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Looks cool. It would be great if you could differentiate between the items you've actually visited and those you've "marked as read."
> Skeptic about how successful they would be.

They are releasing version 4. I'd assume some success on versions 1 through 3 or the project would have been abandoned.

I'm curious on how it performs with thousands of users. I'll probably run a few tests.

And brush up my PHP.
Would you rather have 200k followers who see everything you say (twitter) or 1.5M followers who never login and check out what is going on? Simple choice for me.

This is also the natural evolution of social networks - when they start the social media guys are the most followed because they are the most active, then they are eclipsed by true celebrities. Scoble added 30k followers on twitter in 3 months - Howard Stern added 150k in the same time frame, Rihanna added 5M followers.
Contrary to the popular belief, it's the middle and upper classes which are overrepresented in the US military, not the poor: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/08/who-serves-...
Alpha doesn't work additively for pretty much anydrawing packages:

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

When overplotting, the usual compositing operator gives a final alpha of

1 - (1-alpha)^N

So your alpha = 1/5 overdrawn 5 times would give a final opacity of ~0.673. By its very nature, there is no alpha < 1 which when composited together a finite number of times gives alpha = 1.
Right now I agree with the one caveat being that awful design can only pass when the information presented is well organized and easily found.

That's not awful design.
You've seen the jobs picture; probably better to roll the device in a year or two, all else being equal.

That said, we don't know what kind of career or kind of degree you've been preparing for. Going for an M.A. in oh, say, History, probably you should seek the job only because you will not see much of a return on the degree. If it's an M.S./Ph.D in a STEM discipline, you open some doors and you shut a couple (I know of a few instances where a Ph.D. will not get you hired but a B.S./M.S. will).

Might as well apply for both until you figure things out. You may get a sweet deal with only one, and you're no worse off if you have options with both.
Cool. I expect kill-files will come afterwards. Several more extensions and hacks like that and we will have built a poor-man's USENET in the browser.
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I tried to do that with CSS :visited selector, but without success at first - I'll try again as soon as I'll have time!
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How much google paid him to write that ? :P
I just tried and it works (even if not perfectly, as the colors aren't the same). What is your problem exactly? Did you try the button at the top of the page instead of the one at the bottom?
Great addition, but why not write it as a userscript instead of Chrome plugin? Chrome, Opera support them natively. You can install it just like an extension. Firefox needs Greasemonkey to be installed but most power users have it anyway.
Not sure about IE and Safari but problably they can support userscripts in some way also.
" Sweden also used to be the standard-bearer for the Nordic model, this is not true anymore."

Tackiest comment I've read this week...
In the report I read they were using SQUIDs to make the effect of a mirror that operated in the microwave range.

[edit] you could also use a real mirror, is just very hard to move it that fast.
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Have been playing for five years.

The game itself revolved around PvP. Combat drives the market, which drives production, which creates ships, which get destroyed and so on and so forth. Because of this, EVE has the best economy I've ever seen in an MMO.

Solo and small gang PvP is quite fun and what I spent most of my time doing, but some other people enjoy being a small cog in the big machine and flying as part of the large alliances.

The two things I find frustrating about EVE are:

1) The players. As you lose your ship and anything it had when it gets destroyed people are motivated to win. This results in a large proportion of PvP involving you and your ten friends against one poorly fitted player. For the past few years this has been what the majority of combat has been like. It's certainly possible to win when outnumbered (my corporation Genos Occidere is known for it) but at the end of the day most people like to win and will do whatever they want to - even if that makes the game less fun than it could be.

2) CCP are horrible at communicating.

CCP, the company which develops the game tend to be very bad at communicating with the player base about issues, or approach things very heavy handedly. Last year there was a large scandal involving micro transactions where the majority of EVE players felt like people were going to be able to pay for an advantage in game. Instead of addressing the concerns, CCP went silent until an email from the CEO was leaked which showed his disconnect with the fan base.

Eventually an apology was issued, but many people felt insulted and treated like sheep. Proper communication about what was really happening (small cosmetic transactions) would have made people a lot happier.

Similarly, my alliance has been banned from competing in this years "Alliance Tournament" despite being last years winners due to poor communication from CCP.

At the end of the day EVE is a great game, and there is a lot of depth to it but it is not for everyone. My advice is to get some friends and take a look at the trial, it's enjoyed best when you have people there to help you through the hardships of space.
"Housing (more or less) can't be rented, buying is expensive."

Is it plain non-availability? If so, then why? If not, then why? (I'm genuinely interested)
Your job is to select the best tool for the task, not the best marketed tool.

Harden up and evaluate software correctly.
Why does she want to learn C++? What does she want to achieve in the end?
But is there an essential difference between these methods?
whenever I discuss Tor with people who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous, I hear "yea, but it was funded by the US so it probably has a backdoor/wouldn't be funded if they couldn't read the data".

I don't agree with that, but what can you say other than "it's open source so many eyeballs are auditing it"?
Careful with their encryption: http://crypto.junod.info/2012/05/24/owncloud-4-0-and-encrypt...
I'm someone with a track record of driving traffic and my company was acquired about a year ago. Totally different industry...but here are a few thoughts that might help you.

Interactivity - Right now the site is fairly passive. I think you would produce more engagement with the site if you allowed users to interact with the site. Maybe something like the ability to guess the next song in a quiz type fashion. Then, they get a score they can share across social networks. Or, some kind of voting mechanism that tracks your viewers opinion of the song/video.

Personalization - You will have a much greater chance of someone sharing your content across social networks if they can personalize the content and make it say something about themselves. You could think about giving the ability to the users to drag and drop the videos so that it changes the order in which they are played. Then, they might be able to share it in their social circle and say this is the order they think the songs should fall.

I realize these are feature suggestions that might take a significant amount of time, but building in features that drive the marketing is a great way to grow. Overall you did a great job on the site and good luck!
Cool. Something I asked long time back. Thanks.
True story. I have about 300 people in my circles mostly engineers and the interaction is great. I'm talking about people involved in FOSS (system programmers, embedded developers, devops mostly).

I have no idea who R. Scoble is and just by peaking at his profile I have to say that I have no interest in following him. This is probably why most people that use Twitter don't fit in the G+ space. As far as I'm concerned most technical Twitter users are Web developers, the SEO (crap) crowd, designers, social media whores, guys posting about hipster bands. Not to generalize but that's how I see it and the reason Twitter is a ghost town for me, Facebook is useless and G+ is awesome. To each his own.
Modern browser won't let you change :visited selector except color... because of security.
A random webpage would have the knowledge of pages you have visited then :) I think IE7 and below have that bug. And you can't check the color of a visited link with javascript.

You were able to build a list of controversial webpages (to compare them with my browser history), put to your css file that a:visited color: red; (just an example) and check with javascript which links have foreground color red - and voilaa. You know what pages I have in my history.

You need to save data to localstorage or something like that instead. And you can only save those clicks which are made from hackernews site... not populate it from browser history.
This was just an experiment, and the extension looked like the easiest way to do it (I use chrome 90% of the time).

But I was thinking about publishing the source to github; the js is very simple, if anybody wants to fork it for other browsers is welcome :)

By the way, can you use css files with userscripts?
How is it price fixing when it's in your own store only?
Historically, the "cloud" was a symbol drawn on network maps to show the part of the network you don't care about. So you'd draw some servers over on one side, and a line going through a cloud to indicate a bunch of routers and stuff, and then the line would go to some clients on the other side. Your ISP is a "packet routing as a service" cloud provider. After a while people started asking, if we can put network routing in the cloud, why not other kinds of computing? So the idea started to take shape: instead of just asking the "cloud" to route your packets to servers that would send back computations or stored data, you can ask the cloud for the data directly. Again: the cloud is just the part of the computer/network that you don't have to care about to get your job done. Google docs: you don't have to care about the disks your data is on. Amazon: you don't have to care about the CPUs your programs run on. None of those are perfect implementations but they're close enough for marketing departments :) A better example is the Kademlia DHT: just throw a hash into the network and you get data back. Much cloudier! :)
The header: "Apple 2.0 - Covering the business that Steve Jobs built" shows the category that this blog post is in.

While it doesn't point out in big letters that this is an opinion piece, this article is in the category of a well established Apple opinion blog in their tech blogs category.

It's also pretty clear from the writing style that this is an opinion piece.
Terrible choice of domain name. Defence league is generally used by right wing extremist organisations.
You can but they need to be hosted somewhere or you need to create a link tag with javascript and add it dynamically...

Something like that:

var css = document.createElement('link');
css.textContent = 'css here';
document.head.appendChild(css);
Please write this follow-up.

I've known about Puppet for a while (Chef is new to me) and I've yet to see a tutorial here on HN on how to get up and running with either.
But note that this device is for IM (intra-muscular) not IV. While it certainly would be great for harm control, most hard drug users probably wouldn't bother.
Code can be 5% of a business, while the entire software part is a much higher proportion. The software concern of a business encompasses way more than just coding: testing, environment building and maintenance, source control, backups, security, and much more. Realizing that the actual executable code is such a small part of delivering a software product is a really important step in maturing from a code-monkey programmer to a capable software engineer.

Your watchmaker analogy is actually a pretty close parallel to software. The mechanical functioning guts (executable code) of the watch, the gears and ratchets and springs and all, probably are about 5% of the business. But the entire watchmaking concern, from supply of materials to fashioning the face and wristband to final assembly and inspection, encompasses much more.
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The "most-favored nation" clause makes it so that it applies to all stores, not just yours.
Works great, but how do I undo?
It would be interesting to fork this and apply a simple and democratic amendment system that allows all followers (or some other defined and growing population like Hacker News) to vote on changes.

I say we use a strict majority to determine the acceptance of these amendments and forge a document that reflects the multitude of views in the hacker news community.

What would be the results, both realistically and idealistically, I wonder?
I should have trademarked "tracking the trackers" when I created Ghostery. ;-)
Someone should consider implementing this functionality into the site.
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It's the result of PR attacks and sadly they seem to be working.

Some of those writing are just parroting PR pitches and some just seem to depend on their limited experience with he service.

Also considering that the number of active users is but a fraction of the overall number of those who signed up (yet still a considerable amount) it's not fair to divide active minutes between all registered users. It might be a "ghost town" in comparison to Facebook but so is every other social service the tech blogs seem to be paddling, it's just that + is a bigger target for PR attacks.
I suggest checking out the 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss: http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Body-Incredible-Superhuman/...

The book describes efficient, sustainable ways achieve changes in your body, the premise being to make changes with the smallest amount of work possible. I put on 10 lbs of muscle in 2 months following its weight gain advice. My girlfriend tried the slow-carb diet and saw no effect, but I have heard that working for a few people. It's an interesting read nonetheless and will change your perspective on diet and exercise.
How about Yii? http://www.yiiframework.com
Don't let it get you upset. I'm on your side on this. I've found that on HN there's a large number of 20-something geeks who are book-smart but life-dumb, as well as a large percentage folks who are frankly very close to being sociopaths, if not outright sociopaths. So yeah, a lot of HN readers are going to be utter pinheads when it comes to debating about healthcare. The reality of people's health experiences is very messy, very random, extremely stressful and utterly terrifying and unfair at times. It's not about simply shopping for the lowest price on some commodity at a local store. It's about a loved one who is vomiting blood and you don't know why and it's 2am. It's about being told you need medical insurance then getting denied because you have a pre-existing health imperfection on some long list of terms -- no shit, sherlock, right? It's about the primary breadwinner of a family being diagnosed with cancer at age 30. It's about an expecting couple being told that based on tests of their fetus that the baby is very likely to have Down's syndrome.

Guess what? Not too long ago, I had a random, extremely stressful, and utterly terrifying healthcare situation and it involves me, bleeding lot of blood and not knowing why. It just so that I have a different perspective.

So fuck shopping around. Fuck the market. Fuck economics. Fuck capitalism. Fuck the Republican and really the Libertarian outlook. Fuck everyone who thinks it's every man for himself, I got mine, everyone else can go fuck themselves. Until they wake up one day to find they've got some horrible problem and need help too.

You know when it makes sense for everyone to compete and not give a rat's ass about anyone else? Say you're running a 100-yard dash. Or playing a video game contest. Those are true competitions, may the best man wins. But when you're sick, your family, a neighbor, a fellow citizen, that is precisely the time when it is NOT okay and NOT humane or civilized to think like that.

I don't give a rat ass about capitalism, socialism, or any political ideology, just that the healthcare system works esave as many lives as possible and preferably without charging an arm and a leg for said medical care.

So either show why I am wrong or don't comment at all.
Right now you can't... what is your use case? Was it just because you were testing, or you would really need an undo?
> I've never really understood the way that you can rewrite history in Git. It seems really odd to me - completely counter to the idea of having a repository in the first place.

Git is data-centric. It matters less how you used git to produce the final result (string of changesets), what matters is the changesets themselves. This comes out completely naturally since it's an evolution of Linux' patchstack development model.
Personal take: G+'s circle system has significant downsides as far as following people goes, because you can build a significant audience on G+ … and have no idea where it's coming from. I have 16k followers, most gained in the past few months, but I haven't updated regularly since January. There's no way to track this, either. That to me suggests weaknesses in the circle system.

So, when I read Scoble's comments about having more followers on G+ than anywhere else, I believe it … and I also believe more than half of them aren't regularly using G+, either.
hi, just as a note: i can never view Roberts S. posts - because they are not public, but shared with his circles - and I'm not one of them (i don't want to, i even once - longlongtimeago - wrote a r.s. filter greasemonkey script http://www.facesaerch.com/widget/rs-filter.user.js). so would be cool - if it's really newsworthy - to post a pasteboard copy. thx.
Whatever Western country he may be a citizen of, his "payoff" to the local politician would probably be a lower percentage of his wages compared to paying into another "tax" system.
I'll have to try with just css then. I can't keep track of all clicks :)
> "Surely connected devices could use one centrally calculated timesource?"

... like NTP?

Sorry, but I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. Anything with a computer, even a microcontroller, and basic network connectivity can use NTP, it is an extremely simple protocol.

Anything that doesn't connect to a network could be kept in sync via a wireless pulse/tick, though then you have security issues unless you cryptographically sign the clock signal. Though I'm not sure why anybody would try and screw up a clock signal like that other than general asshattedness.

That aside, I'm unsure why they are using local time for logging data anyhow. If the folks managing the hospital were rational, shouldn't there be a regulation to use GMT and 24-hour clock? My home town is right on the Eastern/Central timezone split, and I know it causes all kinds of problems in day-to-day life. I just hate that kind of ambiguity.
gunicorn is nice for starting up a quick WSGI webserver. I prefer uwsgi when integrating with nginx. uwsgi's performance is pretty incredible.
NTP settings can be distributed by DHCP, which in a managed networked environment should be reasonably trustable.

Unfortunately Windows ignores this, and also sets the system clock to a timezone-specific time, not UTC as nearly all other OS's do.
This is what I was afraid of. By the way, without the css the functionality works anywya, it just looks worse.
But you can't identify which links are visited... because of security issues I described. Sorry my english is horrible maybe I described it very in a very bad way.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777

It is fixed in modern browsers now...
had a good laugh when i saw this article. thx mithrandir :)

passwords stored in the clear in server-side sessions => server hack compromises data. storing keys server-side means admins can get into your data.

had a big lol at the use of blowfish ECB - use of any cipher's ECB mode for bulk encryption is asking for problems. they should be using CBC, CTR, LRW or, ideally, XTS modes.
Well, if it could be regulated, you could require that the hospital put the NTP server or equivalent on IP over power line.
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Sure. I wasn't harshing on PT - I'm a huge fan like all decent and reasonable people :-) In fact I'd be careful about attributing any kind of controversial position to him, but I must say defining thorium fission as "cleantech" is pretty clever - talk about dirt!
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Maybe you meant to say "age of majority" instead of voting age"?
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The idea of "New Physics" is sensational. There's only improvements to current models, and maybe new models for new situations. The Standard Model has worked out for too many situations for it to be just "wrong".
...which even does not have RC yet...
You can't even safely assume that we will have political stability over the next couple of hundred years. Whether it takes a thousand or a million years either period is so long that is is insane to believe it could ever be stored securely.
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You can't with javascript, but the a:visited selector works in pure CSS, doesn't it? I'd like to do it so that I don't know which links you actually visited, but you would see them in a different color anyway. I think this should work somehow, I'll have to make some more tests.
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You can only change the color, nothing else... :)
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I would say that Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, were 'new physics' over the old Newtonian model, although for many, many, many problems, Newtonian mechanics are still the best model. If this finally has found a major flaw in the Standard Model, I consider that extremely exciting news.
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Yes, non-availability. Basically high demand because of rapid urbanization, poor infrastructure, small and single city center. Low supply because of rent control on the first and second hand market, conversion of rentals and not enough new buildings. At least for the three large cities in Sweden.
i agree that you dont want to jump in and do too much from the start and get burned out, but by not planning and hoping to just naturally develop the drive to want to work out more, you arent taking yourself seriously enough. it comes down to discipline and motivation; if working out is something you want to do, then do the research, develop a plan and follow it. spending a few weeks getting acclimated to the gym and routine is ok, but you arent accomplishing much during that time and you are essentially telling yourself that you arent able to commit to anything without mental tricks.

figure out what your goals are, what you truly want. if you want it enough, you will do what it takes to get there. if you have to trick yourself to develop the motivation, then your priorities arent in the right place and you should re-evaluate your goals.