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I'm not arguing consumer computing is bad. I think it is great, and you are right, it is inevitable. I'm more talking about how Windows of the 95 - 2008 period didn't ship with development tools (which were also behind non-student paywalls), terrible sysadmin tools, and nothing pointing a user of any Windows computer towards hacking on it. It was presented as a washing machine (mainly MS-office or MS-IE box) when it can do a lot more than wash clothes (general purpose software).

There is a generation where a lot of potential techies were lost to their day to day compute platforms not having easily accessable or discoverable development platforms the way a c64 or Mac2 would have had (included, by necessity). I started on dos, which was one of the major learning points for me - as soon as Windows adopted a gui, you never experience the actual terminal of a computer anymore. Great for the consumer of a tool, terrible for a generation of unknowing would be hackers lost to a black box technology.
I think that design looks amazing. I like the concept of MagSafe connector but the world would shit a brick if they changed it again that quickly.
It could work... if they gave the connector a really big magnetic "ring" that held to the entirety of the bottom of the frame, not just the bit in the center. Maybe if they figured out a way to make the speakers also magnets... ;)
newsflash : University is not job training (except for professional programs like engineering, physical therapy, etc) ... University is _education_

I think what we are (re)discovering is that _education_ is a luxury, for the wealthy class. What the bottom 90% of the country needs is job training, not education. Or at least job training _first_ ... and education as a hobby.

Germany is getting it right: http://goo.gl/aRhvk (recent article from The Economist). They have a society where what we refer to pejoratively as "vocational training" is a valued segment of society, and many kids coming out of school gladly and enthusiastically choose that path instead of the academic track.

Somehow in north america we have adopted a culture where going and getting an honours degree in English Lit from Yale at $240,000 USD (4 x $60,000/yr) is valued more than going to college and becoming a licensed electrician or plumber, for example.

Like I said... education is for the (already) wealthy, privileged class. It's time that the middle class stop pretending otherwise. All we are doing is getting ourselves into debt. Instead we should train for jobs. Get educated in your spare time. University is not job training.
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I agree (I am on the kidney transplant list in the uk) I take 1 Mg every other day of vitamin D plus Calcium and Bicarbonate of soda 3 times a day
Sorry to be crude, but there is a very non-arbitrary reason for pink to be associated with females (and to a lesser extent, blue with males). In fact I always assumed this was indeed the cause for the association - I'm very surprised to learn it used to be reversed.
> IF you have a good diet, you don't need multivitamins/supplements. But if you have a homogenous diet (eat the same thing every day and nothing else), then vitamins and supplements are much more useful than harmful.

This is exactly what the article is contesting, but I think the confusion is mostly a semantic one. If "vitamin" means "molecules necessary for good health" then you are right. If "vitamin" means the typical molecules found in multivitamins then the science supports the article's claim.
Student Creates Legobot 3D Printer Made Entirely of Legos
Its kinda funny when "personal safety" seems to be equated to having a police force at your beck and call. In my neighborhood growing up it was a mac 11 (or that's what kids wished for…) and some paranoia of everyone… including the police. :P
Apple's Developer Center Experiences Daylong Outage
Solving global and local records in SaaS database design
Some machine learning algorithm; it's not so different from classifying emails as spam/not spam.
I love the idea of wrapping the display around the side of the phone and having touch sensors to detect when you're holding your phone. I have this problem where I'm holding the phone with one hand and trying to press something with my thumb. It doesn't register as a touch because part of my hand is contacting the front of the screen, causing my action to be interpreted as some sort of two-finger gesture. With accurate information about where my hand is, this would be easy to fix.

One question: why not a 1920x1080 screen? The Galaxy S4 already has that resolution.
I'm not saying the demand for personal computer as a click-able facebook or spreadsheet machine wasn't a demand MS created. But what MS did was heavily obfuscate its platform's inherent general-purpose compute functionality by having no standard script language besides batch files (I'm unaware of if 95+ had a visual basic interpreter). They didn't provide a compiler - hell, they changed you for it - until the MSDN happened around 2000, development material was sparse and expensive (compared to man pages existing for 30 years before that).

My point is the barrier to translate from interactive brick tool -> hackable general purpose compute platform was a huge divide for 15 years because Windows tools were hard to come by, hard to find, or otherwise inaccessible.

Also, I don't buy a concern about space consumption about runtimes. Microsoft was profiting off of selling MSVCC for two decades and plenty happy with the pocket change. You can pack mono, java, python, ruby, lua, node, perl, gcc, clang, and a beefy IDE on a linux install cd and... (checks)...

on Arch, all those packages combined consume (in order) 45.2 + 15.8 + 13.9 + 3.7 + .2 + 31 + 13.6 +20.3 + 21 + 9.8 (codeblocks) = 174.5 MB. By comparison, the libreoffice package contains a combined 345MB of archives. (pacman -Si <package names> | grep "Download Size")

So every dev tool under the sun takes up half the space of the office environment on Linux, and if I wanted to I could throw both those, and kde (full package is 450MB, wallpapers add 80MB) and still use up around a gigabyte. Windows 7 iso (I have a copy) is 3.3GB. So 3 times the space, spend on what, I have no idea. It doesn't even come with .net 4.
By watching charges via online banking, and it being a service I use every day with a very small repeating charge (e.g. Pandora). Set it, forget it, reap the benefits. Most services do not require monitoring.

As for warning emails, I had a backup email listed with them, and I have received nothing on either the backup email or the Yahoo email warning of this potential problem.
But the other issues will still plague it. It either won't disconnect, or will disconnect to easily.
Happiness
My elementary thoughts on happiness.
These aren't really swappable, though. The Coursera/Udacity/edX courses max out around courses appropriate for freshmen, whereas those linked from math overflow range from freshman year to graduate math courses.
Revisiting the convictions case-by-case is obviously the correct thing to do. If it's "too expensive", see about raising money for it.
I understand this situation all too well. I quit my software development job in 2011 to finish my computer science degree. After a few months of enjoying my time off, a former boss of mine recruits me to do part-time development work for him. My current position pays extremely well, but it is unfulfilling maintenance work. So, while I'm grateful to have it, with graduation approaching I've started seriously looking for jobs.

So far, it has been very difficult to even get call backs from recruiters. My suspicion is that it looks bad to potential employers when somebody goes back to school in their late 20s (or later).
I realize that a personal testament is anecdotal, but about 10 years ago I stopped taking vitamins and instead just focused on a balanced diet. I feel better and it costs less. There are legitimate reasons for some people to take vitamins, but if you can do it with a better diet, I think you are better off. If you are taking vitamins, try not taking them and instead work on your diet and see what you think. I think somethings are difficult to prove scientifically and instead you have to do what works for you.
> 3 versions of every image

In Android you have to use 4 different density versions of your images to support the majority. And in BB10 you think about to differnt formats which have different artistic rules to them (you can't use the rule of thirds in a square, it doesn't work well).

So you should better expect screen size/density/aspect ratio differences in future or you will probably regret it.
Microsoft now has one million servers – less than Google
Why do designers pull numbers out of their ass to make a concept sound more appealing? "Dual quad core processor!" yeah, well my concept has dual octocore processors and my concept will be liquid cooled! I mean phase change cooled!
There are cases where science has proven that supplementation has value--adding Vitamin D to milk, for example. In specific cases of deficiency it has been proven to work.

That doesn't mean more is better. There is no evidence to indicate that the general population taking multi-vitamins helps anything.
DigitalOcean is not really comparable, they only give you 20 GB of disk. I can't use the 250 GB Backupsy gives you, but 100 GB for $5 or 50 for $3, I would sign up yesterday.
> Sorry to be crude, but there is a very non-arbitrary reason for pink to be associated with females (and to a lesser extent, blue with males).

You're excusing yourself for being crude? How is this crude?

> Sorry to be crude, but there is a very non-arbitrary reason for pink to be associated with females (and to a lesser extent, blue with males). In fact I always assumed this was indeed the cause for the association - I'm very surprised to learn it used to be reversed.

So what is the non-arbitrary reason? The one mentioned in the article?
Convenient. I just finished reading "How to Eat Fried Worms" to the kids.

Off to find some nice night-crawlers...
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vBulletin is (and always has been) terribly insecure. Only way to beef up security is to lock down admin panels, e.g. IP-restrict them.
I wonder if Coursera/Udacity/edX will catch up. I can't imagine there is much demand for graduate level math courses on those sites.
The person who made the original claim does not post on HN, but the person who thinks that it is "certainly" unsafe does post here. Use of the word "certainly" implies that the answer is so obvious that we should all know the reasons why. Well, I don't. So I asked.
Right, but my point was not intended to be specifically about A/C, but innovations that keep us from physically being with each other in general. You might argue that we know our neighbors MUCH less now because we don't see them nearly as often. Being forced out of our homes - in some cases to prevent ourselves from literally dying from the heat - may have made people closer and friendlier with one another.

Of course I don't want to be in deadly heat - but I also wish I knew my neighbors betters, and for the anti-social, like myself, being forced to be around them may have helped.
That is correct. The distance gets 'very close' to zero very quickly, and gets arbitrarily close to zero given enough time.
Excellent point. In some cases it could definitely be squeezing more people together - but under the reverse circumstances.
And don't forget oysters. Nature's oil filter. And they look like snot. But damn they are good.
This is kind-of my point. Nothing is desirable about the heat or sleeping outside. What IS desirable is having situations where I'm forced to converse with neighbors and live among them instead of separated from them. It just might be nice to be in those situations.

The closest situation I can relate to is our heavy winters (where I live). I don't see half my neighbors all summer because we are cooped up inside, HOWEVER we have daily conversations in the winter as we're all standing at the curb taking a breather from the heavy shoveling.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

I originally created this page as an exercise in "marketing driven development" aka just testing the waters to see if there is a market for this sort of thing.

I did consider your last point of busting a bogus patent and self-funding the ex parte filing fee. I was considering going for a particular linked list implementation which was patented in the 2000s. My approach was more or less to grep / lucene a wide range of open source projects with extensive timestamps of publication dates (e.g. linux kernel).

It turns out that is a lot of work, and since I got no response to the site, I figured this kind of legal service is not really appealing -- for reasons I don't understand. At least, not enough demand to spend a bunch of time on it, since I have other projects I enjoy working on more.

Thanks again for the thoughtful response.
that's why there are minimum legal requirements. they are minimal. you are not required to police your own website, even if it's full of illegal activity. the only way you would be responsible for doing so is if you a) affirmatively invited the activity or b) get notice from companies through a proper takedown notice and they specifically let you know what is illegal and where (url).
As far as I can tell Cleveland has the exact same mojo as Detroit. There's only so much you can do, though, and there's only so fast these sort of improvements can happen, especially when you're a city that the butt end of too many jokes to count.

Source: Lived in cleveland area for 28 years of my life - every year more and more of the rundown areas of the city were being gentrified and being replaced by trendy restaurants and rented out by whatever 'hipster' / artist population the city has around.
Indeed - the KISS principle was once commonly cited in this industry.
I recently co-founded a startup (http://outpost.travel) that aggregates the 'sharing economy'. So far we've had a great response to it from investors and users. It's been a crazy experience going from idea to MVP to where we are today and I get exactly what they mean when they say to keep an eye on startups/sites like Airbnb/Vayable. Almost all our users hadn't known about Airbnb before we introduced them to the whole P2P travel experience and quite a few then booked experiences, rideshares and place rentals using us. The one think that I am concerned about is that quite a few federal/state tourism agencies are now banning P2P travel as theres no taxes being made and it takes away from bigger chains such as Hilton and Holiday Inn.
I'm reminded of the Samsung prototype on the left here:
http://www.mobilephones.com/news/samsung-reveal-flexible-pho...

where the screen comes round the edge of the surface. Pretty, and a lot more likely to be in production this decade.
And then you put a cover / bumper ...
Yeah, defending the belief in fan death is really damaging to his credibility in my eyes.
Doesn't exist on all machines which would be capable of using this - namely OSX
Fantastic! Thanks.

Lynch holds a place in my heart for getting me deeply into abstract film early on, and then greater cinema in general, though I haven't watched him in ages now and don't really feel drawn toward revisiting. I guess I could say he prepared me eventually for the likes of Tarkovsky, Bergman (easy to see parallels with Persona in his work, though there're echoes of that one all over), Hou Hsiao-Hsien, etc.

I've been meaning to watch Philippe Grandieux, who I've read compares well with Lynch.
I think "replace the hard drive" is a terrible way to say it, since a hard drive (or SSD or SD or whatever) is exactly what you need to be able to use Dropbox.
No mention yet of Nick Lane and his (wonderful) books:

- Oxygen
- Power, Sex, Suicide

If you want a fascinating, very readable, well laid out argument against the entire notion of antioxidant supplementation (as well as a fascinating, technical but not too technical, pop-sci read) these are it.

tl;dr: Ingested antioxidants have no way to target the specific area in mitochondria where the damage would take place, and even if they did, it would probably be negative because free radicals are an essential cell signaling mechanism that aids in weeding out damaged cells.
I honestly don't know enough to know if 10,000 vaccines is hyperbole, but on the face of it it doesn't seem particularly implausible.

I'm like 99% sure that like 99% of what's injected into you when you get a vaccine is some sort of filler like a saline solution, or a preservative like that good old mercury based one that everyone used to bitch about. So it's quite likely in my mind that you could formulate some sort of "everything vaccine" with a sufficient quantity of dead viruses or virus parts from 10,000 different viruses, and fit it into a single, normal-sized syringe.
The NES games we’ll be enjoying for the next 30 years
Benefits or risks of vitamins is one of the most confusing medical topics to assess for an average consumer. After hearing about benefits of vitamin C, zinc, vitamin D, etc., only to later read that some doctors say it's going to kill you, I had decided to ditch them altogether.

But a year ago there was a large, randomized, double-blind study (not something most of these studies can claim) that measured a regular dose multivitamin, not huge megadose supplements that tend to focus on one or two compounds. The result showed 8% fewer cancers. The subjects were all men and were all doctors, so one could infer that they were much healthier than average. I've been taking a simple multivitamin since. I wouldn't be shocked to learn in ten years that I'm doing the wrong thing, but this is the most convincing study I've seen in any direction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/health/daily-multivitamin-...
I'd rather do a kickstarter (might be a bit big for kickstarter.com though) to buy major studios and release their IP work public domain. And then kickstart additional media works for them to produce. Cut out the middle men!
I think it's what will most likely happen over time - elements and affordances from the old design will bleed into the stark minimalism of the new one (along with new ideas). The iOS 7 design is minimal in order to be a blank slate.
Would this have worked out in Canada? I'm not sure. This seems like a special case where the US system works better.
Ditto! I had the most heated arguments with people who complained that tables "just worked". It didn't help that Photoshop was (is?) king and web slices split into table/tr/td backgrounds was the most common way to display fancier layouts.

I also think existing software played a large part in the proliferation of tables. E.G. WordPress/B2 and phpBB (as well as practically every other forum system) layouts at the time were all heavily dependent on tables. There was really no incentive other than "well, CSS is a better way!" Until you came up with your own examples, there was no convincing.

It was a slow and arduous process, but I hope we keep going forward and not backward into JS-only land.
Find me 10,000 different vaccines, I'm happy to guinea pig it.
http://en.akinator.com/

That web app can name any person you think of by asking 20 or so questions. Just imagine what you could do if you made that but for diseases.
I disagree. Just build a strong magnet in there (as was suggested, maybe via the speaker). The advantage of the connector would not be the disconnect-on-trip feature, but rather convenience for plugging and unplugging. Namely, it's a lot easier to just have the cord snap it place magnetically than to futz around with the small metal tip[0].

You're assuming it'd either be too weak or too strong. They would calibrate it until it was "just right", as they do (or try to do) with pretty much all of their ergonomics decisions.

[0] Anecdotally, I own both a MagSafe 2 device and an iPhone 5.
Now try to implement some features to make it more user friendly:

- AJAX login form

- Workout Categories

- Search functionality

- Use the YouTube API to show some example videos of the workouts

- Sort equipment alphabetically or by category

- Paginate workouts
On a related note, I feel like this issue (non-retina, retina, iphone 5 version, ipad version, older iOS support, etc) and the over-saturated app store have really stifled the indie development world. It takes a lot more effort to make a nicely packaged app today than in 2008-2009, and then you launch on the store and you're just one in 800,000 or w/e.

To me, it's kind of like how the first people on Youtube now have millions of views, but good luck starting a new YT account today...
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I figured that's what it was. I was shopping around for one of those early this year and it looked like they're just not very widespread, and the few models that are easy to get have some serious issues. I decided to get a raspberry pi instead since it is in the same price range and can serve the same purpose, plus a lot more.
And there goes the backend... We're fixing the problem should be back in a few min. Sorry about that!

EDIT:
Fixed!
He totally disengages after Gladwell's last post. Not the actions of a man who is seriously interested in getting to the ultimate truth of the matter.
Alas, some of us are lactose intolerant or just don't drink milk. So we supplement with vitamin D pills.
> As was nearly always the case with Hirschman’s writing, he made his argument without mathematical formulas or complex models. His subject was economics, but his spirit was literary.

That observation explains what is so unsatisfactory about Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Hirschman thought that if those in charge reduced ordinary peoples right of Exit, then they would respond with more Voice.

That's half true. Voice = Talk x Listen. When it gets harder to Exit, the trapped Talk more and the trappers Listen less. You could make a slogan out of it. "Halve Exit, double Talk, double Voice."

But Hirschman wasn't a mathematizer. It would not occur to him to factorise Voice into Talk x Listen. Thus he misses the opportunity to look around him and see the usual pattern: Halve Exit, double Talk, quarter Listen, halve Voice.

One also notices that Talk is a function of two variables: Exit and Listen. One Talks because ones Exit is blocked, but also because one thinks or at least hopes that some-one is listening. As Exit is reduced, those who should Listen become less inclined to bother. Those who should Talk are encouraged by the lack of Exit as an alternative, but also discouraged by not being listened to.

Mathematics is the language for these kinds of discussions. There are partial derivatives, of Talk with respect to Exit and Talk with respect to Listen. But Listen is a function of Exit. The basic model is Voice = Talk(Exit, Listen(Exit) x Listen(Exit). The distinction between the partial derivative of Talk with respect to Exit and the total derivative of Talk with respect to Exit (That is Talk(Exit, Listen(Exit)) wrt Exit) is easily made.

In the real world, as Exit rights are extinguished, the talkers complain for a while, until the listeners stop listening and then the talkers lapse into apathetic silence. Those of a mathematical bent can easily cloth such bones in an animating flesh of differential equations. The real world contains real problems and one can engage with them.

Those of a literary bent are not, of course, lost for words. This blinds them to the problem: it is not words that are needed.