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The difference between Concurrency and Parallel is in my opinion somewhat subjective, depending on how you view the problem.

Examples of Concurrency:

1. I surf the web And I run an installer for another program.

2. One gopher brings empty carts back, while another brings full carts to the incinerator.

The idea of concurrency is that two completely separate tasks are being done at the same time. There may be synchronization points between the two tasks, but the tasks themselves are dissimilar.

Viewed in one way moving empty wheelbarrows may be completely different from moving filled ones.

Viewed in another way, they might seem very similar.

Concurrency has to do with task parallelism.

Parallel has to do with data parallelism.

There's a gray line between the two where you can't clearly differentiate between them.
I think there is a story here actually that is a valuable lesson to those who read HN.

He goes to a great lengths to tell this as "nothing to see here, move along.."

Now why would he do that?

My theory on this is that in the past he didn't have to contend with pain in the ass bystanders doing the same thing that he did. Those amateurs are now making it increasingly difficult for a professional like him to do his job.

As a result he wants to send a message out there for fear that if he doesn't his rights will be restricted as a result of others behaviors. It's a little "last man over the bridge".

The other possibility of course is that he has something to hide. He doesn't want to stir the hornets nest for fear that something will happen to him and he wants to keep a low profile by ending this as soon as possible.
wget https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It doesn't bite.
Anecdotal evidence isn't evidence: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdot...
There's also a difference between confidence and arrogance.

Humility /=/ Unconfident
Can you provide a link to the Brand New Blog or some additional search terms? I'm interested, but "brand new blog" and "brand new blog logo" Google searches don't seem to bring up anything relevant.
On my system, there is a file at

/Applications
/Xcode.app
/Contents
/Developer
/Platforms
/iPhoneSimulator.platform
/Developer
/Applications
/iPhone Simulator.app
/Contents
/Resources
/Devices
/iPhone (Retina).deviceinfo
/info.plist

That file contains (among others), these fragments:

<key>height</key>
<string>960</string>

<key>width</key>
<string>640</string>

I haven't tried it, but that is where my hacking would start. The simulator app is signed. It may not be possible to use it after editing it. Mu next attempt would be to sign it with your own key. If that fails, too, I would try and intercept the reading of the file. It may be easiest to put Xcode on some user-mode filesystem that you control.
Not if you want it to be popular (read: IE users, high school and college students, other "normal" people).

(Ok, yes, a browser add-on would be better for someone like me. But I don't think my need is very unique.)
The "lot less parking" will do wonders for urban landscapes. When I travel through cities (including my own) and land that could be used for parks or habitation swallowed up by parking space, it seems like an incredible waste.
In the future, there must be some communication between vehicles how to minimize the effect of the crash - e.g. if in one vehicles there is no-one, and no hazardous material - then this car somehow should be able to take more of the damage.

Oh, and I would very much like if every vehicle put on the back and front of the car - it's current speed measured by the car.
Same situation for other sites like that (Gilt Groupe, The Clymb, etc.). Even as a registered user, if I'm on a new device (especially mobile) and I click on a link through an email and I can't see those products, I'm not going to log in to buy. I've played that game countless times and I truly don't understand it. There's nothing "exclusive" about it. If you don't have an account, that's as exclusive as it gets, but at least show me what I'm missing.
While civil liberty issues get upvoted here, I think the added element of photography amplifies the interest. The intersection between techies and photography enthusiasts seems pretty high (you'll note there are a number of photography/imaging technology stories here as well).
That's a really good point. Adding this point into my next post.
If only they had built it with two thousand and one factors of authentication!

Joking aside, once you start down the road to two-factor authentication, you might as well go to three factors if you are truly concerned about security. Moreover, at least one of those factors would need to be based on physical properties, i.e., biometrics, or some other intrinsically unique property that can't be forgotten or copied.
>the letter W, which is/could be the most famous W in the whole web. W is enough for Wikipedia to be recognized.

I read this and thought the same thing, "What about Wordpress?"
I think people who think people who don't have facebook accounts are suspicious are idiots, no suspecion about it.

What next - men who wear pink shirts deemed suspecious as well, seriously does highlight how silly this whole argument about having a facebook account is.
> Does anyone have any good ideas on how we might mitigate the negative consequences of this technology? (...) The genie is definitely already out of the bottle so I guess the only solution is better defences.

Agreed. Rob Carlson [1] argues in "Biology is Technology" [2] that regulation can't form an effective means to mitigate threats by limiting access to skills or materials, and that we should instead invest in the ability to develop rapid responses.

Further, he argues that the costs imposed by regulation on skill and material acquisition would weight most heavily on small firms, where most of the industry's innovation originates, thus slowing the very progress we need.

I highly recommend the book, as a review of recent (as of 2010ish) SB developments, comparison to other engineering disciplines, and for a treatment of how the regulatory/IP landscape could best support innovation in biotech.

[1] http://www.synthesis.cc/
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Is-Technology-Business-Enginee...
Of course it doesn't solve everything, but it raises the bar. Social engineering is an active attack that doesn't scale like phishing; the support folks at the organization will catch on a whole lot quicker than their users.
Well, legally speaking the union has to defend him no matter what he does.
And this "artist" calls it Ferdinand because of the tank destroyer of World War 2?
That's 10.8M crashes. The vast majority aren't really "accidents", since they are caused by human actions.

Census needs to fix their reports to be consistent with Department of Transportation terminology...
Even better, the page is entirely unreadable until the font loads - it's been spinning for a minute, and what I assume is the text is pure white.
I had this problem when I was applying for US citizenship. I was on the crew team in college, which means I had callouses all the time on my fingers, and thus blank fingerpads.

I applied for citizenship 3 times over a period of 3 years, and each time got rejected due to poor quality of fingerprints.

Finally I stopped rowing and then got my citizenship. I'm sure there's some way around it, but it was kind of amusing and frustrating at the time.
I think $10,000 is a big over-estimate, but even that would be spread out over the life of the car. I'd happily pay $1000 a year to not have to worry about driving.
One of the reason HN has consistently insightful commentary is that we consistently flag/downvote non-insightful articles and posts.

You can't simply introduce more social-justice type articles and expect the rest of HN to stay the same. This is why I recommend sticking with the site guidelines: if it would be covered on TV news (this would!) it doesn't belong here, unless it's evidence of some new phenomena (this isn't!)
Ask: What are good resources for careers at BioMedical startups?
I know tech startups are all the rage right now but are there any good biomedical listings? Some of my friends are looking into some biomed startups but they can't find any good resources for seeing things like who's hiring and where are serious hubs.
Unfortunately those application-specific passwords aren't particularly application specific, at least in Google's implementation -- any of them can be used for anything.

If someone built a system which could restrict passwords or keys by some kind of capabilities (e.g. my Adium gtalk password could only be used to authenticate to Google's Jabber servers), that would be useful. It would be complex to manage, especially as your applications change over time, but not impossible.
I'm happy to keep seeing this as a top-ranked story if it puts quick pressure on Apple and encourages more people to think about account security.
This. Show me the code, or at least a github with the beginnings of making these ideas a reality, or you're wasting my time with mental masturbation. Until you can actually test these dramatic changes with real users and show that these changes can be achieved in a usable way, it's the height of designer hubris to trot this out as a major improvement to one of the world's most popular sites. Say whatever you will of WikiPedia, the reality is that 99.9% of designers will never build anything as useful to so many people in their entire career. That is a design success.

So, while these "redesign famous site" projects are fun, I guess, and probably great practice and thinking exercises for the designers, I don't think the folks behind a site like Wikipedia ought to drop everything and follow their advice. Wikipedia has billions of pages to serve, and millions of people to educate.
I highly highly doubt that this is an actual appeal by them to change the MediaWiki interface. I see this purely as a publicity stunt / marketing move, intended to get their brand and abilities out there in front of people. And to be frank, I think they're being quite successful at that. UX/practicality aside, most of the components do look good. (though good parts of it remind me of Google, Quora, and other prominent sites)

(Seeing this site reminded me of the guy who did the Windows redesign work a few months ago, which means that the windows redesign guy did a good job marketing/branding himself too!)
But many of those lower end arcades existed but were hard to find. Some still exist today. Most of the arcades I was familiar with as a teenager were run by large companies that apparently made deals with arcade manufacturers for bigger and more expensive machines. I didn't get to experience much of the independent owners like Flynn's Arcade.

I don't think I said that every arcade owner made the mistake of misjudging the market, but I do think a large number of them did. I also lump the industry as a whole in this group, including the manufacturers. I simply think that the industry reached a point where it did not understand its own market. But I have no source to back this up though, just my opinion.

I agree I'm in the minority for my desire for a good old-fashioned arcade but this thread and the article we're discussing suggests that I'm not in an extreme minority.

As I stated elsewhere, this is all based on my experience and should be taken as such.
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I have to disagree strongly here. I do believe understanding something inside and out help you use it, and more importantly helps you invent new solutions, but I realize mine may be a minority opinion.

Then again, this is HACKER news and what I've described is pretty damn close to the core hacker ethic.

The two languages I call myself an expert at are Python and Javascript, I can say confidently that I wouldn't call myself an expert at the former without a damn good understanding of the entire language, data model, standard lib, and standard CPython implemention, nor the other without at least a decent grasp of the ECMA-262 spec, the knowledge of which comes into play more often than one who hasn't read it might guess.

Your chess analogy doesn't really make any sense, sorry. A better one is to understand how a car is built before you drive it. I think that might just make for better drivers.

Hopefully, the OP and those reading the discussion take away that you shouldn't stop at proficiency. Strive to know your stuff down to the bits. Don't become complacent; as I've read elsewhere here, Feel the incline, and walk uphill.
Computer driven cars also have the option of just stopping when things aren't looking good (analogous to a panic). For all we know they could stop when a leaf blows across the road - unlikely to cause an accident because of the reaction time.

The "just stop" approach isn't available for planes or nuclear power plants for example.
I like the new GMail, and the new post-4.0 Android 2D UIs. I don't like most of these suggested changes for WikiPedia, however.
Heh, that's very funny coming from a Wikia employee. "Conservative" is the last word I'd ever use when describing Wikia's changes to the MediaWiki UI. You guys have no problem forking MediaWiki and making drastic changes to the codebase (http://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/), so why can't the MediaWiki project make drastic changes of their own?
To be fair, Wikipedia already uses a "W" as its favicon in every locale (even for languages with non-Latin scripts, like Japanese and Arabic):

http://ja.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico

http://ar.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico
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The 4-way stop was something they had to change from the ideal setup. The google car was obeying the law and waiting its turn and never getting it. They made it get more aggressive the longer it waits and now it gets through them just fine.
DOS attacks, maybe?
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> It does not have, as its primary goal, the delight of random web users.

But it could. And that's really the point of this exercise: showing one way that it could additionally delight users, on top of providing the critical functionality it already does.

Delighting users is one step up[1] from what Wikipedia does right now. Yes, they're doing something of fundamental importance to the human race. But does that mean that the software needs to be bleak, emotionless, and, let's face it, not very enjoyable to work with?

[1] See Aarron Walter's Emotional Interface Design as described here: http://thinkvitamin.com/design/emotional-interface-design-th... for a great explanation
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This is the Brand New blog: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
Obviously, Wikipedia is an extremely useful educational resource, and I think it's even more powerful in developing countries, which usually lack of academic materials. Making changes that rise the technological barrier of entry for many users doesn't seem adequate to me.
Maybe I don't watch enough television but I don't think I've ever seen this effect in any TV show or movie. Anyone know of a show that did this?
Maybe what was meant was that, of those who go to Wikipedia directly, not through Google, they usually go through www.wikipeida.org or wikipedia.org, not en.wikipedia.org. I would agree with that assessment.
Wow that's ugly. When did minimalism and copying Google's get mistaken fir creativity?

I'm kinda over the whole "hey. we're all cool people. let's get together and do stuff." design aesthetic. It was cute for a time but let's move on.
That's what Accept-Language[1] is for. They can just serve the right version of the page based on its value. And yes, I know it's annoying when sites just assume you speak the browser language but remember this would just set the default one in the text box, nothing else. Presumably, if you're using a browser in English you can also recognize the word "English" and change it to something else.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...
GoDaddy essentially does this - but you have to give the human the PIN. Also, most banks do this as pointed out (fwiw, I bank with USAA and I have to call from a registered phone number and enter a pin before reaching a human.)
Sent this email to them:

" Absolutely terrible; increasing the signal/noise ratio, in addition to increasing unnecessary white space were extremely bad design choices.

The purpose of Wikipedia is to share information. The changes that you proposed impede that goal by the addition of a step where the user has to "understand" the design, before they can begin to use it.

You should have reviewed mathematical and scientific journals before you begun your sketch work. Those types of publications succeed at transmitting a high amount of information, very quickly. Bare HTML pages also succeed at transmitting technical information at a very fast rate.

Rather than just stating that Wikipedia is in need of a redesign, state your reasons. The design of Wikipedia is not simply an aesthetic designer's problem, it is a problem that has to be approached from an engineering point of view: maximise the information communication rate whilst keeping the design aesthetically pleasing, not the other way around."
I agree. There are so many of these "awesome redesigns" around that totally miss the point. First of all, design is not chrome. It never has been and never will be. Design is the combination of form and content, but all of these redesigns are 100% form. Content is always sacrificed in these attempts.

If a person like Andy Ruthledge had worked at the NYTimes, he would know that a number of this country's best designers are working on that site, and it's not just a matter of sitting down in Photoshop to do a redesign. You should never lose readers for the sake of new colors. Not to mention how the nytimes.com is an enormous site with layers and layers of interplaying systems. Making stuff like this mostly looks like a young designer saying "this is what you should do", but feels like a young designer saying "I don't have a clue about how things work".
Link for lazy Mac OS X users:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It's useless, but pretty nifty at 80x24.
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The people doing this have talked about how their autonomous car met another company's autonomous car. There didn't seem to be a problem.

Really, when there are more autonomous cars on the road, each and every one will get better from their neighbors. They can directly share the data they see and what they are doing. The network effects will be huge.
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It's also super short, so you can easily glance over the source code to make sure it's not doing anything shady (it's not).
There's a classic science fiction story that I cannot remember now where people do exactly that.

If it becomes a problem, the car can transmit images of the jaywalkers to the police.
I've been a Linux user for a long time. But I'm switching. I have a MacBook Retina on order, so I looked these apps over. I am astounded by their high prices. $49 seems to be the average; that's probably more than I've spent on software (not bundled with hardware) in the last three years.

I guess we Mac users are so cash-flush, we're just itching to give some away.

The site, Retina Mac Apps, is a good 'un. Thank you.
Looks like it's being pulled from separate JSON files.
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I see, but I thought corporate tax was based off profit, not revenue?
I believe that 10.8M accident figure is an estimate counting all kinds of crashes, even the ones not reported to police.

6M police-reported crashes in 2007. 1.71 million police-reported crashes with an injury. 37,000 traffic fatalities in 2007, 30,862 in 2009.

Traffic fatality data is here with only some high-level info about non-fatality crashes: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
The "just stop" approach is also problematic on a busy highway.
Did you have to compile your printer drivers from source? That's the kind of mis-information that I'm talking about.
"Missing stop signs" is one place where a google car would be great, since they pre-map the area and would know a stop sign has disappeared. Knowing that would cause them to slow down and be even more careful.

Autonomous cars never get distracted, have 360 degree vision, look at all things all the time, and can react in tens of milliseconds versus hundreds of milliseconds. I'd trust that over a "professional driver."
Standardization is a critical step. It verifies that we use open IP which is available to everyone, provides a open forum for discussion, and archives the protocol in a way all vendors can use to resolve disputes about how we communicate.
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> ...and what value are they providing in the markets...

It used to be that if you wanted to buy a book you would have to wander around town until you found a place that had chosen to stock it. If it was an obscure or specialist book you might have to drive to a different town. You might just be shit out of luck. Nowadays you search for the title on Amazon and it shows up at your door the next morning. When you are done you can sell it again on Amazon with minimal hassle. Amazon improved the efficiency and liquidity of the book market which is why they are rich, even though they are charging less overhead than the bookstores.

Your local corner store doesn't create anything. All they do is buy from manufacturers and sell to you at a markup. But you don't care about spending an extra few pennies when its 6am and you're out of milk. You just want breakfast now.

Liquidity providers make it easier to buy and sell financial instruments whenever you want. HFT enables firms to provide liquidity more efficiently and with less risk. Just like Amazon, they get rich by saving you money.
I hear the "if your house burns down" line often and I can't tell if it's meant literally in this context. I'd think that at least for most regular folks, if their house and everything in it was turned to ashes, the last thing they'd cry over would be their, say, iTunes collection or mostly useless email archives hoarded over the last ten years.
Haha, I'm honored (and slightly amazed) that people are using it in production.
sorry, my argument was very vague.

if you completely ignore HFT, you will ignore that there are many very qualified people working in that field, and therefore overestimate the number of those people available for you to hire.
Most people who really care about this functionality are already using external tools to handle it. EndNote and Scrivener come to mind off the top of my head.

But more to the point, the plugin wouldn't make it Wikipedia-only. Doing research involves more than Wikipedia.
As soon as Microsoft embeds SCTP in every Windows device, we might be able to start discussing this...
I couldn't care less about a proposed redesign of wikipedia by a random design agency. but I do gotta give props to their marketing department.
The general assumption is that if you're looking for a transcript that falls below the detection threshold of RNAseq, then it's likely to be so weakly expressed as to be biologically negligible. Furthermore, with the bursty nature of gene expression, an average of 2-3 copies per cell (about my limit of detection in a reasonably sized experiment) could still have a sizable fraction of cells with none at all.

That said, the downside of the Oxford Nanopore for RNA-seq is that, while you get longer reads, it's not yet really clear how many reads you get, which is at least as important for trying to find those moderate-lowly expressed genes.