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I fucking hate this attitude. "If you don't like it, leave." We're not writing because we've perused all the alternatives, settled on this version of GMail, and are unhappy. We're writing because GMail was the best thing we found, we settled in to use it, THEN they changed things for the worse.

I'd be perfectly happy with your attitude if there was a "go back to the old interface" button, but no, they removed that after six months and now we're stuck with the thing we spent those six months complaining about.
Do you know why people are injecting Subutex/Suboxone instead of just taking the pills sublingually?
That kind of reference is messy even with chronological order. It's better to directly quote a post.
Don't delay...deploy
Hmm, this could work very well for search. Forking... (:
It'd be cool if there was a program, or a browser extension, that could point out likely photoshop artifacts.
I'm not sure I'd even go that far. A set of commands showing how to lock down account permissions would work just as well, while allowing me to remain in control. That is a good point though, as Bastio would be able to create unrestricted administrative users anyway.

Where are your encryption keys stored in relation to our connection data?
I think that's the entire point behind this article. What you're talking about and what "big data" actually exists as, are two different things. What you're talking about is data refinement. As you said, linking things together and trying to look at your data in different contexts and dimensions than what you do normally. This can be done on a nearly any data set small or large. Big data gets into the realm of literally having so much data to process that data refinement becomes nearly impossible without a significant combination of thinkers, doers, machinery and money.
> The great part about this is that when you hit Inbox 0, you are DONE (yes thats amazing right?) with email.

Should perhaps add parentheses with "(but don't forget you're not really done, you've just hidden anything that takes more than two minutes to respond to out of view, make sure you deal with those emails later)".
Threaded comments are a good thing. This seems like a UI problem. One suggestion:

1) Put the thread reply text field at the top of the comments and show new replies at the top, at least for the user who made the comment.

2) Replying anywhere else should require clicking on Reply under that comment.

This makes it intuitively clear that thread replies are not replies to a thread comment.

This would take users some time to adjust to, but should fix the problem.

I know at least one site that does this. Ahem.

EDIT: Looking more carefully at the second screen shot, it looks like they did this. Seems like a non-issue in that case. The first screenshot for some reason doesn't have that change. Who knows if they are A/B testing or what. Strange that the OP did not notice this difference.
My law school curved everything to a 3.1 average. Which means that I had a lot of B grades. Unfortunately, if I want to go to another grad school or apply to non-law jobs, they will look at this and not understand. Undergrad transcripts are riddled with high As due to grade inflation, but they see the law transcript and think you're mediocre because you only got one A in 3 years.
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The largest share of top500 machines use Gigabit Ethernet (http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/), which is a reasonable indicator of an embarrassingly parallel application. While that's not quite as slow as the public internet, it's possible some of those applications could fare well with increased parallelism to make up for public internet connectivity.

Bitcoin's computational power numbers aren't relevant for another reason though: it's entirely confined to computing sha256, and only in a special way...
What I would think better is that law schools get grades normalized according to how their students do in the bar exam.

There should be an external organization that can collect grades and retroactively adjust them according to this principle. Any law school that refused to participate should be rightly viewed with suspicion.

The point is that it doesn't matter what the scale is. Just that it be comparable between schools.
A properly written android app avoids most of these issues, most notably deep linking.
It does kick in quicker. There's no "rush" like Heroin, but it does hit you all in one go.

Apart from that, needle fetish, mainly. That and culture: if everyone is injecting it, if you start, you are probably going to start with the needle yourself.

Interesting thing however, Suboxone as the film has been known (anecdotally, but across a lot of people) to cause your veins to harden and become useless for fixing with.

Such a terrible idea. I did it once, at the start of my treatment, then vowed to never do it again. And I haven't :)
Ask HN: Well-designed, simple-but-complex games like Letterpress?
I've gotten hooked on Letterpress again this weekend, and wanted to ask if anyone could point out any game that works like it.

Specifically, I'm really interested in its:

>> minimal graphic design with excellent interactive flourishes (popping sounds and shaking letters adorning flat & matte color scheme)

>> simple-to-learn gameplay (this is obviously DECEPTIVELY hard to design, but I'd love to see other examples)

>> and ultra-competitive gameplay at the high end (I guess this is the difficulty curve?)

I guess one could summarize points #2 and #3 as "easy to learn, difficult to master?" Not sure, but I'd love to find other games like this (any platform) as inspiration for personal projects.

Would also appreciate references on game design if anyone has them--I've got "Art of Game Design" by Jesse Schell, for starters.
Congratulations guys...both articles are inspiring - i just couldn't do anything but read every words in them I don't think I'd had the nerves to get through all that struggle
It took me a couple minutes too... The first comment sorts it out though. Turns out that Jacquard's loom was multi-threaded after all.
Mean but juicy.

Kudos on stirring the pot.

Sheryl's book - and the important topics it addresses - were at risk of being a bit forgotten.

Your review could help change that.
Also with google translate, for when you travel.
The author claims the network is dominated by ASICs. Sure, Avalon has made some chips, and Butterfly Labs has released a handlful of their miniature ASIC devices, but I hardly think they dominate the network.

FPGA's are still the largest contributors I would think. Funnily enough the author didn't even mention them in his article.
It doesn't really matter how old the use (or in this case, misuse) of the term is. It is still an affront to the way we consider property in all other aspects. Just because they were doing it a long time ago does not make it any less invalid now.
I'm a University of Iowa College of Law graduate (enrolled in 2002, graduated in 2005). When I was there the grading system was quite odd - if I remember correctly the average grade was a 78, and getting something like an 82 would put you in the top 25% of the course. A 90 was the standard highest grade you could get, and scores of up to 92 were reserved for extraordinary achievement.

I'm pretty sure that this system put graduates at a major disadvantage - nobody understood what the grades meant and the career office encouraged us to put some type of explanatory note alongside our transcript. So I'm happy that they made the change, but alas it did not come soon enough for me (the change being transitioning from the numeric system to letters).

I've done a lot of thinking about this subject, and I think that the only fair way to assign grades is just on forced rank in class. Everything else would get gamed (or a school's refusal to game would put the student at an unfair disadvantage).
Maybe. Or for the more immediate term a Google Glass app that speaks whatever protocol this device does. This is, I think, a really good example of the kind of places Glass will fit. Think of this as the "pocket camera" or "music player" device which will be inevitably replaced as a software application of a more generic device (which in those cases happened to be a "phone").
Sorry to be another debbie downer, but this is not a good idea.

1. It's a huge security no-no. Much better would be having users run a daemon that polls for updates. At least that could probably be done while maintaining some semblance of security.

2. Admins don't need help with this, not really. Any competent admin will run Puppet (or Chef, or LDAP), which makes this stuff the most trivial thing you do.

I'd recommend a quick pivot (like let people run it themselves against their own servers) or just abort mission and chalk it up as a learning experience.
Hello! I'm Yossi, the guy who put up the web page. Thanks for the attention!

About your questions. These power analysis tests are destructive to the device under test, since I have to splice into the power supply line. I used a google tablet and a chromebook because the guys at google were kind enough (and their corporate culture functional enough) to give them to me. Obviously I would love to do this to additional hardware (coughmacbookprocough) but somebody would have to donate one.
with a catchy domain like bastio, perhaps you should try pivot into doing something actually more useful like bastion host as a service w/ 2-factor openvpn authentication.
Not all warrants issued are for criminals, just suspects, and there's nothing you can do to prevent against being a suspect.
OK, I'll be more specific. The CPI is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a group of professional career civil servants. The article makes the vague claim that the "government" is incentivized to report as low as rate as possible. I guess if you believe in conspiracies this is possible, but I don't believe that the BLS is part of any such conspiracy.
As far as Bernanke destroying the USD, the US Dollar Index is up substantially over the last year.
There are multiple layers of encryption and the keys are distributed in such a way that the client must login and provide the data facet we store in the browser. The combination of this and other data facets provides the combination that unlocks the private key we use to conduct deployments.
The idea is nice but the execution is flawed.

When teaching users new to Unix systems I tell them to guard the root password / anything that gives you root as closely as possible.

When securing systems you generally even want to disable root logins period.

I don't feel comfortable with giving a 3rd party credentials to my servers and I don't recommend others do the same.

A downloadable product is really where you want to be headed with this. I'm okay running putty or winscp where I get to have full control of whatever keys I put in.
) ftfy.

Even so, 10 months is a bit much. If the freeze were shorter, then Debian would have newer software. Fortunately, Debian releases are made roughly every 2 years, but even when Debian ships, it's already several months behind.

This isn't a problem for most servers, but it's a definite pain for developers like myself who use newer versions of software (extreme example, I use Arch) then try to backport to whatever's in the Debian repository. Sure, newer versions of software can be installed, but that kind of defeats the purpose of running Debian in the first place.

A shorter freeze means newer software in a release, which may reduce the need/temptation to use a package not in the stable repository, which is better for everyone.
I agree. I can't imagine it is working out for them.
> The culture doesn't encourage innovation and curiosity is shunned in most of the schools. Kids get into this rat race of scoring high grades without even realizing it.

I'm not trying to take anything from what you're saying, but my experience is that applies just as well to US school (high school, at least.)
I think you overestimate how much people are willing to live in shitty conditions in exchange for business opportunities. The US may not be a boomtown but it has opportunity to live a comfortable life if you can add value. Most people would prefer quality of life + "just getting somewhere" (the American standard) over living in a dump + business opportunities.
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Well, no. To people, a pastebin.com/asdovnasdofnvopdsisadvasdfgv link is just as unmemorable as a base64 encode of an actual 1kb code data. However, nowadays, if I have a 1kb snippet I want fairly securely shared, sticking it in a chat box isn't a problem.
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If you live in the EU, Facebook are not allowed to use the data gathered from their like buttons for advertising purposes, by order of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
I hate the term "Big Data" but if it somehow puts Oracle down it can't be all bad.
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Where "control over other peoples' property" comes in is making it illegal to alter the workings of a device you paid for and own.
Your problem with the culture is the problem with almost every culture of the world( including USA). The "great scientific culture" of USA is to lure the smart people all around world. "And not surprisingly almost all the students I busted for cheating were Indians"- on side note, my personal observation is Indians are extreme harsh on other Indians if the first one is part of system. I actively avoid immigration line checked by Indian looking staff whenever going to USA or UK.
In the currently airing animated TV show [Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet][1], the protagonist has a display that translates things spoken to him into text in his native language.

[1]: http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet
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Lots of really interesting things here. The most valuable is definitely having some reference implementations.
Crowdsourcing and visualising local noise complaints
I have moved house twice in my life to get away from some type of noise. I can finally let other people know before making the same mistake. Currently only in Australia.
Hell, even 1985. 91% tax rates probably aren't good policy regardless of the bracket.
I'd agree with you that not much can be done because it's not like education is advocating this take on studying per se, it's just a relic that gets passed down through the various waves of freshmen every year.

To this end, for those so inclined, Cal Newport is the author of a great book (How to be a Straight A student) that had good ways to force yourself into a schedule that limits your studying time (good thing!) while still giving you the results you want. Lots of willpower required but was well worth the effort for me (took a bunch of failures until I got it right).
A lot of people don't remember Palm OS, but as someone who owned a Palm TX device, I have most fond memories of it. And I still consider it the best handheld device that I had (including my current Nexus 4) in terms of both design and UI, and user control, and battery life, which lasted up to a week! It was a real bummer to see it go. I still miss it.
Looking up weights and DNA structures and such things in humans in wiki articles, I have calculated that 0.5% - 2% of the phosphorus in the human body is used in DNA. It seems reasonable to me that it would be at least within an order of magnitude of 1% in plants as well.

For this reason I doubt the phosphorus in DNA would make a significant contribution to evolving a shorter DNA sequence.
My parents have made it quite clear that they'll want nothing to do with me if I leave. I've grown to appreciate them quite a lot and more than anything I still want them in my life. I would take the risk and leave if I knew they would forgive me for it, but they won't. I have cousins who have been disowned by their families, and they haven't spoken to each other in years. I don't want this to happen to me. Family is critically important in Asian families and I don't want any of my future kids growing up never knowing their heritage and culture.

If it means I'll be getting engaged a few years earlier than expected, then so be it. I'll drag out the pre-wedding phase until I'm ready.
Most pertinent to HN: "2003 - A drunken Martin Odersky sees a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad featuring somebody's peanut butter getting on somebody else's chocolate and has an idea. He creates Scala, a language that unifies constructs from both object oriented and functional languages. This pisses off both groups and each promptly declares jihad."
What you want to look at is performance share and not system share. By performance share Gigabit Ethernet is just 12.6%. There are a number of Gigabit Ethernet systems but they are not contributing useful work.

There has also been some discussion lately that Rmax, the performance indicator of Top500 has started to diverge from sustained performance. Sustained performance is a general term for actual science produced with a machine as opposed to performing well on the LINPACK benchmark.

Edit: There is also a huge difference running Gigabit Ethernet over short spans as opposed to over the Internet. Latency as opposed to bandwidth is the limiting factor for many algorithms. Light takes a lot less time to travel across the aisle as opposed to across the continent.
The only problem I have with this approach (which I've been using for years now) is that I'm too fast. My procrastination takes less than 15 minutes and then I have to go back to working again!

When you've done this sort of thing for email, and it eventually becomes second nature to apply the same level of filtering to Google Reader, then to Twitter lists, then Facebook groups, etc - you end up blocking so much of the noise that it's disheartening when you finally discover that actually the signal isn't very interesting either.

sigh The organised person's first world problems, I guess...
Agreed. Also part of the issue: staying up all night DOES impress (just not to professors aka no impact on your grade). Students stay up late with friends; complain about 90% of the time; plan fun stuff to do 'after they study'.

And so, in a weird way, pretending to be super-busy has its rewards. And this is part of why the problem even exists.
Can you elaborate on the similarities? I don't understand how the two are comparable at all.
And there should be a federal section of the bar that is the same across all jurisdictions, and that is what grading should be normalized against.
At the colleges that are providing generous need-based aid to the poor, that aid often comes from admitting dubiously-qualified legacies with rich parents and charging them full price (or soliciting donations for a few mil).

I went to the college that was specifically called out as "The Best of the Best" in the linked NewAmerica report. There were a fair number of complete dumbasses who also attended, and continued attending despite infractions that would've gotten a normal student expelled. Their family names frequently were on the board of trustees. Their family names were also on the notebooks I bought all through elementary school and on the department stores where my mom bought all our clothes. I suspect they've given more to the college than I'll ever earn in my lifetime.

It's generally impossible to do social good without having power. Power often means making certain accommodations to rich & powerful people. There's a strong element of Robin Hood behind pretty much any sustainable philanthropic program. A lot of being able to do good in this world is knowing just how much you can afford to piss off rich & powerful people, and how much help you can extract from them, in trying to achieve your social goals.
Why not just unsubscribe from all these useless newsletters?
That has to be the worst mobile site I've ever seen.
Look at it this way: you're lined up to work in a company with far more capability and potential than almost every other western organisation. When you're compared to the likes of Google and Apple as examples of where you might be lacking, you're doing good.

Besides, even if everything is as bad as they say and you absolutely cannot work in that environment, interning is the perfect time to discover that without as significant commitments. It will also prove to be a valuable lesson that you can then take to other companies.

Chin up, I'd love to work even at Microsoft.
A website guarantees the features noted.

Few apps are properly written, and all require me to look extensively at permissions.
Normally, I'm fairly (unconsciously) biased against such 'longhairs,' but in the case of Lanier, my impression is that he is, in fact, extremely intelligent.

I'd highly encourage you to read this (very long) interview with him from 2011 in Edge:

http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
Oh man. They come at a dime a dozen. I think my method is much more effective.
Our educational system promotes lack of sleep and needs to be changed. I'm currently a freshman in high school, but have been consistently getting 3-4 hours of sleep each night. School doesn't give us enough time for extracurriculars during the day so they end up eating into the night.
As a child I was once in a english class for people in rehab from heroin. This was Spain in the early 90s and most of them had been addicts fOr more than 10 years.
They were definitely affected neurologically, they were like a bit in slow motion and could disengage from their sorroundings quite easily.
They were in the last part of the therapy, almost ready to go home, but I can't tell if that was an effect of a substitution therapy( at the time it was methadone), or they had a permanent cognitive damage.
Shameless plug : I have a few of these ported to Python as well - https://github.com/prakhar1989/Algorithms
Funny that, my mum put me in piano lessons as well, but she absolutely hates me practicing because I spend 2-3 hours at a time when I get really focused. But fair enough I practice the same few bars continuously until they're perfect :P she also hates orchestral music and finds it all rather boring when I've grown to indulge in it.
Why is it's parallelism "embarrassing"
>> Understand, observe and get inspired by the great scientific culture the Americans have built here. Let's not ruin that.

Say that in India, and some guys will fly into a rage and say:
1) All the great scientists in America came from other countries, so many are Indians
2) We had levitating Mars-visiting Rushis before Neil Armstrong ever "supposedly" landed on the moon.
3) The Europeans lived in filth while we had an advanced civilization in the middle ages. Therefore we are inherently better.

Of course you WOULD fly into a rage if you could never leave and establish yourself in a more "luxurious" country that "isn't your own". Until then, for the sake of your own sanity, you have to believe there's nothing wrong with your country and that you weren't failed.
I can scroll using Chrome on Android 4.0.3. The "share" popup tab is useless however as it requires pressing down which selects text and then hides the tab.
If someone were to compromise our server, it is extremely unlikely that they would be able to recover the SSH keys. The keys remain encrypted except when they're needed to perform an action initiated by an authenticated user.
Almost any proof-of-work algorithm could be used. However, if you add an algorithm which is useful to the outside, it decreases the cost of attack (since you earn something probabilistically on top of simply a block reward). Depending on what kind of algorithms you use, this could be dangerous for network security.
I like 7x7 (Android only I think?): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kiip.skeemo...
You're putting us to sleep with this tiresome over-literal arguing. Be more interesting.
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Usually when they go to a website in a commercial like this you see a mouse pointer clicking. Now it was an iPad and touchscreen. I think this was the first time I've seen that.
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