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> Are my servers up?

Fair point on SMTP retries, but "up" also includes "not under attack, not already hacked, fully patched & secure".

> Is it an open relay? no it's not - I checked it.

Good for you, you clearly have the skills to do so and to be confident in it. Not everyone does or even knows what that means.

> Anti spam?

Actually, I wasn't talking about the receiving spam problem. You can deal with that on your own server in many ways.

I was talking about the email you sent being marked as spam problem, so your intended receiver never reads it. Maybe your reverse DNS records are wrong or missing, or SPF records, or one of a thousand little things. This is much harder to fix, as you have to do it on each mail host you send to, and worse, you may not even realise it's happening.

Again, not saying you or anyone shouldn't, just that there are downsides that need to be considered. I did it for years then realised my time was better spent elsewhere and moved to Google Apps.
It's pretty unlikely to be a median; if 20% of machines are 30 minutes off and 24 minutes is a median, then 30% of machines are between 24-30 minutes off, which would seem to be a strangely narrow band.

More likely, the 24 minutes is a mean average after excluding outliers. One of the standard ways to compute outliers is to measure the inter-quartile range---the "distance" between the 25th percentile value and the 75th percentile value---and call everything that is more than 1.5*IQR past the 75th percentile an outlier. You can do this without computing a mean first, and you can use it to exclude values before computing a modified mean.
I would go further and say this can be applied for just about anything.

The availability of information via the Internet is a huge enabler of the "I take myself too seriously" condition. In the old days, you'd have to spend a lot of money and time on books and magazines to get the types of information to get the types of minutiae knowledge to get obsessive about golf, photography, coding, whatever.

I see a lot of means-end inversion going on with people who take themselves too seriously. For example, I'm a photography hobbyist, and in a lot of camera forums, you find plenty of photography buffs who have essentially become camera buffs who seem to spend more time on camera specifications more than the act of photography itself. Quite often, you'll see hobbyists who have more stringent camera requirements than actual working pros. Mind boggling.
Yeah, that was actually what I meant. Sorry for not expressing myself more clearly. 10.04 was a huge disappointment.
I was surprised to read that Facebook has its own operating system. Does anybody know anything about this?

Count me in as someone who would never use a Facebook phone. Might as well use a CIA phone. I'm all for watching the competition though.
Facebook is already quite (but not perfectly—the big thing I've noticed is that the non-chat "messages" part of FB requires going into the FB app) well integrated into Windows Phone. And unless they have some truly groundbreaking interface ideas, I'd also rather see them continue to work more with MS on integrating into and pushing that platform, rather than introducing yet another one.

Also, does RIM have particularly nice phones, hardware-wise, these days? Another reason I'd rather see them work with MS is that then anything particularly cool they bring to the software side could run on gorgeous Nokia hardware.
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From the link in that paragraph to the Facebook App Center page, it sounds to me like they're referring to the Facebook platform itself as an OS. Which I suppose is fair in a way, with all the services it offers, but it's hardly a mobile phone OS in its current state.
11.04 used to frequently crash for me too on my Thinkpad T420. I started building my own 3.0 kernels and that got rid of the crashing problem. I've had no such problems since I upgraded to 12.04 over a month ago. Works perfectly here.
Hm. I wonder if these chips are used in consumer devices?
I think the problem is that there are too many suppliers. Everyone wants to be a middle-man. If the government asks for domestic parts from it's big contractors, the big ones ask their small ones, and they ask theirs and so on. But at the end of the day someone realizes it's cheaper to outsource it - does so - and forges the documentation. As the part travels all the way back up the chain each one says it's domestic.

The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Yes, please, a way to see new comments in a discussion. One of the unfortunate side-effects of the current system is that interesting conversations get killed off too soon because nobody can follow what's being said any more. (Falling off the front page is also a killer for discussions. It would be nice if active discussion threads remained visible somewhere.)

I'm not the first person to bring up Usenet here, but it pains me that Usenet had way more functionality in the 1980s. (Which I don't mean as a criticism of HN, but a wish for more learning from the past.)
I think that the semi-colon comment at the very end of the video is in reference to Twitter Bootstrap, and his public drubbing of Twitter's @fat, regarding missing semi-colons causing JSMin errors.

Fat said, "nope - that's a bug in jsmin. Probably should let @douglascrockford know about it though. thanks!".

Douglas said in response, "That is insanely stupid code. I am not going to dumb down JSMin for this case."

The whole issue is here. Some great comments:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057
The useless answer is that they both do different things, so it depends what of those things you want :)

One aspect of frequentist techniques that perhaps others haven't emphasised so much, is that they tend to give guarantees about expected behaviour which hold uniformly over all possible values of the unknown parameters.

Whereas the Bayesian approach, the guarantees you obtain will only hold in an 'averaged-out' sense over the prior distribution you specify.

If you're a bit paranoid and you want a probabilistic bound on what might happen in the worst case, you might sometimes find the former a little more comforting than the latter.

In particular if you don't have much data, the influence of the choice of prior will be bigger and so the distinction will matter more.

Hope that helps, and that any stats PhDs will correct me if I've over-simplified things here.
>> I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product.

Doubly so, because RIM's previous management's product roadmaps and actions (i.e., let's just buy QNX and TAT - we'll have something workable in no time!) were an affront to engineers and designers.
As an author of fabric.js, I'm glad to see you guys found it useful! Just wanted to mention that fabric's requirement for old Node.js is definitely something we can't wait to get rid of. As soon as we find a replacement to "o3-xml" package, you'll be able to take advantage of newer (and faster) Node versions.
He's an academic in England. Of course he's going to try to monetise his research.
Every distro uses different kernel configs/versions as well as different versions of libc and other such core packages. If the crash is specific to a certain kernel config option that is only enabled in one distro, then the crash would be distro-specific.
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I would recommend that people watch the entire video. It is a very refreshing look at practical solutions for solving Yahoo's lost decade and getting them back on track. He notably said that Yahoo should bring Jerry Yang back as "Chief Yahoo", in a kind of MacGyver role, fixing problems across the company.

Edit: nice Alienware laptop! Beast.
Woot is going through a redesign [5/27/2012]
http://www.woot.com/ The actual page changes tomorrow.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bz5_F6QlsRmOU01aM1lQUWdGWnc

For those of you who see this 24 hours from now.
They don't have lockers? I don't even...
Another opposite worked for me. I was doing bodyweight and low resistance (25 lbs) and high rep workouts for a while. Wasn't watching motivating videos like P90X and couldn't generate enough intensity. Also strength was not improving, couldn't feel it in daily life, couldn't break through high rep plateus. Stayed at ~50 pushups, 20 25 lb curls, 40 25lb tricep extensions. Barely any muscle growth.

And most of all I hated those workouts.

Then I got a weight set and started doing squats, deadlifts, rows etc. Starting Strength like routine. Was increasing weight constantly. I was in horrible shape so the workouts felt very intense at 50-90 lbs. There was noticeable muscle growth and I felt a lot more strength in daily activities.

I liked those workouts and had zero motivational problems. No mental tricks necessary, except maybe having the weights at home staring at me. The results were more obvious. Tried my old high rep routines and could do 35 25lb curls etc. Maybe I am cut out to be like Arnold, it feels like smooth sailing.
The real LTS is called Even.04.1. Isn't it common knowledge that Ubuntu is often unstable in the first couple of months after each release?
Is there any way to mangle it to being true? I don't think so.

Maybe 99% of volume, but not type, is produced in China.

Or 99% of types are made in China, but with volume elsewhere.

Maybe 99% of this particular IC family are made in China, with the rest being made elsewhere is something that works.
So, is this the issue with the way the request is phrased? Or with the principle of trying to increase your Twitter followers?
Hopefully this isn't too political for HN, but I suggest combining your surprise with the news that China was given a direct line around Wall Street to buy Treasuries directly from the USG:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/us-usa-treasuries-...

There's a relationship here.
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Dear Greeks, we Trojans can't make our own horse, so can we buy one from you, please? No worry, I'll blame you later.
They could try to revive webOS - certainly a lot of work already gone in to that.
You could also say "You need to evaluate your software, and be sold on it"

Or not.
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I fear that someday soon, native programs that I have written and rely on won't run on my own computers because I won't have the money to buy a vendor specific compiler tool chain or a vendor provided signing certificate. Because of this, I'm going to make an effort to port all of my applications to generic JavaScript and hope that the vendors won't try to devise ways in which to stop that from running.

Here's a demo of SHA1_Pass in generic JavaScript http://16s.us/sha1_pass/why. It's not as functional as the native, desktop application, but it's works for my needs. Edit: This demo only works with Chrome and FireFox.

As a kid who began writing code on a C64, it's really sad to see the move to app stores, signed code, approval processes and vendor required dev tools. What do others on HN think? Is there a future for independent developers who write native code? Will our native apps stop running on our own computers?
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If you use Google Apps with your own domain and make backups of your mail, then you have a very small chance of losing your address and your mail.

People hate on Google Apps, but you don't give up control if you follow both these steps (which is easy.)

I also don't see any reason why another email provider won't do what people are afraid Google will do.
I placed the wrong URL in the description and I did not want to edit it. Here's the correct url: http://16s.us/sha1_pass/js
My G+ feed isn't very active, but the signal to noise ratio is higher. That's fine by me.
They need custody chain management. I assumed they had one. And everyone who signed for it has securety clearance meaning they signed a paper that basically says "I understand that I'll go to jail for twenty years if I'm caught lying about anything".
"Everything is expensive."

Does that include healthcare and education?
To people complaining about the language - this reads more like a short briefing note for politicians or non-technical managers. That's why things like Stuxnet are mentioned; to give context and scale.

The author would probably like to stay involved with this tech, or at least to be able to hand it off to CESG.[1]

[1] I assume CESG. Perhaps QinetiQ[2] would do it?

[2] I have no idea what they do. All those Qs? You've seen 007? They're the real Q department. I doubt they do laser beam watches.
My thought process was:
"Could I plan an invasion?"
"Sure, how hard could it be?"
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I definitely think there's a lot of bias happening, but the results are definitely still interesting. Most non-baby related "hard skills" (butcher hog, con ship, build wall, set bone, etc) scored the absolute lowest.

I'd love to see a dataset from a different audience that is more used to working with their hands.
The issue is that people are not measuring the effect of changes. The issue is assuming that what works for one person will work for all.
If Facebook buys RIM, we're screwed.
But how many users were there on usenet? The special thing about HN is that it keeps a quality of comments way above average without needing to be too elitist; I think that limiting the conversations (and thus the flame wars etc.) is a choice.

But to highlight new comments there are many different solutions already, take a look at the other comments :)
I'm only going based on the tone of the writing and the content of the patent application; both are written like hype. He might actually be doing something novel, or he might just be trying to get attention for his company and not doing anything special relative to others in the field. There may be good reasons to avoid talking about details in his field, but when someone selling something does that, hype is a reasonable default explanation.
I wonder if the investors that got in the wagon of social media would invest in long-term cancer research instead.
To paraphrase Fight Club:

"Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We boot your servers, we back up your drives, we write your applications, we maintain your kernels. We guard your data. Do not... fuck with us. "

Having set the stage, consider: the competency required to manually evaluate silicon packages is extraordinarily rare. Even if you wanted to shell out 6 figures for a competent superficial evaluation, you'd have a lot of trouble finding available Chris Tarnovskys to do the work.

Could secure hardware be bootstrapped? Could we use the embarrassment of riches we have in terms of number of transistors available to implement arrays of small and fast processors which can emulate security hardware and be programmed using formal verification? This way, we could concentrate all of our scrutiny on one unit, and change much of the hardware problem into a software one. It wouldn't be as fast or as cheap, but it might be fast enough and workably secure.
The chain is audited regularly.

A manufacturer outsourcing stuff has a hell of a lot of documentation to forge. Each screw, each washer, each resistor, has a batch number that it can be traced to.
...now you tell me. Political candidates should be required to sign the same stuff. And managers. And physicists. And PR stuntmen.
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A very nice article.

>A particular notorious example is the use of “It follows easily that” and equivalent constructs. It means something like this:

>One can now check that the next statement is true with a certain amount of essentially mechanical, though perhaps laborious, checking. I, the author, could do it, but it would use up a large amount of space and perhaps not accomplish much, since it'd be best for you to go ahead and do the computation to clarify for yourself what's going on here. I promise that no new ideas are involved, though of course you might need to think a little in order to find just the right combination of good ideas to apply.

Even knowing this ahead of time, this kind of thing can be maddening. Namely, when the meaning of the assertion is be sensitive to little sign changes, index shifts and the like these are quite likely to end up in the computation.
I agree with you on the 401k business, that was silly. As for consolidation, just for your information, consolidating federal loans changed in 2006 when federal loans went to all fixed rates. It used to be, with variable rate student loans you could consolidate at a lower interest rate if rates changed. Since 2006 all Federal loans are a fixed rate and all consolidations will just set your consolidation rate at the weighted average of the smaller loans. Thus most students who plan to pay more than the minimum payments are better off not consolidating and paying off higher interest loans first.

But that guy did make some poor financial decisions.
Those still work ... http://profiles.google.com/xistence

I liked that on Google Profiles I could pick my own alias, I happened to make it the same as my email address @gmail.com but there was still a choice. The number used now is not nearly as comprehensible, I hope they reintroduce something like the profiles.google.com stuff.
It's not a nouveau crash -- the bug report has reports from people using ATI OSS, nouveau, intel, and nvidia blob drivers (at least).
This is anecdotal as well, but +1 for the freezing, Ubuntu 12.04 is unusable on my machine. Even when it's idle, it will last 12hrs at most before a hard hang, network is dead. I haven't tried to Update All The Things yet though, hoping that fixes it.
Have you tried monodevelop? Mono is a free open source version of c# and it works very well on windows, mac, and linux.
Something pretty different. We've got a few ideas/prototypes kicking around. We've noticed that all the q/a sites (even those for chemistry) suck. There's no way to draw structures, propose mechanisms. In fact, I've never seen a good way to put a mechanism online at all.

Another part of the project will probably be an aggregator. You'll be able to look for all things "Diels-Alder." It would let you see youtube videos, questions, tutorials, all from other sites.

Finally, for the more mature chemists, we're thinking of setting up a sort of "virtual journal club."

We're still prototyping and brainstorming, and would love outside contribution!
Plain text one file per email is the standard Maildir[1] format. It's extremely well supported by email programs and utilities.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
A sustainable pricing model should be a part of the MVP. It's less of a concern in software for different reasons: relatively low costs and decent margins, even as it scales.

Of course, you can treat this as an educational experience to learn more about what you need to consider for these types of businesses going forward. Just realize that proving you can sell a product at a low but unsustainable price point does not prove the product is viable.
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That's a really freaking huge "what if". Facebook is not exactly a young company, founded 8 years ago. They've been trying to find a killer business model for many years. I wonder what makes people believe they will find one.
Oh Gawd. I would have thought that someone who claims to be in the business of making a more secure alternative Dropbox would actually know something about how to encrypt things.

Also, what's the benefit of using a 7-year-old pure-PHP implementation of Blowfish when mcrypt gets the job done much better and faster? OwnCloud's install instructions actually require a bunch of PHP extensions. They could have just thrown mcrypt into that list.
The article is by Shai Simonson, one of the instructors at ArsDigita University (http://aduni.org/).

This was part of the reading material for ADU Course 0: "Mathematics for Computer Science" (http://aduni.org/courses/math/index.php?view=cw), but unfortunately the video lectures aren't available, whereas they are available for all the other courses.
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I just hope this doesn't result in poorer security between outside networks (including the internet) and medical devices. I'd argue there should be an "air gap" between the two, but I'm probably more paranoid than most.

Certainly it's fine to use NTP, but I'd want to use some kind of GPS-receiver NTP appliances at each site (possibly redundantly).
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I've seen a few hundred P90X before/after shots from real people and didn't see much size growth. Skinny people got cut, which makes them look bigger and fitter. Doesn't mean they are heavier when they weigh in. Maybe added 5-10 lbs of muscle in a year. Full people got cut, also looks bigger and fitter in most cases. When you work out the whole body your bodyshape changes, shoulders get bigger so the perception is that you are bigger

A lot of hollywood actor training uses these principles. Actors need to get in shape quickly for various roles and trainers focus on getting the ripped P90X look instead of forcing real growth in such short timeframes. Ripped will look better naked than adding 10 lbs of non-ripped muscle. For example Bradd Pitt was maybe 160 lbs in Fight Club but looked much bigger because of muscle definition and upper body shape.

But if you really want to go from skinny to big/normal, not just ripped, heavy weights are the long term solution. 30 lbs of new muscle will look better than ripped. I don't know the details of P90X but recommended equipment is 50-90lb dumbells and a pullup bar. Most people use 50 lbs max and that's not going to cut it.
Two thoughts:

1) Say what you will about the military-industrial complex, but they do buy a load of physical products. When those are sourced domestically it has a lot of good spillover effects on the rest of the industry (see Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley).

2) I'd be far more worried about Intel, AMD, nVidia, Texas Instruments, et al, especially if I was a foreign procurement officer. The logic in those chips is incredibly complex and almost impossible to verify in any detail by a third party. Coincidentally, they're all US companies.
That is a pretty crazy way to make a living. Here is a vid showing how they setup the ladders on the side of the chimney. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA
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Your link is to a page on the Heritage Foundation's website. Heritage is a well-known, right-wing pro-corporate/pro-oil/pro-plutocratic propaganda think tank, funded in part by the Koch brother's oil tycoon family, and started by Coors. A quick trip to their Wikipedia page will give a taste of the sort of high quality human beings they are associated with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation), such as the Kochs, Reagan, Novak, Kristol, Bennet, Cheney, Boehner, Gingrich, Scaife, and Pat Robertson. And they have partnered with organizations like AEI, the Hoover Institution and the Wall Street Journal. Because Heritage has such a public track record of on-going spin and disinformation I would not trust them for any objective, non-distorted arguments.

Furthermore, it's pretty well-known among historians that in wars it is primarily the poor and the working middle-class, who die or suffer predominately, either as soldiers or civilians on the homefront, or as prisoners. The rich and their sons are disproportionately able to avoid harm, and especially in the case of weapons contractors or supply companies, oil suppliers, or banks, are often able to profit handsomely from wars and militarization. This is not controversial and is a repeated pattern going back at least a thousand years or so.

Also I looked at their report and it's cherry picked and very carefully worded, with several sloppy arguments, often contradicting themselves in the matter of a few sentences. Typical stuff for them.