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> I cannot help but think that some fickle readers will draw some association between inorganic and poisonous.

Which is exactly the intended reaction. The Organic Industry is big business now.
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I do love me some strace. It's one of those commands I talk about when asked why I prefer Linux as a developer/hacker.
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All of those statistics that I've seen, claiming that rates of ownership are down, are based on surveys.

What do you think are common reactions from gun owners when a nosy stranger calls them on the phone and asks if they own a gun?

Might it have correlations with the Zeitgeist created by the gun grabbers, especially when they dance on the blood of victims like with Newtown?

I haven't run the numbers myself, but someone's claimed that if you mash these all together, the post-Newtown "admits to owning a firearm" + the number known to be outstanding (we have solid figures on legal production and imports) and the population, the average gun owner owns about $100K worth of firearms.

See also solid evidence like Illinois FOID application rates as I mentioned elsewhere in this topic. By definition those are from people who haven't previously legally owned guns, and they've quadrupled since Newtown.
"I think you'll find most irresponsible drinkers started before 21 anyway."

Drinking illegally at 18 years old might lead to different outcomes than drinking legally at the same age.
Ah, but they're illegal, so you're admitting that banning guns doesn't work.
Don't trust policy. If you aren't good willing to handle encryption yourself, find a medium that will responsibly handle it for you (i.e. lavabit.com)
I think your summation of this article is way off.

First - It was written by a lone PHd over a year before the NIMH blog post (which was written by a lone MD).

Second - I don't think this author was presenting his article as "the last word".

Lastly - The speculation on Einstein is grounded in comments by one of Einstein's biographers. I wouldn't call that groundless.
> I just meant that you're not necessarily missing out, IMHO.

If that's what you meant, I can only state that, as far as I'm concerned, you're definitely and unambiguously wrong.
Where do you talk about the 'I learned to code' part? I don't see any mention of it on your site or your blog...
Live in a world shaped like one of these? Enjoy your attempts to discover the Newtonian laws of gravity :)
it does not. it simply looks at the number of uppercase, lowercase, digit, and special characters (no spaces, etc.) fairly naïve.
> How did you find out that equivalent hygienic conditions could be created in slaughterhouses at a moderate cost?

Simple: Meat is not terribly more expensive in the EU than in the US, people don’t regularly die from food poisoning here[0] and such measurements are prohibited in the EU, hence it must be possible to ensure hygiene with different means at similar, possibly slightly higher, costs.

[0] At least not more often than the US, I would assume.
Really good. Is there a collection of basic "industry" katas to start with that you are aware?
Congrats for launching! Smart idea and certainly solves an existing problem.

Would love to read more about your pathway towards the launch, e.g. how your coding came along, etc.
Check out runningahead - while it won't do blood pressure, it does a great job tracking physical activities and weight... supports notes, weather, and other variables. Not sure it will handle # of pullups/pushups as it tracks activities mainly in time. However... you could just say 1 second per pull up and put it in as seconds. They have good built in reporting - and it's free (ad supported). I am not affiliated in any way, just a long time user. spreadsheets didn't work for me as web access was important...
Minified Javascript does not operate on an enormous buffer of bytes, such that you get seven and eight digit numbers flying everywhere. It's still easier to understand and manipulate than ASM.

asm.js isn't just an evocative name, it's a reasonable description... it's assembly in Javascript.
Is this the intended use of the barometric sensors on phones like my Nexus 4?

Can anyone think of other uses?
Here's a post on learning to code:

http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program

I'll follow up with some more code posts in the future. I wanted to keep the "Introducing Uncover" post to be focused on the startup.
I guess what people don't have a problem with there is that at least someone is physically listening in on a phone line - it requires manpower to do and thus is very deliberate.

It's when we are being data mined by the government there's a problem. I think we all don't mind being data mined for advertising (within reason) but when we are being watched to be 'kept in line' that's where there's a problem. At that point it's more like 'Minority Report' where you are being scrutinized before you even do anything.
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Regarding the Greek cafe, there are plenty of crazy regulations like that in the US, usually centered around alcohol.

For example, in Virginia (where I live), ordinary stores can sell beer and wine, but nothing harder. Liquor can only be sold in state-run stores. I suppose the intent is to discourage consumption of hard liquor... and it seems to work on me. The state-run stores are inconvenient enough that I go for softer fare instead of tracking one down.

I knew a couple who bought a gas station and turned half of the convenience store part into a restaurant, while keeping the convenience store part open as well. They had a license to sell alcohol, but not a license to serve alcohol. You could go over to the convenience store half and buy a six-pack of beer, but you couldn't get a beer in the restaurant, and you couldn't bring the beer you had just purchased.

I recently moved into a newly-constructed house. One of my neighbors had to delay their move-in date by a couple of days, because the builder forgot to paint the curb yellow behind the house to indicate that it was a fire lane, and the county wouldn't give them an occupancy permit. This street has plenty of "fire lane" signs, has very little curb at all (it's mostly driveways), and nobody in their right mind would park on it, but it had to be done. The builder rushed the job, and a few months later, basically all of the paint has flaked away and nobody seems to care. Somehow, this was unacceptably unsafe when we were moving in, but it's fine now....

The Greek example sounds worse, but of course a singular example is hard to draw a lesson from. I imagine we'd all benefit everywhere if regulations were treated as a means to an end rather than ironclad law, in any case.
I mean in terms of bounded numbers as you might find in a game, or in real economies, not theoretically.

It's entirely conceivable that people have billions in currency, but not quintillions. Though perhaps Zimbabwe serves as a counter-point to this. They've had to slash twelve zeroes off their currency valuation on at least one occasion.
Well you have to make sure that others really understand and listen to what you’re saying…
Who? Anti-authoritarians or the mentally ill folks?
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I entered two password modeled after my password, and it said the first was rated at 22 seconds, and the second -- swapping out special characters for other special characters, etc. -- was rated at two weeks.
Something like 30 spaces is very secure, apparently.
In most cases, these waiting periods are for handguns and not rifles or shotguns. The law is not to prevent suicides but to prevent 'crimes of passion'. There would be very little difficulty in someone killing themselves with a rifle or shotgun, although it isn't as easy as putting a handgun to one's temple.

BTW, I'm not arguing with you just clarifying.
> As a NoScript user, I'm surprised that I've had to give Javascript permissions to Twitter just so I can visit that idsoftware.com link inside of the tweet.

Really? Because it works just fine for me. Maybe they're doing some sort of A/B testing or partial roll-out around links?
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Fortunately, we have HM to reassure ourselves we are so much smarter than everyone else.
This whole thing is a pretty poorly-thought-out and fairly counterproductive "Change Your Password Day" marketing move. That whole idea gives people the impression that "change your password often" is the thing to take away.
I'm slightly baffled by the structure:

"[We will be] completing 3 exercises from each chapter of SICP over 6 weeks, one chapter a week after the kickoff."

Firstly, my edition and the linked edition only have 5 chapters.
Secondly, it's unclear if it means those 5 sections as the chapters, or the smaller subsections (1.1, 1.2, etc).

If they mean the big chapters, then this seems way, way, too fast (with not enough exercises), and if it's the subsections then it still seems like too few exercises.

I've been doing one subchapter each week, completing at least half the exercises in each section. It's been a pretty good pace, I think, and I'd probably recommend it to people with similar amounts of free time to me. I'm coming from a maths background and have no previous CompSci experience (save a tiny bit of Python).
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In regards to Rational Rose, maybe you're friends missed the point that they learned software analysis and design, and that instead of waterfall process, they learned software development methodologies. At least, that is what I learned from SE.

But I must admit I haven't studied the curriculum of a CS program. Am I wrong to say you can do it in 3 years while SE is 4 years? If we could study a few programs from a few university offerings, I'm sure we could see what is different. I ought to think it is generally an engineering approach to building software, that is a mix of science, people and integrity.
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Thanks for mentioning impostor syndrome. I think it is indeed closely related to the "generalized postnatal depression" that we're talking about here: the latter is not wanting the thing I worked for anymore, the former is believing that it is not deserved.
Put your email in your profile, people in HN might see this post and want to reach out.
The TL:DR of this article, in D&D terms:

Chaotic aligned people are being diagnosed as mentally ill by Lawful aligned people.

Unfortunately, it's frequently Lawful-{Neutral|Evil} judging Chaotic-Good, which is a travesty.
Well yeah, seeing as most bruteforce won't include spaces and even then would have to do a-z1-3 a bunch of times before it gets there.
It's also unlikely that Google could do government-proof mail any better than Husmail. They were compelled to fake the Java client in order to obtain a user's keys; why couldn't Google be pressured to do the same?
Thanks for the support. We're trying to solve a similar problem as BetterWorks was, but with a completely different approach. If you're unfamiliar with BetterWorks, you can read more about them here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/betterworks
Discontinuing of Xeround Cloud Database Public Service
Notice dated May 1st. Free databases shut down May 8th, paid ones May 15th. That isn't very much runway!

Luckily I just had a dev server with fake data running on xeround. I really feel sorry for anyone with production data!
> Maybe you could go into a little more detail about how your previous clients managed to weasel out of paying.

Expanding scope and holding final payment hostage.

> Maybe you could tell us a little bit more about how you scoped those projects and how you handled contracts and payment terms.

List of requirements, with 50% before and 50% when done. This was my #1 mistake and I have stopped this.

> It would definitely help if you told us how you sourced those clients. Did you network your way into them, or get them off outsourcing sites?

Networking.

> How big were the clients?

Larger side of small business scale.

> You're not one good client away from all your problems changing; you're several business model changes away from having a sustainable business that will generate fewer abusive relationships, and, over the long term, the luxury of being picky about your clients.

One month at $100+ an hour would take care of all debts, allow me to purchase needed medicine and provide enough runway to only accept quality clients. That is what I meant by that.
Most people who are anti-gun, such as yourself due to your "BS amendment" comment, are usually very ignorant or fearful of guns.

As a very middle of the road type of guy, I joined NRA and 2nd Amendment Foundation for the first time a few months ago because of too many people like you who are too easily influenced by the media in the past 6 months.
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Your point seems reasonable & logical. But in my experience, it's also incorrect: Plenty of gun collecting is predominantly around modern, mass-produced, non-scarce guns. I believe it's because scarcity is not a significant driver of value, in most gun owners' minds. Gun collectors derive a large portion of their guns' value from using (firing) them in a sports setting. Contrast with art or stamps, which don't really have recreational uses, just "stand-back-and-appreciate-it" value. Some guns DO have this museum-style appreciation-value, too, but the contribution is negligable WRT most mass-produced, modern guns. Also, modern guns have plenty of mythological cachet. Film & video games have celebrated and iconified the distinctive lines of particular guns, like the AR-15 and its variants. Even with millions of ARs in circulation, it may have a higher "cool factor" than an older, rarer flintlock pistol, especially to the younger set. Which brings me to my final point: In the US, gun ownership appears to be on the rise, lately, in non-traditonal demographics. More so than in decades past, you'll find new gun owners trendng: * young * politically liberal * high disposable income * shooting paper or zombies, not hunting * getting introduced to guns via friends, not family They buy guns for the same reason they buy video games--Fun. To that end, their buying habits tend toward the gun equivalents of the Honda Civic or Jeep Wrangler: Reliable, cost-effective, semi-automatic. Generally, that means a modern, mass-produced gun.
I thought Intel's stock was doing okay. Looks like they have moved on to phishing scams...
I don't work at the office most of the time. I know thinkpads have good battery life generally, but I know there have been some battery life issues with linux in the past.
Sorry, to clarify I want a solution so that we do not have to bake our own - Sencha abstracts it all away and handles everything the same across all devices (so I'm led to believe by the dev that chose and implemented it - I have very little experience with it). By 'native touch events' I mean very much like the link you've provided (which is a very promising resource, so thankyou for that), in that it offers a 'doubletap', 'swipe', and 'pinch' event for instance. (So more precisely _emulating_ native touch events?).

I've found a good list of libraries in my research [1] but I was wondering if anyone had specific experience that could tip the balance in favour of one lib above Sencha (which to my eyes seems bloated and awkwardly constructed).

[1: https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Touch]
It's a big gray area for me.

What if someone followed the traditional methods and ingredients of real feta, made the best feta cheese you ever tasted in your life, BUT it was not made in Greece. Should that be allowed to call itself feta?

I am against monopolies generally, and this geographical indicator stuff around products that have existed for centuries (Champagne, Bordeaux, Bourbon, Parmesan, Chablis, etc) rubs me the wrong way. It's granting a small region a monopoly on a descriptive word that everyone uses to describe the product, with no indication of quality anyways.

What if Diamonds had to come from Russia or else they were not allowed to be called diamonds? Or if sugar had to come from America or else it had to be called something else?

Confusion would reign. Its unfair competition, really.
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If I close my eyes while listening to the video, I see Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.
This doesn't seem supper reliable

abcdefg123456! < 1 second

abcdefg!123456 < 1 second

abcdefg1!23456 = 5 seconds

a!bcdefg123456 = 1 week

Moving the ! supposedly increases the difficulty several orders of magnitude.
I don't think you understand the concept of wealth and income from an economics perspective.

When person B has $10,000 he is wealthier than person A.

If person B spends $10,000 he is losing wealth. Depending on how he spends his 10,000, this may result in an overall net gain in his wealth (i.e., an investment, like buying a house) or an overall net loss to his wealth (i.e. a purchase, like buying a car, since cars depreciate).

Your wealth is an overall assessment of what you have accumulated. Your wealth is the sum of your current position + (revenue - expenses). Note that your current position can be negative regardless of how many cars, boats and homes you are entitled to use at the moment. This is the situation of many, many Americans at this time.

Your income, on the other hand, is simply the revenue. A relatively tiny part of the equation.

So it is entirely true that you can have a high income and little to no wealth. While it might seem silly to you from the perspective of someone that is looking at the use of possessions, depreciating or overly-leveraged positions make the statement a perfectly normal thing to say.

You might envy the house, but if that house is unable to be leveraged because more is owed to the bank than it is worth, it is actually a net loss when trying to determine wealth. A renter is actually better off than this homeowner.

Once you understand this, you'll realize that even with a low income, maximizing wealth creation opportunities is what pays off in the end.
The fact that the US doesn't care wether or not we eat these harmful things is outrageous. Quite honestly, I don't see why they wouldn't ban it because those who let this slide and know about it are probably eating it too.
Wait, weren't the people who fought to make America independent upset with the King's Authority? Would you not say, today, that they were anti-authorianists? Would you not say that an oppressive government would use such a "medical condition" to confiscate guns from people who disagreed with it?

Think hard about this, and ask yourself what you would have done in 1774: sided with the Revolutionaries, or sided with the Royalists.
Completely agree about big integers. I expect that the next generation of programming languages will offer a "number" type that's big integer or decimal by default, and then allow engineers to refine the type as an optimization. One trouble is the data storage layer - typical database fields are fixed size and don't naturally accommodate big integers. Thus where MMOs are concerned, using big integers will still require some deliberate effort.
I'll give this one a look, thank you.
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Great job! Looking back, you'll see that learning to code was one of the best decisions you made.

One minor thing - it took me about 7-10 seconds to understand what your product is. I should be able to understand within 2 seconds. You should put in big letters towards the top: "Employee Recognition Program" or something a little more sales-y.
I know.. I never take it lightly. But I also never regretted it either, probably because I really do spend some time on making that decision, and know I would do it again. Excuse the bragging, but by now I can even delete songs! Super crappy "songs", mind you; but it was near impossible for me at first. It's liberating however, and with photos just plain necessary IMHO.

You are not actually killing that person, or destroying that object; you are just deciding which one(s) of the photos of that moment or mood capture it best, and delete the ones which are just slightly worse variations of those.

It takes time though, that is a real cost. Though I think that time is made up for down the road, when you don't have to wade past the photos you deleted, or wait for them to upload/download/backup, etc... even a little bit of self-discipline adds up to quite a bit over a lifetime of digital photography. I think of it as removing weed so the flowers are more enjoyable, and have a greater probability of actually being seen (photographs are kinda useless when they are not seen other than by the bulge they create in the pagination; flickr is like a graveyard where good photos go to get overlooked in that way).
Belts and closets I suppose?
This is very cool and a problem worth solving. Rypple is first the startup I heard of that focused on making employees feel good rather than simply tracking them but it only handed out compliments. This seems like the next logical step - to give perks that are tailored towards each person.
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Your logic is wrong, because iPhones and iPads are creative devices where photos are created. Therefore, your understand of Steve Jobs intentions are wrong.
Awesome. All super helpful stuff. Thanks so much for taking the time!
The algorithm they're using first replaces all "top passwords" in yours with a single lowercase character ('a'). Then, it counts the number of lowercase (/[a-z]/), uppercase (/[A-Z]/), numbers (/[0-9]/) and special (/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/) characters. It assigns lowercase and uppercase characters 26 possibilities, numbers 10, and special characters 32, and multiplies to get the number of possible passwords. This is divided by a "standard computing power" to get the number of hours it would take to crack.

This is about as rough as an approximation as you can get. For example, if your password contains dictionary words that aren't in their top passwords, it drastically overestimates the the difficulty of cracking it.

Type `"".hackability` in the console to see the code.
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If my canonical store of my images is going to be on a cloud service, I sure as hell want all those 9's for durability. It doesn't matter how cheap a service is, if it permanently loses precious memories.
How long is the average dissertation?
Initially I tried to submit this http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/ubuntu-might-get-new-simplifi... since it has all the key info and better title, but HN just told me to stop spamming. Is Webupd8 banned or what's going on? (Also OMGUbuntu submissions are just not shown at all anywhere.)
I haven't looked up the stats lately, but IIRC, the number of times a legally owned actual assault weapon was used in a crime in the US was something like 3 or 4... ever.
I'd agree in general, but when it comes to biology, the health of an organism seems entirely rooted in moderation.

Cancer is when your cells replicate too quickly and out of control. What's the opposite? When your cells don't replicate enough. Radiation sickness is what that looks like.

Dehydration is a serious problem, but so is over-hydration.

Insufficient oxygen will kill you, as will too much.

Bacterial infection can be a serious problem, but eliminating all bacteria from the body will also kill it.

Overactive immune systems are just as bad as underperforming ones. And on and on.