remain separate, or will there be an attempt to reconcile future contributions?
> If they can't do that, the mediator will quickly gain a reputation as being unreliable and to be avoided.

I'm not saying you are a libertarian, but this is an argument that libertarians use a lot. I don't buy it. Look at the companies, organizations, and people out there today who deserve bad reputations, but don't have them. Ask most random buyers what they think of PayPal, even, and they won't realize there is anything wrong with it. Hell, a surprising chunk of sellers don't even have a problem with PayPal.
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Anyone knows if we can see the retropropulsion form Florida coast via naked eye?
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I have been puzzling over one specific GUI problem in my iOS App for several months. From time to time I try to write actual source code, only to find myself stymied. However I have continued to contemplate the problem this whole time.

I expect I have a solution readily at hand, that won't even be very difficult to implement. Quite likely it won't be more than 30 to 50 lines of code. However I would not have come up with those 30 to 50 lines if I had not spent three months just thinking about this particular problem.
It's ironic, perhaps if Google hadn't removed the warning about "Secret Agents", Mr Schmidt would not have made this gaffe.

Then again, the cynic in me would argue that Mr Schmidt knows perfectly well the limitations of incognito mode.

If Firefox drops a tormode soon, they are going to blow Chrome out of the water.
Don't worry, before the end of year, rouble will probably be 66% down against dollar!
I'm not sure what aspect of my post you are arguing against? I guess there could be different definitions at play here, but I was talking about a hypothetical developmental stage where most civilizations destroy themselves. E.g. nuclear war, climate change, etc.

Regarding how common life is in the universe, I wasn't talking about non-intelligent life. I fully expect that we will find signs of such life elsewhere in the cosmos in the next hundred years, either on Mars, Europa, Titan, Enceladus, or perhaps in the atmospheric spectra of some extra-solar planet.

No, I was talking about intelligent life, which if iot exists has a very short gestational period before transforming into lasting intelligence(s) expanding into the universe at close to physical limits. In particular the window between development of technology detectable from distant observation (e.g. radio) and a runaway singularity pushing that civilization's expansion rate to light speed limits is so small that regardless of the prevalence of intelligent life in the universe, we should expect to see an empty sky. Why? Because for most of the history of the cosmos we see an empty sky in our light cone. Then suddenly the most distant stars start to go dim with strangely shifted spectra, in an expanding wave that flows through visible star systems at >0.9c until it hits us, and ... well who knows what happens then.

The Fermi paradox is: "if there are so many intelligences, why can't we see them?" The transhumanist response is: "if we could see them, we'd be dead." By the anthropic principle we can only expect to exist in the time period where we are alive, not dead, so we should expect with very high probability to see an empty sky, and with very low probability the coming onslaught of darkness.
Nah, just send one of those amazingly retro Russian landers again: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev/hillger/Venera-9_lander_...
I find that my own mental anguish is most severe when I expect something good, but am forced to do without.

That is, I have no problem going without food, even for days on end, if I choose to do so. It's unpleasant at first but I get used to it.

However if I am looking forward to a good meal, but cannot obtain it, say because I don't have the money, or I am late to an event where the food was all eaten up before I arrived, then I am really, really upset about it - even though I only go without food for a few hours.
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I rarely see anyone consider that the American system has at least one fundamental advantage: it's closer to a binary system, rather than decimal.

Why do we want a decimal system? The only reason for a base of 10 that I can see is that we have ten fingers. But binary systems map better to a lot of real-world problems.

If baking, are you more likely to take a recipe and halve it or cut it by a factor of ten? In construction, are you more likely to subdivide an area into two, or ten? If you split a stock, are you more likely to split two-to-one or ten-to-one?

The answer, in all those cases, is the former, which is favored by a binary system. Forcing decimal upon us is what leaves us with numbers like 0.125 rather than 1/8.

So rather than move to metric, let's come up with a more consistent base-two system, and then we can all use that. (Just saying that to make a point; not a serious proposal.)
Even if you failed to guarantee a functional app for people who deny permissions, it would still be an improvement over the current status quo.
The hacker probably modified the code to log all passwords.

If you logged in on the dates specified you should assume your password has been stolen.
Ray Ozzie had a #1 comment here recently and I wouldn't be surprised if BillG also reads HN. He's a voracious reader and it would be interesting to see what online sites he reads daily.
I'm an artist who does not earn a living via art, but grew up pirating music and movies.

I grew up having access to the entire canon of film, books, comics, culture. That was a huge part of my formative experience. I want my kids to have that. I don't want my kids to be limited to what's on Netflix because of licensing agreements.

I am a big believer in Kopimi. I also love the idea of torrent nodes and bitcoin nodes and other P2P modes as a metaphor for holography and as a metaphor for knowledge as a whole -- each node contains within it an image of the whole swarm.The companies who make a profit from the works of artists and use legal means to restrict this model are shortsighted, stupid, and outright dangerous to soceity.

That said, I try to only consume works that are public domain and creative commons. It's not easy, and I frequently break this "soft boycott" not just out of lack of will, but also because fair use is my right and I intend on excercising it.

We've lost a majority of the early silent films produced in Hollywood. The myth of the internet as a permanent archive persists, and I can't figure out why. I believe that copyright activists and the Pirate Party are doing a net force for good in archiving our culture.

Without all that money going in at the top, people would be using free recording tools like Ardour.

My philosophy: Don't be a child. If an artist wants to restrict your consumption, it's not art, it's commerce. If you're old enough to have disposable income, you are old enough to support CC and PD works. Anything less, and you need to go listen to some more preaching.
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> As much as I support the rule of law, there's no way I can interpret that as benefiting mankind in any way.

A co-worker who was on law school explained these rules are to make sure an innocent person is never found guilty, even if that means letting criminals walk.
I have really fond memories of seeing Michael Iceberg performing at Disney World in the (cough) 1980s.

For a lot of people in the audience (including myself) that had never heard a sampling keyboard before, it was nothing short of amazing.
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Agreed, as a programmer, you are constantly able to think faster than you can express yourself, and it certainly feels as though nothing you can do (not even typing) allows you to lay out your thoughts and play around with them does it justice. Some of my best memories and learnings were discovered on paper and pen while at my keyboard. And often we stick them up on the walls afterward to serve a as a reminder and reference.

One good example of this is state machines, sometimes there is just so much state to track in a system, your brain no longer than handle enough combinations, or dimensions.

I like to draw them out (which is why I started https://collusionapp.com), and then outsource some of the brain work to others by sharing it as well so they can help me with the confusing aspects of the states once I've mentally unloaded them onto the page.

I think drawing the thoughts out lets you then "forget" the entire context of the problem and allows your "mind space" to kind of focus on the sub-parts or details of the problem.

I just don't feel like ONLY text can solve that while we still have people like us who were brought up with pen and paper.

I really think the benefit of technology here over conventional handwriting is the ability to outsource thinking through sharing, which helps with not thinking fast enough as well as being able to deliver your message in a freeform and quick manner, especially with creative disciplines.

I think having super quick access is also important before you lose thoughts too, I guess having tabs open already kind of like blank paper is super useful.
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A clarification: all the images on your sites are copyrighted, with the exceptions -- in the U.S. -- of images created by the U.S. federal government, and digitizations of very old images -- e.g., a photograph of the Mona Lisa.

Your problem does not stem from the fact that images are covered by copyright, but from violations of license terms.

(A bit nitpicky, perhaps, but I figure if we're going to solve a problem, then we first ought to know what the problem is.)
I learned both systems in school--our rulers always had inches and centimeters--but we never really learned the metric system until much later in science classes. I think there's a strong argument to be made that the metric system is easier to learn and could be taught at the same time as counting and basic arithmetic. It would make learning science and math easier in higher grades and waste less class time. I'm honestly surprised there are so many comments here defending the Imperial system.
Yes dodgy's point is probably that this tax money sent to US govt will not result in such achievements like medicine in developing countries.
Thanks for Pioneer One. I really like Vodo a lot.

Nice point on commercial success driving a form of self censorship. I'm big on independant media, but I have a huge respect for those who run established brands and are able to turn a profit in media.

Some mainstream artists do a very good job rewarding those who are willing to delve deeply into music.

With any form of art, but especially music, I believe it's the artists job to take us from the familiar, to the unfamiliar, and back to the familiar. My ideal artform is a massively popular avant-garde movement, but that's more of a platonic ideal than anything else.
Or you could use the class list polyfill.
One reason, according to Elon Musk, is that parachutes or floatables won't work in the thin atmosphere of Mars. So if Mars is the vision, they must develop something that works there.
I read about it only in german IT news portals like http://www.heise.de .

I really like HN, it replaces /. for me.

Therefor I try to not submit controversial posts (is it in US?). I assume it's not optimal to submit Google Translate links of german articles (like my links above).
Just now I tried typeracer, the best I could get was 61 wpm.

However I am very tired, lying on my back in bed with my legs cross and my laptop resting on my stomach, propped against one leg.

I do know for sure I can type a lot faster when I am just thinking about what to type, than when I am transcribing someone else's text.
There will be an attempt to reconcile future contributions.

From Denny Vrandecic, current Google researcher working on the Google Knowledge Graph, former project director of Wikidata [1]:

"Freebase has seen a huge amount of effort go into it since it went public in 2007. It makes a lot of sense to make the results of this work available to Wikidata. But knowing Wikidata and its community a bit, it is obvious that we can not and should not simply upload Freebase data to Wikidata: Wikidata would prefer the data to be referenced to external, primary sources.

"In order to do so, Google will soon start to work on an Open Source tool which will run on Wikimedia labs and which will allow Wikidata contributors to find references for a statement and then upload the statement and the reference to Wikidata. We will release several sets of Freebase data ready for consumption by this tool under a CC0 license. This tool should also work for statements already in Wikidata without sufficient references, or for other datasets, like DBpedia and other machine extraction efforts, etc.

"To make sure we get it right, we invite you to participate in the design and development of this tool here:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool "

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-Decemb...
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My es6 project starter kit works in any kind of environment without damaging anyone: it provides also the dist/cmj folder for the browserify users or whatever other tool you use to load commonjs code.
The reason why I don't want to compile directly using browserify is that its require shim even if it's small, it will be then included in any single script you are going to use in your app, imagine the following use case:
in your app you want to use a.js build with browserify and b.js build with it as well. Now including a.js and b.js in your page you will have 2 times the browserify shim (btw it could be also different depending on the browserify version you have used to compile). But if I provide a distribution folder containing the script cleaned up (without extra code) and the commonjs version of it's a win for everyone.
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I'm not going to write down notes about how I should take up smoking, if that's what you're asking, nor do I think I'll be lucky in love as a result of driving a fast, red car.

There are lots of ads for things I really do find useful. Consider the controversial superbowl ad for the machine that makes homemade carbonated soda. Sodastream? It's controversial because it's manufactured in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, however the factory employs many Palestinians.

I like to drink soda, so that's something I would conceivably buy based on the ad.

It wasn't just brand advertising, nor image advertising, but actually demonstrated how one actually uses the machine.
I like the american system. It's based on 12 which is easily divisible by 2,4,3,(and 6 obviously) making it practical and easy to use for handy jobs. Having fractions of an inch divisible by factors of 2 is also far more convenient than using a decimal system imho. Why not just use a system that lists both units?