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Apple rejects iOS 6 update from Google-owned Sparrow email client app
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offensive bullshit. my partner is a prof. she works her fucking heart out trying to help her students.

downvote all you like, you ignorant fools (so ready with a cheap piece of cynicism). everyone i know cares deeply about their students. they're like surrogate kids.
Looks good. One thing to mention: the demo page at http://demo.strapfolio.com/ does not render the stylesheets correctly in IE8.
They're actually not great from that perspective: when you count the portion of tuition that professors are expected to pay (at least at U.S. institutions), PhD students aren't any cheaper than postdocs, and typically less productive / require more hand-holding.

Now postdocs, there's a deal: accomplished researcher who already has several degrees in the field and knows how to write papers and conduct experiments, available for ~$45-50k.
Ask HN: E-mail providers other than Google Apps?
Our company currently hosts about 100 clients on a cPanel/WHM setup.

Due to challenges in regard to spam and security, we want to get our clients' e-mail accounts off of our server an onto a dedicated e-mail hosting service. Some of our clients already use Google Apps for Mail and it works well for them, however, I am wondering if there is a solution that would make the transfer of e-mail accounts from our server easier than Google Apps seems to allow.

Any recommendations for a good IMAP-based e-mail hosting service?
UI Library: effective approach for interface components. Preface.
Debug Sass & Less in Webkit Inspector And Save CSS Changes
yes, that's what i meant.

great v 1.0 man! keep iterating on it, and start collecting emails and talk to users/customers to get a feel of what they need

you're doing great!
Apple ordered to pay $368 million in FaceTime patent case
This has absolutely no basis in fact.
How does bordeom theory explain the tool use of other bird species and other primates in the wild?
Finally Real-time Objective-C code injection
They aren't independent. The developer of the 512 paths to the White House lamented this in getting conditional probabilities into the path choices. The simulations take into account the national popular vote polls and similar-state demographics (if one state goes one way, it's more likely that a similar one will, too).

Look at his EV histogram; 332 EVs had the highest probability of occurrence at nearly 20%. While there are other ways to get to 332, I'd imagine most of that percentage is from a map like last night. That's clearly not the partial probability of each state multiplied together.
Ahh that's Philly for ya:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/06/judge-issuing-ord...

Unfortunately, it happens everywhere and from both sides.
Too bad "Concepts" did not make it into the standard. Would help avoid the tons of unintelligible error messages one gets when using template functions incorrectly.

Given that C++ libraries are getting so complex (now with move semantics!) there is no way a library user can understand why something does not work as expected. Especially when dealing with sophisticated libraries: Boost, Eigen, etc.
This just sets up the browser to use a proxy,50.116.59.63 port 80, for those websites.
Evolving Game Design - The Burning Crusade revisited
The Early History Of Smalltalk
I have owned a small Myers Parrot for about ten years.

He is very clever in understanding his environment. Once he raised one wing over his head and lowered the other wing to make his shoulders narrow enough to walk between two obstacles. He also has a strange desire to explore dark closets - odd since he has poor night vision.

I advise against anyone buying a Parrot unless they have a lot of free time. A Parrot will thrive in captivity if he has a lot (a lot!) of attention, otherwise Parrots in captivity will be miserable. For example, my wife and I need to keep our bird in the same room where we are hanging out - it does not do at all to leave a Parrot by themselves and we only do so when we go out to some social event. When we travel I hire a bird specialist to care for him. I have mostly been retired for a long time, so he is a good pet for me.
Yes and I know it will not work well in mobile devices. As of now, this theme supports only desktop and tablets. I will try to add some responsiveness if possible.
Had we used a popular voting system rather than electoral college system, this system would have been expanded to every state in the nation, and Obama would likely have won by a far wider margin than he did.

Again, this system was about identifying impressionable voters and marketing to them properly. The location of swing states is simple and public information, not proprietary.
I love specialized task-oriented marketplaces like this and hope several of these take off.

The only other that I'm aware of at the moment is Tweaky.com.

Tweaky appears to focus on front-end development while I see a back-end task or two at Bountify.co.

Another difference is the minimum price. Tweaky is at $39 and Bountify is at $1.

Are there other big differences between the two?

I would hesitate to jump into a marketplace with low minimum prices because I have been groomed to 'get what I pay for' with development. It's hard to imagine that $39 is sufficient for a lot of tasks let alone $1.

As a person currently in the market for developers:

Finding a front-end rock star went well although it was slow going. We filled that position within a couple months and have asked that developer to source to Tweaky (and to check out Bountify) for spillover until/if/when we need to hire another person in-house. Our in-house developer would audit/implement changes coming from Tweaky/Bountify.

Finding a back-end/systems engineer rock star is turning out to be a bigger challenge for us and at this moment I would find a lot of value in a verified systems engineering marketplace to source work to. I find Bountify appealing in that sense although I would wait for a high quality validation procedure before sourcing systems work to a 3rd party. Even then, I would only allow access to a test environment with a requirement for instructions on rolling the changes live so I could bring in somebody who has worked closely with me to audit and implement that solution.

The bottom line for me: I am very much in favor of this type of specialized marketplace and am glad to see Bountify.co enter the arena.
The Right to Tinker and Make Stuff
Probably the hardest lesson from grad school was learning that my adviser wasn't always right. Learning to push back against what he said made me a much better scientist.
and turned out to be exactly correct in every meaningful way.

Silver himself wouldn't call his predictions correct.

He was not making thumbs-up v thumbs-down predictions. When he said "60% chance of Obama winning this state," it means that 6 times out of 10 Obama would win and 4 times out of 10 Romney would win. If Obama won all 10 times, by his own account he would be wrong.
1) Yes, we should carefully consider every aspect of prohibition and analyse how we can set policy to bring levels of harm down to an absolute minimum. If this includes decrim of everything, we shouldn't balk at it but follow best available evidence.

This is not easy. For example, is it acceptable to decriminalise and prescribe heroin for addicts if the results are (hypothetically):
- increase in the number of heroin addicts by 50% due to easier availability
- decrease in 95% of deaths due to heroin and heroin-related HIV due to clean needles, known doses, no impurities etc
- eliminate 95% of the acquisitive crime by these addicts as nobody steals for a fix any more

I would say yes. But it's a hard sell at the political level, particularly when western society seems to regard addiction as a moral failure and a sin in need of punishment. I find it particularly perverse that when you explain to people that providing a fix and (hopefully) a slow, easy, managed detox program for these people is not only more humane but likely to save insane amounts of tax money AND cut violent crime, some folks are still against it because 'they broke the law!'

2) If the popular and less harmful drugs (weed, E/X , probably a few others like LSD) are legalised and made available then the available customer base and cash for the criminal gangs shrinks massively. Nobody expects them to go home to mommy and start an honest career but if you cut the cashflow, you cut the ability of the gangs to function, and you cut the number of people coming in because it's less attractive.

Surely you can't think that cutting off a lucrative revenue stream from the cartels is a bad thing?

3) Drugs really aren't as dangerous as you've been told. Read a real book on them sometime. I recommend 'Drugs: Without the hot air' by Professor David Nutt, one of the UK's foremost scientists in this area.
For Apple, ‘it’s all downhill from here’
Here's the discussion from yesterday about the article Marco linked to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4750276
MountainJS - JavaScript conference in the Swiss Alps
Haven't tested, but this says the opposite:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-chat-launches-xmpp...
"Had we used a popular voting system rather than electoral college system....Obama would likely have won by a far wider margin than he did."

That is quite debatable. There is no way of knowing how many people simply don't show up to the polls because they live in a state that leans heavily toward the opposition and therefore know their vote will have exactly zero effect on the election.
Don't let SDN just be Security Defined Networking
Thanks a lot. I fixed that alert message. I forgot to remove it before uploading my files to server. You don't need to create any plugin. Also, you don't need to install any plugin by yourself except contact form 7 plugin (a 3rd party plugin). All you need to do is to copy/paste some static HTML in wordpress pages. I'm looking to provide a content import file for this in next version.

I was struggling with adjusting the screenshot image size when I used bootstrap responsive features on main site. It was looking ugly and I wasn't having much free time. So, I used the default 960px fixed layout.
Excellent John Stewart segment on the issue of voting fraud and these voter ID laws. For the most part, not a single example of fraud was found, so it's hard to justify laws that disenfranchise large segments of society.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/jon-stewart-slams-v...
The truth is that there is a lot of variability between PIs and their students. Some see them as lab techs/free labor, others see them as their family. I"m currently sitting in my lab and experiencing both, one PI is really interested in their students/post-docs lives, has parties for their students, and has a close knit group, whereas the other has the polar opposite. Care to guess which lab is more successful?

In regards to the article, yes. It hits all of the points that all grad students should understand. Especially the social part, which tends to be difficult when PhDs are known to be socially awkward. Hence Beer :D.

Re:Delirium, in my experience (Biology) Professors don't pay for their students tuition. That should be covered by the department for 3-5 years.
The true resolution of the 13" rMBP is 2560×1600, 15" rMBP is 2880×1800.

That means even if you are getting a scaled down resolution of 1440×900, the real resolution of the display is still obscenely high. Everything is MUCH sharper than on the regular displays. The fonts are gorgeous.

I own a 15" rMBP. I can change the scaled resolution to 1680×1050 or 1920×1200, without loss of details. Seriously, there is no fuzziness or anything sort of BS like that. I think Marco needs glasses.

One problem with this laptop is with non-retina ready apps and some websites. Since the display is at such a high resolution, smaller images will appear a bit blurry (because of the upscaling algorithms), but its really not that bad. Non-retina ready apps will look pixelated, and it sucks. But most popular apps are retina-ready, so again, it's not a big problem.

Another problem is because you are rendering stuff at such a high resolution, there may be performance issues in some apps. Most of them were optimized for this (e.g. sublime text 2).
Offtopic: Which external monitor do you use?

I'm thinking of getting the 27" Apple one, but waiting to see if they would release a retina-resolution anytime soon.
Philly turnout in 2008 was around 60% of registered voters, and seems to be roughly the same this year.

There is a lot of conspiracy theory going around, but not much solid evidence of irregular voting outside noise levels. Especially true because of how closely the outcome matched polls: it seems unlikely that these mythical ballot-stuffers were also able to somehow rig all the telephone polls over the past few months, so that the eventual results would match.
We haven't made it legal, just decriminalized consumption.
Another one that's been around for a while is http://www.wpquestions.com/ (and they actually have a network of sites now - see sidebar)
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Even more important is that the system is in place -- already in production, tested, and battle-hardened -- and it is in the hands of Democrats.

The smart Republicans will take this to heart and turn their attention towards the 'quants and coders,' and the smart quants and coders will be looking to be employed by them.
Beginnings of Bionic
I'm guessing -- and this is purely a guess (ie I haven't read the law) -- that the 1oz limit is likely per transaction / per visit. Just like when a supermarket says "limit 5 per customer" for an item on sale. If you REALLY want more you can go back later/tomorrow/etc.

This was likely put in the language of the law to emphasize that this is for personal use and not for commercial distribution.
If you're not going to use the screen then it's probably not worth the premium over the MacBook Air for you. However, the rMBP does have other advantages over the Air, namely faster processors and two Thunderbolt ports instead of the Air's one.
Nevermind that Obama has never expressed any interest in marijuana legalization and has even gone against his own promises in regards to prosecution. But feel free to keep projecting 'progressive values' onto him that aren't there.
A similar profile from Mother Jones pre-election: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-obam...
Not going to happen any time soon - the GPU power needed (esp from a laptop) is a few years off I think.

Dont get the Apple display - just get a Korean knock off with the same panel for a quarter of the price...
Is Upstart the right way to get college student start-ups funded?
Windows 8 OEM: Consumer Beware
Ask HN: Which mobile framework do you use with PhoneGap?
I recently finished a PhoneGap project using some very simple Backbone + jQuery Mobile. I figured that was the defacto stack, but it had some major performance issues - especially on older Android devices. Searching around, I found others had similar complaints. TMK, much of the performance problems came from jQuery - a dependency of jQM, and which can't be swapped with Zepto when using jQM.

Anyway - I'm not complaining, it helped me prototype fast and it was fine on newer devices; if that's what people recommend, I'll stick to it. But I'm wondering what other people's experiences are here. I see a handful of alternative popular mobile frameworks like:

* jQTouch
* Sencha Touch
* jqMobi

Then there's always home-growing your own framework for handling native-ish look-and-feel plus animations, which TMK was LinkedIn's approach. Thoughts?
> There will be several FDA approved medicines made from marijuana extracts and specific cannabinoids on the market

There already are a number of FDA approved medicine made from marijuana: Marinol, Cesamet, Sativex. You think we need more?
Is there an element in this of the fact that if you looked at with any degree of sophistication it wasn't actually as close as some made out?

Pundits and the media gain from the narrative that it was on a knife edge because it keeps people coming back for more, but in reality Romney never really picked up, let alone sustained, the sort of position in the swing states that would have led to a win. It was never comfortable for Obama and Romney wasn't out of it but the idea it was neck and neck was fairly dramatically over stated.

Not undermining what Silver did but it seems to me that the same pundits who spoke out against him made him look more impressive than it was by claiming the race was closer than it was.
I remember seeing that the UK gave visa preferences to people with MBAs from certain top american schools. I wish there was something equivalent in the US for technical people (e.g. people with a masters/PhD from a top 20 non-us school). There are current solutions but none support someone doing a startup.
ok so reality check...

Philly county has 644,768 total votes currently with close to 100% reporting.

10% rather than 8% of that total is (generously) 65,000

Current lead for Obama in PA? 284,000 votes

So even if we amplify your 8% claim to 10% and over-round it is still not even close to making a difference.

Also if you are going to make claims about such contentious things it would be nice to cite some source.

My numbers above come from google's election results site

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results
(2) surely isn't a bug; if you have two subsets of contacts that you want to keep entirely separate why use a single account?
Why would you need a different voter targeting system/strategy for a popular vote? The goal is the same - convince people that would support you anyway but are not probable to go vote to actually get to the polls.

In fact, seems like this system worked just fine anyway - they won the popular vote as well.
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Why is a roadblock to higher taxes bad? As long as the current tax % is sufficient, I don't see why that % shouldn't be sustained indefinitely.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3217

Chances aren't looking too good.
I just did. It's useless for Python; requirements.txt isn't what PyPI uses.
CloudyScripts.com (pile of handy tools for AWS)
Great review of Slicing Pie
AppFog hits 100k apps deployed
The war
I think the Messenger client for Android launch as late as August this year, and to very little fanfare. At least Skype has established mobile clients. It's strange how Microsoft let the strong MSN Messenger brand slip.
Android SMS Spoofer
Proof of Concept app which takes advantage of Android's SmsReceiverService being exported to fake an incoming SMS with no permissions.<p>On 2012-10-30 NCSU notified Google about a "Smishing" vulnerability (1) in Android. The vulnerability appears to be due to Android exporting SmsReceiverService in the com.android.mms app with no apparent restrictions. A third party app can therefore pass an explicit Intent to the SMS app containing a fake SMS message and the SMS app will process it.<p>This issue has been known about and used for some time (2,3,4) by test apps and apps designed to intercept, alter and pass on SMS messages. NCSU were the first to publically highlight the security vulnerability that arises from this functionality, namely that a user can be tricked into taking action on a faked SMS message.<p>This PoC app simply wraps existing code already made public so that the issue can be validated and countermeasures designed while users wait for the patch.
Apple Is Pushing Developers Out Of Its Ecosystem
I'm handing over my thesis in less than one month. In fact, most of my friends and colleagues think of grad school as a sort of institutionalized enslavement.
On the contrary, I find my PhD years have been a good school of entrepreneurship. Among other things, they taught me how to fail fast and come back stronger, how big institutions work, and how people behave and trust other people in productive relationships and partnerships.
As an Italian moving to SF in order to develop my MVP and incorporate my startup, I can truthfully state I would have never been able to figure out this was my path, let alone to find the right attitude, confidence, and determination to follow it, without my PhD years.
Yeah, lots of VPN services let you do this. However, it becomes hard to do at scale because some of the services like Netflix, Hulu, etc. work to actively block IP addresses that represent anonymous proxies/VPNs[1]. For example, I was unable to use my WiTopia account to use Hulu.jp. Instead, I had to register for a separate VPN account on StrongVPN. Even then, one of their Tokyo-based tunnel end points worked, and the other didn't. That's because Hulu works actively to detect these servers and blocks access to them.[2]

I imagine this will be even harder to scale since the only thing people will be using the VPN's outward facing IP for is connecting to these services, as opposed to the mixed usage traffic the other VPN providers see.

[1] http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/159360,picking-the-perfec...

[2] http://www.hulu.com/support/article/243651
>"Which means that finding a single individual who can coherently represent all of them is basically impossible."

And by the time the Republican nomination was over, the strength of the social conservatives had dragged the rhetoric so far right that it was difficult for Romney to get back to the centre for the election.
Server-side Crossfilter on node.js
Do you need webmail for day to day use, or will they use a real email client?
I'm confused on how the point about fundraising is relevant to your other points.
The Thunderbolt display is expensive, but it also has a lot more than just the panel - it has a webcam, speakers, USB, firewire, ethernet, and a MagSafe connector to charge a MacBook, not to mention that gorgeous aluminum and glass body. Worth $999? Maybe not, but it's definitely not equivalent to a Korean display off eBay.
How to deploy Ametys CMS to the Cloud
And spiders can craft incredibly complicated webs.

However there is a big difference between something that you have wired into your instinct by thousands of years of evolution (such as nests and spider webs) and coming up with new tools in order to adapt to a novel environment.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056310
Requiring all government agencies to have an API was a good start. Definite win for openness.
Quarter? really? could you link me?
The algorithm itself seems very simple. The paper quotes "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data". The surprising thing is the simple algorithm works great given large data.
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3 Fox News Stats That Doom the Republican Party (as we know it)
You know Gmail ignores dots in usernames?

> anuj (dot) kk (at) gmail (dot) com

This is a bit hard on the eyes so try it as anujkk (at) gmail (dot) com. Also, Gmail has good spam filters :)
Also in Europe; in Spain and the Netherlands you can still find quite a few of them even now. I don't think MS designed the hardware though; they made the MSX Basic (which I like and program for fun still), but the specs where by ASCII corp Japan and where 'interpreted' within the confines of the standard by the mostly Japanese MSX creators (like Sony, Hitachi, Sharp etc). I'm not 100% sure but I cannot find any information about MS actually working on the hardware themselves although being in the standards body.
A related tip: for non-retina ready apps, going to properties (Cmd+i) in Finder and checking Open in Low Resolution can help a lot.
Obama Won With Michael Dukakis' Share of the White Vote
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How Obama Won Re-election (D3.js animated vector map)