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The problem this DOESN'T solve is that if the resource is not availale over SSL, then this won't work at all and will show broken links.

I've got a project that addresses this by converting any URL to SSL:

http://www.fixweb.co/

Just take whatever URL you want to access, like

http://example.com/test.gif

add the FixWeb.co address in front of it like this:

https://fixweb.co/example.com/test.gif
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and it will return the file over SSL.

It's not designed for high security file delivery, obviously, but it will get you around a normal Mixed-Content warning.
I started experimenting with nootropics maybe year ago. There are some interesting effects. I still have to get something that would impress me. Claims that modafinil creates addiction, not true, it seems that same guy is going on forums and spreading those rumors.
Anyhow, just wanted to say I am for it, but be reasonable.

However, you should also know, that it is much easier to get a lot of effects just by using things that are easily accesible to us:

* exercise or even walk (like 45 mins)

* coffee (obviously, unfortunately doesn't work for me)

* tea, green tea, yerba mate, others (amazing and powerful effects)

* music - trance or classical work really well

* binaural beats - also work exceptionally well, for focus and for creativity, idea generation

* meditation (goes with the one above)

So what I am trying to say, there are a lot of ways how we can boost our intellects. Let's not forget really enjoyable ones like green tea for example.
I should have said "preemptive" rather than "obligatory".

I think WinPhone is a great product, but there's no denying that it's been a bit of a laggard in the market.
The same as any tuition program or grant: When you separate the cost from the consumer, prices skyrocket. With 100% of their tuition being paid by anonymous donors, why should these kids care how much it costs? And if the kids don't care and have a blank check, why shouldn't the schools raise the price tag?

I'm just using this an example of unintended consequences in this type of stuff. I'm well aware this handful of kids aren't enough to skew tuition prices, that most public institutions (which this program seems to target) have caps on tuition increases, etc... Regardless, disconnecting the consumer from the price of the product have caused tuition prices to rise artificially fast.
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Many people aren't "paying for it" today already - can we judge if they're taking it more or less lightly than they otherwise would have?

Given that we have 20 year olds taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt, when I don't really think most of them have any perspective at all to judge the seriousness of that, I'm not sure we can say that everyone going to college today is 'paying for it'. We might say that many of them are paying for it (in many senses of the phrase) for years/decades to come.
Right, definitely an amazing answer from Mr. Church breaking down employee contributions and how to (if to) fire them! ++would recommend, answers do not contain bobcat
Time to failure is a poisson distribution, not a step distribution.
I was hoping to take some technical diving courses but it sounds like the raw materials price is going to go up. Helium is often mixed with nitrogen and oxygen to provide gas mixtures to reduce the narcotic impact of nitrogen. I think there's been some experimentation with hydrogen/oxygen mixtures but they're a relatively low concentration of oxygen (4%), not to mention that it scares the hell out of me.

I wonder what the effect on divers, recreational or professional, will be if/when helium is either too expensive to use for deep diving or just not available? Perhaps neon/oxygen, though that would also be very expensive.
I stopped watching MTV in college, and I haven't really had a problem being sad since then. You should reevaluate where and how you get sensory input and consider tossing some things out the window.
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Just because something is used internally doesn't mean the product manager is going to prioritize fixes for internal bug reports. Testing internally does not magically add more programmers to the project.
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If something truly drastic occurs, there will be no stability for a short period of time, relative or otherwise, which will likely be followed by a period of stagnation and corruption. It'll be dangerous and ugly. Lets hope it does not happen!

I think you were more asking "if something bad happens, but law and order remain, how do I protect my purchasing power."

Short answer: hard assets.

Medium answer: As a business, you want to be out of cash and into inventory. This is because you can always increase the price of the hard goods you have that others want, so you can always receive true value. However, once you have traded the goods for cash, that cash immediately begins loosing value.

Longer answer:

You want physical, tangible goods that you can barter for other goods or whatever is locally being used as currency.

Think about what money looks like in shape and form. Light, a little thing can represent a lot of value, has a long shelf life, is widely accepted and equally valued.

Think about what people want to have or need to have even when money is tight. Cross off that list anything with a shelf life or that is so hard to transport and trade that it wouldn't be worth doing. Have a good amount of what remains on your list, stored in a place you can secure.

That is kind of vague, so here's a list of things to consider:

* Preserved Food (beprepared.com)

* Gold and Silver (apmex.com)

* Hard Liquor

* Cigarettes

* Ammo

* Firearms

* Farm Animals

* Farm Land

All of the things on my list have increased in value during our current debt crisis.
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I think its a balancing act - but i guess grants is worse than loans.

Granting "free" money will indeed cause problems, but a loan that is required to be repaid seems like the right way to go in the long term, provided that after the higher education is completed the individual in question is able to actually provide value.
You don't hate pop-ups enough.
The words "donors" in that wikipedia page have remained unchanged since the original page shell in May 2006. Considering also the NYT article explicitly discusses donor vs. donors, I view the wikipedia characterization more as editorial convenience than evidence.

That said, my common sense tends to agree with you. Is there evidence elsewhere?
Usually people attach preemptive snark to otherwise constructive contributions. Otherwise it's just snark.
The acceptance rate has varied considerably by batch. It's generally pretty low, but I think the numbers are incredibly misleading. The reason is that most of the people we say no to don't really want Hacker School for what it is (e.g., they're looking for some sort of Rails bootcamp, or they want to prototype apps and products, not focus on becoming a better programmer) and/or because they don't seem to actually like programming very much.

I think we accept the majority of people who a) really enjoy programming, and b) have a clear idea of what Hacker School is and is not. If you meet those two criteria, your odds of getting in are quite good :)

Hope this helps!
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That's a bit disappointing... they couldn't hire someone to sing the actual lyrics?
I find that cutting my soda (and thus my sugar) intake out completely makes a huge difference in my ability to think clearly for extended periods.

Dunno why, might even be placebo effect, but I noticed the effect before I made the connection to the cause.
Unless I vastly misunderstand your statement, it's nowhere nearly that hairy.

https://gist.github.com/3719513

Did I miss something?

Rack is "env variable goes in, array of [code, headers, body] comes out, here are some handy utils for handling grunt work". That's it. That's Rack. You can do whatever you please with it in the middle. That's all that a middleware is, and Rails itself is basically just a collection of Rack middlewares (procs) with some support libraries stapled on. That's a gross simplification, but at the end of the day, that's basically the heart and soul of the framework.

My point is that there are multiple levels of abstraction. Of course you don't have to re-write and re-implement boilerplate when you use Sinatra over Rack, just like you don't have to re-write and re-implement when you use Rails over Sinatra. "Rails bad, Sinatra good" is just silly, because it all boils down to what kind of tradeoff you're willing to make between what's done in framework versus what's done in your application.
I just came from a .NET developer meeting hosted on the local Microsoft campus. The presenter was trying to hype development of new Office 360, Sharepoint and other "code less" applications. Made the mistake of telling a room full of experienced developers they could be replaced with HTML jockeys at 1/6 their price. I decided to spend the rest of the presentation working on some stored procedures.
We are almost at same age and i totally understand what you are up to because i was in same situation before. I researched a lot regarding my sick thoughts and behaviours. I hoped for a help from someone but words did not worked as i thought it would. As much as i read and observed MRI's of depressed people, i got the point that it is just a malfunction of the brain with social problems that seems unable to get solved.

So what i did was just starting to use an efficient anti-depressant. (I hate doctors and i decided myself which to use) Not that hardcore ones that makes people like sheeps but just ordinal one. (Citalopram) Before that i was very afraid that whether i will be someone else or damage myself but you know what? It totally changed my life forever. I have been using it for two years but i admit that if i didn't start to use it i would be in very different place (or maybe hell) by now. People thinks that this kind of drugs as "chemicals" and not a natural way to solve the problems. But it worked with me and increased my life quality. I think you should try one of those before you definitely decide to kill yourself or whatsoever. You will loose nothing on that case but giving life a chance.
Earning enough to pay for 2 kids is almost getting impossible for the middle classes. Whatever you have saved will get "swept" by college when corrected for financial aid. Financial aid levels, in that context turns into an odd-kinda-wierd thing. A hybrid of forced donation to a charity and a stealth tax.
"I've made typos that I went back and corrected myself."

Gee, Quora _does_ sound like a really great party!
Knowledge is non-rivalrous, but it's not settled that the value of a college education comes mostly from added knowledge. If instead it comes from signaling, then it's no longer the case.
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The ready supply of student loans is the cause of the rapid rise in tuition.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/10/the-cost-of...
better variable scoping

CS's scoping is a bit... dangerous, because there's no indication of a variable's scope. If you're not paying attention to your environment, you'll inadvertently stomp on higher scopes or globals. You can lose assignments through typos too.

JS made a mistake by allowing globals by omitting "var", but that at least can be worked around by using a linter or "use strict". A number of languages have made this mistake, and many later followed a similar path to fix it.

CS has a lot of nice properties, but we should not laud conflating variable definition and assignment. It has always been a mistake, and I hope CS's author eventually comes around and fixes it.
Are you referring to 9 or 10?

My point regarding 9 is that the developer tools are buggy and painful to use compared to chrome. As a web developer, you would want them fixed as soon as possible.
Monaco on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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My condolences. I know your pain.
Are We Paying Too Much for Higher Education?
Just out of curiosity, how much more secure would a lock be if the hotel asked the patron to have a smartphone app instaled and to enter a personal PIN upon checkin.

When you get to your room, swipe your NFC enabled phone over the lock, then it asks for your pin (on the phone) to unlock the door.

The activity would need to allow you to swipe the NFC over the lock, which will auto-launch the app and prompt for pin to be a smooth user experience.

If you have to find the app and launch it and maybe make another click, to get to the PIN prompt, it would be too cumbersome to users to be a good experience.
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The article uses "donors" several times. I think while it's amazing if one person is willing to sponsor, it's even more amazing if there are many out there who believe in a brighter future for them. That actually makes me happier, knowing that it's donors and not a donor.

"When asked how the conversations that led to the Promise unfolded, Brown demurs. “That, and the identity of the donors, are things I just will never talk about,” she says. "
That's certainly true, but then dogfooding seems completely pointless if you're not going to use it to make your product better.
That doesn't stop bureaucracy from changing that decision or for the people that are donating to be sent to jail/etc before they can finish their promises.
On the assumption this is a good thing, let's say every town/state rolls such a scheme out. Now every student in the nation is having their tuition paid. It's also costing about the same amount as if the government levied taxes and paid the costs.

A negative, compared to government funding, is that the economy has lost mobility of labour. Getting a full scholarship requires the child to be enrolled from K-12. Loss of mobility might be a good thing, in that it prompts people to improve their local economy, rather than run away. Alternatively, it could lock people into a form of serfdom, unable to move to better their situation.

I'd advocate that a voucher system, whereby the government gives each student a voucher for the degree of their choice, would be preferable to the widespread adoption of "the promise".
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Here's the truth. First of all, be proud of yourself for asking for help. Not an easy thing to do.

Now, Extreme emotional swings and suicidal thoughts?

The answer to your question is: Go see a doctor, and consider therapy or an antidepressant, or both.

Socializing is fine, and you should certainly reach out, go to a meetup with HNers in your area, or a maker space, or a gaming group whatever... but make an appointment with a doctor.

Doesn't have to be a psychiatrist, can be a GP or whatever. Whatever reason you have been using to put this off... forget it and go. Push through the depression, ignore the transient happiness, and make that appointment. Making the appointment is probably harder then actually going, your natural inclination to feel guilty can help you keep an appointment.

You are not alone, you do matter, but you should go get help. You know this, or you wouldn't be asking for help here, but while HN can be a wonderfully supportive community in many ways, it's not mental health care. It's safe to ask here, and I applaud you for asking for help. But it's up to you to take action.

Also, if you are looking for specific social suggestions, indicate your city. Good luck.
It really depends on the implementation. There are a lot of ways this can all be done securely (from magstripes -- ignoring the ease of copying -- to chip cards or NFC with smartphones or ...), but at the end of the day, it comes down to the implementation. With some slightly different choices, Onity's system could've been rock solid, but they dropped the ball.
This post, like so many others, states the p-value concept backwards. Statistics give you the chance of a false positive observation among a universe of negative realities, not the chance of a false reality in a universe of positive observations.
I think you're reading too much into this. Google gives out a free Android phone to its employees every year.
I think that's referring to "development runtime", not "production runtime". I.e. run a memory leak detector while you are debugging and profiling. But once you fix all/most of the leaks, you don't need to deploy a GC.
I don't use Quora often, but it's one of the top 5 referrers for http://ignitiondeck.com, one of my company's flagship products.

Doesn't mean I think this situation is OK...still trying to discern whether I should care.
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This is often the most important thing about an article and often overlooked. Second scruffy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggRLVdOoNGI
http://www.finaid.org/savings/tuition-inflation.phtml (those graphs don't really do it justice, but if you know your math you know what a difference being several point ahead of inflation for decades does to the difference in price.)

Its a shame that an entire generation of educated Americans are being enslaved by an unparallelled level of debt so early in their lives. The NYTimes has had many articles that give a good idea of how deep the problem is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/business/shedding-student-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/business/once-a-student-no...

I'm an optimist. The problem will fix itself thanks to technology. Education in the future is going to be nearly free. I think it is going to happen a lot sooner than people realize. Runaway education inflation will make even the "expensive" solutions look dirt cheap.

There will be some ugly financial realities along the way. Private, public, not for profit, and for profit schools will go belly up along the way. Educators who teach things that can be taught online better will find themselves with no job market. Students whose defaulted $70k loan balloons to $200k because of non-payment will be at a tremendous financial disadvantage over the next generation of students with no debt.

Kalamazoo makes for a warm feeling story. Reality is a lot more sinister. It is giving free weapons to one small group in an arms race. In this case, everyone else is getting killed with debt.
You're assuming that the security researcher is the first person to discover the issue. That's rarely the case. Keeping quiet just gives users a false sense of security and ensures that they can't mitigate the security impact on their own (without the help of the vendor).

Knowledge is power. We shouldn't censor ourselves because someone somewhere can be evil with some information. They have other ways of getting the information anyway.
Well I don't necessarily think it's a good thing... but it seems like just the sort of opportunity awaiting them (and their lawyers, when the antitrust suits eventually come).
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Lack of mobility is a key part of the experiment here. It's an economic growth strategy - attract families that value education, get them to set up roots, and the local economy will benefit.

If this were to roll out on a national level then it would be much similar to public school, but rather than K-12, it'd be K-BA. Maybe there'd be vouchers, maybe not.

The point is that this is an experimental model for economic growth and social benefit for the town, not the model for the entire nation.
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sure that's fine. altho we'd like to learn more about you too :)
When I walk down the street I often see someone wearing some clothes that look fantastic. I hope an entrepreneur creates an Glass app that overlays a list of stores where I can buy each item along with the price. It would be even better if it could save a photo of the person and notify me if something they are wearing goes on sale somewhere. If everyone's 'favorites' pictures were stored in the cloud you could sell the data to vendors to let them know what people wanted. If I could set a trigger "let me know if x goes on sale for less than $y" you could sell that data to vendors too (sort of like they have bidding for empty hotel rooms).
I think your analysis is wrong because it oversimplifies the problem. Unfortunately, it is not about democrats or republicans - or different philosophies: one leading to prosperity other leading to ruin. I wish that is so simple.

The problem is much more complex. But, I think that all problems start with disappearance of middle class which causes people to "sell" their votes (and rich/powerful ones are more than willing to pay for these votes). That then leads to corruption, etc. vicious circle to the bottom.
Forgive me; but, you say you disagree with the sentiment, but you disagree with it on the bounds that the thing you're disagreeing with is unlikely to happen. That doesn't change the damage that could/would happen if the unfortunate thing DID happen; and that shouldn't cause you to disagree with the sentiment, from my understanding. Perhaps I'm understanding you incorrectly?

I read what you said as:

* Taking A away after giving A is worse than never giving A in the first place.

* People giving A are probably not in a position to lose A.

* Therefore, I disagree that losing A would be a bad thing.
The conclusion contradicts itself. If VCs erred in selecting their companies, then in consquence they will lose and cease to exist. The fact that VCs exist and thrive proves that they are following what is right for them. Now that right may not be right for everybody and the world which is something to ponder.
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While it is shocking to see your passwords scroll by in plaintext, a careful consideration of how to fix the problem, one realizes that the offered solution really isn't good enough. Many applications require your passwords in order to run, and the Keychain is the way OSX apps get those passwords.

After a little thought, there are two solutions. First, and best, is to log out, and let your guest use a guest account. Or second, watch over the persons shoulder (which is probably a good idea anyway for the security conscious.)

But, personally my biggest concern is that it highlights how trivial it is for locally installed software to access my other passwords! It means that all of my passwords are only as protected as my least-trusted local app. And I have to say, my least trusted app is pretty untrusted. The only saving grace is that OSX asks me if I want to allow an app to access that password.
>"See, I've always assumed the exact opposite based on how rough the user experience is on so many Microsoft products."

And you are correct.

I remember back in the day (2005) reading about MS employees hiding their ipods when they were on campus:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2005/0...

And then Steve killed everybody's buzz by banning Apple products entirely:

http://www.cultofmac.com/155131/microsoft-bans-employees-fro...
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I get what you are saying, but I feel reducto ad absurdum is unfair here. I understood the parent's point as this; using Sinatra to give yourself the convenience of the {get,post,...} methods for working with HTTP vs. Rails, which forces upon you its more opinionated structure for websites.

I agree with the parent, that I have no use for the complexity of Rails and Sinatra is convenient. Other people are free to choose as they wish, and Rails might be the more appropriate library is some cases regardless of preference (like in the sibling post about teams).

But there's a ton of utility on the spectrum from Rack to Rails and it's perfectly reasonable to choose a midpoint, and perfectly reasonable to choose it because you think Rails is too much but Rack is not enough.
Agree with you on the signally aspect. As a nation we've become obsessed with college degrees and college may not be the right choice for everyone. But that's a whole other discussion thread.
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Actually IE6 was great when it was released.