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Copy and paste it into a new tweet and add "RT" to it. There's a difference between the site functioning as intended and the site being all things to all people. Just because there isn't a one-click solution for every feature doesn't mean the site isn't working fine. It means it leaves something to be desired for you. By the same token just because the site works fine for me doesn't mean it's right for everyone else.

I get what you're saying though. I didn't say this to argue that I'm right and you're wrong, I'm just playing devil's advocate. I learned from the replies to my original comment that I am not a typical Twitter user. I had no clue so many people had such a problem with the site. See, I'm socially retarded. I just don't get how to be social online and often offline (the only time I shine socially is when I'm performing like in an interview, selling, or giving a presentation). So my Twitter usage is less than others' and not typical. At the same time, I still think the site does what it was intended for and I havent seen any function of it not available through the web interface.

When it comes down to it, you're right and I'm right. But you're definitely more right.
Ask HN: Why is an android tablet not encrypted by default?
Just bought a nexus 7. Under security, there is a setting to encrypt the tablet. I wonder why this isnt the default? Is there a reason NOT to encrypt a mobile device?
Actually, it might be just me, but I find this incredibly annoying. I use swift-text on android and while usually when I start typing my email address I get a suggestion for my long email address, but when type=email I don't get a suggestion, just a little @ key at the bottom. Might not be this way for all keyboards though. Just a thought.

Edit: Oh and great job on the app! I think this is an awesome idea and if some of the privacy and longevity concerns were addressed, I would use it all the time!
Plug: I maintain a list of all the MOOCs over at Class Central - http://www.class-central.com

Here is a list of courses(43 total, 28 new) that start in September : https://plus.google.com/107809899089663019971/posts/4nundLE1...
From what I can tell, the ability of 3/4ths of the band to sing well was a lot less remarkable for the time period. Nowadays it would really set a band apart but back then guitar bands with vocal harmonies was trending. Most such bands just didn't have any songwriting power. Plus when you consider that McCartney was the only really gifted vocalist, it's not that remarkable. Their perceived charisma and attractiveness stems from their status, which was earned through superior songwriting/record-making.

It's hardly suprising that two genius songwriters managed to develop good instrumental abilities, attract other talent (a great drummer, a great producer, a great guitarist), put out records with great vocal arrangements, and bring out the best in covers. And be worshipped by the public. Those things are almost inevitable. The only surprising thing was that they ended up in the same band.
Very cool to see this pop up. I think a hosted service for validating an idea could be very useful for many, especially the non-technical founders who could then get some better validated traction to share with a potential technical co-founder.

Great to see Buffer has been an inspiration. If anyone is interested, the screenshot comes from this post with the full details of how I used this method to go from idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...
Jordan and Egypt have recsinded any claims to those territories

That's exactly my point why those territories aren't occupied. The only way to call them occupied if Egypt or Jordan would still claim their authority over them. But as you said - they don't. Therefore while their status isn't clear, they aren't occupied. I.e. they are not more occupied by "Israeli Civil Authority", as they are occupied by the "Palestinian Authority" (i.e. Fatah and Hamas). At least that's how I view it.

Oslo agreements weren't supported by Arabs (de facto), therefore they are morally void for a long time already. UN might support the idea of "occupied" terminology, but UN isn't the only entity who defines it.
This speaks to some of the low(-ish) hanging fruit in manufacturing that software can help with. I think we're closer to having the LaserWriter of 3D printing than the Pagemaker.
It's a huge understatement to say that CAD/CAM software sucks. Start by chipping away at small, solvable but labor-intensive parts, in the vein of Stripe.

Make tools that provide constraints that reflect the real world, in the hands of the designer. How often do you see beautiful design concepts that have zero draft or unmoldable overhangs? If those are things that are irrelevant with additive printing, then render the preview in no greater resolution than what the printer can produce, and identify the grain along which your part will break.

This will lead us to what my partner calls augmented fabrication. He prototyped Part Preview, a "Print Preview" for milling machines, projecting toolpaths onto your material or using a Kinect to intersect the blank with the model (unfortunately, no documentation except for http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111010/lab-report-2 and a thesis paper).

We need tighter integration between the software used to design objects and the hardware that manufactures them. Protomold is a step in the right direction. Because they control much of the process, they can tell you how your uploaded design needs to change to be manufacturable. That's an API for manufacturing - it digitizes something about the physical process. And it's a great educational tool. It's all about reducing the length of the feedback loop so that we can make mistakes and learn faster.
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Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply!

Re. 2: I'm still not sure what my "dream future" is since my "real" dreams (academia) are almost certainly out of reach at this point.

Regarding 2-5: your advice requires N years here ... which is surely fine, but how can I avoid falling even further behind (in terms of CV, being a loner, ...)?

Re. 6: I typically eliminate myself from a lot of positions not because I couldn't do the job (Excel, anyone?) but because there's no way I'd get through screening (see 20120910's comments on the reasons for this).

Thanks again.
Nice work and nice tutorial as well!
Thanks for the link, it was much more detailed.
So I won't automatically be charged and put in jail, but I might be arrested.

This is supposed to be reassuring?
The gp poster is one of a very enlightened few. There was a person in a similar situation in my area for a while. Someone found him on the registry, and he was subsequently banned from several organizations he was previously considered a valuable member of. By this time he was in his late 20s and talking to some of the shriller voices against them, I realized they didn't understand the difference between something he did at 19 and something he wouldn't do at 28. They just assumed he was after their 13 year old daughters and nothing else. Ruined a lot of his ability to participate in society.

Similarly, there are many, many employers who will dismiss any chance for job based on mere presence on the list. No questions, no mitigating circumstance. This is a punishment that is life-long, goes far beyond the crime, and honestly, leaves little recourse for the offender to become a drain on society, or turn to further crimes just to get by. (blast me for being a stupid hippy liberal if you want, but explain how we expect someone to get a job if we deny them the ability to get a job without saying "just get a job").
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I guess I misinterpreted you- I thought you were saying the free-speech-favorable outcome of the case meant his concerns were moot.
It's great that access to higher education material is becoming more open. This is already a big step.

Certification / getting a top-level university degree is unfortunately something completely different.

Splitting those two is part of the business model of all the participating universities.

Nevertheless these changes might provide the possibility for more people who want to learn (and have the abilities) to get discovered and so finally also get access to certification.
This is more like talking past each-other than a real discussion, since you're not making any solid arguments addressing the points you're responding to. People downloading music can be an indication of opportunism as much as of market failure.

Think about how much smaller the music industry would be, and I'm just talking about the number of people making music themselves, if there were no sales of recordings. No more buying a CD on your way out of a local or touring band's show, no more iTunes Music Store or Amazon MP3 or CD store, no more labels; you're talking about taking away a majority of these artists' revenue. If musicians can't ever hope to get paid enough to put food on their table and a roof over their head, how many will put in the energy needed to bring their music to fruition? How many will put in the effort to make good recordings for you to enjoy? Making a good recording is difficult and expensive, and we benefit greatly from it. There is value there for us that we should have the courtesy of recognizing if we hope to enjoy a wide selection good music recordings in the future.
The real problem is not the child porn.

The real problem is "morals", "christianity" and "religion".
Only by slaying these you can fix the problem in the long run. So:

- If you happen to be religious, quit it right now please.

- Press everybody to do that.

- If you find yourself pressing your "moral values" on somebody over, quit.

- Press everybody to do that.

It's pointless anyway since gods aren't real. And your moral values likely aren't very moral in the end.

(The main problem - most of people who is affected by this issue aren't on HN; most of people on HN aren't affected)
Actually possession of child pornography isn't illegal here either, and for that specific reason IIRC. Buying/selling or attempting to distribute are crimes though– basically it's like weed in Massachusetts. That being said I don't know the statistics on underage molestation but I don't think it would provide a very helpful model for the US.
A lot of this post really resonates with me. I'm busy right now, but I'll try to think about it today. Thanks so much.
Let's also say that you did an initial search and found no immediately usable solutions. It would take hours of sifting through garbage to fish something working out of the Internet.

You know the API is popular and you know for sure that someone already did exactly what you want to do.

These premises are unlikely to be simultaneously true. If the API is popular, your question has probably been asked and answered many times. If you really are doing something unusual, you should at least be able to find a reference to something similar, and when you ask your question you can point to it and explain what you need to do differently.
If the system is to work as designed, it's a hard question. With not-a-lot to discourage people from posting copyrighted works, there will be a lot of media on a lot of safe-harbor sites deserving of a take-down notice. Remove the first 10%, and you've not actually made it appreciably harder for those interested to find the content - you have to be at least fairly thorough. So, you are stuck filing a bunch of these notices. If you make a mistake just one time in a thousand, legitimate artists operating in good faith will be making a mistake here or there. Jailing them is not optimal. On the other hand, abuse of the system is obviously happening, and should be punished. Telling the difference, in some cases, will be difficult.
I also wonder this. Being self taught through online platforms such as this I spend a lot of time wondering how to prove their success at scale. In particular for less tangible learning (i.e. things I cannot point to my github account for)
According to Warren Farrell NYTimes is systematic and deliberate in perpetuating misandry. This is coming from a man who was both a founding member in a major feminist organization(N.O.W) and a writer for the NYTimes.

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2003/0610f...
There was a Spanish blog called http://www.failbeta.com/
Maybe I misremembered the ages? They were very close because my shock at the time is etched in my brain. Could have been 18 - 16.

And I'm guessing this guy was convicted before Romeo & Juliet laws. Looks like Rick Perry also vetoed that law in 2011? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform

Wikipedia is a little unclear on the issue.
Shock video sites that feature murders, dismemberment and other forms of crime on video for voyeuristic pleasure are a pretty big business. Perhaps not as big as child pornography woud be/is, but big enough that your distinction is a bit questionable.

Further, videos of people getting murdered raise enough of an outcry that they get investigated/prosecuted much harder. Instances of child molestation are hidden, so there can only be public outcry in the abstract, leading to crazy laws that resemble witch hunts more than legal proceedings.
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Ah ha just the person! I am in fact a non technical 'founder' and your post was the inspiration that lead me to create LookAft after faffing about for too long creating my own testing pages.

Buffer is awesome, keep up the good work on that. If you have any issues with me using the image please let me know.
Is there any existing service out there that is not a 24hr hack? I for one find something like this extremely valuable and helpful and I'd pay money for one that has some traction and is more than just a demo.
But you could be. Universal crimes that are only prosecuted when the police want to get you are a large part of the problem. Everyone is guilty of something - see Three Felonies a Day.
This study says we cannot be sure that PEDs are safe. The original comment, that "there are many recorded incidents of interference [which] happened, and were documented by the FAA", is false. There is a slight potential for interference and we hypothesise that this interference could be unsafe.
If you "witnessed" it while browsing, you also downloaded it onto your computer.
Python can do websocket: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/export/29073/branches/websocke...

I too was interested in Node.js but I don't like the idea of using JavaScript - I simply prefer python for coding. I looked into it, found the counterpart of node.js in python and am happy with it.
I haven't seen any studies that guarantee the safety of wearing cotton clothing or rubber shoes, both of which have vague effects on electromagnetism as well. Not having any evidence that it's unsafe is good enough in my book. We've had a couple of decades and millions of flights where passengers forgot/ignored/didn't understand the rules without causing a single incident.
In this subthread we were evaluating the legal scenario where that those receiving cocaine in the mail, regardless of whether they had knowledge or intent of it, should be arrested.

Under this premise, cases of people who do not ever receive drugs in the mail is not relevant.

Statistically, one relevant question to ask is, of those who have cocaine bricks delivered to their front porch, what percentage were actually involved in receiving cocaine compared to those who were a drop point for a pickup involving two other unknown parties.

As Barik (a contractor with direct investigative knowledge) pointed out above, using strangers' homes as drop points for cocaine brick delivery is common in the US in the context of illegal drug deliveries by mail. It is entirely possible it accounts for the vast majority of cocaine brick by mail deliveries.

If this accounts for more than an inconsequential portion of cocaine brick mail deliveries, then it is utterly unjust and unreasonable to advocate or defend laws that criminalize mere possession and not knowledge of what you have, and/or intent.
The grandparent obviously meant "prove" in an informal sense, as in getting something accepted by some bureaucratic certification. You're talking about formal, mechanized proof systems.
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The curious case of missing option three
The article does say the order was randomized.

But there is a bigger problem: one of the options is "I’m scared of scams." Regardless of reading order, if you read all the options before answering - and presumably most people do - then this causes what psychologists call a "priming" effect. You start to think about scams, and you can then behave very differently than if that option were not in the survey.
I don't think it will ever happen "all together". For hard sciences you still need expensive labs and hands-on training. For medical schools, I'd prefer that an operating surgeon had some practical experience as well.

But a good portion of the courses (that frequently happen to be taught by TAs, not professors, anyways) belong online. One finicky part at the moment is testing, which relies on honor code, so there might be a move towards professional-level testing, the type you see for major exams (GRE, TOEFL) as well as professional certifications. Since most of the testing facilities charge money, it will probably provide a good reason for universities to charge for credits as well - you can still view the course for free, but to pass a series of tests and get credit you would have to pay.
Awesome to hear :-)

No issues at all, quite the opposite - I'm super happy it inspired this! Let me know if I can ever help with anything, more than happy to jump on a Skype call if it might be good. My email is in my profile ;)
Postgres is definitely a pain in the butt to properly setup in a network, in particular if you have never done it before. (And just talking about non-cluster use)

However, once you know the steps necessary to setup a postgres server, it's a piece of cake. In fact it's even fun because Postgres is a software that comes in pretty much the same packaging in every version. And I can even top that: with pgAdmin it has a powerful, consistent and stable tool to manage databases. (MySQL seems to be miles away from that)

I think the impression that Postgres is more difficult than MySQL roots in the fact that it's more difficult to install at home. (Why so many installation steps? MySQL is basically just installing the package, changing pw and done?)

I worked around 2 years with Postgres as a developer and I loved it. Very stable, very solid, many features and no surprises.

MySQL on the contrary seems like a toy db, at least when you want to do a lot of relationship stuff with foreign keys etc. It feels really awkward that outer white-spaces have no meaning, there is no boolean type and that the admin tools out there seem to be really immature.

Having to work since nearly two years with MySQL, I find it still painful. If you don't store Petabytes of data and don't use it for a highly frequented website, Postgres is probably your choice.
Intel planning to get rid of DRAM on PCs
Initially I didn't like the idea. But thinking it better it might be actually good. The big PC bottleneck nowadays is DRAM. A big on-die/stacked memory at many times faster bandwidth and lower latency could be a game changer.

And anyway, nowadays the usual advice to clients is to max out the RAM on purchase since it's a mess to replace (be it a non-technical user or a datacenter cluster with critical uptime) and the specific configuration of RAM will become pricer per GB in the mid term (because the market moves constantly forward to different versions).

And also note one of the main reasons some algorithms run faster on GPUs is the memory bandwidth bottleneck. If Intel gets rid of the BW problem it's a level game againsta Nvidia.

This move would allow Intel to have some custom performance tricks. For example, memset multiple GB in a fraction of the time.
I'd guess encryption adds a layer of complexity to basic operations such as File Access etc, therefore reducing battery life. Most end-users don't store confidential data on their tablets anyway and so just don't need it. Now if you're using the device for business purposes, you always have the option of enabling encryption. They should offer to enable encryption upon initial setup, though (Might already be doing that, can't remember it quite clearly)
One can see in this list that there are many ways to ease the pain of bringing an object to market without directly getting hands dirty in manufacturing. It'd be so much better if the burdens of sourcing, certifications, shipping, liability insurance, etc. could be taken off the engineer's plate.

Shipwire does this in fulfillment but the cost can be a barrier, and mfg.com or Alibaba are a step in the right direction but don't necessarily address the trust you need to have with your suppliers in lieu of becoming an expert. It's too much of a Wild West right now, and we need a sheriff.

Alas, it's not yet as simple as the "Print to China" that manufacturing-as-a-service promises. There are currently too many human translation layers that would impede reliable manufacturing APIs.
These Xeons probably don't have a HD4000 graphics unit?
Content providers don't blindly forward anonymous accusations to the police forces, do they?
Initially I didn't like the idea. But thinking it better it might be actually good. The big PC bottleneck nowadays is DRAM. A big on-die/stacked memory at many times faster bandwidth and lower latency could be a game changer.

And anyway, nowadays the usual advice to clients is to max out the RAM on purchase since it's a mess to replace (be it a non-technical user or a datacenter cluster with critical uptime) and the specific configuration of RAM will become pricer per GB in the mid term (because the market moves constantly forward to different versions).

And also note one of the main reasons some algorithms run faster on GPUs is the memory bandwidth bottleneck. If Intel gets rid of the BW problem it's a level game againsta Nvidia.

This move would allow Intel to have some custom performance tricks. For example, memset multiple GB in a fraction of the time.
Cheers Joel. I will certainly take you up on this. I will drop you an email shortly.
"Protect the children" is a much, much broader issue than oppression for religious regions.
This will be more obvious in developing countries, who do not have large education budgets. US schools have a decent supply of decent courses - you could take a Cryptography course from Stanford, but you don't have to, as there's probably one at your local university anyways.

Someone involved in higher education in poorer countries could utilize these courses as a base material, and have local TAs grade assignments and facilitate in-class discussions.
Do we need new ways to measure purpose and success?
The whole idea sounds so much like fooling people i don't feel it is morally justified.
I've never used uBot Studio, but a lot of people seem to love it's point and click programming.
Here's another one: http://clarity.fm/home They've already got a bunch of experts on there too.
Do most kids and people in general have all you can eat text or pay as you text? I've been pay as you text, but now that my teenage son has his own phone (and all you can eat text, because he's gonna text ...) I will have to move my plan to all you can eat just to survive his comms.
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> That word "Predicts" is dangerous. It strongly suggests causation, though it only reflects a statistical correlation.

REALLY? What do you WANT them to say? Accuracy of a prediction implies some sort of causal relationship, but not a direct one by any means. All of the thing you suggest are causal links. A genetic disorder causing a decrease in both lifespan and creativity is causation. "A predicts B" does NOT AT ALL imply "A causes B" - tinsel, wreaths, and increased toy buying predict Christmas.