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Can Drones Deliver Hope to War-Torn Syria? [video]
> Huge blocky pixel art never really looked that way in the first place

Some did. For instance, I played games like LucasArts adventure games and WarCraft 1 on a Mac with a Trinitron display, which faithfully showed the blocks in all their glory. I imagine the experience was similar for other PC games. Not all pixel art was made for NTSC TVs.
I dont really understand what you are arguing here. Why would you "remove folks who work outside the city" from the numbers? Those people still exist and need a place to park their car. And there are a lot of them, judging by rush hour traffic. Likewise for people who commute into the city from elsewhere.

My point is there are not enough people who live identical lifestyles as you to make removing substantial amounts of parking feasible. It would be great if there were, but that's just not the case at the moment. Most people in SF need a car. I lived in New York for a while and when I moved back to SF one of my big disappointments was needing to get a car again. It was a bummer, but it definitely was a necessity.

Yes, IF the city (and surrounding region) made sweeping policy and infrastructure changes to improve muni, bart, park-and-ride etc, then less people would need to drive. But I've lived in SF most of my life, and I guess that's made me pessimistic about the ability of the city to ever make those kinds of changes. It's not going to happen on any reasonable time scale.
> You should account for this in your design by either managing your own de-dupe solution (such as using Memcache to hold the keys you've seen from a given queue, expiring with the visibility timeout on the queue) or design a system which self-defends against duplicate messages.

At that point, why not just use beanstalkd or redis? You're already centralizing part of your queue elsewhere, and the point of Riak is decentralization.

However, if you can tolerate duplicate messages, then this seems like a cool system. I didn't get from the README how it actually orders the jobs/messages though. I get it uses an index range scan, but on what values? Is it an ID, and how does the client generate these?
For me, the reputation of the Thinkpad extended to Lenovo itself as a company. Until this thread, I didn't realize I had an Ideapad instead of a Thinkpad. Now, this might make me come off as a poorly informed consumer, and I'll admit to that if you like. However, it was the reputation of the Thinkpad brand that made me make this purchase, and I am now suspect of all of Lenovo's brands.
A study of the economy would be great. Also interesting would be as you described "Were the American colonists really right to rebel from the British, or is that just winner's history?"

A study of "dating & relationships" would be good too (I assume this would cover all interpersonal relationships, i.e. how to be a good friend and win friends over)
What about public transport? We don't have seat belts, we can even travel standing on a crowded bus. It doesn't seem to bother anyone apparently.
De Garis appears to have genuinely good intentions to educate the world and thereby free it from war and poverty. Unfortunately, he also comes across as self-important, cantankerous, elitist prick, which makes me think that he is unlikely to make much positive impact. At least the categorized archive of papers appears to be way more useful than his rambling youtube lectures (with a typical view count of 15 over 3 years).
So are human bodies. I can't remember the math right now, but several times an hour your body will produce a positron.
>He could repudiate the donation and this would have evaporated overnight. Those views were apparently important enough to him to prevent such an option.

So for you the best course of action would be to hypocritically pretend to be sorry in order to appease the clamour of the crows? And as he didn't, as he stayed true to his positions not flipping like a coward because he was pressured to do so, he deserves what he got?
Technology and Changemaking: The Languages of the Future
I've always liked this - http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ - as a description of what exactly a PhD is.
Just think how much worse the WASP landlords are, given that the WASP elite are the ones with actual political power.
How to inspect classes in your JVM
And it requires a credit card for a trial. What a load of bullshit.
Anything that affects the cap rate also affects the marginal conversion of that building from rentals into owner-occupant usage (especially in jurisdictions where there's a homestead or owner-occupant partial abatement of taxes).

It may not seem like there's a direct effect because Unit 2 on 123 Main Street is still a rental for the same price after a $50/mo tax increase. But, some other unit ends up being sold to an end-user (or a condo-conversion developer) instead of staying as a rental. Across the body of rentals, I believe that tax increases show up in rent over the long-run. Landlords aren't in the business to give renters breaks. (Nor are they evil Scrooge McDucks; the good ones are just smart businesspeople who can do math and put up with people... :) )
I prefer "medium of account" and "medium of exchange." For one thing, it emphasizes a duality that's easy to forget about.
As an ex-pat recently moved to Berlin, this is awesome. I'm never going to want to type on a QWERTZ keyboard, but I do need umlauts...
That blew me away. Cheaper than a therapist, I guess.
Yes, it's important to keep in mind that while Netflix is fighting bad people and we like them for that, many things they do are against consumer interests. Like Steam. It's just that the alternatives are so worse, we give them a pass.

You're right: Someone should corner them on why "Netflix Original" content isn't DRM free. (Or why they still restrict access and subtitles based on region, for "Netflix Original" titles.)

DRM for Netflix is about putting up barriers. Just like Amazon convinced publishers to go with Kindle DRM, giving Amazon the power in the end. By encouraging DRM, it's harder to compete as it is one more thing to do that Netflix already has. It's not as powerful as Kindle's lockin - content licensing is a bigger deal. Apart from that? Well, Popcorn Time provides a much better experience than Netflix. (Proper subs, force HD, use better player to normalize audio ("night mode") or otherwise tweak viewing, no messing with proxies, etc.) My wife and kids are already starting to use PT, even when the same content is on Netflix. Yikes. (Torrents + put.io was already pretty slick, but slightly more difficult (2 apps, one extra click).)
Love the demo video, any idea what company/person did this?
In what way are property taxes progressive? It seems to me that they are inherently a regressive tax (with respect to income on a cohort basis).

(I'm not arguing that they or any other tax ought to be progressive; I'm just not aware of any place where they are progressive on an income-adjusted basis [whether directly or indirectly])
> And here is the end result of people leaving Firefox for Chrome.

Mozilla brought that on themselves by racing as fast as possible to become Chrome. If I'm going to be forced to use the Chrome UI, why would I settle for an inferior copy of it named Australis?

Then there was the Awesomebar, Hello, mandatory signed extensions, ads on your newtab page, forcing the retention of download history, and on and on. DRM is just the next step in a long, sad succession. Mozilla has been trying as hard as possible since 4.x to get us to stop using their browser. No surprise it's working.
If only company boards listened to their employees and "community" all the time!

I think it's about opportunism. A situation developed and by simply stoking the fires of social media outrage, a major obstacle to adoption of DRM in a popular browser could be eliminated.

Consider the Mozilla position as soon as Brendan had been forced out - coincidence?

>"With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy. Read on for some background on how we got here, and details of our implementation."
- Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, 14 May 2014

"Mozilla will be adding a way to integrate Adobe Access DRM technology for video and audio into Firefox, via a common specification called Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)."
- The Mozilla Blog, 14 May 2014

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-brendan-eich-had-to-g...
Fair enough on the general statement, but in this specific case, if any of these options were true, it makes his decision to not dismiss the donation and throw another $1000 at GLAAD or some other group be all the more questionable.

I absolutely guarantee, had he said something like:

"That was 6 years ago, I did it for $rational_sounding_reason, I don't hate gay people, I'm donating to $LGBT_charity as a token of good will"

..then this entire issue would have been discarded in minutes.

Believe me, I don't want to believe that the guy who wrote JavaScript simultaneously holds backwards beliefs like this. That alone is hard to reconcile, given how inclusive the tech community generally is. But every time I approach this issue, I can't arrive at any other sensible conclusion. The confluence of:

* The donation

* His refusal to repudiate the donation 6 years later

* His refusal to directly address the issue

..does not lend itself well to any other explanation.
According to the order of dismissal, the state admitted that it had “insufficient evidence to establish the culpable mental state of the Defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, and that dismissal prior to trial is in the interest of justice.”

I'm sure it had nothing to do with his attorney filing an appeal, showing he was ready to fight a law that was far too lenient towards police access, which might get the law overturned and make other, easy convictions suddenly impossible to get.

The Third Party Doctrine needs to go.
The magical land of barter as neoliberal founding myth
This would explain why the introduction of central heating slowed down speech pa... wait
> People are skeptical because they don't understand basic economics

Or they've learned that simple models don't always capture reality.

> When building policies are reasonable developers target wider swaths of the market.

Do the sources you've cited here or any others you're aware of present a reasonable number of situations where this has happened and led to a decrease in housing prices?

Because I've never been able to find any kind of decrease independent of a demand collapse.
In the U.K., there is a version of online CBT for depression called Beating the Blues, which became popular despite only being available by prescription. “They would write you out a prescription with a web address and access code, and you’d be able to access that...”

Is there any clinical reason for doing such a thing?
Sure, obviously the warrant would likely be far more limited in scope (i.e. only people that had access to the drugs at the time), but the same scenario is certainly still possible.
In the current US structure, money is not debt owed by society to individuals, but rather, it is money that is owed by individuals (or groups of individuals) to banks.
That screenshot protection thing is kind of dumb. As they show in their website, you take 2 screenshots and there you go, name and message.

You can say you make it harder to take screenshots but you cant promise a secure way to prevent people from saving the data you send them. That's unfeasible, its promotion of false security.
The ability to do something does not hold any weight with the people you're trying to convince.
"Oh sure, Apple can revoke my access time, but they never would!"

It's the same thing as "Oh I'm sure the government COULD access all my data, but why would they want to?"

Region-locking affects more people than you might think, just not with DVDs anymore. Most of the world using reddit/hackernews/the internet is constantly faced with the frustration of clicking on a youtube link and seeing the copyright notice that says the content is restricted to US-only.
This is ridiculous. In every other example, we say "innovate or die" (think taxis and Uber). In this case, Mozilla did not innovate as quickly as Chrome, and made a number of bad decisions, which led to their loss of market share. Consumers should not be blamed for picking a new product when it outpaces the old.
The cynic in me finally thinks that it simplifies to this:

Pills can make you feel good. You aren't supposed to just be able to feel good without doing some sort of "work" to "earn" it. So the pills are cheating. We'll give you a concession if your circumstances make you feel extra bad, but only until you reach the normal level of "feel-good" that should be afforded to you by your station in life.

The whole "war on drugs" exploits this involuntary tic in popular opinion.
One's principles are not admirable simply because they're principles - surely you know that?
Actually, the best way to fight this would be to fund people to break the DRM blob.

What better way to drive home the uselessness of DRM than to have zillions of people having an automatic plugin that bypasses DRM everywhere it runs?
This is a phenomenal read and a great reminder to be nice.
I don't know a single non-technical user who equates freedom with their choice of a web browser. The tech community is in such a big bubble when it comes to this.
Glad somebody said it...
http://www.pewforum.org/2014/09/24/graphics-slideshow-changi...
Try the "Take the Quiz" button on the front page. After you make it through 15 questions an email field pops up. No email - no results.
It's a bit different. Flagship models typically have an inflated sticker price in the $1000 range, and a long-term contract is only one component (and a rather insignificant one) of the overall discount.

Manufacturers and retailers often add arbitrary discounts and rebates on top of it, so if you're really lucky, you can get a brand new flagship phone for free. But the next person will have to pay $700 for it, even with the same contract, while the store across the street sells it for $400 because they're getting a big rebate from the carrier this week.

And most of the above are straightforward discounts and rebates, not something that is sneaked into the monthly plan like in the U.S. The price of the phone after the discount is divided by 24 or 30 and tacked onto the phone bill as a separate line item. You can pay it off anytime you want.

The government is trying to regulate the industry into making the pricing structure more transparent to customers, but the general consensus is that the government is failing.
I'm not sure what you mean by "clinical" in this context, but I don't think the prescription thing was a charade to add some extra placebo effect. Rather, it was probably because once you start claiming to treat depression, you are regulated like a prescription drug.
well said

I basically stopped commenting (well, except now -- doh) here on HN because of how frequently I saw toxic responses and punishment down-voting. There are a noisy subset of users here who either (a) can't understand or respect generalizations, especially based on older/real-life experience, or (b) demand "proof" for any claim, or (c) will punish any kind of not-narrowly-PC statement. And then the blatantly rude. Folks who say something in a comment they'd never dare to say to your face.

Therefore I've given up on caring and now much prefer Reddit's community. Less pinheads there, greater topic variety, greater sense of fun, can collapse threads, can delete comments much later (if you discover one that attracts a hate mob). I still enjoy reading HN, mostly the off-site articles linked to. But not so much the comment threads here. Not anymore.
Yahoo!, since they're the default search engine.
We've been working on Collusion for a while now, which might do what you're talking about: shared collaborative white boarding (with a really big space - from a URL, ... with pen support, good for tablets, phones etc. We're testing so feel free to grab an account gratis - constructive feedback welcome: heres an example project https://col.lu/PSnZMIH and if you want an account to mess with: https://collusionapp.com
The traveling box
Eich voluntarily resigned. He's not your martyr for freedom of bigotry.
Speak in Stories
I thought it odd to require a 30 minute call with a coach as the first step. Wouldn't that discourage potential users, who might be anxious about a phone call with a stranger to discuss these very personal issues?
Someone needs to fix the contrast on that page. It's very hard to read.
Imagine that the "check" protocol has a similar requirement: that the client xor the check with their own random value. Now we have the same problem again, as your signed message looks just like a valid check. You can make the attack increasingly unlikely by mutating your protocol in ways that you don't expect any other protocol also does, but this seems like security by obscurity unless done as part of an agreed standard which other protocol authors follow.
I think you are nitpicking here. There is a figure of speech called "hyperbole" which "the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole).

BTW I don't understand why you refuse to comment on the original post. The author could clarify to you what exactly he meant.
I posted this because it is an interesting view, and it was written in 1913 and so a lot the ideas here got picked up and included in ideas of economics since then.

But I do have some major disagreements with the author:

"Credit and debt have nothing and never have had anything to do with gold and silver."

The history goes that originally humans used things like shells and beads to signal debts and obligations ( http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html ). The idea is you need to have some collectible that is very hard to produce or fake, otherwise someone could forge it and fake that you owed them a debt. Overtime, it turns out gold and silver make the best tokens, because they are rare, easily molded into tokens of various size, and are very hard to fake. Then the government makes coins out of these gold and silver, and tries to make the coins the official tender, and sets the value of the coins at premium over the bullion included. Finally, the government tries to debase the coins gradually so it can make money from seinorage.

"Such legislation was, no doubt, due to the erroneous view that has grown up in modern days that a depositor has the right to have his deposit paid in gold or in “lawful money.” I am not aware of any law expressly giving him such a right, and under normal conditions, at any rate, he would not have it"

It would have been news to the depositors that they did not have the right to withdraw the money they put in. If they were not given this right, would they still lend? Part of the problem with banking historically is that there needs to be a clearer distinction between a deposit to a vault and investing in a bond mutual fund. Banks are sort of a hybrid of the two, and the contradiction makes the system break down.

"but there is overwhelming evidence that there never was, a monetary unit which depended on the value of coin or on a weight of metal; that there never was, until quite modern days, any fixed relationship between the monetary unit and any metal; that, in fact, there never was such a thing as a metallic standard of value."

If this was the case, then why didn't the Roman emperors make their coins out of iron? Sure, the face value always exceeded the metal value. But the metal was irrelevant. If the government pushes it too far, people stop accepting the coin, as the author notes in other parts of the essay.

"Money, then, is credit and nothing but credit."

There is a sense in which this is true. It is like one of those optical illusions, where the image flips depending on how you look at it.

But, from the point of view of a clean definition of terms, it only makes sense to call something a "credit" if you are promised something specific in return. If a token has no specific promise, then it is a collectible, not a credit.
Hi, thanks for the feedback.

Before I respond, let me say that I'm one of the core developers of the system, and that I am a big fan of Redis, and conceptually of Beanstalkd (never used it, but I know someone who is a big fan of it).

The reason you wouldn't use Redis of Beanstalkd is because they are inherently singular systems - Things exist to make them behave in a distributed fashion (for Redis, anyways - not sure about Beanstalkd?), but they are not. You're not going to scale them past a single box / node (although I will admit, I am not up on my Beanstalkd news, so possibly they've made strides there?).

Dynamiq leverages the amazing work done by Basho to build a rock solid distributed data store. By providing a light layer of coordination and logic at the edge of the system, it allows you to treat Riak (in all of it's AP glory) as something like a queue (this dovetails into your question about order, below). Riak is distributed to the core, and Dynamiq uses that to it's advantage. Need more capacity? Add more nodes. It'll handle the rest.

On the subject of dupes, they are technically "rare" once the system is running at an even keel. Only when nodes enter / leave or when you alter the configuration of a queue will you be likely to see dupes. Otherwise, the only "dupes" you'd see would be when the timeout expires and "out for delivery" messages become naturally available again (but we do not consider those "dupes").

The system in no way shape or form guarantees, offers, or even implies order. You will likely get a very loose order so long as you are always keeping up with the rate of messages in, but thats it. Never assume order, and in general you should strive to build systems that are resilient in the face of a lack of order.

The range scan operates over an ID that Dynamiq itself assigns to the message, by generating a random int64 using the golang secure/crypto library. The client cannot specify the ID. However, and this is what we do internally, we assign the message an internal, application specific ID prior to publishing it to Dynamiq. So each message ultimately ends up with 2 IDs - 1 for Dynamiqs own use, which you use to ACK once you're done, and one application specific ID which may or may not mean anything to the consuming service.
The pre-chorus of Big Boi's The Way You Move features the 808, that song hit no. 1 in 2003

Big K.R.I.T. wrote a 808-themed creation story, and featured the song on his 2014 album, Cadillactica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeuw1Ce5pk
The HN guidelines ask a submitter not to use the original title when it's linkbait, so the point seems moot in this case.

In general, though, we're a bit more tolerant of title alterations when the author of the article is the one posting it, because the concerns around editorializing are less pressing.