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Reminds me of this quote from Aditya Chakrabortty:

> One of the best gauges of whether a statement actually means anything is to stick a not in its middle. If the opposite sounds ridiculous, then the chances are the original proposition is mush.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/19/economic...
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Even assuming you have the knowledge that the freezing process is broken, which I doubt you have, I find that any chance greater than zero is worth the investment.

I also qualified my original statement by saying that I'd do it if the technology improves. Extrapolating from past life expectancies, there is nearly a hundred years for the technology to develop until I need it. Saying the technology won't be there in a hundred years is a very strong statement.
Set up a Google Voice number and have the text sent there. GV can then forward that to your phone, so you have the convenience of getting it on your phone with the knowledge that you can get to it even if your phone is not working.

My bank has an offering that lets you select between getting the code as a text or as an email.
Really looking forward to all the awesome integration between GitHub and the Ordered List products.
What? She is an elected member of parliament. She is in every way a part of the government. Her role is not reflective of the power she yields but that is a separate issue.
The request itself may be clueless, however you can easily mass censor content that contains certain keywords.

It can get pretty effective too, as is the case with spam filtering. You could even detect the tone of the article - if it's a positive or a negative one. Plus you can hellban the users too and they won't notice the censorship until much later.

So I don't get what a discussion of costs will bring, as there's always a cheaper way. Freedom of speech is the issue here, not cost.
> It's not really the API which breaks, it's the versioning.

It is definitely the API which breaks in many cases. These 6-week updates change APIs, both Web APIs (used by both websites and addons) and internal APIs.

For example, websites - not addons - can and do break with Firefox and Chrome 6-week updates, because even Web APIs are changed in these rapid updates.

It is true that versioning is a problem as well, however.
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Sonia Gandhi is an MP, she is not "completely outside the government". A few people have said this now, where is this talk coming from?
There are plenty of business opportunities where spending is required before money is made, Google and Facebook being good examples.
this plugin began life a few days ago as a single line of javascript that would auto-click those close dialogs. we went from there and got it working with the other apps.

when the new API is released to all developers there will be a lot more of these apps. we wrote this in a pretty generic way, so it should continue to work when the new frictionless sharing apps are released.
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Facebook is opening an office literally right down the street in Kitchener, in anticipation of RIM's collapse.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/facebook-expanding-its-canadia...
This is common practice. Our password forms all over the internet send the password just as part of a normal request. We rely on SSL to protect that data as it goes over the wire and then there are all sorts of ways that it might be stored in plain text somewhere on the servers.

They could just, in RAM, take off the last 6 characters of the password they got and treat those as the token with the rest being the password itself. At this point it's not much different from passing them separately.

The main point of the original rant was that we have a solution that doesn't require this, but it's not used for any websites.
I still fail to see how this improves over a thin Bluetooth keyboard, that wirelessly communicates with the iPad..

It seems like it takes up just as much space as phyiscal, but requires covering the screen, like the software KB does.
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I came here to say this. In fact, I want to add, in my case, I think the institution of education ruined math for me.

Although, unlike you, I don't think I ever recovered.
I think cars are successful for more complicated reasons than that, such as the physical and sociopolitical infrastructure invested in them, and advertising and culture. I can't speak for anywhere but the northeast US, but within every metropolitan center over here, biking would be a better form of transportation for at least half of city dwellers, 90% of the time--provided they all woke up and did it at once, regaining road-space from the taxis and the cars. Imagine New York, Toronto, or Boston with one full lane of every avenue bustling with bikes, the way you do in Amsterdam. There simply aren't enough ice patches and 40mph winds in any of those places to justify the level of car traffic. Also, anybody that currently rides the subway/bus/train or walks is already sweating and does not feel entitled to their own enclosed space.

The road to better health is paved with sweaty armpits. I for one would not mind a little workplace B.O. if it meant for happier, safer commutes and fewer billions spent treating the pandemic of heart disease and diabetes. But that's just me.
I think the problem in education (and also in work) is that people feel forced to do something. It really kills interest, regardless of what it is.
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The Wifi version is also hackable in the same way. You might want to google "Kobo wifi hacks" and start looking around. Unfortunately, it's pretty early in the scene and developers are still working to figure stuff out. I'm not sure there are yet any workable apps written for these devices.
I do like the idea of using fine money to benefit the perpetrators and/or mitigate the offense. Otherwise, for crimes that aren't serious enough to warrant jail time, the revenue can become a misincentive/conflict of interest for those who should be providing justice to engage in extortion.

Let those who receive the benefit of enforcement pay for it (i.e., taxes).

The specific case I usually think of is speeding tickets. In my opinion, those fines should be ear-marked for passing lanes, rumble strips, guard rails and other projects to reduce travel times while increasing safety for motorists.
Only if you're in the US, unfortunately.
Greece has socialised healthcare, as do the rest of the European countries circling the drain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Greece

It's worth noting that the US health model isn't a free-market system - the state links health care to employment, which distorts the market away from individual private health ownership, and creates patterns that make it easy for costs to creep up. The US health care model is a disaster: the state doesn't supply health care, but then also prevents the free market from operating effectively.
I would seriously have loved doing proofs in high school. I doubt it occurred to any of our teachers, or if they had any understanding of this themselves. Now, my math skills are highly lacking due to dropping the subject too early and I would pay very good money for a decent online calculus class like the many great programming classes we're seeing pop up.
I agree but I think it's more a matter of expression of not necessarily tangible concepts with speech, which is not an inherently perfect system of description. In these situations, abstraction is critical as it allows for experiences, knowledge and feeling to fill in the gaps. The use of this technique for this purpose is infrequent and most people use it for pure laziness of not being able to accurately an succinctly form verbal descriptors
In case you are trying to give justifications for these requests because this has been going on since the pre-internet era, then don't - freedom of speech should be a fundamental right of all people.
Problem is, that's exactly how the human brain interprets real-life people, too. You can call it the Monkeysphere or Dunbar's Number, but fact is that people are incapable of conceptualizing random strangers on anything like the same level as familiar people. It's the reason you have more emotional reaction to a package being delayed than you have to a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. It's a limitation of the human brain. Movies and games with collateral casualties reflect the way every single human being actually looks at the world; you just notice it because it's someone else's version of who's important and who isn't instead of your own.
Why would you need to worry about these at all?
The password is supposed to be given to bcrypt, and the result from bcrypt is something that's usually not suitable for attacks on anything.
So yeah, it may be sensitive, if you store plaintext passwords, but then that'll be the least of your worries.
Ask HN: Equity splitting
Hey HN,

My mentor and I started a company together, about 4 months ago.

Originally we had a 50/50 split. We are both doing other jobs, I'm contracting full time for at least another month, but I'm putting in over 30 hours a week writing the software and creating all the sales material. My mentor is currently running a few other companies and is giving support via contacts and making things happen.

In a month I plan on not renewing my contract, and going all out on this start-up. To make things more complicated we also have a minor partner, who wants in on the equity. This minor partner is also willing to quit his full time and do this all out.

I'm in a tricky situation, I think the split needs to be adjusted, but I'm afraid of damaging relations.

Yes we have paying customers already, so this needs to be solved before we hockey stick.

Any tips?
I find these questions interesting too, when the Global Warming group argues that we have to fix it because climate change caused a great die off, one wonders if we're in the 'habitable zone' for our Sun or if we're in the conditionally habitable zone if the planetary chemistry is correct. The latter would seem to both widen what could be habitable, and narrow the probability that somewhere is habitable (have to both be in a zone and chemically appropriate)

As a thought experiment it would be interesting to figure out what it would take to put a satellite in orbit around that planet. One that simply had a plate on it would be fine. Sort of a 'you are not alone' message.
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Absolutely! Like I'd posit that many of us learnt Chess from an adult. Not many kids pick this up themselves, without an initial introduction.

I think another issue is that we expect parents to be able to introduce kids to advanced topics. What happens when you get a brilliant kid with no access to education outside of the classroom? More often than not at least a few years of missed accelerated learning.
I had spoken to someone else who had added "time" as a third dimension (and I suppose that that's pretty much what you've done there, too).

I have, in my head, some interesting shapes that I think might react well given the rules I have. I might put a few of them in and see how they go.
they only cover 10 square degrees of sky

"only", heh (BTW, it's 12 linear degrees, 105 square degrees)

It's hard to make instruments that provide good images across wide angles. Many visual telescopes, both amateur and professional, stay at 1 degree and less of true field of view for medium and high magnification; 2 degrees true field is already pretty good and it's usually obtained at low magnification.

Astrographs can produce wider fields of view, 10 degrees being considered pretty studly, to borrow a quote from Linus. But normally you don't get that "for free". You force an optical element to work at such a wide angle, and then correct the inevitable distortions with various correctors, which are usually lenses or combinations thereof.

The Kepler mission is essentially a Schmidt camera, an old, true and tested design:

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

Its almost 1 meter aperture would allow a theoretical resolving power of almost 0.1 arcsec (which is my full height as an average guy, standing in Los Angeles, as seen from New York), which could be exploited freely in space since there's no atmosphere to reduce it. Unfortunately, for the type of measurements they do, the image is softened intentionally back to 10 arcsec, which is the theoretical resolution of a 1 cm aperture, or the lens in your digital camera (assuming your camera is a true diffraction-limited system, which it very likely isn't). However, the light gathering power of Kepler is, of course, 10k greater than your camera's; and, again, it's unimpeded by messy and light-polluted Earth atmosphere.

Sorry for the pop-sci journalism comparisons, but the numbers really are kind of mind-boggling.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/QuickGuide/MissionDesign/Phot...

Please note the curved sensor array, which is due to the fact that a Schmidt scope actually does have a curved field (the light comes to true focus not in a plane, but in a segment of sphere). In fact, flat fields are something you strive for, you don't get for free; even common types of instruments have curved fields, but in most cases the radius of curvature is so big you can ignore it.

Optical instruments are tricksy.
I would love to learn more about options and what they are used for.

Also, the most important things to know about technical analysis would be pretty useful too.
Wonder how Antartica would look without ice?
> Nobody is looking for "human intelligence" on other planets. Maybe that's why you think it's impossible. I'd say dolphins are intelligent.

One proviso there is that it'd be very hard to establish that there are dolphins on another planet since the only signature that we have to go on are things that manipulate the light spectrum. We could, perhaps, infer something from an atmospheric condition that we might someday be able to detect, but observe, for instance, how difficult it is for us to determine if there is or has ever been life on Mars, even though it's right next door. For all we know, there could be dolphins on Titan. Sending an exploratory probe that would take millennia to reach its target (and then several hundred years to send data back) will probably remain impractical for an extended period of time.
He was also one of the leading forces behind the Apple Newton, so he knows a bit about Tablet Fail.
Let me paraphrase you: Knowing how to multiply two 3 digit numbers is boring. The method has been known for thousands of years, and you've got calculators that can do it for you. So why should one learn how to do that?

The answer is that it gives you intuition about how these things behave, even if you always use a calculator to come up with the correct result.

And mental back-of-the-envelope calculation is unbelievably useful in every day life; if you can't do it, I can guarantee that you're either making worse decisions for it, or wasting a lot of time optimizing your every purchase by typing it on a calculator.

Similarly, you need to practice proving and reading proofs so you actually have the right intuition about what constitutes "proof". Unfortunately, all of western culture, and american culture in particular, is so far divorced from the concept of sound logic, that it is very likely that most people don't even realize they are missing something.

It's not any of the specific proofs that matter. It's the exercise. You go to the gym to exercise your muscle; You do proofs to exercise your logic.
Ask HN: What should I look out for in an ESOP letter?
I'm about to join a startup in which I will be granted options. However, I'm totally new to this so what are the details in the ESOP letter that I should take note of?
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Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help.

Specific details: http://www.fancyhands.com/jobs

We're looking for:

- Python developers (we're on App Engine, but if you know python enough, it's no trouble)
- Front End Programmers
- Designers

Fancy Hands is a small, profitable company trying to change the way people work. We'll won't call you a guru, ninja, or rockstar.
Many cities (in the U.S. at least) have a metropolitan center that is almost completely flat. San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Seattle are the most obvious exceptions, but as far as I can remember, almost all the other cities toward the top of this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...) are really, really flat.
No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well. The new functionality is OK, but that's all - hardly worth a self-congratulatory press release on how it was designed. And I'm mystified about why the left column is so narrow; I don't use a widescreen monitor, but even at a 4:3 screen ratio and with a relatively low resolution of 1280:1024, the left-hand column feels cramped and inefficient, with everything organized vertically into lists and dropdowns.

You know what I'd like? Being able to net my labels without the nesting being in the label title. I have a Family label, with sub-labels like House, Medical, and so on. These show up in the list of emails as Family/Medical which is a waste of space. true, I might have other medical categories, but if I did I could use color to differentiate them.
Yes, this. It's a blog post; she's relating an anecdote, not compiling evidence for a court case.

It's perfectly plausible, if you take for granted the context that she mentions -- in total & over time, it was frustrating enough that she left the job.

But the topic is "sensitive", so suddenly everyone turns into lawyers and now it's very important to find out if that particular experience is really sexism, because if not we don't have to have this excruciating conversation.

Who knew you could be sexist without, you know, groping someone or constantly making blonde jokes? This subtlety thing sucks; you have to actually think to avoid sexism, apparently.
I am extremely bad at this kind of talk. I like it when it's clear. But I am in a middle of preparing a presentation for some employer whom I want to offer some consultancy. What should I do not to give him an impression that hhe can move on without me because the topic is so clear and simple?
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Except I imagine like the author like meant using like out of like, you-know, thingie... context.

I live with someone who uses like far to often it's almost a speech impediment. Of course, he doesn't notice it and I'm learning to ignore it. However on the flip side, when I can't think of what I want to say next (and that is also often) I just go silent, frequently leaving my conversation partner puzzled and sometimes they ask to repeat what I said.

edit: grammar.
Mr. T was very disappointed (and I agree with him) at the movie remake of the A-Team, because of the number of random people who get killed in the movie. At one point the "good guys" blow up a few dozen law enforcement dudes who are basically doing their jobs and aren't really "bad guys". I know Mr. T isn't especially relevant anymore, but I though it was good to see someone calling this out.
Guys - as it happens I'll see Christian in Sydney next week and I'll be sure to tell him that his comment was insensitive and racist...

My original tweet was an off the cuff remark, I didn't like Freshdesk's choice of name and I still don't. It's nothing against the founders, the product or anything else. And it sure as heck isn't some dodgy conspiracy aimed at ensuring that Zendesk succeeds....
Very true. Mike Pall is truly exceptional.

Also worth mentioning is that LuaJIT and JS engines have different constraints. For example, JS engines must be very careful about security, LuaJIT does not. So JS engines need to do more cleanup/initialization for example, to prevent things like heap spray attacks, which LuaJIT does not. Also, JS engines are written to be maintainable by a large team, LuaJIT is really focused entirely on speed.
I agree the unemployment number is messed up but for different reasons. His logic doesn't track for me.

Babies who were just born aren't entering the job force. As disturbing as it is to contemplate we have no idea how many of those babies will and won't make it to working age.

Putting that creepy thought aside you'd still want to look at population growth from 1993 (assuming 18 as the age people enter the job market though often times that's not even true because of higher education delay).

In that case you're looking at an average population growth of 229,299 per month in 1993 to his death rate of 216,000. Add the 120,000 jobs on top of that and you actually get a net gain.

Of course that doesn't count part time workers, discouraged workers, and all the other factors that really do make the unemployment rate bull. I'm just saying his logic isn't consistent.
> Banks don't optimize for security, they optimize for profits.

So true, and to them "profits" often means "user convenience" long before "user security". I've talked about it here before so this time I'll just post a link to my story about the time my bank reset all its users' passwords to be equal to their usernames (intentionally!):

http://www.blahedo.org/blog/archives/000836.html
One of my banks limits passwords to 12 characters. I asked a customer service representative why, her response was "because it's hard enough to remember 12".

/facepalm
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You cut out the part where I mentioned computer systems when you quoted me. That part was important. It was an attempt to show that there could be radio-communicating, non-human entities with entirely different 'intelligences'.

> will probably remain impractical for an extended period of time.

I don't deny that. I only deny that it's impossible.
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You actually get the first two as well:

https://github.com/github/hubot/graphs/traffic

https://github.com/github/hubot/graphs/clones
We had to actually fight our investors to reduce our spending by 50%. We prevailed, and that's probably the reason the company's finally making money years later (instead of going broke early on), but it was a strange situation.
I don't think reading studies is the only way either, but I don't think most of us have questioned what makes us happy outside of soceity's default settings (money/fame/toys/vacations).

People make all sorts of tradeoffs which are non-optimal:

* Extra commute to a better job with $XX,XXX more for +1 hour/day of travel (less time for good food with family/friends)
* Move away from good family/friends to pursue better job
* Pursue career X because it's more lucrative than career Y (even though Y is more enjoyable)

There are lots of biases like this, under the assumption the change will increase our net happiness.
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