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There are a surprising number of folks in the metro who do bicycle on even the most brutal winter days. Typically armament includes studded tires and with a "cabin" it would greatly cut down on the chill from the wind. If anything, I think it would make cycling in colder weather more accessible to more people. Also, keeping the battery indoors before going on a ride helps prevent the "sag" in voltage experience when a battery does get cold. It could also be kept in an insulated container and even heated with a heating element similar to an electric blanket.
>George Williams • 2 hours ago

>Could be the median age has climbed since 1970.
Technically we _are_ giving our consent by using the service. In fact, we already agreed to the current terms, which state "We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time." It's not even a classic bait-and-switch. It's clearly stated in the contract we all signed up for.

I agree that it's sort of uncool on Instagram's part, but as fellow app developers, shouldn't we also be siding with Instagram for their right to protect the interest of their product?

I hate to be the guy that points this out, but it's an important distinction.
When did non-government sponsored benefits equate to no health care at all?...especially if you're making over half a million dollars per year.
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Wouldn't racial stereotypes put metal detectors in predominantly white middle class schools?
"Why won't they"

Because Instagram can make whatever TOS they feel is necessary when they are interacting with your data.

You are using Instagram's servers and products display data. Therefore they can, essentially, do whatever they want with said data if you agrees to their TOS. Why do people still feel they have some recourse when you are volunteering your data to a private company in a public domain?
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If you're inquiring what is Solavei information about, then you certainly ought to understand this kind of educational review. Going through incredible increase, this company will make plenty of cellular telephone customers very happy and lots of men and women big money!
That's true! Of course I can't actually win, unless I throw some money to a certain somebody (kidding). Maybe I'll see if they want it as a submission.
Consider a pizza sliced into six pieces. Each piece touches only their neighbor on each side, so you can color them alternately red and blue. Now suppose someone carved an island in the middle around an olive that no one wants. That touches all six, but can still be colored green, so we use only three colors in total, despite the middle "region" having six neighbors.
I think what we're actually seeing is users declare that the value that Instagram provides them is not worth a perpetual and transferable commercial license for all photos taken, past and present.
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The number one comment is a joke about how worthless the site is?

One of the scrolls says "A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own mind."
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Bad analogy, since the government that invested in my healthcare and education when I was growing up hasn't asked for a dime of my money. (Who knows - maybe they should.)

I do get the point you're trying to make, but no matter how you feel about taxes intellectually, I don't think anyone ever says "awesome, I get to write a very large check to the government" before they've reached the threshold where they have enough money to do whatever they want.

I find it really interesting that back when I was a poor grad student, the small amount of money I paid in taxes would've made a much bigger difference in my standard of living than the large amount of taxes I've had to pay in one of my good years. Because of this, you'd think the small amount of money I paid when I was poor would be much more painful to pay, since it could've meant the difference between (say) living in a garret or a decent place. But that wasn't the case.

Psychologically, at least for me, the absolute dollar amount seems to matter a great deal, and so does the absolute dollar amount others are paying. I don't think I'm a freakish psychological outlier, so perhaps this provides some insight into others as well.
Also Eureka, Leverage, and some others that I can't recall right now. He's still a pretty active actor as well as author.
Learning about the basis of logistic regression in Ng's Stanford class was eye-opening. Also like that he then motivated generalized linear models, and why they're nice (e.g., parameters are linear with input data; the maximum-likelihood hypothesis is the expectation of the sufficient statistic) and he explains why we see the logistic function in so many damn places (it's the response function whenever y|x is distributed as an exponential family).
That's precisely correct. Forcing Facebook to accept pseudonymous users represents a fundamental change in the nature of the service. Facebook can and should suspend service in Germany. It's unfair to users from other countries to have a bunch of anonymous idiots spouting off.
I'm skeptical about the maturity level of "smell" related technology. It's been around the corner for some time now, but making it work in non-laboratory settings seems to be really hard.

I observed development of a hazardous-gas monitoring system that used a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer, and the calibration and uniformity proved to be a real problem. And the final unit was rather heavy (many kg), large, and power-hungry. This would make it hard to deploy into regular homes, as seems to be shown in the video.
Why Did Nancy Lanza Love Guns? Probably for the same reasons I did. Until now.
Because hormone imbalance is the primary reason for why some people are fat and some aren't, being the reason for why type 2 diabetics can die of hunger while still being overweight.

Do some reading on the subject dude.
If the human knows the foreign language, then sure. If not, then I'm not certain you would get any results that make enough sense to deem it a pass or a failure. (And the computer almost certainly would not be programmed to respond to unexpected language input either.)

"1" by itself isn't a question. Neither a human nor a computer could usefully answer "1" without being told the context in some way. A human might tell you this over the Turing test teletype, but so might a computer! If the question is stupid or senseless, I don't think you're going to get useful results.

One possible twist with "1" could be some sort of pattern recognition, which could arguably be evidence in favor of intelligence, but I don't think that was really the intent of the Turing test.

In any case, if you as the interrogator violate the expectations of the Turing test, you could very likely brute-force your way into determining which candidate was human and which was a computer, but I think that violates the spirit of the test.
One could watch the traffic when posting a photo.
I live in Edinburgh, it was a hardware store, it was a set of screwdrivers. It's the only hardware store within 2 miles accessible on foot (most people walk to shops here).
What are the consequences of your preferred approach for legacy code? While there are certainly disadvantages of duplicating APIs in terms of cruft, I think that many customers appreciate that old code continues to run (and compile) against newer versions of the OS.
Depends on the jurisdiction I suppose. In Austria, and I believe also Germany and maybe Switzerland, I do have a "right to my own image". That means I'm allowed to control the publication and use of an image if me, with some exceptions (i.e., if I'm not the main motive of the image but just a member of a crowd).
Easy stack provisioning with puppet+Razor
This is not a new project, but allows for puppet along with some very basic API commands to support deployment and provisioning of any hardware with a BMC card.
"...will not be able to sign up for Instagram later with the same account name" - I wonder why?...
I'd come here to mention the abstraction aspect. This idea is probably the least discussed when talking about cars/power, and we tend to veer towards other specific fuels.

"Oh, electric cars are no good - we need hydrogen cars!" Or something like that. Who's saying that? Seemed to be energy companies, but it's IIRC. Electric cars allow for any energy source to be used (as well as multiple), in the generation of the electricity. I suspect a lot of people don't want that flexibility/freedom, and would instead prefer to lock down a few more generations of drivers to one specific type of fuel, even if it's not gas.
What do you want to know specifically? I've done it for 8+ years over at http://www.learnitfirst.com/. I probably suck at it - I know others could've done "more" with it. But it has been a journey and I've learned a lot.
What people don't seem to realize is that ammunition is simple to manufacture at home with untraceable materials.

Lead bullets? Go down to the auto shop and ask for a stack of their discarded wheel balancing weights. Take them home, melt them down, and pour the molten lead into home-made dies.

Casings? Gather discarded casings and reload them. Dies and tools are commercially available. If there's a shortage of casings, appropriate dies can be relatively easily made and brass can be molded as needed.

Gunpowder? People have been making black powder at home for centuries. Smokeless powder is more difficult, but nitrocellulose is not that complex.

Primer? Boxer primers are US Patent 91,818. Berdan primers are patents 53,388 and 82,587. Active ingredient is potassium perchlorate, which is easy to get.

Regulating bullets will have negligible effect anyway.
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Ask HN: Is there an opportunity now for an Instagram replacement?
If we can move quick enough, is there an opportunity for some of us to build an Instagram replacement?

Or do we expect the users that are leaving Instagram to switch to Flickr?

If there is an opportunity, who fancies building it with me?
Consider the range of efficiency of driving depending on mode:

0 mpg - stopped at a light

15 mpg - typical city driving

35 mpg - typical highway driving

A powerplant is always running its turbines. It's like car motor that is always on cruise control on the highway, without giving up energy to stop in traffic or throttle down.
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Meteor relies on developers writing server-side code. This is flexible, but it means you need to run your own servers -- meaning scaling, operations, etc are up to you. Scaling real-time / persistent connections is especially challenging.

Our rules are expression-based, so they have fast and predictable execution times, meaning we can run these on our own servers and scale your app for you with guaranteed performance.

Our rules also let you specify all of your security logic in one place, rather than sprinkling it around your code, meaning it's easier to review and reason about (and avoid holes).
You're in their casino, you play by their rules. The house always wins.
The amount of users Instagram will lose from this ordeal is insignificant.
All you guys going on about the hardware are missing my point. The vast majority of my tech support calls to family and friends are trying to work around Apple's Digital Restrictions Management on iPhones, iPads and similar.

Then there was the whole Apple/Samsung thing.

And the App Store policies. I've seen people come crying to HN time and time again because their app got pulled or they can't update it any more.

I don't consider them a nice company and I don't find their stuff nice or usable. So you can keep the rotten fruit away from me, thanks.
The two-income household must make a difference. Back 40 years ago if IBM (I've Been Moved) assigned a manager from Armonk to Louisville, the wife may have grumbled, but the family went. Now the wife's income is important and it's not as if the manager is weighing a job change vs. the IBM job for life.
Is an average page really over 1 MB now? I find that kind of hard to believe.
So now we know how insecure XP was (is).
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Also compared to a 2012 Honda Civic which has 39 miles/gallon.

The volt had 459 miles/gallon.
There are many things that they would not be able to add to a contract. Requiring you to commit an illegal act, for instance. Or beginning to charge for their service, without giving you the ability to cancel your account.

Instagram's change is in one of the grey areas that makes contract law interesting.

(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, yada yada)
It'd be even more effective (read: messed up) if they take your coke-drinking-photo and show this in your own friends' feeds as an advertisement, with the kind of caption you mentioned.

I experienced the effectiveness of seeing a friend's face on an ad first hand a few years ago, when a friend of mine put up a job-posting ad on facebook with his face on it. My engagement with that ad was ridiculously high and it lead me to go proactively research what his company was about.
It's worldwide news today. It's TV news-worthy. You might be wrong.
Watched your videos on montesori numbers. Very impressive. Have you thought of doing iphone aps with arithmetic for the older kids and/or prodigies ? I learnt to add three digit numbers when I was like 6-7. I didn't understand what I was doing...like I didn't know why 7+4 was 11...but understanding can wait. Its very useful to nevertheless pattern match your way to addition & multiplication. You can learn multiplication tables upto 20 or so simply by osmosis...not repetition, but intelligent pattern matching. You look at 3 and 7 and just automatically write 1 in units place and carry over 2....reasoning can come later. There were various tricks for remembering factorials & summations & the like...it was a real blast.
Ah, thought so.
I find it interesting that people are still blaming Amazon for the Mat Honan iCloud hack, when it was Apple who was so lax in letting someone reset a password with as little as the last four digits of a credit card number.
using the scanners screen passengers is worse than not screening them at all.

Sure, that's true (given your assumptions) if the scanners pose any risk that's worse than just walking a distance equivalent to the space taken up by the checkpoint. But as I said, that's not the question under discussion; the question is whether there is any significant difference between one type of scanner and another, given that you're going to scan passengers.
I can check it out, if you can share the link. However, there are tones of "time clock" apps some are integrated with biometric scanner? How is yours different than others.
Well chocolate doesn't actually have that much to it (a regular chocolate bar is only like 250 calories) so it'd have to be more than two bars a day.

The main problem (as I'm told) with eating nothing but pure calorie sources supplemented with...uh, supplements is that the cost of the supplements is very high. Remember you need protein, carbs(I guess these wouldn't be in short supply on the candy bar diet) and fats plus micronutrients too or your body will start to break and those supplements aren't cheap.

I do know people that subsist mostly on protein shakes, rice and various supplement pills when they are doing hard cuts for body building competitions and while it's stressful on your body you aren't going to die from it.
As an app developer, the lesson you should take away from this is that your users will be outraged at seemingly perfectly cromulent changes in your TOS (remember, sometimes you & your users have different use cases in mind for your app).

You just have to have a little bit of foresight into this, understand that users have emotions, if not total understanding of law, and figure out if the changes that benefit you will outweigh the pr hit. I think it is obvious in this case (and probably 9 times out of 10) that the owners of the app stand to benefit more than they'll get hurt.
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Different, sure. But different doesn't necessarily mean better.
Wouldn't the simplest fix be to let users opt-in to this?

Hell, opt me in automatically by default. But maybe this is the compromise, that way Instagram can make money (as they should) and users don't feel ripped off.
Could it be the big sort?

"Armed with startling new demographic data, [Bill Bishop] made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by state, but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs."

http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Sort-Clustering-Like-Minded/dp...
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There are tons of stock photography models who live with this risk for a bit of compensation. So they make (say) $100 to be in a photo and have a 0.01% chance of being in an ad they find objectionable.

I get a free/fun app instead of $100. Instead of a .01% chance, I have a .00000001% of appearing in an objectionable ad (my photos just aren't as good as pros, and I'm just not that pretty). Add to that-- if this happens, I certainly won't be the first one it happens to and will almost certainly have an opportunity to delete my account when I start hearing about this happening in the wild. Even if I don't delete it, the chance of my crappy photos getting found/used out of the MANY BILLIONS on instagram also seems laughably small.

Statistically, this could bite me-- but I have to figure that the chance is so close to 0% that the (small) reward of using Instagram is worth the (trivial) risk. I also tend to dismiss concerns around lightning, sharks, and hijackers.
When your insurance company drops you.
Facebook doesn't delete your images for years (if ever). There are links to photos deleted in 2008 (or perhaps earlier) that still work.
That is my point. You are sacrificing the accuracy of a double for the speed of a float.

You are already storing all these values in floats which is inherently inaccurate. Also if the dt becomes very large you have bigger problems than gravity anyway.
The 800 pound gorilla Facebook and the average German teenage girl (to name just an example) aren't exactly equal consenting parties.

The law is there to protect individual citizens against the ruthless exploitation by major corporations like Facebook.

Especially when those corporations hold the key to either social isolation or abandoning your civil rights. The laws are there to prevent companies from abusing their power from effectively undermining individual people's rights and freedoms.
News flash - YouTube also has a TOS that allows them to license and resell your uploaded content and it has worked this way for years.
Sadly, I fear that comments won't help in that situation. They could, except that the solution depends critically on the developer realizing they're writing garbled code during the time they're writing it. I don't know about anyone else, but my code's never garbled when I write it. It only becomes garbled by magic, and only when I don't look at it for a few weeks. Or, strangely enough, the moment someone else looks at it.

Still haven't figured out a reliable enough garble detection mechanism that my employer's willing to pay for.
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> For another thing, generally, when you appear in an advertisement for a product, you get paid. Your likeness in the context of a commercial ad campaign has value

I don't think this is going to be a popular opinion, but keep in mind that Instagram has untold engineers and UI people, all of whom are fairly expensive, and this advertising clause is really in lieu of a licensing fee, not something consumers provide "for free".

I'm not really in favor of the business model, but in a world where apps are licensed at 99c I think models like this are to be expected. To fix this problem, we would have to return to a system where the costs to develop software are paid by the people who use it.
I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong. First off, XP has full support for admin rights, as has every version of Windows NT. But your confusion here really isn't the point, since the analogy itself is wrong, even if your understanding of Windows security was correct.

The vulnerability we're talking about wasn't some design or security policy issue. It's simply a font handling error that presented as a remote kernel compromise in any application handling external fonts via GDI. I know this because I triaged the bug when it was originally reported against Chrome. And I also know that Microsoft's response was entirely correct, which is to refuse the malformed fonts entirely rather than risk further security issues due to handling known corrupted state.

Personally, I think Microsoft should be lauded for shipping a fix within 60 days of us reporting the bug to them. That's an unusually fast turnaround on a critical security issue affecting their entire user base, and a clear acknowledgement of just how dangerous this issue was.
The minutes of flight are there because they're a fundamental part of travel and are unavoidable if you choose to travel by air.

You're missing my point. My point is that if you think the radiation risk posed by the scanners is significant, you should not be flying in the first place, because the radiation risk posed by the flight is much more significant. If you've already decided to accept the radiation risk posed by the flight, the additional risk posed by the scanner is negligible; you would be better off spending the time and effort you are spending protesting about the scanners on something that would have more impact. (For example, see the post just downthread by krschultz.)

An x-ray machine is there only for the purpose of additional security. If the risk undergone for the machine outweighs the security benefit then the machine can and should be removed.

But that's not the question under discussion. The question is which type of scanner TSA should use, not whether TSA should scan, period.
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I feel sleezy using Flickr, because they were doing the same thing, uncredited, and running Flickr images in Yahoo! ads. This has been years ago, but one of the reasons I stopped using Flickr.
> that, however, also makes the whole issue moot since the images are so small to be of little/no use in any commercial sense.

612x612 images as ads on instagram would make a whole lot of commercial sense.
Great point -- this is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about.
Maybe .. but I can't imagine anyone sitting there designing a menu to actually say to themselves, "you know what would look awesome repeated on every line and column of this menu? 32 QR codes!"
First, would anyone sign a credit card agreement that said "we can change the terms at any time without telling you"? No. In fact, a material change to a contract means that either party can back out of the original contract. This is how people get out of cell phone contracts when rates are changed without having to pay the ETF.

Second, yes, the new terms are exactly why people are pissed. They don't like the new terms and they are upset that Instagram would form something so distasteful on them (or try to do so).

Just because Instagram is legally protected doesn't mean everyone should be happy about their decision and keep using the service. That's how a market economy works. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it will be popular in the market.