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This entire ordeal has shown us the thin skin of VCs and VC culture.

If HN/YC wanted to do the right thing, they should have taken some time to assess removing Pinboard BEFORE voting ended. Instead, what they did was game their own system: They likely sensed Pinboard could be trouble from the beginning, but hoped they would not win. They attempted to achieve that result by letting the voting play out, and THEN disqualified Pinboard when the voting results were not in their favor.
> making sure that the paper stays available for a long time

It's something that could actually be handled much better (and cheaper) by an inter-university p2p network (like BitTorrent). Such a network would double as an on-site, offline-available library of papers.
>Typesetting

Trivial

>third party review

Trivial, and happens just fine without publisher "help"

>offering visibility in a high quality journal?

Most journals are not "high quality." They're often very niche efforts, sometimes started and run as an easy way to get publication credits outside the handful of prestige publications.

Ambitious academics know that one way to raise your profile is to organise your own conference - and ask a publisher to collect and print the proceedings for you.
Is this a new service, or just an article about the existing one (which, last I looked into, charged for access to it)? It's a noble cause, but not very helpful if you have to pay to participate.
Ah looks like you actually had a smart math teacher. Mine retroactively failed all my take-homes and homework after I showed her the program I used and explained why I did it (rote memorization is terrible, I was more interested in the theory and algorithms). I had to appeal to the CS teacher and principal at my school to reverse the grade which would've prevented me from graduating
Measuring a black hole 660M times as massive as our sun
Yes. I've been doing Javascript + HTML games with my 9yo nephew every now and then, and the complexity of the environment as a whole is incredibly discouraging. Sure, he gets assignment, functions, conditionals and other basics. But the interface between the logic and the presentation is just so incredibly abstract that getting from those basics to anything interesting is way too hard.

I've been thinking of switching over to some other environment the next time we do that. The immediacy and integration into an environment he already uses every day are compelling advantages, and it'll be a shame to lose them. But it does feel like the downsides easily outweigh the benefits.
Win 10 is to Win 8 what Win 7 was to Vista.
I profoundly agree and note that voting (at least in any reasonably-sized electorate) is an inherently irrational act, and so the barrier to good judgment is high.

It's inherently irrational because one's vote will almost certainly never decide an election. Everyone intuits this fact. Even though they may consider themselves to be performing a civic duty, they will always be subject to s host of other reasons for voting as they do, reasons other than pure consequentialist thinking.
It is not the only hardware on Rescale. K520 and K40 are definitely available - after you create a free account and login there is a very transparent price list of the hardware available to you.

(works at Rescale)
Tesla Model S 70 lets you pay to 'unlock' a bigger battery
QBasic was a truly incredible way to start programming.
Today I'd probably recommend python with pygame, and especially the book inventing computer games with python:
https://inventwithpython.com/
I would hope they don't apply to most 'normal' people...
You're overlooking the word "grow".

There's nothing wrong with that sentence. No absolutes.
Android, as an ecosystem, it horrible. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Nicotine premix is available from many online vaping sites, so is going to be at least as trustworthy as their e-liquids.

I stopped thinking about mixing my own when I discovered Poundland carries branded eliquids. £1 for what seems to have a widely standard price of £3.33 or £4 in the vape shops and sites.
Show HN: Russian roulette in bash for the CLI
All this ruckus because people dislike others being wrongly credited. Well, so what if he gets a cult following? So what if a portion of people want to believe something without empirical evidence?

Not like it hasn't ever happened before. And it will continue to happen no matter how many call bullshit.
Also, if you're talking about specifically replacing a source files (i.e. modules), one could hack around with
https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.r.... I think it would work with enough indirection/factory functions.
I worked as a contractor for MacMillan (they publish nature) and it's hard to believe how much money they spend for no results. The project I was on had been running for a year when I joined. I noped out after three months and I heard it was shut down a few months after I left with nothing to show.

That was 4-6 people full time and my entire floor of 80 people was full of projects like that - projects you never heard of.

The weird thing is that everyone I worked with directly was very smart, and went on to do cool stuff.

Summary: If I had to guess the remaining profit is wasted on silly projects and high manager salaries.
We usually don't want them to do anything about it - this is why we have suicide prevention. The difference with euthanasia is that you personally agree that certain lives really are "not worth living", and for practical purposes you defer that judgement, via government, to a set of doctors. This shifts the requirement away from informed consent to a judgement external to the person, from "do they really want to" to "do I really want them to".

The differences you mention (duration of ideation/plan, competence) are ultimately about determining if the person "really wants to". But this applies equally to "normal" suicide: it places the many rationally planned suicides into the same class as euthanasia (it's their life, they're freeing themselves, keep your morality to yourself).

http://www.emorycaresforyou.emory.edu/resources/suicidestati...

Furthermore, according to the above link, of the 1 million who create a plan, only half report going through with it - how many with a "planned death" would not actually have gone through with it and instead endured, had they been lucid?

Should we be trying to prevent "(rationally) planned death", or shouldn't we?
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"If your files aren't tagged correctly (which is distressingly common), then the auto organization will make a pig's breakfast of your library."

Pray tell, how should my WAV/PCM files be "tagged" ? What's the format for that ? Exactly.
The devil you know I suppose ;)

IIRC we didn't go too far down the client cert route because we're behind CloudFlare and we like it that way. Something to revisit in the future.
Do you mean O(n^2)? Because merge sort certainly won't be exponential.
Do this on your friends and families computers, and change the world.
I can't speak to that vulnerability, but from what I have read websockets are more likely to not break on firewalls because they are using a well known port (either 80 or 443). Websockets also start out looking like a standard HTTP request. Compared to say MQTT or another protocol which uses its own port, websockets don't require any special setup. However, that really only applies to encrypted websockets; unencrypted has been known to cause issues with older proxies.
Once again we have criminal action covered by the CFAA completely ignored by the government because a large corporation is doing it. Serving malware knowingly? No problem. Overstepping your access and deleting files that aren't yours? No problem. But good fucking forbid an individual even types a wrong url and they're in jail. Double standard much?
Out of all the consumer electronics companies, Apple makes the best software.

(Edit: This is not a compliment)
One big problem with OAuth on mobile apps is this scenario. I've seen this in the wild for non security-critical apps. As far as I can tell, it's not a bug so much as it is a problem with the OAuth protocol and webview permissions:

1) MyLittleApp wants OAuth access to BankOfMars

2) MyLittleApp bundles BankOfMars SDK into MyLittleApp

3) MyLittleApp requests oauth access via SDK

4) SDK opens WebView for user to log into BankOfMars

5) MyLittleApp has full control over the DOM presented to the user since the WebView is technically its own.

6) MyLittleApp extracts the user's password from the DOM of the WebView

7) MyLittleApp disappears and... profit?
It just works ;)
MTP is a bit of a mess.

First off, file access is mediated via software on the Android side. What you are seeing is a database representation of the device FS. And this database can be incorrect (people have in the past deleted folders they thought were empty only to lose files) or used to implement DRM.

Second, it is bloody slow.
You are being downvoted because your statements simultaneously conflict and support themselves.

As for honor, if the creator of Bitcoin exists as a single entity then it's about time for them to stand up and take some responsibility in the disaster that is the Bitcoin community. Creating something so important and then leaving town is immature, illogical and down right annoying.

While I'm at it, fuck you Satoshi.
My Z3 Compact has a feature where it will automatically reorient the screen unless you rotate the phone slowly, in which case it keeps the orientation fixed. Sony calls it "Smart Rotation".

It works great except when it doesn't. Pretty frequently I'll lie down, use the phone for a couple of minutes, and then while holding the phone perfectly still it'll go "HEY THE PHONE IS IN LANDSCAPE I'D BETTER ROTATE" all of a sudden.

Which is to say, this kind of thing is great if it's 100% reliable, but if you only get to 95% it's a nuisance. More often than not I just manually lock it because I expect the Smart Rotation feature to flake out, and fixing it afterward is more work than locking at the start (rotate back to the right orientation according to gravity, lock the rotation, then rotate back to my viewing position).
As soon as you get to iterate over an array, you will be confronted with JavaScript's ugly design.

No. It's a language to scare - and scar - young programmers for life.
I was at a theme park last month with my toddler, sitting on a bench in no-smoking area and this lady came over and started smoking an e-cig right next to us. When I pointed out to her the smoking area about 200 feet away from us, she said "Oh don't worry. These are totally safe for the little one!" I smiled politely, said "Have a good day" and walked away without making a fuss.

As to your point, they may be safer than regular cigarettes but what's even safer is not smoking anything around me or my family. I don't how safe they are because there are no regulations [1]. If the vapers think they are safe enough to be used in close proximity to toddlers, then the e-cig companies have done a fantastic job of marketing. I'm totally ok with FDA regulating them.

1. http://www.babycentre.co.uk/x25008143/is-it-safe-to-use-e-ci...
yes, and scale is a material difference.
Drone footage inside the SR 99 (Seattle) tunnel
No love for Logo? I currently have my kids experimenting with ucbLogo and FMSLogo. And one of our latest endeavors is to hook it up to Minecraft [1], but that is certainly quite convoluted, with having to run minecraft servers with various plugins, and then working around the borked networking capabilities of FMSLogo, etc.. I wonder what other simple approaches there are to programmatically control Minecraft.

[1]http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2014/05/minecraft-graphics-tur...
Trivial

Obviously that's your opinion, but since when does the effort it takes to create something matter about the price? It's pretty trivial to move product from a factory to a retail store, yet people have no problem paying for that.

And again, if it's trivial, then there is nothing stopping anyone from starting their own journal. But amazingly, nobody has done that.

What's the saying about "find out why the fence is there before you tear it down"?

Most journals are not "high quality.

Who cares about most journals? Nobody reads them anyways. I'm talking Nature, Science, etc.
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Once you know it's a tactic you can't allow yourself to fall for it anymore or you'll end up trapped, regardless of what the final outcome is.

However it's not right to go around guessing that someone like this guy is using that tactic and ignoring what could be a serious cry for help when you have no idea if he's an abusive person.
Interesting. Honestly forgot all about Periscope. I tried it out day one to mess around with my day to day stuff, and I really haven't heard anything about it since.
Yes, though I need to narrow them down further still!

- 2 related to foreign language translation
- 3 related to HR/Recruiting
- 6 in the "On Demand" industry
- 3 FinTech startups with a Social Mission
- 2 mental health ones
- 2 in the Q&A industry
- 1 related to Business Processes
- 1 related to nightlife

I know a lot of people fetishize the startup world, but I think it's sincerely interesting to explore the variety of problems people are trying to solve with technology.
"amount of CPU and disk in the background for no reason"

That's probably from the built-in spyware and forced upgrade processes that run in the background.
That of course is your right, and the right of every voter. Ralph Nader likewise says that he has no regrets, and disclaims any responsibility for the appointments of Justices Roberts and Alito.

[Edit] On conscience: One can argue that it is worth taking a bath in year x for gains in year x + y; the Goldwater enthusiasts of 1964 thought that the debacle contributed to the election of Reagan in 1980, and may have been right.

On 2000: I still argue that Nader had more to do with the elections outcome than any imbalance in charisma.

[Edit 2: yes, I said Scalia...]
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"A complaint I've heard before is that this works fine for most modern music, but the Artist/Album/Track layout doesn't apply to a lot of classical collections."

More importantly, and more generally: what if my music organization format predates OSX/iOS/iTunes and I am not interested in altering it for todays fad ?

This is not apple-specific, either - many devices and services (audi MMI, Sonos, etc.) assume certain naming and organizational practices - and work very awkwardly with any other layout.

Granted, my Sonos system has never deleted anything or reorganized directories ... but my music is mounted read-only just in case.
Public resources? How do you figure? Not all research public is a public resource. Pharmaceutical companies publish, as do private foundations. Anyways, if the research was funded through public money, it gets published for free anyways.
This isn't really true - elements are cleaned at red-hot temperatures, sure, but they never reach anything like that temperature when saturated with liquid.
don't call it a tweak or nudge when the experiment's parameters were deliberately altered to avoid the outcome the data was indicating.

"We had an idea for figuring out where we'd spend our money. We didn't like what happened so we spent it based on other criteria."

So the experiment was maybe the voting / HN selection, but they don't get to paint it as the experiment was "let's see who HN selects, then compare their outcome with traditional participants" like we were led to believe...
No, I mean O(2^n). O(2^n) includes everything that grows slower than 2^n as well. It is no relation to the worst case performance of merge sort, just a clarification on the definition of Big O.
Maybe this is an opportune time to bring up a related concern. It's crucial that any system for disseminating scientific work be reliable and persist indefinitely. I don't like the current system, but I wonder how this will be achieved otherwise.
You could also run the Codelyzer (A set of tslint rules for static code analysis of Angular 2 TypeScript projects) with the recommended configuration to match this style guide.

https://github.com/mgechev/codelyzer
I agree - but as you say OAuth also suffers from MITM weaknesses. I'm just not convinced 'plain' client certs solve that as it's very hard to distribute those securely and manage them.
I guess it depends where you see these being used, if used Server to Server it's not too bad, but if pushed out mobile devices (as I suspect they will be) they are very likely to leak unless strong app protection is applied.

If you're banking on strong app protection working you really need to be notified of it's state on the server which this won't do, you need to use a securely signed message from the verification/protection libraries on the client.

That can be done by storing this key into a cryptographic whitebox and then linking using it to integrity verification.
>>If you already understand it, you don't benefit from solving more quadratic equations. You benefit from doing whatever the next step is. You just burn time plugging things into (-b +- sqrt (b2-4ac)) / 2a. And you learn the wrong lesson, which is that you have to get it exactly right, rather than why that's the equation in the first place.

As some one who works in Data Analytics, I can tell you many people lack the ability to plug things into a formula properly, many have issues with even simple approximation and back of the envelope calculations. I wouldn't say, practicing this is a bad thing.

By the way if you think this is wrong. A little scaled up version of this is what is tested in current day interviews. Asking people algorithms is basically testing their ability to remember a heuristic and their ability to plug in numbers and demonstrate mental acrobatics.
Temperature-control mode has been available for a couple years now. http://vaping360.com/temperature-control-a-vaping-revolution...
Quantum boolean applies here
> As for honor, if the creator of Bitcoin exists as a single entity then it's about time for them to stand up and take some responsibility in the disaster that is the Bitcoin community. Creating something so important and then leaving town is immature, illogical and down right annoying.

Satoshi is not responsible for the Bitcoin community any more than he is responsible for the quality of this Hacker News comment you've just written. I understand the annoyance of not knowing who Satoshi is, but he/she/they doesn't owe us anything.
Tested from US university IP, I also get the 1K4t wallet address. Maybe a caching issue with the CDN (assuming they use one)?
Yeah I got my daughter a new Mac and synced it up to the iCloud so she could iMessage from the desktop and she got an odd (incomplete) set of contacts that don't seem to match any other device.
The three-legged flow from OAuth is widely needed. (I would agree with sticking to earlier versions that allow more specific tokens though)
> It's kinda crazy that it has taken so long for someone to actually take an initiative and attempt to make the authentication more secure.

Not when you consider we've all been subjected to decades of "don't write your own security!!!"
Is it legal to donate?
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Were we wrong about vertical rhythm?
Here's the actual rule:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

From what I can tell it would regulate all nicotine containing juice and all hardware that is intended to be used with that. So a lot of small business that build these mod-boxes and things will not be in compliance.

It's too bad, this really hurts small business.
How to Handle Difficult Conversations When Scaling Companies
The data is interesting.
Link to the announcement from FDA which contains more info:

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
About fifteen years ago I was working on a venture to make an open-content journal publishing system. It didn't pan out for various reasons, but the general argument we were making this. Here are various services, and who (or what) handles them:

- Peer review and top-level decision-making. This is handled entirely by the editorial board.

- Typesetting. We have a free system for this: it's called LaTeX.

- Copy-editing and typeset-checking. This is handled by the publisher.

- Publishing and archiving. This is handled by the publisher.

- Famous Name. This is controlled by the publisher and is pure rent-seeking.

It used to be that the publisher handled much more than this. But with a decent online publishing, workflow, and archiving system, and with a near-zero cost in publishing and archiving online nowadays, essentially the only useful service the publisher provides is copy-editing. That is very minor.

If a free online business model can figure out how to fund copy-editing and automatic standards enforcement (for example, people make awful bibtex entries, including Springer's auto-generation system), and a university institution willing to host the journal's archives, the entire utility of a publisher disappears.

The big problem is not computer science, I think, which is rapidly moving to an online model. The big problem is that non-CS fields have no typesetting facility -- they submit articles in Word, which Elsevier/Springer then hands off to typesetters in India, who typically reset the whole thing, including bibtex entries, in LaTeX for publication. These entire fields are still reliant on copy editors and typesetters, and thus are stuck with rent-seeking.

I think the right approach is for a journal to require that authors have their papers certified by one of several "copy-editing / typesetting certification agencies" (a concept I made up). It's up to the authors to pay for that. This would almost completely eliminate the value of a publisher, and as there are multiple certification agencies vying, the cost would drop to a reasonable amount.
There should be more love for Logo. Very simple, very interactive, even without minecraft.
Vue.js - MUCH easier to get started with, and will have most everything you need without the complexity of Angular.
I'm genuinely curious who you think would give you flak. Publishers? Your department faculty? The librarian at your university? Your peers?

(reason I'm interested: I'm on the board of Sage and have a board meeting tomorrow where I hope we'll be discussing sci-hub)
The fact that you even have to think this suggests that you should use Tor so that they don't win in self-censoring the citizens.
what is going to prevent even further off shoring then? Software development, support, and even project management, are all easy candidates for off shoring and with ever improving conferencing tools, change management, and similar, its bound that there will be more competition.

So either the cost come down because they live and work here or the costs drop faster as the work simply goes off shore.

Far too many in the tech industry are first to jump at competition in their areas of expertise but mock those concerned about workers similar to those at Carrier whose jobs are moving to Mexico as either progress or being non competitive
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My first programs were for a TI-55 calculator. No conditional jumps, only a RST that restarted the program with data intact, so you could do some tricks.

I managed to make it solve second-degree equations in less than 33 steps (using the RST jump to re-run part of the program on modified data). Without the trick it'd require, IIRC, 35 steps, which were beyond the limits of that model.
> Why talk about the negotiations with Australian tax authorities when those authorities could very easily come and say that he was lying.

Like he did with the unearned degrees, the nonexistent business partnerships, and key signing slight of hand?
As someone who can't bear to let go of his 160gb iPod classic (but still hates iTunes with a burning passion), is there an alternative like Swinsian that will still sync my iPod?

I've been handcuffed to iTunes for years because of the iPod syncing mechanism but I'd love to switch.