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We need journals because without them we'd have the Android App Store. I know that seems like a stretch but the challenge is that there are lots and lots of papers (publish-or-die is a mantra remember) and so quantity is assured, but quality is more nuanced. And more importantly quality of the work. So what a journal does is builds a reputation for filtering for only very high quality papers, and then other systems feed off that. So if you publish in Science that is cooler or more impressive than publishing in a journal which has no standards, or worse your own self published journal. The Android App store has a similar situation except it doesn't (yet) have a good quality filter, there is no third party that has risen to prominence as the place to go for authoritative reviews or opinions on the quality of a particular application.
The downvotes confuse me too. During the recent great recession, areas around Seattle saw a large increase in bus riders and a big drop in gas tax revenues. So agencies and politicians began raising bus fees and gas taxes to make up for the lost income.
That video is from the DNC, not from the US government. The Democratic Party is free to structure itself however it chooses, especially with regards to agreeing (or, in this case, failing to agree) on party policy. The days of convention delegates actually voting on anything of substance are behind us -- conventions are just infomercials now.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568709
You beautiful bastards! Thanks for this. Now I can spend more time on the back-end stuff.
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Can you send MD5 encrypted passwords over HTTP? Can you send passwords over websockets?
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568709
Your statement makes the assumption that this will happen quickly, which it will not. It will likely take decades to incentivize people to move from cars to mass transit and other systems. As they do, taxes and budgets will be modified to reflect the current state of affairs.

For example, I suggested to use gas and vehicle taxes to subsidize public transport to push people toward using mass transit options. Obviously as that transition occurs, prices on mass transit tickets will increase to stabilize demand, and the revenue burden will shift for a subsidy by car owners to mass transit riders paying for their tickets.

Since the transition will take a long time, laws and budgets will change to reflect the new norm.

To stephengillie's point (since I can't reply), fees for mass transit should not be viewed as revenue generators but as means to restrict demand for a limited supply. In other words, the price on mass transit should be as low as possible (even free) to attract as much usage as possible, only using the price to restrict demand when too many people are trying to use the system. I truely believe that this type of pricing model would push a LOT of people toward mass transit.

As an example, here in Denver, CO we have a light rail. It costs (for me) $4.50 each way to downtown Denver. I can find parking in downtown for as cheap as $5 (if I want to walk a bit) to $10. It literally takes long as costs just as much to ride light rail as to just drive. Where's the incentive? If the light rail were $1-$2 per ride, then hell yes I'd use it.
Can someone explain how this thing is different than an ordinary ring of like atoms (e.g., benzene) rotating in a magnetic field?

What experiment can I perform to distinguish a "space-time crystal" from a non-STC in ordinary peroidic motion?
I find your comment unfair and I am not even a MS user.

Usability is so much more about how it work, not just how it look.

All design systems will have some learning curve. A learning curve where you have to understand that everything a button is pretty close to being easy to learn.

So in my mind, the problem you seem to think there is is a pseudo problem. I.e. it's not actually a problem.

The Map is not the territory.
That guy's not a politician, he's a glorified MC. He might as well have been asking what pizza toppings they wanted- there's no actual political decision in that video. The DNC is a private organization. This is not a governmental election. It's roughly comparable to the Miss America pageant, or American Idol.

If this was on the floor of the Senate or something there'd be massive protests.
> if their core purpose is "search stuff"

As I said, they are the same tool only in the most superficial of senses. Is the purpose of this ubuntu thing even to grep input streams or files? Or did the submitter of this 'bug' actually mean to file a bug for slocate, mlocate, or find? Does it do both? These tools have completely different purposes and uses.

How about this for another reason though: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/gre... GNU is bad enough, having Ubuntu tack on whatever shit they feel is "user friendly" would turn the situation into a usability nightmare.

PS. Is this thing seriously called dash? If so, that is terrible. The name 'dash' is already taken... in the FOSS world... by Ubuntu's daddy distro Debian. Hell, Googling "ubuntu dash" returns first results for the proper dash. What the hell were they thinking?
Interesting. you're basically sort of taking the password part out of two-factor authentication.

(I know its not exactly that)
They're moving away from x86 - maybe. I remember Intel's XScale ARM processors were the best around at the time. But Apple without x86 = suicide...
Ridiculously underpriced when you compare it against any alternative other than "I am a hobbyist with infinite time, of course web design should be free."

An instructive question which was asked to me recently: "Who would be excluded from using this project if it cost [I'll fill in price points: $39 / $99 / $199 etc], is it in their best interests to use this, and do you seek their business?"
I believe it is not safe to bike there. There are also probably some areas that are dangerous/unpleasant to walk through.
> "the evolution of the religion that would come to be what we know today as Judaism is a fascinating topic"

Agreed -- but it's difficult to find legitimately evidence-based, scholarly works amidst the sea of speculation (secular and religious). Do you have any decent resources?
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Wow! Of all acquisitions to come out lately, this makes me most happy. Who needs seed money when you have the best product out there.

Congrats to Indeed and their whole team.
I have a huge business crush on Teenage Engineering, I think they have handled this situation extremely well. I don't know of any other company that has done this with their products.
"Brazil is the number 1 country in number of takedown requests to Google"

I had heard that too. It's not true. Of course, it's the US. And the US is ahead in the percent of requests complied with by Google (93%) which is the important thing.

Three sources:
http://www.care2.com/causes/us-makes-most-takedown-requests-...
http://searchengineland.com/most-censorship-and-content-take...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/king-of-takedown-requests-goog...
You are making a very strong assumption that scaling a 960px fixed width site to a viewport on a device is an optimal solution. It's fantastic I can see the entire site on my device in landscape mode; it's a tragedy that I have to double tap on a text block to make it readable.

Designers should be working to eliminate unnecessary and repetitive interactions that get in the way of accessing content.
Sure, and thanks. I'm not very well-read in economy but am working on it.

Do you have anything specific of theirs in mind?
Reviews are a great way for both reviewer and code author to learn, not just to check for correctness. If it were only that, the reviewer could probably go through the codebase and fix it faster (if it needed fixing).

Critically, both should understand that it's the code under review, not the author of the code, to avoid defense-mode and frame discussion as "here's a problem, here's one solution, let's see if we can do better together".
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Public transit fees should not be a means of restricting usage. Crowded public transit isn't a sign that the fees are too low, but that the capacity needs to be increase. Granted it's not always possible to increase capacity overnight, but it's the best way to scale transportation. Higher fees just means poorer people can move around less, while for richer people the car just got relatively cheaper compared to public transit.
Our trick was that once the cartridge was pushed down, you could slide it left and right a tiny bit into place until the pins lined up, then it would work.
It wouldn't let me start a new project, I assumed the 404 was related. Hitting the 'create' button did nothing.
The author doesn't know the price.

The acquisition price wasn't announced but you can bet it was for close to,
if not more than, $1 billion
You miss that it takes two to play, both the truck to carry off the cash and the cash to put into the truck. I don't doubt for a minute that there is a number that Google would say "Sure, ship our maps." but I'm reasonably certain now that Apple was unwilling to pay that number.

Google loses nothing by having iPhone maps suck, rather it gains a bit of PR ("look we can do Maps better than Apple, ha ha poopey face") and since Maps are a really critical part of the mobile experience it might pick up a few points of market share.
But why require someone to double tap on the text? On a blog like this, the primary action of the user is to read the article. It's bad user experience to require an extra unnecessary step to do the primary action.
> whatever time the system that got the insert

is the key part: if you want to know what order to apply changes in, you need every system to have fairly close time synchronization so you can apply changes in the correct order. NTP will get you enough precision for many applications but if you get enough updates to the same resources, you're certain to start getting differences which are smaller than the reliable accuracy of your system clock.

You can use other protocols - e.g. a CAS-style "change old-value to new-value" conditional update - but those have performance implications and require app support. Given that a GPS probably costs about an hour or two of engineer-time, trying to eke a little more precision out of the system clock seems like a potentially cheap win.
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I think you're looking at the wrong page. If you go to facebook.com while logged out, the "Log In" and "Sign Up" buttons use the technique described by the above poster.
Here in Washington (state), university students can get a 3-month bus pass for $100 at the time they pay tuition. The bus service is pretty good in parts of King County (around Seattle) but almost the entire state is inaccessible by public transportation. Part of the reason is population density: Germany has 229 people per square km, while Washington has just 39.6 people per square km -- outside of the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region, population density is about 1/2 of that. No buses because nobody lives out there.

Outside of cities, almost no roads have sidewalks and walking to the grocery store would be a several-mile journey being constantly passed by pedestrian-hating drivers.
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care to elaborate a little bit?
San Francisco is starting to get away from this, particularly in the fringe / expansion areas of the CBD in the South of Market and Mid-Market areas.

There's actually always been residential space close to downtown, but it's generally been either tremendously expensive (Telegraph Hill), or near-tenement conditions (Chinatown). Parking is extremely limited and expensive, if you do own a car. There's also an issue with out-of-town HNVIs purchasing condos in or near the CBD but spending very little time there (other major cosmopolitan metro areas have similar issues, notably London).
I just thought of this today. A NFC reader that works as an input device (eg. keyboard, barcode scanner, etc) when plugged into a computer.

Websites have "NFC login" enabled pages, where you can go to the page, and it will wait until your phone is wiped over the NFC reader attached to your computer.

On your phone, you have an app that you load up, choose the site you want to login to, and your are magically logged in.

It's a secure method of logging in, and it would basically use a hidden input field that is populated with a random hash that is created when you select the site you want to log into that talks back to the site via an API and registers that has in the user database as a valid NFC login token.
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I think a major problem would be one of the most-common use-cases: you're away from your PC, and want to access their site.

To do this, of course, you'd have to get an email sent to that machine. Then, you must login to your email on that same machine to get the PW, and thus the problem: now you have a much greater chance of leaving your email logged in on the 3rd-party machine. Whether it's a friend's laptop or a public terminal (library, airport, etc.) this is not a good thing whatsoever; all you needed to do was to login to a site to post a comment on some silly discussion board, and now you've left the keys to your kingdom in the open.

Further, if there are actual security issues with that box, say it's actively being MitM'd, keylogged, etc. well instead of simply gaining access to your silly forum account, now they will have access to your email.

I think I would flat-out refuse to use any service for these flaws.
He posted an extremely well researched, cited and thoughtful response. He did not resort to namecalling or logical fallacies. Your response is to call him names. Who is immature?
Of course the trains are crowded at rush hour - that's why it's called rush hour. However, it is nowhere near unbearable, and certainly not any worse, in my experience, than NYC. But there's one huge advantage over NYC - you don't have to worry about pickpockets, so you can relax while riding the train and take a nap, read a book, or play some games on your phone (which is what most of the commuters do).
Wow, great story! That said, I really wouldn't say that getting a $5 million round is bootstrapping..
"Email us and we’ll add you to the list." The words "Email us" are not a link or anything, so I'll need to seek out this information. This was posted to Tumblr with links available for following LayerVault's Tumblr blog, or visiting another post within the same blog announcing LayerVault 2's release. While the announcement post does have a link to email press@layervault.com, I'm not looking for press kits. At least this page actually contains the link for LayerVault.com.

Visiting LayerVault's website, there's no immediately apparent way to contact the company other than signing up or contacting support; the Support link can be found in the footer navigation. When going to the Support page, I see a partial phone number (but pixelated because only premium customers get to call, haha!) there is an actual email for support, but I don't want support.

Usually the About page will have some contact information, so let's check that out. I see Twitter handles for the two founders, and a picture of NYC.

Why do you guys invite people to email you, then make that process as difficult as possible?
> 3. Many of the neat tricks on Android require a rooted phone. Many neat tricks on iPhone require a jailbroken phone. Same idea. Again, not a barrier for hackers.

I don't think this is necessarily true. And even if it is, you can buy a phone that supports rooting out of the box if you want. Apple will never support jailbreaking.
I thought twice about putting $10 on here since I didn't want to promise anything, but I wanted feedback. Thank you for commenting Patrick (I half thought you would :)). I completely agree with you.
Fabulous work.
There's a reason key derivation functions like PBKDF2 and bcrypt still require a salt as an input.
Why don't people start some sort of Safe Streets or Neighborhood Watch program? Take Back The Night? If there are really so many productive people in the city, can't they at least travel together in groups for protection?

It sounds as if the entire city has this problem in common, but nobody is interested in solving it, and most people view it as their own personal issue.

Is it more dangerous to walk somewhere, or to be stuck in traffic with your large asset? If crime is so bad, why do people feel safer in cars, if the car is constantly stuck in traffic? What's to stop a criminal from going up to a stopped car and mugging/kidnapping the driver?
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This advice is only valid if the titled article gets to the front page.
Is "just might be" a measure of "truth"? Honestly I find that (unsourced) quote very hard to believe. There's zero manual floorplanning done on Ivy Bridge or Kepler? Really?
I like OS X 10.8 a lot better than say 10.5. Full-screen spaces is a killer feature for me.

At a developer level, OS X is now more accessible than it ever has been. Do you remember OS X 10.0, back when you could program the system in any language as long as it was Objective-C? Today you have multiple languages that are ABI-compatible with the Objective-C runtime. Isn't that a huge win? You have POSIX support that's better than it has ever been. You finally have thread-local variables. You've got a great toolchain in LLVM/LLDB/Clang that Apple has been bankrolling.

Mac is the development platform for iOS and Apple knows it needs to keep developers happy and the iOS apps flowing. It has nothing to gain from neutering Mac.
Another glaring issue: they make the assumption that email === webmail.

While this may be mostly true, the fact is that many still use POP email, and so what, you're to setup a POP account on whatever machine just so that you can access a website? Just let me remember my simple PW, thanks.
We did not, the landing page was built before we had Jetstrap working, but I've used it for some personal projects.
Kinda. The point was to push the contacts into position, so some of the force landed there, but I don't think the contacts were actually the fulcrum of the lever. Look at pictures 10 and 11.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/207891/inside_the_nes.html
Another interesting fact is that the NES was deliberately designed with the horizontal loading rather than the vertical one (as in the original Famicom) so it looked less like a videogame console, helping to dodge the stigma that consoles had after the Great Crash of 1983.
I agree taking the time to learn all the options in bootstrap is time consuming and this alleviates much of that via a nice UI, but would I pay for that, probably not.
Its only state is its very exotic looking ground state, at least compared to all the other ground states I can think of at this moment. So no manipulating the state because the definition of the thing is its a constant ground state.

There's a fun thermodynamic argument that does not fit in the margins of this hacker news explaining why you can not transmit information by lowering entropy on something already in its ground state.

As for transferring information in general, see "light cones". Going forwards you can't send info further away than the speed of light would reach, and going backwards there isn't much of a light cone...

This prevents information from being stored inside the system, but does not prevent the system from being used "in bulk" as information storage. Crude analogy is you could make a Turing machine where "mark" equals drop one of these crystals on the tape "space" equals wipe it off or flip it upside down or whatever. Or you could make essentially a punchcard by building a 10x10 array of them and smashing some of them in a pattern... theoretically the unsmashed ones would never ever decay, and the smashed ones are too complicated to spontaneously reform, so a large collection of them aligned in certain patterns would actually make a pretty decent ultra long term storage media.
He didn't say that public transit fees should be raised to restrict usage, just the opposite, in fact. He said that public transport should be subsidized by car registration fees. This means cars get more expensive for rich people and poor people can move around more.
There's always battery swap-out. The problem with that is infrastructure cost, though.

Seems to me that the Supercharger stations are getting the time down to 30 minutes through parallelism. If one could bring component costs down even more, one could have more parallelism. What about 15 or 10 minute charging times? I'm going to guess that plans are in place to exploit some serious economics of scale when they start building $30,000 cars.

Once you have autonomous cars, this opens up the possibility of "battery trucks" once can rendezvous with on the highway to recharge without stopping.
I rode my bicycle

I've always heard that the smog in Mexico City was so bad that bicycle trips could be measured in equivalent packs of cigarettes. Did you not find that to be the case?
What'd be wrong with an ARM-based Air? I don't really do anything on my Macbook that I need all that CPU horsepower for. I'd trade it in a second for 10+ hour battery life.
Set up a stripe account today. Ask people to donate an amount that they would pay assuming a monthly rate. Analyze their usage data and payment data to assist you in coming up with payment plans.
It's perfectly possible to use md5 to hash a password in Javascript before transmitting it by HTTP. There isn't a huge security benefit to doing so, however.
Open Graph - Will it do this?
I want all updates and photos where 2 or more people are tagged, to appear on a website.

Say John, Jane and Mark are all tagged in a photo - if they consent by installing my FB app, can I then display that photo on a site outside of FB (regardless of their privacy settings)
I get the feeling there was some weird support or security issue, because its removal is odd given the rest of their iCloud moves. I wish it was back too.

I often think Apple should have bought a source code control company or a document versioning company to get the expertise for making iCloud sing.
Why are people calling it the "maps fiasco"? I just installed iOS 6, and the new Maps app is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used.
Genuinely the saddest marketing stunt I've ever seen.
How do you know that you're going to rely on it if it's new?

I install something new. I kick the tires. It takes a long time until I decide I'm going to rely on it. I'll look at the log at some point, but not necessarily the first time I install something. There are better things to do at that point.