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I'm old enough that I've lived through these stages:

1) There were no answering machines and no cordless phones, much less mobile. If you called someone at home, and they didn't answer, you just tried later. If you called someone at a business, everyone had a secretary who could pick up if they didn't answer. She (and it was always "she") would write your message on a message slip (they were generally pink) and put it on the person's desk. Or, for smaller businesses, you called the main number, and the operator would connect you, and take a message if no answer.

2) Home answering machines happened. They used cassette tapes, and you could rewind and replay your messages. The outgoing greeting was on a second tape. When you got home, or if you were screening your calls, you'd see a blinking light indicating "new message", then hit buttons to rewind and play your messages. When the tape got full you could put in a new tape or write over the old messages. For businesses, phone systems became smarter and could take voicemail, but this was expensive, many businesses still used the old people-intensive way for messages, and many businesses preferred this because customers liked talking to a real person to leave a message.

3) Mobile phones with SMS became available to consumers. (We are into the 90s now). I don't recall this being especially popular at first, most people still left voicemails, even on mobile phones. But SMS became more and more used over the next decade plus (before smartphones when they exploded in popularity).

4) Fast forward to today. People born after 1980 or so, I find, really don't do voicemail at all, text messaging is the thing. If you leave them a voicemail, it doesn't get listened to. The best you can expect is a callback or a text message because they saw you called, but the usual response is nothing. For businesses, some form of instant messaging (IM) is prevalent inside the company. The IM might say "Hey do you have a minute to talk OTP?" but no one just calls someone else cold, much less leaves a voicemail and expects a response.

IMO stage (1) actually worked fine, and now that we are at stage (4) that works fine too (as long as you don't pretend voicemail is a thing and use other means of communication). The intermediate stages were awkward at best.

I think Coca-Cola's action makes a ton of sense for any company. Maybe it was fear of legal discovery that prompted it, maybe it was what they said (streamlining operations), but it is a good thing, IMO.
I think he's also missing the case where a disgruntled insider gives a beachhead and/or money to outsiders.
asserting that your assumptions are valid is not the same as having valid assumptions. just like downvoting me isn't the same as saying anything useful or factual.
I think Milton Friedman's series of videos had a nurse (?) who embodied this exact catch-22.
I heard that the British developed the police as we know it today, as a response to private security forces. Read up on "thief-takers", celebrity thief-taker Jonathan Wild and the Macdaniel affair. That scandal was too big to ignore, and public security was finally put under the auspices of the government.

Somehow Libertarian circles manage to ignore this history
lesson and expect that this time around private police and the attendant power imbalance won't lead to entrenched corruption.
The source has awareness of miles, kilometers, radians, and degrees as units of measure. Passing it in the demo is just specifying which one you're expecting results to use in its calculations.
ohh is the existence of the banking system the reason that poor people are always kind and noble? I'm not seeing any connection at all between those two concepts, but whatever makes you feel better while you fight the power is good by me.
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Therefore the only playing field left is: what do they have and what do they know?

This portrays people as something akin to a Markov process: if you know these two properties, you can make meaningful predictions about the future. Are people so memoryless? It strikes me that at a minimum, history, experience, and culture would all influence behavior and aren't so neatly stateful.
Here's the Mapbox blog post about it, where they confirm easy integration with Leaflet:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/turf-gis-for-web-maps/
and what a mistake it is to only release it in the US... lets keep building walls on the internet... sigh
This raises an interesting and disturbing set of questions about the extraterritorial application of US law in the age of the Internet.

Just the other day PayPal was in the news for cutting off perfectly law abiding cigar shops in Scotland who were selling cigars from Cuba to customers in the UK. US companies can't do business with Cuba, so shut off online sales: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/perth-coff...
I saw that, but just wasn't sure about that Kernel site. Had seen nothing about it, and was wary it may be phishing or something. Paranoid, I guess. Thanks.
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I kind of love this bug. It's the perfect excuse for never talking to anyone.

Mom/Dad/Wife/Girlfriend/Boss: "Hey! Pick up your phone!"

"Can't. No phone calls where I live."

"Oh. Where do you live?"

"Yosemite."

"Oh. Sorry."
Agree. Assuming the lukewarm reception of HFR for "The Hobbit" hasn't consigned us to another decade or so of 24fps, I am hopeful that the right director and cinematographer will eventually come along and exploit its aesthetic possibilities.

Imagine if "The Matrix" had been shot with the simulations in HFR and the real world in 24fps. Or if Kubrick had a chance to essentially invert the gauzy, candle-lit settings of "Barry Lyndon" and present a world in 8K hyper-reality.
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The content isn't what's bizarre to me, it's the synchronicity. Everyone watches it together at the same time all around the country. Sort of like a cross between the Macy's parade and A Charle Brown Christmas.

That said, it's a lot of fun.

Source: Lived in Sweden for a few years, watched Kalle Anka with Swedish friends every year.
I'm in Canada right now and was puzzled why I couldn't find it. Shesh ... this sucks.
The counter to this is that people will be encouraged to contribute to things that do not make them a living like editing Wikipedia, contributing to open source software, gardening, politics, volunteering, etc. because they can do whatever they want without getting paid for it.

The benefit of basic income is that it does in fact incentivize you to work because you do get more money if you work part time, as opposed to current programs that decrease your benefits quickly as you get more and more hours.

But even if we assume people work less with BI, but live happier lives, what is the goal?
You can not find it in the US either, it is not actually released yet.
seetheinterview.com redirects to kernel.com for me--is that intentional?
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There's nothing inconsiderate about it. I'm not returning calls from the numbers I don't know, unless they leave a VM. Since there's visual VM, it's easy to delete VMs mid-sentence too, so I don't have to sit through the sales message either.
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Not yet worked anywhere that doesnt... although I almost never use said phones.
"American men toil for pay nearly 12 hours less per week, on average, than they did 40 years ago—a fall that includes all work-related activities, such as commuting and water-cooler breaks."

Only being 40 I can't really say for sure, but was it not they case that one man would provide for a household 40 years ago, while now we generally have both partners working?
Is it possible that this whole thing has been a publicity stunt by Sony?

Fake a threat, pretend to withdraw the film, wait for public uproar, release on a pay per view platform to massive sales.

Before the story broke I didn't know anything about this film.

Real case of cyberwar? Or PR master stroke?
Blank here. Looks like it's going through the motions.
Scuttlebutt is they're still in talks with them.

What's really weird to me is that it isn't on iTunes.
I assume that that is the vod platform they are using.
Interesting claim that a discussion of Kleisli categories isn't the place to get into a discussion of monads, since they're identical.

I do think Kleisli categories are a better way to explain the benefit, though.
Yup, because if you don't have $500 you're probably one of those homeless criminal types and should be locked up anyway.

I've noticed this too, is this a relic from the times when the dollar amount would have been a lot more proportionate to time served?
It's the same story every time. If Sony doesn't want my money I'll be more than happy to continue paying my private BT tracker to watch it.
This goes to some lengths to explain why Assange is willing to publish anything, no matter how damaging in the short term it may be to particular interests.

He doesn't want to be a curator or a decision maker about what information is or is not available. He is interested in solving the architectural problem of removing the ability to having political interests or personal bias influence control what gets published. From his perspective, he is merely a cog in that system he's trying to create - an automaton who doesn't get to make decisions about the content of diplomatic cables, etc.

In this sense it's probably better to think of Assange as an engineer as opposed to a journalist, dissident or politician. It's just that this system he's been trying to create crosses those circles - when the system effects knowledge/power relations and to the degree his system is successful what's left to do is to effect Wikileaks.

Another note: I am in agreement with and happy that Assange recognizes that Wikileaks in a young and incomplete prototype. There are tons of operational questions left: Who gets Wikileaks when Assange passes away? How do you vet a new member? How do you prevent bribery? Isn't it a problem that there is any centralized control of Wikileaks to begin with? Countries have been successful in preventing journalists from partnering with Wikileaks - how does one secure that pipeline?
This isn't some lowbrow conspiracy site, and I don't expect the participants to have the sort of superficial, facile understanding of world events that you've so evidently demonstrated. If reality makes you "pissed", you should stick to gentler pastures that conform with your worldview.

I don't think the US should have invaded Iraq for purely pragmatic and financial reasons. That does nothing to change the actual complex, convoluted reality that led to the decisions that were made, and then the long and fruitless, but very intense, search for WMDs after the attack.
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Right, re: demanding/interrupting. That's the main thing I hate about cell phones; people expect you to be on-call at all times and express anger when you aren't; the only excuse being that I was driving or didnt hear it. When in reality I just didnt feel like answering the phone and talking.
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Has anyone tested this with a ~500 MB dataset ? Say the parcels of a city. How does it perform ?
Do you have a fax machine and a telex?
> I can't help but be completely distracted by how obvious it is that the set is a set and the actors are just people pretending.

This really bugs the hell out of me, especially on 120Hz TVs. Granted, sports and newscasts look like you're sitting right there which is neat, but for fictional shows it's unnerving. My sister has one of those TVs, and we occasionally go over there to watch The Walking Dead with them. It's as if the video is being slightly fast-forwarded, paused, then fast-forwarded again, but the dialogue still sounds normal throughout. It really takes us out of the moment and looks more like a documentary of the making of the show, rather than the show itself.
You raise a good point about Rome. The patron/client model seemed to keep the social peace for quite a while. Not unlike the social welfare system that is described in the article. Additionally, I think the development of firearms and cheap/easy to use weapons actually had the opposite effect that you propose.

Specifically, the development of firearms led to a profound expansion of the democratization of violence. This is the meaning of the quote, "God made Man but Sam Colt made them equal."

Indeed, it wasn't the high technology that was important but how that technology reduced the need to invest our only truly scarce resource, time, in order to kill.

Pick up a gun, of almost any kind and in minutes you will be able to kill a similarly armed opponent. Now try the same thing with a bow and arrow or a sword (or more commonly a spear).
Flagged.

Seriously, this is a publicity stunt (this article at least).

This is literally a non-tech consumer product advertisement being put on the front page of Hacker News. It should be treated as such.
Why delete the Texas mayor article? I just don't see the point. Is Wikipedia low on disk space?
I seem to be doing both, reading up in my spare time to keep up to date, yet having plenty of work to do as a result, yet my pay has not gone up in the last few years.
There are a lot of at random rules. Why do you need >100 senators when they barely meet and have a lot of workers? Why do you need a lot of people in the board of directors of gov co's when they never make any remark? Sometimes they even get paid if they do not show up!
I think the problem is that the web as we know it was not fundamentally designed to be seamless.

We decry it now, but it was the reason that Flash took off in the first place: you could just make your app in Flash, and all you needed to know otherwise was just enough of a template to load the plugin content.

Compare that to today, where the browser is an amalgam of at least three different languages (more if you're using something like this), and I struggle to understand how 'seamless' is likely to be possible.
The problem with this argument is, that the same argument has existed for 200 years. Its exactly the same argument, replace 'maschine' with 'robot' and you could reprint a 200 year old opinion piece on this in the NYT and nobody would notitce.

What has changed now that was not the case 200 years ago. New maschines replace people and those people have to do something else.

The problem is not that there is not enougth work to be done, there are tons of industries and tons of places where people are needed. The problem is far more institutional, why are people not effectivly switching?

There might still by some cyclical unemployment but some of it is structural and blaming robots is the cheap way out.
(I work at Stripe.)

Kernel is one of the companies putting this together. They temporarily put up the redirect (movie doesn't go live until 10a PT). About to put up a more informative redirect page.
The parent article links to Assange's comments after meeting with Schmidt "Google is Not What it Seems" [1] which has some interesting discussion of the links between Google's senior level and politicians. Published yesterday, I don't recall seeing it linked.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279...
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If this was a publicity stunt, then it may well be the worst one ever! They were humiliated in the press, the President reprimanded them, and their strongest partners (the big theater chains) all turned their back on them.
Don't know why you're being downvoted, it really feels that way to me as well. Lot of people with strong opinions must not appreciate that they've been played.
> Have you thought about porting it to Meteor's Atmosphere

We currently support npm, bower, and a CDN build on Mapbox. Additional package managers can be added if there is a community need.

> I'm curious if this supports Leaflet too?

Turf is not tied to any visualization framework. GeoJSON in - GeoJSON out; display it where you want (or don't display it at all).
Many people refuse to call back numbers that are unknown to them. Others (myself) tend not to call back on a missed call without a voicemail or a text. I assume if you just call and leave no message, you'll reach out to me another way or it was just asking what was up.
That's when learning rate changed to a smaller number. The graph mainly shows that with different initialization scheme, the network starts descending initially faster.
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So, basically, at 24FPS things are blurry enough that you can't see the fine details, which means that special effects and costumes look realistic.

Increase the frequency to 48FPS and the blur goes away, meaning that we can see the fine detail, and suddenly sets look like sets, costumes look like costumes, and CGI looks like a computer game.
Hmm... I wonder if there is any sort of equivalency between the Gatekeepers of Evidence and the Guardians of Peace.
I would have originally agreed, but the emails and employee info leaked are pretty damaging; and how exactly would they have roped the FBI in on it?
You must not work in PR. This story has been at the forefront of the news cycle for awhile now, and it's probably a super forgettable film.
Its simple, because we want to consume. People work hard and then buy a expensive car. Well you could have work less and drive a shitty old car.

I dont understand what the mystery is. I myself could probebly get by with working 4 hours per day but I dont, I rather work 8 hours and buy myself cool computer shit and books.
You misinterpreted the poker analogy. When 20% is taken out of every pot, that includes the ones you lose. It doesn't mean you win with an 80% rate. When the rake is 20%, basically half the entire table's money is gone after 3-4 hours. (If you're going to criticize an analogy, you better understand the analogy.)
I think the main problem with voicemail is that, for the most part, it is disconnected from the Internet.

We run Asterisk, when I get a voicemail it is as an mp3 in my email. I know the caller ID, when it was left and how long it is before I choose to listen to it.

It is totally useful.

It has always boggled me that I can't choose "send audio message" from my smart phone's contacts without a third party app - a feature that I use on watsapp regularly.
It becoms a 'Modern forms of slavedom'... You are enslaved by the ppl on welfare. Deal with it.
Nothing like provoking and accusing a sovereign nation of criminal acts to promote your sweet new flick.

No, I don't think it was a publicity stunt.
I keep hoping that someone will release an HFR film that is not also in 3D. I saw an extensive demo of HFR at Siggraph a few years back and it was amazing. HFR can be so crisp and clear that you don't even NEED 3d. I have several friends who don't have stereo vision due to various vision issues. They won't go to see the Hobbit films in HFR, since it's tied to 3D, which is worse than useless to them. The industry needs to give HFR a chance to stand on its own.
(I work at Stripe.)

Kernel is one of the companies putting this release together. They put up the redirect temporarily; about to put a more informative placeholder until the 10a PT launch.
I only started using PHP this year (legacy project at work), and I also strongly dislike PHP.

What I dislike about (server-side) PHP:

- Ugly syntax. For the languages with algol-inspired syntax, I feel PHP has the most oddities: "$", "=>", foreach (collection as iterator), etc.

- Inconsistency in the standard library. Naming - does the function I want have an underscore or not? isset doesn't, is_array does. The ordering of function arguments is also often different from one function to the next. IDE or php.net can help you with this, but when you're in a productive flow, this is an unnecessary impediment.

- Doing OOP in PHP, you get a lot of the verbosity of a language like Java without the type safety or standard library features. Nested arrays are common because there is a distinct lack of useful data structures in the language. Arrays are used as a mishmash of array/linked list/hash map because the language doesn't differentiate, leading to subtle bugs.

- As a dynamic language, I feel it compares unfavorably to Python in just about every meaningful way. Much more verbose than Python (list, generator and dictionary comprehensions, for example, cut down on a lot of boilerplate in Python.) Less powerful metaprogramming (in Python you can override __setattr__ to execute code whenever attributes are set; in PHP you can define __set magic attribute which doesn't work on public attributes, limiting its usefulness.) The standard library is less useful. It's not as simple to package and deploy.

- Modern features are starting to creep into in the language, but I feel it's too little too late. We recently had to upgrade a server to PHP 5.5 because I sold decision makers that using generators to stream data would result in much more maintainable code than shoehorning what we were trying to do into iterators. For a moderately large company with enough legacy, upgrading the PHP version can be an ordeal. Python has featured generators since 2003.

- I do feel that quality of candidates is an important consideration. A lot of people cut their teeth on "HTML, CSS and PHP" before moving up to "real" programming languages. The rate of applicants who don't have strong programming ability will be higher for PHP than for comparable languages.

I've been using PHP professionally for almost a year and I would never use it for a project unless it was already in use.
I'm 43 and I hate voicemail. It just takes so long to get the information. Dial a number, wait for connection, press more buttons, find a pen and paper to write down any important bits of the message etc.

Just send me the info in written form.
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The number of tools has increased, but I think JS development has actually been simplified in some cases. This is largely due to the rise in popularity of rich clients talking to simple backend APIs. In older web projects JS always felt like an afterthought. Dependencies were managed totally by hand and your scripts were scattered throughout the backend templates. If you needed to do anything at all with your front-end code at build time, you had no choice but to glue some hacky solution onto the existing build process. Client and server were all mixed together, and it was painful.

Starting a project today, I can build a client in Javascript, hook it up to an API, and I'm done. NPM and Browserify make dependency management and builds a breeze. There's very little friction in the development workflow because the front-end build process it totally separate from the server. I make a change, save it, reload the page and I see my changes live without even running a server locally. Even PHP's deployment story isn't that simple.

It's true that the initial setup is more complicated than simply downloading jQuery and plopping it into an existing project, but if you have the option of separating your client and server code, it really simplifies things overall.
There is zero percent chance this was a publicity stunt.

You really think Sony would fake a "9/11 style" threat against movie theaters, in today's world?

The only plausible "publicity stunt" scenario is that after the real hacking, the real threats, the real refusal of theaters to show the movie, that Sony pretended they wouldn't even release it online in order to drum up online sales when they finally changed course.
Think about it: Sony intentionally leaked its own employee records and emails just to boost publicity of a movie that's bound to be popular on its own right. How plausible is that theory?

The hack was in all likelihood real, (but probably not North Korean). Sony made the best of a bad situation.
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