It's a small point, but perhaps a relevant one for the trustworthiness of the article and the author: you can pay for a Baltimore bus with a DC metro card. The article confidently states an incorrect fact.

Good OCR with a nice API would be very useful.

I don't think that the code needs a CS student. A programmer, perhaps. But a motivated high school freshman with prior python experience can figure this out, given some time.

Well, yes, when you are making the decision based on someone being from a poor country. There are better measures on which visas could be distributed. I strongly support increasing the number of total visas, but that is separate.

> Well, yes, when you are making the decision based on someone being from a poor country.

But that's not the case.

> There are better measures on which visas could be distributed.

Better for who?

Politicians, by and large, are fairly numerate. Speechwriters rarely care about numbers, and policymakers care not at all.

> Politicians, by and large, are fairly numerate.

Got any data to back this up?

Trying the demo, loving it so far, just broke it. At http://ektomarch.com/games/SubbaniaDemo/Subquest.html At large scale, pure black. At small scale, normal swaying white dots with small transfer point, upwards arrow. Happened after the "you don't have the clearence" cut-scene. I had gotten the extra armor. When I scale up, I see the white dots for a fraction of a second, swaying as always, before they are seemingly covered up by blackness.

I would like to toss in that I am a beginning programmer: Not nearly good enough to fix the bugs, but I can read code and help comment it, change it to make it stylistically compliant, etc.

Low afro-american/hispanic participation can be explained in large part by lack of high quality education, lack of computers, etc. There is some residual, but nothing like the vast disparity that exists for women despite a lack of acceptable reasons.

I recently was forced to enter a password of not more than 8 characters as part of college applications. I was somewhat flummoxed, because the disposable password I use for applications I want to be able to forget about is nine characters. That is the lowest I have ever seen: I hope that there is noone worse.

Have you try to enter some quote in your password?

http://xkcd.com/327/

You assume a total lack of self interest: A perfect adherence to Kant. I disagree with you about it reflecting a sick society: I think it reflects a real one.

I disagree that my view assumes a lack of self-interest. I think it's possible to have real societies in which people can understand the rules (not necessarily choose to abide by them, but understand them) without a specialised profession to tell them what the rules mean. Self-interest has nothing to do with my suggestion that it should be possible to understand the rules of the society one lives in.