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I hadn't touched one of these in well over a decade—there was quite a while that I used one daily—when a friend brought one by a few months ago.

If you haven't gotten a chance to play with one in a while (or ever!), it's startling. It's astonishingly simple, fluid, easy, and focused like few products in the history of computing have been.

Fun game: can you still draw all of the Graffiti symbols?
I always find the american obsession with the constitution (& founding fathers) a little weird. How about deciding what's best for now instead of trying to interpret the words of a couple of guys 200 years ago as a gospel about how the internet should work?
Yup. I worked a web marketing/branding firm as a web developer for a while last year and we started telling our clients that any IE support would cost 25-40% more.

If they had an existing web presence we'd get their logs and figure out about how much traffic they'd lose by dropping IE. Few were willing to pay for it.

(And I was happy to cut my headaches down by an order of magnitude)
HN threads on this topic already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781829

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443316
I haven't finished watching this yet so maybe it will be stated, but cancer loves sugar. It's sort of like adding high-octane fuel to a car. It speeds up the process. That's the main reason I would (should, but don't) avoid sugar.
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You should make ships distinguishable so informal alliances can form.
Yeah, the story definitely said calories not grams. Most sodas hover around 40g of sugar per 12 oz. Works out to about 160 sugar calories per can.
Definitely can't argue with you there. Although AA's arguably the leader in his field, a top sports nutritionist going against any sort of deeply credentialed scientist/doctor is going to be put at a credibility disadvantage.

I encourage you to read the two articles though and see what you think.
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I recommend meditation. You can either find a group in your area (which is also great for making friends) or read books by Pema Chodron or others.

Meditation is, in my experience, a great way to deal with guilt. (And I say this having dealt with guilt a lot.) You don't try to fight the guilt, or deny anything. You just experience it briefly if it comes, and then return your focus to your breathing.
He was pretty convincing in The Guardian, which was as serious as I've ever seen him. There may be others:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005110/
Don't dwell on what you might have done differently in the past. It's done; there's no changing it. In economic terms, it's a sunk cost[1].

What you can control is what you do today and in the future. That's where you should focus your energies.

[1] http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/sunk-cost.html
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Normally I'm not worried about IE7/6. The only time it is an issue is when a corporate client (who else is stuck using those browsers, these days? not many) complains that their new, cutting-edge social media app doesn't render properly in their antiquated browser.
I've been thinking about this very thing.

Accellerometers and gyros in the headphones linked up to Openal for a 3d computer interface that doesn't require sight.
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"A spokeswoman for the German Bundesbank told Reuters it was not classifying Bitcoins as e-currency.

She said EU law required only euros to be accepted as legal tender, but this was superseded by German law that allows those involved in a contract to determine its content. So Bitcoin is at least not illegal there."

It wasn't even a year ago when the German organization BVDW (The Federal Association of Digital Economy) put out an alert: "We assume that, on substitute currencies' like Bitcoins sooner or later be banned by legislation,"

- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11061.msg158226#msg15...
Since the block reward is the only source of 'new' bitcoin, the rate of bitcoin creation will be halving as well. So there will be two competing effects:

1) 'monetary' inflation will decrease, because the rate of bitcoin creation will drop from 7200BTC/day to 3600BTC/day

2) miners will be earning half as much when denominated in BTC

If the decrease in inflation doesn't cause a large enough corresponding increase in price, mining would be less profitable, causing some fraction of miners to drop out, and meaning longer transaction confirmation times (for at most 2 weeks, while the network adjusts to the change in capacity).

My guess is that the huge change in inflation will adequately compensate both miners and investors, and cause a significant enough increase in price to avoid lengthening confirmation time.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply

EDIT: by inflation, I mean 'monetary' inflation, rather than price inflation.
Oooh - nice!

Do you know if it's gaining much traction?
One of the main points of the story is that sugar intake has increased dramatically in America. They talked about the reduction of fat in food, and manufacturers responded by replacing the fat with sugar.

The point being that the average American now consumes sugar at "toxic" quantities (and of course, the word "toxic" was very much link bait). It's hard to deny America has an obesity and diabetes problem.
I'm sure that we can all come up with examples of worse jobs. If that's your point of reference, and it works for you, more power to you.
Is it possible to reverse engineer the image such that it passes all tests? Knowing the various algorithms that could be used, what would be involved in constructing the modification such that it doesn't reveal evidence of any modifications?

One thought would be to actually render an entire scene in something like POV-Ray. Imagine if something like this rendering http://www.povray.org/community/hof/chado.php contained a winning lottery ticket on the table. If you save the rendered image using the same compression algorithm and same EXIF heading information as a camera, how would one tell the difference?
I've never heard of Alan Aragon, but he claims to have a master's degree in nutrition. That's a HELL of a lot more nutrition training than your average MD gets.

I'm sure both have tons of post-degree self-study in nutrition, and that's virtually impossible to measure.

The problem of quantifying levels of expertise is a hard one, especially in the world of nutrition.
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Care to describe further this attack vector? A 50% + 1 attack is about in the $10+ million range, but still doesn't "override the code".
You know, google tap doesn't seem that crazy...
I have never met anyone who knows all this stuff. This is an interesting take on the minimum that someone should know, and I'd argue, an unrealistic one.
Bitcoin is exceptionally illiquid. You can't buy or sell any meaningful quantity of them without moving the market.

As such, it's not really a viable asset class unless your net worth is ridiculously insubstantial.
Great stuff.
I goes crazy on an iPhone iOS 4.2.1, the post spins in 3d space as you scroll.

http://i41.tinypic.com/wv48rr.png
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You are off by an order of magnitude. It would take $9M of FPGAs to have a clear probability of performing a majority attack
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67969.msg821634#msg8... This is without even counting hosting costs: power, cooling, space.
> Remember that only landholders could vote - they made distinctions based on wealth and status.

Wow, I definitely didn't know this. From when were non-landholders (i.e., all adult white male citizens) allowed to vote?
funny. recently while watching "limitless," apropos of nothing i noted that bradley cooper would be a good choice if there ever needed to be another jobs.
All of the things you listed are missing from at least one of the languages that you listed as your favorites.
While the palm pilots was an exceptional device, I had more love for the Psions (particularly the series 5) if anybody remembers them.

I had a Series 3, Revo and then the 5mx. Each one of those devices had an excellent battery life (uses AA!) that last for days on heavy usage, myriad of apps, memory cards, and for the 5mx, a fantastic keyboard.

The only reason why I had to move to a Palm device was because Psion screwed everything up when the colour screen PDA evolution came along.
The author mentions that anomaly in the article, but goes on to assume that the sorting is picked by the state printing the ticket (probably for the benefit of being able to continue the case study).

I also noted that the differing color of the "04 02" in that image can be spotted with the naked eye if zoomed in - no advanced analysis techniques necessary.

I think the techniques used were far more interesting than the particular case study - while the media and non-camera-original nature of the images made the author's most basic techniques somewhat ineffective, the fakes were overall very poorly executed.
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How many times can you use the walk-through-your-house technique without reducing the strength of the associations ? I can see how useful it would be to use it once - milk on your front doorstep, steaks attacking you in the foyer, it makes sense, but what about the next time you want to remember something? Perhaps, the next time I want to remember a sequence of numbers starting with zero and I will have Ozzy Ozborne on my front door step. After that maybe I want to remember something else and I might have something random on my front doorstep like a mental image of Jack Bauer with a gun .. After a few goes at doing this how will I remember what is supposed to go on my front doorstep at all ?? Does anyone have experience of this ?
We've taken kids from the "poor" gene pools to London and they do fine. It's anecdotal but it fairly well quashes the race argument which holds that this should be impossible, and it suggests we look at society and upbringing instead.
Complexity is one invariant in Occam's butterknife. From the butterknife's point of view, the razor is always too simple to be true...
Pro tip: if you're getting such non-random behavior, just clear your seb.ly cookie and you can play normally again. I'm guessing the more you play, the higher chance of non-random behavior there is, so that players gradually realize it's a hoax.
>The conversation should be off the table.

Your reasoning is sound and supported by a cursory look at human history. That said, I just can't buy into that conclusion. It can't be either/or.
And to this day, two-way contact sync is still not a solved problem. Just the other week, iCloud duplicated all my GF's contacts...
Switching on FileVault 2 on OSX makes things significantly more work and difficult for someone to attack you on that vector. Many times all you need is to make it annoying and expensive enough to be secure.

Most people in the USA have locks that can be picked in 10 seconds with an auto jiggler and windows that can be broken with a large rock. Most people don't have walls, interior locks and bars that will start making thieves to carry power tools. Yet that is enough to stop a lot of casual theft.
It doesn't necessarily have to exist for its own sake. Plenty of furniture is considered art, and is exhibited by art museums, but that furniture was designed to be used.
I try to be very conscious and grateful of the fact that mine is a privileged position. I do not (yet?) have severe pre-existing conditions, children, or a sick spouse that would pretty much force me to have to find a corporate job with the right kind of health insurance. There are some things that were under my control, such as making sure my partner was on the same page with not wanting to have children and was ok with having a very humble lifestyle, but there are thousands of other variables which are pure luck.

There are plenty of people out there for whom to drop out, stay afloat on savings for a few years, while rolling the startup dice, is simply not conceivable. If I were in that situation and had to take a soul-crushing enterprise job just to be able to afford the right medications, I would probably not enjoy people telling me that "I could do more with my life". If that's the author's situation, then I'm sorry, mine was an inappropriate conclusion. I digress, however, don't think this thread is the correct place to discuss US policy :)
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Talking of obsolete operating systems, is gonna be fun seeing how riscos runs in comparison to linux on those raspberry pi thingys.
No CS degree (B.Tech in Biotechnology). My very first job (in 2005) was as the System Administrator of my college, which was normally filled by CS undergrads. They had this supposed unbreakable new faculty portal and several CS profs and students had vouched for its security. Fortunately for me, the outgoing admin had not heard of SQL Injection and I basically showed that you could break into the system. I became the admin, which helped me land a programming (SAP, IT Services) job and 4+ years later I started my own mobile apps startup.

I had pretty good growth when I was working for the big firms, so it did not affect me there. However, after starting up, I find that I really wish that I had some formal education in CS. It bothers me that I might be coming up with really inferior solutions to certain common problems. But my hands are a little full right now. Some day, perhaps.

Edit: Fixed a couple of grammatical errors.
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Others have commented on the lack of proof for the "cramped attic" theory of memory. Additionally, if you're trying to remember information that you'll use regularly, in my experience the more absurd imagery merely serves as the means of getting the information into long-term memory.

For example, occasionally I'll visit a train stop known as "7774". To check on the train arrival schedule if I'm not there yet, the simplest route is to feed that number into an Android app. Initially I used the ancient Major System of equating digits and consonant sounds, so 7774 becomes k-k-k-r, or "kaka car". (Think of a clown car driving past the stop, except it's filled to overflowing with poop instead of clowns.)

Now my point is that these days I only use the car association on those rare occasions when I momentarily block on the stop number. Normal usage brings up the stop number automatically -- without the poop car image. So it's not like my thinking is somehow cluttered with thousands of random images.

BTW, working on generating your own memory prompt images is effectively the same as practicing your creativity and lateral thinking skills. And that's a good thing, no?
I do wish you wouldn't use quotes around "CS" so much.
What you were studying is exactly what computer science is.
I agree it's probably a bad name for it. Maybe "computation science" would be better.
Somehow people have this idea what "computer science" and "programming" are the same thing. It gets on my nerves a little. They're both interesting and important disciplines, but miles apart.

Also, if your professors didn't relate things back to the real world, that's a shame (and I would say a failing on their part). Lots of computer science concepts/techniques are useful for real world things.
I dropped out of CS college to start my own adventure. It's been 2 years since I dropped out, and have not reached my goal. I'm still optimistic about my future and very enthusiast. There is no useless experience, I've got more and more knowledge since that day. Up vote for dropped out!
I think the title is misleading about the significant change of gnome. it still looks conservatively out of date.

open source applications generally have had a history of ugly user interfaces. the reason behind it has understandably been: well it's open source and free, we don't have the resources of microsoft and apple to get a topnotch designer.

it's competitor kde is no better. kde's look can best be described as mimicking windows ui done wrong.

these facelifts are not significant changes. it's time for a serious re-design.
For "online" games (like this one), your picks are transmitted to the lottery office which stores them and then transmits the serial number back to the terminal, which prints the ticket. This prevents a ticket from being issued that the lottery's central computer doesn't know about.

When it is time to verify the ticket, they simply send the serial number to the lottery central computer and that computer sends back the payout command (and invalidates that serial number from being paid by any other terminals.) The retailer is supposed to do some basic sanity checking for small prize amounts (is the ticket really on lottery paper, etc.) and obviously for larger prize amounts, there are several other methods to verify the authenticity of ticket stock that aren't public knowledge.
Hi zipdog, when such an article is published, it should (if you're doing real work/research in this area) be interpreted as X is one of hypothesized significant causes of Y. X is often a new finding, or an old hypothesis with new support, or with new relevance. There's little reason to think the author meant it literally, given the extensive literature (just search any journal) on how and why states fail, and it is both sensible and charitable to assume the authors at The Economist are well-educated and do their background research (:

In fact, you'll find that this is a popular style in economics and business articles.
If you're in a position to be able to network on the job, learn continuously, work on exciting projects, advance up the ladder, and not have a PHB to make your life hell, then by all means you should hold onto that.

Yours is a fairly prestigious situation that many would love to be in, but they either got unlucky or simply haven't switched jobs enough times to find one.
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Depends on the state, but federal constitutional protection of voting rights for adult men didn't exist until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Until then, voting qualifications were a state matter, and even after that, the "penalty" was simply a proportional reduction in representation for the state.
I had a IIIx, Vx, M500, Tungsten something and tungsten something+1.

I remember how horrible the SDK was and the hoops you had to jump through to develop on the thing. It was after all a memory starved, M68K embedded system.

I also remember the fragmentation that was the "app store(s)" of the time. I feel no sympathy for developers today when they whine the apple app store isn't $whatever enough for them.

We have it fucking amazing today. Still, it was pretty good times back then.
"AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host"

Is spin.

It drives up links due to an emotional reaction. If your linking to a post called 'lost sheep' and you could change it to 'efficient distributed counting' because that's more descriptive and without spin. But, 'lost sheep (distributed counting)' is more in the spirit of HN IMO.
The lottery machine creates a random number that is attached and encoded to your ticket and both the number, and the random bit are sent to HQ.
And again, I go back to REASONABLE. Cops following the guy is fine. Reasonable.

But your argument falls apart if the cops can go to Verizon or AT&T and pull your cached GPS data without a warrant. I certainly feel like that would be an unreasonable search. I think most people would agree with me. I think that's where the law will ultimately take us too.
It takes far less copyright than we currently have to make the GNU GPL effective. In fact, when the GPL was first proposed in the mid 1980s, copyright was much less draconian than it is now.

The irony is that the GPL's ju jitsu turns copyright's strength on itself -- the stronger the protections of copyright, the stronger the terms of the GPL. And so long as copyright is about allowing authors and publishers to set terms for the distributions of their works, this will be the case. The GPL is just a case of a particularly philanthropically minded author/publisher.
The graph on the Wikipedia page looks like it would correlate well with climate. (I've always had a pet theory about climate and the history of academic and economic development.)
I don't know if it matters whether there is a bona fide investigation or not. The police have broad authority to identify subjects of investigations.

The NYS Department of Labor and the NYS Office of the Inspector General placed GPS devices on the personal vehicles of an employee who was being investigated for timecard abuse. (http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/nyclu-files-suit-...)

This isn't exactly the same, but I think the issues are similar enough for discussion purposes. Police do have the ability to have investigators follow someone to learn about their behavior. But the costs associated with doing this, both in dollars and investigative resources, are high enough that police do not follow subjects 24x7 often -- certainly not to investigate some state employee's time card issues. How low does the bar go? Will the cops track me if I'm suspected of illegally obtaining fireworks? Jump a subway turnstile? Shoplift a candy bar?

This relatively new technology lowers the cost curve so much that the barrier to entry is trivally low. And that is a problem that must be moderated by some power external to the police.

Is anyone harmed? I don't know how you could argue that having the authorities systematically track someone's movements isn't harmful. Even people as irrational as crazy ex-boyfriends track the movements of their ex's to intimidate. How would you feel personally if you found a GPS tracker on your car? Or discovered that your phone was tapped? I would feel sick -- whether I was a criminal or not!
Phonak has done a good job of balancing hearing aid business with Assisted Listening platforms, including an iCom system for TV.

http://www.phonak.com/com/b2c/en/products/accessories/commun...
if all startups grew some balls and did the same to ie, they wouldn't be slaves of that lame product.
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What OS does this run? The article doesn't say, and after visiting the company's site, the answer wasn't revealed after clicking around several different pages. Annoying, and an unfortunate marker of hype over facts.
Bitcoin has several huge flaws that make it just a toy. The first is that it is insecure. As seen by the constant incidents of stolen and lost bitcoin's. Physical currency is much more secure than a string of bits sitting on a hard drive, the solution to this is having bitcoin banks that assume responsibility for the bits, but that defeats the purpose. The second is that it's much less convenient than cash. The third is that the distribution system is set up as ponzi scheme where early adopters reap enormous amounts of wealth if they recruit more bitcoin users(which is why the bitcoin astroturfing is so persistent), people generally don't like participating in ponzi schemes.

In addition to this the implementation is known to be technically flawed and vulnerable to attack. The system is easily disrupted by a sufficiently interested and funded party.