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> Since those running the meth clinics say that only one person in 50 can stay clean for a year, there might come a day when half of society are hardcore drug addicts

It would take me 10 minutes to get a bag of meth, yet I'm not addicted to meth. I have smoked weed every day for 3 years while maintaining a high GPA, getting three internships and a full time job.

Intervention is hardly much more "real" than any other reality TV, though I do enjoy watching it.

And I don't know what to tell you if you think prohibition is keeping half the populace off meth. As far as I'm concerned, that can go in the pile with "atheists must be evil since they don't fear God".

If you can't stay away from meth without prohibition, you're not going to stay away from meth with prohibition. If you can't behave properly without a scary Bible, you probably won't behave all that well with it either.
Apple finally gets its patent on a rectangle with rounded corners
Sent them an email..
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It's called user experience design.
I had some issues correctly biasing (selecting the divider) for the voltage divider circuit on a previous project, so this was just an experiment with a different technique. But that project had other issues (resistive load sensors that were out of their load range), and reading into it now I agree that the voltage divider should be just as fine. I glanced at the Steinhart-Hart equation, and i'll give a shot at implementing it when I try to calibrate the sensors, thanks! --Andrew (Terg.is)
Not only a rounded rectangle isn't narrow enough, but it is also an obvious shape for a tablet.
One of the many benefits of using a 24-hour clock (which is the default on the iOS alarm app in my country). Not that I'm disagreeing with you; I think that's a great solution on Android's part.
ROT13ed and fixed the link:

one minus derangements over permutations

see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derangement#Limit_of_ratio_of_...
Really should have modeled it at a Poisson distribution. The Normal/Gaussian distribution doesn't seem to model the information.
I'm not positive it is.

If you are in Canada and ask Siri for something like "where's the nearest coffee shop", in iOS 5 you get "I don't support that in Canada", but in iOS 6 you get the expected results.
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To say the ACA "wasn't terribly popular" is a huge understatement.

The amount of $$$ spent against "Obamacare" before and after its passing easily numbers in the hundreds of millions of dollars. "Obamacare" is/was considered a defamatory label. The president's Chieff of Staff essentially begged the president not to go through with it. 0.00000000000000000 Republicans ever went on board with it. The whole law wasn't even to go into effect until 2014. Presidents for how many decades have tried and failed to deliver health reform?

There was absolutely no short-term (or even near long-term) political gain to be found in pursuing the law. And if the law didn't pass, the president would be in a much weaker political position.

Even by passing it, the president knew the process would kill any remaining political capital he had left and also hand the House of Representatives to Republicans. That much was not rocket science.

What is amazing is that he chose to pursue it anyway. It's even more amazing that the law passed given all the political and entrenched forces against it.

So, to be clear, the ACA was emphatically not popular in any way. I still remember all the anti-Obamacare ads that showed up on Youtube videos. The law was villified to kingdom come and it would be a tragedy if that fact is forgetten.
> "For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…"

This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links).

Source:
http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...
Anecdotal really. The questions that have to be asked are how many casual users become addicts 1 in 10? 1 in 100? Of those addicts how many have life ruining consequences? Is there a way to be functional?

If you start from the worst, something like: "OMG every time you walk in a room with an illegal drug you'll be turning tricks on the street inside of a week", then yeah it seems pretty awful. But if only a minority of people have a problem and accept the risk of being an addict who's to stop them? Being an adult means responsibility.
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Unfortunate naming collision, For far too long I was wondering where EaselJS[1] came into the picture.

http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS
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That only helps with the AM/PM issue, not with the wrong day issue.
For a tablet, rounded rectangle seems to be the best shape in my opinion. Because you wouldn't want sharp corners if you want to be able to hold it comfortably.
The connection you're looking for is probably that generally where prohibition has been lifted, consumption has increased.
You're now outsourcing your users security to their cell phone provider.

Was it Twitter who had their domain hijacked by someone ringing up the right telco and saying something like "my cell pone is out of action temporarily, can you please forward all calls/messages to this other number?" in a sufficiently convincing fashion to some minimum wage telco support staff, then getting a two factor auth token sent to an attacker controlled number?

I think a lot of webdevs make assumptions about SMS "security" that are quite unfounded.
Let's just say he was... creative.
But you don't need to know the current date to know which one comes first. Well, unless the dates were in the past.
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This looks like a PR move, nobody knows their algorithm.
Similar situation to Google, what comes on top of the stream?
I mean you pay to manipulate it, so there is no neutrality to begin with.

The paid concept is flawed, think about it:

You follow 100 Sites/Friends nobody promotes their post.
Now everybody pays to promote their posts for the same amount.

Stream looks exactly the same.

So Facebook obviously hopes for a race to the top here where everybody pays more to stay up.
Great idea, it will depend on CPA in the end anyway. Seems way too expensive right now.
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I think that's a cynical way of looking at it (and I'm a pretty cynical guy). Some people are just lazy, but they're in the minority. I think most smart people will rise to the occasion, if they like their work and feel respected.

Most new grad students drift for a while until they find their internal ass-kicker. The job of the "manager" is to help them find the thing that lets them excel, then get out of the way.
I don't disagree, but if you run a site of any size you will quickly realize that users will do all sorts of crazy things against the best practices for security. One of the top (if not the top) search requests Google gets is "facebook login". What do you want to bet that a lot of those requests are coming from a shared computer?
agreed..i really want this to work, but just got mind-wtf'd when loading the page..
You have a point. Fuzzier dates are often better. Perhaps it's a space constraint.
They wanted financials and a valuation range? And then deep communications about technical challenges and workarounds? Reminds me that one of the nice things about owning a company is you can tell people to go away.
What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
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Too bad Siri simply doesn't work most of the time. At least half of my requests end in Siri responding with "I'm sorry, I can't process your request at this time". Useless, I just avoid it altogether.
>better, ... if ... also ... day of week

If I'm talking to robots after midnight, I don't know the date. This has been proven by scientists.
Don't confuse volume of attack with number of attackers.
This is great. Though the immediate crisis seems to have passed, I still have coworkers whose buildings have been rendered completely uninhabitable. Good on Airbnb for doing this.
>especially increased risk of psychotic symptoms [1]

AFAIK all studies on psychosis and marijuana have been cohort studies, which are essentially useless at determining the direction of causation. While the study you linked attempts to address the possibility of "reverse causality", it only addresses one specific hypothesis (self medication).

Let us repeat this to ourselves until we all remember: You cannot establish direction of causation with a cohort study.
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How about a response that says "we just googled that combination of email address and the md5 hash of that password, it's been listed in at least 7 different database disclosures, including the Gawker one, the Sony one, and 5 different pr0n site compromises. We suggest using a different password here."

;-)
Ha! I've been thinking about this pretty hard and talking to a colleague at work, and changed my mind. You're right... he's not making predictions, he's making forecasts. And you can't say that a forecast was "right" or "wrong" based on which side of the forecast any one result landed.

Assuming the n isn't just too small to say anything, the only two reasonable conclusions to choose between are a) in this set of events, the outcome in EVERY state happened to be from more likely side of the forecast, which together is unlikely, or b) Nate's forecasts are inaccurate, being skewed much more to the middle than they ought to be.

Also, "all over this thread" was just meant to imply that I noticed the same comment from you more than once. Sorry for not being more specific.
When I first saw the Siri Query, I was anticipating it would try to disambiguate A) remind me (to inflate my tires tomorrow) (at 9:00) vs. B) remind me (to inflate...) (tomorrow at 9:00). I guess I was overthinking it.
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"As long as its deniable" "no such thing as bad publicity"

Neither of those are actually true in politics. Any slip, any misstatement, any gaffe can be used multiple times in short soundbites. Bad publicity sinks campaigns and denials are not often heard. If you aren't well liked by the press expect the incident on page 1 and explanation to be buried in the home and garden section. Heck, look at all the total BS we have heard about birth certificates and Mormonism. People catch the soundbite and believe this crap.
These two comments very completely and eloquently sum up the problem. The divide between social and fiscal conservatism is something that gives the republican party the biggest disadvantage.
I still have no idea what a "Remember me" checkbox is when I encounter one. It certainly doesn't seem to be a "keep me logged in" function. I don't know if it has something to do with form autofill, because my browser seems to do that wether it is checked or not.

Can anyone demystify this for me?
Great point. I think Fried's example is a little confusing to us because we don't remember right now what days Oct 21 and 22 were. But in the context of the interaction it should be fairly clear that, "Oh, it's just after midnight, Siri's confused because I actually meant today not tomorrow." The actual dates (21 vs 22) wouldn't matter, the two days Siri is trying to choose between is obvious in the moment.
It seems there was a concerted effort to take over the meetup.com group where the hijacker joined with two profiles in two steps with a clear intent of a hostile takeover.

First they joined with one (profile X) to listen in, then a second (profile Y) with the same name when the group was about to expire. Then profile Y "stepped up" to take over the group and delegated org status to profile X too.

They then later removed profile X completely, leaving only Y (all the time profile X and Y identically named, identically looking) as the organizer.

The timing of the events as observed seem to support this thesis.

(Update). Doing some testing, we also found it quite easy to find expiring meetup.com groups in public, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+Meetup+no+longer+has...
Sure, but apple's rounded corners are much larger than safety smoothing. Somebody likes those curves too much.
"Ouch, Ruby! You need some aloe for that burn?"
It seems like every language/framework should be able to handle 1.5 billion queries per day without problems. Otherwise it sucks, right?
My understanding of the bleed valves is that they are normally open devices which close when heated. The cycle goes something like this:

at rest: radiator full of air, valve open

steam begins flowing: steam is displacing air from radiator, bleed valve begins heating up

bleed valve closes: radiator is now full of steam, some of which condenses and ideally runs back down pipe, if your building hasn't shifted too much over the years. any condensed steam is replaced with new steam from pipe

boiler stops: steam is no longer coming up the pipe. As the steam in the radiator condenses we suck air back in through the bleed valve. radiator is cooling.

bleed valve opens: at some point the radiator cools enough that the bleed valve opens. We are now ready to begin the cycle again.

Additionally, I think there is a time delay component in the bleed valve to let it get the air good and purged before it closes.
Erm, those cases were directly about federal jurisdiction over controlled substances within state lines. Quoth Wikipedia:

"Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, the United States Congress may criminalize the production and use of home-grown cannabis even where states approve its use for medicinal purposes."

Not much need for interpretation there.
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I don't really think that the colors are working out that well. I'm having a hard time imagining the continuum of colors between red and blue. Mapping the variable (percentage of votes for either party) to saturation or brightness of a certain hue would be more straightforward and intuitive. Although, it would make for a pretty lousy political statement as compared to purple :)

Another way to make the two basic colors more interesting could be the delta between the state and 50% and mapping it to saturation in both directions, i.e. CA dark blue, OH light blue, UT darker red… but I'm pretty sure some news outlets already did that.
So what exactly would you expect a design patent for the iPad to look like?
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I don't think a tutorial would help. The feeling is similar is that of being thrown into Photoshop. Here's a couple initial thoughts after playing for 30 minutes:

1. Not sure what monitor size you are using, but the right menu blends with the editing area. Would be nice to add a shadow to give me clarity on the division of the right menu.

2. Resize handles on a lot of objects yet I can't resize them.

3. Clicking on the items on the left menu for a preview throws me off. Makes me think that the descriptions are options eg. Page Heading (I tried to drag some of them out a few times).

4. How do I zoom out?

I guess in the context of a Bootstrap toolkit, less is more. I just want to be able to drag stuff and have it all "work". I don't really care about the extra options because the padding, typography, is already taken care of with Bootstrap. That being said I'd want Advanced features to be opt-in.

My 2c.
I don't mean to be rude, but you clearly don't understand this subject. Databases leak, not least of all due to human errors. Half the effort in computer security goes to preventing the leaks, and the other half goes to mitigating the consequences of such leaks. Hashing the passwords, salting the hashes, the entire md5/sha/pbkdf/bcrypt/scrypt debacle, all of these things are there only to mitigate the consequences of a database leak that is presumed to happen at some time in the future.
Our product is just a REST API, so you could use it with anything. We have been building out integrations with shopping carts but I think Gumroad would be a perfect application for it.
What a horrific colour scheme. You want colours that contrast well; a red-green gradient would be much better. A "neutral" state would then be an easy to discern shade of brown.
You could at least explain the basics behind how the device works rather than making us type in a url. As it is, I have no interest in looking into your friend's product.
OSI is what I learned in school an age-and-a-half ago, that's why I included that link also. :)
The app is beautifully simple. Good job.
Looks great! Make your free plan a little bigger though.
This looks great! Wish I'd had it when I used Bootstrap for my photography site http://philipmorganphotography.com
I'm a bit hesitant to click through. What will I get when I sign up? Will it cost me anything now or later? Can I bring my own domain? Is there anything I can bring my domain to? And first of all, why is it any better than my favorite text editor that has no need to connect to the internet, no browsers, no URLs and no accounts to connect. Sounds like a good niche product, though.
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All of a sudden Battlestar Galactica paper makes sense.
"Basically if you never click, Like, comment, or share posts by a Page, Facebook made that Page less likely to show up in your feed. Cathcart says “That’s a relatively large change. It resulted in a large decrease in spam reports”, meaning it succesfully made the Facebook news feed better."

Following that logic I know a really good way to make the news feed even 'better': don't show any page updates ever. Or even any updates at all.
The late attempts to to throw campaigning and advertising into states late Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (which, by the now-known-to-be-correct polls, were basically unwinnable) are probably the best evidence. There's also the more squishy testimony of journalists and pundits, who reported on genuine surprise coming from the senior Romney people about the exit polls. Karl Rove's freakout on FOX last night probably also counts.

None of that proves anything. But I think the burden of proof really goes the other way: the Obama campaign clearly seems to have played the moneyball correctly here. If Romney's folks knew they were going to lose, you'd have to show that.

And I don't know how to interpret "Romney really could have won this, had things gone a little differently". If you're talking about polling could have been different had he been winning, then of course: we'd be having the same argument in reverse. Though again, the evidence seems to say that Obama would still have outperformed the popular vote margin and thus have still been running a better data-driven campaign.

If you're saying that the data suggested by the end-campaign polls could have supported a Romney win, then no: that's just wrong, as evidenced by the discussion we're having. That kind of thinking is exactly the kind of "faith-based" notion that the Romney campaign is accused of relying on. The data showed a clear Obama victory. The data was right. Period.
That's how politics has always worked at the city scale and lower. Now it's happening on the national scale, using polling and computers to gather and analyze the data, instead of using party members to gather data face-to-face and a party organization to collate and understand it.
There are no 64-bit binaries. Steam is a 32-bit program. Frankly, porting it to 64-bits is pretty low on the priority list right now.
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Well yeah, but being pro-Romney in a strong red state, or pro-Obama in a strong blue state, your vote still doesn't mean anything. The question is whether the "don't bother voting he's going to win anyway" effect is stronger than the "don't bother voting he's going to lose anyway" one.
Pretty awesome app. The interface is a little confusing and it's annoying to see a welcome note on every visit.

Consider adding tips to give new users a quick overview of how it works? Something like what tutorialize.me offers would be really useful. (I'm a co-founder of tutorialize.me).
Seriously, I don't know why exactly but this stuff makes me feel like a dirty utopian hippie despite all the steely-eyed "realist" devil's advocate posturing people can summon.

I only wish FirefoxOS devices were around to have been considered for our retarded "give every child a tablet" program that's underway in Turkey, especially given the rumors that Mozilla is shooting for the cheap end of the market. As expected, the tablets for the program are being marketed as a toy.
I believe you are mistaken in this case. The technical paper, linked from the article, will explain better then I can:
http://www.suttonfruit.com/pics/urea_electrolysis.pdf
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Presuming you're using session cookies, Persona is no less secure than any other reasonable authentication system when used without SSL.

It also has the nice property that what Persona transmits over the wire -- the proof of identity -- is only valid for 120 seconds. Sniffing it in real time would temporarily allow you to masquerade as another user on that specific site, but any sort of delay and you're locked out.

This is a huge improvement over, say, transmitting passwords, which could grant access to an account for months or years.
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Can someone shed some light on how these Redis hosts enforce security?

This http://redis.io/topics/security seems to indicate you have to make sure you're in a safe zone to use Redis.

Since the consumers of Redis are in Heroku (or similar), it seems that you have little options to restrict the access properly (note that I'm not a security expert!).

I'd love to use Redis with DotCloud or Heroku but I'm fairly concerned after reading the documentation, and so far I avoided it outside closed LAN setups.

Thanks to anyone able to provide some insights on this!
It looks cool and I'd totally use something like that, but the demo page has too many stuff on it which kinda scared me away.
Regardless of how successful this is, I wonder if this goodwill move will sweeten the city toward Airbnb when the inevitable fight with the city's hoteliers arise.
Yes, my comment was a bit harsh, but that's the gist of my opinion, sometimes blunt comments make for better discussion than candy-coated ones. Plus I'm a little annoyed by promotional posts on HN...