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There are websites that turn email into a game; it shocks me how good a motivator this can be (I guess part of me IS still a child).

My recent favorite is http://emailga.me (NB: gmail only)

The combination of timer count-down, smileys and 'rounds' is rather clever. And more importantly: effective.

This doesn't help with the paralysis induced by longer emails that deserve an equally thoughtful (read: time-consuming) reply.

For those I pick up the phone. It's retro, but saves time in many cases.
Had a very similar experience at my university. The library worked in the same manner as you described -- the login was a function of your student ID number, and the password was initially the same.

I wondered about the security of that solution, so I checked some random ID numbers to shockingly find out that about 80% of people didn't change their passwords! (I don't remember if you were actually prompted to change it upon first login, or you just had to do it by yourself). I could log in multiple times from the same IP to different accounts.

I hesitated whether to notify someone about it, or to loan a copy of "Mathematical analysis 1" or sth like that for some 100 people in the middle of the holidays within half an hour. That would be hilarious, but they would inevitably throw me out the university if they found out, so I didn't risk the action, neither notifying anyone due to the horror stories here and there.
the server side libraries hit our servers and then forward to the specific analytics services. the client side library (free) does not hit our servers and just forwards directly to each service.
Let the folks at Umano know - they've already got humans reading a bunch of tech news: http://umanoapp.com/
I think it's more like going without cigarettes, in that it's an enormous amount of useless crap information, some of it downright deceptive (i.e. applications posting as your friends), randomly sprinkled with tidbits that are slightly interesting, somewhat important, and rarely, downright vital. You have no idea what's going to come out the next time you hit F5, so you keep hitting it over and over again, although the vast majority of the output is garbage.

It's a trained addiction, rather than a targeted means of communication like cellphones, voicemails, or emails.

Caring that your wife's third cousins twice removed have had a baby, and feeling like you have to know about it right after it has happened - that's a symptom of facebook, not a problem that facebook is solving.
I don't think I - from a country where homeschooling is extremely uncommon, and who generally liked school - am your target audience. Still, a quick read through the front page set off my "crazy" detector at least twice - once at the Mill quote ("despotism over the mind"; repeated twice) and again when you linked schooling to the Third Reich. You may want to tone that down a bit if you want to be accessible to the not-yet-converted.

The header contains no fewer than four navigation aids - site map, site index, site search and the Google search bar (and the last two are redundant). Consider putting the categories from your site map into your header instead - e.g. "college FAQ", "Getting started" (+ reading), "Recommended books".

Parts of your site are likely to be utterly out of date. This isn't too bad for some pages - the educational stuff may miss the newest insights and corrections, but should still be mostly correct - but I can image that e.g. college admissions have changed a lot since the last real update of that page, and getting that wrong could seriously hurt your readers. Such pages could use a "this information is current as of 2004; it will be updated in the coming weeks" header.

Your copyright claim is confusing, partly because it seems narrower than fair use ("... for the purpose of..."). Consider something like "may be freely copied, provided no changes are made and proper attribution is given, for government and other non-commercial purposes only" or just "I want to see homeschooling well-represented; if you want to republish my work, do not hesitate to contact me for permission".

I'm far from an expert, but you don't seem to be doing anything really stupid SEO-wise, which gets you most of the way there. Though in the interest of making people like your site more, you could consider the fact that people really like smiling kids. (It's cliche because it works.)

If you haven't already done so, consider scanning for broken links sooner rather than later. I like the "linkchecker" tool, which - with a bit of configuration - can handle a whole site at once; but there are plenty of other options.
Question to anyone from LinkedIn:

Why is it that when I view a profile that I'm not connected with, I can gleam more information when not logged in vs logged in?

When I'm logged in, I can see 1 info box. When not logged in, I can view their entire profile (if they have hidden option off) I basically used LinkedIn in Incognito mode now when gleaming new profiles.

What's up with that?
As it stands the mac ports on steam have all been free so it stands to reason it would be the same for linux.

Some developers still occasionally port to linux as is without any incentive other then a wider (albeit minor) possible audience.

Although given gabes apparent hate for windows, i wouldn't put it past value to pay for ports.
the main idea is ease of integration. the developer doesn't have to write code to queue and dequeue, and the sys admin doesn't have to set up and support a queuing system. it's just a drop-in install.

regarding the impact on application performance, each of the libraries has a maxQueueSize feature which stops accepting messages into the internal queue if the flushing can't keep up. you can check out how maxQueueSize works in our docs: https://segment.io/docs
I used to use my actual inbox as my to do list. As the author mentions, we all are guilty of it on some level. The issue for me was that the original couple items I "marked as unread" that needed later action soon were being buried by new email and even with triage, 4 unread/actionable emails turned into 10, then 20 and so on to the point where I'd have to do deep email triage or declare inbox bankruptcy and start over. This was tedious and mentally exhausting.

The shortcuts in the post are a huge help. I always knew they were there but never thought about how they would work in a process as described in the OP. I'm going to try using the web UI with those now instead of Sparrow.
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It's not like these companies, from a business perspective, generally want to do any more clinical trials than are necessary.
I expect that initial trials would be conducted in some outside venue where reporting was not required. Favorable ones would then be conducted again and reported. Almost the same situation we currently have.
Can I use this in Canada?
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You can run the Steam Windows Client under WINE using PlayonLinux:

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

Just install WINE, Python, WineTricks and then download and install PlayonLinux to configure virtual drives.

Civilization V for example has no native Linux port, but the Windows version works fine in WINE.

There are 62 games ported to Linux so far in the Steam library.
> The problem is that the imbalance is what's discouraging women from entering STEM careers

I hear this quite a bit, but it always seems to be asserted without substantiation. What evidence is there that it's true?

And, more importantly, if we're going to make distinctions between individuals based on their membership in putative demographic categories, why not also distinguish between those who internalize that demographic category as part of their identity, and those who do not? It would seem that an inhibition to pursue one career or another due to demographics would likely indicate that one is part of the latter category; but would we not be more likely to prefer the former category, and want to work people who assert their own ambitions without allowing themselves to be constrained by internalized abstractions?
I think it is extremely hard to reason about data integrity properties in non-ACID systems.

Consider a banking application that uses linked accounts such that transactions fail if the combined balance of linked accounts is below zero. If I implement this in Oracle using Snapshot Isolation (the highest isolation level Oracle offers) in the obvious manner, I'll get silent constraint violations: transactions that should fail will succeed because MVCC can't stop two competing transactions debiting the same account pair (i.e., I have two linked accounts A & B with $100 in each and I launch two simultaneous transactions to transfer $150 away from both: afterwards, I'll end up with -$50 in both or some garbage data).

Now, you can fix if you recognise the problem in advance by doing a select-for-update or changing your schema to materialize the constraint (say by creating a linked-balance table that holds the combined balance for all pairs of linked accounts).

But it is really hard to even notice the problem, especially if you've got a few dozen tables with multiple applications writing to your database (RDBMS advocates insist that this is a good thing). And there are no automated methods for determining when this will be a problem: you just get silent data corruption or silent constraint violations in your extremely expensive "ACID-compliant" (but not really) Oracle database.
That's the same with open access journals too, though. The difference is, who pays the costs the publishers face? Traditional publishers are funded by subscriptions. Open access publishers are funded by charging authors big fees to publish in their journals.
When is your contract up? Check out Republic Wireless - www.republicwireless.com for a cheaper option.

It's $19 a month for unlimited data/talk/text. Runs over wi-fi when you're around wi-fi or cell towers when you're not. That will save you quite a bit per month.
I have no clue what you're talking about - as @wasd said, can you please provide some context and/or evidence?
At the very least, there should be no issue with requiring this of any trials that use government funds, no?
I love how this is downvoted b/c someone disagreed. Silly.
We don't really know that they're not inherently useful to the public, though. As parent points out, there may be use cases that only become feasible once the information is freely available.
Plenty of literature and the best example is a trade paperback? How about some journalistic publications? While I do not doubt that Hare and Babiak have the credentials, the linked book seems rather fluffy. It specifically does not discuss any actual psychopaths, merely fictional ones, nor does it seem to quantify any actual increase in the number of psychopaths in the business world. Rather, it seems instead to discuss how psychopaths can thrive in the business world, which is a very different question from how many. (I have not read the book, though, merely the previews and excerpts that I could find.)

And of course, let us not forget that an increase (if there is one) in psychopaths in business is not the same as psychopathy being "normal in most corporates". Nor should we pretend that all business people are MBAs or that all MBAs are even working in the business world.

In short, you've got little to no evidence for an increase in psychopathy, even less evidence for the jump to it being common, and basically no reason for the link to MBAs.
How is it fair to treat human beings as instances of abstract categories rather than as individuals who possess their own agency?
True, I was thinking of the piano arrangement, but orchestral version is opened by a clarinet, and the player usually combines a glissando and a sizable portamento (and not having much woodwind experience, I have no idea how one would create that slide, like in opening of this classic recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc)
The ports are currently free on the beta, assuming you have bought the original. Seems unlikely that they will change that as "buy once, run anywhere" seems to be a big selling point of Steam.

I guess in terms of incentives to do ports, if Valve plans to launch a Linux based Steam box they can tempt developers with more prominent placing of games with Linux ports, a larger audience (assuming Steambox has good sales) or even flat out make it a requirement to get onto Steam.

There are also current Linux users like myself who are just more tempted to buy a game if it has a Linux port.
Yes but you need to have a certain amount of karma.
That page does not degrade. Visiting it with JS disabled displays a page with a modal popover that cannot be closed.
Funny, I remember writing custom communication protocols over the MIDI ports of my Atari ST because, at least on that hardware, MIDI ran at a higher bit-rate than the serial port.

Oh, and playing MIDI-Maze [1].

Never actually used it to drive an instrument.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze
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This is just silly. How does Apple justify pulling this vs Flipboard/Currents?
Hey, thanks for your feedback (I'm the designer). Initially we had the slider visible, but I hid it to reduce chrome - and because it wasn't a feature that I (casually) observed people using all that often. You're the second person to request that it be visible again, so I'll work on either making it easier to discover or making it fully visible on page load. Thanks again!
An option might be heading to StraightTalk (www.straighttalk.com).

Plan Costs would break down as follows:

2 Smartphone @ $45/line = $90
2 dumbphones @$30/line = $60

Total = $150/month

These figures don't factor in ETFs. Your existing AT&T phones will work without unlocking.

StraightTalk is an MVNO that operates on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks. You can pick which network.
A great book that was recently released that talks about how to "fix" cities is Walkable City by Jeff Speck. Very compelling read.

http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp...
Also note that vmware Fusion has a "Unity" mode.

For what it's worth I asked Mark Shuttleworth about the overlapping trademark and he said all 3 companies were fine with it.
is [that] high of a fee really needed?

Possibly. Here's a table of costs for different publishers http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.h... but keep in mind that it is way more expensive to run a highly selective journal like Nature because they reject the vast majority of papers that get submitted.
Ping me at ash [at] sendhub.com and I'll get you setup with a number in Canada.
On the one hand, more public data the better!

On the other hand, it just sounds like more fodder for uneducated people^ to completely misunderstand what's going on, and all the various failings and pain that comes from that. The last thing we need is pundits and newspapers making wild and broken accusations and 'analysis' based on trying to find the linkbait side to every result.

^Which in the case of clinical trials and papers in general is 99.9% of people, including myself.
I think MIDI represents a good example of what you can do if you compromise sensibly. I argued with folks over the 31.25K baud vs 38.4K (9600 x 4).

I also remember the assertion that it was going to "ruin" music because any 10 yr old could program a computer to play tempo perfect renditions of complex compositions, and yet to this day the accuracy of MIDI was always off putting.

One of my personal milestones was having a stack of instruments that were capable of 200 simultaneous voices without tape layering. That allowed the reproduction in real time of a symphony, but the biggest challenge was getting 200 separate MIDI streams running in parallel was a huge task. At one point I had 20 386 class PC's each capable of producing 10 streams. It was a silly goal since everyone else layered tracks but for me it was a weird quest to be a conductor of my own personal symphony orchestra :-)

I learned a lot about how time synchronization protocols can (and do) get screwed up in real time situations. That was fun.
I think scientists generally are in favour of having the results of their trials published. It's their employers that generally aren't when it's not in their commercial interests to do so. I'm not sure drug tests fall under the "right to privacy" in the same way as private communications either.

I'd expect at the very least governments ought to compel the release of results from any trials [part]funded by public bodies
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Someone is better friends with Apple? Possibly Facebook?
I see walls of text on a place called Hacker News taking issue with free information.

Free information and damn the consequences.
Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?
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FWIW, that's not a hard rule. There is at least one recent game (Call of Duty: Black Ops) that you have to buy separately if you want to play on both Mac and PC.
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Well I was going to write:
Time to pull safari

But then I checked tech crunch's comments and it seems that I would be very unoriginal. Same goes for any of the other apps mentioned...

So to trump them all:

Time to disable the internet!
Oh look, one of these stories again. Why do people keep building on this pile of shifting sand?
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Mit.edu dns briefly hijacked?
whois mit.edu brings up the following:

Administrative Contact:
I got owned
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Room W92-167, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
UNITED STATES
(617) 324-1337
cunt@mit.edu

Technical Contact:
OWNED NETWORK OPERATIONS
ROOT
US
DESTROYED, MA 02139-4307
UNITED STATES
(617) 253-1337
owned@mit.edu
I would assume that someone made a complaint to Apple, which then forces Apple to take action and investigate - at that point there's likely a procedure that they need to follow mandated by Apple's Legal department for how it gets handled.
"Would they simply do fewer trials, to avoid the risk of a bad trial result hurting sales of a product?"

Right now pharma companies run tens of thousands of fake trials where they have no intention of ever publishing the data because it's a way for them to legally pay doctors for signing up patients. Basically they just ask the doctor to fill out a one page survey at the end asking how they felt about how the medication worked, but it's garbage data that couldn't even be used for anything. Basically most phase IV trials, with the exception of the small number the government mandates as a condition for drug approval, are just a scam so that pharma companies can bribe doctors and also so they can list their marketing expenses as R&D in their SEC statements.

Also, the vast majority of trials are never published as journal articles even if they're registered. This is because there is no government mandate to actually report the results of any clinical trial, even the registered one. Which is why when determining the safety and efficacy of a drug you should never look at the published studies, because that will always give a wildly inaccurate view in a way that's extremely biased in favor of the drug companies. (This is what the FDA does when deciding wether or not to approve drugs.)
This is fairly absurd, any app that allows user generated content (including, dun dun dun, Safari) allows young precious eyes previously untouched by the horrors of boobies to be exposed so dangerously.

Still, this is a bit like writing a twitter app and then being sad when they flip their API on you.

Apple runs the game, they get to set the rules. If that bothers you, don't make iOS apps. I imagine if enough people did that, they may get the message.
Meerita, could you contact me (email address is in my profile)? I'd love to talk more about a possible collaboration.
The distinction here is between you as the public trying to understand the law, and you as a businessperson trying to make money off of the law. The push to open up PACER is based on ideals about the former, not the latter. (And the former is Google Scholar Legal's Raison d'être.)

Certainly it will be great to have free access to the data in bulk, and that day will come. But from a practical perspective, the barrier to entry as a businessperson in this space is not data. There is enough data at https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/ to experiment with. And if your experiments work, there are companies that will sell you access to all the data.
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Agreed, I love this site! Great place to search for any and all rubygems and libraries.
Just remove all of the weird cruft from the end of the query string, check to see if the link still works, and submit. HN will tell you if you've duplicated an old url.

Submitting "jtnimoy.net/?q=178" would have sent you to the original submission.
This is where "event switching" comes in. Unfortunately, I have not used Elm or FlapJax, so I am not sure if the terminology is the same there.

Traditional FRP has two main concepts: behaviors, which are values that can change continually, and stream of events. Scanning over this blog post, these ideas correspond roughly to Properties and EventStreams respectively in Bacon.js.

Event switching is just having an event stream that itself contains behaviors. There's a great blog post[1] about this using Reactive Banana and Haskell.

[1]: http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog/2012/09/03-frp-dynamic-even...

Most of the post is fairly Haskell-specific, talking about the type system, but the basic idea should be applicable here as well.

The running example is a bar tab. You want to be able to create new entries in the tab, which are just text entries that give you a price. So you would create something like

entries :: Event [Behavior Price]

That is, you have a stream of events that contains behaviors corresponding to each text entry widget you've added. This makes calculating things like the sum of all the widgets relatively easy.

I'm not sure how other libraries support this dynamic event switching though. My understanding is that it is somewhat tricky to implement efficiently.
If it means that companies can't run 5 studies, and report only the one that shows the drug works better than a placebo, I'm on board.
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"...have been pulled from the Apple App Store due to concerns about nude photos."

The horror. It's a blessing the web came along before app stores became trendy. Now at least there's a huge vibrant world outside the walled gardens.
It looks pretty good, nice work! For starters on Angular.js, any recommendations on good tutorial/books?
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Kind of like debian stable and debian testing relationship.
Very cool. Now I need something like this to be projected up on the giant-screen of my secret underground lair.
Etsy acquires Mixel
Hierarchies and sub-views suck when you want to view them all the time, every day. Use the "Multiple Inboxes" lab feature to show all your starred messages on the same home screen as your inbox. No more "learning to love" gs. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-multiple-i...
The fundamental question is who decides what is a public record and what is not? Why are your medical records private but your ex-wife's court-room accusations that you were sexually promiscuous, impotent, or secretly homosexual to be considered public records that must be "freed"?
500px's business model isn't based around an iOS app. It's supplemental to their service. View your comment in the context of the following headline:

Apple Pulls iOS Flickr App from AppStore

Building an App for iOS isn't the same as basing your business model around playing in someone else's sandbox.
The official tutorial [1] is a great place to start. It does an incredibly good job of leading you through step by step and explaining each step.

http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/